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Dec. 6, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Live from Iowa - December 5th, Hour 1

Sean previews the Iowa Caucus and gives his thoughts on the future of the race.  Plus, some news out of Washington that should really scare you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We are in beautiful Davenport, Iowa.
We're here for a town hall with President Trump in the lead up to the all-important Iowa caucuses.
That's the first in the nation, and it gets the um, but um anyway, I hope you'll tune in.
That is all happening tonight.
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Uh a lot happening in Washington, D.C. that should scare the living bejesus out of everybody.
It really should.
You know, Christopher Ray testified.
I'm gonna play him in a second and play an exchange that he had in particular with with Ted Cruz and and with Lindsey Graham about the threat level that has gone up in this country and how dramatically higher that it has gone up in this country, because it should scare every American and it shouldn't be in America.
This should not be happening in America.
There are ways to protect us.
But when the FBI director says that the terror threats elevated to an all-time high, and that he sees blinking lights everywhere, and among the statements that he makes is you know, he's out there saying what I would say is uh that is unique about the environment that we're in right now in my career is that while there have been many times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there,
where we may be right now, I've never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.
So blinking red lights analogy about 9-11, all the lights were blinking red before 9-11.
And Lindsay Graham continued, obviously all of us missed it.
Would you say there are multiple blinking red lights out there?
Well, his answer is I see blinking red lights everywhere.
Well, you know, pause for a second, then why has he been taking limited FBI resources and allocating them to go after tiger moms like Linda that show up at school board meetings that are upset about the age-appropriate material being taught their kids, maybe about gender identity or CRT or whatever it happens to be.
That would be a local policing issue.
And if you got blinking red lights everywhere, maybe that's where your priorities ought to be.
Maybe before elections, you shouldn't be sending agents to meet uh weekly with big tech companies and indoctrinate them into a system of belief that they're going to be Victims of a misinformation campaign that may be about Joe and Hunter Biden, knowing damn well that Hunter Biden's laptop was real, number one, and number two, that it was likely going to be released because you knew that Rudy Giuliani had a copy of it.
Uh maybe they shouldn't participate in those political activities.
Maybe they shouldn't be going after traditional Catholics or people that are peacefully protesting that happen to be pro-life.
Then he later tells Graham that since October 7th, what happened in Israel when Hamas brutally murdered all these Israelis and took all these hundreds hostage, the threat level has gone to a whole new level.
But he's not just talking just about that.
He's talking about at our nation's borders.
I want to go through some of this with you because this ought to scare every single American.
Because this is this is real, this is a real threat to our homeland.
You know, I've been saying something I don't want to say on this show.
And every time I say it, I say, I pray to God that I'm wrong.
But I'm pretty much a hundred percent certain now that with eight million plus uh Joe Biden illegal immigrants in this country because of his unwillingness to enforce the laws of the land and uphold his oath to our constitution.
You don't get to pick and choose what laws you want to enforce and what laws you're not going to enforce.
But because he has allowed all of these unvetted people into this country, it has now created what is nothing short of a clear and present danger to the entire country.
I'm picking something out.
I have a piece of paper on the floor.
For example, we have caught at the border, not talking about people that the Ghadaways, as we call them.
Why did America catch 659 Amer uh Iranians at our border?
Iran, last time I checked, is the number one state sponsor of terror.
What are they doing at our southern border?
How is it that 6,386 uh uh Afghans have been caught at our border?
Isn't that the same country where Al Qaeda operated and was at war with us?
Why are 3,153 Egyptians at our southern border?
Isn't that the home of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Yeah.
Why are 538 Syrians caught there?
You think they're friends of America, the country?
Do you think they needed to be vetted before we ever would let them in the country?
Then a whopping 12,605 Russians, a whopping 26,113 Chinese.
Now, I didn't make up these statistics.
Those statistics come from the customs and border protection.
That's data that they have that they released.
Well, if Fox News.com broke that story.
I mean, how is that even possible?
So I'm watching Director Ray, you know, now saying I see blinking lights everywhere I turned.
Well, if the if the FBI director sees it, why isn't he told the American people sooner than now?
October 7th was quite a long period of time ago, but he was seeing it beforehand he indicated.
Now, anyway, he testified to Lindy Lindsey Graham about this level going up to another level since October 7th.
Also told Lindsey Graham about multiple plots that Iran has attempted against the U.S. that's cut 14.
Let's listen to this.
What is Iran trying to do to America?
So Iran, which is, of course, the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism.
Let's start there.
Iran, just in the last couple of years, if you want to bring it home here to the homeland, in the last couple of years, Iran has tried to assassinate a former U.S. national security advisor on U.S. soil
Has tried to kidnap and then try to kill a journalist, American journalist and human rights activist, right smack in the middle of New York City, has conducted a cyber attack on a children's hospital in New England, and for extra credit, as Director Ratcliffe and I announced in the fall of 2020, tried to interfere in the last presidential election.
Okay, with all of that, now ask yourself a question.
Why has he been taking limited FBI resources during the period of time he's describing and assign special agents to meet with big tech companies to what ended up being a full-on FBI FBI censure of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Why is he why is he involving the FBI if it's not needed?
We do have local law enforcement.
Why is he involving the FBI in school board meetings for crying out loud?
Why?
Because Tiger Mom, Tiger Dad got all worked up at a school board meeting?
Yeah, I think the local sheriff or the local police department could probably handle that.
You know, why then are they going after traditional Catholics?
We had a story with Jim Jordan about this last night on Hannity.
Why why aren't they focused like a laser bee when he's talking about all of these attempts by Iran over the just the last couple of years to kill kidnap cyber attacks that they're involved in?
Then he testified that he's concerned that international terrorism threats to the homeland are rising as the border continues to be broken.
Now, since Joe Biden's been president, we now have over eight million illegal, unvetted Biden illegal immigrants in this country, and many from the countries I mentioned Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, China, and Russia.
Now explain to me why that has not been, you know, brought forth in previous hearings loudly and clearly and telling the country that we need to secure our borders.
Why has he while why has he waited this long and allowed eight million illegal immigrants into the country before he decides to tell us?
Listen.
Are you concerned that international terrorists are we found enough fentanyl to kill 80 percent of American people?
And that's just in the last two years.
Okay.
Do you think we missed some fentanyl?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Uh what role does China play in the fentanyl problems America has?
Well, the I'd start with uh China supplies most of the precursors uh to the cartels in Mexico, which then leads to the fentanyl that comes here.
Uh and that's been talked about a fair amount, and it's a huge problem.
But in addition to that, China is also responsible for an awful lot of the pill presses manufacturing of the pill presses, which of course are also used.
And in addition to that, a lot of people don't know this, but China is also responsible for an awful lot of the precursors for the Meth that's manufactured south of the border as well.
Do you see that getting better?
I do not.
Are you concerned that international terrorism threats to the homeland are rising as the border continues to be broken?
I am concerned that we are an elevated threat environment, a heightened threat environment from foreign terrorist organizations for a whole host of reasons.
Um obviously their ability to exploit uh any port of entry, including our southwest border, is a source of concern.
You know, with there's a lot of discussion about numbers and numbers are important, but let's not and we have seen an increase uh in KS so-called KSTs, known as suspected terrorists attempting to cross uh, you know, over the last five years.
Did I mention rating Marilago?
I'm sure that was right at the top of the list, but not raiding Joe's garage with his beautiful Corvette or going into the U Penn Biden Center or going to the University of Delaware or going to Joe's beautiful beach house that I'm sure that he bought on a senator's salary uh because you know he's just so wise with investing of his money.
And it just got worse from here.
And it just makes you wonder.
Now, uh Ted Cruz, I mean, was was pretty brutal here and said Ray doesn't question if the FBI tried, you know, the assertion that Hunter Biden's location when the infamous WhatsApp message was sent, why not?
This is an important question.
I am sitting here with my father.
We are wondering why you did not fulfill the commitment.
And between everybody he knows, my ability to hold their grudge, you will regret not following through.
Five days later, five million dollars shows up in a in a bank account of Hunter.
Listen to Ted Cruz.
An IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley testified before the House of Representatives that the natural step he wanted to follow was to determine whether Joe Biden was in fact sitting next to his father when this threat was made to extort millions of dollars from a Chinese communist.
And what the IRS whistleblower testified is that when he tried to find out whether Joe Biden was sitting next to Hunter, that the DOJ blocked getting the GPS data on Joe Biden's phone.
Did the FBI try to ascertain where Hunter Biden was and where Joe Biden was when this text was sent?
Well, I think the questions you're asking go to the ongoing investigation being led by special counsel Weiss.
And so I'm not going to be able to discuss what is or isn't in scope.
Yeah.
Let me give you a short answer for I'm not answering that question because everybody was involved in this cover up as it relates to all thing the Biden family syndicate.
And this is this this is the whole reason for Jim Jordan's investigation on the House Judiciary Committee committee.
Has the FBI of Joe Biden have they been politicized?
Have they been weaponized?
Has the DOJ been politicized?
Has it been weaponized?
And the bigger question is do we have a dual system of justice, or is Lady Justice blind?
Do we have equal justice under the law?
Do we have equal application under our laws?
Well, the answer is obviously no.
And you can look at the rate at Mar-a-Lago and compare it to Hillary Clinton's laptop and 33,000 deleted subpoenaed emails, you know, bleach pit and hammers and devices and SIM cards, and of course the dirty Russian disinformation dossier that is predecessor.
You know, no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute speech or Joe Biden's, you know, top secret classified documents.
Can you imagine if the Trump family had tens, you know, dozens of shell corporations, 10 family members paid, uh, the the head of the company, admittedly no experience in energy oil, gas, oil, Ukraine, or China, making millions of millions of dollars in energy and oil and gas and coal?
Yeah, I don't think anybody would believe it, and I will tell you the whole nation would be talking about it.
By the way, the whole nation eventually will be talking about it because the evidence is so overwhelming in my opinion.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
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And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes, inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of 10, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
All right, we continue.
We're in Davenport, Iowa for our town hall tonight with Donald Trump, uh 9 Eastern tonight, set you DVR, Hannity Fox News Channel.
Hope you'll join us for that.
I want to do a deeper dive into the hearings with Christopher Ray and more of the exchange with Ted Cruz, uh, some of the exchange with Senator Josh Hawley and one with uh our friend Senator Kennedy.
Also later, uh, we I want to discuss uh it was pretty unbelievable because three big schools, including Harvard, uh had to go before at least the phonics committee, and literally Elise Stephonic just grilled the Havid president, and man, it was interesting.
We'll play that when we come back.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Thank you for being with us.
We are in beautiful Davenport, Iowa.
Uh, our town hall tonight, uh, nine Eastern Hannity on Fox News.
One thing I'll say, I c every time I've been to Iowa.
The people, the nicest people.
They just they just I mean, just hard working, salt of the earth.
It's not politicians.
You gotta remember this.
Most people, you know, think, oh, it's not politicians that make America great.
It's the American people that make America great.
The people that, you know, uh get up, work really, really hard, that are really tired at the end of the day, uh, you know, obey the laws, pay their taxes, raise their kids, you know, the the people that you know work their 14, 16 hours a day.
Uh, they pack their kids lunch, they take their kids to activities, uh, they find time to do homework with their kids, they take their kids to church on Sunday, out to eat Sunday afternoon, football, Sunday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then you know, back to the grind on Monday, which happens to be what you know, a little bit about what life's about.
I mean, for many, it's you know, I've no people that have retired and they're thinking, oh, I'm gonna retire and I'm gonna love my life.
Three weeks in, they're like ready to jump off a ledge because they don't have anything to do.
They've hit enough golf balls to last 10 lifetimes.
They're like, I'm done with this.
And then other friends of mine that retire, and they're like, it's the greatest thing ever.
They travel in the world, they're they're playing golf.
I have one friend in particular that loves to tell me every day what he does.
Loves to send me a picture of the big fish he caught, loves to send me, you know, a picture of him dropping a birdie, loves to send me a picture of uh someplace in Italy or Paris or wherever else he might be traveling.
I'm like, okay, I hate you.
I write back every time the same thing.
I hate you.
Because they're being so mean.
Uh anyway, I love the people in Iowa.
Thank you all for coming tonight.
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All right, before we get back to the FBI director and his testimony, I got a lot more ground to cover there.
Um I want to get to these university presidents that testified today.
He had the presidents of Havid, Havid University.
I showed up at Harvard once.
Somebody I knew was graduating from Harvard.
Somebody close to me.
And I was asked to go.
And uh, oh, actually, it wasn't Harvard, it was Yale.
Sorry.
What do I know?
I don't know anything about these schools.
And by the way, I went to the I went to the house under the Ivy League University, and they rented a local home.
It literally had rats in it.
It was the disgusting, it looked like Animal House.
It was so disgusting.
You know, remember that movie, John Belushi.
If you haven't seen it, you gotta watch it.
It was so bad.
It was so disgusting.
And anyway, uh, you know, Ivy League kids, they're geniuses.
They have no problem getting along with the little critters in life and loving all of God's creatures.
Uh I love all of God's creatures to a point.
When it comes to m mice and rats and hamsters and squirrels, uh forget it.
I want no part of it.
None at all.
And bugs, you know what, bugs don't bother me.
Unless they're in my house, then I want to kill them.
Every one of them.
That's what exterminators are for.
Anyway, so you have the president of Havid University, a woman by the name of Claudine Gay, and then you had the president of the MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, and they were called to meet uh in on Capitol Hill and frankly called on the map after weeks of a backlash over their school's responses to surging anti-Semitism.
By the way, a story out today that should make everybody sick to their stomach, is uh Columbia University students have announced an event celebrating the Hamas October 7th attack.
Can you think about this?
You know, for like 80, what does it cost?
80 grand, 100 grand a year to send your your little son or daughter, or as O'Reilly calls his own children urchins to college that, you know, they could be enjoying the finest anti-Semitic indoctrination anywhere else in the Western world.
Anyway, Washington Free Beacon had this story.
A student group at Columbia University in New York is hosting an event on the significance of October the seventh Palestinian counteroffensive.
That's what they're calling it.
The latest example of college students now endorsing, oh, let's see, murder of what, four, hundred innocent Israeli citizens and a surprise sneak attack, uh, including raping innocent girls and women, including kidnapping and murdering innocent babies, beheading people.
You gotta be kidding, we're gonna celebrate this group.
We will discuss the significance of this counteroffensive and the centrality of revolutionary violence to anti-imperialism.
Columbia Social Workers for Palestine advertising on Elon Musk's uh what formerly used to be called Twitter, now called X. Uh let's see, they have engaged in nonviolent resistance tactics for years.
No, they haven't.
They've been firing brockets forever into Israel.
I know I actually was there when they were being fired.
I saw them myself being fired right out of Gaza.
You can see Gaza with the naked eye when you're in a border town.
I was there, I saw it.
I was in the terror tunnels as well.
Anyway, the student group describes itself as a collective students of Columbia's School of Social Work.
Why are these students even on campus?
Now think about the woke world in which we live in.
Think of what happens in the stories we have told you about in the last two years, couple of years about you know, kids that are in school, if God forbid they use the wrong pronoun, and what the reaction of the administration is.
Well, what if somebody made a homophobic slur or racist slur?
Or uh, you know, that they were Islamophobic.
What would the what would the consequences for these students be?
We all know the answer to it.
Anyway, so Elise Stefanic, this is her grilling Havid President Claudine Gay over the pro-Palestinian protest rhetoric on her campus.
Listen.
Let me ask you this.
You are president of Harvard, so I assume you're familiar with the term intifada, correct?
I've heard that term, yes.
And you understand that the use of the term intifada in the context of the Israeli Arab conflict is indeed a call for violent armed resistance against the state of Israel, including violence against civilians and the genocide of Jews.
Are you aware of that?
That type of hateful speech is personally abhorrent to me.
And there have been multiple marches at Harvard with students chanting, quote, there is only one solution, intifada revolution, and quote, globalize the intifada.
Is that correct?
I've heard that thoughtless, reckless, and hateful language on our campus.
Yes.
So based upon your testimony, you understand that this call for intifada is to commit genocide against the Jewish people in Israel and globally, correct?
I will say again, that type of hateful speech is personally abhorrent to me.
Do you believe that type of hateful speech is contrary to Harvard's code of conduct, or is it allowed at Harvard?
It is at odds with the values of Harvard.
Can you not say here that it is against the code of conduct at Harvard?
We embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful.
It's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying, harassment.
Does that speech not cross that barrier?
Does that speech not call for the genocide of Jews and the elimination of Israel?
When you testify that you understand that is the diff definition of intifada.
Is that speech according to the code of conduct or not?
We embrace a commitment to free expression and give a wide birth to free expression, even of views that are objectionable.
You and I both know that's not the case.
Wow.
Now here, listen to this.
This is Elise Stefanic now calling for the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay right to her face.
What action has been taken against students who are harassing and calling for the genocide of Jews on Harvard's campus?
I can assure you, we have robust.
What actions have been taken?
I'm not asking underway.
I'm asking what actions have been taken against those students.
Given students' rights to privacy and our obligations under FERPA, I will not say more about any specific cases other than to reiterate that processes are ongoing.
Do you know what the number one hate crime in America is?
I know that over the last couple of months, there has been an alarming rise of anti-Semitism, which I understand is the critical topic that we are here to discuss.
That's correct.
It is anti-Jewish hate crimes.
And Harvard ranks the lowest when it comes to protecting Jewish students.
This is why I've called for your resignation.
And your testimony today, not being able to answer with moral clarity, speaks volumes.
I yield back.
Wow.
Pretty unbelievable.
Now, I know parents in years gone by have always wanted their kids, oh, I want them to go to an Ivy League university.
No, my answer to that is no, thank you.
I think we'll pass on that.
Um, let me get back to Chris Ray.
Uh, because when the FBI director says that there are blinking lights everywhere uh in terms of a terror threat in the environment we're all living in right now, and that it's been going on for some time, and then you think of what the FBI has been involved in, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.
Uh you know, describing multiple plots as he did that Iran has attempted against the U.S. Uh, you know, you have the first question you have to ask is why hasn't he done anything?
You know, if he's out there saying what I would say is the unique, what's unique about the environment we're in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where we are right now, I've never seen a time where all the threats are or so many of the threats are all elevated all at exactly the same time.
And this is where Lindsey Graham brought up the issue of blinking red lights, you know, like 9-11, all the lights were brink blinking red before 9-11.
Ray says, I see blinking red lights everywhere.
The threat level has gone to a whole other level since October 7th.
He was saying it was higher before even before that happened.
You know, and during his testimony, you know, it it just doesn't make any sense at all.
What has he done about it?
And why is he taking limited resources in in the period of time that came up today and allocating that time, you know, of the time of limited agents?
I mean, they only have limited resources at any law enforcement agency.
And and why are they investigating parents at school board meetings?
Why are they investigating pro-life people that are protesting peacefully?
Why are they investigating, you know, things that they they have no business investigating?
You know, for example, traditional Catholics.
Yeah, those nuns really scare the hell out of me.
I, you know, those priests really scare the hell out of me.
The choir director that they interviewed really scared the hell out of me.
Unless there's some specific threat.
Now, Ted Cruz continued with with his questioning.
And by the way, on the issue of targeting Catholics as extremists, Josh Hawley really went at him.
Listen.
But I can tell you that we don't investigate people for their exercise of their constantly protected protected religious expression.
That particular intelligence product is something that as soon as I saw it, I was aghast.
I had it withdrawn.
You were a ghast.
I was.
Oh, really?
What have you done about it?
Did you fire the people who wrote it?
No, I had it with the.
Have you fired anybody involved in it?
Senator, if you will give me a chance to answer that.
That's a yes or a no.
It's not hard.
Have you fired anyone involved in the writing of that outrageous memo?
About which, frankly, you've repeatedly misled the public.
Yes or no?
The individuals involved in the product in one just a minute were not found to have engaged in any intentional or bad faith conduct.
And in fact, in fact, Senator, a number of the individuals.
A number of the individuals involved in writing that product in the Richmond office were themselves Catholics.
So the notion that they were corporating their own faith.
Oh, so the out of jail free card.
I see.
I see.
So you're immune and they're immune.
So we shouldn't ask questions about it.
You haven't done a darn thing.
You haven't fired anybody.
Wow.
Pretty powerful moment.
Now, I played earlier, Ted Cruz asking Ray, you know, Ray doesn't question if the FBI tried to ascertain about Hunter's laptop.
Um, and then he rips Ray for just not answering questions about the Hunter investigation.
Here is why this is important.
Is if you look at the timeline, is that they they had the FBI, the FBI had Hunter's laptop in December of 2019.
They verified its authenticity in March of 2020.
They then in the summer, in the months leading up to the 2020 election, the FBI had a number of special agents in light of all these threats that he's now saying blinking red lights everywhere, you know, waste their time meeting with big tech companies, warning them specifically because they've testified to this.
That in fact they may be victims of a misinformation campaign, and it may be about Joe or Hunter Biden.
Now, what's so interesting about that part is okay, if that's true.
Well, I don't really have time to tell, I'll sum it up for you.
But he ri but Ted Cruz just rips him apart.
You know, Ray didn't answer the question if the FBI tried to ascertain whether Joe and Hunter's location, you know, was with the WhatsApp message.
Why did they go after these big tech companies?
Why when Facebook and Twitter at the time asked whether the laptop story was true, why did the FBI that knew it wasn't true that was warning them they may be victims of disinformation?
Why didn't they answer the question and tell them, yeah, it is true?
They verified it.
All right, when we come back, the latest on Director Ray testifying in the Senate today, and also Lee Stephonic taking on university presidents, Pam Bondi, Greg Jarrett next.
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