No new taxes on families, families making more than excuse me.
No new taxes on families making less than 400,000 or under the inflation data in July was zero point zero.
Zero point zero.
So we are seeing uh inflation decrease.
People have every single day.
Inflation is like a theoretical word that economists use.
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Day number 367.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we obviously now have been spending a lot of time discussing the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
But more importantly, we as I laid out on TV last night, as I've been laying out in the last hour.
Um this is not just a Donald Trump problem.
Uh, you know, you have people like Peter Strzok, you know, a guy that says to his girlfriend lover, Lisa Page, uh, when she asks if if Donald Trump could ever get elected in 2016, we're not gonna let that happen.
How do you how do you make such a proclamation that you're never gonna he's never gonna be president?
We'll stop it.
And they did everything they could do to tip the scales on an election in this country, and none of them have been held accountable.
The FBI has had Hunter Biden's laptop, which we know has evidence of crimes on it that also implicates the big guy, Joe Biden, your president, and they've done nothing with that laptop for two years.
You know, we know in the in the case of Hillary Clinton, I mean, it gets interesting.
You know, her house was never uh rated in Chappaqua.
She mishandled classified information, thirty-three thousand emails deleted by Bleach Pit, aids the destroying, you know, iPhones and BlackBerries with hammers and removing SIM cards.
The Clintons don't get rated.
These FBI, you know, upper echelon people that abuse their power that are corrupt, they don't get rated.
Hunter doesn't get rated, but Paul Manafort got rated pre-dawn raid, you know, over a Farah violation and a tax violation.
You know, these these are mere process crimes.
You're not talking about dangerous uh drug dealers or or cartel members or mobsters, but it's pre-dawn raid, guns drawn, you know, guns pointed at his head and his wife's face.
Paul Manafort more than anybody has has told is now telling his story.
His book is released today.
It's called Political Prisoner, Persecuted, Prosecuted, but not silenced.
You can get it in bookstores all around the country as of today.
It's on Amazon.com.
We have a link on Hannity.com.
Uh I couldn't put the book down.
I've I finished it.
I read it cover to cover.
And Paul Manafort joins us now.
Sir, how are you?
Good, Sean.
Thank you for having me on the show again.
Um, your case is is almost you became almost like the canary in the coal mine.
I know you probably don't like to think of your life like that, but it kind of has been you know, the the example of where this w when you have politicized, uh politicized justice system, a dual justice system, unequal justice under the law.
You know, what happened to you is just basically a preview of coming attractions.
Well, that's that's exactly right, Sean, and I talked about that in the book.
I mean, the deep state is not just a danger to people like President Trump or those who support him actively like I did.
It's a danger to Americans everywhere.
And in the book I talk about that because I was able to the book I wrote the book, including the first year of the Biden administration, because I thought it was important to carry the messages of the abuses of the weaponization of the justice system, not just through the end of the Trump term, but into what happens if he's not president and if the woke left does take power.
And it's a scary thought because the two-tiered justice system that you're seeing now is exactly a consequence of the dangers of the deep state.
Uh the Mueller investigation, you know, and the it's illegitimacy, it's abusive tactics, you know, it's it's obsession with getting Donald Trump.
They weren't obsessed with me.
I was a means to the end.
And and in the book, I walked through the details of what Mueller was trying to do, not to just to me, but to get me to give him Donald Trump.
He had a Weiss Andrew Weissman had his theories uh on Trump's guilt as far as being connected to Russia.
They were crazy theories.
He had no motive, he had no link to Russia.
So Weissman just made them up.
And and I walked through all of that in detail from my fifty hours of conversations with Weiss that I was forced to have with Weissman.
Um and what you're seeing now with the raid on the president's home is the natural extension of where they're going.
Um, you know, because they can't afford to have uh Donald Trump come back.
Um so your your history is pretty amazing, actually.
When you look at your background, and I mean you were brought in as a convention coordinator for Gerald Ford.
That was being challenged in 1976 by Ronald Reagan.
Um you worked for George Herbert Walker Bush in eighty eight, you worked for Bob Dole.
Um you you work for a lot of uh you worked on a lot of political or presidential campaigns at a very high level.
And then in the off season, if you will, you did what people like John Podesta do correct me if I'm wrong, or James Carvel do, or or any one of these former Clintonites do, and and that is you bring your political expertise and you're brought in to advise on foreign countries' political campaigns or other work.
Is that true?
Uh I did I did campaigns all around the world, but usually I would include in my team uh active Democrats as well, who consultants, because uh when you're across the the ocean, it doesn't matter if you're a Republican or Democrat, and there are believe it or not, some Democratic consultants who care about our country and care about the foreign policy of other countries as relates to our country.
Um and and so we in in the case of Ukraine, which became sort of uh the the focus uh because of its linkage to Russia, uh I had a team of Democrats who were very experienced, very seasoned, and very involved.
None of them were even looked at by Weissman because they couldn't help him get Donald Trump.
A big part of the the charges against you were Farah violations, uh making false statements, tax issues, etc.
etc.
rather than go through the minutia of that, people can read about that in the book.
I want to talk more about the the actual dealings that you had with Mueller's team, and more specifically, you know, the New York Times labeled Andrew Weissman, Mueller's pit bull, and you dealt with him directly.
Uh everything that I read about this guy just reeked of prosecutorial abuse to me, Sidney Powell wrote a whole book about it, licensed to lie, and and he was prominently featured.
Tell us about that experience.
Now, this is when you were are already arrested, you're in prison, you're in isolation, you you know, you spent nine months in solitary confinement, and they start talking to you to try to get you to cut a deal with them, correct?
Correct.
They they they thought when I said I didn't want to go to trial a second time because I could not get a fair trial.
I mean, the jury was going to be com uh composed of people from the Washington DC two weeks after the four-week trial I had in Virginia.
There was not one person who was objecting about Paul Vanderport.
By the way, what percentage of the vote did Donald Trump get in DC?
Exactly.
And then it's exactly.
So I knew I couldn't get a fair trial.
And I go through some of the reasons for that, including the questionnaire that we asked.
You know, normally you have 30, 40 people at the most be the be vaudier to be a juror.
I had a hundred twenty.
I found one person in our questionnaire who could have been objective.
Uh yeah, literally over ninety people said they hated Donald Trump and they hated me because of that of him.
So the point is I was not going to get a fair trial in the second trial.
And I had a judge who could have been at the prosecutor's table in Amy Jackson, Amy Burman Jackson.
So I cut a deal to just stop.
Not to give up anything, but to stop.
And uh and it could it part of the there comes a point, I guess you cut your losses.
You know you have no shot at winning.
I I couldn't win, and I and they were going after my kids' assets, and I tried to protect some of those assets, and I was able to get that done.
Um but but I never expected them to like what they heard from me because I was going to tell the truth, and they didn't want to know what the truth was.
Weissman had his own theories.
Weissman thought, and I go through this in great detail in the book, that Trump and Stone and Manafort were the key to proving Russian collusion.
That Stone was dealing with uh with wiki leaks on the timing of the releases, and he was getting directions from Donald Trump who was uh talking to me about making sure Russia understood the importance of it.
I mean it's crazy stuff.
Uh and and but through the course of the 50 hours, uh Weissman never presented this is what I think.
Tell me if it's right or wrong.
Weissman would ask me disparate questions in the course of the 50 hours, but I knew where he was going with the questions.
And so I would answer things that were going to create the truth, not a mosaic that he wanted to create.
And he had these cr he had a crazy theory on what the motive was uh for Donald Trump.
He even had the motive.
Uh and the motive was that Trump was going to let uh let uh Vladimir Putin keep Ukraine.
And because I knew Ukraine, I was part of that lynchbit.
And again, in the book, I go through the reality, Donald Trump was harder on Putin than Obama or now Biden uh when it came to the thing.
Donald Trump was never giving a waiver to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and nor do I think that Ukraine would have been invaded had John Donald Trump been president today.
You're 100% correct.
You're 100% correct.
So there's one part of this, you know.
Um you you were uh in jail at the time, so uh we didn't talk, but I got to know you during the Trump campaign, and we often texted, and at one point the judge just releases twelve hundred of our text messages together.
The funniest thing to me about it was fake news CNN and MSDNC, you know, start, you know, Hannity Manorfort said this, and they said this, and they said this, and then their conclusion was, oh my God, Hannity really believes this crap.
It sounds like his opening monologue every night.
Which to me was a compliment, and it made me think, well, yeah, I believe it.
Do you guys not believe what you say?
That's what I was thinking.
Well, uh, in fact, I don't think they do believe what they say because I guess not.
No, they they look, they knew on Russian collusion what we've now confirmed, which is that it was a Clinton-generated uh narrative.
Uh I mean, the pieces were there.
Uh, you know, and in the book, I mean, one of the things about having a book later in the process is a lot of what John Durham has done in his investigation, I was able to incorporate in the book, which actually puts some definitiveness to the whole Russia hoax.
Because now we know by by Clinton's own campaign manager's sworn testimony that she created the concept of of the uh the Russian connect of the connection between Trump and uh and Putin.
Uh, we also know now, thanks to the to Durham and go through this in some detail in the book, that John Brennan, a few days after that, briefed Obama.
Yeah, he did, interestingly, don't trust it.
This is a political document.
But you know what happened two weeks after that briefing?
Crossfire hurricane was was was green-lit by Peter Strzok and the FBI.
Peter Strzok, the same guy that said in August of 2016, we won't let that happen.
That that Peter struck, meaning he won't win.
If you want the exact quote I got here in front of me, um, and he went on to say, we'll stop it, meaning him becoming president.
And if your plan doesn't work, we've got an insurance policy.
Well, by the way, was Weissman asking questions about me.
I've never even asked you that question.
Well, he he he you know, we had we hadn't talked.
Well, you just said actually was very interesting because Weissman did take out some of these uh these notes of ours, or emails for us, and asked me about it.
I said, Well, what do you want to know about that?
And so, well, why were you talking to him when they uh he said he's a friend of mine?
Uh that's why I was telling But you said that there was no Russian collusion.
Well because there was no Russian collusion and he was trying to get me saying that I was misleading you on Russian collusion I think it was me venting every night because I was so frustrated because the evidence was so overwhelmingly against their their narrative we'll take a quick break we'll come back 800 nine four one Sean our number more with Paul Manafort his new book is in bookstores as of today it is called Political Prisoner and its subtitle is Persecuted,
prosecuted, not silenced.
Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
All right, more with Paul Manafort is with us.
His book released today.
It's in bookstores all around the country.
Political prisoner persecuted prosecuted but not silenced I don't think it could be a more timely book uh Amazon.com Hannity.com as well.
Uh you know I just can't believe by the way that you spent how much time total did you spend in jail?
Uh about two years about about about 10 months in solitary and about 12 and the most fascinating part of the solitary we touched on last week and by the way we're talking to Paul Manafort his book is political prisoner persecuted prosecuted not silenced in bookstores as of today and I just want to ask what you knew in the that if you told them what they wanted to hear you were a free man or pretty close to a free man.
Well I knew that they would go very easy on it yes I mean would there have been superseding charges brought in a whole second trial probably not I mean they when when Gates cut his deal with with uh with Weissman you know the super his superseding charges were dropped and they got him to plead a one one count and frankly he never went to jail.
And if I had given an engagement like Gates gave them me, I'm sure I would have had the same same bad uh result.
Yeah well the book is phenomenal and we we've only really touched the surface of it um it's it's a page turner there's no other way to put it you're gonna follow this story and say wow how did this happen in the U.S. It's called Political Prisoner Persecuted Prosecuted not silence Paul Manafort his book in bookstores now everywhere as of today Amazon.com Hannity.com uh Paul sorry you had to go through all of that I am glad you got pardoned I'm glad you're free and uh I wish you and the f your family all the best and
When people read your story, I want the rights for the made-for-TV movie, okay?
You got it, my friend.
You can't even make this up.
It's sad that this is happening in our country.
I'll say that.
Thank you, sir.
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Now, here we are, day 368, Americans abandoned behind enemy lines.
about it here you have Russia Ukraine they invade a sovereign country and the minute that Joe Biden denied Poland giving the MiG fighters to Ukraine it was at that moment it dawned on me they're not fighting this war to win this war.
And it's now it's now become exactly what I said it would become and that is the latest quagmire.
And for Western Europe and the United States that you know having the greatest opportunity to take out Vladimir Putin and Russian forces and humiliate them and defeat them and win the war and even take Crimea back would have been a massive win for the cause of liberty.
But they didn't do it.
And and at this point they're just giving them enough weapons to survive basically all right well we'll we'll let we'll play for a tie.
In war you don't play for a tie.
When are we going to learn the lesson that Donald Trump taught us with with the advancement of new weaponry and technology you can fight and win wars in air conditioned rooms all over the United States with smart guys using smart weapons pushing little buttons and hitting their targets with pinpoint accuracy.
We saw that with Solomani we saw the caliphate get defeated that way.
We saw it with Baghdadian associates we saw with the Al Qaeda leader in Yemen all happened under Donald Trump.
Yeah I'm glad we got Iwan al Zawari uh in Afghanistan, but there's a big problem, and on the other side of that is the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan are now a safe haven once again for terrorist organizations.
The Donald Trump plan to exit and remove forces from Afghanistan included the U.S. keeping Bagram air base, which would have been strategically, geopolitically, and strategically crucial to our national security, especially as it relates to China.
Now China is moving in, according to reports.
And we've got now, you know, a president that that will import last year 684 million barrels of oil to make Putin and Russia rich again.
Now he took in a million barrels of oil last year from Iran.
Reports now, New York Times is saying Europe is optimistic that Biden is reaching a nuclear deal with with Iran.
He's doing it to import Iranian oil, the the very same mullers that chant death to America, death to Israel.
We're gonna make we're gonna make Iran rich again?
Are they out of their mind?
You know, begging the Saudis and OPEC and getting rejected repeatedly repeatedly for them to increase output, sending emissaries to Venezuela to deal with that murdering dictator thug.
All of this is insane.
None of this is gonna end well for anybody.
You know, it's um I never do I just never thought 18 months of one presidency, we could see such a precipitous, rapid, obvious decline in this country and on every single measure.
And now they're raising taxes before at a midterm election, which was unthinkable years ago.
Because I don't think most they I don't think they think the American people are paying attention.
And they give it a fancy name, the inflation reduction act.
No, it's not gonna do anything to stop Biden inflation.
Not a thing.
If we wanted to stop inflation, we would be producing domestically all our energy needs, and then we'd be smart and become energy dominant and provide all of our Western European allies all of the needs that they have.
So this is now uh a situation this is a self-inflicted wound.
We were energy independent.
We shouldn't be talking to Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, OPEC, Russia.
And if we're gonna help the Ukrainians, help them defeat Russia.
Don't give them the bare minimum so they could, you know, survive another day.
And then we have this latest report that all over the United States that farmland and ranch land, uh conveniently located near strategic military bases, is being bought up by the hundreds of thousands of acres by the communist Chinese.
Ron DeSantis rightly said, no, China should not be able to buy American real estate.
We need to take it back and give them the money that they paid and kick them out.
It's ridiculous.
Here's what DeSanta said.
Well, I don't think they should be able to do it.
I think the problem is these companies have ties to the CCP, and it's not always apparent on the face of whatever company is doing.
But I think it's a huge problem, the influence that they have.
Now, what we have done in Florida, I've signed legislation to crack down on undue influence from rogue states, including the CCP.
So, for example, we ban Confucius institutes in the state of Florida.
They try to go in higher education and they try to spread the propaganda.
So we've taken good steps.
We're also probably gonna do legislation next legislative session about our pension investments with things that may be linked to the CCP.
We don't have necessarily have a lot of it, uh, but we want to make sure that we're cutting ties so that we're not funding our number one adversary.
They are our number one geopolitical foe.
Russia's right up there with them.
You got you want to talk about an access of evil.
You got China, Russia, and Iran all aligning now.
And even the Saudis see it developing, so that they're getting in on the action.
And they're they're coordinating the price of a barrel of oil with Vladimir Putin.
This is insanity.
And then Joe Biden, the same Joe Biden that said, uh, I don't think we're gonna hit a recession.
We have zero percent inflation.
He actually said it when we had inflation at a 40-year high.
You know, he said last week, I'm not worried about China, uh the China-Taiwan situation.
Well, why what do you mean you're not worried about it?
What are you gonna do, Joe?
I can already answer that.
The answer is he'll do nothing.
He'll let China walk in and take over Taiwan.
Listen.
How worried are you about the situation in Taiwan?
Because China is kind of keeping a bit of a grid around the whole island now.
I am uh I'm not worried, but I'm concerned that they're moving as much as they are.
But I don't think they're gonna do anything more.
Uh, he'll be 0 for three uh by the end of next year.
I can bet you can pretty much bet on that.
Take it to the bank.
Colonel North is with us.
By the way, his new book is how the giant awakes.
Uh which, by the way, you know, here we are on the one year anniversary since Americans were abandoning it the Islamic emirates of Afghanistan.
Uh simplified Colonel, uh, welcome back.
It's uh been a while.
How are you, sir?
Great to be with you, my friend.
You know what I've I I've always loved the idea that what we're gonna do is bring China out of the depths of being a developing country, because they still get that status when it comes to the environment, for example.
We've got to be parrot at the Paris Climate Accords, they're a developing nation.
Exactly.
All the things Aron DeSantis just said, all the things that Mike Pompeo has been saying, all true.
By the way, the front end of the book, where did the title, the giant awakes, where did that come from?
Quote China is a sleeping giant.
Let her sleep for when she wakes, she'll move mountains.
Let her sleep for when she wakes, she will shake the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
That's how bad things have gotten we're back to Bonaparte, realizing things really aren't going quite the way we expected to do with China.
That's what this book is about.
This book is all about the kinds of things that China's doing, and it's written as a thriller because you know, these we put out our very first book was and DeSantis referenced it.
The very first book Fidelis Publishing put out was America's number one adversary.
It was our first published book.
And that's and all the things that are in that book are what's happening today.
The end the end game for all of what's happening is that China will take over the rest of the world while Putin's gonna get Europe.
Well, the bottom line of it is with this administration, it's gonna happen that way.
And so we've got we get our first chance to really fix things is gonna happen this November.
Our second chance to fix things, and maybe our last is going to be 2024.
When you look at what's happening right now, when when when the Speaker of the House of Representatives is going to land in China in Taiwan.
The the communist Chinese went nuts.
Okay, they violated the airspace re regulations.
I know.
I'm I'm selling I'm telling you, what we should have done, and if Ronald Reagan were president, we would have done is immediately shipped to Taiwan the kind of anti-shipping missiles that will sink their Navy.
Okay, and send out the anti-aircraft man pads that have been used so effectively in Ukraine.
The only reason why Taiwan has not been invaded yet is because of Zelinski and what the Ukrainians have done and what the shipments of Allied Western, mostly American weapons has done.
The bottom line But they did they didn't supply the weaponry to win the war, Colonel.
No, but remember what DeSantis just said.
DeSantis was talked about winning.
You talked about winning.
The idea that we're gonna simply hold the line where it is, and let Donbass and Crimea stay in the hands of the Soviet.
I just said Soviets, didn't I?
In the hands of the Russians, is wrong.
What ought to be done is what Mike Pompeo suggested.
They ought to be giving them the weapons that needed to win.
I can assure you that the Ukrainians don't want any part of Russia.
But they do want a border with Russia, and it ought to go back to what it was before the invasion in 2014.
And of course, what we're paying for is the price that we've we paid started paying this price when it was the Obama Biden administration, and now it's carried over to what we've got, which is totally incompetent, inept, and I believe aimed at disarming America.
I honestly think that there's some of the things that have been done ever since the Afghanistan fiasco, that we're in worse shape today than we were before we went to Afghanistan in two thousand one.
You may remember, I was on the air with you in October of two thousand one when I went in with Mattis in the R in the Rhino.
I was on the air with you guys when we went there.
And here we are looking back at it, and we're in worse shape as as a country, economically, militarily, and spiritually than we were back then.
We're in serious trouble.
And so my hope and my prayer, buddy, is that your voice is gonna carry out both on on radio and television, and my books are gonna help uh convince the American people that we the people still govern in America.
And we don't have to we don't have to have kids to be taught that they can change their gender while they're in grade school.
We don't have to have a military that is so at this point demoralized that he can't get enough reenlistments or new enlistments to man the weapon systems we got.
And and my hope is that someday we'll have real leadership in Washington with integrity that will give us an FBI that's competent to do the things that they have to do.
All right, quick break, right back more with Colonel North's new book by the way, The Giant Awakes.
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800 9401 Shawn is new book out in bookstores everywhere.
Amazon.com, Hannity.com, the Giant Awakes.
I I guess one little humorous thing.
Next time we're on television together, I'm sitting here with a coffee cup that real FBI agents gave me.
Okay, and they've now replaced it several times.
And here's what it says.
You gotta remember the FBI alerted Betsy and the kids to get out of the house.
They were coming to pick them up because terrorists from Islamic Jihad in Libya were coming to kill them.
I remember this well.
Okay, so here's the coffee cup.
And I get a new one every every year or so from the the good old guys, the real the real FBI agents.
Good morning, sir.
I see the assassins have failed again.
And I'm drinking coffee out of it given to me by real FBI.
A reminder of of some of your more r uh risky days that you you lived actually decades of your life, to be honest.
Well, exciting life, my friend.
Uh exciting, that's one word you could use.
That's one adjective to describe it, you know.
Uh pretty insane.
I mean, I I just look at the situation and I'm like, everything is upside down, Colonel.
It is.
You know, we we abandoned energy independence.
We abandoned uh the best economy we've ever had.
We're now gonna sick another 87,000 IRS agents on the American people.
We have wide open borders.
You had this, we don't have law and order in s in in our towns and cities because of dismantled this defund, no bell laws.
Uh we don't teach our kids reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers.
You know, we teach them wokeism.
Then on foreign policy, you know, every c every bad actor, hostile regime, Joe Biden wants to be friends with, or he's comp too compromised to ever stand up to.
So what we got we got less than 90 days left until the next election.
I think it's eighty-nine days, isn't it, today?
And what you and I and all of our friends need to be is real patriots.
And encourage me, as you know, I'm a chronic optimist.
Good guy.
So many times I should have been dead.
I I'm I've truly an optimist.
And so what I'm suggesting is that you and I and every one of our real patriot friends do something for the next 89 days.
Remind them American people who listen and watch us.
We the people govern, and we the people have to turn out to vote.
People forget, I mean, obviously there was a congressman and uh congressperson, I guess, in Wyoming who forgot.
You never savage someone in your own party.
Politics is all a matter of addition.
You know what I'm talking about.
Okay.
She she went out and she savaged a former president of the United States.
She voted to have him impeached twice.
She is the co-chairman of the of the so-called January 6th Commission, which is an outrage in the m in and of itself, because it's accomplishing nothing of value.
And we now see a president suffering the indignity that he did.
No presidents ever had their home search before.
And all the things that you reported earlier in this broadcast.
All those things have happened because not enough of us, even though seventy-five million of us voted in favor of Donald Trump twice.
Okay, it still wasn't enough.
What we need to do is we need to turn out the vote this November.
This has got 89 days from now, we have got to be able to go out and say, we the people have thrown out the rascals, not just in this in the House, but in the Senate as well, and put the brakes on this catastrophe that's governing in the White House, and then put a president with integrity in the White House in 2024.
That's what we got.
Colonel North's new book, The Giant Awakes, um on Hannity.com, Amazon.com just released in bookstores yesterday.
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