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James Comer - April 9th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, the mob, the media cannot get over their Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia obsession, even though they lied to and peddled conspiracy theories on something that was not true for three long years.
They've never corrected the record.
They've never owned their mistake.
And they're never going to.
They even have a couple of pulled surprises as a result.
What should be bothersome to the American people is in that case, it was a Hillary Clinton campaign bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier that everybody claimed was credible, except Bruce Orr warned it was a political document in August of 2016.
Of the four FISA warrants that were signed, three of them by Comey himself, but others signed on to these Pfizer warrants.
Rod Rosenstein, I believe, was one of them.
And you go back and you look at it, and every one of these people has now testified saying, knowing what we know now, meaning the Horowitz report, which predated the release of the Durham report, yeah, no, we never would have signed those, we never would have signed those FISA applications.
Wow.
Now, there's an obligation once they know that they gave the FISA court misinformation that they're supposed to go back to the court and tell the court.
They didn't do that.
That in and of itself would probably put any conservative or Republican in jail for many, many years.
Putting all of that aside, now the FBI vouch for the credibility of that guy named Christopher Steele.
He's the one that put together the dirty dossier after Hillary Clinton's campaign funnel money to a law firm that hired an op research firm that hired a former MI6 guy by the name of Christopher Steele to put together a series of documents that later became known as the dossier.
Okay, fast forward.
Nothing happens to Christopher Steele, etc.
And then all of a sudden we find out Christopher Steele is not credible, but yet we know that the FBI had been paying him for many, many years.
All right.
Now fast forward, AOC was accusing Comer and fake news, fake Jake at fake CNN, fake news CNN was pushing, are Republicans pushing Russian sourced allegations against President Biden in their investigation of the Biden family syndicate.
And anyway, they bring up this issue on Colbert last night, who's an idiot.
But putting that aside, you have the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
They talk about James Comer that he talked about the 1023 form.
And you might remember this guy by the name of Smirnoff.
Remember the 1023 form alleged that the Bidens were involved in the bribery scheme.
Okay, this does not negate the fact that the Russian oligarch, former first lady of Moscow, for no reason that we've been able to determine, you know, gave $3.5 million to one of the Biden Shell Corporations.
She also met with Joe Biden at Cafe Milano.
That was one of Hunter's foreign business partners.
But of course, Joe lied to the American people as a candidate and president and said he never one time talked to his son, brother, or anybody about their foreign business deals.
And according to Devin Archer's testimony, she also invested over $100 million in some real estate venture that the syndicate was a part of.
Okay, so it turns out that Christopher Wray, the FBI director, had told James Comer, told the House Oversight Committee, and told everybody that this was one of their most highly trusted sources for years.
And get this, the FBI thought so highly of the guy, Smirnoff is his name, that they paid the guy.
They paid the guy over a number of years a small fortune in many ways.
Alexander Smirnoff is the guy's name.
So the credibility, again, vouched for by the FBI, the same FBI that was wrong about Christopher Steele, turns out they're wrong about Alexander Smirnoff.
Okay, that was one minor part of the story.
I thought it was very relevant.
It doesn't negate any of the other facts about money coming from Russia and a Russian oligarch, former First Lady of Moscow.
It doesn't negate the money that Devin Archer says she invested in their real estate venture.
It doesn't negate what happened at the Cafe Milano with Joe Biden.
Anyway, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, James Comer, is with us now.
Sir, how are you?
I'm well, Sean.
Thanks for having me.
I want to spend some time here.
Am I correct that the FBI vouched for the credibility of Christopher Steele at a time when we were heading into the 20, what, 16 election?
And did they not vouch for the credibility of Alexander Smirnoff as one of their most trusted informants that they paid this guy and that he was so trusted, didn't they grant him permission to even violate American laws in pursuit of people that they were targeting for investigations?
Yes, that's right.
And Christopher Wray told me, Charles Grashley, Jim Jordan, and our staff directors on the phone that the FBI informant was one of their most trusted and highest paid, and he had been with the Bureau for over a decade.
Then when we had the 1023 in the skiff and the regular members of the committee came in, as well as Jamie Raskin, we were again told that the informant was highly credible and one of the highest paid.
So this information came from Christopher Wray himself.
Okay, so if you had known, I would assume when you hear from the FBI director that he's one of the highest paid and highly credible sources, you have no reason to doubt that the FBI got that right, correct?
That's correct.
And remember, the 1023 was turned over to Charles Grashley by two current FBI employees, two FII whistleblowers, so to speak.
So everything about the 1023 came from the FBI.
We investigated it as we should, but we never could determine the allegations, whether they were true or not, Sean, because these people were in Ukraine and the oligarch is on the run and the FBI wouldn't tell us who the informant was, therefore we couldn't interview him.
All they would tell us was the informant was highly credible and they had used him successfully in prosecutions in the past.
It really is unbelievable to me.
All of the Democrats know this, but then they try and go out with a straight face or they show up on an alleged comedy show.
I say alleged because Stephen Colbert is anything but funny.
He's not funny.
And that's why nobody watches his show and his ratings suck.
And I mean, they suck.
They're really bad, really low, just like all the other late-night shows that are supposed to be comedy shows.
They're not funny.
So you're doing your job.
You did your due diligence.
The FBI vouched for his credibility.
And now they want to say that Republicans were colluding with Russia.
I mean, how do you make that leap?
It's so intellectually dishonest to me.
What I found, Sean, and you've probably known this for many years, and I was, I guess, gullible and thought that there was a little bit of, I had a little bit of hope in the mainstream media.
But what's happened in this investigation is the White House, along with the Democrat National Committee, writes the talking points and hands them to the mainstream media, and they report it.
The White House wants to play the Russia 2.0 card.
So anything that we found that's hard evidence against the Bidens, whether it's bank statements, whether it's emails and text messages, or whether it's sworn testimony, it's all Russia disinformation.
And they're indoctrinating that into their liberal viewers and liberal newspaper readers' minds that the Oversight Committee has no evidence of wrongdoing, even though we have mountains of evidence of wrongdoing.
They're saying this to try to paint a false media narrative that Joe Biden's innocent and Donald Trump's guilty.
As of noon yesterday, there was a deadline for Joe Biden's Department of Justice to hand over unredacted materials related to special counsel Robert Hurr's investigation into President Biden's handling of classified information, including the tape recordings of Joe Biden with Robert Hurr.
And any information, any transcripts, any recordings of their interview with the ghostwriter of Joe Biden, correct?
That was supposed to be noon yesterday.
That's correct.
Okay, they didn't turn it over.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
Once again, they obstruct, they collude with the media to create a false narrative, and they just don't comply with our legal requests, our oversight requests, or anything.
It's mind-boggling how they've been able to continue to just operate in the manner that they operate without any congressional oversight.
And unfortunately, no media checks and balances either.
Well, okay.
So now what has happened to people that have acted this way in the past?
They can be held in contempt of Congress.
Are you planning on holding Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress?
Well, I would love to do that, Sean.
That's something that I know that Jim Jordan and I are scheduled to meet.
We're going to talk about that.
I want to throw the book at them.
I want to do everything possible to hold Merrick Garland accountable and to hold the Department of Justice accountable.
Because what we found in this investigation, obviously, we've proven the Bidens were influence peddling.
I think most of us knew that prior to the beginning of the investigation.
But we found we've proven that Joe Biden was a key figure, and I would argue the central figure in the influence peddling investigation.
And we've proven that there was a massive government cover-up of all the Biden crimes at the Department of Justice, at the IRS, at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and at the FBI.
So now we've got to figure out how do we hold these people accountable?
We have a thin margin in the House.
We have a hostile media.
It's an election year.
None of that matters to me.
Hopefully, it won't matter to our Republican conference, but it's time in my book for the accountability phase, and that's what I hope we can start doing.
Quick break, Board, with Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
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We continue now with James Comer.
He is the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Then we're going to get to your calls coming up.
800-941-Sean is on number.
Okay.
So now there's a guy by the name of Peter Navarro, who I'm sure you're aware of.
And he was asked to go in and testify before the January 6th Committee, as was another guy whose name I know you know, and that would be Steve Bannon.
Right now, Peter Navarro is serving a four-month sentence for not showing up to that committee.
Now, by the way, he could have shown up and pled the fifth, and because he believed that the principal was so important, he didn't do that.
And I would argue probably that was Bannon's motivation if I had to guess.
And Bannon may also very well end up with a prison sentence also.
Both of them knew the risk, knew what they were doing, knew that we have a double standard.
Now, weren't people like Lois Lerner, Eric Holder, weren't they held in contempt of Congress as well?
They were.
Well, how come they never got sent to jail?
How come they never got charged?
That's a great question.
It's a two-tier system of justice, and you and I know that.
Very disappointing.
And I think that judge in the Hunter Biden case in California even cited that as an argument just this week that where Abby Law is trying to kick the Hunter Biden charges out.
Everyone that has any sense of objectivity knows that there is a two-tier system of justice.
The rules don't apply to the ruling class or the Bidens or the Obamas or whomever's in charge of our federal government in the past and present.
And it's why we need new leadership in the Department of Justice.
It's why we need a new president and a new attorney general that's focused on draining the swamp and reining in the deep state.
Let me ask you this.
I know that this initially started as an impeachment inquiry.
I know that the Republican Party has like a next-to-zero majority.
It's the smallest it's ever been for any Congress.
I understand that you, your committee, Jim Jordan's committee now is looking at coming forward with criminal referrals related to this entire issue of the Biden family syndicate.
Can you update us on that?
Yeah, no, we're well underway.
We're giving Joe Biden an opportunity.
We've offered him an opportunity to testify, just like we offered Hunter an opportunity to testify in public.
It doesn't appear that either Biden's going to take the opportunity to testify in public.
We've sent Joe Biden questions to make it easier on him or his handlers or whoever is running the show behind the curtain to answer some questions because three of the Biden associates testified under oath that Joe Biden was the central figure in the influence pedaling scheme.
That is a crime.
That is a crime against Joe Biden.
So as he well, you can indict a sitting president, but when he gets out of office, and if that would be in January of 25, then charges could be pursued, could they not?
They could.
And I think that what we've done is an investigation.
We've been transparent.
It's been thorough.
We're going to now issue a report.
I'm pretty confident, Sean, there are going to be plenty of criminal referrals in there because there have been plenty of crimes that have been committed by multiple, by multiple Bidens.
And at that point, then the Department of Justice can try to hold some accountability.
If this Department of Justice refuses to, then I'm hopeful that the next Department of Justice will hold this family accountable.
James Comer, Chairman, House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate your time as always.
Thank you, Sean.
All right.
Remember Hank Johnson?
Remember he talked about Guam and it just falling off the earth?
Listen.
I don't know how many square miles that is.
Do you happen to know?
I don't have that figure with me, sir.
I can certainly supply it to you if you'd like.
Yeah, my fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
We don't anticipate that.
The whole island of Guam will tip over and capsize.
You just can't make this up.
You really can't.
Only the left, crazy left would do this.
Well, over at that hard-hitting news show, The View on ABC.
Anyway, one of the hosts, Sunny Houston, I think is how you say her name.
Okay.
She blamed the earthquakes on climate change.
Again, I can't make this up.
Listen.
I mean, I have to say, Karen DuPesh, our wonderful wonderful makeup artist, when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was like, Jesus is coming.
I'm out.
I'm out.
I'm leaving.
We've got a solar eclipse.
We've got a lot of people ran down the hallway.
The rapture is here.
The rapture's here.
And then also, I learned that the cicadas are coming.
Cicadas.
Cicadas.
For the first time in Cicada.
No, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
Two different times.
Well, this is what I read.
Two different times.
Two different kinds of cicadas.
Two different times are coming.
The good cicada and the bad situations.
For the first time in many, many years.
No, every 17 years this happens.
Well, that's not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.
You can say all those things together would maybe lead one to believe that, you know, either climate change exists or something is wrong.
Earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change.
It's on the ground.
I don't think that's the same.
It happens everywhere.
The eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen.
So all these folks who are saying, you know, it's a sign from God, God doesn't give you warning.
And not to be outdone.
Well, Sheila Jackson Lee said it's almost impossible to go near the sun, but the moon is more manageable because it's made up of mostly gases.
Did the men that landed on the moon, did they walk on gases, Linda?
I'm just asking.
I don't know what comes up.
I'm not sure what the gas that Sheila's talking about, but I would say she's full of hot air.
That's one kind of gas we can confirm.
I wish I said that.
That was very good.
I tell you, a moment of brilliance.
That's your highlight of the day.
You're welcome.
I like that.
Let's play that cut.
Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases.
And that's why the question is: why, or how could we as humans live on the moon?
The gas is such that we could do that.
The sun is a mighty powerful heat, and it's almost impossible to go near the sun.
The moon is more manageable.
And you will see in a moment, or not a moment, you'll see in a couple of years that NASA is going back to the moon.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
800-941-Sean is on number.
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Brad is in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania.
Brad, how are you?
Glad you called.
Yes, hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call, and I appreciate everything you do.
Well, I know the Republicans don't like to play hardball, but they're in a beautiful spot right now.
I think JD Vance should coordinate with the Ohio House, the Ohio Senate, and then go tell Schumer if you want Biden on the Ohio ballot, we need to proceed with the Majorkis or Garland or whatever hearings they want to.
Well, I mean, look, they impeached Maorkis.
I don't think the Senate's ever going to take up this trial.
As much as you can blame Maorkis, I think he's basically been doing the bidding of Joe Biden himself.
I think Joe Biden has made a decision to pick and choose which laws he's going to enforce.
And I think the decision even goes beyond that because I think that Joe Biden, furthermore, has been aiding and abetting in the law breaking.
And now he's flying in people from all over the world.
And the country is now dealing with over 10 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants.
Many now we're learning, tens and tens of thousands of them from our top geopolitical foes and other people on the terror watch list.
And it is now a matter of when, not a question of if, that we're going to get hit hard because terror cells, I am certain, are now in this country plotting, planning, and scheming a massive attack on our country.
We have a lot of enemies, and they're here.
And Joe has allowed them in.
And when that day comes, he will have blood on his hands.
Just like every single American killed by one of his unvetted illegal immigrants, I hold him partly responsible.
I hold the person responsible, but I hold the guy that didn't do his job enforcing the law even more responsible because what he's doing is reckless, it's irresponsible, and it is a clear and present danger to the country.
But I think you missed my point.
You know, Biden's not on the Ohio ballot.
Yeah, I read about that yesterday.
Yeah.
No, they're no doubt going to cave, but they can use that.
He can go to Schumer and say, JD Vance or whoever can go to Schumer and say, if you want us to put him on the ballot, let's get these hearings started.
You know, I mean, they can kind of hold that over their head.
Yeah, I'm not sure that that would get the job done.
I just think they'll end up being on the ballot.
Look, unlike Democrats, I'm not against Joe Biden being on the ballot in all 50 states.
I think, yeah, you're supposed to follow the rules, the laws meet the deadlines, et cetera, et cetera.
But if it was Donald Trump, trust me, there would be a huge fight that would go on, you know, probably through Election Day over it.
But we're not them.
And one thing we don't want to become is like them.
You know, it's interesting.
They're the ones that always warn of democracy and peril and authoritarianism.
Wow.
They're perfectly comfortable with one elected official taking off a presidential candidate, taking that person off a ballot.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend Brad.
Glad you're out there.
Jerry in the free state of Florida, sir.
How are you?
Glad you called.
Thanks, Sean, so much.
Honored to be on with you.
I'll try and keep this brief.
I need some help understanding how there can be so many people so misguided to think that socialism is a way to run a country.
I mean, I was young once.
I sat in college and one class would discuss socialism.
It didn't make any sense to me back then and still doesn't.
So, what's the attraction to the average person or the younger people today?
I mean, drawing them, you know.
I can give you one attraction.
How about student loan forgiveness?
What do you think of that?
Well, I think that's part of my second question if we get to it.
But no, I understand they buy votes, but I guess people get lied to so long they believe it and they don't really understand what's going to happen.
Oh, look, I think this generation has been indoctrinated at a pretty young age into radicalism.
We have been talking about how schools are indoctrination centers for growing little leftists.
Most parents that I know are too busy to really be paying attention to what the hell is going on in their kids' school.
Those that do pay attention, you know, they show up at school board meetings and tiger moms like Linda, and I'm sure that they're being investigated as potential domestic terrorists.
And meanwhile, the FBI is not doing their job and insisting that Joe Biden enforce our immigration laws.
So, you know, you tell me whose priorities are screwed up here.
But so I just, I think that I think there is a certain appeal.
You know, Winston Churchill famously quoted as saying, if you're 20 and not a liberal, you don't have a heart.
If you're 40 and you're not a conservative, you don't have a brain.
And I think on paper, it sounds good.
Well, we'll put all our money together and we'll put it in a big pot and we'll give everybody the same exact amount.
Okay, that socialism, whatever you want to call it, I wrote a whole chapter about it and live free or die and its history of failure.
And I don't care what word you apply to it or what manifestation it takes on.
All these promises, in this case, the Green New Deal, everything's going to be free, free, free.
And it always ends the same way.
The promises are never fulfilled.
You end up with people in more poverty than ever before.
And then at some point, not that you could actually calculate it, but you calculate how much of your freedom you gave up in the name of false security that the government will never provide you.
Why so many of our fellow Americans trust the government that never put social security money in a lockbox that have now brought it to the brink of insolvency and Medicare to the brink of insolvency?
The same people that promised you'd keep your doctor and your plan and save on average $2,500 a year.
Millions and millions lost their doctors' plans, and we're paying about 250% more than we were before, in many cases, much more.
Why people put their faith, their hope, their trust, their belief in a government with a track record of failure?
I don't know.
How would you grade government-run schools?
How are the school districts doing in most big cities today?
Not that well.
What grade would you give government in terms of their ability to keep Americans safe and secure?
I wouldn't give them a very high score.
To me, they'd get a failing grade on all these issues.
But yet people think, well, more government's the answer.
I mean, it might be appealing on some level.
Well, we'll empower you to take that group of people's money and give it to us.
Okay.
Well, that group of people that likely work really hard for the money they do have, guess what?
They're not going to be spending that money anymore.
Or they'll be moving out of high-tax states into low-tax or no-tax states.
Or if push comes to shove, they'll be moving the hell out of the country, which, you know, we see those numbers going up every day.
And a lot of people are like, well, why am I giving this state all of this money?
They just keep taking more and more, and it's never enough.
Okay.
Let's say Donna is next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Donah, also from Florida.
Hi, how are you?
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
What's on your mind?
So I was calling in simply to contribute to the attitude of small business survival and how much harder it is.
My husband and I own for seven and a half years now an upscale butchery, bakery, gourmet market, wine and beer store, kind of a grab and go concept with an outdoor jazz garden.
And he came across eight years ago from South Africa, sold his businesses, and immediately started his immigration process with an attorney and employed people and, you know, working hard.
I mean, we work seven days a week, hard to employ people, hard to find good, dedicated people.
And we cannot simply buy meat for what we used to sell it for a few short years ago.
Look, as somebody who eats a very keto-friendly diet, my own experience confirms exactly what you're saying.
I am paying a lot more for the meat that I eat every day.
Right.
And that's a big part of my diet.
And it's breaking when people come in and they're just devastated by the prices and they don't realize that our margins have diminished.
Great.
Your margins have diminished because your costs have gone up and you're trying not to chase your customers away.
So you're taking it on your end and they're taking it on their end.
And all of it is unnecessary.
Right.
And it may go even higher over time.
It may, it may.
And the equity needed, because we've grown from his first location, then we went into business together and grew twice the size into a bigger market and then grew again just a year and a half ago into a twice that size and put an outdoor garden in and keep just putting money into it and putting money into it to make it more appealing and draw more.
And it's just, it's like swimming upstream in a mad raging.
Oh, it's terrible.
I mean, you know, and great butcher stores like the one you're describing is almost becoming obsolete.
And I can tell, I look, I can tell you that I get thin cuts of meat now more often than not, in part because I'm very big into portion control as well.
And it's very hard.
And I bet the meat you saw was of the highest quality.
And you know what?
People probably are taking lower quality meat or like the guy that called earlier in the show.
He's a meat eater, but he loves beef, but he's eating chicken and fish that cynics more affordable for him.
Anyway, I've got to run.
I wish I had more time.
I do wish you and your family the best.
I know these are hard times for so many people.
And I'm really sorry.
I hate to hear this.
I really do.
You put your whole life into this.
All right.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
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