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Rep. Elise Stefanik - June 7th, Hour 3
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So we had last month uh the House uh the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence uh looking into the problems associated uh with the National Archives and and Record Administration and their act,
and um it turns out that things are are not exactly as they seem, you know, considering, you know, John Solomon reporting earlier today that the feds have informed President Trump that he is a target likely to be indicted as the DOJ uh is is just dismissing uh charges of prosecutorial misconduct against him.
Uh but what they're finding out at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, we'll talk to Elise Stefanick on the committee in a second, is they issued a statement following um the committee voting to release an unclassified transcript containing the testimony of officials from the National Archives and Record Administration.
Now, this was an interview in March that they released in May, and it says testimony from the National Archives and Record Administration officials makes clear that the handling and mishandling of classified documents are a problem that stretches beyond the Oval Office.
In fact, dozens of former members of Congress and senior government officials have taken classified documents with them after leaving office, donated them to libraries and universities all across the country.
This is a systemic problem that dates to the Reagan administration.
We need a better way for elected officials who are leaving office in both the executive branch and legislative branch to properly return classified material and protect the integrity of our national security, and that's from Chairman Mike Turner.
And this now has to do with this NARA official testifying that when it comes to the retention of classified documents, the problem is broader than former presidents and vice presidents because since 2010, NARA received over 80 calls from different libraries and universities where former members of Congress and senior government officials have taken papers, donated them.
You know, for example, Senator Edward uh I'm sorry, Edmund Muskie inadvertently sent 98 classified pages to Bates University.
NARA officials testify testified that every presidential administration since Reagan has mishandled classified material and they found classified material and unclassified documents uh were commingled.
Anyway, so NARA was looking for items of historical consequence.
You know, the letter that Obama left for President Trump, President Trump's correspondence with Kim Jong un and was not aware of the missing classified documents.
Anyway, joining us now is Congresswoman Elise uh Stefanik, and she herself is on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
And uh Congresswoman, we always appreciate having you back here.
She's also the House Republican conference chair.
Uh how are you?
I'm good.
Good to be with you, Sean.
And just to add on to what you said, there's really bombshell reporting that's coming out of this now declassified transcript, and it goes back to the illegal and unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago, the politicization and abuse of the Department of Justice to go against Joe Biden's top political opponent.
That is, of course, President Trump.
And what I asked in this hearing that has now been unclassified for all the American people to read is that the justification that was used to go to force the raid by DOJ against President Trump was the missing Obama letter and the missing Kim Jong-un letter, both of which were widely reported.
And it's interesting if you look back, even the mainstream media would say if it was something as basic or as general as that, this would not lead to the raid.
Of course it would be something of more important.
So we know that this was a politicized raid.
It was illegal, and it was yet again another unelected bureaucrat who took it upon themselves to make the referral.
They went on record to me saying that they had never before referred any other president uh to the IG for mishandling documents.
When as you pointed out, this Is a systemic issue that uh we need to fix in terms of what that process is, but it's the weaponization of these federal agencies against President Trump and they're doing Joe Biden's bidding.
Uh, you know, it's pretty amazing and and look at the double standard.
You know, if you look in the case of of Joe Biden and and where he was as it relates to his documents, I mean, you have okay, they're saying he's cooperated with the investigation.
It took seven searches of various Biden properties, four separate properties that we know of individually, uh, to recover his classified documents, which were voluminous, uh, but yet there was no rate on any one of these locations.
Uh Biden's removal of classified documents as a senator was indisputably illegal, uh, but there's there's absolutely no consequences or or price for him to pay.
Uh why the double standard, Congresswoman, it seems pretty obvious.
The double standard is if you have the last name Biden, if you have the last name Clinton, you get to live by a different set of rules, and that is the bureaucrats that are far to the left will do your political bidding.
And you know, the documents aside, Sean, what really is the bombshell issue here is that the Biden family have been engaged in illegal criminal activity while Joe Biden was vice president.
And this is very much tied into the FBI trying to camp down the whistleblower who has highly credible information regarding more of the Biden criminal bribery schemes, five million dollars, and multiple Biden family members have engaged in money laundering as well as again uh illegally profiting off of Vice President Biden's position in government with contracts with the communist Chinese and money flowing from them.
That concerns and should concern every American.
And the mainstream media wants to turn their head against this and not report on it.
But it is important for good governance, it's important for ethics, it's important for America's role in the world.
So this is all very much tied together.
And it's uh again, you talk about the Intelligence Committee.
This is a continuation of my work on the Intelligence Committee, going back to the sham witch hunt impeachment part one is we're gonna keep keep digging digging and bringing more transparency to these the abuse that's happening within these agencies.
Let me uh last question.
I I noticed that a lot of you know, some of the more conservative members, Freedom Caucus members, have been did not like the budget compromise on the debt ceiling with Joe Biden.
Uh they like the original bill passed.
I like the original bill passed a lot better as well.
Um I've talked to a number of them.
They feel like they were kept out of the loop in terms of negotiations.
And yesterday it came to a head on the House floor as they decided not to move forward with uh Speaker McCarthy's current agenda.
Uh so there's a bit of a standoff going on between the conservative members and Kevin McCarthy.
Uh how's this gonna end?
We're gonna work through it, and you know, every member, their voice needs to be heard, and I'll tell you, I agree with you, we all like the limit safe grow act.
That was the initial Republican bill.
But the reality is, Sean, we brought Joe Biden to the negotiating table, and we have a slim majority uh and one half of one third of the three branches of government, and we got major wins.
Two point one trillion dollars of deficit reduction, the largest in the Congressman, let's be fair here.
You originally had four point eight trillion in savings.
You went back to twenty uh twenty-two spending levels.
Uh you put a cap on the rate of growth baseline budgeting of one percent a year.
Uh you had energy pr provisions in there and certainly stricter um work requirements for people that got aid from the government.
Well, that's why I said Sean, we of course support that bill, and and I was one of the chief messengers on the importance of that bill.
That is the only reason why Joe Biden was willing to put in work requirement, was willing to entertain any type of savings.
This is a president who said he has red lines.
And look, that bill, you know, it passed two-thirds of Republican support.
There are those that didn't support it.
We're gonna work through these issues as we have since the start of this Congress because we need to unify to defeat Democrats in 2024 to save the country.
And the debt bill is a first step.
The appropriations process is going to be very important for Republicans and conservatives to drive that, to really go after all of the waste fraud and abuse in these agencies and to get back towards a trajectory of fiscal responsibility.
But two point one trillion, which is higher than any other death dealing deal in our nation's history.
It's nothing to sneeze at.
It's significant and it's better than zero, which has been done before in previous administrations.
Certainly since I've been here, it is the best deal we've gotten the most fiscal reduction since I've been here.
And I think about we'd never had a thirty one trillion dollar debt debt as well.
I mean so these are different times.
Let me ask you why did why did the Republicans agree to a two year debt ceiling increase and not one year.
In other words, why not make this an issue in the 2024 election?
I think that would have been a winning issue for Republicans.
You know, I think the thought is we want to work through the appropriations process this year and get two bites at that apple both this year and next year to have good strong conservative appropriations bills.
And remember one of the length one of the aspects of this bill that's so powerful is if we get jammed by the Senate and they don't do their job when it comes to appropriations and don't pass all 12 bills it automatically puts in cut into place.
So that was the Thomas Masskey provision which is really important that's why some of the conservatives wanted why our conservative Republicans two thirds voted for the the deal.
So again this is a step in the right direction it's a historic step but we have a lot of work to do and uh we're going to continue doing that work and we're going to going go after these uh this you know abuse of taxpayer dollars and this waste of taxpayer dollars at every opportunity.
But in terms of what's happening now we're gonna work through it.
We've worked through a lot we've been underestimated consistently by the media but the stakes are too high of what the American people are facing.
We will stay committed to solving those legislative crises that Joe All right Congresswoman Stefanic we appreciate you being with us.
Thank you so much.
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By the way, I got to meet Moe the Liberal.
He showed up at one of our Hannity live TV shows.
Just to be fair, by the way, we don't keep people out just because they're liberal.
Had a couple of people stand up and chant I hate Hannity during the show.
But I tell my folks, put it on air.
Why hide it?
And, you know, they're just, I guess, protective of me.
But anyway, Moe the Lib was very well behaved.
And he looked exactly like I thought he would look at myself.
my mind's eye I've been talking to him for like twenty five years on the radio never met him before uh did you have a good time Mo Sean I had a wonderful time although uh you know I am a professional in television I do have a few tips for you.
Oh you have tips for me after watching the show you didn't like the way I handled my show oh no no no I I don't want to talk about it here I don't want we can talk about it in private.
No no no talk about it here we're we're an open book.
Go ahead fire away.
I did a show for HBO reverb it was called I shout a hundred bands for them and uh I just think uh it needs a little snap you know from the MTV generation you don't want to dwell too long on any camera that's my only piece of advice to you and listen Sean by the way we that's the whole point of the audience we show audience reaction I think your pretty face got on TV a couple of times if I'm not mistaken.
Yes.
By the way you're the one that looked like the hippie that I always thought you look like we met at the uh Hannity on Broadway I spoke with you and Oh that's right we did.
By the way people may not know this I actually had a a Broadway what do you call that um bill um what do you call it I don't know like if you go to a Broadway show you have that yet yellow and white you talking about when you with the piece the the the play bill the play bill that's it that's what I think I thought you're talking about like you saw your name in lights.
Yeah no and did you Hannity on Broadway was a special night don't you think?
It was beautiful Sean I was happy to be there got to see all your buddies I met Linda and uh I I remember a lot of Yeah by the way you get a little touchy feely with Linda I noticed that.
What was up with that?
Well I she's a wonderful young lady.
If if the truth be told I did go to him first.
I mean let's be told I mean I saw Mo is in the audience I was like bad enough I had to tell Mr. Wonderful the Boyfriend to keep his hands to himself.
And I am very upset about that.
I enjoy those hands very much, and I didn't get them the next time I showed up.
That's correct.
That's why I had to go after Mo.
I was so lonely.
Oh gosh.
Beautiful thing.
Listen, Sean, I'm playing in Williamsburg at 88 Franklin Street.
One o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Tell America to stop down and see me.
All right.
Go see Mo in Brooklyn, wherever he's playing.
Say it again.
88 Franklin Street in Williamsburg.
All right.
I hope a lot of people go see it.
Anyway, uh 800-941 Sean, our number.
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David, I guess we.
All right, thanks, Mo.
Uh got to take a quick break.
We'll come back.
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Uh Walter is in California.
What's up, Walter?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Well, thank you for having me, Sean.
Thank you very much.
I just heard Mike Pence tell a lie to America that he follows the Constitution.
Now I'm aware that Ted Cruz was the senator, and there was a House member that bought the objection to the election, and they both had stood up before the mess had started on January 6th.
But when they came back, they proceeded as if this what didn't occur.
And Pence's obligation was to answer that call.
And why is he ignoring it?
Why did he did they pull it?
I don't know if they pulled their objection, but his obligation, and this is what Trump is talking about.
His obligation as the president of the Senate was to open that investigation.
He had his requirements met.
A house member brought the objection, and a senator has stood up with him.
Well, you're talking about now on the certification process of electors.
Yes.
Okay.
I mean, look, I talked to lawyers on all sides of this.
Um of the best brightest, you know, lawyers that I know had differing opinions on it.
Um, and you know, um originally Mark Levin was the one that convinced me that uh Pence didn't have the constitutional authority to do it.
He since has adjusted his view a little bit based on, you know, he did more research.
Um I don't see it.
I've heard others make arguments, and and that's but the problem for him is that's what he believed, and that's what his lawyers told him uh that the statute called for.
You know, I mean, we're kind of going back and covering old ground.
It's 2023 here, and we're talking about January of 2021.
Um as far as I'm concerned, this has been litigated to death.
And you know what?
This is not going to define the next election as much as I know Liz Cheney and you know everybody else uh That ignored so much information regarding uh January 6th.
You know, they they forgot the fact that all these people had uh actually gone on record saying that Trump wanted to call up the guard.
Uh they never brought in Nancy Pelosi who's in charge of security.
Uh they never questioned Muriel Bowser and why in writing she denied the calling up of any troops.
Uh they certainly didn't even want to make front and center uh the Capitol um um police commissioner at the time, the police chief Sund, uh, who on this program and in a best selling book said, uh, I was begging days earlier for the troops to be called up and no one would listen to me.
They also seemed to forget even even Lester Holt at MBC News said, Oh, there was actionable intelligence in the days leading up to January 6th, the intelligence community did their job.
They they assessed the real threat, a clear and present danger for this very specific thing, and nobody lifted a finger to put in place measures that would have protected the Capitol.
And the worst thing about all of this, and I understand they wanted their pound of flesh and they wanted to take out Donald Trump and examine his actions, you know, to death.
But the worst part is is they never secured the capital for the future.
And the worst thing is is no improvements have been made.
And that to me is is the greatest shame of all of this.
For those, you know, L Liz Cheney just clearly had an agenda.
The January 6th committee, all Trump impeachers, all Trump haters.
So they weren't looking for ways to prevent it from ever happening again.
They weren't talking about building a perimeter around the Capitol.
Uh with I I would use those those big cement blocks that they and and create a huge perimeter with varying entrance entrances for members so that nobody could ever do this again.
We have to protect our institutions and our elected officials.
So anyway, uh but I don't think there's any point in relitigating this again and again and again.
Uh let's say hi to Kim is in New York.
Kim, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
How are you today?
I'm good.
How are you liking this dark, you know, haze of weather and and fire and smoke from Canada hovering over the entire city of New York?
Oh my gosh, this is unbelievable.
It really is.
And thank you so much for taking my call.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you.
So I wanted to call in because a couple days in a row as I've listened to your show, I've heard people calling in and time and time again, they're talking about that they like Donald Trump's policies, but they think he needs to tone down the rhetoric, tone down the rhetoric so that we can get the independent and the moderate vote.
So here's where I stand on this.
I look at things and I say, you know what?
Our independents and moderate voters, are they noticing that we're losing our country?
We're losing our freedoms, we're losing our democracy.
Now imagine if any of them had a major heart problem and they had to have heart surgery in order to save their life.
And they went to the first surgeon, and he had some really rough bedside manner, but they got to see what his success rate was, and it's his success rate on his surgeries was about 90 to 95 percent.
Then they went to the nice guy because they got their second opinion, and the nice guy was just so sweet, but they got to see his success rate, and his success rate was between 75 and 80 percent.
I can tell you which one they're going to pick to get their life saved.
So why are we gonna worry about the fact that Trump says some things on occasion that people deem as mean, or they think he puts his foot in his mouth, but his policies were fabulous.
Why do we not want to save our country?
Has no one ever gone to a doctor before that had bad bedside manner, but he was a good doctor?
Why can't we have a president who's a good president and he might have a little bit of bedside manner that we don't like?
You know, I I actually think your analogy is a very interesting one.
I really do.
I mean, look, Donald Trump runs I guess The way his personality rubs people the wrong way.
That's the word I'm looking for.
And listen, this guy takes up more space, more mental space than any other one person on the face of this earth.
I mean, for the people that hate Donald Trump, he lives in their minds 247.
Um, you know, and it is he's like mind messing with all these people.
You can use whatever term you want.
Um, but you know, to me, I'm more interested in the results.
I'm more interested in the country.
I'll take the fighter that got us a better uh the best trade deal we ever had with China, better trade deals with Canada, better trade deals with Mexico, better trade deals with Europe, better trade deals with Japan, uh NATO faying its fair share,
um, forcing international globalist organizations to step up and pay more, we're not gonna pay anything, getting out of the climate accords, a guy that's willing to pull the trigger and take out Salomani, Baghdadi and the Al Qaeda leader in Yemen, the guy that made us energy independent for the first time in seventy-five years, the guy that pre-COVID gave us the lowest unemployment numbers for every single solitary demographic in the country, historic low unemployment.
The guy that throughout his whole presidency didn't allow gas to go over three dollars a gallon, not one time on average across the country.
Uh the guy that secured the border, uh, the guy that believed in law and order.
I I want that guy back.
I like that guy.
Um does he say things that make me roll my eyes sometimes?
Yeah, I tell him about it.
I asked him that question at the town hall.
What do you say?
You know, the general election is going to be decided probably by a couple hundred thousand votes, and they're probably people that maybe would like your policies, but they can't stand your personality.
I didn't I said it a little more diplomatically.
And I said, you know, you know, do you have to do be involved with the name calling?
Do you have to be involved in the constant fighting?
And he's like, I his answer was I wouldn't be here if I didn't fight.
That was his answer.
Whether you agree with it, disagree with it, that was his answer.
He's an amazing guy, and I'm gonna put another little spin on this.
So my other little spin is this.
Let's face it, they've been targeting, they, meaning the Democrats have been targeting Donald Trump since day one.
Everybody knows it now.
It it's proof that everybody knows it because look at his poll numbers after Bragg, you know, indicted him.
So everybody knows that all of these frivolous lawsuits that are just trying to cause him not to be able to run.
They want to control our elections.
So how about this?
How about we teach them a lesson, the one way we could actually teach them a lesson?
And this includes Republicans, independents, and moderates.
How about we make sure that we elect Donald Trump for president again?
Because we're not going to allow them to dictate who our candidates can be.
And so they see that all the more they don't want him, that we're gonna put him in office because we're not gonna allow them to control that.
Maybe they won't use these un-American evil tactics anymore.
These undemocratic ways that they're using that they could do to the next guy.
I like Ron DeSantis too.
I think he's done a fabulous job in Florida.
I kind of agree with Trump that I feel like Ron DeSantis got a lot of help from Trump.
And I feel like it was a little bit of a backstab to Donald Trump that he is running.
I feel like he has his time in the future.
I also feel like I know what I get with Donald Trump.
I know how he ran the country.
I know how our border was safe.
I know that we weren't in a war.
I know the 401ks were good.
I don't know how Ron DeSantis will run a country, but I know what I get with Donald Trump.
But why do we allow the Democrats to control our elections and decide who we can have we don't have to.
That's the answer.
And you know, I gotta give Ronna McDaniel, apparently she heard my message loud and clear.
She's has a new campaign that she started called banking ballots to get Republicans to get over their reluctance and resistance to voting early and voting by mail.
They better get over it, and they better also engage in better har b legal ballot harvesting efforts than the Democrats.
Anyway, good call.
I really appreciate it.
Steve next, uh also in New York.
Steve, how are you?
Glad you called.
Uh it's an honor to speak to you, Sean.
Uh I have been a fan since you started on the air.
Oh, wow.
Thank you.
To tell you, you are dead wrong thinking that your fans will not miss you if something happens to you, okay?
Well, You're very nice.
Listen, I'm not planning on going anywhere.
We kind of do it in a joking fashion.
Although it's kind of a serious topic for my daughter.
I gotta be very careful bringing it up in the future, I've learned.
Um, because it doesn't go over or end well anytime it's come up.
So I'm I'm getting a little wiser as a dad, but thank you for your kind words.
Uh the reason I called primarily was listening to uh you and uh Speaker Kinders yesterday.
And you know, he's such a brilliant man.
And I see he's pushing this book.
He's gotta, you know, laying out how he did what he did, you know, to take control of the house.
But I think he's the kind of person, if not him, that should be involved in doing something like this right now.
And not only is it have to be for the House, but it has to be for the Senate, and hopefully whoever is the Republican uh candidate, hopefully Donald Trump, will also get on board with that program.
Listen, I gotta tell you something.
And the book is called March to the Majority.
It's in bookstores that just came out yesterday, and and on Amazon.com, Hannity.com.
Um, and I'm gonna tell you something.
You know, the experience I had in Atlanta, you know, I first met Newt Gingrich in 1990 in a hotel room at a holiday inn in Decatur, Alabama, interviewing him when he was giving a big speech there.
And I did a remote, which at the time was technically nearly impossible using a Marty system.
Anyway.
And, you know, and then I got then I got hired in Atlanta, and I got to be have a front row seat in his march to the majority.
And I watched it, I witnessed it, I learned it all.
I watched those Gopak tapes, uh, renewing American Civilization.
It's all based on intellect and ideas.
And you know what?
There's so much, these principles are timeless.
Conservatism, the reason I say I'm not I'm not a Republican, I'm a conservative, is because conservative principles work.
It's that simple.
If they didn't work, if freedom didn't work, I wouldn't support it.
And I, you know, honestly, he's been like an older brother, blessing in my life, advisor.
I mean, I remember once he called me when I was going after and researching Obama hard.
He he called me and he said, you know, I'm watching you, and you gotta be careful here.
I'm like, why?
He goes, You may be blowing up your career over this.
And I said, I said, Well, I mean, I'm the only one doing it.
You want me to stop doing it?
Am I not supposed to everything I'm saying is true.
You know, we're backing everything up.
He goes, Yeah, I I I don't doubt it, but I mean, you are you are hitting them hard.
And uh I was I know he was looking out for my best interest.
He's a patriot, he loves this country.
March to the majority if you get a chance.
Um, but thank you, Steve.
I appreciate your kind words.
I'm gonna pass this call on to Newt as well.
Thank you, my friend.
Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
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