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	If you want to be a part of the program, uh these hearings were just devastating today.
	These are the hearings about whether or not the FBI has been politicized and the Department of Justice has been weaponized.
	I mean, I'll I'll give a direct quote of Ron Johnson, FBI agents sabotage uh the uh uh Hunter Biden probe.
	Uh and that's that's that's only a small portion of what came out today uh between Senator Johnson, Senator Grassley.
	Uh and this, of course, on top of all the news that we found out yesterday, uh, as it relates to the FBI and putting their thumbs on the scale.
	And they're they they had this laptop from hell of Hunter Biden uh in December of 2019.
	They could have authenticated it.
	They knew it was likely that laptop was coming out.
	Uh, but you know, 22 times they can't remember if the FBI ever warned them, even though they're having weekly meetings, according to the Twitter integrity site leader Yoel Roth, um, who testified in a Missouri case, uh, that in fact he they did specifically mention Hunter Biden.
	Um, and when the laptop came out, which they should have authenticated much earlier, they had 11 months before the election.
	Um, they were all prepped, prepared for quote, this being a disinformation campaign and thus suppressing what was critically important information in the lead up uh to a presidential election.
	It's not the first time they've done it.
	We've gone over what happened in 2016 with the dirty Hillary Clinton uh Russian dossier that she paid for.
	Uh, that even its author, Christopher Steele couldn't claim the million dollars that the FBI offered him because he didn't have any corroboration for that.
	And that was in early October of 2016.
	By late October, uh, the top of a Pfizer warrant says verified.
	They couldn't pay the Christopher Steele couldn't verify anything.
	Uh yet it became the bulk of information used uh to get those four Pfizer warrants.
	And as Andrew McCabe, The deputy FBI director has said uh without the dirty dossier, they wouldn't have been able to get the FISA warrants approved.
	You know, and then all these people that signed off on the four warrants, even though it had been debunked by the source of of Christopher Steele, this guy Denchenko, um, that was in January of 2017.
	They they still kept renewing it, still using the unverifiable dirty dossier is the bulk of information.
	You just can't make this up.
	You know, so this is why the weaponization of the FBI uh and whether or not the Department is of justice has been weaponized and politicized, uh, is so important because they're putting their thumb on the scale of elections in this country.
	Anyway, here with reaction, Senator Bill Haggardies with the great state of Tennessee.
	Sir, how are you?
	Welcome to the program.
	Uh, it's great to be back with you, Sean.
	So you're watching these hearings as as any conservator or any concerned American is.
	Uh, what is your take on what you're hearing?
	Well, it's it's it's heartbreaking, and I'd just like to say this, Sean.
	You know I served as the ambassador to Japan before coming to the Senate.
	I had a great team of intelligence professionals.
	The rank and file, the men and women are more upset than anybody that the top ranks of their leadership have become so contaminated with political politicization.
	And as you say, the weaponization of the intelligence arms here of the U.S. government.
	And something worse has happened too.
	The American public has lost confidence in our intelligence organizations and our top law enforcement.
	It's uh just amazing to me.
	Not only the things that you cited that were covered in the hearing, but think about the DOJ's refusal to even protect the justices when people were marched making death threats, uh, all because they wanted to politicize the situation and leave these justices more vulnerable to intimidation when the Dobbs decision was being considered.
	So you have that case.
	We already know that the school board, National School Board Association, uh called for a uh an investigation by the FBI when there should be a local law enforcement matter into the possibility of quote domestic terrorism and hate crimes when moms and dads were speaking out against woke curriculum or CRT or transgender education uh at their kids' schools.
	Uh we know the FBI, Biden's FBI and and DOJ and the counterterrorism division targeted parents in these particular cases.
	Um but more importantly now, what we're realizing is, you know, the FBI is a very important question that they have to answer.
	Why would they coordinating with big tech, telling big tech companies, uh meeting with them weekly in the lead up to the 2020 election, that in fact they were going to likely be targeted for misinformation campaigns, and it may be about Joe Biden, it may be about Hunter Biden, uh, and lo and behold, they had already had Hunter's laptop since December of 2019.
	Now, why didn't they authenticate that laptop?
	Why would they be suggesting such, knowing that Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer, already had a copy, so they knew pretty damn well that it was going to be coming out soon.
	Indeed.
	And you've put the you've put the pieces together so well, Sean.
	Uh again, the American public are not foolish, they're not stupid.
	They see this happening as as well.
	And the weaponization of the FBI in this regard to go in and meddle and tampo with the outcome of the presidential election is just shocking to most Americans.
	Certainly it's shocking to the Tennesseans that I represent.
	And you've got these people, these operatives like James Baker, who was at the FBI, disgraced there, moves over to Twitter and you know, continues his mission.
	Uh it it the coziness, if you will, between big tech and these operatives here in Washington that are trying to achieve just one goal, and that's to push this progressive agenda to move our nation further and further to uh it just doesn't seem to stop.
	What do you make of the fact now?
	We had this whole incident with the Chinese uh balloon getting into Alaska airspace, going down the west coast of Canada into Idaho, and from Idaho over our ICBEM uh missile sites and silos in Montana,
	and then from Montana uh they head to Missouri and other Midwestern states, Kansas, another one, Kentucky, another one, and then they make their way to the West Coast, I'm sorry, the East Coast of the United States and the Carolinas, uh not far from where you live, and they take finally take down the balloon.
	Uh when you look at that, and for example, I'll I'll quote Jay uh Senator Grassley today we acquired authentic bank bank records that substantiated findings of our previous two reports and they financially linked Hunter Biden James Biden to entities and individuals connected with the communist Chinese regime.
	We also acquired business records with Hunter and James Biden signatures alongside those of the same Chinese nationals.
	How are they supposed to be paid according to the bank records?
	Well there were wires from companies licked linked to the communist regime and in three floor speeches we made bank records public.
	We asked the question to our partisan detractors, the same ones that I mentioned throughout my remarks and and maybe a lot of others are are these official bank records Russian disinformation?
	Now my question is you know we we've had a lot of issues involving China.
	Obviously COVID 19 is one of them I'd like to know why Joe Biden would take our depleted strategic petroleum reserves and he's fighting to send even more of those reserves to to the communist Chinese rather than refilling and replenishing them.
	I'd like to know why the communist Chinese are buying up uh thousands and thousands of of acres of farmland, ranch land and land near military installations, and why are we letting that happen?
	Why aren't they confronted over intellectual property theft and unfair trade practices?
	Why aren't they confronted over the human rights abuses?
	Um none of these things did Joe Biden ever take the communist Chinese on about do you think it is possible that the Biden family is compromised based on all this information coming out?
	Uh of course it's possible Sean and you've done a beautiful job as usual of tying this all together.
	And I think it's because of the fact that uh the big guy gets 10% that Hunter Biden has been deeply involved with these Chinese Communist Party related organizations that they take it massive payments.
	The economic ties there are s are significant if you think about what's been unfolding from this laptop the the relationship that we've seen the relationship plural that we're seeing uh it it certainly does seem highly plausible that there is a deep deep conflict that resides here.
	And then when you look at the inaction of this administration, some have described it as weakness uh leading from behind the old uh slogan of of Barack Obama's administration that Joe Biden was part of but it also could be they can't they're limited they're owned they're being controlled by other entities that have uh been providing them with financial resources over the years.
	So I think that uh the Biden Inc.
	question is one that is very germane to the American public if it's compromising the president's ability to act to stand up to address to push back against the many problems that you just cited whether it's economic warfare that the Chinese Communist Party is waging on us or militarily the aggression that we've just seen with this balloon flying through the stratosphere over our country hovering over our nuclear sites over our military site, the Biden administration does not act.
	Why did they allow that to happen?
	That question still resonates uh uh around America why did this balloon get taken down over the Aleutians before it was allowed to float over America what if this massive payload that it had that I understood was you know the size of three buses what if the Chinese Communist Party had decided to drop it somewhere?
	We have so many unanswered questions, and the Biden administration's default seems to be always playing into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
	Have I read too many spy novels?
	Would there be a possibility of biological warfare, potential threat there, or an EMP attack of some kind?
	Nobody knew what was inside the balloon.
	As a matter of fact, they knew about it, but they didn't tell we, the American people, for five consecutive days.
	My question is, when you're dealing with somebody like Hunter Biden, who is...
	admittedly for example with Barisma has no experience in oil, gas, coal, or Ukraine, but yet he's being paid a fortune from Barisma oil or the deals that he's making with the former First Lady of Moscow starting with a three and a half million dollar deal and apparently an investment some estimates now,
	some reports Peter Schweitzer among them saying between a hundred and two hundred million dollar investment in in a real estate adventure with uh uh with the with the Bidens.
	Then we got the the Bank of China deal with the Bidens uh Hunter uh the guy's a crack addict and the guy you know Is obviously compromised as it relates to let's just say ladies of the night, according to the reports on the laptop.
	So why would these why would these countries be doing all of this business with all of these high dollar numbers that we're hearing about and with no experience at all whatsoever if they weren't thinking about this would buy them uh some influence or open a door for them with Hunter's father?
	I I think in influence and access would be the most likely explanation for whatever it was that Hunter Biden was selling.
	You know, it's interesting.
	I asked Jennifer Granholm uh in a in a in a hearing before me.
	Um if she knew Hunter Biden, of course, she said yes, Jennifer Granholm being our our energy secretary.
	And um I I asked her then, given Hunter Biden's deep ties to the energy industry via she ever reached out to him for advice on any of our energy programs?
	Well, no, she hadn't.
	Not surprising to me that uh this administration doesn't view him as a credible source uh in this arena or any other for that matter.
	So it's uh i i it is it's something that the American public is is clearly wise enough to see.
	The questions here are abundant.
	We don't have clear answers, but they're questions that the American public has.
	We ought to get to the bottom of it.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Quick break, right back more with Senator Haggerty of the great state of Tennessee on the other side, then we'll get to your calls, 800-941 Sean.
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	All right, we continue now.
	We'll get to your calls here in a minute, more with uh Senator Haggerty with the great state of Tennessee.
	Uh, what is your take on the State of the Union?
	I saw your tweet uh that you had sent out that it was uh completely disconnected, and the president's policies precipitated economic hardship for so many Americans, as well as the worst border crisis in U.S. history, and our country is less secure, less safe, less affordable because of his administration.
	Uh I agree with every sentiment you said.
	Um what is your take on the State of the Union in your own words?
	Well, I think the State of the Union, uh the address that he gave just reminded me of the massive Beta switch that occurred back during the 2020 campaign.
	You remember they they put Joe Biden out as a moderate.
	Uh he was going to be the unifying force here back in 2020.
	Did they actually put him out there or was he mostly hiding in his basement?
	He was hiding very much, but again, the talking point at least that they were putting out with respect to Joe Biden is that he would be a moderate, uh someone that would be playing the middle of the road.
	He's proven to be just a full-blown radical socialist.
	And if you look at the claims that he made on the economy, Sean, during the State of the Union, they're just not credible.
	He's taking credit for people returning to the jobs that were taken off the market during what were mostly Democrat-led lockdowns.
	You know, you you you think about uh the the term that I would use, Joe Biden always says, come on, man.
	That's what we were feeling like in the audience there, trying to take credit for for them, the people coming back to their their jobs that many, many Democrat leaders had had caused them to lose, just not credible.
	And if you think about the middle class, he tried to you know, he tried to basically put forward an image of himself as somebody that's looking out for the middle class.
	You know, think about what the middle class is feeling right now.
	Inflation like they've never seen before.
	Thirteen point five percent inflation since Joe Biden took office.
	The average American family has lost ten thousand dollars of buying power since Joe Biden.
	Well, that's why two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and you're right about the ten thousand dollar figure that's an inflation tax.
	Uh anyway, Senator Haggerty, we appreciate you as always.
	Thanks for being with us and uh come back often.
	Wonderful to be with you, Sean.
	All the best.
	Quick break right back.
	Your calls on the other side, straight ahead.
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	All right, so these hearings on the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI, and whether these institutions have also been politicized.
	Uh, it's getting more transparent every day just how bad this was.
	Uh the FBI coordinating with big tech, even though they knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was very real.
	They had had it since 2019 in December, and they were meeting weekly with big tech companies, warning them, you know, you you're probably going to be a victim of a misinformation campaign leading into the election.
	And it's it may even be about Hunter and Joe Biden, and it may be about this and that.
	So when the new New York Post story breaks, oh, maybe this is what they were talking about.
	In other words, they were preparing.
	Because they they knew this would come out.
	How did they know?
	Because they knew Rudy Giuliani had a copy of it.
	Do you think Rudy Giuliani was gonna let that sit and not be made public?
	He's Donald Trump's attorney, Donald Trump's running for reelection.
	Uh, and and it did get out.
	Anyway, here's Jim Jordan.
	November 18th, 2021, an FBI whistleblower discloses to Republicans on the House Judiciary that the FBI created a threat tag for parents voicing their concerns at school board meetings.
	April 26, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that the FBI employees are being run out of the Bureau for attending conservative political events.
	May 11th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that dozens of parents with the threat tag designation to their name are investigated by the FBI.
	This also happens to be the same whistleblower who said the FBI leadership, not the rank and file members.
	The FBI leadership is rotted at its core.
	His clearance has been revoked and he's been suspended.
	June 7th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower is retaliated against after giving feedback on an anonymous survey.
	July 27th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that agents are pressured to reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism cases to hit self-created performance metrics.
	September 14th, 2022.
	An FBI whistleblower discloses that the FBI views the Betsy Ross flag as a terrorist symbol.
	September 19th, 2022.
	Another FBI whistleblower discloses that the Washington field office is deli deliberately manipulating January 6th case files to make it appear that domestic violence extremism is on the rise.
	He's been suspended.
	November 8th, excuse me, November 4th, 2022.
	Another FBI whistleblower discloses the FBI accepts private user information from Facebook without the user's consent.
	And information is from only the conservative side of the political spectrum.
	This is only a sampling.
	Dozens and dozens of whistleblowers, FBI agents coming to us talking about what's going on, the political nature at the Justice Department.
	Not Jim Jordan saying this, not Republicans, not conservatives, good, brave FBI agents who are willing to come forward and give us the truth.
	And this is just the FBI.
	Americans have concerns about the double standard at the Department of Justice.
	Americans have concerns about the disinformation governance board that the Department of Homeland Security tried to form.
	Americans have concerns about the ATF and what they're doing to the Second Amendment.
	And of course, they have concerns about the IRS and the thousands of new agents who are coming to that organization.
	And finally, there are concerns about what we've learned in the Twitter files.
	Where big government and big tech colluded to shape and mold the narrative and to suppress information and censor Americans.
	Over the course of our work in this committee, we expect to hear from government officials and experts like we have here today.
	We expect to hear from Americans who've been targeted by their government.
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	And we believe several of them will come and testify in open hearings.
	And finally, we expect to bring forward legislation that will help protect the American people.
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	powerful open by Jim Jordan today.
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	Let's go to Florida, the free state of Florida with Darren Darren, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
	Hey Sean how's it going I was just calling because I'm looking at all that's going on And one of the things that I'm concerned about now Is with the fact that you got Kim Jong Un coming out now Telling his people prepare for war And you know that he's just a puppet of China And yeah, he's rogue in his own way, but he does a lot of what China wants him to do.
	and I can see China using him as a as a ploy to distract us so that they can go in uh into Taiwan after China after North Korea goes and tries to start something with so with uh South Korea for just a little skirmish just to get uh get our attention get us uh une uneasy and we don't have the we don't have the reserves to defend ourselves right now.
	I mean we don't have the military weaponry we d we don't have the uh the fuel reserves and we don't have the recruits anymore.
	And I just think it it just seems like poor planning on our military part to do all this stuff that we're doing with Ukraine.
	We should have given Ukraine the weapons to win not the the weapons to just defend.
	Well it's even worse than that because Joe Biden prevented Poland early on from giving the MIGs so that they can fight an air war and and match Putin's uh uh Putin's uh air force and they wouldn't do it.
	Now they're still struggling uh about whether or not they're gonna give fighter jets Joe Biden again has vetoed the idea uh which means we're wasting our time and money because that means there's no intention of at least the United States to allow Zelensky to win the war and if that's the case and it's gonna be now this long drawn out quagmire uh protracted conflict I'm I'm out.
	I'm not going for these wars anymore.
	I'm uh we can't afford it number one and number two this is Europe's problem.
	You know what?
	If I'm Poland I'd be a lot more nervous than the US should be if I'm Germany I'd feel the same way.
	If I'm anybody else in Europe I'd feel the same way.
	And yet we've been we've been paying the bulk of money and we ought not be in that position.
	You know we offered to help but they've got to do the heavy lifting not us and at this point we've wasted a year and they never fought to win.
	They've done better than I thought they would do with the little equipment that they had.
	Uh but they're about to get crushed because right now as we speak Vladimir Putin is lining up eighteen uh hundred tanks, seven hundred aircraft and five hundred thousand men for a new assault that's not gonna go very well for Ukraine because they don't have the weaponry as Joe Biden has vetoed uh Western European countries from helping at a level that would be necessary to actually win.
	Yeah well I I can see what I what I envision is gonna happen is when the tanks start rolling North Korea is gonna do something with South Korea at the same the same time and it's gonna pull all our resources and then uh China's just gonna take Taiwan.
	It's all coming and there's not a damn thing I think Joe Biden will do about any of it and and that's the saddest part of it.
	Um they d the world does not fear Joe Biden.
	President Chi doesn't fear him Vladimir Putin doesn't fear him.
	The Mullers in Iran don't fear him uh the rest of the world our allies are aghast at what a mess he is I mean we had Geraldo on last night on Hannity and he was saying well he was really lucid li last night during the State of the Union.
	I said let me pop some champagne corks he did the easiest speech doing a State of the Union is the simplest speech ever.
	He spent weeks and weeks practicing it.
	Um I'm sure he had tons of coffee to keep him awake during the speech and he was able to hold it together for whopping one hour and fifteen minutes.
	Gee, let me do a backflip uh because then he's out on the road the next day and he sounds like the befuddled buffoon that he really is every day.
	So I'm not really impressed but I am worried about the world and I'm worried about our country you know Putin's been targeting you know apartment buildings and infrastructure, killing innocent men, women and children with abandon and yet there hasn't been the urgency of anybody really to lead and and win this conflict.
	And you know what we really is if if Biden would have just kept us energy independent and brought us to the next level of energy dominance uh we could have bankrupted Putin by supplying all of Western Europe and other parts of the world all of their energy needs because of the abundance of natural resources that we have that he no longer lets us tap into.
	Anyway, Darren scary times my friend Sean in California.
	Sean how are you?
	Glad you called hey good.
	I just want to thank you for being a beacon of truth and a sea of lies.
	Thank you, my friend.
	I'm trying every day, I promise.
	Every day.
	No, you do it every day, and I love it.
	I tell you, I I the China weather balloon weather balloon, quote unquote, say the spy balloon.
	Yeah, that's what it was.
	I mean, and I wish they called it what it actually was.
	But the reality is that this the Ukraine that entire situation to me at this point has become the biggest DNC, like money laundering.
	That's not the right term, but it's it's it's it's just laundering money out of the out of the taxpayers' hands, funneling it through this Ukraine thing, and then sending it right back to line the pockets.
	There's no audits that's that have been happening.
	There's no kind of checks and balances.
	This is the most corrupt.
	Well, I don't know that it's a money laundering operation.
	I've seen no evidence of that, but I do know that Zelensky had to fire two of his top aides uh over issues involving aid money misappropriated.
	That happened.
	And you know, certainly the relationship with Ukraine and the Bidens has been well chronicled.
	Um I'm more concerned about about what China knows about the Biden family because Joe is pathetically weak when it comes to China and pathetically weak when it comes to Russia, and and they're acting with impunity.
	They have no respect or fear of Joe Biden.
	And by fear I mean a healthy fear that he would respond with strength.
	They were able to fly a spy balloon over Alaska Airspace, down the e west coast of Canada, right into Idaho, uh, straight across to Montana, down to Missouri and Kansas, over to Kentucky, then to the eastern seaboard of the U.S., you know, in the Carolinas, and then they decided maybe we should take this thing out of this guy.
	And now they're demanding that the debris that was recovered be sent back to them.
	Uh, and I have yet to hear Joe Biden tell him to go pound sand.
	Well, because he's not gonna bite the hand that feeds him and his family either.
	And that's the truth.
	Uh that you know, this has been going on for a long time, and it's well documented that he's getting money from China and all these nefarious uh third world countries.
	I, you know, it's so of course he's not going to react in the appropriate way because he can't cut off the you know the the the money that he's getting in, the money that he he gets from these countries.
	It's absolutely disgusting.
	It it's Sean, I can't say it any better.
	It's corrupt.
	If a Trump did it, you know that the Democrats would feign their outrage.
	Uh you know, their belligerent attitude in these hearings are it's breathtaking.
	All right, quick break.
	We'll get back to your phone calls.
	800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, uh we'll check in with Congresswoman Lauren Boebert at the top of the next hour, then we'll get more of your calls in as we continue.
	In a shallow grave.
	We have that story at five o'clock on 710 W O R. Hey, big news from News Max, ATT's Direct TV just removed newsmax.
	Now, News Max has been censored by DirecTV and Uverse with OAN Gauntlets.
	Two conservative channels, AT.
	It is important to recognize corrupt individuals within federal agencies that I am talking about, are not acting alone.
	They operate as vital partners of the left-wing political movement that includes most members of the mainstream media, big tech social media giants, global institutions and foundations, Democrat Party operatives, and elected officials.
	As the Twitter files reveal, these actors work in concert to defeat their political opponents and promote left-wing ideology and government control over our lives.
	All right, back to our busy phones.
	Joe and LJ, we got one minute left.
	Big Joe, what's going on, my friend?
	How are you?
	It's all yours.
	Sean, you got the best program on television, and I'm convinced that your national television program and your great radio show will give the Republicans huge landslide wins in 24 for the Senate.
	We'll take over the Senate.
	We'll win back the presidency, and and your show will also help to stop the corruption in the FBI.
	But you do an incredible job, and we love you down here in LJ, and everybody, every time I talk to people, they say, thank God for Sean Hannity.
	So Sean, you're the man.
	You're gonna lead us to a great victory in 24.
	Well, I hope you're right, Big Joe, but I will tell you, uh, that's not how I'm treated in New York.
	I can tell you that.
	Not exactly the this the same audience in New York.
	Uh, Joe, we appreciate you, buddy.
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