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May 12, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Congressman Dan Meuser - May 12th, Hour 3
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Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
All right, news roundup and information overload hour, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
We're going to talk to Dan Muser of Pennsylvania here in a second about a fact about the bias against Donald Trump and his platforms.
You know, he has Truth, for example.
He wants to compete with Twitter, and they have the Trump Media Technology Group.
I think it was formed in October of 2021.
They announced they had reached a merger agreement with, quote, Digital World Acquisition.
The purpose of the merger was to allow the Trump group and thus their subsidiary, Truth Social, to become publicly traded, et cetera, et cetera.
Anyway, to make it possible, the group had to raise capital from millions of individuals, investors.
Those investors are largely people that invest in whatever they invest in.
Anyway, the average processing time of the S, what's called an S4 form by the SEC, which is the final step in the merger process, is 134 days.
In the case of, well, Trump Media or the Digital World Acquisition, DWAC, they waited 353 days.
Now, there are other examples of conflicts of interest, which should be of interest to everybody.
Now, you've heard me talk a lot about Yoel Roth.
He was the one in the Missouri case that acknowledged that when the FBI was meeting weekly in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, warning big tech that they'd be a victim of a disinformation campaign of some kind, he was the head of site integrity at Twitter, and he even admitted that Hunter's laptop censorship was a mistake.
And then he also said the ex-Twitter safety chief said he was deeply terrified of Trump supporters whose tweets he labeled misinformation.
He actually said all of this.
Listen.
Do you remember the uncertainty of the whole story?
We didn't know what to believe.
We didn't know what was true.
There was smoke.
And ultimately, for me, it didn't reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter.
But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarms.
Look, possibly probably.
Everything about it looked like a hack and leak and did not want to do that.
But it didn't get there for me.
When you feel a responsibility to protect the integrity of the conversations on a platform from foreign governments expending their resources to interfere in an election, there were lots of reasons why the entire industry was on alert and was nervous.
What a mistake.
And again, for me, even with all of those factors, it didn't get there for me.
So it was a mistake.
In my opinion, yes.
Are you worried about these Twitter files coming out?
What was that experience like having Kellyanne, who's always in control of herself, sticking this mega trolls on you?
It's terrifying.
I thought I was going to be a college professor for a living.
I got a PhD and was doing research that nobody cared about.
And then I was like, oh, you know, like this platform thing is cool.
Like I can go and do research there.
And then, you know, one thing led to another.
And all of a sudden, we apply a misinformation label to Donald Trump's account.
And I'm on the cover of the New York Post.
And that is a deeply terrifying experience.
And I say this from a position of unquestioned privilege as a cis white male.
Like the internet is much scarier and much worse for lots of other people who aren't me, but it was pretty scary for a long time.
What was that as a result?
All right, joining us now is Congressman Dan Muser of Pennsylvania.
Congressman, welcome to the program.
Thanks for being with us.
Happy Friday to you, sir.
You too, Sean.
Hey, really great being with you.
Appreciate it.
All right.
So you wrote the head of the Security and Exchange Commission.
You had 12 specific requests.
The last one being provided a written explanation of the recusal process.
Why don't you explain what happened here?
Well, you know, you set it up real well, as you do.
I mean, the situation is we've got a potential abuse of power of the SEC, a real weaponization of a federal agency against innocent Americans.
I mean, you know, President Trump's company, TMTG, as you set up, is the parent to Truth Social.
Very simply, as happens thousands of times a year, TMTG is attempting to merge with, as you said, DWAC, Digital World Acquisition Company, for the purpose of going public.
They have 20 million individual investors, small investors, not big institutions, that have invested in this merger company that would go into the so-called DWAC.
In fact, it was a constituent of mine who brought this to my attention originally.
And I just kept digging in.
And the SEC does that review process, you said, related to S4s.
And as you also said, it normally takes about four to six months, average about 130 days, which is a lot longer under this administration than it had been in the past, but still 130 days.
Now we're almost at a year in the review process on the DWAC slash TMTG slash Truth Social, over a year.
And the very important piece of this is the players involved.
You got Gary Gensler.
He is our chairman of the SEC.
Gary Gensler was the CFO for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and he also is most assuredly the one who wrote the check for the Steele dossier and knowing it was just false document, false information.
John Podesta, who's also in the administration right now, stated an oath, under oath, that it was Gary Gensler who wrote the check for the Steele dossier.
Also, as well, Melissa Hodgman, she's the spouse, the wife, of our friend Peter Strzok, who strikes again.
She is head of enforcement at the SEC.
And then you have others, this Barbera woman who ran the first two impeachments.
So we really have a significant, clear conflict of interest.
Nobody's recused themselves.
I'm asking the SEC as well for what is their recusal policy.
And, you know, we got some, we're not getting any feedback.
We're not getting any answers as to why this extraordinary opportunity for 20 million American investors, they could all lose their money.
And they're giving us no response.
So how long, I mean, will you be able to give them?
And how do they give you no response?
I thought Congress has oversight responsibilities, and you have the power of the subpoena, don't you?
Are you not allowed to call these people in?
No, no.
We're going to.
I grilled Gary Gensler last week, the week before, in an open hearing.
I'm on the Financial Services Committee.
I expressed to him the conflict of interest.
I offered him facts.
He dodged.
I asked him about recusal.
He avoided that.
I did a few days later have a meeting with his general counsel and a slew of other people.
And it was an hour-long meeting.
We dug in deep, but still didn't get many answers.
This follow-up letter, which, by the way, we demanded a response last Friday.
They said we will give you a response a week from today, which is this Friday.
We contacted them this morning, got zero response back throughout this week as to where my data is.
And this data from these questions, we were very specific in these questions, so they can't hide from the truth.
We want to know why this is taking so long.
How many other such submissions for these S4s for the ability to go public have been extended out this far this year, last year, and in general.
And I'm going to get the data.
And I'll tell you this: I've got the Financial Service Committee behind me.
I got our chairman, Patrick McHenry, behind me.
I've got our lawyers behind me.
We're not done here.
We're going to keep on digging.
Well, keep us up to speed, Congressman, because this is a big deal.
This is people's money, and they shouldn't be treated differently.
If 134 days is the average time that it takes for such approval, and you're now over 300 some-odd days here, that seems to me to be obviously unfair and completely biased.
353 days so far.
That's nearly a full year, three times as long.
Let's see what they have to say when you get them under oath.
We appreciate you coming on.
And just real quick, this is not about Donald Trump.
I mean, clearly it's Truth Social, but this is about because Truth Social is going to continue.
This is about the 20 million investors.
And we're not going to stop.
As you said, the next steps are subpoenas.
We're going to get the answers for people.
Appreciate you being with us.
Thank you so much, Congressman Dan Muser of Pennsylvania.
Quick break.
We'll head to our phones when we get back.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program on this Friday, as we continue, we got an awesome Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox as we investigate the Hunter Biden family and where all the money is coming from and all the news that you'll never get from the rest of the media mob.
We've got it all tonight.
It's the Biden family scandals, 9 Eastern on Hannity on Fox.
And now a word from the 46th president of the United States.
We're going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill-begotten games of Putin's kleptocracy.
Sean Hannity is on right now.
Let's get to our phones.
800-941-Shauna is our number.
Montana, beautiful Montana.
There are plenty of days, Bill, in Montana.
I wish I was out there on Yellowstone Ranch somewhere.
Well, we're up here on the beautiful shores of Flathead Lake.
Well, that's awesome.
What do you do in Montana?
I'm retired.
I'm Air Force Vet retired up here.
And I also spent four years as an assistant to the chief engineer at a couple of radio stations down in Bakersfield owned by Buck Owens.
Oh, wow.
Back in the day, those were these stations in Bakersfield.
Oh, yeah.
It's now SimoCast, K-U-Z-Z, A-M-N-F-M, but they're still down there.
And a shout out to all my friends down there.
But it just occurred to me that back in that day, there used to be that the networks, the major networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, they would buy up local radio stations in major markets and make them affiliates.
And they were known as ONOs, owned and operated by a certain network.
Well, it just kind of occurred to me that Joe Biden could be an ONO as well, because he seems to be owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party.
Well, I'll tell you this, and we've been going over this.
How is it that Biden allowed the spy balloon to fly over our airspace in Alaska, down the West Coast to Canada, into Idaho, all the way over into your state?
And thank God they made it over Montana because that's how we found out about it.
A reporter was able to get a picture of it, thankfully.
Otherwise, we might not have ever known about it.
Going over the missile sites we have in your state, then down to Kansas and Missouri, up to Kentucky, and then off the coast of the Carolinas.
And how interesting is it that nothing happened?
There are no consequences at all whatsoever for China doing that.
Why?
Because Joe didn't want to offend the communist Chinese.
Could it be connected in any way to what James Comer was talking about this week and the amount of money that the Biden family was doing in business with Chinese companies and Chinese nationals putting money in these, what, 20 or so LLCs?
I don't know.
It raises questions in my mind.
Well, the thing is, too, I don't know if you noticed it or not.
Deb Holland, the Secretary of the Interior, was testifying before Josh Hawley, Senator Hawley.
And she was talking about the fact that we don't need jobs.
And it kind of seems like it was related to the fact that she just killed the mining operation permits for the Minnesota Duluth complex, which is one of the world's largest undeveloped areas for cobalt, nickel, and copper.
Just the things that are used in batteries that happen to come from China.
We actually have that cut.
Let's play it.
Why block the development of these resources in our own nation in favor of making us dependent on China?
Senator, are you referring to the boundary waters?
I'm referring to the Twin Metals Mine in Minnesota, I think that Senator Bross was just asking about.
Yes, near the Boundary Waters, which is an iconic place and, of course, a very valuable ecological system to many plants, animals, species.
But jobs for...
Let me just say this, though.
Jobs for blue-collar workers in this nation are valuable resources.
The livelihood and well-being of American families are valuable resources.
The ability of America to have our own industry and not be dependent on China is a valuable resource.
Why should those things for millions of Americans be sacrificed in favor of your agenda for radical climate change?
Senator, I know that there's like 1.9 jobs for every American in the country right now, so I know there's a lot of jobs.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You're telling me we've got too many jobs in the country?
Well, I'm saying that we don't have enough people.
That's why we are having a hard time finding folks to work at our department.
Oh, wait, you're telling me that we have too many jobs for blue-collar work?
Have you seen the number of jobs we have lost in this country to China in the last 20 years?
Do you know where those jobs come from?
Over 3 million jobs have gone to China.
Do you know where those jobs have come from?
They've come out of Midwestern towns like the ones I represent.
They are blue-collar workers, and you're sitting here and telling me that we have too many jobs in this country?
Are you serious?
Bill, we'll give you the last 20 seconds, sir.
Well, basically, all I'm saying is, as far as I'm concerned, President Trump can stop calling him Sleepy Joe.
Start calling him O-O-Joe because he's owned and operated by the Chinese.
Unbelievable.
Appreciate the call, Bill.
God bless the beautiful skies of Montana.
When I'm having a bad day, I think I want to be on a ranch, Linda, and hanging out with a Buffalo Rome.
That's where we need to be.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Your call's coming up straight ahead.
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All right, on this Friday.
Linda, we made it.
I didn't think we'd make it to Friday.
Here it is.
Trust me, I barely made it, just so you know.
Well, he really did literally just barely make it.
I mean, I barely made it today.
And I was just telling Bill, who has been with us all week from L.A., and I thought the traffic in L.A. was bad.
Forget about it.
I mean, I spent... Forget about it.
If I can just for a brief moment engage the audience in my pain.
You want to vent.
I can hear you.
I do want a vent.
You know, I try to hold it in, but sometimes you just can't.
You never hold it in.
You're going.
I'm full of crap.
And I will admit it because that's just the kind of gal I am.
I'm just going to give it to you straight.
You're right.
I have a really hard time holding it in.
Most of the time, if you do something wrong, I'm going to tell you.
But at the same token, if I do something wrong, I'm going to tell you.
Well, today New York City did something wrong, and they decided it would be super fun to keep everybody who had to drive in and go to work in one spot for an hour and 10 minutes.
I was on 40th Street.
And I tell you, I made friends with people that I don't ever want to see again.
I don't want to sit in my car that long.
I really don't.
And I'll tell you something else.
And this is the thing.
This is a little piece of education for people that are driving on the highway today.
If you're listening to my voice, it's drive time.
If you are in the left lane, you are supposed to pass.
You are supposed to move.
If everyone behind you is waving and flashing and beeping, you need to move over.
Thank you.
That is a public service announcement.
You need to go.
I do not understand what is happening on the highway.
This really got under your skin today.
I'm very sorry.
Now, what happened when you called me and said you were going to be late?
What did I say?
You said, don't worry about us.
No problem.
Can anybody else do what you have to do?
And I said, no.
He said, okay, great.
I said, we'll get it done.
Don't worry.
And I said, no, you won't, because I have everything in my car.
But we would have been on the air.
We would have been doing a show.
My professionalism would have kicked in.
I would have found a way.
Listen, anybody who can read from the movie section of a newspaper for an hour can do this.
I promise you that.
No, there's a story I tell.
And, you know, back in the old days, we didn't have the internet to gather information from.
You know, you had one news channel.
I think it was CNN came on later in the game.
I don't even remember what year.
But anyway, so you had, I used to scour like news magazines when they were real magazines, like Time and Newsweek.
And we had two local papers and do local stories.
And USA Today, I think it was around at the time.
I mean, it was not as easy to get information.
If everybody could see my desk right now, there's probably 600 papers in piles that are somewhat organized.
It's organized chaos.
Rush used to call it a stack of stuff.
You never get through your stack of stuff.
There's no talk show host that I know that could get through their stack of stuff.
You always come in with more information than you're ever going to need.
At least I do.
And it's just funny.
I don't know how I did it in the old days.
But anyway, I remember on a 4th of July, like on a Saturday, they had me do a three-hour show.
And at that point, nobody was listening on the 4th of July.
They're out barbecuing, hanging out with their friends and family, firing off fireworks, doing whatever they do.
And I'm there, and there's like on the Saturday most show, there's like no commercials.
And I'm literally, you know, I'm like, here's the number.
We have one open line, you know, if you want to call it.
Nobody was calling.
And so I just kept talking.
And I just picked up the newspaper at one point.
And I opened to the movie section and I started to review movies that I had never seen.
That's how desperate I was.
That's actually very funny.
I got to be honest.
Well, I've heard these hosts around the country and, you know, small markets and they're starting out.
And, you know, one of the reasons hosts will say really dumb, stupid, provocative things is the more provocative they get, the more likely it's going to be that their three phone lines will light up and they'll actually have somebody to talk to.
Personally, so it's funny.
And anyway, we have one open line right now, 1-800-941 Sean.
There's one line open right now.
No, every line's open right now.
When you're listening to these guys, they're dying on the air.
Nothing beats that Alec Baldwin audition tape.
The problem is nobody wrote his lines.
They're so used to reading other people's words.
That's the problem.
He had to think for himself for a whole, I don't know, 10 seconds.
And then he even enlisted poor Ivan, that poor guy.
Listen, I never know what's going to come out of my mouth when we start this show every day.
I have differing piles.
I'm negotiating in my mind what story I want to start with.
And then, you know, the mic goes on and I go and I don't stop.
And I have so much stuff in front of me now.
I could do, I could literally do a 24-hour show and not stop as long as you provided me enough coffee and caffeine to keep me up the whole time.
I could do it.
I might have to take a, Linda, what do you think of this and take a swig of my coffee?
And that's about it.
I believe you can.
Or a bathroom break.
All right, let's get to some phone calls here.
Everyone's patient on a Friday.
That tape is priceless.
Greatest tape in the history of radio by far.
Look at this.
We got three calls from the free state of Florida.
We'll start with Amanda.
Then we have Marco and Frank.
Amanda, how are you?
Welcome to the show.
Happy Friday.
Hey.
Happy Friday, Sean.
How are you?
Good.
Life's good.
Where in Florida are you?
I'm actually located at the home of the Florida Gators in Gainesville.
Oh, great place in Florida.
Know it well.
What's on your mind today?
Well, two things.
First reason that I called was really, I'm a Canadian living here in Florida, and I am a product of the Canadian health care system.
So I wanted to touch a little bit about that.
But first, I'm also, I have been in the immigration process since October of 2013.
What?
You've been trying to get citizenship since 2013?
Do you have a green?
I assume you have a green card, right?
I literally just got it on March 20th of this, like just like this year.
So how long will it be until you can become a citizen?
Well, I actually just printed off the paperwork to apply for citizenship.
Well, congratulations.
I don't know how long that will take.
And thank you for doing it legally.
Thank you for respecting our laws, our borders, our sovereignty, and welcome to the country.
And I feel that about anybody from any place in the world, just do it legally.
Yes, and that's the reason why I had to talk about that, because I see immigration on TV every day now.
And it's just, it's hard when somebody spends this much time trying to get in legally, and then we have others that are just kind of jumping.
How does that make you feel, having gone through the process legally, that you see all these people coming in illegally?
It was really tough because my life before, I had a life before I met somebody and we ended up getting married, but I did have a life in Canada.
And so the process was really difficult because obviously it took 10 years for even me to get my green card.
So my application was actually denied a couple of times.
And so, and one of the times I was actually pregnant.
And so it's just a really long story.
And I'm not sure if all the other cases are going to be like mine, but it was just a really, really tough time for me because I couldn't go back home for many, many, many, many years.
And so it's not fun to see what I'm seeing on TV.
It's not fun for anybody.
I agree with you.
And let me tell you something.
It's simply wrong.
And by the end of this year, a minimum of seven and a half million illegal immigrants will have come into this country under Joe Biden.
And we have not done a background check on any of them.
And most of them will probably down the line will be given amnesty if Democrats have their way and Republicans don't get their act together and win elections.
Anyway, Amanda, thank you.
We're glad you came in and God bless you and your mission and become a citizen.
We'll look forward to celebrating with you.
Let's say hi to Marco in Florida.
Marco, how are you?
Good.
Hi, Sean.
What's going on?
What are the Republicans waiting for to impeach Biden?
Well, I mean, I don't think he's going to get convicted in the Senate.
Now, with that said, I think on which issue, for example, like on the issue of the borders, you know, you don't get to pick and choose as president.
You take a pledge to uphold the Constitution.
Our laws are based on that Constitution.
And he is aiding and abetting in the lawbreaking.
Would I call it an impeachable offense?
I would because they're not doing a thing.
They're giving people free phones and free transportation.
That's not enforcing the laws of the land.
And it is now resulting in utter chaos.
We can't afford it.
We don't know anything about the people coming into the country.
We don't know if they have radical associations.
As far as the Biden family, and, you know, we're going to have a full hour tonight, the Biden family scandals.
You know, how much money did they make from all these countries?
And did it compromise them?
You know, how did we not respond to China with their spy balloon?
Why were there no consequences?
Why were there no consequences with Russia and Putin when they took out one of our drones?
That's irresponsible and reckless to me.
Right.
So there's a lot of reasons why to impeach them, but why haven't they done it?
I think that there's a lot going on.
Right now, we've got open borders.
Title 42 ended.
We've got a debt ceiling deadline of June 1st.
Republicans passed a bill where they can't trade stocks if they're in Congress, which I liked.
The Border bill was very strong.
They're following up on their promises, which we are giving them credit for.
They did raise the debt ceiling.
They did pass a bill.
And I don't think Joe Biden's going to have any other option either to default or sign the Republican bill because he was unwilling to meet with the Republicans, and he made a bet that Republicans would not unite on the issue of the debt ceiling and raise the debt ceiling.
He bet against it, and he turned out to bet the wrong way, and he wasted 97 days, and they could have come to another agreement.
That can't happen now.
I don't see that happening in, what, 19 days?
I understand, but why?
The Democrats didn't wait, had a lot going on.
They impeached Trump twice.
They even arrested him here in New York.
What are they waiting for?
Why don't they just put the articles of impeachment?
Just stay tuned.
I think if Comer and if people like Jim Jordan get to where I think they are now going and the evidence is getting stronger every day, I think those will be legitimate questions.
I want to see the letter that Comer and Grassley, the 1023 report.
Now, we don't have to see it in the public, but if that person is that credible and has evidence and is accusing then Vice President Joe Biden of performing certain acts in exchange for money for him and his family, yeah, that would be called bribery.
So if that turns out to be true, he would be impeached for that.
And likely, I would even argue convicted.
Anyway, Marco, appreciate it.
Frank in Florida, Florida half hour on this Friday.
What's up, Frank?
How are you?
Glad you called.
90 seconds for you, sir.
Hi, Sean.
Yeah, I know I'm not the great one, so I'm going to be as quickly as I can.
I wanted to get on the air to discuss what could be a very serious life and death problem for women in our country.
It's also affecting me personally.
Everybody remembers the baby formula shortage that occurred several months back.
Well, now we have another shortage.
It's called cancer treatment drugs.
The information is all over the internet, and anybody that wants to look it up can find it.
My significant other and my sister were diagnosed with endometrial cancer, which is also called uterine cancer.
I'm very sorry, by the way.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
But after hysterectomy and several more biopsies that were taken during the operation, it was further diagnosed with what's called serous cancer.
This is a fast-moving cancer.
And the prescribed treatment for this cancer is chemotherapy and radiation.
According to the experts, there are only two drugs that are used for uterine cancer, and they are called, they're called Paclitaxel and carboplatin.
And they're used in conjunction with each other during a 21-day cycle.
Anyway, and it takes about six infusions to get through the process, which is about almost six months.
We went to a local infusion center in Florida to start the process.
We actually went to the first visit, and she got ready for the chemo and waited three hours only to find out that the drug was not available, the carboplatin was not available.
Why'd they make her wait three hours?
They should have known that immediately.
Has she since, I don't have a lot of time.
I would go deeper into this.
Did she ever get the treatment she needed?
No, she did not.
And how long ago was that?
It's time.
This was two days ago.
So now we've been searching all over the country for this.
And what we have found now is that we have a nationwide shortage of this cobalt platinum.
And in most cases, companies like Pfizer and whatnot, they don't even have a date as to when they're going to be able to have the drug.
So I don't understand why CDC hasn't been all over this.
Well, I'll tell you right now, I got to go only because of the constraints of time.
I don't have any more time on the show.
Contact your congressman, contact Marco Rubio's office, contact Senator Scott's office, contact Ron DeSantis' office, and ask for help.
That's my humble advice.
I'm very sorry you have to go through that on top of the cancer.
We'll continue.
All right, Hannity, tonight, we're doing a special tonight on the Biden family scandals that the media mob is ignoring.
We've got Congresswoman Nancy Mace and Alan Dershowitz and Greg Jarrett and Pam Bondi and John Solomon and Miranda Devine, former FBI agent Nicole Parker, Jonathan Turley and Tammy Bruce.
Set your DVR, Hannity, 9 Eastern on Fox.
We'll see you tonight back here on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
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