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The Challenge to Save the Vote - September 21st, Hour 2
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So still a lot of fallout from, you know, the dodging, the ducking, the weaving, the deflecting, the obfuscations.
That were all things.
Merritt Garland yesterday and, you know, six plus hours before the House Judiciary Committee, obviously they're investigating whether the FBI and the DOJ are politicized.
We now know the American people think so in ever-growing numbers.
They don't trust Merrick Garland.
They don't trust the Department of Justice.
You know, unless you're a partisan Democrat and you're the beneficiary of a weaponized justice system, you're going to have no criticisms at all.
You know, his, I don't know, I don't recall, I can't talk about it.
Well, as you know, it's currently under investigation.
Therefore, I'm not able to respond.
And all of these are questions that we needed answers to.
With two IRS whistleblowers, were they telling the truth?
Because they directly contradicted testimony that Garland's Justice Department interfered with the investigation into the Hunter Biden case five long years.
Did the son of Garland's boss receive preferential treatment?
Did Hunter get special treatment?
Why has he never been charged with the serious felonies?
Why would you put in place, why would you basically give a promotion to a guy already spent nearly five years, now over five years, investigating Hunter Biden and the original plan was not to charge him at all.
And only because of brave IRS whistleblowers was he charged, only because of them.
And of course, that first deal was supposed to be the slap on the wrist sweetheart deal.
And it buried in the plea bargain and the gun diversion provision was, oh, complete immunity from any further prosecution.
Let's go back to yesterday, Jim Jordan grilling Merrick Garland over the Hunter Biden probe.
Listen.
Mr. Garland, did you consider, I just want to go back to this question, did you consider anyone else when David Weiss requested special counsel designation on August 8th?
No, Mr. Weiss asked to be made special counsel, and I did not consider an alternative.
I'm going to be clear.
He was the only one under consideration.
It was either no special counsel, or if there was a special counsel, it was going to be the guy who presided over the investigation for the previous five years.
They made an intentional decision to say, we're going to let the statute of limitations lapse.
And I want to know who decided that and why they did it.
Mr. Weiss was a supervisor of the investigation at that time and at all times.
He made the appropriate decisions, and you'll be able to ask him that question, and he will.
You know why they did it.
Everyone knows why they did it.
May not say it, but everyone knows why they did it.
They didn't buris those tax shears.
That dealt with the pres.
That involved the president.
It's one thing to have a gun charge in Delaware.
That doesn't involve the president of the United States.
But burisma, oh my, that goes right to the White House.
We can't have that.
Anyway, joining us now for analysis of all this, Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
This is his latest best-selling book, Trial of the Century.
Robert Severino is with us, Vice President of Domestic Policy at Heritage and Trump's former director of the Office of Civil Rights and also a former DOJ civil rights attorney.
You know, Greg, I just listened to this.
You know, why did he allow the statute of limitations?
Well, he said it was the appropriate decision.
How was that the appropriate decision?
This is a five-year investigation.
And Jim Jordan was dead on accurate.
This gun charge that they tried to get a diversion provision that even the prosecutors had to admit to the Delaware judge that they'd never, ever seen a deal like this before.
And that's why that blew up.
And that led to charges.
But that was the last option for Mr. Weiss.
But the idea that all of this took place and he thinks it's the appropriate decision, would it be the appropriate decision of Sean Hannity, Greg Jarrett, or any conservative or anyone with the last name Trump, if the statute of limitations were allowed to run out on their cases?
Yeah, I mean, I think you have put your finger on the most important point in all of this.
How could the lead prosecutor deliberately let the statute of limitations expire for three full years worth of obvious crimes?
We know Hunter Biden spent three years paying no taxes whatsoever on the tens of millions of dollars flowing into these LLCs and shell companies.
And in the end, members of the Biden family were the beneficiaries, and Joe Biden, it appears, was actively involved in aiding.
Well, it appears he seemed to be very involved in spite of all of his, you know, protests and comments that he never once spoke to his son or brother or anybody for that matter.
Not only did he speak to them, he was meeting with these foreign business partners.
And his domestic business partners, you know, had, you know, dozens and dozens and dozens of opportunities to meet at the Obama White House and with the vice president in his residence.
Yeah, I mean, I think David Weiss deliberately allowed those statute limitations to run so that they didn't have to do a conscientious investigation into those three years that intimately involved Joe Biden's activities helping his son.
That's aiding and abetting.
That's conspiracy.
It is bribery under the influence of peddling criminal statutes in the U.S., 18 U.S.C. 201, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
So this was a concerted effort to protect Joe Biden by getting rid of any of the criminal charges for three years against his son.
And Roger Severino, I mean, this gets to the heart of whether or not, and this is what the Judiciary Committee is looking into, whether or not, in fact, the FBI has been weaponized, the DOJ has been weaponized, because I can't imagine under any scenario that if this were a Trump, any prominent conservative, that things would be handled very, very differently, wouldn't they?
Well, that's right.
To use the metaphor, DOJ had the smoking gun, and then they got rid of the murder weapon, right?
The tax returns from 2014, 2015, those were the years when Hunter Biden was getting paid $1 million a year by Burisma, the Ukrainian company, that then Vice President Biden did a favor for by getting rid of the prosecutor that was looking into corruption allegations in that same company.
And then the DOJ lapsed.
They're not going to pursue these charges.
I was at DOJ Civil Rights Division for years.
One of the cardinal sin you could ever commit is letting the statute of limitations lapse.
That could get you in serious trouble even fired.
You don't just say, oops, the deadline passed.
This was a considered decision.
It had to be done at the highest levels if it was David Weiss or if it was higher.
But it is absolutely inexcusable when you have the evidence right before you when Hunter Biden himself said he was not qualified to be on the board to get that million dollars a year.
To refuse to investigate, to play dumb and let it quietly go away is a miscarriage of justice, plain and simple.
I keep going back to this Burisma timeline, and that, Greg Jarrett, is October 2015.
It officially becomes Obama administration policy that their conclusion after an interagency analysis was that there had been enough progress in Ukraine on the issue of corruption that warranted the continuation of loan guarantees, in this case, a billion dollars in loan guarantees.
And then we have this important phone call, you know, five days before Joe Biden is headed to Ukraine, and that phone call came from Hunter, Burisma executives, that we know were reaching out desperately in a panic mode to Hunter, that they need D.C. help.
And then five days later, after the Burisma executives, Hunter and Joe, get on a phone call, you know, I guess it just is a mere coincidence that Joe Biden leveraged the billion dollars, and their D.C. help was to get rid of that prosecutor that was making their life hell, or they might go bankrupt, as even Devin Archer admitted.
And son of a B, they fired him after he leveraged our tax dollars to get that guy fired.
And one of the subsequent results of that is a guy with no experience, an admitted addict at the time, continued to get paid.
Yeah, and, you know, the media has been offering apologies and excuses.
No, there's no evidence, they say, Greg, none.
Yeah, no evidence.
And, you know, I watched a fact checker tell his audience that Joe Biden couldn't have committed any crimes under the law because it hasn't been shown he personally received a cut.
Well, apparently those fact checkers never bother to check the law.
Biden doesn't need to receive a penny to have committed felonies because under the law, if cash goes to some other person or entity like his son, these LLCs and shell companies, instead of the office holder Joe Biden, that is still the crime of bribery.
And in fact, you don't actually have to confer a benefit to a foreign entity or national to have committed a crime.
The mere promise, even the illusion in exchange for money, that is still the felony of bribery.
So the media lies and misrepresented.
But there's evidence he did benefit financially, which, again, the media says there's no evidence at all whatsoever.
Now, we have this evolving narrative.
At first was he never spoke to his son, a brother, or anybody, for that matter.
Then it became, oh, he was never in business with his son.
You know, now it's evolved in a whole new meeting.
And I've got to imagine legally that there is a reason for this.
And maybe you can give me your take on it.
When Abby Lowe came out this week and said, no, no, no, the first son did not share his business or his profits with his father.
That would be the third incarnation of the excuse of Joe Biden.
Yeah, I mean, there are documents that actually show Hunter was paying his father's bills.
And if any of that money came from the ill-gotten gains in these influence peddling schemes, then in fact, the money has gone to Joe Biden.
Well, what account should we take it from?
That was correspondence with the finance guy at Rosemont Seneca, a guy by the name of Eric Schwarz, wasn't it?
Yeah, and of course, we all remember, you know, the email saying, I'm sitting here with my father.
It was a shakedown demanding money.
And within five days, $5 million is wired to Hunter Biden's company, part of the money that eventually went to the family.
And that's the WhatsApp message that Greg is referring to, Roger.
You can add to that the 1023 form, the FD 1023 form.
We have a trusted FBI informant speaking with and quoting directly the CEO of Burisma, you know, admitting that he didn't want to pay the Bidens, but he had to, and $5 million for one Biden, $5 million for another, and it'll take you 10 years to figure out where it came from.
Well, that's the problem.
We have been prevented from finding all the documents because the DOJ has led the statute of limitations lapse.
They were prevented from investigating, quote, the big guy, right?
The IRS whistleblowers said they were specifically said you cannot ask about that.
That means you can't ask about the president linked to the whole matter, right?
This is incredibly outrageous what the DOJ is doing to cover up for the president.
Had it been anybody else by this time, Hunter Biden would have been in prison and we would have found out how much money went to President Biden himself.
We had private communications from Hunter Biden that said half of his money was going to his dad, the big guy.
President Biden should have known that his son's lavish, drug-fueled lifestyle was being paid for by something.
And when he shows up to a dinner with Burisma folks, which he had denied that he had any contact, he showed up at a dinner.
How could you not know what is going on?
Anybody with half a brain knows what influence peddling looks like.
That's exactly what it looks like.
And we got more than just influence peddling.
We have results where Biden bragged about getting rid of a prosecutor that was investigating a company that was paying Hunter Biden a million dollars a year.
That just stinks to high heaven.
It really does.
All right, quick break.
We'll continue more with Greg Jarrett and Roger Severino on the other side talking about the disastrous how we politicized the DOJ and FBI, and now it's being weaponized against conservatives.
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Greg Jarrett and Roger Severino looking at Merrick Garland's disastrous bob and weave and duck and dodge testimony yesterday.
Where does the judiciary go from here?
Where does the House Oversight Committee and their investigation go from here, Greg Jarrett?
Because I had Nancy Mace and Jim Comer on radio and TV this week, and I'll tell you, it's pretty, they think the 20 million plus is just the tip of the iceberg, and they're both confident that this for the Bidens only will go north of $50 million.
That's an awful lot of money, and nine Biden family members paid, and a lot of shell corporations used to pay them.
Where do you think this ultimately goes?
Does this House of Cards begin to collapse soon?
Well, I think it does as long as they follow your advice several months ago when you and I were together on your television program, and you said the key here is to follow the money.
That's always the good answer.
And so whether it's the Oversight Committee, Judiciary, Ways and Means, or I think what's preferable is an impeachment inquiry committee because it gives it greater authority historically to force them to capitulate and provide documents.
And we've already heard from members of Congress who said, we're going to go after the documents of Hunter Biden.
We want Joe Biden's documents.
We want to see his 5,400 alias emails that may provide some smoking gun documents.
So all of that together, follow the documents, follow the money.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I appreciate you both.
Roger Severino.
Greg Jarrett, thank you both for being with us.
Pleasure.
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You know, one of the things I have been saying, and I will continue to say it, that, you know, if I had to pick the single voting system that would be fair for all, that would have the most integrity in terms of the system,
where Americans could have confidence in election results, I wouldn't be having the system we currently have where, you know, people vote in some cases, you know, months in advance and drop boxes and legal ballot harvesting, et cetera, et cetera.
I wouldn't have any of that.
I would have same-day voting.
I'd have Election Day be a national holiday.
I would insist on voter ID and signature verification and chain of custody controls for any mail-in ballots for maybe the infirmed or the elderly or the military.
I do not believe that we should have any form of legal ballot harvesting, but that's not the system that we have.
If we had that system, and then you had partisan observers watching the vote in every precinct all day, and when the polls close, partisan observers watching the vote counting all night until they can declare a winner.
That's the system I'd have, but it's not the one we have.
And the reality is, I know there's been historically this early, this reluctance, resistance among Republicans and conservatives.
They don't trust the system, so they don't trust sending their vote in by mail, and they don't believe in voting early.
And by doing so, it is putting Republicans at a distinct disadvantage.
And unfortunately, it's the army you have, not the one that you wish you had that you go to war with.
Democrats, they've embraced all of this.
They've embraced early voting.
They've embraced voting by mail.
They've embraced legal ballot harvesting in all these states.
And I brought this up many, many times with Ronald McDaniel and the Republican Party and Republican elected officials.
And, you know, at the very least, the first thing they need to do is insist that Republicans have got to get over their reluctance and resistance to voting early and voting by mail.
Otherwise, you're going to start every election day down hundreds of thousands of votes.
That's a lot of votes to catch up on, and you only got a day to do it.
And God forbid it's bad weather outside.
So that is the system that we've got to now change our mindset.
And then eventually, hopefully enough Republicans would one day get elected, and then they can change it into the system that I believe would ultimately be the fairest and the system that I believe would have the most integrity in it, and people could have the most confidence in the results.
But as for now, Republicans must, they've got to get over their reluctance to vote early and by mail.
That's part one.
Part two is Republicans, whatever the Democrats are doing in terms of legal ballot harvesting in many of these states, they've got to get involved in this.
Now, to their credit, the Republican National Committee has now come up with, I guess, a strategy called bank your vote, helping to get Republicans to vote earlier and vote by mail.
I don't see that they've lifted a finger on the issue of ballot harvesting efforts like the Democrats have done.
And they better get in this game sooner than later because we're nearly a year out of the most important presidential election in our life.
Now I noticed in Pennsylvania, they just implemented Motor Voter.
Anybody that gets a license will get to register to vote.
Here's the problem.
A lot of these states, you don't need an ID to get a license.
And we've got to make sure people, U.S. citizens, got to make sure that they are who they say that they are.
And there's got to be some check and balance to that.
Anyway, Scott Pressler is the founder, executive director of Early Vote Action.
Their goal is to turn out the Republican vote in future elections.
And anyway, thanks for being with us.
Mr. Hannity, thank you so much for the opportunity.
Tell me what you're doing.
So earlyvoteaction.com was launched in January of this year.
Hold your tomatoes, listeners, at home, but it's my contention that if Republicans wait to vote on one day in November of 2024, then with all due respect, Joe Biden has already won reelection.
We must engage in, yes, Election Day voting, but also early in voting and in states like Nevada, where it's legal, ballot harvesting.
And so my organization, Early Vote Action, is focused on Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
By the math, by the Electoral College, we win those five states.
We win back the White House and we defeat Joe Biden.
Tell me exactly what you want people in these states to do.
I need their help registering voters.
We have gunshowtrader.com.
I need help with the evangelical community getting Christians out to vote.
If every Christian voted, we'd never lose another election.
I need help, for example, with the Amish community.
We have 80,000 estimated Amish in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
That's enough to swing a statewide election.
I'm even working with black Muslims in Philadelphia.
This is going to be a broad coalition of moms, of students, of white working class, of evangelicals coming together, but we must first make sure that everybody's registered to vote.
And it's also an educational campaign, Sean, because if people want to defeat Joe Biden, then they must be registered in some states as a Republican.
Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania.
Those are all states, but you must be registered as a Republican if you want to vote in the Republican primary.
And one thing that people need to understand, Sean, is yes, next year is important, but we have elections this November in 2020.
Oh, you got important elections in Virginia.
I would assume New Jersey's up as well, isn't it?
And Sean, you hit the nail on the head.
Virginia, in my opinion, is one of the most important this year because let me tell you, if we are able to pick up two state Senate seats, we'll give Governor Glenn Yunken an entire, entirely Republican legislature, and that puts Virginia in play next year.
Big time.
I think I agree with you.
And hopefully, and I know Governor Yunkin has moved forward with some of these reforms himself.
So am I missing anything when I talk about, you know, voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody control, updated voter rolls, partisan observers observing, embracing mail-in and early voting, embracing legal ballot harvesting.
Am I missing anything?
Well, I really want to explain why people are hesitant and why I understand, but why we have to move forward ultimately to everyone that's listening right now.
Yes, election integrity is important.
And yes, they hear you loudly.
But look at 2022.
The reason why I founded Early Vote Action is Kerry Lake should be governor.
Blake Masters should be in the Senate right now.
But in part, we waited to vote on one day, Election Day.
Look at Nevada.
We had a great candidate, Adam Laxalt.
It snows, like you said, on election day.
He loses by 8,000 votes, but here's the kicker.
150,000 registered Republicans did not vote in last because I want people to know I listen to them.
They say, Scott, Sean, I want one day, one vote, one paper ballot.
Luzern County, Pennsylvania, and Harris County, Texas both ran out of paper ballots on Election Day.
And so my mission to everyone listening is I care about your vote.
I want every legal vote to count, and I want to lock them in.
And that's why I'm calling for an all of the above approach to voting in order to defeat Joe Biden.
Have you talked to the RNC and Ronald McDaniel?
The chairwoman has been reached out to by members of the 168 of the RB.
She has my phone number, and I welcome her to reach out to me at any moment.
Any group that's going to be a part of this effort is very important.
Anyway, Scott, we appreciate it, man.
Thank you.
Hey, thanks for the opportunity.
Have a nice day.
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Brooke is in South Carolina.
Where in South Carolina are you, Brooke?
Hi, just right outside of Clemson.
Oh, does that mean you're not a Gamecock?
Is that what I'm a tiger?
Definitely a tiger.
Oh, boy.
Congratulations.
Every friend I have is a Gamecock fan in South Carolina, that is.
Unless you're Lindsey Grammy.
I support both teams.
I'm like, all right, you're such a politician.
Yeah, we're split right down the middle.
I mean, we've got Clemson, we've got Carolina, and we've got Georgia.
I'm all split in the household.
So you can imagine how that goes with us.
What's going on?
What's on your mind today?
So I'm calling about, you know, the impending government shutdown and just wanted to share a little bit about my experience as an Army wife with it.
Okay.
During my husband's time in the Army, there were two government shutdowns.
And what the outcome of that is, you know, when it shuts down, those families that they're not getting what they need, when they happen, luckily enough, I was working.
So with my husband not getting paid, I was able to pick up.
But I got to see friends and neighbors and community really struggle just to go get groceries and they have small children.
You know, they need diapers, formula, you know, what have you.
And just everybody not knowing, you know, when it's going to come in, that's so not cool.
You know, the soldiers, they put their lives online, are ready to go at any moment.
And they join the Army most of the time for stability.
But with stuff like this in the government, there is no stability.
And that is part of a big reason why my husband decided not to re-enlist.
Well, I'm sorry your husband decided not to re-enlist.
Look, there's a lot we could do better with our military.
I mean, let's be very honest here.
I mean, I know Donald Trump made a lot of improvement and even opened up any hospital if they can't get the care in a timely manner that they need.
You remember we had learned that they had two lists that they were putting veterans on.
You know, somebody said they need their heart check.
They're having chest pain.
Okay, you got put on one list.
And then, you know, when they actually called you, they put you on another list that you'd only called two days earlier.
And like, there's so much corruption that went on.
And I think hopefully a lot of it's been resolved.
I haven't gotten an update.
Right.
And we don't pay these guys enough.
So, you know, I tend to agree with you.
You know, I don't want the military hurt in any way.
And as I said, essential workers like the military need to be paid.
Social Security checks need to go out.
Medicare needs to be handled.
Veterans Affairs programs need to be funded.
Relief measures need to go through.
But that was all part of the Republican proposal.
Right.
And we see, you know, what exactly ended up happening and how bad it affected so many members.
I mean, just on our base alone, you've got at least 10,000 people on there that are going without.
And how, you know, our government can sit down and allow that to happen is absolutely asinine.
You know, like I said, these guys lay their lives on the line and to provide for their families.
I'm not being flippant when I say I don't really care about a government shutdown.
However, historically, how it's worked, Brooke, is that you have these people that get furloughs, non-essential employees, and then they get paid for a free vacation.
That's how it usually ends.
But essential services continues.
And, you know, there's got to be a line in the sand somehow, some way here when we have $33 trillion in debt.
We can't continue to ignore this massive burden that we're putting on our children and grandchildren.
We've got to do something about it.
And these are the moments where it's painful to stand up and say, okay, this is too important to let politics as usual continue.
But yeah, there are going to be some people that are totally inconvenienced and great difficulty.
And I hope that mortgage companies and car companies with loans and renters, et cetera, that they are landlords will understand that, hey, we're going to get back pay here.
Can you give me a little more time?
What I have found with people, and when you're straight with them, is they're very, very, they're very good.
I don't know.
But I just hope that our military in particular doesn't have to go through that hassle.
I really do.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you so much for having me on.
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Attorney General, I need a simple yes or no to the following.
Just yes or no, because we don't have much time.
Do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?
Yes or no?
Let me answer what you've said in that long list of Happy to answer all of those.
Attorney General control the time.
I'm going to ask you to answer the question.
You control time by asking me a substantial number of things.
I didn't ask you those things.
I'm answering the Attorney General.
Through the chair, I ask you: do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?
Look, I have no idea what the traditional means here.
Let me just explain that.
Let's go to church.
May I answer your question?
The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous.
So absurd.
Mr. Attorney General, it was your FBI that did this.
It was your FBI that was sending, and we have the memos, we have the emails.
We're sending undercover agents into Catholic churches.
Both I and the director of the people were appalled.
Have said that we were appalled by that memo.
So then you agree that they're not extremists.
We were appalled by that memo.
Are they extremists or not, Attorney General?
I think that's the thing in that memo is not.
I'm asking you a simple question.
Say no if you think that was wrong.
Catholics are not extremists.
No.
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