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Now, with all the new developments and all of the WhatsApp messages, if you don't know what WhatsApp, it's an encrypted message delivery system that supposedly, you know, people can't hack into, that you know, you can hide on your phone, uh, disappears.
I know it does it work.
I don't know.
I don't use any of these encrypted apps.
I tried one once, and I'm like, this is too much work.
I don't feel like dealing with it.
Um now we're dealing with something that is that is far more challenging to this country and to the world, and that is what I have been describing as a new axis of evil, and that is the alliance of China and Russia and Iran,
and and now even our own allies appealing away from us, uh, betting on the fact that it's it's more likely that China is gonna come out on top and the U.S. is gonna fall even further behind, especially since Joe Biden has abdicated his role as the leader of the free world and and America's leadership role in the world stage.
Uh add to that now all the financial issues that have come up, you know, as it relates to the the Biden family, and and we've got ourselves one one hell of a problem in this country.
You know, the allegations that you know Biden appointed U.S. attorney, you know, is not allowing, was not allowing Hunter Biden to be charged in his district and allegedly was blocked from bringing charges in California, and we have six whistleblowers now coming forward,
and then of course we have you know the the Biden family shaking down China with all this money, and then you have to wonder what well, how does the the communist Chinese how is it possible that they were able to you know send a spy balloon over Alaskan airspace down the west coast of Canada into Idaho,
all the way across uh, you know, the the middle states in our country into Montana, down to Kansas and Missouri, up into Kentucky, and then out the coast of the Carolinas sending intelligence back in real time and and there were no consequences for it.
Just like Russia was able to take down one of our drones, and there were no consequences for it.
And then we're getting all these WhatsApp messages, you know, that you know I'm sitting here with my father, and I'd like to understand why the commitment uh made has not been fulfilled.
And and I'll make certain that between the man sitting next to me, Joe Biden, and every person he knows and my ability to hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.
And I'm sitting here waiting for your call with my father.
How interesting.
Days later, you know, monies end up in the coffers of the Biden family within a week, about five million dollars transferred.
Uh, but anyway, then the demands continued.
We have more new WhatsApp messages.
Hey, if you think this is about money, I can make five million dollars at any law firm in America, Hunter brags.
I doubt it.
The crack addict, uh, and they claim he was on crack at the time.
Uh, I don't think was capable of earning five million dollars a year.
The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership.
Let's not quibble over peanuts.
The peanuts he's talking about, he wants a ten million dollar payment, not a five million dollar payment.
So I guess they're quibbling over millions of peanuts, lots of peanuts.
You can buy a lot of peanuts for ten million dollars.
Uh now on top of that, we've even had more WhatsApp messages that have been released.
And what we're discovering is is that this Chinese energy company that eventually sent the money and messages from August of 2017, Hunter pushed that 10 million dollars would need it to be invested annually into this joint veteran venture with this big Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC, and called the five million dollar proposal new to me and not acceptable to me.
Anyway, the House Oversight Committee's Twitter account said that Hunter was messaging guy by the name of Gongwen Dong, a CEFC China Energy Associate, who used the nickname Kevin?
You know, I'm tired of this, Kevin.
I can make five million dollars in salary from any law firm in America at a time now that they're saying Hunter was using crack cocaine.
Uh I and if you think about the money, it's it's not.
The Bidens are the best at doing exactly what the chairman wants of this partnership.
Excuse me.
What is the chairman of what com oh the Chinese energy company?
Well, what are the Biden so uniquely qualified to offer a Chinese energy company?
I mean, it's just it's just influence pedaling at the highest level.
Well, now we're compromising national security.
And when you listen to Joe Biden talk about China, doesn't sound it doesn't build a lot of confidence in my mind that he has any intention of challenging the communist Chinese that have pretty much openly declared a cold war against us.
Militarily they're challenging our ships in the in the China Sea and in the Pacific in international water waves, they're challenging our fighter jets and international airways, and there's no consequences for anything they do.
Just praise from Joe.
China is going to eat our lunch.
Come on, man.
Come on, man.
They can't even figure out how to deal with the the the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the East.
I mean, in the West.
They can't figure out how they're going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system.
I mean, the I you know, they're not bad folks, folks, but guess what?
They're not a c'est not competition for us.
A more prosperous China will mean more demand for American-made goods and services.
And more jobs back home in the United States of America.
So our desire for your prosperity is not born out of some nobility.
It is in our self-interest that China continue to prosper.
Uh well, I I've spent a lot of time with President Xi.
Even he acknowledges that uh the the uh growth and progress in China has been a direct relationship of uh the stability that has been in uh encouraged by uh U.S. presence.
We're not trying to contain China.
We're not trying to slow down Chinese growth.
Growth of China is overwhelmingly in our interest.
We've recognized that the United States-China relations generate global economic benefit, not just to both our countries, but global benefit.
Last year, our trade with China supported over 500,000 jobs here in the United States.
There was a debate here in the United States, and quite frankly, throughout most of the West, is whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world.
As a young member of the foreign relations committee, I wrote and I said, and I believe then what I believe now that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.
I guess I want to ask you, do you think that this is is going to in fact be a major issue?
And are you vulnerable on this issue at all because of your son's business dealings in in China?
No, I don't believe so at all.
My son's business dealings were not anything where everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely.
Yeah, okay, that gives me confidence while the communist Chinese continue their intellectual property theft, their unfair trade practices, their devaluing of the U.S. dollar, and and their commitment towards removing the U.S. dollar as the world's currency.
Gordon Chang, author of the coming collapse of China and the Great U.S. China Tech War is with us.
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Now that certainly has tainted the Biden family.
No, Biden also has just been misguided.
Um, as Robert Gates said in his two thousand fourteen memoir, Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security decision of the last four decades.
You put those two reasons together, Sean, and you can see that our China policy has been benefiting China, not the United States of America.
Let's get your take on this, Robert Leitheiser.
Well, well, I would say first of all, listening to that uh uh declage, Sean was just breathtaking as someone who's been fighting this battle on behalf of America since as you said the Reagan administration is breathtaking, everything that he said that he doesn't seem to understand the problem.
I would point out that these notions that arising China is good for America.
That's what they argued in two thousand when Clinton and and Biden voted for the the you're giving China most favored nation.
Since then we've probably transferred six or seven trillion dollars worth of our worth of our wealth to China.
We have built the biggest army in the world, and it's in China, the biggest Navy in the world, and it's in China.
This is it it is so misguided and so scary to hear it all put together.
And another point I would make there is no difference between the Chinese Communist Party and that Chinese energy company.
There are no private companies there, they're all working to make China the dominant power in the world, all of them.
Quick break.
More with Gordon Chang and Robert Lighthizer as we continue on the other side.
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All right, we continue with Gordon Chang, Robert Leitheiser, uh, and your call's coming up 800 941 Sean, and by the way, the war on pizza we'll get to at the bottom of this half hour.
Why would the United States of America be allowing Gordon Chang, the communist Chinese to be buying up, you know, thousands and thousands of acres of farmland, ranch land, land near military installations.
Can you help me with that?
No, there's no reason why we should.
As we've learned in places like Oklahoma, uh, China's Chinese parties have been basing human trafficking operations on agricultural land.
And as they say in Oklahoma, yeah, the Chinese are building fences on their property.
Well, of course, everybody has fences in Oklahoma, but Americans in Oklahoma build their fences to keep people out.
The Chinese have been building fences to keep people in.
There's of course the issue of espionage.
There are all of these things, Sean, and until we get to the bottom of it, I don't think that we should be allowing Chinese parties to own land.
We know the criminal activities that have been occurring there, and I believe that uh we should be using forfeiture statutes when we find out that Chinese parties have actually been using their land for criminal purposes.
This is just unacceptable.
This is the American heartland, and the Chinese are poisoning it.
Well, Biden, by the way, was on on his egg game.
I mean, I gotta give him a lot of credit because he confused India with China and Ukraine with Iraq, not once, but twice.
Hard to tell, but he's clearly losing the war in Iraq.
He's losing the war at home.
And he has uh become a bit of a fly around the world.
Uh just NATO, it's not just in the same region.
It's Japan.
It's uh 49.
I uh I really can't take much more of this, Gordon, because America really doesn't have a cognitively functioning president.
Yes, and uh he misperceives China and Chinese leaders, I think look at that and are taking advantage of it because we can see the way they act towards the United States versus the way they act during the Trump administration.
The Trump administration showed strength.
It deterred China.
What we have seen during the Biden years was that they have not deterred China, they have not deterred Russia, which is the reason why we have the war in Ukraine and why we have China and Russia destabilizing North Africa.
And the reason why North Africa is important is because it's the gateway to Europe.
The countries in North Africa can prevent uh the flows of people, and also uh terrorism going across the Mediterranean.
And by the way, in Sudan, where they are now triggering an insurgency that looks like a war, that borders the Red Sea, which means that they can control the Suez Canal if they actually grab control of Sudan.
That is pretty chilling what you're describing here.
And and I've got to believe uh, you know, Mr. Lighthauser, that uh in fact, uh this has to a lot to do with all the monies that the Biden family got from China, because you know, look, we know the Libya had a dossier on Hunter Biden that was uh, you know, a mile wide.
I can only imagine the intel that they were able to get from the former crack addict and and hooker lover uh Hunter Biden and how compromised this family is in the dossier that the Chinese, the Russians, Ukrainians, and everyone else has on them.
Uh is this family compromised by China?
Are they incapable of of dealing from any position of strength?
Well, it's hard for me to believe that anyone can look at the the the geopolitical competition, the ad the adversity between between the United States and China, and not conclude that they are a number one problem.
But this fellow seems not to have done it.
China's going around the world telling everyone that we're in decline and they're and the ascendancy.
That's their basic Well, Netanyahu's going to see China, not the U.S. And every single thing we're doing is adding to that dialogue.
It's helping them make that case to all the other countries of the world.
The weakness, the decisions not to take action against them, the decisions not to put out the data on on COVID's origin, the decisions not to limit investment, all these various things, the decision not to complain about this by balloon, all these things are talking points for the Chinese party around the world to attack the United States system.
All right.
Robert Lightheiser, thank you so much for being with us.
We appreciate it.
And Gordon Chang, thank you.
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Uh all right, let's get to our busy telephones.
Many of you have been very patient here.
Rick in New York.
Rick, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, thanks, Sean.
I appreciate you taking the call.
I'm a truck driver of my own business, and I'm in and out of Florida quite a bit.
And boy, what a great state, but so much going on.
Can we really afford to lose a great governor like Ron DeSantez at this point in time with migration going there, population is growing, infrastructures, you know, booming uh as well as incomplete.
You know, with that with that statement, you know, I want to move to Donald Trump in his presidency in his candidacy on the first term.
He ran with the platform of draining the swamp, in which I felt he was very successful.
Uh where's Mitch McConnell?
Where's uh Nancy Pelosi?
That's part of it.
But the contrast is that we have the swamp still engaged with dirty politics, criminal activities.
You know, the Biden family is just out of control, out of control, and they're comparing it to the Swamp now putting uh President Trump in that same category.
What is Donald Trump going to run on this time?
I think he's gonna run on making America great again and re uh instituting the policies that were successful.
I mean, he's gonna run on his record.
He's gonna run on on going back to the policies that worked, you know.
Look, you know, look at the econom tell me what's working.
Tell me what Joe has done that is successful.
You know, Joe Biden is is kicking off his Biden nomics campaign, you know, at the same time, the leading economic indicator declines for the 14th straight month in a row and a 40-year high of inflation and interest rates have now more than doubled in this country.
It's it's it's stifling all new home construction, sale of pre-existing homes now at a at a low.
Home prices now beginning to decline.
Um what what has he done?
How's the borders looking?
You know, it's just anything he's touched is a disaster, and this guy can't even tell the difference between, you know, India and Iraq.
I I it's it is so beyond frustrating to me that I I don't have patience for it anymore.
I don't.
And, you know, my only fear is if we lose this election, I I don't know what happens.
I really think the consequences are dire for the country and the world.
Because the world needs a strong America, and we have a very, very weak president that is a complete cognitive mess.
It's a disaster.
Anyway, hope that answers your question.
Um, if I had my own way, I would rather, you know, in the course of any primary, there's gonna end up being a fight.
Always this.
I could tell you go back, you know, look at John McCain and George W. Bush.
There's always gonna come that moment where they go for each other's throats.
I wish it wasn't starting out that way, but it is what it is.
I accept politics as the blood sport that it is.
And I can only tell you that, you know, it's gonna be Republican voters that are gonna decide.
There's no doubt that the deep state is doing everything in its power to make it nearly impossible for Donald Trump to run, but I don't think it's gonna stop him.
I never met a guy like this.
Most people would collapse under the never-ending pressure.
You know, a Russia hoax investigation, you know, conspiracy theory spread by the media, the Democratic Party for three years, and then we find out none of it was true.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane never should have been open.
That there was nothing in the dirty dossier at all, whatsoever that was proven to be true.
That Hillary Clinton, they didn't raid Chappaqua for top secret classified information, nor was she held accountable for destroying subpoenaed emails.
You know, we have the you know, the the weaponized DOJ, your weaponized government, your weaponized FBI, you know, pre-bunking the very real Hunter Biden laptop that they had already authenticated.
It's corrupt, it's rotten to the core, and and I'll tell you, Republicans now they they've got some tough choices to make here.
And we need to get to the bottom.
What did Joe know?
When did he know it?
And how much money did Joe Biden maybe make off these business deals?
Because if he did, it's gonna be what it's it's gonna be called what it is.
Bribery.
It's you know, it's it's not just pay-to-play.
It's not just influence peddling what they're what the 1023 form is saying.
It's not it's not what the IRS agents are saying.
You know, and a cover-up the likes of which this country's never seen before.
This is the current most corrupt president we've ever had.
And I I don't think they're gonna escape it right now.
That's my feeling today, based on everything that's now coming out.
But time will tell.
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Uh Brenda is in Oregon.
Brenda, how are you?
Glad you called.
What are you doing in Oregon?
Why are you out there?
Uh born and raised and only there because uh my kids can be around my parents.
But I'm in Southern Oregon.
Well, Southern Oregon's a little nicer.
What, like, you know, Medford, Grants Pass, that kind of area.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know the area well.
Yeah, yeah.
I think uh because there is a gal that um anyway, my dad went to the doctor and she said that uh um she was your uh uh that you're her brother's sister, anyway.
There's I don't know if she's a nurse or something, but traveling.
But yeah, no, my my sister is a nerve.
All three of my sisters were nurses, but they all got out of it.
Uh my dad met her, so yeah.
Yeah, she's she was what the best at what she did.
She really was.
She has a she uh she's the nicer Hannity, trust me, than I am.
Everybody that knows the two of us knows that to be true.
Well, okay, so two things, and I'll be quick.
But um, so benefiting from uh from this money.
Uh Hunter was complaining about paying his dad's bill.
Plus, he is paying fifty thousand dollars a month for the Delaware home in rent.
So I think that's one thing right there.
Well, he also complained about paying half his income to Pops and the home repairs, and the big guy got his ten percent.
That's all implicated on the Hunter laptop.
Yeah, but where's he getting that money?
Well, from China and from other places.
China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Mexico, dozen other countries.
We'll find out.
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But Comer's in studio tonight.
Now I'll be I'll be listening because I'm on the road almost to um Cheyenne, Wyoming.
But the one last thing I wanted to say was the whistleblower, Stephen Friends.
What he said is what you need to do is empower local law enforcement, deputize local detectives from sheriffs to police officers, and bring federal charges against the and what you need to do is deputize them.
Look, I'll tell you what we need to do.
We need a reboot of the FBI and the Department of Justice.
We need a new FBI director.
We need new top uh people in terms of the FBI hierarchy.
Uh we need to go through and and re-interview every single special agent and rebuild the FBI and and return it to its former greatness as the world's premier law enforcement agency.
That's what we need to do.
And Merrick Garland, frankly, I think there's enough evidence out there right now, and enough we'll we'll be hearing more and more in the days to come about how he lied to Congress, likely committed perjury.
Time will tell.
Looks like it, according to these six IRS whistleblowers.
That's what that's what they're accusing him of.
He would need to go.
We need a new FBI director, and we need a top-to-bottom change, and we need equal justice under the law.
It's not about whataboutism.
It's about equal justice under the law and equal application of our laws.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Uh Illinois, Fred next, Sean Hannity Show.
How are you?
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Uh uh, I really appreciate your response to the last two callers because I think that leads into what I'm uh concerned about.
I'm an old retired football and wrestling coach, and I only mention it because uh I think the the way we go about uh addressing opponents and uh meeting uh challenges is uh seems to be a little bit different than the uh game plan that the uh Republicans are using, or even if they even have one.
But my concern is this is that there appears to be uh a total lack, in my opinion, of uh uh the hierarchy of the Republican Party doing everything necessary to win that 224 election.
They seem to be all over the board.
Uh they're they're being taken again down the yellow brick road by the uh Democrat Party where they're focusing on a thousand issues, and I think the focus has to be more narrow-minded, and it the most important thing is winning this election.
And I'm I'm interested in your I well I gotta I remember I was I was very, very critical uh about the Republican Party and the fact that they are not pushing every Republican, every conservative in the country to overcome this mysterious reluctance and resistance to voting early and voting by mail.
Not a problem in states like Florida.
You better embrace it because that's the system we have, not the one I wish we had, but it's the one we're stuck with.
The second thing is, and by the way, the Republican Party is now announced an effort.
It's called bank your vote.
Good for Ronald McDaniel.
Now, part B is they now gotta build out uh a legal ballot harvesting effort, especially in swing states to ensure that we match the the efforts of Democrats on the ballot harvesting issue, because it's legal in many states.
That means other people can collect other individuals' ballots and hand it in for them.
That's ballot harvesting.
And if Republicans don't match those efforts, they're gonna start out election day down two hundred, five hundred, seven hundred and fifty, a million votes, and that's an awful big margin to make up on election day.
And God forbid if it's raining.
So yeah, I agree completely with you.
Now, I did have a conversation, I think he might be on TV tonight.
Glenn Youncan is going to announce an effort in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and what I've been able to glean is the preliminary plan sounded good to me.
I have questions about it.
I'm not fully endorsing it yet, but what I heard sounded really good.
And maybe this is something that the Republican National Committee can duplicate.
But if they don't do it, then they ought not be in power.
Period and a sentence.
You better match and surpass the efforts of Democrats and understand if I've if I had my way, election day would be a national holiday.
If I had my way, you know, we'd have same day voting, and we'd have partisan observers watching the voting in every precinct all day long, and when the polls closed, watch the vote counting all night long until they came to a uh final number.
And then as a result, then you call the race.
We know who wins, we know who loses, and there's integrity in the system.
But until we get to that point, we're stuck with their system.
And their system, we better match the efforts.
You go to war with the army you have, not the one you wish you have.
And that's the system we're stuck with.
So they better match those efforts.
Okay.
And lastly, uh, you know, I I agree with the notion you've alluded to it, and so is Mark Levin, that uh the Democrats just seem to be better at winning elections than we are.
They seem to be more organized, better.
Well, why do you think these people hide in their basement and and get away with not debating like Katie Hobbs?
We had Kerry Lake on the show yesterday.
Why do you think that that John Federman got to, you know, there were um nearly a million votes banked in Pennsylvania before he debated Oz and and he hid in his basement.
How did Joey Biden hide in his basement?
They do this it's the same, it's the same playbook.
They run negative ad after negative ad, hundreds of millions of dollars or worth of them against Republicans.
Uh they don't put themselves in any position where they can be asked any hard questions.
They avoid debates at all costs if if they even participate at all.
And by the time they participate, they probably have banked enough votes to win.
And Republicans have allowed that system to go unchallenged.
Twenty twenty was an anomaly.
Twenty in the terms of COVID.
Well, we don't have COVID as a problem anymore.
Now we need integrity in our election system.
And these are the measures that I am telling the Republicans that they better adopt or they can expect To lose.
And if they're happy losing, then they ought not be in that position.
Anyway, I honestly don't see any other solution.
Appreciate the call, my friend.
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