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Protecting Classified Documents - January 27th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern, we will have the Memphis videotape.
I go back, and this is in the case of Tyree Nichols.
The police chief says that these acts of these five officers against him.
And again, I'm going by what people are saying.
Now that we have the Paul Pelosi tape, it is not exactly as it was reported, and there had been conflicting reports, if you recall, that this defies acts of humanity, what we'll see tonight.
Unexplainable aggression by Memphis police against Tyree Nichols.
Tyree Nichols' case shows that law enforcement issues aren't about race, but bias is on the table.
Tyree Nichols' mother describing her son's body when she saw him in the hospital.
We've all seen that image, that picture.
I mean, there's five cops, there's one kid.
And it's beyond any comprehension I have.
And anyway, the Memphis officers, you know, will see this tape tonight.
And it sounds by every account so far that we've heard, and I am withholding that judgment.
This is going to be bad tonight.
Now, how people react to this, everyone is predicting the worst.
I hope it's not going to be the case, but you have to be on alert that it might be the case, that the potential for this to, you know, be the summer of 2020 could be tonight, maybe in other cities across the country.
I know the guard's been called up in Atlanta, et cetera, et cetera.
The one tape that we have now been able to see is the Paul Pelosi tape.
The body cam video is out.
The 911 call is out.
There is also a surveillance video that came out.
It's the strangest thing.
The guy that attacked Paul Pelosi, you know, he's literally banging, it looks like, on the door with the hammer to try and break into the house.
So not much to say about that.
Let's go to the moment.
Now, Paul Pelosi, it is clear, is speaking in code to a 911 operator, and it's clear that he's on speaker, and it's clear that the soon-to-be assailant is listening and answering, and saying he's a friend of the family.
And remember, go back to the reporting at the time.
It was that he said that, well, we read that he had said, based on Nancy Pelosi's answers, when she got home, he would decide whether or not she was going to be attacked or not.
So, you know, Paul Pelosi is in a tough spot with the 911 call.
He's an older gentleman, obviously doesn't have the means to defend himself.
And you can see that in the video.
And even when the police come in, he has to act like everything's cool.
And this guy has a hammer in his hand.
And towards the end, put that hammer down.
And that's when he attacks Paul Pelosi and hits him in the head.
The police acted immediately.
But anyway, here is the body cam audio of the police officers as this was unfolding.
How are you doing?
What's going on, man?
All right.
Drop the hammer.
No.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
What is going on right there?
Pick on him Michael.
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Give me a fing hand.
Give me your fing hand.
I mean, just chilling when you watch all this unfold here to give their take on this.
Mark Simone, he is the host of the number one morning show on our affiliate New York AM710 W-O-R.
And Betsy McCoy is with us, former Lieutenant Governor of New York.
And welcome back, both of you.
Mark Simone, as I look at this tape again and again and again, it just reinforces to me.
And I tell people, and remember, Paul Pelosi was a victim here.
He was attacked, clearly not provoked in any way.
But, you know, the need to figure out some method by which you have an ability to defend yourself.
If, God forbid, you find yourself in a similar situation.
What was your take?
Well, it's a very frightening Paul Pelosi that opens the door.
The nut has his arm around Pelosi's arm holding him.
The biggest mystery here is the guy's obviously just a lunatic.
Why did they allow him to call 911?
And it's on a speakerphone.
He's hearing this conversation.
I don't know why he didn't grab the phone away and say everything's fine.
We're okay here.
Well, so why he allowed that car call?
I'll never understand.
Thank goodness for that 911 operator who knew something was wrong.
Sent the police.
And she sent them on a hunch because she was asking very specific questions.
Are you in danger?
But the assailant that's right next to him, he can't say, yes, I'm in danger.
Come down here.
And the cops got there in less than two minutes.
You can't have a better response than two minutes.
Yeah, and it must have been the name Pelosi that caused that just an unknown name.
Who knows what would have happened?
But I didn't get the sense at all that the 911 operator knew that the name Pelosi.
I didn't get that sense.
Did you?
She might have been confused enough to ask somebody, and then somebody else, the supervisor, somebody must have told her.
Right.
Well, actually, Paul Pelosi said to the operator, identified now as Heather Grimes, is the Capitol Police around?
They're usually here at the house protecting my wife.
So that he did indicate who he was that way to the operator.
Yeah, he definitely was speaking in code, Betsy.
I agree completely.
And I'm not sure if the operator, and this is not a criticism, she did the right thing.
Just out of an abundance of caution, she sent the police, but you could tell she wasn't quite sure if this was really an emergency.
Frankly, he's alive today because everybody, except the hammer wielder, did the right thing.
Yeah, that's really well said.
I agree with you too.
And then that raises the question.
I mean, the video, the surveillance video, Mark, what did you think of the beating in the back of that door like that?
And then when the cop says, put the hammer down, that's when the attack happened.
Now, again, a very different, we were told very different things.
We were reading very different things.
Oh, that he very nonchalantly said, oh, come on in, guys.
And that was not the situation at all.
In a sense, he was like a hostage, you know, in a bank, and the guy has a gun, and he knows the guy's got a gun, and so he's got handcuffs on his mouth.
He can't speak.
He was a hostage.
Yeah, that's true.
He was.
But you also got to wonder how you could be Speaker of the House.
You're second in line for the presidency after the president.
You're one of the most powerful people in the world.
Why there wouldn't be a guard on that house?
Why you wouldn't have better security on your home?
That's the most shocking part.
That is a good point, Mark.
I'm stunned.
Me too.
Although it makes three of us.
And you know what I don't understand, and this was what was frustrating because the Jan 6 committee got politicized.
They never got to the heart of how do we ever prevent this from happening again.
They never brought in the Capitol Police Chief.
They never brought in the sergeant-at-arms.
They never got Pelosi's texts, emails, phone calls at that time.
She's in charge of security.
They never got Muriel Bowser, you know, asking, well, why didn't you, why did you reject in writing any National Guard being called up?
We now found out they had a lot of intelligence ahead of time.
But if it wasn't politicized, they might have asked those questions to take measures to prevent it from ever happening again.
And even still, I think the answer is due exactly to the Capitol, what we've done with the White House, and that is you cordon off the area and you have a point of entry and make it impenetrable in terms of encompassing the entire Capitol.
That's my take.
Well, I think that it's even clearer than that, Sean, that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats pointedly directed the investigation away from why the Capitol was insufficiently guarded and why the Capitol Police and other law enforcement did not respond in a more timely way.
It's as if she was facilitating the attack.
Well, you're talking about on January 6th.
I'm just saying, if we, look, they could have politicized it as much as they want.
Fine.
They wanted to bludgeon Trump.
That was obvious.
When they kept Jim Jordan and Jim Banks off the committee, it was clear that this had a political agenda.
But while they were doing that part, they also had an obligation to do the other part, and they wanted no part of that because the intelligence, according to all reports, Mark Simone, they had information in the weeks leading up to January 6th that people were plotting and planning and scheming something for that day.
Yeah, nobody remembers May of 2020, Antifa, rioters, protesters, hundreds of houses tried to go to the White House and come over that fence.
Donald Trump had military, the Secret Service, and it was a big battle.
60 Secret Servicemen and women went to the hospital that night.
So he saved the White House that night.
You remember the Lincoln Memorial was to be the target of a big protest.
And there's that famous picture.
You can find it online of military surrounding the Lincoln Memorial.
They saved it that night.
And I don't know why the Capitol and Pelosi and company didn't learn their lesson from those two incidents.
Yeah, I mean, that's the point.
All right, quick break more with Betsy McCoy and Mark Simone.
Then your call's coming up, 800-941.
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All right, our final moments with Betsy McCoy and Mark Simone.
Later, we'll check in with Leo 2.0 Terrell on this, on both these issues, Memphis and, of course, the Pelosi tape that was released earlier today.
We'll get to your calls also when we get back.
800-941-Sean.
But we continue with Mark Simone and Betsy McCoy.
Let's shift gears a little bit.
We're going to have this tape released.
Everybody that has spoken publicly about it, from the family to the lawyers to the Memphis police chief, are all since the fact that they were charged immediately with second-degree murder.
I have to assume Betsy was based solely on the viewing of these police camera quarters that they have.
Well, that's right.
And, of course, seeing the victim himself, I'm a very strong supporter of the men and women in blue.
But in this instance, it does appear just an appearance so far that these.
Well, it appears based on the statement of those people that have seen it.
We haven't seen it.
That's right.
We have not seen it.
But, you know, five bad cops does not make all the cops in the United States bad.
And I know that there are many cops out there today who certainly wish that this had not happened.
What do you think we're going to see in Memphis and around the country tonight, Mark Simone, if it's as bad as people say?
I mean, I know many cities are bracing for the worst, as they should.
They should be prepared.
I know in Atlanta, for example, they called up the National Guard.
I applaud the governor for that, especially in light of what happened a couple of weekends ago.
Yeah, when Joe Biden are just calm, I get nervous.
But, you know, listen, there's still some bad cops out there, but the good news is it's 1% of 1%.
Very few.
And there's no racial element here.
Everybody involved, the victims, the accused, the commissioner, they're all the same race.
So there's not a racial element.
But I hate to picture Democrats, the committee, whoever runs this White House, plotting right now how to take advantage of this, how to politicize this.
Who knows?
But everybody should be on guard.
How do you politicize this?
I mean, the problem is, if you go back to the summer of 2020, we had 574 riots, thousands of injured cops, dozens of dead Americans, and billions in property damage.
And nobody wanted to even call these riots what they were riots.
And then you have people like Kamala Harris even going a step further and tweeting out the bail fund after the guy burned down the police precinct.
But Mark is right.
It's a cynical prediction, but probably an apt prediction that the Democratic Party will use this as an excuse for more defund the police, disarm the police, eliminate the police.
Just the opposite of what people of all colors, but particularly disadvantaged groups, need.
They need law enforcement.
They need protection in their neighborhoods.
Yeah, I think that's a lot of it.
Anyway, we can only hope and pray that, you know, people, if they're going to protest, that they'll be peaceful.
The confidence that I have after the summer of 2020 is not high.
And I'm not sure where this is headed.
And, you know, pray for the country tonight, Mark Simone.
I don't know what's going to happen.
It doesn't sound good.
It doesn't look good.
And if it's as bad as people are saying, anything could happen.
Yeah, and again, Democrats like to exploit things.
Also, the Black Lives Matter leaders have a bunch of mansions now.
You never know who's looking at that, wanting to start a new group trying to cash in on this.
So everybody's got to be careful.
Well, Black Lives Matter, are they going to be involved in this protest?
Or is this only Black Lives Matter when the race of the police officers happens to be different?
Yeah.
Well, the concern is another new wannabe Al Sharpton or Black Lives Matter coming along and trying to exploit this.
Everybody's got to be on guard.
What do you think we're expecting tonight, Betsy McCoy?
Well, I agree with you that it could be bad, but I don't want to predict that it's going to be bad because the fact is the people who suffer most when we have these race riots, they're not the wealthy people in the suburbs.
It's people struggling to open a business.
It's people living in low-income areas.
It's people who depend on public transportation in the inner cities.
They're the ones who suffer the most when we have these burned down neighborhoods.
And I hope it does not happen.
All right.
Well, we appreciate your time, both of you.
Mark Simone, thank you.
Betsy McCoy, always appreciate having you both on the program.
Have a good weekend.
And we'll be watching tonight.
We'll be live on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern.
We'll have the very latest on all of this.
I'm 25 to the top of the hour.
Thank you for being with us this Friday.
We'll get to your calls here in a second.
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The tapes in Memphis not expected to be released until about 7 p.m. Eastern.
I'm not sure why they would have released this on a Friday night heading into a weekend.
Not exactly, in my view, the most prudent time to do so.
But that's the choice, the decision that they have made.
And so we'll have full coverage of this.
Many cities are bracing for possible unrest tonight.
We hope that's not the case.
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Patty is in Illinois.
Patty, glad you called.
Thanks for checking in.
I would say happy Friday, but I'm not that happy.
I agree with you, Sean, and I haven't got to talk with you yet this year, so happy new year to you.
I hope you're doing well.
I love your show.
Happy New Year.
Thank you.
I couldn't do this without your help.
Well, like you said, seems like not too happy of a Friday and with everything, you know, out and then what's to come tonight.
That's kind of scary.
But to talk about what you guys were talking about earlier with Paul Pelosi, the tape and the 911 calls, my jaw dropped literally.
You know, again, when he first was hurt and this first came out, my heart, you know, prayers went out to the family.
No one wants anyone to be hurt like that.
But from what I looked at, he looked like he was in duress.
The calls, I agree with what you were saying earlier.
Definitely talking in code.
My question is, again, we're always seeming to learn these things after the fact.
Why wasn't there Some type of dispatch that told them right away that, hey, this is a high-profile, you know, and again, you can't blame every 911 operator.
They're not sure.
I give the person a lot of credit for sending someone out there, but I was just totally shocked by it all.
I would agree with you.
You would think, you know, the second in line to the presidency, and I had said this before, I think every speaker should have full-time security, and that should include constant security at their house.
Even if it's just one or two officers, it just seems to make sense to me.
And it's unfathomable that she didn't have it.
Now, one of the reasons the speaker, you know, we would, we chronicled the fact that she would take a government jet to and from San Francisco all the time.
So if you've taken that expense, that level of expense for travel for her, and they do travel, congressmen and women, back and forth a lot from their districts to Washington, and she's going in a government-paid for private jet, which I'm not against at all.
I think is just prudent and smart.
We've seen incidences, you know, Mitt Romney being basically harassed in a terminal at an airport.
I've had similar experiences at times myself in my life.
People are painting that, you know what?
And in this case, Ted Cruz has gone through it.
A lot of Lindsey Graham's gone through all of them.
And you know what?
If I see a liberal politician or a liberal commentator in an airport, I'm going to say, hey, how are you?
How's everything?
That's it.
Leave people alone.
Yeah.
And now in this day and age, and it's sad, you know, I still believe in the goodness and humanity of people.
I know it's out there.
I see it.
I've witnessed it myself.
But at the same time, we know that there's bad actors out there.
So I think that, again, I'm a conservative.
I vote Republican.
I try to always vote my values of what I feel, my beliefs.
I'm not saying that, you know, the Democrats are, they're all, you know, wrong, but their policies don't align with mine.
But that being said, I wouldn't want to wish any harm or wrong on anybody.
And I agree with you.
I think that we need to have protection for the speaker.
We need to have protection that helps keep people safe, especially when, like you said, you know, two heartbeats away from being the president.
I'm just shocked over the video.
It just, my jaw literally dropped.
And then with tonight, Sean, I'm going to be saying prayers.
I know you're a Christian.
I know you pray.
Every day.
I'm praying for peace.
I am praying for peace.
And for the family of Kyrie, my heart goes out to him, but I'm really saddened.
That picture of that young man in that hospital, but if that doesn't break your heart, you don't have a heart.
And that can't happen when you have five police.
You know, anyway, thank you for a very thoughtful call.
I could tell, Patty, you have a heart of gold.
God bless you and have a great weekend.
And I hope your prayers and our prayers are answered, that nothing comes out of this.
You can't look at that picture of that young man and say that this is, you know, on the surface.
How did it come to this?
Nobody ever made an accusation.
Now, if he had had a pistol, if he was armed, if they were in the middle of trying to disarm him, and there was that kind of, that didn't happen here.
Nobody has claimed that that's happened here.
But everybody that has spoken about this Memphis tape is all saying the same thing.
So we'll see tonight, unfortunately.
It doesn't sound good at all.
Big time AJ Houston, Texas.
How are you, big time?
Big time, Sean Hannity.
Hey, hey, by the way, your city of Houston, and you know, I love Houston, and you know, my niece lives in Houston, and um, I couldn't believe it.
It was voted the dirtiest city in America.
I mean, what's up with that?
Well, Sean, Newark, New Jersey was second.
Hey, hey, you can't believe everything you hear on these.
I'm just read the article.
I'm just telling you.
I don't know if it is or not.
They're blaming refineries for it, so it's probably some climate alarmist cult propaganda, but who knows?
You already know, Sean.
You already know.
So, because I live here, and I think it's a beautiful, we got a beautiful city, even though we got a few bums out there and everything that got stuff a little bit.
Yeah, but we got great Americans like big time AJ in Houston.
You know what?
That makes that raises the bar in my mind.
Yes, sir.
Hey, but Sean, let me tell you, Ashley Brother say, here we go again.
And, you know, my heart breaks when I looked at the picture that fell in there.
And Nancy Pelosi, now my ramble, and Nancy Pelosi, their house should be protected like them documents at Biden's house should have been not there.
But at the same time, don't underestimate the Democrats that use this as to get us off of what Joe Biden and them and they have done to us for the last, what, going on three years now to this country.
And this is why all these people are in such a crazy mold.
We've seen some crazy stuff in these last two years because of the policy.
The borders are wide open.
Everybody's lawlessness going on.
Everything is done.
And the Democrats that's run these cities, they don't do nothing to stop everything.
Now, as I always say, Sean, real quick, you know, everybody, I'm going to tell y'all.
When you get stopped by the police, comply and do the first step of complying.
And then if somebody do the crazy crap, you'll be able to get a lawyer and do your thing.
But don't give these people a reason to do other actions after the first action.
Just comply, people.
That's all.
And just hopefully, but it don't stop for what this, what we see in that young fella in that hospital.
I'm hoping, Sean, that I didn't, I hope this video is going to show what I think it's going to show if everybody's saying what you're saying.
Sean, if that's the case, it is really something going on bad in this country.
And me and you live this long life.
We didn't live this life to see this.
And we didn't, our troops and all them didn't die to make America the most greatest country in the world for us to come out like this.
This is unbelievable.
But I hope the media don't do the persecution until we find out, like you always say, let's find, let's see it, let's find out the facts and hope justice be done if the situation because they've, I just don't want, I'm not going to say until I see the video.
I'm going to put it that way, Sean.
I'm not going to do what the media do override things.
I'm going to wait and see it.
Well, it's not just the media.
When you have the police acting as quickly as they did upon seeing the video, the body cam video, and the police chief saying what she had to say, and everybody else that has seen this saying the same thing that it defies humanity and it's really that bad.
I don't know what could possibly be going through these officers' minds.
The police that I know, people in law enforcement that I know are not like what they're describing.
They're just not.
And I'm not saying they're not guilty.
If I'm listening to everybody so far, there's not been a single exception of anybody that's seen this video.
There's no contradictions here.
Everybody seems to be in full agreement.
This is going to be really bad tonight when we see this thing.
And I know people's emotions are going to be running high.
But, you know, I would ask all the people in all the different cities that might be gathering and might be protesting, and those that might want to, you know, use this situation and somehow respond violently.
You tell me how that's going to change anything.
I will tell you this, and I've said it many times before.
Our officers are not trained at all.
I know I'm not.
Look, I'm a student of the martial arts.
I practice an eclectic blend.
I do situational street fighting and situational self-defense every single solitary day.
And these I would know way more than these officers because they don't take the time.
Now, the other thing is, so that means for those officers, their only defense is usually, you know, either a baton or a firearm.
You know, I've been pushing this company, Burner.
I have no financial interest in it, but they have the means of stopping people with projectiles.
And they now have shotgun shell projectiles you can use in your 12-gauge shotgun, your own gun, but and they are projectiles with tear gas and two pepper sprays that do incapacitate people.
And I've never been a big fan of the stun gun or the taser because that's close quarter fighting at that point.
You don't, the person might grab it and use it on you.
I know from my use of my burner, and you can check it out for yourself, B-Y-R-N-A.
We'll put it up a link on my website.
You can put up the new link to put up the one.
I think it's a good opportunity for me to make fun of your accent because you're saying Burner.
Burner.
Burner.
Are you done?
Thank you, Qualler, for laughing.
The caller would be AJ, the Koala.
I know it's AJ.
AJ and I go.
It's the Koala.
Okay.
I got it.
Listen, I'm just praying for peace tonight.
I hate to see our cities in conflict like this, our country in conflict like this.
Saying prayers tonight, big time.
God bless you, my friend.
Don't let five people, don't let five mess up your city living for what five possibly have done.
People, don't make other people pay for what five done.
Let's let the law take care of business.
Love you, Sean, and keep up the good work.
Thank you, big time.
Appreciate it, my friend.
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Back to our busy phones.
Will in Utah.
Will, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Thanks for checking in.
How are you?
Good.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good, sir.
What's happening?
I totally agree with you in the call previous, but I thought the topic was Paul Pelosi.
So that's kind of what I had a few questions for you about.
Right.
What's on your mind?
Well, I think the timeline from when Paul called in till the time the police got there, that was only eight minutes.
That's pretty remarkable because I thought the 911 operator was really quite, I mean, she was acting like, okay, we'll call you back or something like that, or call if you need us at first.
Yeah, well, remember, he's in a very difficult situation.
It's obvious that he's on a speakerphone because we hear the assailant's voice.
So he's trying to speak in code to the operator, and the operator is saying, are you in danger?
He can't answer yes without an imminent attack.
That's why he's trying to speak in code.
And usually the Capitol Police are here.
So I don't really blame him, but I'll give you the final thought.
Go ahead.
Well, I was just thinking that a trained 911 operator would notice that immediately.
And obviously she did rather good because the response time was eight minutes.
And from that time on, I think they can't say anything against the police.
I heard a couple of commentators say something that the police didn't act quick enough.
Man, they acted absolutely as fast as they could.
And as soon as they said put down the hammer, the guy attacked Paul Pelosi.
So it was very different, by the way, as it was described early on and early reporting, which tells you, again, that you can't count on reports like this.
Anyway, glad you called, my friend.
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