Putin Failing? - June 26th, Hour 1
Sean reviews the latest on the military failures in Russia and what is next for Ukraine.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sean reviews the latest on the military failures in Russia and what is next for Ukraine.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| This is an iHeart podcast. | |
| All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of you for being with us. | |
| Toll-free, let me give you our number. | |
| It's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| All week on the show, I'll tell you how this story started. | |
| I'm a big fan of AngelStudios.com, and they did a series on Jesus called The Chosen, and I loved it. | |
| I thought it was great, really, really well done. | |
| Just became a fan of the series. | |
| They now have four seasons out. | |
| They're in the process, I believe, of filming season five. | |
| And it's just this whole thing has just taken off. | |
| And I don't know, I just happen to like their work and think they're terrific. | |
| Anyway, if you go to angelsstudios.com, there, you can see that they have other series, other movies that you can watch. | |
| And, you know, they have a lot of other great movies that you can look at too. | |
| And for example, what's the movie about Abraham I watched, Linda? | |
| I forgot. | |
| What's that? | |
| My only son, I think it was. | |
| You're going to look it up. | |
| Anyway, so they got a movie coming out, and I saw that it was coming out. | |
| And I just said to Sweet Baby James, James, see if you can track these guys down. | |
| I want to. | |
| Oh, his only son. | |
| That's it. | |
| And that was about the story of Abraham in the Bible, who, you know, is told, well, first of all, he's promised by God that in his old age, him and his wife, I believe Sarah's her name, would have a baby, and they waited 25 years, and they were really, really old at the time. | |
| And then God fulfilled his promise. | |
| They had a baby and a son. | |
| And then the son, at one point, God said, I want you to go sacrifice your son on the altar. | |
| And Abraham, being a man of faith, obviously troubled to do such a thing. | |
| And it was a test by God to see if he would be faithful and believe. | |
| You just got to watch it. | |
| I mean, I don't want to sit here and give you the whole biblical story about it all, but I like their work. | |
| And anyway, so they came out. | |
| They have other non-religious movies that they put out. | |
| And the latest one that starts this weekend, it's going to open in theaters around the country. | |
| It's called The Sound of Freedom. | |
| And it's a story that is based on a true story about a man involved in stopping and ending human trafficking. | |
| And after he was able to rescue a young boy, I forgot what country was from. | |
| Was it Guatemala? | |
| Maybe Guatemala? | |
| I forget. | |
| Maybe El Salvador. | |
| I just don't remember. | |
| Anyway, they rescued this young boy. | |
| What they would do is they would have these people. | |
| Human trafficking of children is a massive, sad to say, it's a massive business. | |
| So he rescued this young boy, found out that his sister was still being held captive and decided to give up his career. | |
| He's a former federal agent and find the sister of one of the most difficult rescue missions ever. | |
| And they've been on many others since. | |
| And they've done so successfully. | |
| It was Columbia. | |
| Okay. | |
| And anyway, so the story stars Jim Caviesel. | |
| You might remember him from The Passion of the Christ. | |
| And Mira Servino is in the movie. | |
| And it's just great. | |
| So I called him up and I said, you know, I'd like to get a copy of the movie and review it for you, which I occasionally do. | |
| And usually most studios will accommodate that request. | |
| And if I like it, I tell you about it. | |
| If I don't like it, I don't say anything about it. | |
| And they said, well, would you like some tickets to give away? | |
| And I said, sure. | |
| Everybody likes free stuff, right, Linda? | |
| You like free stuff. | |
| I like free stuff when it's helping people, sure. | |
| Anyone that calls in this week, 800-941-Sean, and especially if you get on the air, we'll give you a bunch of tickets that you can go see. | |
| It's the opening weekend this weekend. | |
| Otherwise, I really strongly recommend you go see it. | |
| You can bring your family to see it. | |
| A little rough maybe for young kids. | |
| And then when you find out at the end of the movie how human trafficking is, you know, one of the largest industries in America and sex trafficking, it breaks your heart. | |
| You know, how is it we're allowing this modern-day slavery to happen in this country as well? | |
| And they actually say that at the time, that there are more people held in slavery now than at any other point in history in terms of sheer numbers of people. | |
| They were very clear about that. | |
| But anyway, I strongly recommend it for you and your family. | |
| It's called Sound of Freedom. | |
| It'll be in theaters all around the country, and we'll give away a bunch of tickets this week. | |
| So please stand by for that. | |
| You know, I know that a lot of you want to talk about what's going on in Russia. | |
| And I've had a big battle with Linda all day. | |
| Linda thinks this is like a false flag operation and that Vladimir Putin and this opposition leader Progoshin with the Wagner group. | |
| He's the commander who's now been sent to Belarus, kind of sidelined there. | |
| And apparently all charges dropped by Putin in exchange for this guy going to Belarus that was on a march to Moscow. | |
| I'm not sure I buy it. | |
| There were too many Russian helicopters and planes taken out of the sky. | |
| There was too much damage done to Moscow. | |
| There was too much public support for the opposition, Progoshin, that makes me believe that somehow they're in cahoots with Vladimir Putin. | |
| And, you know, maybe they want, in other words, the question is, and what Rebecca Koffler, who will join us later, is suggesting, is that Prokoshin and Vladimir Putin want to create a false impression that they are weaker than they are. | |
| I'm like, they already look weak because their efforts in Ukraine have been nothing what the world expected. | |
| I think everyone was kind of shocked to see the courage and the commitment of the Ukrainian people in battling back against Vladimir Putin. | |
| And Putin has been frustrated pretty much every step of the way. | |
| And this war lingered on for, you know, now well over a year. | |
| And if the impression is to look even weaker, then, well, they've done a good job of that because I think Putin looks weak in all of this. | |
| Anyway, so you have other people proclaiming that Prokoshin is now an alternative leader in Russia created by Putin himself because Putin had empowered him. | |
| And anyway, and how he transformed overnight from a cutthroat mercenary chief to a nationalist populist leader. | |
| That's the argument. | |
| Mike McCall, former U.S. ambassador to Russia under Obama, actually said on the Today show, I just don't know. | |
| I don't know who's right. | |
| I'm just, I'm giving you the facts here. | |
| I just, I don't know the answer. | |
| And, you know, I know there are people say now is the time. | |
| You know, for example, Peter Ruff is a senior fellow director of the Center of Europe and Eurasia at the Hudson Institute, had an interesting article on his side, and that now would be the time for the U.S. to pounce on the wounded wolf. | |
| I just, why would Putin under any circumstances ever want to project that weakness? | |
| That's the part that doesn't make sense to me. | |
| Or the fact that the Russian people were clearly on Progoshin's side as they were making this march towards Moscow. | |
| Now, that's what they would have you believe. | |
| I don't know the answer to it. | |
| I do know this, that it, to me, it makes Putin come off as looking pathetically weak and nervous. | |
| Now, I think one of the biggest telltale signs we'll probably find out in the next year or so, maybe the next day or so. | |
| And that is if Progoshin ends up dead, because the Wagner Group tanks were rolling through, you know, outside of Moscow early on Saturday morning, and the mercenaries captured the strategic Russian city of Rostov on Andan early Saturday, | |
| and then began advancing towards Moscow, but turned around later in the day when they struck a deal to end the short-lived lived rebellion, and he has been exiled now to Belarus. | |
| Linda, you're buying into Rebecca Koffler. | |
| Rebecca Koffler is a lot of bona fides when it comes to Putin, knows a lot about his thinking. | |
| She actually wrote the book, Putin's Playbook. | |
| She's a strategic military intelligence analyst, served as a senior official in the Defense Intelligence Agency and worked with the CIA's National Clandestine Service. | |
| So, you know, I take seriously what she says. | |
| I'm just not where you are. | |
| Well, I don't know that I would say that I'm anywhere other than I'm not all in the tank for Zelensky or Putin. | |
| I personally think and have thought from the beginning and have said many times on this show that their true casualty of the war are the people that are just pawns in all of it. | |
| You know, I don't think that Russia gives a rip about how much money they lose because they are selling oil to every single nation. | |
| They don't care how it burns. | |
| They don't give a rip about going green. | |
| And they have tons of precious metals. | |
| They have tons of money coming from the potash in Belarus. | |
| Well, that's how Putin got rich. | |
| This is what has funded his war against Ukraine. | |
| The fact that the United States has rejected energy independence and decided, you know, they'd rather make the rest of the world rich. | |
| So, I mean, that has funded a lot of the conflict and war. | |
| And by the way, and public support, if maybe they're thinking that if public support or if public support is now against Putin to the point where people begin to feel, oh, we've got him on the run. | |
| We can take him out now. | |
| If this is an attempt to get more money out of the American people, well, they've lost most of the American people. | |
| The American people have had it with what's going on in Ukraine for two very specific reasons. | |
| Number one is Europe is not stepping up to take care of their fair share of the cost of this, and we've paid way too much money for that conflict. | |
| And number two, Joe Biden has never given his seal of approval to actually allow Ukraine to fight the war, to win the war, as evidenced very early on when he denied the use of the offer of Poland for 28 Soviet MiGs so that they wouldn't give full control of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin and his Air Force. | |
| So, you know, if you're not in it to win it, stop wasting our time and stop wasting our money. | |
| And I think that's where most Americans are right now. | |
| But it is getting interesting. | |
| So I just, now, I know everyone will say, well, that's a conspiracy theory, what Rebecca's saying. | |
| She's very smart. | |
| I'm just interested because I don't know what that is. | |
| Well, see, how can it be a conspiracy theory? | |
| I mean, she's a former defense analyst from inside of Russia. | |
| I don't think that there's any definitive answer yet, right? | |
| It's just this whole idea that we're no longer allowed to pose the question. | |
| Saying that we have a question about what's happening is not saying that we support Putin or Zelensky. | |
| It's saying we have a question. | |
| Well, let me say this about Putin. | |
| I hope Putin is dead because we know he's targeted innocent civilians in Ukraine. | |
| We know he's targeted residential areas. | |
| We know he's targeted infrastructure. | |
| We know he's targeted hospitals and we know he's targeted schools. | |
| So he's a cold-blooded murdering thug killer. | |
| Say what you will about Zelensky, and I'm no big fan of Zelensky, and nor am I a fan of Europe in this conflict at all because they have not done their job to protect their continent. | |
| However, it was Putin that invaded a sovereign, innocent country. | |
| That's it. | |
| They had already annexed Crimea. | |
| That wasn't enough. | |
| And I think they knew Joe Biden wouldn't lift a finger. | |
| And for the most part, he hasn't, except given money on top of money, on top of money. | |
| And it's like America's war. | |
| Now, let me just add the Wall Street Journal, a day after the Wagner mutiny exposed their saying the fragility of Putin's regime. | |
| All the main players in Russia's worst political crisis in decades stayed out of sight, leaving Russians and the world to wonder whether the drama is really over. | |
| Now, Progoshin has now spoken out. | |
| He gave an 11-minute audio. | |
| He didn't offer any details as to where he was at the moment, but supposedly he's been exiled to Belarus in exchange for all charges for him and his troops to be dropped. | |
| And the Russian defense minister made his first public appearance since the, quote, mercenary uprising demanded his ouster, inspecting troops in Ukraine in a video released today. | |
| So I just don't know the answer. | |
| China has come out in support of Putin after what they are referring to as a coup attempt. | |
| They voiced their support for Russia after this, quote, insurrection. | |
| And President Qi, in a new push for a new world order, doesn't actually want to lose his new closest ally. | |
| And they finally broke their silence on Sunday night, backing Russia, you know, and brushed off the attempted coup as Russia's internal affair. | |
| And that was basically all they had to say. | |
| And one spokesman denied that Putin fled Moscow as the Wagner group was marching towards Moscow. | |
| One interesting side note as you were looking at the images, to me, I felt was that the Russian people were supporting Progoshin and the mercenaries. | |
| I don't think Putin could walk through the streets of Moscow these days. | |
| I really don't. | |
| And if you want to know what Russian sentiment is, remember when they started a draft in Russia, and, you know, people were racing to the border to get the hell out of Russia as quickly as they could. | |
| They wanted no part of it. | |
| And even troops on the ground in Ukraine have shown every indication they want no part of it. | |
| Anyway, I don't have the answer, but we'll listen to Rebecca. | |
| I mean, she worked with the CIA. | |
| She served as a senior official in the Defense Intelligence Agency. | |
| But I found her theory interesting, but not one that I'm totally sold on. | |
| All right, as we roll along, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Hunter Biden's lawyer threatened prosecutors, warning that charging Hunter would be career suicide. | |
| We learned this today from Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal, actually over the weekend, that Hunter Biden's lawyer threatened the IRS investigators that if they cut Hunter some slack, it would cost them their jobs, meaning threatening the IRS investigators. | |
| Now, that's not witness intimidation. | |
| Tell me what is. | |
| Because she reports that the IRS team prepared a document in late 2021 covering the tax years 2014 to 2019, in which they recommended charging Hunter with felony tax evasion. | |
| This is where we get into the statute of limitations where the IRS whistleblowers are saying that they purposely slow walked a lot of this and why the only charges are for 2017 and 2018, which they turned into misdemeanors, which people like Wesley Snipes had as well. | |
| And he ended up getting three years sentenced to prison. | |
| Anyway, he says that this was partially based on Hunter's textbook tax evasion of declaring his income from bereavement as a loan. | |
| And he says Hunter's attorney warned prosecutors any charges would be career suicide. | |
| They run this like a mob family. | |
| I'll explain that part of it when we get back. | |
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| All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941-Sean. | |
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| All right, so here we have, it was an interesting article by Michael Goodwin, and we've made this point before. | |
| If you look at the 2016 presidential election, we know that the FBI, which is under the guise, under the direction of the Justice Department, then being led by Mr. Hire Honor himself, | |
| which is anything but, or higher loyalty James Comey, we know that they discovered a lot of top secret classified materials on Hillary Clinton's servers and computers, and that's the 30,000 emails that they had. | |
| And they said, and they identified all of it in that July 2016 press conference, but then it ended with no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute. | |
| Okay, then he totally forgetting the 33,000 other subpoenaed emails that were destroyed with bleach pit. | |
| And of course, devices that might have had copies on them destroyed with hammers and SIM cards removed, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| And then even when some of those emails showed up on Anthony Weiner's laptop, nobody seemed to care. | |
| And I know for a fact that the only reason that we learned about that in October of 2016 was because there were people in the NYPD that also were involved in the case that said, well, if you're not going to let the public know about it, we are. | |
| And that forced the hand of the FBI. | |
| They had no intention, according to my sources, of ever revealing that. | |
| But if you really look at, you know, that was, and then the dirty dossier that was used, bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton, used as the foundational material to get a FISA application approved. | |
| Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director, saying without the dirty dossier, they never would have gotten those FISA warrants approved to spy on Carter Page, which gave them a backdoor to Trump World. | |
| But they did it anyway. | |
| And this is even after they tried to authenticate the dossier. | |
| They had been warned as early as August of 2016 not to trust it. | |
| It was a political document. | |
| They offered Christopher Steele over a million dollars to corroborate any part of it. | |
| Couldn't collect the money because he couldn't corroborate any part of it, but they still used it in a FISA application and claimed to the FISA court four separate times, three of which signed by James Comey himself, that they were verified. | |
| All that information was unverifiable, but he gets to write books and make a lot of money and comment on Twitter how much he hates Donald Trump. | |
| But that's election interference. | |
| And then if you really want to take it a step further, what was happening in the lead up to the 2018 midterm election? | |
| Well, we were right in the middle of that Russia investigation, the one that John Durham said never should have been opened because there was no evidence to open that investigation. | |
| And not one part of the dirty Clinton bought and paid for dossier was ever verified. | |
| None of it. | |
| They couldn't corroborate a single part of it even in that investigation. | |
| And on top of that, Operation Crossfire Hurricane never should have been opened. | |
| A stinging rebuke of the FBI and the DOJ and how they are putting cinderblocks on the scales of elections in this country and presidential politics in this country. | |
| Then you can take it even a step further because then we have, okay, 2018, the Mueller investigation's ongoing. | |
| Did that have an impact, even though that shouldn't have been happening for nearly three years? | |
| Yeah, of course it did. | |
| Because it was all based on a lie. | |
| The media mob, they lied repeatedly. | |
| Anything ever happened to them? | |
| Nope. | |
| And then you take it to 2020. | |
| Well, what happened then? | |
| All right, the very real Hunter Biden laptop, now we're learning that they had even verified its authenticity before they got their copy of it. | |
| And that was in November of 2019. | |
| They got their copy in December of 2019. | |
| They totally, completely verified it and authenticated it in March of 2020. | |
| Then you have to ask the question, then why was the FBI sending agents to meet with big tech companies in the lead up to the 2020 election and informing big tech companies that they may be victims of a misinformation campaign and they may be that misinformation may be about Joe Biden or Hunter Biden? | |
| FBI knew that that eventually that that story was going to leak. | |
| That's called pre-bunking, instead of debunking, pre-bunking something that they knew would be news because they knew Rudy Giuliani had a copy and would leak it. | |
| And it got out and the New York Post breaks the story. | |
| And if you were on Twitter or Facebook or any of these social media sites, you weren't even allowed to share the story. | |
| You couldn't even share the story in a private direct message for crying out loud. | |
| That's how insane this all is. | |
| Anyway, this is why I've given up all email. | |
| I've given up all of my personal use of social media, with the exception I have to go through a committee led by Linda and company of people to even put out a tweet that I want to put out, which, by the way, probably saved me a lot of hours up late at night arguing with the likes of idiots like Jimmy Kimmel and Alec Baldwin, as if I don't have better things. | |
| Don't forget Acosta. | |
| Did I argue with him too? | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| Fake news, Acosta? | |
| Did I argue with him? | |
| A lot. | |
| He's such a phony. | |
| What a sanctimonious jackass he is. | |
| He's doing great in the ratings. | |
| And so you said things like that on Twitter. | |
| i was very good on twitter i was a very good we took that away And my whole let not your heart be troubled Twitter armory brigade, you know, there were nice people that actually had to teach me how to use Twitter. | |
| And they were very generous. | |
| They just showed me how to do it. | |
| And there were some wonderful people I met there. | |
| Anyway. | |
| I'm glad. | |
| That's awesome. | |
| No, there were very cool people there. | |
| And there still are cool people there. | |
| Now, a lot of them are there and on Truth Social and other places. | |
| Anyway, Michael Goodwin writes this piece that the Trump 2020 election loss is an inside job. | |
| Well, what impact? | |
| There was one poll that showed as many as 16% of Americans, had they known that the Hunter Biden laptop was real, that would have impacted how they viewed that race. | |
| You know, now we can add a lot more to the issue. | |
| Now, Joe Biden, the audio is not good. | |
| I'm going to see if I can clean it up for TV tonight. | |
| Jackie Heinrich, who works for Fox, asked a question of Joe Biden if he stands by his statement that he never spoke to his son Hunter about his foreign business dealings. | |
| Last week, Colleen Jean-Pierre was asked about it, and here's her answer. | |
| And secondly, the president invited his son Hunter to the state dinner last night. | |
| I'm wondering if you could take us into the thinking and decision-making of why the president decided to invite you. | |
| I'm just not going to get into family discussion, personal family discussion. | |
| As you know, Hunter is his son. | |
| I'm just not going to get into it. | |
| I'm going to ask you this: if Hunter Biden wasn't the president's son, would he have invited someone who had just reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors? | |
| Well, a couple of things. | |
| Again, that's his son. | |
| He's a family member. | |
| It is not uncommon for family members to attend events at the White House. | |
| You could look at past presidents. | |
| I'm sure you have. | |
| So that is not uncommon. | |
| As it relates to anything related to Hunter, I'm just not going to respond to it from here. | |
| So, Kirby wouldn't answer James's question, though. | |
| Are you going to answer the question? | |
| Not a reasonable question to ask with the United States who's involved, as this message seems to suggest, in some sort of coercive conversation for business dealings by his son. | |
| Is that something if he wasn't, then maybe you should tell us? | |
| So, here's the thing: and I appreciate the question. | |
| I believe my colleague at the White House Council has answered this question already, has dealt with this, has made it very clear. | |
| I just don't have anything to share outside of what my colleagues have shared, and so I would refer you to him and the DOJ. | |
| Just not going to comment from here. | |
| What I can tell you is I know that my colleague has dealt with this. | |
| He addressed this at the White House Council. | |
| I just don't have anything else to share. | |
| I just answered the question. | |
| I just answered. | |
| Yes or no? | |
| Was the president involved in the shape of the Council? | |
| I just or no? | |
| Stephen, I just answered the question. | |
| I just said, I just, this isn't, it's not up to you how I answer the question. | |
| I just answered the question by telling you my colleagues at the White House Council has dealt with this, and I would refer you to them. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Can you just remind us what your colleague said from the White House Council so we have it? | |
| I would refer you to them, and they will share their statement with you. | |
| Your statements from that podium. | |
| You've stated that the president stands by his comment from the 2020 campaign that he never once discussed his son's overseas business dealings with his son. | |
| And you stood at that podium and you reaffirmed that. | |
| Do you stand by your reality? | |
| What I will say is nothing has changed. | |
| Nothing has changed. | |
| And I will leave it there. | |
| Anything else? | |
| I will refer you to the White House Council. | |
| Okay, nothing has changed. | |
| I never had a single conversation with my son about his foreign business dealings. | |
| Really? | |
| Well, what did we learn? | |
| And you've got to add to this all this corruption. | |
| This is why this ought to anger every single solitary American is that we now have a Department of Justice corrupted, an FBI corrupted, and weaponized against conservatives, and they do nothing but nothing but a protection racket for all things Democratic Party, all things Hillary Clinton, all things Biden, and they're after all things Trump. | |
| I mean, that's the America that we're now living in here. | |
| You know, think about this. | |
| You know, the conversation, I mean, it sounds like Vito Corleone. | |
| Linda loves my Vito Corleone. | |
| I want to say to all my friends here today that if anything should befall my son Hunter, if anything, He has some unexpected accident. | |
| I'll hold all of you at this table responsible. | |
| Well, this is honor. | |
| I'm here with my father, and we'd like to understand. | |
| We'd like to understand why the commitment made to us has not been fulfilled. | |
| Tell the director, I'd like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand. | |
| And by the way, now means the night. | |
| Hunter warns Zao that if you don't comply, I will make certain that that man sitting next to me, Joey, and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold the grudge, that you will regret not following my direction. | |
| And I am sitting here waiting for this call with my father. | |
| And then within a week. | |
| All right, that's enough. | |
| That hurts my throat to do that one. | |
| You still like that as your favorite, don't you? | |
| It's my favorite by far. | |
| Honestly, I don't think anyone else likes it. | |
| I don't think anyone else thinks it's. | |
| Everybody loves it. | |
| First of all, it's very good. | |
| I'll put a poll up on HandyD.com and I'll say, what do you like? | |
| And it's going to come back awful. | |
| No, it's not. | |
| I'll give three choices. | |
| You can decide what the choices are, but ultimately I'll decide. | |
| No, you go ahead. | |
| You always rig those polls against me. | |
| First of all, you won the last game. | |
| Get off my phone, you big dope. | |
| There's my little vent. | |
| All right, Clinton. | |
| Clinton. | |
| I want to say hello to all the hot chicks out there in the Hannity audience studio. | |
| If you ever want to see that. | |
| I'm just teaching the hippie-jeebies. | |
| That's not your fault. | |
| That's just because he's gross. | |
| And then I would do The Godfather. | |
| Well, you used to do. | |
| I mean, I miss Rush so much. | |
| I know, but Rush is in a category of his own. | |
| He's like on his own pedestal. | |
| It was funny. | |
| I mean, Kit Carson got so mad at me once because I would do a late-night show my first year when I started at Fox in 96 and at 11 to 2 in the morning, and Rush's lines would ring all night long. | |
| I mean, they never stopped. | |
| So I do full hours. | |
| You're on the EIB network. | |
| This is Rushboat. | |
| Sean Hannity would be nothing without me, which, by the way, for all of us is true because he paved the way for everybody. | |
| By the way, I told everybody at the time he could never be replaced. | |
| And we all just have to up our game. | |
| But even then, you just can't replace a guy like Rush. | |
| We all miss him. | |
| But I mean, think about this. | |
| They're nothing but a thug family. | |
| Miranda Devine had a great, great piece about all this corruption. | |
| You think about the 1023 form. | |
| And this is what, you know, McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy, this weekend was saying, okay, if these allegations turn out to be true, that Joe Biden took specific actions in exchange for monies that were given to him and his son, in this case, $5 million each. | |
| Yeah, that would be bribery. | |
| Forget about high crimes and misdemeanors when he was vice president and that they've sat on this information and done nothing with it. | |
| These IRS whistleblowers last week, you know, I'm sure a lot of you, you do what I do. | |
| You pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, because you know that the IRS will come after you with a vengeance. | |
| And anyway, but every single aspect of you, look at, you know, this guy, Shapely, one of the IRS whistleblowers from last week, is a hero, as is the second IRS whistleblower. | |
| You know, their testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee. | |
| You know, look at what we learned in the Durham report. | |
| Look at what we learned in the 1023 filing. | |
| Look at what we're hearing from these IRS whistleblowers that, you know, you want to talk about a slap on the wrist, you add to that all of the other monies that this family was taking in it. | |
| We need an answer. | |
| How much money did the Bidens do in business with China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and a dozen other countries? | |
| How much money did they put in their pocket? | |
| Right now, Comer is estimating some $20 to $30 million in their pocket alone. | |
| Okay, what were they expecting in exchange for this money? | |
| We're not getting any answers to any of these questions. | |
| Joe Biden attending business meetings with Hunter and Chinese business partners, checks being made after that, you know, Vito Corleone style call that he makes. | |
| Hunter deducting Hooker and sex club payments. | |
| The FBI division that investigates foreign spies was involved in this. | |
| And that all the people at the highest levels of government hiding it on behalf of the Biden crime family or syndicate. | |
| Let's be nice. | |
| We'll call it a syndicate. | |
| All right, one year anniversary of the overturning of Roe. | |
| And I'll tell you the best way you want to convince people on abortion, use the science of 4D ultrasound. | |
| That's what the group Pre-Born is doing. | |
| Every single expecting mom can get a free 4D ultrasound. | |
| And they also offer free counseling and baby formula and diapers and food, anything expecting mothers and then mothers need after they give birth. | |
| And they only can do it because unlike Planned Parenthood, they don't get a penny from the federal government with your generosity and the pro-life community and those that believe in the sanctity of life. | |
| I recently donated two of these ultrasound machines to their facilities because they desperately need the help. | |
| They're saving 200 babies a day. | |
| And if you want to put your money where your mouth is and you believe in the sanctity of life, just dial pound 250, say the keyword baby, or go to their website, preborn.com slash Sean. | |
| That's S-E-A-N. | |
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| And you can help them reach their goal. | |
| They want 10,000 new people to jump on board so that they can continue this mission of theirs. | |
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| And remember, they don't get a penny from the government. | |
| All right, a lot coming up when we come back. | |
| Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida will join us later on, John Solomon. | |
| And is Rebecca Koffler right? | |
| Did Putin and Progoshin, did they plan all this? |