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Congressman Jim Jordan - September 28th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, the beginning of the impeachment inquiry taking place today.
Fox has done a great job with their coverage.
And I thought there are major new developments this week.
We're going to get into all of this with Jim Jordan, who is the chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
They had on-site hearings in Chicago this week about violence in Chicago.
Not one Democrat even wanted to participate.
Just frankly, a national disgrace.
Anyways, Byron Donald's, very effective, a member of the Oversight Committee.
He reads, let me play for you him reading a text message from Jim Biden to Hunter Biden saying that, oh, you were brought in to protect dad.
And then reading a text message from Hunter to Naomi Biden saying, well, you know, I've been paying for everything for the last 30 years.
That's the half the income goes to pops.
Reads another text from Jim Biden to Hunter Biden saying, I can work with your father alone.
Wow.
Listen to this.
Now, this is a text message.
This is a text message between it's going to Naomi Biden.
That's what this one is.
Hold on, wait a second.
Let me get myself back.
Here we go.
Sorry.
This is the WhatsApp text message between Jim Biden and Hunter Biden.
In this text message, it clearly says, anyway, we can talk later, but you've been drawn into something purely for the purpose of protecting dad.
This is between Hunter Biden and Jim Biden.
Last time I checked, the father of Jim Biden and Joe Biden has now passed away.
So I'm assuming this is Hunter Biden saying to Jim Biden, the president's brother, that you've been brought in this for the sole purpose of protecting dad.
Ms. O'Connor, do you think that this text message would lead this committee to get further information about the business dealings of Hunter Biden and how that actually links to Jim Biden, the president's brother, and why they are so concerned with protecting dad, aka Joe Biden, aka the president of the United States?
Yes.
This is a text message between Hunter Biden and Naomi Biden.
And this one's a famous one.
Everybody knows this one.
This is the famous one that says, I hope you all do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.
It's really hard.
But don't worry, unlike Pop, I won't make you give me half your salary.
Mr. Dubinsky, if you saw a text message like this in a potential money laundering operation or a potential pay-for-play operation, would you be looking for information related to money going from son to father?
Absolutely, without a doubt.
Thank you.
Next slide.
Oh, this is a fun one.
Ladies and gentlemen, this one is from 2018.
This is about four months before Joe Biden launched his campaign for president of the United States, December 2018.
The highlight is, this is a text message between Jim Biden and Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden was in a bad way, by the way.
He was really strung out.
He lost a bunch of money.
He needed help.
Jim Biden says, this can work.
You need a safe harbor.
I can work with your father alone.
It'll probably take several months and everybody can read the text.
Ms. O'Connor, Ms. Dubinsky, if you saw text messages like this between the president's brother and the president's son, wouldn't you be concerned about them trying to give plausible deniability for the president of the United States to not have any knowledge of said business dealings?
It's worth it, but please answer the question.
It's worth investigating.
Mr. Dubinsky?
I would agree.
I would investigate this.
I yield back.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
That was Byron Donald's at the first impeachment inquiry hearing.
They were also nasty and brutal to Jonathan Turley, which I thought was just typical, to be honest.
You can't, would you expect any better?
Anyway, joining us now, he's the head of the all-important House Judiciary Committee chair, and a friend of the program, Jim Jordan of Ohio, joins us.
How are you, my friend?
I'm fine, John.
How you doing?
I'm doing good.
And, you know, you basically have in tandem these investigations.
You have the House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith.
You have your committee, Judiciary.
Then you have James Comer, House Oversight Committee.
And very complimentary now in terms of your investigation.
In particular, you're looking at whether the DOJ, the FBI have been weaponized and politicized.
You're watching this closely.
Now, I want you to give the Jim Jordan answer because there's probably nobody that gives the lists better than you.
Because all I hear from the media mob, no evidence, no evidence, no evidence, no evidence, no evidence.
There is a mountain of evidence.
Yeah.
You're right, Son.
There's a mountain of evidence.
You've given this to your viewers and listeners for weeks and months now.
But again, I always try to boil it down to, I think you focus in on bereavement and four key facts here.
Hunter Biden's put on the board, gets paid millions of dollars.
Hunter Biden is not qualified to be on the board.
He said so himself.
Fact number two.
Fact number three, bereavement executives asked him to help them with the pressure they're under.
Fact number four, Joe Biden goes to Ukraine.
Five days after they asked him to do this, when Hunter Biden makes a call to him, he goes to Ukraine and starts to process to fire the prosecutor.
And then we learned yesterday with new documents at the Ways It Means Committee released that they not only fired the prosecutors applying the pressure, they subsequently working with Blue Star Strategies, a consulting firm here in D.C., Burisma, that Hunter Biden put in touch with Burisma.
They get the second prosecutor to drop the charges against the top executive at Burisma.
That's all happening.
And so this is a classic story of where a politician takes actions that benefit his family financially.
And then to top it all off, the Justice Department tries to conceal it, tries to sweep it under the rug.
And that's where we've been focused as the Judiciary Committee, the actions of David Weiss and what they did in that investigation.
Go through that evidence because there's a mountain of evidence there as well.
Yeah, they couldn't.
David Weiss wouldn't allow them to interview the adult grandchildren.
Couldn't execute a search warrant on a storage unit without first tipping off the defense counsel.
Couldn't use the term big guy when they did get to do the one interview that David Weiss's prosecuting team allowed him to do.
Couldn't look at political figure number one.
That's what came out yesterday.
Political figure number one is the big guy is Joe Biden.
And there was a search warrant where they wanted to look at Hunter Biden's electronic communications, his email, and they wanted to search, use the search term Joe Biden.
And the prosecutor said, you can't use political figure number one, can't use Joe Biden.
Couldn't charge for 2014-2015.
Those are the textures where he got the Burisma income because that would take him to the White House.
So they let those statute limitations expire.
Couldn't investigate the possible campaign finance violation when someone came in from the outside and covered Hunter Biden tax burden.
All those things they couldn't do.
And then they put together, then they structured this plea deal that the judge in Delaware says the loany.
Never seen a plea deal like it.
Never had one anything.
The prosecutor acknowledged that when the judge said, have you ever seen a plea deal like this before?
No, Judge.
Then why are you putting this before me?
I mean, that was powerful because they buried immunity into the plea agreement and the gun diversion paragraphs.
But page 15, they buried that.
Yep, yep, exactly.
Jonathan Turley was great.
He said there were three things that you look at.
False statements.
We know that happened from Joe Biden.
But also false statements that came from his administration where they say the president's done nothing wrong.
Jin Socky, Ron Clain said the president's confident his family did nothing wrong.
Then you have the influence peddling scheme, which we just walked through.
And then you have this, he talked about benefits.
And I asked him a simple question.
I said, can benefit to your family be a benefit to you?
And he said, most certainly.
And the law recognizes that.
And that was what was going on here.
I think it's pretty clear from the evidence that we've uncovered thus far.
The bribery statute does not require that you directly benefit.
Yep.
It could be somebody like your son.
Now, in the case of Burisma, now it was official Obama administration policy as of October of 2015 that they believed that Ukraine had made enough progress on the issue of corruption that warranted the billion in loan guarantees.
That was their official policy.
And as you look a little deeper into the timeline, what do you find out?
Okay, December 5th, phone call, Hunter.
And this is at the time where Burisma is begging for help, need D.C. help.
Well, Hunter's in Dubai with Burisma executives.
They get on the phone December 5th with Joe Biden.
And five days later, as you rightly point out, or December 4th is when they got on the phone.
December 9th is when he withheld the billion to get the prosecutor fired.
Son of a bee, he did it.
And one of the net consequences of that is Hunter continued to get paid for a job he admits in his own words he was not qualified for.
Yeah, here's straight from Devin Archer's deposition.
Under oath, Devin Archer, Hunter Business is Hunter Biden's business partner.
We ask him the question.
The request was help from the United States government to deal with the pressure they were under from their prosecutor.
Mr. Archer's answer, correct.
Then Mr. Archer has asked, what did Hunter Biden do after he was given that request?
Devin Archer's response, he called his dad.
And as you point out, Sean, five days later, he went there, gave the speech.
And when he gave that speech, it was a direct flip, 180 degrees change from where the interagency policy committee said they were, which was they had approved the loan.
And what really, I think, bothers me is he leveraged your tax dollars, your listeners' tax dollars, American tax dollars to get that change done.
And the request was straight from his son, which came, and that request came straight from the and as a result of that decision, who benefited who was paid millions of dollars with no experience?
His son.
Exactly.
Who admitted to being an addict at the time?
Let me add one other thing.
For a guy that goes on Good Morning America, acknowledges he has no experience in energy, oil, gas, Ukraine.
Well, I don't think he had much experience with China either.
Then you go to the WhatsApp message, and that's the, I'm sitting here with my father.
And why haven't you kept your commitment?
And you need to understand that between everybody he knows, my ability to hold a grudge, you are going to regret it.
And within just a number of days, $5.1 million happened to be wired to his account from CEFC, which is the Chinese oil and gas conglomerate.
How convenient for some guy that knows nothing about energy, he's making a lot of money in the energy world.
Sure is.
And remember what Joe Biden said.
He said, no one got any money from China.
In that debate, he said, and he pointed to President Trump except President Trump.
So he said something that was not accurate.
So again, this goes back to Jonathan Turley, who was considered one of the experts on impeachment and impeachment inquiry phase of our oversight duty, talked about the false statements and how this could be an abuse of power.
And the comparison he gave us was relative to the Nixon administration, that impeachment process.
So I think the evidence is so strong here for requiring us to move into this phase of our constitutional duty to do oversight.
And we're just going to continue to do it.
And as you know, Mr. Comer has said that he plans to subpoena bank records from the various banks who were involved with the Biden.
And Hunter Biden and other Biden family members, correct?
Yep.
Okay, so let's talk about the FBI, what we learned from the IRS whistleblowers, what we learned from FBI whistleblowers.
My understanding is there are whistleblowers that have already testified before varying committees that we haven't heard from.
Is that true?
We have interviewed a couple of guys from the FBI who are part of the Hunter Biden investigation.
We have scheduled two more individuals from the Justice Department who were part of the Justice Department Tax Division, which we think is an important division and played a big role in how this investigation was handled by David Weiss and the DOJ.
And of course, David Weiss is scheduled to come in front of the committee probably for a transcribed interview, maybe in a hearing, but for a transcribed interview that is tentatively scheduled for October 18th.
All right, quick break.
More with Jim Jordan, the chairman of the very important House Judiciary Committee investigating whether the FBI, DOJ, are politicized and weaponized.
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We continue with the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan.
You got a letter from David Weiss, did you not?
Saying one thing about whether he had the authority to go after Hunter Biden and other jurisdictions.
In this particular case, we're talking about D.C. and California.
Lindsey Graham also got a letter, did he not?
And weren't the two letters conflicting?
You know, a direct contradiction of each other?
They sure were.
June 7th, he writes me and says he has ultimate authority to determine when, where, and whether to file charges.
June 30th, he writes me a letter and says, well, actually, I don't like the only charges in my district.
And then on June, and then on July 10th, he writes Senator Graham and says, actually, I want to clarify things here.
I've not had discussions about special counsel status.
Excuse me, I've not sought special counsel status.
I've had discussions with DOJ.
But more importantly, I think contradicting things is what Attorney General Garland said on March 1st.
He said, David Weiss has complete authority to bring charge wherever he wants.
Didn't he say that under oath?
Isn't it a felony to lie to Congress?
I'm just asking.
We definitely said it under oath in a question from Senator Grashley.
Last week in front of our committee, he said this.
He said, in trying to clarify things, I guess, he said, he had ultimate authority because I promised him he would have ultimate authority.
Well, that's different.
Having ultimate authority doesn't mean you have to go get permission and rely on some promise from someone else.
Ultimate authorities, you have the authority.
So I think he said two different things that further confuse the matter and could, and I brought this up with Professor Turley today in the hearing, I think, is a real concern.
Well, when you have conflicting messages, that's a huge concern.
And for all these, there's no evidence.
None whatsoever.
Wow.
I wonder how these same people would be acting, especially the ones talking about Jared Kushner after his time serving in the Trump White House, you know, doing a deal with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Wow, it's amazing how interested they are.
A lot of this happened when Joe Biden was president.
Hang on, shoot.
I know you got to skip.
You've been great.
We always appreciate having you on.
Thank you for always keeping this audience in the loop.
Jim Jordan, thank you.
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Everyday Sean Hannity is on All right 25 to the top of the arrow get to your calls 800 941 Sean if you want to be a part of the program I did get a lot of compliments on the what we played early in the program is the 10 minutes I had with Gavin Newsom You know because I'm just asking do you really think Joe is cognitively strong?
He almost kind of acknowledged he didn't really dispute the assertion that he's a cognitive mess yeah, but look at his results.
They speak for themselves.
I mean that was a pretty interesting thing.
You know, we land in California.
Linda, what's the first thing I do when I like land in California, Vegas, Nevada, where, you know, when I'm out west, whatever.
Very, very excited about In-N-Out.
Okay.
What's the first thing I got?
In-n-out.
In-n-out.
Did you have any In-N-Out?
No.
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I want my jeans to fit for at least another couple of years.
Okay, I got it in a lettuce wrap.
I was very healthy.
First of all, you can wear baggy sweatshirts and jeans all the time.
You're not a chick.
Okay.
Really?
Well, how do you know I'm not identifying as one today?
You weren't when you were eating that burger.
That's for damn true.
Okay, whatever you say.
You know, and then I'm asking, why is it $7 a gallon for gasoline here?
Oh, it's price gouging.
I'm like, oh, but you're the only state that's being price gouged because the average cost of a gallon of gasoline around the country is now $4 a gallon and going up again because all these predictions that a barrel of oil would be $150 a barrel, that's not good for any of us.
That means Biden inflation on steroids and human growth hormonal next.
And then we went to some other issues here.
You know, well, we're more energy independent now than at any point in history.
No, the guy that did that was Trump.
And why are we importing oil from Venezuela and begging the Saudis to produce more?
Why didn't they finish the Keystone XL pipeline?
We could have gotten 900,000 barrels of oil from, I don't love little Justin, but at least he's an ally.
See, this is where I think we could have gotten that a day.
Including you.
Most Republicans don't do this right.
And the only reason I say this is because I consider myself to be somewhat of an energy aficionado and buff.
I know a ton about energy.
Not saying that you don't.
I know.
You're best friends with the former CEO of Shell.
I'm not best friends with him.
I haven't talked to John in ages, actually, although I do love his message.
No, I like him.
He's a good guy.
He's amazing.
Harold Hamm.
You worship it as awesome.
I love Harold Hamm.
He's a great guy who can make billions of people.
What's your point?
I got it.
My point is what you should say to any liberal who says that the way to the future of energy independence and clearing up climate change, because we don't call it global warming anymore because it doesn't fit the narrative, is we go electric.
And so my next question is, fantastic, wonderful.
How does that work?
What makes electric go?
What makes electric go?
And see what happens.
The answer is they'll get it wrong.
We've been over this on the show many times.
We never had that conversation about pipelines in Venezuela and Russia and all this other crap.
Remember last summer they were telling EV owners that they could only charge their electric vehicle during these hours because they have all these rolling brownouts, et cetera, et cetera.
A lot of good, those energy policies have worked for the people of California.
But $7 a gallon is insane.
Now, here's another really important point as it relates to this.
Americans don't want them.
They don't want EVs.
And those that do, we're buying Teslas to begin with.
Well, look how, first of all, they're out of control expensive.
Second of all, let's just put the cars aside for like, I don't know, 30 seconds.
80% of products that Americans use are made with the use of oil.
So the crap you put in your hair, the plastic you stuff your stuff in on your dresser, in your drawers, the stuff you put your sandwiches in for your kids to go to school, all these plastics that you use, they're made from oil.
They're made from fossil fuels, which makes oil.
It's not electric.
90% of our grid is fossil fuels.
So when you charge that 2,000-pound battery, in your electric vehicle, just remember this.
They also have to pillage Mother Earth.
And they send it to the USB.
For a finite resource, no less.
By the way, very finite, unlike the resources we have for oil.
And an unperfected way of drilling because they don't know what they're doing yet.
So they use heavy equipment fueled by diesel, fossil fuels.
They pillage Mother Earth of manganese and nickel and cobalts.
I don't know how you make them.
And by the way, a lot of them are being made in China.
So now we're going to get more dependent on China.
Don't forget that China's buying up all the lithium mines in the battery and all the ways of being able to get it.
And we're stupid enough to let them.
We are not.
We are because we're asleep at the switch.
Joe's asleep at the switch.
Be honest.
Trump would never allow it.
I mean, unless he's eating ice cream.
But I'll tell you right now, I want to know how we're going to pay for all the bridges in the roads and the amount of trouble that we're going to have because they're being easily destroyed by the weight of the EV battery.
Like that collapse in that garage in New York City that nobody talks about.
Yeah.
Well, let me tell you, well, they're much heavier.
By the way, don't get in an accident with an EV or a MAC truck, an 18-wheeler.
Probably not going to end well.
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You said you wanted to grade me on Gavin.
Go ahead.
I'll take the hit.
It's not a hit.
I'm just saying.
No, it's going to be a hit.
No, it's always a hit.
When you say, I want to give you an honest honor.
I'm just giving you an honest pitch.
An honest asset.
Go ahead.
Hit me.
You know, listen.
Punch me.
It says in my back.
Punch me.
First of all, kick me.
It's very odd how comfortable you guys are together.
It makes me feel, it makes my skin crawl, quite frankly.
Do you want me to hate them?
Well, yeah.
By the way, is your hate.
I thought when you became a devout Christian, which you are, and that's really changed your life.
I had a real zinger the other day, didn't I?
You really did.
No, but when you said to me, I got rid of my hate list.
No, no, that's not true.
I said that my hate list had gotten shorter.
I only have 13 people on it.
I used to have like 38.
What about Jesus' message of, you know, love others as you love yourself and love your enemies.
Don't hate your enemies.
There are certain parts of myself that I don't care for, so I just assign those parts to those 12 people that are on my list.
You want to name them?
Anybody on our team on your list?
No.
That'd be freaking weird.
I'm just asking.
What are you doing?
Are you trying to stir it up?
What's up?
Am I on your hate list of 12?
There are some people that used to be on our team that aren't here anymore that I don't care for, but I don't hate them.
I hate like really bad people.
You know what I mean?
Right.
So you don't like that.
Well, I don't get uncomfortable during interviews or confrontational interviews or debate interviews.
No, listen, I love confrontation and I love conversation and I love people having a difference of opinion and I love people defending their opinion.
There's nothing I dislike more than somebody who says, ugh, Newsom, Trump, and you can't tell me why.
That to me is completely feckless and uncomfortable.
Did you like when I pushed him about Biden's cognitive being a cognitive mess?
Did you like when I pushed him on the price of a gallon of gasoline in California?
Did you like when I pushed him on answering the question if under any circumstances he'd run this cycle?
Auto's question.
So you see the atmosphere, you feel the electricity, you feel the room.
Oh, I know where you're going.
You know where I'm going.
I know where you're going.
Okay, and you just finished.
Are you presidential debate?
Are you promoting a presidential campaign?
I want to know.
Governor.
Because I know the truth.
In your heart, in your mind, you want this.
But you have basically gone on a media tour sucking up to Joe Biden, and you know he's a cognitive mess.
You know it.
I also know he's got an extraordinary record.
Oh, yeah, huh?
I'm passing gas station after gas station and gas station.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you're right.
Excuse me.
Gouging us.
Oil companies are screwing us.
$4 a gallon in every other state.
$7 I saw here.
Why is your state $2 as much?
As of today, I monitor this very closely.
I just did a special session.
We became the first state in the country to do price gouging legislation with a new monitor.
Just went into effect.
These oil companies are ripping us off.
Only ripping off California.
$2.06.
This mystery surcharge that they've been advancing for years and years.
So at the average around the country's four.
And I saw anywhere between $6.50 and $7.
$2.06 higher.
You're absolutely right.
So your state is much more than every other state.
Exactly.
$2 higher.
Because they're screwing us.
There's no justification.
It's not regulation taxes.
Yes.
85 cents.
85 cents, low carbon fuel standard.
How many dollars does California get per gallon for gasoline tax?
When you add the gas tax, you add cap and trade, and you add the low carbon fuel standards, and then periodically add, and I'm being as transparent as I can be, and you add our unique blend, you get a differential around 85 cents.
That you can justify, not $2.06.
That's where the oil bidding should be $1 more a gallon.
You don't want to trust the oil companies.
I can assure you, these guys don't have your back or the American company.
Let me tell you something.
When Donald Trump was president, gasoline prices nationwide never averaged $3 a gallon.
Never once averaged people giving back another million barrels.
We didn't have OPEC Plus screwing us.
We didn't have a war in Ukraine.
We didn't have also going through this COVID supply chain reality.
So there was a lot of competing factors that led to some of this.
By the way, he made the country energy independent for the 2020s.
By the way, 75 years.
We are more energy dependent today.
Look that up.
It's a fact.
And if you're not going to be able to encourage the people watching, encourage the people watching 9-4 quads.
Google 9.5.
Look at all the 0.95 has put independent today under Biden.
Pence doesn't know that.
Your audience doesn't know that.
More domestic oil production than any time in history.
We're on pace this year.
That's a fact.
You guys keep making that up.
No, we don't make it up.
You're making it up.
We're energy independent, and now we're not energy independent.
No, we're not.
Here's my exit question.
What happened tonight?
Under any circumstances at all, yes or no, will you ever, ever accept the Democratic nomination to run for president in 2024 under any circumstances at all?
That's a yes or no?
I'm looking forward.
I was just in Chicago with the DNC.
I don't need the long answer.
I want the yes or no answer.
President Biden's inaugural.
Will you accept this under any circumstance?
It's a hypothetical.
Yes or no?
No.
No, under any circumstances.
It's ridiculous.
So what I'm hoping that you'll be able to do at some point, and so far I haven't seen it, is you ask good questions, right?
So you'll say, you know, gas is seven.
Well, you heard it because we just played it.
Yeah, I know, but I'm saying, like you said, like, oh, gas is $7 in your state.
Why is that?
Oh, well, that's because of Biden and this and that.
No, it's not.
It has absolutely nothing to do with that.
And I said that to him.
He talked about price gouging.
I said, what?
You're the only state price goug?
Because it's $4 an average in every other state.
Right.
So my point is, is that when someone says, makes a big statement like that, I'm like, okay, tell me more.
How's he price gouging?
Well, I would say that's a good question.
See, like that's my thing.
But how much time do you have?
You don't have that much time.
Well, I did get out of him.
How much is this is regulation, California regulation?
How much of this is taxation?
I got him to admit, well, 85 cents of it is.
Yeah, like a good question for him is like, so all these tents that you're putting up for your crack addicts and your Narcan deliveries, what's the, you know, equivalent, analogous, you know, proportion that you're giving to veterans and homeless, you know, kids and things like that.
And let him answer that question.
I asked him whether or not he still supports sanctuary states.
I asked him if the borders were secure.
We got a lot in in 10 minutes.
Right, but he does, I mean, honestly, he should start doing the tango professionally because he's wonderful at cha-chaing around the answer.
Well, let's get to our phones.
Maybe we'll get some better grade.
Did you want to give me an overall grade?
I like that you had sneakers and jeans on.
That was good.
That was nice.
I don't wear sneakers.
Whatever those shoes are you wear.
What are the shoes you wear?
No, Operation Sean Shouldn't Fall is on.
So I wear ones that, you know, are not like dress shoes.
Sean shouldn't fall.
No, they have Operation.
You know, don't let Joe fall again.
I never fall.
I happen to be in the best shape of my life, as you know.
And how well can I train?
Shape has anything to do with falling.
I'm the clumsiest person that I have.
There are people that can have all the time.
They can people that can have vertigo.
I know people with vertigo.
By the way, it sounds horrible when they describe it.
Yeah, you do fall.
I do.
I'm very clutzy.
Maybe if you wore less high heels, that would be helpful.
High heels, you know?
I don't think any woman loves high heels.
I do.
All right.
800-941-Sean.
All right, that's going to wrap things up today.
We got a great Hannity tonight.
Day one of Joe Biden's impeachment inquiry.
We have the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Oversight Accountability Committee, James Comer.
In studio tonight, we have an audience show.
Greg Abbott is going to be on set.
Tommy Laron, Tudor Dixon, Jimmy Phela on set, and free footballs.
But you got to sign up at Hannity.com.
Probably sold out by now, but not sold out, given out by now.
Anyway, so we'll see you tonight.
Got a great show.
And also more fallout from last night's debate and the disaster that happened in Philly.
We'll get to that.
9 Eastern tonight.
Hannity, see you on Fox.
Back here tomorrow.
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