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So the battle has begun.
We had Jim Colmer on Hannity last night on the TV show as he investigates the Biden family syndicate as well as these top secret classified documents now found in four separate locations of Biden.
But the investigation in the Judiciary Committee, because Comer's oversight uh with Jim Jordan, uh these these investigations run in tandem because Jim Jordan has the difficult task of investigating whether or not your FBI is politicized and your Department of Justice has been weaponized.
Uh the Ohio Congressman joins us now.
Jim Jordan, sir, how are you?
Glad you're uh with us.
I'm I'm fine, Sean.
Good to be with you.
Thanks for thanks for all you do to get the truth to the American people.
We appreciate that.
I'm trying my best.
You know, you were vindicated on the Russia hoax.
I was vindicated on the Russia hoax.
There were many of us vindicated in that, and and we didn't get the proper conclusion, but that's not my question.
I want to get to the issue now as it relates to the documents.
We have three standards that we can look at.
We can look at the Hillary Clinton standard, which is no prosecutor would ever prosecute, uh, ignoring 33,000 deleted emails, ignoring devices that were beaten with hammers, ignoring missing SIM cards.
And then of course, we we have the FBI and and parents at school board meetings being investigated as domestic terrorists.
And then we have the issue of Donald Trump's raid at Mar-a-Lago, then we have the issue now of Joe Biden and the Justice Department was invited to go into Biden's homes for separate locations now where documents were found, top secret ones, and they choose not to do so.
Why did they invade Mar-a-Lago?
Why didn't they invade Hillary's house or uh or j Joe Biden's?
Right.
No, it's it's the glaring double standard that the American the yeah, the the FBI said uh uh the Justice Far said, well, we we considered, we we considered going along with Biden's lawyers to look at the uh at the the these documents at his home but decided against it.
And then again, compared to the the raid at President Trump's house 91 days before an election with CNN helicopters and cameras and everything else there.
Um the Clinton one maybe is even better though, Sean.
Because I remember we asked Clinton this question during our investigation with Benghazi.
We said you got 60 some thousand emails on your personal computer.
We don't want to see the personal one.
This is America.
There's a thing called privacy.
We respect that, we should honor that.
We don't want to see that.
But you know what?
We don't exactly trust you and Cheryl Mills and the rest of your lawyers who give us everything we're entitled to have and the American people should be able to see.
We don't exactly trust that.
So why don't we do it this way?
Why don't we pick a neutral third party, like a retired federal judge?
They'll come in and evaluate it, they'll turn over what we should be what we should see, and they'll they'll keep personal stuff for you.
And of course, the Clinton team said, no, we don't want to do that.
Now contrast that to President Trump.
President Trump didn't get to have his lawyers decide on all this.
He even though he was working with the with the Justice Mark, he didn't get aside that.
He wasn't extended the neutral position, which is like let's let someone else come in and do it.
It was no.
We're gonna raid your home.
That is what is so obvious, and it's it's part of this bigger picture of this double standard we see in the Justice Department, the unequal application of the law.
That's what has Americans concerned, and that's what we're gonna try to focus on on the House Judiciary Committee.
Now, you you talk about this unequal justice.
We I've been saying for a long time we don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, Congressman.
Uh but didn't the FBI have unfettered access to the very room where the documents were found at Mar-a-Lago.
They weren't found in Melania's closet.
They were found in the room that the FBI had already been to, the very room that the FBI could have taken documents uh freely if they wanted them, but they didn't.
The same FBI that called and said, Would you mind putting a padlock on that room's door?
Which they complied with.
So they had the access, didn't they?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the FBI had already been to that location in Mar-a-Lago, and they said that's not enough.
Even though you've done everything, even though we're working with you, we're not going to come raid your entire home.
Again, contrast that with uh President Biden, where the FBI said, we're not even going to go to the one location, we already know there are classified documents.
That one room in your home, the one we're not we're not even going to go to there with that one spot, let alone go there with agents and and and tour the and and look at the whole entire premises.
So again, glaring difference in how they do it.
And then the other thing I think it stands out, Sean is they tell us they're being transparent.
Every time she does a uh a press conference, uh Corinne John Pierre, every time she does a press conference, she's talking about how transparent we're being.
Well, remember the the timeline.
November 2nd, they find classified documents at the Biden Center.
December 18th, they find them at the in the garage.
Oh, I'm sorry.
January 9th, they find the the media comes out and says, Yes, there were documents found at the Biden Center, and the White House confirms the media report, but doesn't tell us about the the documents found December 18th at the resident, even though they already knew it at the time.
So how are you being transparent with the American people, let alone the question of you knew about this before the midterm election and said nothing?
So the this this transparency issues that they keep talking about, every time they say it, I'm saying, like, no, you're not being transparent whatsoever with the American people.
See, my timeline is this the raid in August at Mar-a-Lago, then it was November 2nd when they first learned that documents, top secret classified information was at the Penn Biden Center.
That's six days before the election.
They chose not to inform the American people.
That was a decision.
Remember Christopher Ray and and Merrick Garland, they said we made the call to raid Mar-a-Lago.
Then they know that Joe Biden has this problem, but it was two weeks after the election when they then uh appointed a special prosecutor only for Donald Trump, not for Joe Biden.
Yeah.
Now they've they've since done that.
Why didn't they do it at the same time?
Yeah, good point.
Good point.
Decided to keep information from us.
You know, uh my colleague and friend Matt Gates has said in in committee, you know, when is the FBI just going to stay out of an election and let the American people decide?
Because in 2016 they were spying on President Trump's campaign.
2018, it was the Mueller investigation.
2020, they suppressed the story about the Hunter Biden laptop.
2022, they raided President Trump's home 91 days before the election.
They know about classified documents at Joe Biden's uh Penn Center at the Biden Center, and they don't tell us, maybe just let we, the people decide who we want to elect and not get involved in every darn election.
And now, of course, here we are going into 2024, and they got special counsels on the two candidates, the two likely candidates for for president of the United States.
So maybe just stay out of it and let the American people pick who they want representing.
So let's go through this a little bit more slowly, and that is the major question that you're asking in the Judiciary Committee and what you're investigating has to do with two fundamental questions.
Has the FBI been politicized?
Has the DOJ been weaponized?
And what specifically are you planning on looking at?
Well, we're gonna start with what the whistleblowers have told us, and we broke this news, I think, on on on your show several months back, but we now have over two dozen whistleblowers.
It was initially like we just over 14, and then they just the number just keeps growing.
So we're gonna start with them.
Many of these guys have been retaliated again.
So many of them, once they come talk to us, they then have their clearance taken from them.
Some of them have been suspended, some of them had to resign just because they don't want to deal with it.
Another one would retire, and of course we know about Nicole Parker, who you had on your program.
Um we know about the piece she wrote in Fox News where she said why she left the FBI.
She was an accomplished agent.
So this is this is the these are the people we're gonna talk to.
We think many of them are gonna be willing to be deposed and then come forward and tell their story.
We already know some who have.
Uh Kyle Saraffin has come forward and talked about what he's experienced at the FBI.
So we're gonna start with those, and then we'll also look at people who've been targeted.
I mean, I I think of the I think of the twenty five parents.
We know of twenty five parents who have been targeted by the Justice Department, had the FBI show up at their door simply because they went to a school board meeting and spoke up for their son or daughter, and they were targeted because of this apparatus, this this thing that this this process that Merrick Garland put in place.
We want to talk to some of those individuals who've been the targets of what we think is this unequal application of the law and this political motivation at the Justice Department.
So that's where we're going to go.
And I always say the first step in stopping this is to get all the truth, all the facts out there for the American people.
And that's what we're supposed to do under the Constitution as part of our oversight duties in Congress, and we're going to do it.
The fact that we had for the longest time, 14, 15 of these agents who come forward, now it's up over two dozen who've come and talked to us, talked to Republican uh staff members on the Judiciary Committee about and and told their story.
Um you may not be able to answer this question.
How long did you know about Nicole Parker who I interviewed on TV?
She wasn't one.
She wasn't one that that initially came to us that we had we had talked to, um, at least on the list that uh that the staff has put together for for me to look at.
Um, but there are uh like I said, there are over two dozen that that have been in there that that we know of that that I've got I've got a briefing on a number of these individuals.
And as I've said, many of them, many of them that lost to security clearance have been suspended after they come and talk to us.
And I always always point to when we first talked about this on your TV show, it was the very next day that the Attorney General then sent out a memo to everyone in the Justice Department about the rules of and of engagement, if you can say, of the rules for talking to members of Congress, which is a good thing.
Oh no, he he sent out a memo reminding them that they're not allowed to talk to Congress.
That means members of the House or the Senate.
Uh if I'm not mistaken, Congressman, that was the night after you were on my show talking about them.
Sure was, sure was.
And uh very next day he he does that memorandum, which is uh which is a you know I don't know if that's good or bad for you and me that Merrick Garland is watching Hannity every night.
Well, you probably watch it because there's always some breaking news there.
Uh the the but I don't know if they have such uh such fine intentions to be informed and educated about how corrupt they are.
Let me ask you this.
You know, you you know all about the church committee, and Kevin McCarthy has described this as a church committee style investigation.
Is there a chance that the only solution all of this is for the FBI to hit the reset button?
And it's if they are ever to achieve their former greatness as the premier law enforcement agency in the world, that there's gonna have to be drastic changes and that would keep them out of the political arena.
I I do think that we would we we anticipate after we go through our work and we complete this stuff in this in this Congress.
We do anticipate bringing forward legislative um uh changes that we think need to be made.
Um that's but I mean here's a simple one that we've we've we've talked about and actually offered as an amendment before.
When the FBI does an interview of someone, why do they just get to write things down and and then that form becomes the basis of whether they decide to prosecute or not?
And we know that form was altered in in particular with some of the folks they were going after back when they were spying on President Trump's campaign and going to the five of the court, people like Michael Flynn.
So why not audio tape that?
So we have an actual audio tape of what was said and what the question was, what the response was, why not an audio tape?
That that seems to be so maybe someone can tell me why that's a bad idea, but many of our members on on the Republican side think that's a good safeguard for liberty, for freedom, and for even for the FBI agents.
So there's there's some practical things that are at least in the in that we're thinking about now, but we want to go through this investigation and find out what legislative solutions and and changes that we think merit being brought forward and and and passed.
Let me switch gears a little bit with you and talk about it's all the Democrats would like us to think and believe that the debt ceiling battle is something that's happening right now because they want to change the narrative in the country.
Am I wrong in saying that that debt ceiling battle is many months away?
Yeah, we we're not gonna there's you know quote extraordinary measures they can do, the treasury department can do, um, and not uh not hit that.
So we got we got months here.
But frankly, we should be making the case, and and I know you do.
We got record spending, record inflation, record debt.
So the Democrats just passed a 1.7 trillion monstrosity of a bill.
Democrats passed it.
We in the House House Republicans, we were opposed to it, and now they're telling us uh the the White House said three days ago uh we will not negotiate with House Republicans on the debt ceiling.
Well, you just passed a huge bill.
So you go ahead and you get to spend the money, and then we don't get to do anything to change the structure and and how we're gonna borrow money and what we're gonna spend it on.
You've got to be kidding me.
So that's their attitude, which is so out of touch with reality, where we are fiscally, where where our debt problem is, and then this idea that they passed that, and then somehow we now we have to just give them more money for a bill they passed and wouldn't work with us on.
You gotta be kidding me.
So, yeah, we're gonna fight this thing, and Speaker McCarthy's been clear about that.
Quick break more with Jim Jordan.
He's the head of the appropriations committee.
He will be investigating if your FBI's politicized, your DOJ weaponized, and much more.
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We'll continue.
We continue with the head of the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, is with us.
Do you believe that Republicans can put aside their egos and put aside their phones and get in a room and hammer out a strategy that they're going to stick to and everybody's going to stay united on as it relates to the what they decide is important in the debt ceiling fight?
I do, and I think frankly, it's it we we will probably land on some structural thing.
Here's a here's an easy example.
Oh, you know what?
If you're gonna borrow more money, saddle the American people with more debt, you at least gotta do a budget.
You gotta show us how you're gonna spend that money.
After all, you just spent 1.7 trillion on some crazy bill three and a half weeks ago.
So at least do a budget, which they haven't done in the Senate.
Senate Democrats never do a budget.
So put forward a budget.
Here's an here's another one.
Instead of getting to September 30th and oh, we're gonna shut down the government if you Republicans don't spend a bunch of bunch more money and do what Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer want to do.
Instead of doing that, let's pass a bill now that says there is no shutdown.
If we don't if we don't fund the government by September 30th, at the end of the fiscal year, you automatically spend at the level we are currently at.
All right.
Can you just affirm for me what I know and I'm telling my audience that even during the little squabble we had for four days, that every single pr the Republican I'm talking to right now is united, and there's no hard feelings among anybody.
And I give I give the speaker credit.
Um he has placed Republicans on on uh uh spread them around the the conference on good committee assignments, different committee assignments to get conservatives on other committees that weren't necessarily on to get some more moderate members on the committees where conservatives dominated that.
We think that's better for Unity and frankly, mm and most importantly, better for the country.
We think it's better.
We'll we think we'll get a better work product out of that kind of uh uh arrangement and and configuration.
So I I give the speaker a lot of credit, but yeah, we are we are focused because we know where the left.
I mean, think about it.
Earlier this week, the left wanted to get rid of gas stove.
I mean, this is how crazy though.
We better stick together to stop.
Yeah, you're not taking not taking my gas stove.
I'm telling you right now, no way in hell I'm not letting that happen.
Anyway, Jim Jordan, uh repo Republican head of the uh House Judiciary Committee uh looking into the FBI and DOJ.
We'll be watching closely, Congressman.
We'll have you on often.
Thank you for your time as always.
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Linda, some liberals on the left.
So we do this last call thing on Hannity the TV show, and we run the numbers through this our radio show.
Uh and the first week we used callers that we knew just to get it started to let people know kind of what we're up to.
By the way, Velmus gave me a what did she give me?
A C something, C minus or C plus something.
It was very embarrassing.
No.
Um you do remember that I used to have the hate Hannity hotline.
Remember that?
Do I remember?
Is that a is that a real question?
Of course you're I ran the damn thing.
Yeah, I remember.
Okay.
And pretty vicious.
As a matter of fact, the majority of calls to the hate Hannity hotline, we couldn't even salvage because of all the expletives that were uh in the message that's tolerant left, man.
They never cease to disappoint.
I tell you, they just they just bring all the hate.
So people are saying, oh, these calls are rigged on Hannity the TV show.
Um you're the one that is in charge of of getting the names and and handing them over to TV.
Um now that we're taking you know anonymous callers for the most part.
We don't know them.
Uh I got two A plus plus ratings in a row.
Now there are people that are gonna be watching Hannity that like Hannity the show.
And people think, oh, well, we're the people that hate Hannity.
So maybe we should just solicit them.
So and I I have no problem putting critics of the show on the air.
Uh that's the whole point of it.
What do you like about the show?
What do you dislike about the show?
And then grade me on my performance.
I think I just want to um I just want to finesse what you're saying a bit.
If I if if you if you don't mind, just gently, you know, massage that a little is that uh you want to correct me in other words.
Yeah, I mean, you know, potato potato, you know, however you want to say it.
I I think at the end of the day, what we're looking for is a constructive conversation.
I'm not interested in hearing about how you're gonna murder, mutilate, decapitate, any of the other things you've learned from Kathy Griffin and watching any of the other stupid liberals.
I don't want to hear any of that crap.
If you disagree with policy or thoughts or ideas, and you think there's a constructive way to have a conversation, we are all in, we'd love to have you call in and say, you know, it drives me nuts when you do this, I would give you an F on this and F on that.
You know, I would do it this way, you know, and yada yada.
That's what we're looking for.
We're not looking for all the hate handity hotline.
You know what I you know what I am thinking of?
And people by the way, if you do want to be the last call on Hannity, the TV show, you call this number, eight hundred nine four one Sean, uh, between the hours of three and six Eastern, and one person gets selected, you watch the TV show, tell me what you like, didn't like, and then you can grade me at the end of it.
What would be funny is one night if you graded me.
Like, for example I think every night I'm grading you at home, so why not let the American public know what I'm thinking?
All right.
So did you watch last night's show?
Of course.
Of course.
Now, what did you think of the show and how would you what did you like?
Maybe what did you not like?
Last night I thought your hair looked particularly good.
That was my favorite part of the show.
I think I've got wrong on that.
Oh, stop.
You know how long I usually take a shower about eight forty every night.
First of all, I'm gonna see it's about eight fifty.
And just so everybody knows, Sean doesn't let anybody do his hair, he doesn't let anybody do his makeup, he does all his own stuff, and Sean's idea of makeup is is not the rest of ours, so it's like a 30 second process.
Soft brush, uh, I I dip it in the makeup and I go blah blah blah blah blah blah, boom, done.
I'm done in less than 40 seconds putting on the makeup.
But you know what I think no, you know what I thought now you have to wear makeup on TV or else you look like a ghost.
So the makeup just takes away the ghost appearance, and just I have to do it, they make me do it.
But I don't have to sit there for an hour like I used to.
I used to take, you know, makeup artists want to take their time.
I don't want to take my time.
Yeah, but I think okay, so in all in all seriousness, I think what you did really well, and not just this last night, but over the last couple of days, is talking about, you know, Biden, Chinese money, understanding that, you know, this Delaware home, the visitor logs, you know, some of the things that I think a lot of other shows are not talking about, they're getting wrapped up in not that the World Economic Forum isn't also important.
You've done great work on that, but and you know, obviously, you know, Humpty Dumpty being there, great, love that.
But I think you've done a really nice job of talking a little bit about you know the logs.
I would love for you to press more on that.
I think that if we find out who's at the house, how often Biden's at the house, you know, and all the things that Saki and KJP and them saying wherever the president is, he's working, which you know I call BS on that, but moving on.
You know, I don't think that Biden's at the end of the day.
Because now they're they're claiming just the opposite.
Now that's what makes that comment very, very interesting.
For the longest time, the Biden administration was saying, no, no, no.
Um uh he this is a working environment at his house.
Uh then we find out that in fact, uh, while they said it was used for official business, now they're saying it was only for personal business, that he didn't do any work there.
So they've contradicted themselves on it.
That's why it's a bigger issue today to me.
But I also think, you know, if we could look back, right?
For example, if we like you were saying, you know, about the forty-nine thousand dollars in rent, right?
And just the very odd number of it being nine hundred and ten bucks, and just you know, who where in in Wilmington, Delaware, is there a property that we're renting for fifty doll fifty thousand dollars a month.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, listen, if it was in Palm Beach, uh for example.
I have I you know me, I look at real estate constantly just 'cause I like the real estate business.
And you know how much like a mansion is goes for in Palm Beach on the ocean.
A hundred and fifty million dollars.
You know how much Mar Lago's worth?
Oh my gosh.
I have no idea how much is it worth?
I I probably a billion.
Jeez, that's a lot.
Insane.
You know, you got this.
You got this one big hedge fund guy.
I think his name is Ken Griffin.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know that is.
So he bought he walked up to five separate homes on the ocean in Palm Beach, knocked on the door, said I want to buy your house.
And he offered them an obscene amount of money for the five homes, I believe he paid over 500 million.
And this is going back a couple of years.
He's gonna demo demo all those homes and rebuild a home for himself, and I believe his mother I read somewhere.
But by the way, if I mean that's a that's gonna be a billion dollar property.
That's insane.
Now, if he was gonna rent that home, I would imagine he'd probably get a million dollars a month or some insane number, right?
Right, but again, that's Delaware, you don't know.
That's ocean fruit property in Florida.
We're talking about Wilmington, Delaware.
You got Rehobith Beach.
I mean, I'm not saying it's not nice, but it's not it's not Florida by any stretch.
It's not it's not Malibu, it's not Silicon Valley, it's it's Palm Beach, it's not Delaware, Delaware, and but and and Hunter apparently just lived in his own room and used the kitchen.
You don't need a lot of space to cook and take crack.
You know, you need a kitchen to cook it, you need a room to take it in.
You know, my man was keeping it very clean and easy, you know.
And then you only need one room to you can do the crack and have a hooker in the same room.
You see that?
Now you're multitasking, you know, you're thinking outside the box, you know.
I got a multi-purpose facility here, you know, this room's for that, this room's for that, and I'm good.
One and done.
I'm good one and done.
Back to our original purpose.
You don't you don't have to agree with me uh to get on the disagree with me.
Listen, I never agree with you and I work here.
So this should be, you know, full fledged, you know.
It's not true that you you most you usually do agree with me.
I agree with you a lot.
Not you disagree with me on some things.
You go crazy on other things.
First of all, I think crazy is a very strong word.
That's an adjective I would not apply to it.
Ethan, I'll let you be the arbiter.
Ethan's never gonna be the arbiter.
Are you insane?
I am Switzerland.
100%.
Yeah, Switzerland.
But you know why?
Because he doesn't like mommy and daddy to fit.
That's right.
Forget about it.
He's not getting in that fight.
Uh yeah, but but you know what?
We can have a difference of opinion.
And at the end of the day, I'm like, all right, I heard enough of this.
Move on.
Let's go.
Um, and you feel the same with me.
I can't convince him, forget it.
He's got his own views.
I think you and I end up in the same spot.
How we get there sometimes is a little bit different.
You know what I mean?
It's kind of like when you're choosing a place to go to school.
You know, am I going to go to Hillsdale?
Am I going to go to Brown?
Am I going to go to GW?
You know, everybody's got an opinion about where they want to go.
I love all these critics, though.
There are people that are critical of me.
The funniest thing to me are these people that want to be the super MAGA people.
They they want to, I'm more MAGA than your MAGA.
I'm I'm no, I'm a super super duper MAGA.
They're almost like liberals.
I hate Trump.
No, I I double hate Trump.
No, I triple hate Trump.
I quadruple hate Trump.
And it's like they're all trying to outdo each other.
If you go back to 2015 and 16, I don't remember these people anywhere to be found.
You know, or even during the, you know, Russia hoax, you know, we were the ones that were breaking down that story every night, and so many other conservatives were silent.
You know, just like during impeachment.
The real quid pro quo.
We were the ones focused on that.
You know, and then people attack me.
You're not supporting Trump enough.
Or they said, the New York Times is claiming you don't support Trump or whatever lie they're telling on any given day.
It's amazing, you know, the short sightedness and the circular firing squad mentality that exists amongst conservatives.
But you know what's interesting?
I'm gonna give you a funny, I'm gonna give you a funny anecdote to think about.
The same people who are flipping the script and acting like they were telling a different story five years ago, are the same people who are online saying, Well, you said this and you said that, and I can bring it up.
For some reason, the ability to recall all things they said seems to be lost.
Nobody can remember anything.
But when it comes to tracking down their enemies, they're able to point out every single thing they ever said.
They've got their entire lives online, they've got them recorded, they can pull it all up.
I'm like, I'm sorry, could you get the mirror out?
Because there's literally nobody worse than you.
You know, that whole pot kettle thing is lost on these people, and they're so extreme.
There's just no conversation.
Oh, you know, there's some people that I mean absolutely went bonkers uh on certain issues, and it uh and if I don't go down the same road as them, that's it.
Hannity's a sellout.
I'm like, oh my gosh.
Why am I?
Yeah, everybody's a sellout unless they thought of it first.
Then it's a great idea.
No, or or or if I don't agree with them.
You know, I mean, that's another problem they have.
I don't agree with them.
Now, full circle, if you don't agree with Sean, call in today and be the last call and be able to articulate your disagreement, and we'll put you on TV and it'll be a lot of fun.
All right, Mark is in New York.
Mark, how are you?
Glad you uh hung in there.
What's on your mind today?
Hey, I just wanted to say that something that doesn't get a lot of press is that there's still places that are making COVID patients die completely alone, no family, no visitors, no nothing.
Um, I lost my dad about a year and a month ago, and I found him unresponsive.
I called an ambulance.
I didn't really think I was going to see him after that.
Not to sound callous, but he wasn't the healthiest guy on earth.
I get to the hospital, they tell me, hey, he's talking, he's alert.
I said, That's incredible.
Can I see him?
They said, No, you can't see him.
Along with a few other things, he has COVID.
I said, Okay.
How's this work?
They said, when the time comes, if the time comes, we'll give you 15 minutes to say goodbye.
And I said, Wow, that's a little barbaric in its own right, but okay.
I bring him his cell phone, they say no, you can't see him.
He says he wants his iPad.
The next day I bring him his iPad, they say, No, you can't see him.
They said, We'll let you know when the time is right.
Okay.
So on the fourth day I get a phone call.
Come see your dad, use your fifteen minutes.
I said, Oh wow, okay.
So I'm driving to the hospital.
I'm thinking the speech I'm gonna give my father about the man he was, what he meant to me.
I get to the hospital, they won't let me up.
Security says you can't go up there, it's COVID.
I said, I just got a phone call, man.
Come on.
All right, they let me up.
I get up there and I realize it's over.
He's toast.
I'm not going to be saying goodbye to my father.
He's in a glass cage, no no handles, no nothing, no way to get inside, about twenty feet away from me.
He can't even see me.
And I'm like, what is happening here?
I thought you people were said I was going to be able to say goodbye to my father.
Like this is unbelievable.
The same man that was talking, texting just two days earlier.
They refused to let me up there.
So they said, Oh, do you want us to spin the bed so we can see you?
And I'm like, Of course.
I'm like, what is happening right now?
This can't be real.
So they spin the bed, and I'm trying to make like a I like I love you with my hands, and finally he sees me and it's over.
He flips out.
The machines go berserk.
He tries ripping his mask off, he tries getting out of bed and basically just collapses in pain.
And that is the last image I have of my father because they refused to let us up there.
My brother, we told them he'll need time because he works in New York City.
They never even called him.
I had to call my brother and say, You're never gonna see dad.
Don't even bother thinking about what to say goodbye.
And I want to say my father's name was Gary Vitro.
He was a good, honest, decent man, and him and the hundreds of thousands of other people deserve better than the government to just put their life out like an old cigarette butt.
I loved you, Dad, and I hope you forgive me for what happened.
You didn't uh kinda just I gotta step in here.
You're a great son.
You did nothing wrong.
You fought the good fight to get to see him.
Uh they're wrong in their policy.
Uh this is this is just completely outrageous and unacceptable.
Um, just like forcing, you know, mandates on people, uh, the way they have, even young children without any science behind it.
Uh you have every right to be disgusted, but you did nothing wrong.
And I know it's a tragedy.
I I uh your dad I'm sure is in a better place, and I just want your heart not to be troubled.
You did nothing wrong.
You fought to see your father.
The bureaucrats wouldn't let you.
I admire your fight, and I'm so sorry you lost your dad.
It sucks.
And it should never be like that ever.
Ever.
I know people the same thing happened to them.
It's horrible.
Uh you're in my prayers, my friend.
God bless you, Mark.
Okay.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, Hannity, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Uh we have Senator Ted Cruz, Stephen A. Smith, Stephen Millard tonight, Leslie Marshall, Devin Nunes, Jim Banks.
We have former director of National Intelligence, Ratcliffe is gonna join us uh as well.
And then, by the way, at 10 Eastern, right after the TV show, uh, if you go to Stephen Asmith Book dot com, I'm gonna be interviewing Stephen A. Smith, and you he's signing copies of his brand new book, which is phenomenal.
That's 10 o'clock Eastern, right after Hannity, the TV show.
Stephen A. Smith Book dot com.
All right, that's all for today.
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