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	Um we welcome back to the show, investigative reporter, editor-in-chief of just the news.com, uh John Solomon.
	Uh often I've realized, John, when you come on the air, I'll take your article and tell people what's in it, at least half of it, and then I'll ask you questions, and then you just echo what I just said.
	That's not fair to you, because you did all the investigative work.
	So how are you doing?
	I'll do it any way you like, Sean.
	I'll do it well.
	Yeah, a lot of stuff going on today.
	All right, FBI considered resolving the Russia collusion concerns with a defensive briefing to Trump according to memos.
	What's this all about?
	So four years after Bob Mueller officially shut down the uh Russia collusion case with a finding that there was no such collusion, that it was a political dirty trick, essentially.
	Uh we're now getting uh information from what the Justice Department Inspector General was looking at.
	All of the wrongdoing that we didn't see in his report.
	And so one of those is an interview that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the Obama AG at the time this case started, uh, she gave some testimony and she we uh delivers two blockbuster revelations.
	The first is that the FBI's interest in Donald Trump and the campaign in Russia was earlier than July 31st, 2016, when crossfire hurricane started.
	It actually was several months earlier when Jim Comey, then the FBI director, and Andrew McCabe is deputy, both of them ended up being fired, came to her and said, Listen, we have some concerns about this guy, Carter Page.
	Looks like he's had some Russian contacts.
	We just want to let you know.
	They pulled her aside in a by the way, the same Carter Page that we now know was an American asset working with uh three-letter agency beginning with C. That's exactly right.
	That the same Carter Page.
	By the way, Carter Page was helping the CIA as an asset.
	He was helping the FBI in a uh related criminal case.
	He's helping the United States government.
	And here is James Comey and Andrew McCabe coming in to the McC uhlinch saying, We have a concern about this guy.
	Just want to let you know.
	Maybe the right thing to do is to give the president uh uh the future president Donald Trump, then the giant DOP nominee, a defensive briefing.
	By the way, every FBI expert I've talked to in case, including Kevin Brock, the former intelligence chief of the FBI, said that would have been the right thing to do based on the evidence.
	There was no reason to open up on the on the president or his campaign, let him know there's some worry and do that.
	They didn't do that, of course.
	They continued on for three or four months, and they open up that crazy investigation which tied up this country in three years of strife over something that was a political dirty trick by Hillary Clinton.
	Imagine how much history could have changed if uh Jim Comey and Andy McCabe just did what they originally suggested doing, give President Trump a defensive briefing and move on.
	This country would have been saved a lot of strife over a dirty political trick.
	It was a dirty political trick, and uh I doubt that Jim Comey uh going back would have done it.
	I mean, you might recall, I think it was Lindsay Graham that got out of him.
	Knowing what you know now, would you have signed the three FISA warrant applications on Carter Page?
	Now, at what point did they know Carter Page's connection to the Trump campaign, and at what point did they figure out that meant that that would be a backdoor into the campaign and later presidency of Donald Trump.
	You're asking just the right question, uh, Sean.
	I'll have a follow-up story tomorrow, and I'm gonna get into this a little bit.
	What we by the way, I hate when people do that, because now I really want to know the answer.
	I am not I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna give it up early to you.
	Um it's really fascinating.
	By the way, as a kid, I knew every Christmas present I was getting from quote Santa ahead of time, so that's just my personality.
	I love it.
	Well, let me tell you what we've discovered.
	So uh Carter Page has been with the CIA for several years by the time this starts.
	In March of 2016, he's announced as one of the advisors of President Trump.
	Two weeks later, the FBI office in New York, by the way, who had interviewed Carter Page and he was cooperating in an investigation.
	They opened up a uh a counterintelligence investigation targeting him.
	So two weeks after Trump announces him, they open up a counterintelligence investigation.
	Now, this is very odd because all the FBI would have had to do was look into its database, they would have solved.
	Carter Page was a cooperating witness with the FBI and an asset for the CIA, but they open up on him anyways, and then they do no work on it whatsoever for several months.
	And yet, though there's no work on the case, even though he's a CIA asset, somehow Jim Comey and Andrew McCabe know about it, and they're taking it to the Obama attorney general to kind of get the ball rolling.
	That circumstance, that timeline really, really concerns a lot of the experts I've talked to.
	We're going to put more of that out tomorrow because Loretta Lynch really raises the possibility maybe this operation was going on much earlier than the crossfire hurricane uh investigation that we've all known and discredited now.
	But that's something that we had reported back in the day.
	I mean, a long time ago, we we brought that question up.
	Yep.
	And now there's a whole new body of evidence.
	And in some of the explanations, uh for instance, James Comey and Andrew McCabe have testified, they don't think they had any contact with Loretta Lynch back in the spring.
	Well, that clearly doesn't seem to be the case.
	If that was you or me, we'd be arrested for lying under oath.
	That's right.
	Well, Loretta Lynch not only members uh remembers it, but you can see from the records, she had contemporaneous records showing the meeting occurred.
	So she could really back up her account on this.
	Uh there is something about the spring of 2016 that never sat right with you and me or Sarah Carter and the others who dug into this, Greg.
	Um I think now Loretta Lynch opens up a whole new window into this period of time.
	And some real concerns that maybe the effort to target Trump began a few months earlier than we do.
	Yeah, I think you're probably right on that point.
	Let me ask you this next question.
	Because we do know that the FBI was warned in August of 2016 not to trust the dirty dossier by Bruce Hoare.
	Then we know that the FBI in very early October, this is before the November presidential election, that the FBI sent people over to Great Britain and they offered a one million dollar reward to Christopher Steele if he could corroborate uh parts of the dossier that he put together.
	Uh he was never able to corroborate it and get his million dollars back.
	Now, by the end of October, when the first FISA application was signed by James Comey, and remember Andrew McCabe said without the uh dossier, the Pfizer warrant never would have been approved.
	Uh anyway, so they know that Christopher Steele by that point couldn't corroborate it or else he would have collected his million dollars, right?
	So on the top of a Pfizer warrant, it says verified.
	We've gone over this many times.
	So James Comey knows when he signs the first Pfizer application that it's not verified because we know the bulk of information was the dirty dossier.
	So the question is, how did they all get away with that?
	Because I think I'd be be in jail to this day.
	Well, listen, look at what happened to Mike Flynn and others who were accused of lying.
	They do get wrung up, right?
	Uh, It is an amazing story because remember one of the stories we got to break on your show a few years back.
	There was a spreadsheet analyzing every sentence of the steel dossier that the FBI did, and it found 90% of the dossier could either was either disproven, was uh not able to be corroborated, couldn't be despite all the great intelligence tools we had, or was simply internet rumor garbage.
	They also now know, because we learned from the Danchenko probe that the sources that Christopher Steele had were backing away from the claims that were being attributed to them.
	Let me let me give a little background here.
	Danchenko was the subsource for Christopher Steele, and he was interviewed in January of 2017, and that's when he said none of this is true, meaning the Steele dossier, and that it was all bar talk, uh, and we didn't expect it to be used this way.
	And what did the FBI do then?
	They ended up putting Danchenko on their payroll.
	Am I mistaken there?
	That's correct.
	That's exactly what they did.
	It it just the game is played to such terrible proportions when you see that the FBI really knew at every twist and turn of this case.
	It did not have a case against Donald Trump, and it kept proceeding forward in taking this country through great turmoil, handicapping his presidency for nearly two years.
	It was fiction from the moment they got it.
	They knew it was fiction, and yet they continue to pursue it for three years.
	It really is remarkable.
	And to this day, there are still people out there trying to pretend that this was a legitimate investigation despite all that we now know about it.
	Unbelievable.
	Great reporting as always.
	Uh John Solomon, just the news.com, uh editor in chief.
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	Thank you, Sean.
	I really appreciate it and appreciate all the attention you give our great stories.
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	Let's get to our busy phones.
	Uh let us say hi to Trent in Pennsylvania.
	Trent, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	Nice to talk to you.
	By the way, you know who's a neighbor of yours?
	Excuse me?
	Do you know who is a neighbor of yours, a fellow Pennsylvanian?
	Yes.
	Who?
	Who's a neighbor of mine?
	Yeah.
	You know who I'm talking about?
	Okay, I'll give it away.
	Should you play the Jeopardy museum?
	Because I'll tell you what, this is getting a lot of like who's on first.
	I'll tell you that much.
	Linda is a Pennsylvania resident.
	Trent, I am your neighbor.
	You're welcome.
	By the way, be careful if your kids go to the same school, because if they do, and you show up at a school board meeting, Tiger Mom over there is going to be uh the one that uh probably speaking the loudest.
	Well, my reason uh for my call today is you know, I grew up in California, along the San Diego border there.
	I remember the good times when we could go across the border, we could go have fun, we could go for meals, we could go leather shopping.
	It was good times.
	Um I moved to Pennsylvania in 1995 for the reasons of the California politics and of course home pricing.
	Uh I wanted to be, you know, have a good place to live.
	And you know, recently here with what's going along on the border down, you know, in Brownsville, Matamoras, uh, Mexico, uh, with the kidnapping down there, and and I know I heard Lindsey Graham mention that he was going to put forth some legislation, and you know, my thoughts are what about annexing parts of the border there?
	Annexing parts of Mexico, you know, drive our military.
	No, I don't think we need to annex parts of Mexico.
	I tell you what we do need to do.
	Uh, number one, go back to the Trump policies that worked and secure the border.
	Here's the second thing, and I think this is where uh l I think this is what Lindsay is really saying is you dare take an American hostage.
	We're we're sending our best military uh special ops in to rescue them, and there's not a damn thing you're gonna do to lift a finger to stop it.
	That's it.
	You take an American hostage, we're coming for them.
	That's what the that that to me is the attitude you have to have.
	And I don't care if they like it or not.
	What's that, sir?
	Definitely be more forceful.
	I mean, I uh how would you feel if it was your child, you know, that was kidnapped and is in Mexico in some, you know, Godforsaken place, you want to bring your kid home.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	I mean, that's uh scary times, scary place, and you know, it would be nice even for our fellow uh workers that travel back and across and forth from you know Mexico into the United States to work and they go back home.
	You know, they need to have a safe crossing too.
	Um listen, I have no problem with going to Mexico.
	Mexico, by and large, uh, I think the people are phenomenal.
	Um I lived down at the close to the border when I lived in Santa Barbara.
	Um it has some really, really cool places to go visit.
	Uh unfortunately, there are some very pl uh the very unsafe cities there as well.
	Uh there is a real rise in these cartels and the powers of of these cartels.
	It's not good.
	And I just think that it's unfortunate because you know, Mexico should be, could be a great ally of ours.
	In many ways, they have been.
	Under Donald Trump, he insisted that they be better allies.
	And he got rid of NAFTA, and he got a better trade deal.
	Uh, hence the better trade deal means more money for the U.S. Uh Mexico paid for part of the wall.
	You know, just do the simple math there.
	And I think they should be more helpful uh as it relates to the the illegal immigration problem we have in this country.
	Uh they should be stopping people from Central America and and elsewhere uh that are going into their country to make it our country.
	They need to stop the illegal immigration migration there first, and uh they're not doing their job.
	And I would insist on it if I was president, but I'm never gonna be president, so well, I I I appreciated uh Trump being our president.
	I thought he did a great job.
	Um I still stand behind him.
	I still think he's a very smart man.
	And you know, you I don't think I never saw anybody in my life get the crap kicked out of him on more unfairly than him.
	I really have I've never seen anything like it in my life.
	Yeah, it's it's wrong.
	It's it's totally it's crooked.
	Yep.
	Um, it it disgusts me every day just to think that you know, for instance, if I was to be subpoenaed in front of Congress, and I lied to Congress, that would be a perjury charge.
	If they lied to me, it's just politics.
	You're right.
	How does that work?
	Fair.
	Listen, I've if you're a conservative and you spit on the sidewalk, uh, they will arrest you.
	If you jaywalk, they will arrest you.
	If you're Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, you know, if you're a Democrat, you know what?
	The by the bar is so much higher.
	They enforce laws seemingly against people that they don't like politically.
	And that's what Jim Jordan is investigating in the Judiciary Committee as it relates to whether or not the FBI is politicized and the DOJ weaponized.
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	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.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of 10, 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 Nayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Locker up.
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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	Uh all right, let's get to our busy phones.
	Uh let us say hello to Jeff in Oklahoma.
	Jeff, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, Sean, how you doing?
	I'm good.
	Recall.
	Hey, I was just wondering, you know, it seems like we live in uh like an era of no accountability, and this might be somewhat repetitive.
	I caught the end of your previous caller.
	So forgive me if that's the case.
	But uh I missed that last part.
	But what's the case?
	Or you know, like accountability in general.
	Yeah.
	So I feel like, you know, you you probably you have a lot of conversations on air and off the air.
	But uh what is you know, what is your take on the probability of holding our politicians accountable for decisions made on both sides of the aisle for that matter.
	I think uh the left probably says a lot of what we have to say on the right in terms of that.
	Now, I will tell you this when the GOP is weak, I will tell you.
	Uh when I disagree with the Republicans, I have not been shy over the years in my criticism.
	Uh I've been not been shy about my feelings about, say, Mitch McConnell uh over the years or about John Boehner or other, you know, Rhino Republicans.
	Uh I I've just have not been shy.
	Uh but I'll tell you, for example, the first House hearing on the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal disaster is happening.
	We have the judiciary investigating the FBI if it's politicized and the DOJ if it's weaponized.
	Uh we have the origins of COVID now being investigated.
	Uh in the next uh by the end of this week, there'll be eight hearings on eight separate subjects that need to be investigated.
	Uh Kevin McCarthy went on offense, forcing Senate Democrats into really, really tough votes, for example, pensions and investing in ESG, et cetera, which is a dumb idea.
	Uh the also the uh the push for a stalled stock trading ban of these, you know, politicians, uh, you know, they go in with no money and they come out millionaires.
	How's that happen?
	Uh they're picking a fight.
	Now they're also investigating zero experience hunter and the and the Biden family syndicate.
	Uh they're looking into the National Archives and and listen, they're they're even looking into the harassment of Elon Musk, you know, twelve days.
	They're demanding his personal emails over what they're demanding to know, you know, every single reporter that he hired to put out the Twitter files.
	Why?
	Because it exposed an effort of the FBI to silence big tech companies uh about the Hunter Biden laptop that they knew and had in their possession since December of twenty nineteen.
	You gotta be kidding me.
	And by the way, Jim Jordan said it.
	He said they may use the power of the purse and defund aspects of the FBI that if they're abusing power.
	And I believe they are.
	So I mean, to their credit.
	Now, they're gonna have to find a way, a plan that the majority, 218 at least, will agree on with the debt ceiling debate.
	That's not going to be an easy lift.
	It should be related to spending in my view.
	I would like to go back to the uh spending reduction act and and automatic cuts known as sequestration.
	I think that would be a good start.
	Uh we'll see what they if they can pull that off.
	That's going to be a heavy lift for McCarthy and the leadership.
	But I I would like to think the Republicans are smart enough to know that they're going to win together or they're going to fail together.
	They win or lose.
	There's not going to be any in between.
	And the only way they're going to win is to unite.
	And that means you're not going to get everything you want, but as long as you're making progress in keeping your promises, I'm going to be pretty happy with that.
	Um and that's what I want to see happen.
	So the right, yes, the right needs to.
	I don't I don't see a single thing that the left is doing that I like right now.
	I can't think of one.
	Can you?
	No, not at all.
	Not at all.
	It seems like uh one bad decision after another.
	And I'm kind of hoping that maybe, you know, maybe going forward, you know, if if Trump and DeSantis can kind of, you know, put differences aside and work for the good of us, they make a pretty good team, but don't know how likely that is.
	Yeah.
	Some good decision makers up front.
	Listen, we're we're we have an opportunity.
	I think if Republicans take the advice that I'm pushing as hard as I can on reconfiguring how they approach elections.
	And they learn a lesson from the Democrats.
	Democrats, they spend hundreds hundreds of millions in negative ads, and they hide and they spend the rest of their time uh out there doing ballot harvesting, which is legal in many, many states across this country.
	Legal ballot harvesting.
	They've got to get in that game.
	They got to overcome their reluctance and resistance towards early voting and voting by mail, and you can't start out any election race down by hundreds of thousands of votes and expect to win on election day.
	What if it rains on election day?
	You're screwed.
	You know, what if it's bad weather, inclement weather?
	You're screwed.
	It's by the way, this is not the system I want.
	I would prefer, you know, paper ballots, same-day voting, with the rare exception of the military, people that are infirmed, or people that are out of town or out of the country on business.
	Uh, but short of that, make it a national holiday so everyone can go vote, have partisan uh observers in every precinct watching the voting, and when the polls close, partisan observers watching up close, all the vote counting.
	That's what I like to see.
	It's not that complicated.
	That would that would to me instill the most integrity in the system.
	You can't comp nobody can complain it's not fair.
	That's fair.
	Include, you know, voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter roles, just basic common sense measures.
	And if Democrats, the only reason they're complaining is because they think they do better without signature verification.
	They think they'll do better without voter ID.
	I vote in New York State, and I don't have to show anybody anything.
	I go to the same place, it's usually the same people that I see every time I vote every election season.
	They're like, hi, Mr. Hannity, and I start to pull out my wallet and my pull out my license.
	No, no, no, we don't need it.
	I'm like, wow.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	Um, the rest of our votes when, you know, when you can't prove who you are, you know.
	Yeah.
	It really just makes you think your voice is not really being heard.
	And then when you see people that are that are voted in, you're thinking that's the best they've got, which is hard to believe.
	You know, so it's it's very questionable these days.
	Listen, it is the thing is even the people that maybe have bought into the new Green Deal socialist climate alarmist cult lies.
	You know, at some point facts begin to speak for themselves.
	And when you have to go into your retirement account just to make ends meet, and you have to put fair necessities on your credit card at a 22% interest rate.
	Uh, and you were promised that everything was gonna be free, and it's not, uh, I think they're gonna get religion faster than you think.
	We have experimented with this kind of socialism before, and it never works.
	You know, I wrote a whole chapter in Live Free or Die, Socialism and Its History of Failure.
	Whatever name, whatever manifestation it takes, whatever you want to call it, it all always ends the same way.
	Unfulfilled promises, more poverty, and a loss of freedom.
	That's it.
	You know, I say it often because it needs to be said often.
	Uh Jeff, thank you, my friend.
	God bless you.
	We'll go next door to Texas.
	David is standing by.
	Hey, David, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Well, good afternoon.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yes, sir.
	Uh son, I'm uh I'm a truck driver, former school teacher, actually a truck driver, so I listen to you all the time.
	Uh and now are you an owner operator or are you uh working for a company?
	No, I work for a company.
	Oh, good.
	You're doing okay?
	Oh, doing great.
	Uh but my concern, I'm I'm hearing what you're saying about how we need to match the left and voter harvesting or ballot harvesting and and early voting and all that.
	But my concern is what are we gonna do about the the the trick that they're gonna have up their sleeve?
	You know they're gonna have something up their sleeve because it was so evident last and then let me give you an example what they did in 2020.
	A lot of states have laws that say that partisan observers get to watch the vote counting.
	Uh and in 2020, because of the pandemic, there was no accommodation made uh to fulfill that law, that requirement.
	That's not gonna happen next time.
	In 2000, I'm sorry, 2020 it happened.
	It's not gonna happen in 2024.
	And if Republicans listen to me on voting early, voting by mail, listen to me and follow the the laws of their state as it relates to ballot harvesting and outperform the Democrats and early voting.
	We'll win.
	Our ideas are better because Democrats, they're winning without doing any town halls.
	They're winning without doing any press of L's.
	They're winning without kissing any babies, shaking any hands, doing any selfies, no town halls, no rallies, nobody would show up anyway.
	They they're they're winning by doing it that way.
	Now, we could keep you know, wishing for another system and not match what they're doing, the efforts they're doing, but that's gonna end likely in a loss.
	And I'm a believer, you know, fool me one, shame on you.
	Fool me twice, shame on us.
	Right now we know what they did.
	Now let's match their efforts and surpass their efforts and win elections.
	We have better ideas.
	Conservatism is an a political philosophy that simply works.
	You know, simple things like uh enforcing the law at our borders, uh, which I'm sure you in Texas know all about.
	Uh simple things like uh realizing a fundamental truth that in the short term, meaning the next couple of decades, uh the lifeblood of the world's economy is gonna be oil, gas, and coal, and we have more of it than any other country, and that means we should be producing all of our needs domestically.
	Uh that would mean a law and order and getting rid of this defund, dismantled, no bail law mentality.
	It would mean limited government.
	It means conservative justices that obey the constitution, choice in schools.
	You know, these are all of these things would work.
	We know how to fix things.
	You know, uh I the the idea that we're even discussing biological men playing in in women's sports is insanity to me.
	Um common sense Americans don't want that.
	Or CRT, uh, like they have it uh outlined in Florida, uh, that incorporates I don't even like to use the word of a pejorative in the past that begins with Q for gays and lesbians theory is part of the CRT that they wanted to teach down there, or teaching transgenderism and CRT to kids in kindergarten through third grade.
	I mean, it's insane.
	You know, they they said it's a uh don't say gay bill.
	Uh no, the word gay was never in that bill.
	All it said was that you're gonna have age appropriate materials taught to kids in kindergarten through third grade in Florida.
	That's all it was.
	In other words, you're not gonna talk about that stuff in third second grade.
	What the hell is a second grader need to learn about all this stuff for?
	How about you teach them how to read and write and do math and science and computers and history?
	You know, why with we pay more per capita per student with the worst results?
	Why don't we fix the system we have?
	Conservatism works.
	We believe in liberty, freedom, our constitution, our first and second amendment, and every amendment.
	We believe in law and order, safety and security.
	We believe in secure law uh borders and controlling our borders and enforcing laws in our land.
	Uh our philosophy is not complicated.
	It's just getting enough people to vote in common sense conservatives that will fight to keep their promises.
	That's where I'm that's what I'm urging people to now do.
	But if we don't if they don't listen to this admonition of mine, then don't expect any different result in 2024.
	That's my admonition.
	So I'm saying it loudly.
	I'm saying it often.
	Hannity, you repeat yourself.
	You damn right I do.
	And I'm gonna repeat it every day until everybody understands how important it is.
	Otherwise, you're gonna get the government you deserve, and it's gonna be worse than it's ever been.
	That's right.
	We're going to get rid of that treasonous, traitorous.
	Oh, will you stop?
	Good grief.
	You why don't you go talk to your BFF now?
	Lee, where are you, Lee?
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