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Welcome to the uh Sean Hannity Show.
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This just in Joe Biden had another, well, senior moment, a cognitive mess that he is as president, trying to read a poem.
Let us listen.
Richard Blanco returned to a poem he wrote from the second inaugural of Barack and May.
A poem, one today says, and always one moon, like a silent drum tapping at every rooftop and every window on every in of every county.
Country Scott.
Let me start this over again.
I'm getting so uh intimidated by it being here.
And always one moon, like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop and every window of one country, county.
County, all of us facing the stars.
Hope, a new constellation, waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name it together.
Oh boy, there's your president.
No wonder the world's a mess.
Congressman Jim Jordan from the great state of Ohio is with us, uh, Congressman.
Uh he is the head of the all-important uh House Judiciary Committee, uh, in line with what we've been talking about today, and that is that he is now investigating, rightly so, whether our FBI has been weaponized and our Department of Justice is weaponized, and whether or not the FBI has become politicized.
Uh, Congressman, welcome back, sir.
Good to be with you, Sean.
And uh first of what you just played.
It's it's I mean, it at some point it just gets sad.
It's that sort of a I mean it's just sad for our great country that uh that happens so often now.
You you feel I actually feel for the president, but uh more importantly I feel for the for the 330 some million American people.
Um I don't know what to say.
Just like it again, it becomes down we seem to see this every other day.
Um, so it's unfortunate.
You know, when I first pointed out the obvious that Joe was a cognitive mess and weak and frail, um, I was criticized for it, and then I started making fun of it.
And the, you know, I was talking about Sippy Cup and Warm Milky and night night stories and bedtime, you know, at seven and seven PM, and then I realized it's not funny.
No, it's not.
It's uh it's uh I get it.
It's it's it's really sad for our great and again, I think I think so many Americans see the contrast um, you know, between what we had and in strength projected from the Oval Office under President Trump and obviously what we have, what we have now.
Let me start with the the issue of the day.
Um very interesting news.
Fox News.com reporting.
Well, we knew that the grand jury was scheduled to convene today in New York at 2 p.m.
That was canceled.
Uh I think they're gonna reconvene tomorrow, or at least That was the plan, uh, but reports that there is chaos now in the office of the Manhattan District Attorney.
Now, a couple of things have happened in the last 24 hours.
I have in my hand um a letter uh for a gentleman that's dated February 8th, 2018 to the FEC.
Uh, and it says I'm writing on behalf of my client Michael uh Cohn in response to your dated January 30th, 2018 letter.
Specifically, this letter responds to the complaint.
They give the number, which was filed with the FEC by Common Cause and Paul Ryan in a private transaction in 2016 before the U.S. presidential election, Mr. Cohn used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of 130,000 to Miss Stephanie Clifford.
Neither the Trump organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Miss Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohn for payment directly or indirectly.
And contrary to the allegations in the complaint, which are entirely speculative, neither Mr. Cohn nor Essentials uh consultants, LLC made any in-kind contributions to Donald J. Trump for president uh or any other presidential campaign.
Mr. Cohn has not been a government employee during any of the relevant time period.
The payment in question does not constitute a campaign contribution or expenditure, and therefore the FEC lacks jurisdiction over this matter.
The complaint have not and cannot present any evidence to the contrary.
Accordingly, the complaint should be dismissed.
Now the FEC did dismiss it.
The Department of Justice looked into it.
They chose not to prosecute.
The previous Manhattan DA also chose not to prosecute it.
Um and now between that and I don't know if you saw Bob Costello on my show last night.
Yep.
Uh because he contradicted now, Michael Cohn was, according to the Southern District of New York, when they made the announcement that he pled guilty, he pled guilty to making false statements uh and concealing money from the IRS, made false statements to a federally uh uh insured financial institution.
Um so you have somebody directly contradicting their star witness.
How do they bring a case like this?
They they can't.
And even you you're right, the Justice Department didn't bring it.
The Southern District of New York wouldn't bring the case.
The previous uh Manhattan District Attorney, Mr. Vance wouldn't bring the case.
More importantly, or maybe most importantly, Alvin Brag wouldn't bring the case.
Remember when he first got in office, he wasn't gonna bring it.
And then two of his assistants r resigned in protest, write a book, start pressuring the left, starts pressuring him, and more importantly, what happened in that time frame?
Oh, Donald Trump announces he's running for president, and suddenly now he oh, damn, I'm gonna change my mind and we're gonna bring the case.
So that is that is the only big intervening event that has changed is President Trump has announced he's going to run again.
The left has been trying to stop him for seven years, and that is why you see this case coming forward.
I'm convinced of that.
And I think frankly, most of the American people are convinced of that, unless they have the you know the Trump derangement is okay.
So this goes to the heart of your investigation.
Has the FBI been politicized?
Is the DOJ weaponized?
Do we have in this country?
I believe we do.
And you can contradict me if I'm wrong, uh, or tell me that I'm wrong.
Um we I believe we have a dual justice system.
I believe we have unequal justice under the law.
We don't have equal justice under the law.
We don't have equal application of our laws.
Am I wrong?
No, it sure seems that way, Sean.
And I think what we really have is is is uh government focused on politics instead of serving the American people, a government willing to set up a disinformation uh governance board as if some agency can tell you what you can say, what you can't say, a government willing to say we're gonna go after parents, we're gonna go after pro-lifers, we're gonna go after traditional Catholics and define them as as as domestic extremists.
And a government that will pressure big tech to say, take down these posts, take down these tweets, take down this information, don't let the American people see it, even though it came from Americans, for goodness sake.
Um that is a scary situation, but that is exactly what's happening.
And then you put it all together and you see what this district attorney is thinking about doing to the guy who's leading in the poll, one of the announced candidates for president.
That is truly the stuff that I think shows the government in many ways has been turned against the people it's supposed to serve.
Now, that is what you're spelling out is scary, but it's at the heart of your investigation.
Yeah.
And this is why it was so critical that Republicans take over the House because you have the power of subpoena.
Uh you get to run the committee.
My question is now I have had not one but a couple of of FBI whistleblowers that I've interviewed, and they're all telling me the exact same thing.
It's not the same FBI that the FBI has been politicized at a high level.
You know, look at the 2020 election.
And and you you have all of these FBI agents meeting weekly with big tech companies.
You might be victims of disinformation, and it may be about Joe or Hunter Biden uh that was testified to in the case of Missouri.
Uh you know, then go back to the FBI sends uh agents over the pond uh to Great Britain to meet with Christopher Steele.
They offer him a million bucks if he can corroborate his dossier.
He can't he can't collect because he can't verify.
But then they use the information for an entire year.
Uh and it says verify on the top of a FISA application, and they used it as a backdoor to get into the Trump campaign and the Trump presidency.
And nobody was held accountable, Congressman.
Yeah, what we're gonna try to do is get all the facts on the table.
We've talked about this before, and then as a legislative body, all we can do is propose legislation to correct the problem to remedy the situation, and maybe most importantly, use the appropriations process, use the power of the purse to limit how the the money that's appropriated to these agencies gets used.
But it's bigger than the FBI.
Just go back two weeks ago in a 48-hour time frame, think about what happened.
Chuck Schumer tells Fox, don't play the videos.
The next day we release a report that says the FTC was targeting a private company, Elon Musk's company, asking him who are the journalists you're talking to, named four journalists personally.
Two of those four journalists the very next day came and testified in our committee.
Matt Taibee, Michael Schellenberger, two Democrats actually, who but two democrats who believe in the First Amendment, like old school liberals used to believe in, they testify in front of our committee, and what a Democrat members of Congress do?
They ask them, Who are your sources?
Not about that.
That is a direct attack on First Amendment freedom of the press that we saw in a in a 48-hour time period.
You couple that with what the FBI's been up to, what the with a disinformation governments board they tried to form at DHS has been up to.
That is that is why this is so darn important because it in the end it's about the First Amendment, something that you you exercise.
I make my living off the First Amendment.
Yeah.
I I mean but you go through all of it.
You go through Mueller and the and the Russia hoax, and that's three years of Donald Trump's presidency, and you know, the Ukraine impeachment, but we'll ignore the quid pro quo and Joe Biden uh admitting that he withheld a billion dollars unless they fired a prosecutor who was investigating his son who admitted on GMA he had no experience and energy, yet he's collecting a fortune.
Uh never mind.
How much money in business that did the Bidens do with the communist Chinese?
How much money in business did they do with Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and according to James Colmer, you know, some twelve or plus uh uh countries.
And is that impacting the decision making of Joe Biden?
Is he compromised?
Yeah, well, the fundamental question there, I think Sean is and and y you you said it well here, is what did they do?
What what service did they provide?
What value did they add?
What were they doing, the Biden family for this this w three million dollar payment we know of that Mr. Comer and the committee of unveiled our are uh uh uh uh c uncovered that that talks about the three million that was paid to Robinson Walker and they given to the Biden for what?
What what service did they provide?
What did they do?
That's sort of the fundamental question.
If you can't answer that, it sort of gives you the answer.
So, yeah, this is this is well the you look at that and this double standard, and then you look at President Trump with Russia, then it was the phone call with Zelinsky, then it was they want his tax return, then his business record, then his children, then they raid his home.
Now the DA is coming after him, and you're like, holy cow, this is this is unbelievable.
And that the fact that it's happening in the United States of America with our Constitution, with our first amendment, with our due pro that is that is the part that is most frightening.
And it you just unfortunately see it time and time again, and it's again why I think it's so important, as you said, that we do the work, get the facts on the table, and then legislatively and then via the appropriations process do what we should do as a legislative body.
By the way, did you notice Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner complaining the Biden administration refused to offer vital details related to the president's uh alleged mishandling of classified documents?
How come we only hear about the one investigating Trump?
We never hear about the guy that that was appointed to investigate Joe Biden.
I know.
No, I know.
And and and frankly, remember, Warner's even said, like the the fact that the they won't tell us what these documents were, and won't even tell uh uh the weren't even willing initially to tell the intel committees in both the House and Senate.
Like, wait a minute, I thought it was a government of the people, by the people, for the people, where you elect folks to office and then they make the decisions, they get the information so they can make the decision.
But no, no, it's the bureaucracy that only get to see certain things.
That is not how our system is supposed to work, and it is it is just flat out wrong that that you have these unelected folks running the place.
That is not because then the people can't hold them accountable like they can folks who put their name on the ballot and have to run for office.
If you don't like what they do, you get to throw them out the next election, and that's a darn good thing.
That's how it's supposed to work.
But unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be doing that, uh, operating in that way today.
How confident are you that you're gonna get the information you have been requesting?
There's been a lot of stonewalling, and how soon do you think you'll be able to get these whistleblowers out front before the American people?
Well, it's always slow, and the whistleblowers themselves coming out front.
We've had three of them testify in in a uh transcribed interview.
Uh, it's up to them if they want to go into a public hearing.
We we anticipate some of them are gonna want to do that, and we we look forward to that down the road.
As far as the information, we know they're gonna drag their feet some, but we're getting some very good information, and we're just gonna keep it up.
Keep pressuring, keep writing the letters, keep doing the subpoenas, keep getting information both from government agencies and from the private sector, specifically when we're talking about the First Amendment issue and some of these private sector entities who were in, you know, working with the government, being pressured by the government to suppress certain types of speech.
Um, we're getting some information from them now that's beginning to come in.
We're gonna keep on it.
We're not gonna stop.
This is a very important investigation.
You're heading it up, you're taking a lot of heat for it.
We appreciate the the truth seeking.
Anyway, uh Jim Jordan, thank you.
Thank you, Sean.
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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?
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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 Nafock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
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I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
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We have a little over a minute.
Jim in Los Angeles.
Jim, I'm going to give it to you.
Make it count.
You are a star for 60 seconds.
Thank you.
My question is regarding the issue of uh using uh campaign funds to pay the settlement to Daniels.
How what was the legal argument of the prosecutor around the statute of limitation?
We've yet to hear one.
However, we do know that uh the statute of limitations, as rightly pointed out by Professor and attorney Jonathan Turley, has passed uh on both the state level and the federal level.
So, you know, how they're gonna make an argument, that's interesting.
Uh it's unreal, actually.
But anyway, we'll cover all of this.
Uh, you know what we'll do?
We'll take a break, we'll come back, we'll get to a lot of your calls, and then we'll check in with all things simple man Bill O'Reilly.
We'll get his take on this.
You know, the whole country's a mess.
How sad.
Energy, a mess.
The economy, a mess.
Interest rates up again today.
You know, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, uh, Saudi Arabia now, Ukraine.
Everything's a mess.
It's unbelievable.
What a difference two years makes.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
Thank you for being with us.
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Uh let us say hi to Rob in Cleveland.
Rob, how are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, how are you today?
Thank you.
Taking my call.
By the way, it's it says next to your name liberal.
Are you a liberal?
I'm liberal.
I'm liberal Rob.
Now the reason I'm saying this is because people think, oh, we screen out old liberals.
No, we don't.
We seek them out, and they're usually afraid to come on the show, and we appreciate that you call in and and even though you have a different point of view.
I listen all the time.
I try to get my news sources from many different angles.
So I'm not your typical liberal, I guess.
Um by the way, a lot of people hate listen and hate watch, trust me.
No, I get it.
I just want to let you in on a little secret.
If Trump really wanted a conservative in office in 2024 and do what's best for the country, he would sit this one out.
Okay.
So let me ask you a question.
So you feel as a liberal Democrat that likes Joe Biden.
You like Biden, right?
Not necessarily.
Um okay.
Do you think Joe Biden name name me two things that he's done that's successful?
Um I definitely think entering back into the Paris uh climate agreement.
Um you think the Paris Climate Agreement that classifies China and India as developing nations, and we pay the bulk of money for that accord, and they're the bigger polluters.
You think that's a good deal for the U.S.?
Well, I think it's good to bring yes, there are parts of it that I don't agree with.
Yeah, I know you don't really know a lot about the Paris Accords because we're paying billions of dollars.
China and India pay next to nothing.
Why is that a good deal?
Do you think that would you classify China with all the military might that they have uh as a developing nation?
I think they're fully developed.
China.
Yes.
But they're cla they uh they are, according to the Paris Accords, uh they are classified as a developing nation.
Well, I but we we don't have that same classification.
And because they're a developing nation uh uh nation, they pay next to nothing.
And we pay the bulk of the the monies that went into that agreement.
What do they pay in comparison to what we pay?
Next to nothing, a tiny percentage.
All right.
Well, I would like to So what's the n give me the one more thing that you think Joe was successful at because you kind of failed on the first one.
Well, I mean, I gave you my opinion on it, whether you agree with it, that's one Yeah, but you didn't know that you didn't know that China and India were big were classified as developing countries, so that's a big deal.
Yeah, but it's a small percentage of what actually transpired.
Yeah, billions of dollars is a lot of money, especially when we owe as much money as we do as a country.
So let me give me another success of Joe Biden.
I'm just interested what you think he's doing that's successful.
That's fine.
I think uh I can give you two.
I can I can see a little bit of gun reform um that needs to be done, and I also think that you know uh legalizing gay marriage and passing um the equality uh act uh is important.
So those are things you uh I think marriage was legal.
Well, I'm sorry, same-sex marriage.
I apologize.
Okay, I think it was legal.
Right, but we we passed it equality.
That that's on the federal level.
We're talking about the federal level, not at the state level.
Okay, but it was legal pretty much I think it was legally uh we did have federal legislation years ago.
We did, and then Trump reversed it, and then now Biden All right, so look, you're hardcore liberal.
I can accept that.
Fine, you love you you're a woke liberal, understand.
I don't have a problem with with either issue that you talked about.
I really don't.
It's not my uh we have a lot of problems economically and in foreign policy that are all at a lot of problems at our border.
It was a disaster to to give up energy independence and imp don't you think it's dumb to import oil from Venezuela when we can do a cleaner, cheaper, Uh and more efficiently in this country, isn't that dumb?
Unless it's safer, uh which I I do believe that we were going uh through Indian preservations and ruining the wildlife.
So at what cost?
Uh I if you look at most Native Americans that are in the energy business, they want to stay in business.
They're making a lot of money.
That's every company.
That I don't I don't see I've never seen any sources that I've never seen any sources that said that you know there are particular areas that are energy environmentally unfriendly.
The Keystone Pipeline wasn't even done yet.
There's listeners that Yeah, if we finish the Keystone pipeline every day we get 900,000 barrels of oil into this country from Canada.
Why why did we not finish that?
So that was crude oil that was going to be sent through Mexico from Canada.
So it wasn't even our pipeline anyway, and it was going to damage and it has damaged multiple acres of habitat.
You're right.
You know what?
We should we shouldn't have taken the 900,000 barrels of oil uh and imported it from Canada uh when it was almost complete, uh, which would lower the price of oil worldwide because we've artificially reduced the demand, but it was certainly a brilliant on on Joe Biden's part to give a waiver to Vladimir Putin for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, right?
John, you're all over the place.
It was 20% done, but I want to get back to my point.
No, it would have been the pipeline would have been done about a year ago.
So let's be accurate here.
Yeah, three years after Joe Bre Joe Biden took president?
No, I'm saying it would have been it would have been up and running within less than a year, according to the Premier of Alberta and Canada.
Right.
And Canada's furious at Joe Biden for this.
But you're okay with the with the waiver that he gave Vladimir Putin to finish his pipeline, right?
You're okay with that.
I'm not uh informed in that side of things.
I was talking about the Keystone.
So I don't want to talk on things on the R. Well, while he was canceling high-paying career American jobs and creating more energy dependence than ever before, because he inherited an energy program in this country where we were a net exporter of energy and energy independent for the first time in 75 years, he destroyed all of that, and he gave a waiver for a pipeline to Russia and Vladimir Putin.
And you oh, you don't know about that part.
You see, I think you have this this is what liberals do all the time.
You have like the selective, you know, memory bank.
And Sean, you have this selective memory bank.
No, I remember everything.
I just asked you what percentage or what what amount that we're paying for.
I can get you the exact percentage, but pay close attention.
Follow the bouncing ball.
That China and India are classified in the Paris Climate Accords as developing nations.
We don't have that classification.
Having that classification means they pay dramatically less in for the accord agreement.
They're not developing countries.
That is a bad deal for the U.S. We shouldn't be paying more when China is a far greater polluter of the environment than the U.S. is.
also a dictatorship and they're not considered what we are as a country.
That's not the that's not the determining factor in this.
All right.
Well, anyway, anyway, what else do you have on your mind?
We'll give you another 30 seconds.
Go ahead.
Yes.
So Donald Trump will never be president again.
Here's why, because he'll never get the Democratic votes, right?
I would vote personally for Ron DeSantis.
So if you put forth the right candidate, you're gonna win in 2024.
So you're saying that if it's Joe Biden versus Ron DeSantis, you'd vote for Ron DeSantis.
100%.
And a lot of Democrats would.
So what I'm trying to tell you is if you want to win.
Well, wait a minute.
Why would Democrats be voting for Ron DeSantis, who's a pretty strong conservative?
Um are you are you are are you saying that is that a tacit admission that in fact you that Joe Biden has failed?
Why would you leave your great liberal climate alarmist cult hero?
The less of two evils, okay?
So Joe So Ron DeSantis, so Joe Biden is worse for the country than Ron DeSantis.
I'm okay with that.
That's fine.
I'm if that's your opinion.
Yeah, I just wanted to give you a secret that if you wanted to win and not cry about the election again, gotta put Ron DeSantis in because Trump will get zero Democrat votes, Ron DeSantis will get 30%.
So if you get 30% of Democrats that are voting on top of the Republicans that are voting.
Listen, you go ahead and I will tell you this to your own peril.
You can underestimate Donald Trump all you want.
I wouldn't underestimate this man.
However, they absolutely are out to destroy the guy.
That part may happen, and you know what?
That would be a shame for the country.
I'll go, you know, think about this.
If Biden were smart, here's an idea I'll throw out at you.
If Biden was smart and he cared about his own family, I believe that the evidence will show over time that the amount of money that the Biden family made from China, Russia, Ukraine, just on the Ukraine deal alone, where he leveraged leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars to get a prosecutor fired, so his son could keep getting, you know, all these, you know, all this money, and he had no experience in that.
You you do find that corrupt, right?
I do find a certain part of uh percentage of what he's doing, but we don't know all the facts.
No, we know that we know the fact because Joe Biden bragged about it in his own words on tape that he withheld a billion taxpayer dollars unless they fired a prosecutor within six hours.
Son of a bee, they fired him.
And then Hunter went on Good Morning America and admitted he had no experience in Ukraine in oil and gas, coal, or energy in any capacity.
Uh why do you and then he was asked, Well, why do you think they paid you?
Why did they hire you?
I don't know.
And then I thought whoever was doing the interview says, maybe because your daddy is in charge of Ukraine policy, and then Joe Biden says you're not going to get a billion dollars unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my son.
Does that not sound like a quid and a pro and a quo from Joe to you?
It does.
But what I'm trying to tell you is that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Junior have zero, zero experience in running.
But they're not they're not the there's no example you can cite where they're making well, first of all, they do have experience, and I can tell you that firsthand.
I've known Donald Trump for nearly 30 years.
And when I would go to his office when his kids got out of school, they hit his office was here, and their office was right next to his.
Eric's office, Vivanka's office, uh, Don Jr.'s office.
I they've they've been working with their father all their adult life.
What about Stephanie?
What happened to her?
Stephanie who's his daughter, Tiffany.
Whatever.
You mean Tiffany?
Yeah, what happened to her?
All right.
You know, this was a very value.
I know some people are driving right now and they're grabbing the steering wheel harder.
By the way, thank you, Rob, for the call.
And you I know you're getting angry, but this is this is how liberals think.
This is your typical liberal.
You know, it's it's fascinating to me.
Anyway, an exercise and futility, if you ask me at this point.
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First, listen to Alvin Bragg promising to investigate Trump as a candidate, and then listen to the media even poking holes in Alvin Bragg's case against Trump.
A lot of people are wondering uh whoever has this job.
Are they going to convict Donald Trump?
Look, that that that is uh the number one issue.
I'm the candidate in the race who has the experience with Donald Trump.
I was the chief deputy in the attorney general's office.
We sued the Trump administration over a hundred times.
I'd be hard to argue with the fact that that's that'd be the most important uh most high profile case.
Uh, and I've seen him up front and seen the lawlessness that he can do.
And you believe it should happen.
I you know, I I but I believe we have to hold him accountable.
The facts are old.
They're six or seven years old, and the star witness here in the form of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former attorney, has credibility issues as been convicted of crimes.
And so, you know, to your point, Abby, as far as the strength of a case, it's certainly not the kind of slam dunk that many people would wish that it were.
You have to be careful when you put a witness on the stand who has a motive for revenge, and Michael Cohn has said many times he would like to get Donald Trump in one way or another.
So does it concern me?
Yes.
Have I done things like that?
Sure.
In this New York case, the facts of this case um going on almost seven years now are really stale.
You wouldn't start with an eight-year-old porn star payoff.
I hear my conservative friend saying he's being overcharged.
It's so aggressive, it's so terrible.
Welcome to my world, folks.
Prosecutors, overcharging, being overaggressive, being ridiculous with with minor stuff and turning it into major stuff.
Happens every single day in America, every courthouse in America.
All right, quick break.
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