Feb. 21, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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| What 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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| All right, hour two this Friday on the Sean Hennedy Show. | |
| Toll-free, it's 800-941 Sean. | |
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| Yeah, apparently our government has known for some days now that America is under assault from a Chinese spying operation with this reconnaissance balloon flying over the continental United States, seemingly unable to make a decision. | |
| How about we either, if we can send guys to the moon, we either capture the balloon, which would be my first choice, and bring it back down to Earth. | |
| I mean, we have the ability to send men to the moon, get out of their spaceship, and start walking around the moon and playing with golf balls. | |
| So if we have, and bring them home, I would think we'd be able to get a Chinese reconnaissance balloon out of the air. | |
| We had two Air Force F-22s scrambling to get this where the balloon was observed. | |
| Can they figure out a way to get it down? | |
| And if they can do that, how about we shoot it down? | |
| This is the same Chinese government that doesn't want a Speaker of the House to visit Taiwan. | |
| The same ones flying their fighter aircraft all over Taiwan airspace. | |
| And they're so sensitive. | |
| And the big response is, what, Tony Blinken, who's useless anyway, just doesn't decides he's not going to go. | |
| Anyway, here to talk about this is the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer. | |
| Now he's looking into two very specific issues. | |
| One is the top secret classified information that is found in five separate locations as it relates to the Bidens. | |
| And then, of course, the Biden Family Syndicate. | |
| We've been spending a lot of time talking about that. | |
| And Joe Biden lying to the American people, saying not once did he ever talk to Hunter about his foreign business dealings. | |
| We know that to be a lie. | |
| Congressman Comer, great to have you. | |
| And by the way, I know you fully expect to be smeared, slandered, besmirched, attacked, you know, as this new Biden war machine is up and running, or their war room is up and running. | |
| And on all these legal letters are flying out all over the place. | |
| But I don't think that's going to stop you from doing your job. | |
| Am I correct? | |
| You are correct. | |
| They've been attacking me and Jim Jordan for two months straight. | |
| It's nonstop on their blog, their MSNBC network, anything that has more than one crazy liberal on it, they're attacking me, but that's not going to stop anything we're doing. | |
| I think one thing that's changed, Sean, from November when we had our press conference right after the midterm elections announcing the Biden investigation to today is the majority, believe it or not, of the mainstream media recognizes that this administration has completely lied about their family's shady business dealings. | |
| They're lying about these documents. | |
| They're not being transparent with anything. | |
| And I think the tide is finally turning with the Bidens now. | |
| When you look at the money, and I spent a great deal of time last night going over the, you know, because we've been reaching out to the Biden folks for a long time to get answers to questions. | |
| And believe it or not, you know, dozens of times. | |
| And we have been denied every single time any comment as it relates to Joe Biden. | |
| Now, I went in great specificity and great detail about what happened yesterday. | |
| Letters here, there, everywhere with the DOJ, the IRS, media outlets. | |
| Hunter's lawyers are asking pops to put an end to the discrimination on the material on Hunter's laptop from hell. | |
| They seemingly admit on the one hand that it is his laptop. | |
| On the other hand, they're denying it's his laptop. | |
| Can we get a straight answer? | |
| That would be a good start. | |
| But now that they're engaged, finally, I'm sending over probably what will be 100 questions that we've been trying to get answers to. | |
| We've made dozens of requests. | |
| They don't confirm or deny anything. | |
| And anyway, like the Senate reported pointed out, no experience. | |
| Hunter admits on Good Morning America in oil, gas, or Ukraine, but he collected a huge monthly sum from Burisma. | |
| He admitted he had no experience. | |
| Why was he paid this money? | |
| And around the same time, that was when Joe Biden went to Ukraine because he was heading up the Ukraine effort for the Obama administration and said, and he bragged about it later, that you're not getting a billion dollars until you fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma and his son Hunter. | |
| He gave them six hours or else they're not getting the money. | |
| And then, son of a bee, they gave him the money. | |
| And then if you look at the reports about Joe Biden when it comes to, you know, Russia, $3.5 million from a Russian oligarch, have you confirmed the $100 million investment from the same oligarch, the former First Lady of Moscow, in a real estate venture with the Bidens? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Everything's fallen into play, Sean. | |
| Everything you said. | |
| And we're to the point now, I think every reasonable American realizes that the Biden family, and that would be both the president's two brothers as well as his son, have taken millions and millions of dollars that they should have never taken. | |
| But what we're into now from our investigation is there are potentially five instances where Joe Biden, as either vice president or president, has made major decisions that were in direct opposition to what would have been in the best interest of the American people. | |
| And in all five of those instances, you can trace significant sums of money coming from our adversaries to Biden family members. | |
| In other words, we fear this administration's compromise because of all the money that the Biden family's taken. | |
| And I think the press corps and the liberal elites in Washington are starting to recognize that Joe Biden's got a major problem. | |
| The Senate committee that investigated a lot of these issues, the Senate Homeland Security Committee, other committees. | |
| In 2013, Hunter travels with his father to China on Air Force 2. | |
| It was a big Asia trip, and China was part of it. | |
| Ten days later, the Senate committee claimed that he struck a lucrative deal with the Bank of China, a billion dollars that later became a billion five, despite his terrible reputation. | |
| Why would they give such a big job to a guy that we don't see has any experience in this field at all? | |
| You know, why wouldn't you go to Morgan Stanley or Deutsche Bank or Goldman Sachs? | |
| Do you have any explanation for that? | |
| And can you confirm the billion five deal with the Bank of China? | |
| I can confirm that he had multiple deals with Chinese interests that were funneling money through the Bank of China. | |
| Now, we've requested these bank records and these bank violations. | |
| They will list those foreign transactions. | |
| We have reports of what they were, but once we get those bank records, then we'll know whether or not that is factual. | |
| But I think the odds are very good that they were. | |
| Now, what we do know from talking to the various people that we've been meeting with over the past year that were in Hunter Biden's circle is their business model. | |
| And when I say they, I'm talking about Hunter Biden and both the president's brothers. | |
| Their business model with our adversaries is they would go in and they would say, we have access to the highest levels of our government. | |
| And it's not just the Biden name. | |
| We have access to cabinet secretaries. | |
| We have access to department heads. | |
| We can help you navigate the bureaucracy. | |
| Even though our country's government isn't supposed to do business with you, we can make things happen. | |
| We can park the wave. | |
| We can do whatever we can to help you if you pay us enough money. | |
| Let me ask this question. | |
| Can you prove that that was their pitch? | |
| Do you have evidence for that? | |
| There are two lawsuits right now where people have claimed in federal bankruptcy court that Joe Biden's brother made a pitch to them that he could help this healthcare company in Tennessee, | |
| it was a startup healthcare company, that he could help them get millions of dollars of money from the United Arab Emirates through his brother's contacts if they give him enough money to go over there and do some bribes and meet with some government officials in the United Arab Emirates. | |
| So there are two lawsuits where the records are fairly public. | |
| We've got other whistleblowers that have come forward. | |
| Now, Sean, what I plan on doing is in the coming weeks, we plan on having some of these people start coming in for transcribed interviews, depositions, and eventually committee hearings. | |
| So, you know, this investigation is well under its way. | |
| We had the transcribed interview dealing with the documents this week. | |
| Next week, we've got the three Twitter employees coming in for a committee hearing. | |
| I mean, this investigation is well underway, and I think we're going to start having a lot more answers to our questions very soon. | |
| So these people, you believe, are going to testify under oath, and in other cases, they already have to that fact? | |
| Well, they're suing Biden family members. | |
| I mean, everybody looks at Hunter Biden, and it's bad with Hunter Biden. | |
| But people forget about the president's other brothers. | |
| The only reason we don't talk about the president's brother is because they didn't leave a laptop lying around. | |
| This was a family business. | |
| This wasn't just the president's son. | |
| This was the president's two brothers as well. | |
| And there's evidence out there that we've been accumulating for nearly a year on the president's brothers that's consistent with Hunter Biden. | |
| The one difference with the brothers is they were involved in more Middle Eastern deals. | |
| So, you know, we always hear about Hunter Biden in Ukraine, Russia, and China, and it's bad there. | |
| But the brothers were involved in Middle Eastern deals. | |
| So, you know, it's just the one thing that's consistent with this family is they did business with our adversaries around the world. | |
| And this is all going to come to light very soon. | |
| Quick break. | |
| We'll come back more with House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer on the other side. | |
| Then we'll get to your calls, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue on this Friday. | |
| Hannity, 9 Eastern tonight, we'll have the very latest Mike Pompeo will weigh in on the Chinese surveillance balloon, reconnaissance balloon, oh, flying over Kansas as we speak. | |
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| What 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? | |
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| This is Fiasco, Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yes, that's right. | |
| Lock her up. | |
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| Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm. | |
| And I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| We've been in political media for a long time. | |
| Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. | |
| That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. | |
| We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. | |
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| What 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. | |
| I'm Leon Navok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. | |
| This is fiasco, Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yes, that's right. | |
| Lock her up. | |
| Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| All right, we continue with House Oversight Committee Chair Jim Comer, who's with us. | |
| You said at one point that this was an investigation into the president himself, Joe Biden. | |
| You stand by that, and what did you mean by that? | |
| We don't know what's legal and what's not legal with respect to insolence peddling. | |
| And at the end of the day, once this investigation's over, I hope that there's a legislative fix to determine what is allowable and what isn't allowable with respect to family members profiting off the president of the United States. | |
| Having said that, what this investigation is about is Joe Biden. | |
| What did Joe Biden know? | |
| What role did Joe Biden play? | |
| And did Joe Biden benefit financially from his family's shady business dealings? | |
| And did Joe Biden make decisions that were not in the best interest of the American people because of all the money his family received from our adversaries? | |
| That's what we're investigating. | |
| But isn't that illegal already? | |
| Or you don't know that fact? | |
| If what is alleged is true, is that illegal? | |
| We believe it is. | |
| If Joe Biden made decisions against the best interest of the American people for financial gain, then I believe that is very illegal. | |
| Now, we all saw the tape of Joe Biden bragging that you're not, I told them in Ukraine, you're not getting a billion dollars. | |
| You're not going to get it. | |
| You got six hours, and he was demanding that a prosecutor in Ukraine as vice president be fired or else they're not going to get a billion. | |
| I believe they were loan guarantees, but of taxpayer money. | |
| So, and then he gave them the six-hour deadline, and his words were, son of a B. | |
| They fired him, and they got the money. | |
| And the prosecutor that we found out was investigating Burisma and Hunter Biden, I guess that investigation stopped. | |
| Now, that sounds an awful lot like a quid pro quo to me. | |
| Do you think that's a quid pro quo? | |
| Well, the Democrats would call that a quid pro quo and an impeachable offense, wouldn't you think, Sean? | |
| Well, I would think that if Donald Trump were president and all this money was flowing from China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and God knows where else into Eric Trump's deals and Don Jr.'s deals and Ivanka's deals. | |
| Yeah, I think they would be calling it that and worse and screaming bloody murder. | |
| Exactly. | |
| And it's just unbelievable the double standard that the media has. | |
| But I think that's turning, Sean. | |
| I mean, you're seeing CBS, they're starting to grill John Pierre in the briefing room. | |
| They're starting to have stories on this. | |
| Even CNN is digging around on some of this stuff. | |
| I mean, I talk to reporters with ABC and NBC as well. | |
| They're investigative reporters. | |
| They realize that this president has not been truthful about his family's shady business dealings. | |
| At the very least, they know he knew about every one of them. | |
| They've seen the pictures. | |
| They've seen the emails. | |
| I think they watch Hannity now at night to get caught up on what's going on. | |
| Well, we were the ones that I didn't get the crap beat out of me by the Columbia Journalism Review over reporting the dirty Russian Clinton bought and paid for dossier. | |
| It was the New York Times and the Washington Post that were wrong. | |
| And that little show, Hannity, ended up being vindicated time and time again on our reporting of three years. | |
| And I think we're going to be vindicated again here. | |
| We really appreciate you taking the time to keep us in the loop. | |
| This is an important story for the country. | |
| And as we got the spy balloon now over Kansas, maybe somebody in the Defense Department will say, we need to retrieve that balloon and bring it back down to Earth. | |
| And I think that's something that's very doable. | |
| Anyway, we appreciate your work and time. | |
| Thank you so much, Congressman James Comer. | |
| Thank you, Sean. | |
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| Joe Biden late yesterday, no regrets at all. | |
| None whatsoever. | |
| Meanwhile, the same guy that was saying, how, how, how, how, how, how did this happen? | |
| How? | |
| 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 we found a handful of documents were failed or filed in the wrong place. | |
| We immediately turned them over to the archives and the Justice Department. | |
| We're fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly. | |
| I think you're going to 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 there. | |
| Thank you. | |
| No, there were documents there in four different places, Joe. | |
| Top secret classified documents. | |
| Joe, how? | |
| How did that happen? | |
| How did this so irresponsible? | |
| Anyway, I think I'm funny. | |
| I'm not. | |
| Corrine Jean-Pierre, you know, has been twisted in a pretzel all week. | |
| I mean, the White House has let her hang out to dry with no answers at all whatsoever. | |
| Here's a montage of that. | |
| What I can tell you right now is what the president is share with you, what the president said to all of you, right? | |
| Which is he was surprised by this. | |
| He definitely, truly respects the process here. | |
| 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 in the newspapers. | |
| You should assume that it's been completed, yes. | |
| White, they completed the search with documents being found last night. | |
| I have answered your questions as 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 100 times, 200 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 concerned about is making sure that we do not politically interfere in the Department of Justice, that we continue to be consistent. | |
| Now, Christopher Wray was at the FBI director, was at the World Economic Forum. | |
| They talked about how the FBI needs to partner with big tech companies. | |
| That already happened in the lead up to the 2020 election. | |
| The FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop in December of 2019. | |
| They could have verified it, certainly sure, within 30 days. | |
| That would be the maximum time they need because there's pictures of Hunter, videos of Hunter, emails from Hunter, 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, his special agent, fairly newly hired because 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 site integrity head at Twitter, this guy, Mr. Roth, 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. | |
| A pretty powerful article that was on Foxnews.com. | |
| And it was written by Nicole Parker. | |
| She has an incredible life story. | |
| 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 got to safety, thank God, thanks to the efforts of the NYPD. | |
| We lost, as I've said so many times, 2,977 of our fellow Americans, the worst attack on our soil in 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 was something that was like a calling to you. | |
| Is that fair to say? | |
| Absolutely, Sean. | |
| It was a mission. | |
| Most agents that join the FBI, there's a higher purpose. | |
| You know, I was in the financial sector prior to joining the FBI, and much more lucrative to work in 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 11th 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 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 back and serve the people of the United States of America. | |
| You are only about eight years away from retirement. | |
| You served over 12 plus years at the FBI. | |
| Why did you write this article? | |
| And more importantly, why did you walk away from the FBI and why did you leave? | |
| So 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 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 just ignore all of 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 FoxNews.com has been told to me by people that I know in the FBI, one that recently retired. | |
| The exact same thing. | |
| The shifting in recruiting practices, lowering of eligibility requirements, politicizing the FBI. | |
| Now, Jim Jordan on the Appropriations Committee is going to 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 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 it was almost like a mistrust. | |
| And I was constantly having to say, no, no, 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 trying to fight violent crime or whatever it might be. | |
| And it became, like I said in the op-ed, almost exhausting to constantly have to separate myself. | |
| You know, friends, family, you know, they'd always be like, what is going on at the FBI? | |
| Well, 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 understand things that have happened in the past, certain employees that have been removed from the FBI 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 going to take a lot of time to rebuild the trust of the American people for 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 just got, 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. | |
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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 members of the Department of Justice are not allowed to be talking to members of Congress, meaning congressmen and senators. | |
| I thought we had whistleblower protection laws. | |
| They are describing things that should never happen to this organization. | |
| We now know that the FBI was on a weekly basis talking with big tech, warning them that in 2020 that there might be a massive disinformation campaign from some adversary or adversarial country. | |
| And it might involve Joe Biden or Hunter Biden. | |
| And then, lo and behold, the Hunter Biden laptop comes out. | |
| They had it since 2019. | |
| They could have corroborated it. | |
| Everything in there is true. | |
| And yet they were telling these big tech companies, be wary if you hear anything. | |
| And then 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 $3.5 million. | |
| How much did you pay other big tech companies? | |
| Right. | |
| And like I said, again, you know, we remember that email that came out. | |
| It was, I believe, in August. | |
| And, you know, again, I wasn't a whistleblower. | |
| I wasn't asked to do anything of that nature, but 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. | |
| 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 giving a whistleblower training at the Bureau. | |
| And so when you take that training, you want to think that that protection is there. | |
| 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 a safe place for us to work as far as feeling comfortable about who you are and different identities. | |
| But at the same time, those employees want to feel safe when they're going to speak up and share their genuine concerns. | |
| The last they did this in 2016. | |
| 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. | |
| Christopher Steele, they offered him a million dollars to verify it. | |
| He couldn't get his million dollars, but then 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 talking about this. | |
| 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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