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If you want to be a part of the uh program, uh so much news going on.
Uh, two big bombshell articles by investigative reporter uh John Solomon that we'll get into along with the other news of the day in a second.
Uh the FBI keeps getting burned badly by their reliance on liberal sources.
Uh that's an understatement.
Uh and the other big article uh that John Solomon broke is Lois Lerner 2.0 question mark.
IRS's chilling dissent with interrogation of a nonprofit group, uh, according to election integrity activists.
In other words, our conservative nonprofits being treated differently than their liberal counterparts, especially in the questions that they're throwing out at conservative groups.
Uh pretty amazing, but just to bring you back in time, this wouldn't be the first time that we had abuse of power with the IRS.
Remember, Lois Lerner refused to testify before Congress.
She was held in contempt, and the Obama Justice Department did nothing to hold her accountable.
listen.
Ms. Lerner, in February 2011, you emailed your colleagues in the IRS.
The following.
Tea Party matter, very dangerous.
This could be the vehicle to go to court on the issue of whether Citizens United overturning the ban on corporate spending applies to tax exempt rules.
Counsel and Judy Kendell need to be on this one, please.
Cincy should probably not, all in caps, have these cases.
What did you mean by Cincy should not have these cases?
On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer the question.
Miss Lerner, why would you say Tea Party cases were very dangerous?
On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and declined to answer that question.
Anyway, and that one on and on and on.
Uh John Solomon is here with us now.
Before we get to the FBI issue and the beautiful balloons flying all over the country and the world, apparently.
Uh, I wanted to get your your take on this.
It very specifically talks about targeting a conservative uh nonprofit group and the questions that they were being hammered with uh seem quite intrusive.
And rightly, the organization is asking whether or not such questions are asked liberal nonprofit groups.
Yeah, that's a great question.
Listen, this is Lois Lerner meets the disinformation office.
What you see in this IRS letter to this conservative education group is an effort to regulate speech, something that Congress never gave the IRS the power to have.
They're now asking this conservative group, which by the way is just focused on education.
Tell us how you're going to prevent unsubstantiated opinions, i.e., disinformation.
Tell us how you're going to ensure that you're only going to give American people unbiased facts and fair opinions.
Wait a second.
That's all speech regulation.
The IRS has no authority to regulate speech.
This is a clear new effort by the Biden administration trying to build on the Obama administration's earlier IRS scandal to silence or to uh hamstring conservative organizations by controlling what speech will be qualified in order to keep their tax exempt status.
This is very troubling.
I've been talking a lot of members of Congress today.
They are deeply, deeply concerned that this is a revival of uh the efforts of the Obama administration a decade ago to stamp out conservative uh nonprofit groups in America.
So what is the status of the eighty-seven thousand new IRS agents, more than doubling of IRS agents that Joe Biden and the Democrats have accounted for.
Now, we're about to have debt ceiling discussions.
I would imagine Republicans are going to put financial if if they want a debt ceiling increase, Joe Biden will have to negotiate with the United Republican House.
Uh I've got to believe that this has got to be one of the top items that they would defund, don't you think?
Absolutely.
The way this worked, the fiscal year started in October, the deal that Mitch McConnell cut with the Democrats allowed the Biden administration to keep expanding the IRS and the and to keep building that army of 87,000 IRS agents.
The House came in and already has passed legislation rescinding that authority, but until the Senate uh approves that legislation and Joe Biden were to sign it, which he may not, uh it's not going to have the power of law.
So the real opportunity for Republicans to make good in that promise is to hold the line of the debt ceiling and tell Joe Biden you want the debt ceiling race, you get rid of those 87,000 agents, and that will bring all three people to the table, hopefully, for a negotiated settlement.
Joe Biden's going to need uh to make a deal, and we'll see how much he's willing to go on the IRS front to make it.
I I think that the Democrats and Biden and and at the top have made a determination that they don't think the two hundred and twenty-two Republicans will hold.
Now, I like you, I have my sources and all the varying factions within the Republican House majority, and you have the Tuesday group and the study group and the Freedom Caucus and the Sunday group and the Monday night group and all this.
I I have sensed a certain resolve among all the groups that they understand that it's imperative that they've come up with an agreement themselves and that they're going to hold the line regardless of what the Democrats do.
Once they get to that point, then any you know issues involving the full faith and credit of the U.S. government is going to be on the Democrats that refuse to negotiate.
Yeah, that's exactly what my sources are telling.
That the republicans are determined not to negotiate against themselves.
They're going to be unified.
Whatever that position is, they got to work it out, and they are working it out now.
And at that point, they go in and Joe Biden can't divide and conquer, right?
He can't play the demagoguery game like he did the other day with Medicare and Social Security, falsely suggesting Republicans want to get rid of it when they don't.
Uh that unity will be the key to getting a deal done.
The art of the deal, like Donald Trump always speaks about, right?
You need to know what your opponent's weakness is, what their biggest fear is, what their uh uh greatest wish is, and then you negotiate towards those.
Uh the Republicans have to have a unity strategy before they get in the room with Joe Biden, and that's going on now.
A lot of good conversations.
And you know, it's really interesting from the traumatic start that the Republican Party had that 15 vote House speaker.
You've seen a remarkably unified House Republican caucus in the first six uh six weeks.
And most interestingly, on several occasions now, the House Republicans have been able to get a majority of Democrats to cross over and vote with them.
They're not only uh showing unity themselves, they're getting Democrats to sign on to some of the principles.
You did an investigation.
The headline of your article, JustHnews.com is the FBI keeps getting burned badly by reliance on liberal sources.
And you start out your article making a list of them, the the dirty Russian disinformation dossier that Hillary paid for, uh, the suggestion that school parents were domestic terrorists from a far-left-leaning school board group or a list suggesting old-fashioned Catholics or extremists from a liberal watchdog group on on hate speech.
Um, and meanwhile, they ignore violence at pro-life centers around the country, and even though we know it's against the law to protest in front of a uh judge's house or a justice's house, the the Garland DOJ and the Biden DOJ is has allowed that to happen repeatedly in spite of the obvious danger that took place within the case of Justice Kavanaugh.
Yeah, that's such a great point.
You you were the first person to jump on the real evidence that uh there's a dual system of justice, and we've seen it over and over again.
That dual system of justice starts with the common ignition ignition point.
The FBI keeps going and taking investigative leads from clearly partisan ideological liberal groups.
And the great example that I use is the most recent one, because it created a very big black eye for the FBI.
The FBI last week had to withdraw an intelligence bulletin from its uh Richmond office that suggested that Catholics who like the old Latin rights mass, the old, the old pre-Vatican II mass, that they somehow posed a white supremacist extremist threat just because of the religious beliefs.
Now, and they went further.
It suggested that agents start embedding themselves in Catholic groups, insinuating themselves in the free expression of religion to uh root out these sort of extremists.
Now, they pulled that memo back to great embarrassment.
But when you dig into it, where did that information come from?
It came from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a very liberal left-leaning group.
And you take a look at the analysts, and there's these little code words in this uh memo that show just how woke some of the FBI uh analysts have become.
The reason they're citing uh uh left-leaning groups is because they themselves have uh the same belief and beliefs and ideology.
When this memo is written, they're talking about a woman who might be facing an abortion decision.
Instead of calling that person a mother, they call them a birthing person, a uh uh a pregnant person.
They don't even say mother or woman.
They call them a pregnant person uh using my my my favorite is I never thought I'd hear a congressional committee asking the question, can a biological man bear children?
Answer yes.
I'm like, maybe I'm not keeping up with science, uh John.
Maybe you can educate me, but I don't know that that's a possibility.
No, no, listen, that's how far silly we've become.
And when the danger is when it gets into a security agency like the FBI, that's where the weaponization begins.
When you have people that have an ideology and they're turning to their ideological political partners to get the dirt to start an investigation, that's where we got in trouble with Russia Collusion, where we got in trouble with treating parents as domestic terrorists and now treating Catholics as extremists.
This is a system that has to be stopped and broken, uh, and yet it continues to persist.
How many more examples are we gonna have before Congress takes the right action and brings the FBI to the table?
All right, quick break more with investigative reporter and editor-in-chief at JustHnews.com, John Solomon.
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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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When I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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What difference at this point does it make?
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All right, we continue with uh investigative reporter, uh, editor-in-chief at JustThenews.com, John Solomon is with us.
You know, I thought Jim Comer made a lot of great points uh about how silence is deafening when it comes to his investigation of the Biden, you know, family syndicate and how much money they made.
I I would like to know and get a final answer.
How much money did the Biden family make in deals with China and Russia and Ukraine?
James Comer in his piece in the New York Post today, you know, points out that Hunter Biden's attorneys they're refusing to hand over any and all records about his overseas business dealings, claiming that the House Oversight Committee doesn't have the power to demand the documents.
Uh Abby Lowell Lowell citing a 2020 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that found House Democrats' demands for financial records and tax returns of then President Donald Trump and his family were too broad.
Uh, they're not asking for broad here.
They're asking for very specific and you know, the President Biden's personal attorneys.
All right, so they're they they now have taken on the DOJ's taking this posture.
The FBI's taking this posture, the Biden family's taking the posture that there will be zero.
Well, that's a great question.
I think there's a bigger question that the congressional investigators and maybe now some uh federal agencies are looking at, and that is why has the Justice Department and this U.S. attorney taken four to five years to pursue at least a tax case against Hunter Biden when the evidence of tax impropriety are sitting out in the open, right?
There are emails on Hunter Biden's laptop where he's told you didn't pay your taxes on the Ukraine, bring some money.
You're still all your taxes, you haven't paid your taxes, years of warnings.
That would be a slam dunk case for any other American.
I think in the next few weeks, Sean, the big dynamic to watch is either a whistleblower or some form of new information coming out that explains why the Justice Department hasn't been able to pull the trigger on a very clear-cut case of tax uh tax issue that you know, even Hunter Biden himself acknowledged he's been under investigation for.
I think we're gonna learn some new things on that front.
That question leads to the bigger question: how much money did they make in their influence pedaling scandal?
They were selling access.
What's the total amount of money in from what each country what is it?
What do you think if if if well we know what was the exact number?
We need to know.
What don't you believe as I do, because Libya had apparently, according to all the reports that were out there at the time, a full dossier.
They knew that Hunter Biden was a crack addict, they knew he liked prostitutes.
Uh, they had all the intel on him.
I can only imagine what the Chinese have on him and the Biden family, and the same with the Russians.
Uh, at any point do they leverage their dossier against the Bidens?
That is a great question, right?
And you you talk to some Americans.
Why did we let that Chinese balone go across our country?
We didn't shoot it down until it got to the other side of the nation.
And people can get, is it possible that Joe Biden's compromise?
The mere fact that people now feel that because the body of evidence of influence pedaling is so large.
I think that is a big troubling question.
Whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, there's so many Americans now that even wonder Joe Biden might not have shut that balloon down because he's compromised by China.
That's how deeply uh troublesome the the family's relationships is.
We're gonna get big information this year.
We're gonna get uh there's gonna be bank records, they're going to be testimony, there's some cooperating witnesses that aren't public yet.
But I think the fundamental question is why hasn't the Justice Department with clear evidence of tax issues not finished up the tax case yet.
Five years?
It doesn't take five years to make a simple tax case.
Great point.
John Solomon, thank you.
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What is it?
Tomorrow, Linda.
Well, happy Valentine's Day to everybody out there.
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Um anyway, so I was telling Linda uh earlier by Tyson, I think I told you over the weekend when I spoke to you about the Super Bowl stuff.
And what was funny is uh so I've been I've been battling this congestion, this bronchial, this this gunk, this junk, this whatever you want to call it.
And anyway, so I finally, for the first time in my life, actually went to an ear, nose, and throat doctor.
So this guy was pretty amazing.
His background is incredible.
And why are you laughing?
Because you think this is a funny story.
I just um the amount of time you waited to see an ENT is just as shocking.
Well, that's that's what he said.
And he actually has a great term for people that use their voice to make their living, and he says they're voice athletes.
Now think of what an uh the vocal cords uh the stress and pressure that an opera singer might go through.
Uh he has dealt with some of the biggest names in mu in the musical industry, and I'm not gonna name drop here.
Uh so I go in and he he he knew who I was, but he wanted to know exactly what the symptoms were, my background, and then he gets to the question when's the last time you you've had your vocal cords checked, and I said, never.
And he just stopped what he was doing.
He looked at me and he goes, How long have you been?
Yeah, 27 years.
And you've never ever checked your vocal cords.
And it was he was stunt.
He couldn't believe it.
I said, Well, I mean, I was stunned.
I you know, I mean, you're telling me or something.
Well, you're a singer, you've had yours checked.
I have.
Yeah, I have.
I mean, I seen it for for 15, 20 years, and I was like, I mean, I started when I was really young, but even by the way, it's it sounds awful, but it's really not.
They take this thing and they kind of numb your throat a little bit with lata cane.
It's no big deal.
Last 15 minutes.
Anyway, they take a tube and they run it up your nose and down your throat, right to your vocal cords, and and then he has you make certain sounds um to see how the vocal cords are.
Now, to my own stupidity, you should never read Dr. Google the night before you're gonna have any type of procedure or test, because if you read Dr. Google, you know, I'm looking at the potential of nodules, the potential of cancer uh uh nodules with potentially uh positive for cancer, uh polyps, uh, that can alter your your voice if it has to be removed, um, paralysis of your vocal cords.
I'm reading all of this.
So I'm like walking into this guy's office thinking, uh oh, the worst, because you know, this has been a kind of sustained thing.
Turns out that I have, you know, a combination of two things going on.
One is I've got this this persistent cold that I'm trying to get rid of now.
And and prior to that, I had some conditions with the flu, and they just kind of you know, combined at the same time.
So it was bad timing for me.
Anyway, so it is the coolest thing though in the world when you actually can see this these vocal cords, they're made of cartilage and they move.
Um, you know, thank God that they were in perfect condition.
And he just said to me, Why did you never think to get them checked?
And I said, I never had a problem, and I thought I needed it fixed.
He said, Okay, I understand.
Uh, but I think you need to see me at least every year or two just to make sure everything's all right.
I said, Okay.
Uh the odds of me going back are next to nothing unless I'm sick again.
Well, you're laughing.
You boy, I don't think that's the funniest story ever.
It's ridiculous.
You know, first of all, I wasn't exactly sure what he was gonna say.
Of course, I'm thinking, oh, God, it's gonna be something bad because you know you've had this sinus drip thing going on forever, and I honestly I feel like everybody's had the dang thing.
But I was just like, oh man, I'm like your horse, you know.
And then for him to say that like you're totally fine and like everything is good.
I'm like, oh, really?
I'm like, only only you could talk for 40 years for hours, hours, hours a day, and be perfectly fine.
Not to mention the amount of time that you're talking on the phone and doing business deals when you're not on the air.
I'm just like the result.
Um well, and then the funny thing is I said, Well, what how I've never had congestion, you know, issues like this, flu like symptoms leading into the congestion, leading into the cough, leading into the hoarseness.
He goes, I am seeing this now everywhere.
And he said it's lasting forever.
And I my first thought, I didn't even bother asking him, is probably a result of people not getting colds, not getting congestion.
Um, and now people are getting it, and it's sustaining now for a longer period of time.
And because people overuse antibiotics, etc.
etc., it's had nothing is having an impact on it.
And it's it's like I have people writing this thing out for two, four, six, even eight weeks in some cases.
I'm like, oh man.
Actually, it really sucks.
I feel bad for people, man.
It's not it's it's just terrible.
I know.
Anyway, so but you feel glad you're okay.
That's really good, you know.
Well, the night before, when you read everything that could possibly be wrong with it.
But you always do that.
You're I mean, you do this to yourself all the time.
You get yourself all worked up, no matter what it is that you think you have, and you do this hypochondriac day prior to any appointment that you have where you become Dr. Google, which is interesting since you say, I'm not a doctor, I'm not gonna play one on radio and TV.
But if I have my own appointment, I'm gonna play one for 24 hours before I'm gonna go.
I'm not gonna tell other people what they should do.
Right, you just do it to yourself and make yourself nuts.
Well, I mean, I want to prepare myself for what I might be facing.
The absolute worst.
I know.
Absolutely.
I know it just it just struck me how common these conditions can be, and it was just so unusual for me.
Now I've lost my voice a ton over the years.
You have every single time that we would go on the road and and some years we did over 60 events.
I mean, at some point on that trip, I would I would have to take prednisone to lower the the inflammation in my vocal cords.
It's very effective, but it is the worst medicine, and you don't want to take it unless you absolutely positively have to take it.
You get exactly flush, you get bloated, you get hungry, you can't sleep.
It's just a horrible, horrible medicine, but you will be able to talk uh because it's just the strongest anti-inflammatory there is, um, but it's got terrible side effects from my view.
All right, let's go to the show.
But now you don't need it, right?
Now you don't need it.
That's a good thing.
Not to interact with it.
He said probably two weeks I'll be good.
Um by the way, do you make your wings, your air-fried wings for the You know what I made actually?
I'm gonna tell you what I made.
I made no, I actually made mac and cheese.
I made a five cheese mac and cheese.
It was ridiculous.
And we all needed some comfort boot food because the Eagles got spanked.
So, you know, we needed a little something.
Were you part of the group throwing over the cars and getting Oh my god, could you even think um what does that have to do with football?
It this is the problem with society today.
There's no accountability.
We do whatever we want.
We're totally destructive because nobody's allowed to do anything.
I I I want to go back to the days where people got locked up for doing stuff like that.
You know, it was pretty amazing, and I gotta give credit where credit is due.
Um this Super Bowl showed a lot of patriotism.
I mean a lot.
And I was pretty impressed.
I mean, you had the national anthem being sung.
You had people crying, including the the Philly uh the Eagles coach during the singing of the national anthem.
You had Patrick Mahomes going into the end zone before the game, taking a knee and actually praying.
I saw that too.
There was a lot of patriotism interspersed in the in the coverage of the game.
Um I recall in recent years, and I thought it was somewhat refreshing.
I mean, it's awesome.
The problem is that why can't that be our normal?
I think that's the problem.
Well, it can be, but people don't want it to be.
Yeah, exactly.
Uh anyway, let's go to Chad is in Texas.
Chad, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, happy Monday after afternoon to you and your team.
And uh the main hot off the press comment uh talking point, as Bill O'Reilly would say, is the Monday coming off of Super Bowl.
Really quickly before I get into that, last Tuesday on the because you're main forte is political talk, but you're like the whole newspaper you said before.
Last Tuesday State of the Union address was it was blasphemous.
Even the first what, 45 seconds when President Compromise Joe forgot that the Senate is now in control by the Democrats, and he called his longtime friend of what, 45 years in the Senate, Chuck Schuma, the minority leader from from the get-go, you know it was going to be disaster.
I'll put a lid on it, but I want to have a little political commentary because that's your main thing.
The Super Bowl, oh my G-O-D, Becky.
That is how a Super Bowl is supposed to be played, except for the last minute.
You don't want to see it kneeling down and Tom click uh going off the clock and then a field goal to win it, but sometimes uh that's just part of it.
Great game back and forth.
Patrick Mahomes is an absolute warrior, uh, you know, mess kind of tweaking his ankle again before halftime.
As I've said before, just like in the 28-3 Super Bowl win that you know, Tom the Goat Brady came back and won.
Those half times can be detrimental to the team that's going in with the lead, because instead of a 12-minute halftime a regular season, they are about 40 minutes, about 35 to 40 minutes.
That team gets cooled off.
Kansas City got the ball to start the half, came back and scored.
Saw the riding on the ball.
They're gonna come back and win the game.
It was an absolute more and more of these Super Bowls, it gets more patriotic.
There's so much things that go into the Super Bowl.
Everybody knows that Rihanna is now pregnant.
They got paid reviews at half her time performance, and so what some people were critical of that.
I'm like, why are you critical?
I mean, good for her.
She I thought uh I was happy for her.
I think she's a you know, they look some people were saying, I guess Stern was claiming this morning that she was lip-syncing 85% of it.
I did not see that.
Linda, you're a singer.
Did you catch that?
I didn't see it.
I mean, I'm sure they had some backup.
I think when you're singing in an open arena like that, they always have tracks.
It doesn't mean she wasn't singing.
It just means that that wasn't the only thing.
That's all.
Yeah, I'm listening it's her voice.
She's got a beautiful voice.
She's a great singer.
Um I I just I'm I don't want the politics in football or athletics.
Keep it away.
The more you keep politics out of it, I think the better it is for everybody else.
And by the way, even the the Super Bowl interview, Joe Biden, such a gutless wonder.
He wouldn't sit down with Brett Bear for like 10 minutes and and do a mostly friendly interview about sports and football and and ask maybe three questions about balloons that are flying here, there, and everywhere, and getting shot down.
It's it's ridiculous.
Anyway, I appreciate the uh the call.
But some by the way, were you one of the Eagles fans that was upset with that last call?
I have to say, in watching it, I mean, listen, you know, I um I'm you're gonna get killed if you say what I'm gonna say is that was definitely a hold.
Not once, he held them twice.
No, he did.
He held them twice.
And you can't you I mean, listen, you look at it, you're like, okay, uh, you know, it's to use a pun, it's nice the Monday morning quarterback, but uh, you know, they're on the field, it's the game of their lives.
Andy Reid is a great coach, you know.
He used to be with the Eagles.
I give him a lot of props, a lot of respect.
And Sirianni's young, he's got a lot of years ahead of him.
He can win another one.
It's fine.
It is what it is.
Look, that play was clearly a receiver going to a set position.
Once a player is held, there's no change.
The momentum, I mean, because these athletes are so fast.
These wide receivers are so fast, including the safeties that cover them.
But that was a timed play for that spot.
And I guarantee you, Mahomes threw it exactly in the spot where if he if he had not been held and his momentum continued, he probably would have caught that ball.
I think so.
I think so.
And and listen, they're a great team.
They played a great game.
Um, you know, Mahomes being injured and still being out there and pushing as hard as he was.
I mean, I I give all those guys a lot of props.
There's only one guy that I didn't like on their on their team, and um, that was one of the I'm gonna get his last name wrong.
The Kelsey brothers.
Is that was that who they were?
Yeah, Kelsey.
Why?
Yeah, he he just he did an after game interview with Mahomes, and he was really he was a lot.
He was really rude and he wasn't gracious, and I'm like, you know, sometimes you gotta be respectful even when it's hard and just try and do it.
He couldn't do it.
He couldn't get out of his own way.
It was it was sad to watch.
That did not bother me at all.
And his brothers on the Eagles, which is you know, pretty fascinating.
This is for General Van Herc.
Uh, because you still haven't been able to tell us what these things are that we are shooting out of the sky, uh, that raises the question.
Um, have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials?
And if so, why?
Because that is what everyone is asking us right now.
Thanks for the question, Elaine.
I'll let the Intel community and the uh counterintelligence community figure that out.
I haven't ruled out anything uh at this point.
We continue to assess uh every threat or potential threat unknown that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.
All right, Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
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Anyway, Mark Esper, John Ratcliffe will join us.
Also, Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who claims to have encountered a UFO, testified to Congress.
Senator Ted Cruz uh will give you an update on the hazard that is now the airspace in East Palestine, Ohio.
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