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	Joe Biden uh late yesterday, no regrets at all.
	None whatsoever.
	Meanwhile, the same guy that was saying, ah, how?
	How did this happen?
	It's so irresponsible.
	Talking about Donald Trump, you know, the cadaver that he is, but anyway, so he said no regrets overhandling classified information.
	Here's what he said.
	As we found uh we found a handful of documents were failed uh were filed in the wrong place.
	We immediately turned them over to the archives of the Justice Department.
	We're fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly.
	I think you're gonna find there's nothing there.
	I have no regrets.
	I'm following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do.
	It's exactly what we're doing.
	There's no there.
	Thank you.
	No, there were documents there in four different places, Joe.
	Top secret classified documents.
	Joe, how?
	How'd that happen?
	How did this so irresponsible?
	Uh anyway, I think I'm funny, I'm not.
	Uh Karine Jean-Pierre, you know, has been twisted in a pretzel all week.
	I mean, uh the White House has let her hang out to dry with no answers at all whatsoever is a montage of that.
	What I can tell you right now is what the president is is is uh share with you what the president said to all of you, right?
	Which is he was surprised by this.
	He definitely truly respects uh the process here.
	Uh and also when it comes to classified, he takes classified documents very seriously.
	That search was completed last night, and now this is in the hands of the Justice Department.
	So we should assume that it's been completely, yes.
	Right?
	They completed uh the uh uh the search uh with documents being found last night.
	I have answered your questions uh as uh almost every day on this issue.
	And again, anything else that you may have, anything that's related to the review, I would refer to the Department of Justice.
	You guys can ask me this a hundred times, two hundred times if you wish.
	I'm going to keep saying the same thing.
	Are you upset that you came out to this podium on Friday with incomplete and inaccurate information?
	And are you concerned that it affects your credibility up here?
	Well, what I'm what I'm concerned about is making sure that we do not politically interfere in the Department of Justice, that we continue uh to be consistent.
	Now, Christopher Ray was at the FBI director was at the World Economic Forum.
	They talked about how the FBI needs to partner with big tech companies.
	Uh that already happened in the lead up to the 2020 election.
	The FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop in December 2019.
	Uh they could have verified it.
	Oh, certainly sure within 30 days, that'd be the maximum time they need.
	Because there's pictures of Hunter, videos of Hunter, emails from Hunter, uh Hunter Smoking Crack, Hunter with Hookers.
	You got Hunter with, you know, doing all sorts of things.
	Hunter implicating his father.
	But anyway, so they lead up this effort in the lead up to the 2020 election.
	You got this guy is special agent, fairly newly hired because he wrote a 20 he wrote a thesis on the 2016 election about how Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidency, which is a lie.
	He was heading up the effort to meet weekly with all the big tech companies and warn them about quote disinformation campaigns from foreign adversaries.
	And there might even be information according to the the site integrity ahead at Twitter, this guy, uh Mr. Roth, uh, it might even be about Hunter.
	Oh.
	Really?
	So when the New York Post broke the story about Hunter's laptop, well, they have been prepping all these big tech companies not to print such information.
	And they systematically teamed up to coordinate an effort to hide information from the American people that was true about Joe and Hunter Biden.
	Anyway, this all comes to a head.
	Um, a pretty powerful article that was on Fox News.com, and it was written by Nicole Parker.
	She has an incredible life story.
	Uh she was working for Merrill Lynch on September 11, 2001 on the top floor of the World Financial Center in New York City.
	She watched up close the horrific deadly terrorist attacks.
	They evacuated their building.
	They went they got to safety, thank God, thanks to the efforts of the MYPD.
	We lost, as I've said so many times, two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven of our fellow Americans, the worst attack on our soil and on the history of this country.
	Anyway, it changed her.
	She left her multi-billion dollar hedge fund in 2009.
	There were 45,000 people that year that applied to be FBI agents, and only 900 made the cut.
	But she tells why she left the FBI.
	Here she is, Nicole Parker.
	Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
	Hi, thank you so much for having me.
	I really appreciate it.
	Well, I wanted to get out your background because the reason you chose to do this, this this was something that was like a calling to you.
	Is that fair to say?
	Absolutely, Sean.
	It was a mission.
	Um most agents that joined the FBI, there's a higher purpose.
	Um, you know, I was in the financial sector prior to joining the FBI, and much more lucrative to work at a multi-billion dollar hedge fund than to work for the FBI.
	But I wasn't motivated by making money.
	I knew the morning of September eleventh of 2001 that it was the efforts of heroic individuals such as the NYPD officers that helped lead me and my colleagues and others to safety.
	And I knew that day that God had protected me and that I wanted to do something in the future to give back and to serve.
	And so the FBI was the vehicle which I selected to give service back to this country.
	I I have been so blessed, and I believe that where God gives you a lot, where much is given, much is required.
	And I just wanted to give up back and serve the people of the United States of America.
	You are only about eight years away from retirement.
	You served over twelve plus years at the at the FBI.
	Why did you write this article?
	Or more importantly, why did you walk away from the FBI and why did you leave?
	Like I said, I didn't join the FBI for a pension.
	I came because I genuinely wanted to help protect Americans, uphold the Constitution, and serve.
	And I had an amazing experience at the FBI.
	I met incredible individuals.
	We worked very large cases.
	But we really felt like we were making a difference.
	And I felt like I was making an impactful difference.
	You see so many things in this world as an FBI agent, you see a lot of darkness.
	And sometimes you wonder, am I really making an impact?
	There is so much evil out there.
	Can I even put a dent in this?
	But you look at each individual one by one that you are helping, and you do feel like you're making a difference.
	It got to the point when I originally joined, we were all, you know, I know I was just focused on stopping criminals and trying to put bad people behind bars.
	And it seemed that that was the trajectory that the FBI was on.
	That was the focus.
	That's what we spoke about all of the time.
	And it seemed that as the years progressed, and especially in the last couple of years, it's almost as if the priorities and the trajectory of the FBI changed.
	And I was trying to be patient with the process, right?
	I started kind of seeing things and we all did, and look, we kind of scratched our heads a little bit, but you know, we kept our heads low.
	We stayed working on our cases and the different investigations that we were assigned to.
	But it Became so loud that it was hard to keep your head low and and just ignore all of the the things swirling around you.
	And that's when I started to look at things, and myself and several of my colleagues from around the country, we all had similar concerns.
	So it's funny you say this because almost everything you say in your column that you put up on Fox News.com has been told to me by people that I know in the FBI, one that recently retired.
	Uh the shifting in recruiting practices, low lowering of eligibility uh requirements, uh politicizing the FBI.
	Now, Jim Jordan on the appropriations committee is gonna have a big investigation into the question of whether the FBI has been politicized and the Department of Justice weaponized.
	Based on your experience, what you saw, do you believe that's the case?
	Right.
	So again, I was working on the criminal side of the house, and so I wasn't involved directly on any of these investigations that seem to be of political nature, but it is a large organization, and we all feel the effects of what's going on, regardless of what field office you're in.
	It all comes from the top, and you see what's going on around the country.
	So although I may not have been involved in it directly, I was feeling the effects of it.
	The American citizens who are seeing this unravel behind before their eyes, they are watching, and it was making it difficult for us who had nothing to do with this side of the house to do our job because I'm going out trying to talk to witnesses, you know, recruiting sources, and they they it was almost like a mistrust.
	And I was constantly having to say, no, no, I I am not involved in that.
	Like I'm a trustworthy FBI agent, like I, you know, I'm just trying to do the right thing, we're we're trying to fight violent crime, or whatever it might be.
	And it it became, like I said in the op-ed, almost exhausting to constantly have to separate myself.
	You know, friends, family, you know, they're they'd always be like, What is going on at the FBI?
	Well, I I'm just a field agent in the Miami division.
	How am I supposed to be held accountable and responsible for what's going on?
	I have nothing to do with that.
	But yet I was feeling the consequences of other people's behaviors.
	I will tell you, the FBI has, you know, we we understand things that have happened in the past, certain employees that have been removed from the FDI because of behavior that was not in accordance with the FBI's principles.
	And the problem is it takes a long time to regain the trust after that trust has been broken, right?
	So something that may have happened back in 2016, 2017.
	It's gonna take a lot of time to rebuild the trust of the American people for a a small destructive few employees' mistakes.
	I can't be held accountable for their mistakes, but yet I was, and it wasn't just one politicization, it seemed that constantly it was one thing after another, you know, and it i it just got i i I almost felt like I was buried under something that we had nothing to do with.
	Quick break right back.
	We'll continue with Nicole Parker, former FBI agent.
	Why I left the FBI 800 941 Sean, we get to your calls at the bottom of the half hour.
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	All right, we continue with Nicole Parker.
	Why she left the FBI, the first of what will be dozens of whistleblowers talking about how the FBI has been politicized.
	Jim Jordan was on my TV show one night talking about these whistleblowers.
	The very next day, Merrick Garland sent out a quote memorandum or reminder that uh members of the Department of Justice are not allowed to be talking to members of Congress, meaning Congressmen and Senators.
	Uh I thought we had whistleblower protection laws.
	They are they are describing things that should never happen to this organization.
	We now know that the FBI was was on a weekly basis talking with big tech, warning them that in 2020 that there might be a massive disinformation campaign from from some adversary uh or adversarial country.
	Uh and it might invive involve Joe Biden or Hunter Biden.
	And then sh lo and behold, the the Hunter Biden laptop comes out.
	They had it since twenty nineteen.
	They could have corroborated it.
	It everything in there is true.
	Uh and yet they were telling these these big tech companies, be wary if you hear anything.
	And then they they they literally put their thumb on these big tech companies.
	And Chris Ray was talking today at the World Economic Forum about partnering with these big tech companies.
	I'm like, you already are.
	You paid Twitter three and a half million.
	How much did you pay other big tech companies?
	Right.
	And like I said again, um, you know, we remember that email that came out.
	Um it was, I believe, in August.
	And you know, I again I wasn't a whistleblower.
	I wasn't asked to do anything of that nature, but it it was sent to all of us, and we all kind of wondered, hmm, that's interesting.
	But again, there are employees that may not agree with what's going on, but it almost feels like it's bigger than yourself.
	Um, you know, you don't really feel like you're at the liberty to be able to speak up.
	They can't speak up because they don't want the target on their back.
	They don't want to be looked at as a problematic employee, they don't want to be difficult, but they genuinely have concerns about what's going on, and then you know they see an email like that, and then they're like, oh, I I you know, we're getting a whistleblower training at the bureau.
	Um, and so when you take that training, you want to think that that protection is there.
	Um and so it just became difficult for people that were seeing things to be able to speak up.
	You know, the FBI is all about being a safe place and you know, a safe place for us to work as far as you know, feeling comfortable about who you are and you know, differently not identities, but at the same time, those employees they want to feel safe when they're going to speak up and share their genuine concern.
	The last they did this in 2016.
	They they sent FBI agents to interview Christopher Steele in 2016 in October, early October.
	They were warned in August of 2016 not to trust the dossier.
	Uh Christopher Steele, they offered him a million dollars to verify it.
	He couldn't get his million dollars, but then they James Comey signed that FISA application that said it was verified, and they used every bit of the dossier as the bulk of information.
	And nothing happened to him, but I only have about 10 seconds.
	Right.
	I mean, the bottom line is an FBI agent, you should be operating with the highest level of integrity.
	Any FBI employee Americans deserve that you should be operating with the highest level of integrity, regardless of your political persuasion.
	That is the right thing to do, And that is what Americans deserve.
	Well, we really appreciate your bravery, Nicole Parker.
	You're the first of I think what will be many FBI agents uh talking about this.
	Uh thank you for your service, and I think it was very courageous of you to tell the truth.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for having me.
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	Let's do a little recap here, and then we'll get to your calls.
	Um here you have Corine Jean-Pierre, you know, literally contradicting herself, you know, twisted up in a pretzel, the mob in the media getting frustrated with her.
	Uh everybody knows she's just outright lying or just stalling and not telling us the truth.
	Uh then you got the media with their conspiracy theories.
	Oh, the Republicans probably planted all of this in Joe's lock garage.
	Remember, Joe said it was always locked, except for all the photos we have of the garage door wide open where you can see the top secret documents.
	Um, and the media putting that forward.
	And uh and then Schumer, you know, what what a different take from him.
	Oh, it's not a big deal.
	And just think back how all these Democrats were like, put Trump in jail, you can't get him in jail soon enough.
	Uh Merrick Garland, Christopher Ray did the right thing.
	Here's like our weekly recap of insanity.
	But you know how this appeared to me.
	If you're missing classified information, I don't be laughing, but in my house, if stuff is missing, I know, and it's gonna be like Appo research to you.
	Does it feel like the Republicans are behind it?
	I'm suspicious of the timing of it.
	I'm s I'm also aware of the fact that things can be planted on people.
	Thank you.
	Um, so many of our questions have been referred to the DOJ and to the White House Council's office.
	I'm sure you can understand that we're in sort of information blackout where DOJ refers us to the special counsel.
	They're not holding any briefings.
	White House Council refers us to DOJ.
	So if you are not able to talk about this from the podium, would you invite a DOJ official to take our questions here?
	Uh to the briefcase.
	No, you would have to go to the Department of Justice.
	That is not it.
	This is a a legal matter that is currently happening at the Department of Justice.
	And the president has been very, very clear when it comes to these types of legal matters when it comes to investigations.
	He's not going to interfere.
	Uh, he wants to make sure that we give back the independence that the Department of Justice should have when it comes to these types of uh investigations, so certainly would not be bringing them here.
	Uh so I would refer you to Department of Justice.
	I I just I I was just very clear.
	If you have any questions, I would refer you to the White House Council's office.
	I'm having a hard time understanding why questions about we should see your and I just said, and I just said to you, the White House Council's office will be able to address That question.
	Is President Biden satisfied with the current SOP of handling classified materials here and turning them over to National Archives?
	Again, I will refer you to the White House Council's office.
	They are the they're the people who would uh be able to answer that question about classified information.
	Are you not going to be taking questions about the classified documents?
	I have been very clear over and over again.
	We are going to be prudent here.
	Uh we're going to be consistent.
	This particular matter is being uh is being looked at.
	There's a legal process currently happening at the Department of Justice.
	And I'm going to refer you to the Department of Justice on any specifics to this particular case, and anything that has to deal with um our what we're doing here, uh, I would refer to the White House Council's office.
	And let me remind you, this is this is this is not a new process here.
	I we've been doing this for the past two years.
	Anything that is related uh to uh a legal uh process, a legal matter, we refer it to the Department of Justice.
	There's nothing new in our process.
	We've all reached out to the Department of Justice, the law enforcement official tells NBC News the Justice Department has not told the White House that it cannot talk about the facts underlying the special counsel investigation in the classified documents.
	So trusting that you've received that same information, understanding the desire to be prudent, then why why can't you speak by the underlying facts?
	We've been very clear when it comes to even underlying facts, when it comes to specifics, when it comes to something that is under the purview, that is that the Department of Justice is looking at, especially legal matters, investigations.
	We do not comment from here, Peter.
	That has been consistent.
	So we've been doing that.
	Bob Bower, who represents the president's personal attorney over the weekend said that one of the reasons why, and he and Sam's your colleague who represents who speaks on behalf of the special counsel at the White House, um, spoke to this in some form yesterday.
	But he said one of the reasons why they shouldn't reveal uh further details right now was regular ongoing public disclosures also pose the risk that as further information develops, answers provided on this periodic basis may be incomplete.
	When the White House did release a statement, the president spoke out on January 9th, the risk of incompletion was a function of the White House's decision not to share all the information anew, in fact, because we knew on uh November 2nd and the first discovery was made, we knew the second discovery was made on December 20th.
	So there's a risk of incompletion, but will you concede that it's the White House that has been incomplete in its provision of information when it did choose to speak up publicly on January 9th?
	My colleague actually dealt with this question on the call yesterday on the White House Council's office.
	And I would refer you to the White House Council's office.
	Yes, sir.
	I have to get in and have to say this.
	Uh you you seem much more measured about this than with the Trump documents because you call for transparency with the Trump documents.
	You want it lawmakers to have access to the documents seized from the former president, uh his residence in Florida, which it seems like you bottom line is I said that night it's premature to comment on what should be done for another try that's a good question.
	Yes, for President Trump.
	That's exactly right.
	I think that your statements are consistent for both.
	I sure do.
	Classified material.
	Next year, Corvette.
	What were you thinking?
	Let me uh get a chance to speak on all this God willingly soon.
	But as I said earlier this week.
	People and by the way, my Corvette's in a locked garage.
	Okay, so it's not like you're sitting out in the street.
	But anyway, yes, as well as my Corvette.
	Um but uh as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified materials seriously.
	It just doesn't get any crazier than this, but that's what uh you come to expect from Liberal Democrats.
	All right, 800 941 Sean is our number.
	If you want to be a part of the uh program, uh let's say hi to Paul's in West Virginia.
	Hey Paul, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Um doing great, Sean.
	It's great to talk to you.
	Great to talk to you.
	You just did it again.
	You know, every time you do one of those recaps.
	We got uh I'm one of these guys driving home listening to the radio, and uh we yell at the radio, but nothing's ever gonna happen.
	That happens well, it happens a lot listening to you, and actually that's kind of a good thing.
	Well, look listen, yes and no.
	Do I think anything's gonna happen on the document issue?
	No.
	We know look, uh if Hillary Clinton got away with everything she did, including deleting with bleach but thirty-three thousand emails and beating up hammers and uh beating up blackberries and iPhones with hammers and removing SIM cards, and then she had more top secret classified information than anybody on her many servers sh that she shouldn't have had.
	Um it's the double standard is so glaring with the rate on on Mar-a-Lago that I think that even Merrick Garland they I think they're scared.
	The timing couldn't be b worse for them because Jim Jordan is gonna be all over this in the appropriations committee.
	Here's where the Bidens have their greatest vulnerability.
	Follow the money.
	Look at China, Hunter Biden's hundred thousand dollar shopping spree with the Chinese National.
	Look at the Penn Biden Center.
	Sixty seven million of that sixty-seven, forty-seven point seven came in uh just as Joe left the White House and was setting up shop at UPenn.
	And then by the way, another fourteen million came in uh even after that, and then professors at UPenn write a letter to Merrick Garland to stop the investigation of espionage by the Chinese against us, and he did it.
	Uh then you can add the other money, the the one point five billion dollar deal bank of China.
	Then you can add the five million uh five million dollar no interest uh forgivable loan.
	Wouldn't you like that by the way, Paul?
	Would you like if I gave you a five million dollar no interest forgivable loan?
	What would you consider that?
	Uh yes, I would I would consider that for sure.
	A good deal to make.
	And and and would you pay me back, or would you say, well, it's forgivable, so I don't need to pay you back.
	Well, I'm in the real world and I would probably make uh an honest effort, but I w I don't think I could afford a five million dollar loan.
	So well, but if it's forgivable, it kind of there's a message there, isn't it?
	Isn't forgivable mean don't worry about it.
	Here's five million dollars.
	There is for people who don't have any uh any sense of uh standards in their lives, I guess.
	Yeah, would that be the whole Biden family?
	Now we're only talking about China.
	What about Russia?
	What about Kazakhstan?
	What about you know, Ukraine?
	You got you got my point.
	That's where they're most vulnerable.
	Yeah, most you know the population in the United States, I I believe it's right at fifty or sixty percent are under forty years old now, and they have no clue really as to what China or Russia's even about.
	They don't know what communism means.
	And and on the most part, I think some of these young folks even pro would prefer it um over what we've got going on here.
	I I see it every day.
	I know you see it more than I do.
	Listen, I am uh I am telling you it's you're absolutely right.
	That's sad.
	That's pretty sad.
	You know, I I I called because I don't you don't do it.
	You you point things out to people for a reason.
	I'm pretty sure this is a reason is for people to get involved.
	And we've got a lot of different things that we can do.
	We can call our representatives.
	Uh mainly for therapy.
	I I write letters to the newspapers and uh about I get about ten a year in the paper, and man, that's some great therapy there.
	But I think the most important thing people can do is to teach their kids what what reality really is.
	Hardest job in the world is being a parent, my friend.
	Uh appreciate it.
	800 941 Sean.
	You know, I naively thought I'd send my kids to college and my job was done.
	No.
	I couldn't have been more wrong in my life than to actually believe that.
	Because I unlike my parents, I was a helicopter parent.
	Just I grew up.
	You weren't a helicopter parent.
	I was with my kids.
	I had eyes on them at all times.
	That's different.
	That's not a helicopter parent.
	It's absolutely a helicopter parent.
	No, you were an engaged parent.
	Parenting is supposed to be involved, engaged, paying attention.
	I get all I would get off the school bus, get on my bicycle, and my parents had no clue where I was that's different.
	That was a time in this country when you could actually live your life and go outside and not be afraid that your kid would be raped, mutilated, abducted, hurt, sold fentanyl drugs.
	I mean, it just was a different time.
	So it really was.
	Listen, I I've told my kids, I said, and they listen to the stories about me as a kid, and they're like, Why do you why didn't you let us do stuff like that?
	And I'm like, Because times have changed.
	And and then listen, it all worked out, but it's just different.
	I thought, you know, I was independent since I was ten.
	My parents when I'm twelve years old and washing dishes till two, three in the morning and coming home on my bicycle, which is what I did.
	And when I'm cooking and I'm intending bar and last call is four o'clock, and I'd leave the bar at 4 30, and then I'd go to the diner, and it's, you know, the sun's up by the time I get home.
	Uh it was a very different life.
	My parents never they never said, where were you?
	What were you doing?
	You know, they would see, usually my father would see a big pile of wada cash.
	It would either be on the my bed or in my pocket, and he'd end up end up taking three quarters of it, putting it in a bank account for me.
	Smart.
	Good dad.
	And I ended up using that money.
	That was my money for the college that I had.
	And I used all of it for that.
	But how many parents are not engaged now?
	Look at the parents of today.
	They're they're totally checked out.
	But my parents had no clue where I was.
	It's a different checked out.
	Your parents were working.
	These parents are on Facebook.
	It's completely different.
	I don't know about that's a problem.
	I can't even imagine my parents on Facebook.
	I mean, seriously, you know what I'm saying?
	I love the generation of people who say I don't know how to work this damn phone.
	That's the people I want to hang out with.
	Listen to play that right now.
	Listen, I I have some grats that I didn't appreciate who they were and how hard their lives were.
	100%.
	I didn't I didn't know.
	Let me tell you something.
	The people of today could never do what the people that went through the storm the beaches of Normandy and fought for us in World War II, forget about it.
	Well, there are many of us that can.
	Oh, there are.
	There are many.
	But there are a lot of us that can't because they're lazy and they're leaning on the government.
	There's a lot of snowflakes out there.
	I'll forget about it.
	It's a freaking blizzard.
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