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June 22, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Tragedy at Sea - June 22nd, Hour 1
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We start with some sad news, however.
Uh it now is uh official, sadly.
The five people that were on that submarine, uh, the Titan uh to go see the um Titanic that went missing on their voyage to the wreckage are now believed to be dead.
The company that planned the trip saying in a statement, uh the our very own Coast Guard made this announcement announcement literally just three minutes ago.
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may i now please introduce rear admiral john mauger
This morning, an ROV, a remote operated vehicle from the vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tail cone of the Titan submersible, approximately sixteen hundred feet from the bow of the Titanic on the seafloor.
The ROV subsequently found additional debris in consultation with experts from within the unified command.
The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.
Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families.
On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire Unified Command, I fied Command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families.
I can only imagine what this has been like for them.
And I hope that this discovery provides some solace during this difficult time.
And I hope that this discovery is a good one.
Additionally we've been in close contact with the British and French consuls general to ensure that they are fully apprised and that their concerns are being addressed.
The outpouring of support in this highly complex search operation has been robust and immensely appreciated.
We are grateful for the rapid mobilization of experts on the undersea search and rescue, and we thank all of the agencies and personnel for their role in the response.
We're also incredibly grateful for the sp full spectrum of international assistance that's been provided.
The ROVs will remain on scene and continue to gather information.
Again, our most heartfelt condolences go out to the loved ones of the crew.
We'll now take questions.
This was a uh incredibly uh complex uh case uh and we're still working uh to develop the details uh for the timeline involved uh with uh this casualty and uh the response.
And so we'll provide that eventually.
James Matthew from Sky News.
John, what other debris have you found?
And have you found any trace of those who were so this is an incredibly complex uh operating environment on the seafloor over two miles uh beneath the surface.
And so uh the remote operating vehicle has been searching and it is highly capable.
Uh and we've been able to classify uh parts of the uh pressure chamber uh for uh the Titan submersible.
Let me refer to uh one of my uh undersea experts here, uh Mr. Uh Paul Hankin to talk about uh the nature of some of the debris.
Uh thank you, Admiral.
So essentially we found uh five different major pieces of debris that uh told us that it was the uh remains of the Titan.
The initial thing we found was the nose cone, which was outside of the pressure hull.
Um we then found a large debris field within that large debris field uh we found the the front end bell of the pressure hole.
Um that was the first indication that um there was a catastrophic event.
Um shortly thereafter we found the a second smaller debris field within that debris field, uh we found the the other end of the pressure hull, the the aft end bell, um which was basically the comprise of the totality of that pressure vessel.
Um we continue to map the debris field, and as the Admiral said, we will uh do the best we can to fully map out what's down there.
Can I say much ahead?
It's it's uh it's a very difficult question to ask, but it will be an important one for the families, of course.
But what are the prospects of recovering the bodies of the missing crew?
So the questions was uh related.
I'm restating the question from the standpoint of uh sometimes it's hard to hear the question here.
Uh what are the prospects for re uh recovering uh crew members?
And so uh this is a incredibly unforgiving uh environment down there uh on the seafloor, uh and uh the debris is consistent with a catastrophic uh implosion of uh the vessel.
And so uh we'll continue to uh work and continue to uh search uh the area uh down there, but uh I I don't have an answer for uh prospects at this time.
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Sorry, any suggestion at all that the that the sub itself collided with the wreckage of Titanic or that instead it might have imploded above the wreckage and then rained down nearby.
So uh the question was is there any question as to whether or not the sub collided with the Titanic or whether it uh imploded uh above and and debris uh field created from that?
Uh so the uh the the location of the Titan submersible was in an area that was approximately sixteen hundred feet uh from uh the uh wreck of the Titanic.
Uh I have uh an expert here that can that is familiar with that area and can talk about uh the debris field and and what uh the debris field indicates in terms of uh the where the casualty may have occurred.
Really quickly, can you tell me when that will be called back?
The expert voice has been got the answer to question.
Uh thank you, Admiral.
Uh so the question is where does the wreck lie in uh relation to the Titanic?
Uh I didn't hear the Admiral's uh answer.
I think 1600 feet.
Was that correct, Admiral?
Uh so that's uh that's off the bow of Titanic.
It's in an area where there is not any debris of Titanic.
It is a smooth bottom.
Uh there, to my knowledge, and anything I've seen, there's no Titanic wreckage in that area.
And again, 200 plus meters from the bow, uh, and consistent with the location of last communication uh for an implosion in the water column.
And the size of the debris field is uh consistent with that implosion in the water column.
In terms of the timing here, uh you say that this was a catastrophic explosion.
And I know it's early on, but is it your estimation that this happened right at the moment when they lost contact an hour and 45 minutes after the descent?
Uh so the question was about the timing of the catastrophic implosion.
Uh right now it is uh too early to tell uh with that.
Uh we know that uh as we've been prosecuting uh this search uh over the course of the last uh seventy-two hours uh and and beyond uh that we've had sonar buoys in the water uh nearly continuously and have not uh detected any uh catastrophic events uh when those sonar buoys have been in the water.
So we describe what happens from here, sir uh in the next days in the weeks in terms of finding uh any more debris.
What happens from here?
So we will uh the question was uh what happens from here, uh what what's the next phase?
Um and so right now uh again our uh thoughts are uh with the families uh and making sure that uh um they have uh um an understanding as best as we can provide uh of of uh what happened and and uh begin to uh find uh some closure.
Uh in terms of the large process, we're gonna continue to uh investigate the uh site of uh the debris field.
Uh and then I know that there's also a lot of questions about uh how, why, and when uh did this happen.
Um and so uh you know, those are questions that uh we will uh collect as much information as we can on uh now.
Uh while uh right.
Sad news.
The first indication, the tail cone uh of this vessel uh Titan was discovered sixteen hundred feet.
It's a pretty long distance away from the bow of the Titanic.
Uh they went into an additional additional other debris was found as well.
Uh instantly they came to the conclusion that this has resulted in a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber uh and immediately notified the families of uh people that were uh in the Titan uh that in fact this had happened.
Uh they also went into describing in in some detail the area of the debris was was not near the Titanic.
And the the one expert that came on after the the Admiral talked about an implosion water column, which which basically sounds to me like uh a serious um breach of of Titan took place and and it just became an probably an instantaneous catastrophic event by the but by the sounds of it.
I'm just at this point I'm I'm speculating.
Uh it doesn't change the result.
The result is all passengers on board uh are now believed to be dead, and it is a catastrophic loss of life.
The search, you know, had passed the 96 hour mark Earlier today, when breathable air, they believe would have run out.
They had a 96 hour supply.
It had not been tested.
I read in one of the articles whether or not that would be enough for all the people that were on board.
It was overdue Sunday afternoon.
It was on its way to see the Titanic underwater.
This is not their first trip.
It's taken by many people.
One interesting observation by somebody who'd gone on a previous expedition was he called it a suicide mission.
So that's the latest details we have with them.
But they had been saying as of yesterday that they heard of some banging noises, but warned that surge crews have had to put a whole picture together in the context of what was going on here.
did offer some encouragement to many uh the u.s navy saying you know i mean you had people from all over the world sending their best brightest the greatest equipment you know in the hopes of maybe having a miraculous rescue here Titan weighs 20,000 pounds.
U.S. Navy's flyaway deep ocean salvage system is designed to lift up to 60,000 pounds, the Navy said on their website.
That was an interesting, you know, that offered interesting potential as to uh because that's you know almost three times what what that the Titan weighed, so they they did have some ability, uh a salvage system designed to lift up to 60,000 pounds, this of course being 20,000 pounds.
So but anyway, at least 46 people had successfully traveled on Ocean Gates submersible to the Titanic wreck since 20 uh 21 and 2022.
As I mentioned, one uh one account by one person who had been on a previous trip uh said that uh this was a suicide mission, didn't sound like he was too pleased with how that went.
I guess it sounded very scary to this individual.
You know, uh is this something I'd ever want to do in my life?
No.
But do I admire people that want to do incredibly brave things?
Yeah, I do.
You know, the fact that man looked at the moon one day and said, we're gonna fly there.
And did so.
And we're not only gonna fly there, we're gonna send men there.
And we're gonna let them walk around on the moon.
Take a look at the moon one night.
It's pretty far away.
And then we're gonna bring them back home safely.
And we've been able to accomplish that.
And in the course of space travel, yes, we've had some tragedies.
Um, but if these people, these brave people didn't take these endeavors, we never would have had the technology that we we all just take for granted today, like flying a jet.
What about all these people that, you know, in the early days of aviation, or you know, the Wright brothers start with them.
Think that was courageous?
I think it was courageous.
You know, that thing goes up in the air, you can't land it.
Guess what?
Your life's over.
Um, anyway, uh our prayers were with all the family members that were notified that they lost their loved ones.
Uh just sad to hear.
I know many people have been following it.
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Uh we'll keep you updated on any new news on the sad tragedy that we now know.
The Titan, in fact, uh earlier today, they discovered the tail comb from the Titan, about 600 1600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, pretty big distance.
Uh they found other debris as well, Uh, which led them to the obvious sad conclusion that there was a catastrophic uh catastrophic loss of life uh in the pressure chamber and uh immediately notified the families.
Uh it seems from early indications that there was an implosion of the water column.
I'm not exactly sure what that means.
Uh I'm sure we'll find out and we'll we'll keep you up to speed on that.
Uh but I really do admire people that do things that I would not want to do.
I have no desire to go down in the Titan and go to see the wreckage of the Titanic, but many other people do.
And they successfully have taken people on those tours, and that's something on what their bucket list.
Now my bucket list is very different.
Um I'd like to just eat as much as I can and not have to worry about it.
That's on my bucket list.
Some people want to climb Mount Everest.
There are people that lose their lives when they climb Mount Everest, but that is their goal, that is their dream, that's their desire, and they want to do it.
Or the highest summits in the world that they can possibly find.
I admire their adventurous spirit.
I I give them a lot of credit.
These are not easy tasks.
You know, you think about all the progress that we have made.
You know, imagine the first person that that got in a rocket ship headed to the moon, and you're thinking, you know, one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.
I mean, think about that.
We look at the moon.
You ever look at the moon?
I like to look at the moon.
I have a telescope to look at the moon.
I can see the craters in the moon.
I can see Mars.
Now we're sending, you know, rover to Mars and and you know, it's driving around there, sending back pictures, you know, to the Earth, and we're learning about Mars.
It's pretty cool.
Uh I have no doubt one day we'll probably send some brave soul to Mars.
Hopefully they get there successfully and get home.
But when they first start out these adventures, there's no guarantee you're going to get home.
And though, my understanding is the first page of the waiver that people had to sign to take this this voyage on Titan to go down to see the Titanic had a recognition and acknowledgement that death could be possible three times just on page one.
And and that was a risk that people were willing to take.
How about these crazy people?
My buddy Neil Bortz like used to like to go hot air ballooning.
I'm like, what the hell would you want to go hot air ballooning for?
I can't think of a more dull and boring thing than being stuck in a basket.
No, it could be cool.
A hot air balloon is cool.
A submarine thing scares the crap out of me.
I'm very claustrophobic.
Well, yeah.
That's a narrow tight space.
I have friends of mine that and my son did this recently.
They go diving for lobsters.
I'm like, I want no really.
What happens when the lobster gets you?
Well, no, you got to get them and you gotta catch them and get those rubber bands on as quickly as you possibly can.
Oh my gosh.
Um, you know, I I just uh you think of the Wright brothers.
You think of the the air travel that has now been the natural evolution of those first flights.
Well, that first flight was probably pretty scary for them.
And there's no guarantee that they were gonna make it, was there?
But you know, look at the development of air travel just in our lifetime and and beyond.
And and I have to I think the thing that freaked me out a little bit about this is we you know, we there's been so much news, an abundance of news.
But in the last week we've been reading about this, and it basically said because of how low it was, you know, and he mentioned it was two miles below seafloor level.
They did not have any GPS.
So they basically get text messages from the vessel that's above that tells them where to go, and then they used uh a game controller.
And that and the game controller is like thirty bucks on Amazon.
So I'm like, I'm sure there are gonna be be critics saying, well, well, why would they not more blah blah blah?
I don't know.
There's always somebody, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, they knew the risk.
They they signed the waiver, they knew the risk, they wanted to do it, and I'm not gonna sit here and judge them.
It's not like it was the first time.
They've done it successfully before.
Now, look, I'll tell you what one individual, a former Titanic subpassenger or Titan subpassenger called the trip a suicide mission.
This is a German adventurer explored the Titanic wreckage on the same submersible that appeared uh that disappeared.
He called his voyage a suicide mission.
He said, quote, I was incredibly lucky back then.
Guy's 60 years old, uh, telling a German news outlet about his hair-raising or aquatic of adventure.
He undertook that perilous underwater odyssey.
That was in August of 2021, diving down over 1200 meters, twelve, I'm sorry, twelve thousand meters to the famous wreck of the Titanic.
He said, quote, it was a suicide mission back then.
And he recalled his own journey into the abyss.
The first submarine didn't work, then a dive at sixteen hundred meters had to be abandoned.
He explained they ended up launching five hours late because of electrical issues, which he suspects is to blame for the Titan Crew's current predicament.
And not only right before the voyage, uh, but the bracket of of the stabilization tube, which balances the sub tour and had to be reattached with zip ties.
I'm like, okay, that does not instill confidence.
That they turned off everything to conserve energy to get to the point they were going to.
Yeah.
So that's also a little bit nerve-wracking.
He said you need strong nerves.
You can't be claustrophobic, and you have to be able to sit cross legged for ten hours.
Um so, but I mean they knew all that going in.
And I, you know, I give a lot of credit to the people that take brave adventures in their lives.
Would you rather go into space or go under under the water?
How about neither?
Neither or nor.
Uh I pass on both.
I've no does no desire over this.
I probably would take space over that too, because I'd feel less cross claustrophobic.
That's amazing.
I mean, we've mapped out millions of miles of the universe, but we don't know what the hell's down there in the ocean.
We can't get down there.
You know, this to me, you know, speaks to God's majesty.
I mean, you know, you when you think of all of the creatures that live in the sea, um, for those of you that have ever been deep sea fishing and and caught any type of big fish, you know, think of it this way.
Uh you know my obsession with the the show um uh Deadliest Catch, and they go crabbing life below zero.
And life below zero.
I love these people that live off the grid, they're out of their minds.
I mean, would I ever do it?
No.
I don't want to be cold.
It's too cold up there.
Um, but you know, people take these risks, you know, on a daily basis, and I give everybody a lot of a lot of credit for their courage, their bravery, their you know, their individual rugged natures that that allow them to do these things.
Living off the grid is hard.
Um, you know, you go in the Bering Sea in the middle of winter and you're out there crabbing.
Those guys die.
You know, on that show, you know, how many people did they they lose in the course of like a three-year period?
Um related in in some cases to that how difficult and dangerous that work is.
You you know, those waves you're getting 60 foot swells sometimes out there, and it's not like you're gonna turn around and go, Oh, we're going home now.
That's not how it works.
Storm coming in, you have no choice.
You've got your lobster pots out there, your crab pots out there, you gotta bring them in.
You gotta haul them in, and there's a risk you might come back with nothing.
And they do that every single year, year in and year out.
And uh Mike Rowe, deadliest job, does a great job narrating that show.
That's the one show I would love to host.
That is the one show I would love to host.
And you know, for example, Stephen A. Smith, did you hear he wants to take over for Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune?
I thought that was pretty cool.
Uh I did not hear that.
No, he wants to be Jimmy Kimmel.
He wants to take over for Pat Sage.
I can't even he would break everybody's stones when they got it wrong.
I can't even imagine him doing that for a second.
I don't know.
It might bring a new edge.
Uh you know who the is the best host ever of Family Feud, and I can watch episode after episode on the game show channel?
Steve Harvey.
I'm your man, Steve Harvey, you know?
And I eat you like him better than Dawson?
Yes.
Dawson was nothing but a like a perv kissing every woman's hand and uh It was the 70s and 80s.
It was okay.
I'm sorry.
I I gotta put it in the context of the 70s and eighties.
Um I remember him from Hogan's Heroes.
That's how far that back uh back that goes.
But uh no, the best one, Steve Harvey.
He is funny and he could just give a look.
Somebody gives a the most bizarre answer on Family Feud, and he will just look at him and just say, basically say, You're crazy.
Um anyway, our prayers are with these families.
Um and you know, for uh for the people that want to be critics of this, I'm sure there's no shortage of them.
I'm not gonna pay attention to any of them because I don't really care what they have to say.
You know what?
Show what what courage do you show in your life every day?
I like people that are courageous.
I like people that are innovators.
I like people that are willing to take risks in life.
This was a calculated risk.
You know, certainly the success, the prior success would lend itself to the argument that they could do it again.
And I'm sure they're going to have to revisit all of this by by the end of this.
Um, we got a lot coming up political-wise today.
Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee uh will join us.
We got a lot to dig into on a couple of fronts.
The FBI politicized, weaponized, the DOJ politicized, weaponized, uh, the Hunter Biden slap on the wrist, uh, the testimony of John Durham yesterday, that was pretty amazing.
Uh earlier today uh in the House Ways and Means Committee, and we'll check in with their chairman, Jason Smith, the Missouri later on in the program.
We learned a lot about the testimony of whistleblowers, credible whistleblowers, alleging massive misconduct and government abuse, resulting in the preferential treatment again for Hunter Biden.
He talked about two specific IRS whistleblowers, bringing forth evidence that the federal government is not treating all taxpayers equally and enforcing the laws and tax laws equally.
The whistleblowers were working on an investigation into Hunter Biden that they opened in November of 2008 as an offshoot of a separate corporate investigation by the IRS, and he put emphasis on this.
This was an investigation in the ordinary course of work at the IRS.
You know, just like the ordinary course of work annually is Pull Hannity's file.
I understand that's part of their job.
Uh, but anyway, was not ordered by any individual, any chairman, any entity, and the whistleblowers point out that the Biden Department of Justice has been overstepping and protecting Hunter Biden and even went as far as to purposefully delay so the statute of limitations on previous years taxes that went unpaid that are even mentioned in Hunter Biden's laptop that the FBI had since December of 2019.
They specifically mentioned 400,000 of unpaid taxes connected to Barisma.
Uh, but anyway, the uh they described this as a clear-cut tax liability case, and the testimony shows that the U.S. attorney of Delaware tried to bring charges in the District of Columbia was denied.
That was in March of 2022, and then Weiss sought special counsel status.
That was denied.
And the the main findings of these two whistleblowers in their testimony today, and we'll hear from him later in the program is one, the federal government is not treating taxpayers equally when they enforce tax laws.
That should not surprise you.
Hunter Biden, you know, I I had last night on TV.
Hunter Biden was not treated the same way other Americans were cheat or treated.
Wesley Snipes, three misdemeanor tax charges.
He sp he got sentenced to three years in jail.
I had Bradford Cohen on last night.
He was the attorney for rapper Kodak Black.
And he talked about how his client lied on a gun application form.
Uh he wasn't offered the same deal as Hunter, no jail, and two years, they'll expunge it from his record.
That that wasn't offered.
He was sentenced to forty-six months in prison because of the exact same charge.
You know, if you look at it, the global income, what they've been able to discover, but that's what anyway, anyway.
The one thing is that the federal government is not enforcing or treating taxpayers equally when enforcing the laws.
The whistleblowers point out that the Biden Department of Justice is intervening and overstepping when it comes to the investigation into a Hunter Biden, that the whistleblowers have faced almost immediate retaliation.
I thought Democrats love whistleblowers.
Apparently they only like whistleblowers that are going after Donald Trump.
They also discovered global income streams to Hunter Biden and his associates from Ukraine, Romania, and China.
In this case, Those three countries totaling 17.3 million dollars from 2014 to 2019.
Hunter Biden himself received eight point three million.
Well, what did he do with the money considering he he now got a deal with the mother of his four-year-old daughter that he refuses to recognize to reduce his monthly payments by 75% and uh and deny his own daughter the use of his last name?
You know, one day that four-year-old little girl's gonna realize, oh, my granddad was the pre the president of the United States and he wanted nothing to do with me.
And the first lady wanted nothing to do with me.
Wonder how that kid's gonna feel when she realizes that.
When they had the the Christmas stockings put up at the White House, they had every grandchild and the family dog, but not her name.
Pretty sick.
All right, when we come back, the dual system of justice, unequal uh application of our laws, no equal justice under the law.
Uh, we'll check in with the Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan later on.
The two IRS whistleblowers uh and their testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, the chairman of that committee, Jason Smith, the Missouri will join us, and we'll get to your calls 800-941-Shawn.
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