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April 14, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Club Awesome Sauce - April 13th, Hour 3
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we're beginning to get more information about the Pentagon leaker.
Now, this kind of leak, it might be the single biggest, largest, and most dangerous leak of all time.
The Washington Post released a bombshell report detailing the guy responsible for leaking this highly classified Pentagon documents.
I mean, they actually had in there that our special forces are on the ground in Ukraine.
Now, by the way, I'd rather they not be there.
That's a separate issue.
But the fact that they are there should not be known publicly.
And the same with the UK.
They were outed too as having their special forces on the ground.
Now, by the way, the U.S. official suspected has now been arrested in this Pentagon leak, which we broke earlier in the program today.
First identified, I think, by the New York Times, which is in and of itself really, really dangerous.
You have nearly 100 special forces from five Western countries, including more than a dozen Americans, have been outed as a result of this leak.
Anyway, it was dated March 23rd.
Mark Secret revealed the U.S. had 14 special forces in Ukraine.
The post could not identify the authenticity, verify the authenticity.
Well, now it looks like we found the leaker.
We welcome back to the program.
Investigative reporter, friend of the show, Sarah Carter, is with us.
Sarah, this is extraordinarily dangerous.
And by the way, I want to congratulate you.
I had no idea that you were working on a children's book.
I got a copy of it, and it's amazing.
And the illustration is phenomenal.
And it's joining the amazing club Awesome Sauce.
And he did such a good job with this.
And I have no idea we've found the time to do this, considering we send you pretty much all over the world to do a lot of reporting for us.
Well, that's true, Sean.
But a lot of that reporting is what led me to doing this book for children because our world is so upside down.
We've seen, and you know this, you cover it every single night.
We talk about the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border.
We're now talking about the chaos of this extraordinarily very dangerous leak on our U.S. intelligence apparatus.
And this is something that, you know, for me was a passion of the heart because I see our children, you know, are suffering and they're kind of losing their way in a sense.
We see that in our schools with CRT and the lack of teaching in our public schools that needs to be focused on values and our nation and respecting the rule of law.
And that's what my book's about.
It's joining the amazing club Awesome Sauce.
It's a way of telling kids about rules and why they're important and how they protect us, our nation, and those trying to get here as well.
And for that matter, the rest of the world, you have to have a set of rules.
And it does it in such a way that it's easy for kids to understand, you know, and it's beautifully illustrated.
Ali did the most amazing work on this book, and it's just gorgeous.
And so I can't take credit for that, but the story is a rhyme.
It's beautiful.
I'm going to be with Kirk Cameron as well.
I'm going to be with Sheriff Mark Lamb, who also wrote Brave Books.
We're going to be in Scottsdale, Arizona, talking about the book.
And I'll be reading the book to children there and to adults.
And you can find the book exclusively at bravebooks.com.
That's at bravebooks.com.
I'm so excited about this.
So many people love it.
And it's just gotten such a great response from so many children.
I can't believe how well illustrated it is, how fun the book is.
Parents are going to love this.
Grandparents will love it for their kids as well.
Let's go to this leak, what we know, and how dangerous it is.
Sean, it's extremely dangerous.
You know, I covered the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
You know, my husband has retired special forces.
Secrecy is of the utmost importance in their world, not only to protect their own lives and state secrets, but to protect that of their families and our nation.
And I read through the entire story on the Washington Post.
I read through the New York Times story as well.
And it's significant.
One of the things that jumped at me immediately was the fact that the resources that leaked this information, and particularly the one source, leaked information that was highly sensitive and described our procedures, our tactics.
It disclosed nations that were sharing information with one another.
For example, if Egypt was sharing information with Russia or if there were conversations taking place, that was released.
We saw NATO also being wrapped up into this with Turkey and its apparent ongoing negotiations with Russia.
I could tell you what happens the minute that that story published, the minute that these documents went public, the Russians, the Ukrainians, the Egyptians, the Turkish, the North Koreans, the South Koreans, everybody who was involved in this story, the Iranians, began looking at the story and remembering, okay, where did we have this meeting?
Who did we speak with on a phone?
What phones were being used?
Who was in that meeting with us?
So, for example, if our CIA or DIA have agents working for us, people cooperating with us at the Kremlin or people cooperating with us overseas, those people will immediately be designated a threat to those states.
They could be killed.
It will be terminated.
We'll lose our access to those states.
Not only that, what about our SF forces on the ground?
The men and women that are on the ground, their lives are in direct threat right now.
There was also a lot of inside baseball, which was interesting to me, about the FSB, which is the old KG.
It's the new KGB, right?
The new Russian KGB, and how the FSB was in-house fighting with their military.
That tells me something extraordinary.
That means we have access to inside conversations inside the Kremlin.
And those conversations are going back and forth.
And guess what's going to happen now?
It's all going to shut down.
I play Joe Biden downplaying all of this.
And then ending his little chat with the media.
He only likes to take questions from children, as we learned in Ireland, but then ends it with about this.
I have nothing else to say about the classified document leak.
I'm going to go plant a tree.
Are you concerned about the leakage?
We've got to move.
Time to go.
I'm concerned about the leakages.
I'm concerned that it happens.
But there's nothing contemporaneous that I'm aware of that is pretty concerned.
Do you have an update on the leak investigation?
Just for pushback.
All right.
Okay.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We're clear to go plan a tree.
There's nothing contemporaneous that I'm aware of that is of great consequence.
Excuse me, you exposed countries' roles that were not known to the public or not known probably to Russia, and you gave away those secrets and you allowed this to happen.
And then you went on to say, well, about the leak, this is a leak that we now know has publicized potential vulnerabilities in Ukraine's air defense capabilities.
Well, that's pretty valuable information for an evil killer like Vladimir Putin.
You know, there's an old saying, if you're not going to help, do no harm.
And frankly, I think Europe has not stepped up.
And I think now that Macron has decided that Taiwan is not their problem, then I would say the United States should look at Europe as not being our problem and let them put their money up and let them support Ukraine or let Ukraine be taken over and then see where Putin goes from there.
Oh, absolutely, Sean.
Look, listen, this is of the utmost urgency right now.
And you're absolutely right.
If the Europeans can't pull their weight, then I think we have a serious problem in Ukraine.
And the exposure is huge.
But this is coming from a president right now who is not really running the show.
We have unelected officials in the White House running the White House right now.
This is a man who, by the way, had to be pulled away by Hunter Biden while he was in Ireland because he was making no sense when he was answering reporters.
And this is an administration.
When you have your crack addict son, I guess he's recovered, but having to pull you away because you can't put, you know, string three sentences together.
By the way, far different to my interview with Donald Trump and Tucker's interview with Donald Trump.
But go ahead.
Yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely.
And to make matters even worse, the police are now investigating a huge security breach in Ireland.
I don't know if you've seen this, but President Biden, there were a number of sensitive documents lost.
They were found on the street by local police and people walking around the street that gave away all kinds of security operations for the president.
So basically, you have very important classified documents just blowing around on the street in Ireland, and people are picking them up.
We are really the laughing stock right now of the world because of this, because of the actions that our government has taken.
And Sean, we have to think about this.
What was happening inside the Pentagon and with our military?
After we've had the Snowden leak, we've had Chelsea Manning, which Obama gave a part into, leaking everything all over the world.
And then now we have a leak inside the Pentagon of all of these classified reports one year, one year after the Russians invade Ukraine, which means that these are sensitive, sensitive documents, an assessment over the last year.
And not one person inside the Pentagon had that flag.
There wasn't one computer that said, whoa, wait a minute.
Hey, this needs to be flagged.
Somebody just pulled classified documents out, or somebody has their cell phone in the Pentagon, and they're taking pictures of classified documents.
We have a serious failure across the board in our bureaucracy, and an FBI that spends more time investigating parents who are complaining about the horrible things they're teaching our children.
Thank God for my book, but the horrible things that they're teaching our children at school, they're being considered domestic terrorists, and Latin masses are being infiltrated by the FBI.
But we have a system, a military system, that's a mess right now, and a White House that's a mess.
I think, you know, 2024, I've said this before, can't come fast enough.
And the American people are probably extraordinarily frustrated at this point in time at the direction this administration is taking.
Well, Republicans, I've been saying it, and I'm not going to stop.
They better re-examine how they run elections.
And that means embracing voting by mail, voting early, and embracing legal ballot harvesting in all these important states, or else they won't have a chance.
All right, got to take a quick break.
We'll come back.
800-941-Sean, our number more with Sarah Carter on the other side.
A new children's book just out today, Joining the Amazing Club Awesome Sauce.
It's actually a really fun book for kids, for grandmas, grandpas, and moms and dads.
You're going to love reading it to your young children.
All right, we continue with investigative reporter Sarah Carter.
By the way, she has a children's book out today.
It's called Joining the Amazing Club Awesome Sauce.
It's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
As we continue our discussion, you know, speaking of Hunter, I know he's selling his portraits of a crack addict, paint by numbers pictures, you know, from anywhere between $75,000 to $500,000.
I've got to be honest with you, Club Awesome Sauce, your new children's book, has far better illustrations than anything I've seen of Hunter Biden's work.
So I'm thinking every book should probably sell for around $75,000.
And I got to imagine that maybe you can call Hunter and get some Chinese connections and Russian connections, and maybe they'll purchase your book as well.
Yes, Joining the Amazing Club Awesome Sauce is all-American, Sean.
We are not going to launder money for anybody.
You mean it's different from portraits of a crack addict?
I didn't know that.
You know, I saw all those investors just rushing to do the paint by numbers with Hunter Biden, and I'm stunned.
And I'm also stunned at the fact that they would take Hunter Biden, you know, on this trip to Northern Ireland when Northern Ireland has a serious problem with cocaine.
I wouldn't put him anywhere near that, anywhere near Ireland right now.
Well, they might be thinking about business deals with Ireland, but certainly I prefer they do business in Ireland and Great Britain than with China, Russia, Ukraine, and the list of countries that are hostile to the U.S.
I prefer that if they're going to be involved in an influence peddling, seemingly involved in an influence peddling scheme that seems deep and broad and wide.
And we now know that Joe lied when he said he had no knowledge of Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.
We have pictures to prove otherwise.
And we have log records that have been released that show how many times that Hunter's business partners were at the Biden-Obama White House over 90 times, over 17 times for a Rosemond Seneca vice president, one of his top business partners.
So Joe got caught in a big lie, but of course our FBI is politicized, so nothing's happening, and our DOJ is weaponized, and they're just too busy going after Donald Trump 24-7.
I want to remind people, Sarah Carter's new children's book just released today.
You can get it on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
It's called Joining the Amazing Club Awesome Sauce.
And it's a great children's book, and it's a lot of fun.
And it's a great rhyme.
And your kids are going to love it.
And you'll love it as a parent or a grandparent.
I can't believe you found time to do this, considering we send you all over the world doing stories for us.
But congratulations, and we really appreciate you being with us today.
Thank you so much, Sean.
And just really quick, everybody, you can get it at bravebooks.com as well.
Thank you so much, Sean.
And I'm happy to travel the world for you.
Thank you, my friend.
Well, we appreciate it and always stay safe, please.
You know, we've been pointing out, oh, wait, do you see the Biden blunders video we got for tonight?
I thought last night's was crazy.
You know, this is Biden in Ireland.
You know, first he delivers this bizarre speech in Northern Ireland that is like incomprehensible.
Then he uses that ridiculous don't jump gag.
It's not funny.
He used it not once, but twice.
Then he's ushered out before he can answer any question.
Oh, we got to go.
We got to go.
Got to go.
Got to go.
Of course, because he can't even string two sentences together.
You know, compare that to the interview I did with Trump or Tucker did with Trump.
And then he even struggled taking questions from kids.
And then he confused the New Zealand rugby team, quote, all blacks because of their uniform with the Irish parliamentary group Black and Tans.
It's like, this guy has no clue.
He's so checked out.
That's why China is now racing to become the world's number one and sole superpower because they see a full advantage and they're taking full advantage of it.
Anyway, just listen to this.
I'll play it in sequence.
Joe Biden in Ireland.
It's hard to communicate just how deeply invested your success, in your success, the people across the United States are.
And those of you who've been there know it.
You know it.
I'm not making this up.
This is real.
This is, it's almost people can taste it.
As a matter of fact, as you walk into my office in the Oval Office in the United States Capitol, guess what?
You know who founded and designed and built the White House?
An Irishman.
An Irish.
No, not a joke.
Not a joke.
And I want all of you to know, especially the young people in the audience today, who don't jump, okay?
Oh, I didn't see that all the way up there.
And my father would say, please excuse my back.
I apologize.
Just don't jump over.
Don't jump.
There can be a view out there.
Okay, guys.
Okay, we're good.
All right, we're going to walk out slowly.
We're going to walk out slowly.
we're walking out this way Thank you, everybody.
Compressed.
Compress, we're moving.
We're moving.
Mr. President, any of you guys want to ask me any questions?
What do you want to ask me?
Oh, Air Force.
There's Eric.
Look at this.
Air Force One.
Right here.
That's pretty quick.
What you, what's your question?
What's your top success success?
We're making sure that we don't all have COVID.
What's the key to success?
By named Jesse Helms from South Carolina, from North Carolina, South Carolina, North Carolina.
And he was a very conservative guy who was very, very, not very crazy about African Americans when he's got him.
He was, oh, we always had fights.
You see this tie hat for this year, Montconner?
This was given to me by one of these guys right here who was a hell of a rugby player.
They beat the hell of black and tans.
I don't know.
But it was when you were at a soldier field, wasn't it?
Chicago.
Chicago.
And after it was all over, he gave my brother, allegedly for me, but if it wasn't, I still took it.
I still got the tie.
I wear it with great pride.
You just can't make it up.
It's that bad.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, a lot of calls from South Carolina today.
This one from Joe.
Joe, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
What's going on, my friend?
Not much.
I just have two things I just wanted to talk about.
I have opinions, and then I'd like to hear your response to it.
First, with the primaries, the Republican primaries, everybody that's going to be running are going to be running basically on the way Trump ruled, the way he governed.
So I think what's going to happen, it's just going to divide the party because you know how President Trump is in debates.
He's going to go after every one of them.
And I think that's going to hurt the Republican Party.
All right.
What specifically do you think?
You mean the primary itself or what specifically?
Specifically, like people like Tim Scott, which I like him.
I have no problem at all.
He looks like he's going to throw his hat in the ring.
Yeah, he's now opened up an exploratory committee.
Nikki Haley is running.
She's in the race.
We don't know what others might get in the race.
We hear Pompeo's name a lot.
Chris Christie, which is a joke, thinks that he might get in.
He's going to get in only for one reason, to try and be the Trump killer.
And let's see how that works out for him.
By the way, he left with an approval rating like below zero after the Bridgegate scandal and after the beach scandal.
He closes the beaches for COVID.
And there he is flopping down on a closed beach, hanging out, getting a little sun.
So Chris Christie is not, you know, I've never been that impressed with him, but he's now clearly, you know, delusional thinking he's going to be president.
Glenn Young's name comes up.
Obviously, Ron DeSantis' name comes up a lot.
Christy Noam's name has come up a lot.
She was pretty firm with me saying that she's not going to do it when I last interviewed her, but you never know.
I was looking at the numbers and DeSantis was at like 26%, so he was like 30 points below President Trump.
But then everybody else.
I'm not as convinced as everybody else that Governor DeSantis will run this time.
I'm not.
I do think one day Ron DeSantis has what it takes to be a good president.
I really believe that.
He did a great job as governor.
And I think Trump, when I asked Trump a simple question about this, I said, wait, I said, I have one question about Governor DeSantis.
I said, you were both friends.
What happened?
That was my full question.
And I let Trump tell his story.
And his feeling was that without his help in 2018, it was a very, very tight race.
And Trump did a lot of, you know, a lot of rallies for him and also Rick Scott at the time.
And he feels like, and in fairness to Ron DeSantis, he did a great job when he got the job, but he almost didn't win.
And I don't think he would have won without Donald Trump's help.
I believe that.
So that's what Trump is mad at.
However, every primary at some point is going to turn ugly.
It's inevitable.
It just happens.
You can say all you want that you don't want it to happen, but there's way too much at stake for these guys, and they're not in this to lose.
You know, I just think President Trump is the only one that can fix this situation right now.
I'll tell you what, I don't think China, Russia would be acting the way they're acting.
I don't think this new axis of evil would have been formed.
I don't, look, I think the world viewed Trump probably very accurately.
And I think Putin did, and I think Qi did.
They viewed him as somebody that if he said it, he probably meant it.
And they viewed him as somebody that might be crazy enough to actually do what he says.
In other words, they took his threat seriously.
Just like the head of the Taliban, when he had that discussion with the head of the Taliban and said, before we ever talk about any withdrawal, let me tell you what the rules are.
And the rules are: if you move one iota, you or your Taliban friends, if you move an inch, I will obliterate you.
And then sent over the exact coordinates and location of where the guy was at the time, which was a message that I know where you are right now, and I could obliterate you right now.
Yep.
And I, you know, based on sources that I had, he talked the same way to Putin.
He talked the same way to President Xi.
He ended up getting the best trade deals and best concessions out of China than any president previously.
He took them on, demanded free and fair trade, took them on, put tariffs on them, and took on Vladimir Putin.
I think they had a genuine fear of him.
And fear is not a bad thing.
No, and they respected him.
I think they respected him and they feared him.
He understood that they were going to look out for their best interest, and he wanted them to know we're going to look out for our best interest.
And if we can meet somewhere in the middle and be friends, let's do that.
That's better for the world.
That was basically the Trump doctrine right there.
I totally agree with what you're saying.
I have one last quick point and I'll let you go.
You know, listening to you, you know, with this China and the Middle East situation, you know what I think the big problem is, is we as Americans, we were raised to always believe that everything is going to work out.
It might be bad at this moment, Jimmy Carter days, but Reagan's coming.
It's going to get better.
I don't know.
I am less optimistic than I've been.
That's what I mean.
I am very concerned.
We're digging a hole so deep, so wide that our military is deteriorating.
Our military is going woke.
The country's going broke.
And I don't see, I don't see that America fully comprehends what's happening before our eyes.
China is trying to emerge as the world's lone superpower.
And the thing about Xi, and maybe it's a common trait that he has with Trump, is I don't think he's bluffing.
I think President Qi wants to dominate the world.
He wants the world to be the most dominant power.
He wants the world's currency to no longer be the U.S. dollar, but he wants Chinese currency, what do they call it, the wand.
Right.
I totally agree with you.
And he's making the moves.
Yep.
Right before our very eyes.
Pay attention.
Let me run, though, Joe.
I could talk to you all day, my friend.
God bless you, okay?
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's say hi to Christy is in Alabama.
What's up, Christy?
Where in Alabama are you?
I am in Birmingham.
Birmingham.
I spent a lot of time.
I used to go to the Birmingham Zoo.
I like zoos.
Do you like zoos?
I love zoos.
We always visit a zoo in every state that we go to.
My kids didn't love going to the zoo with me because I'd make noises like the animals.
Like if I was seeing the seals, I'd go, you know, I'd do that.
And people would look at me like I'm crazy.
I don't see why that's crazy.
Why are you laughing, Linda?
You go to the zoo?
I'm not laughing at all.
I don't attend zoos.
Why not?
I don't care for them.
Why not?
What's wrong with you?
Meh.
I got better things to do.
I'm good.
Anyway, what's on your mind today?
Glad you called, Christy.
Well, thank you.
So I am a new listener.
I listen to you every day going home from work.
So on every show, I always hear people calling in saying, what can we do to make things better?
And the answer is pretty much we do need to pay attention to what is happening in our state, our cities, our government.
We need to watch who we're voting for.
But if we want a change, a real change, how about hit your knees at night and get your heart right and get your life on track with what the Bible says we're supposed to be doing and God will make everything else work out for us.
You know, honestly, I always quote Thomas Paine's 1776 Common Sense, and he said, were the guides and dictates of conscience irresistibly be obeyed, we wouldn't have any need for government or any lawmaker.
That being the case, government is but a necessary evil and its worst state and an intolerable one.
There is something very true to what you're saying.
You know, one of the greatest gifts God gave me in my life is guilt.
I feel guilty when I do wrong things, and that guilt changes my behavior.
And the older I get, and hopefully the wiser I get, you know, I try to be a better person.
And it could start with something as simple as the Lord's Prayer, say it slowly, say it with meaning, and it can change your life.
But God's been chased out of our schools, and they're pretty much trying to chase them out of the public square everywhere.
And you know what?
America needs to return to its Judeo-Christian fundamental values and a belief that we are endowed by our Creator, not by government.
Rights come from God, not from man.
I could talk to you all day.
Christy, appreciate the call.
800-941-Sean.
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