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Devin Nunes - December 3rd, Hour 3
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Kash Patel has been appointed by Donald Trump, nominated by Donald Trump to be the next FBI director.
We have spent a lot of time on this program talking about how, sadly, what was once the premier law enforcement agency in the entire world has been politicized, even weaponized against Donald Trump.
This dates all the way back to his first run for the presidency.
We know that it was the dirty Russian disinformation dossier that was used as the foundation for not one, but four FISA warrant applications.
And it took years later before all the people that signed them, James Comey signing three of the four of them, you know, all under oath before Lindsey Graham's committee said, knowing what you know now, would you still use the dirty dossier?
No, I would not sign that FISA warrant.
Meanwhile, the law does call for people, once they know that information they gave the court for FISA application is wrong, they have a duty and obligation to go back to the court voluntarily and tell them they never did that.
And we know that the double standard that exists.
You know, look at the rate at Mor-a-Lago.
Look at where was the rate on the four locations of Joe Biden where he had top secret and classified information.
We know about Hillary Clinton.
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute, we were told.
Okay, well, she had top secret, classified information all over the place.
Her home never got raided.
Her office never got raided.
And of course, we had 33,000 subpoenaed emails, and we know they were destroyed.
I didn't know what bleach pit was until this case came up.
And those hard drives, those servers were wiped clean so you couldn't retrieve what was on them.
33,000 of them.
Devices were destroyed with hammers, SIM cards removed from phones.
And of course, the double standard exists.
And we have our intelligence community, separate issue and apart, but as relevant.
And of course, 51 former Intel officials weeks before the 2020 election.
Oh, it looks like it has all the markings of Russian disinformation, talking about the very real Hunter Biden laptop.
They we now know were organized by Wink and Tony Blinken.
None of them ever examined the laptop.
None of them knew a thing about the laptop.
All they knew is that Joe Biden desperately needed a talking point for a presidential debate against Donald Trump, and he relied on those 51 Democrats, liberals, to give him an answer to a question about a very real laptop that everybody knew was real, except they just wanted Joe Biden to win that election.
And if it wasn't for programs like this, with really a really good investigative team of reporters that included John Solomon and Greg Jarrett and Catherine Herridge and Sarah Carter and so many others, and then a few people in Congress led by the likes of Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows at the time, and a small group of them, we never would have gotten to the bottom of that dirty disinformation bought and paid for Russian dossier of Hillary Clinton.
Now, behind the scenes, Devin worked very closely with Kash Patel.
That is the nominee to be the next FBI director.
One of the saddest things about Director Wray when he replaced James Comey was he had an opportunity to return the FBI to its former greatness, and unfortunately he failed to do so.
You know, he was there for the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
He approved it.
It was the Biden Justice Department that was weaponized.
There's a double standard.
That's not equal justice under the law.
That's not equal application of our laws.
He had an opportunity to enforce the laws of the land and stop the flow of unvetted Harris Biden illegals into the country.
We now have known terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, rapists, Lake and Riley, Jocelyn Nunngarry.
We have thousands of Americans victims of murder, rape, violent crime, and Donald Trump will deport them.
But the director of the FBI was too busy going after peaceful pro-life protesters, moms and dads at school board meetings, and traditional Catholics.
Anyway, Devin Nunes, welcome back, sir.
How are you?
Great to be with you, Sean.
Let's talk about Kash Patel.
Why is the left so virulent?
I mean, the hatred for him, but no reason at all.
You work very closely with him.
Trey Gowdy, by the way, praised Kash Patel for uncovering some of the FBI's worst abuses.
I think the reason is simple, Sean, and that is that Cash helped to expose the malfazins at DOJ and the FBI.
And remember, it wasn't just that the DOJ and FBI were hopelessly corrupt for a long period of time, and I think still are.
It was also that you had the Democrats were involved in it.
Don't forget, it was the Clinton campaign.
It was the DNC.
So this had been going on for a long time.
I think even I look back to my days in Congress.
Remember when they went after and targeted the Alaskan senator, Ted Stevens?
So, you know, the FBI, I think, was on a slow downgrade.
It got, you know, really politicized under Obama and then with the Clinton campaign.
And they all knew about this.
So when we started this investigation in early 2017, we wanted to go out and find someone that had experience at the DOJ working as a prosecutor because we needed to understand the United States Congress needed to understand what was going on in there because we knew at that time early on that something smelled wrong.
And we luckily convinced Kash Patel to leave his very successful career at the Department of Justice as a prosecutor and come to the United States Congress.
It's something that doesn't happen often.
But he saw the corruption firsthand and he wanted to do something about it.
And we blew that case wide open.
And remember, we exposed all of them.
And the bad part was that it was the people at the DOJ and the FBI who did wrong working with the Clinton campaign.
None of them paid a price.
But at least we shined a light on what had happened.
And I think if you go back to look at what they did to Donald Trump just the last few years, imagine if myself and Jim Jordan, all the names you mentioned, Kash Patel, had we not unearthed this in 2017, working alongside with the few reporters that you mentioned, were willing to actually stick their neck out when it wasn't popular to do so.
Imagine what could have happened.
You know, if we just would have turned away and said, oh, we're going to go focus on Al-Qaeda or all the things that we normally worked on on the House Intelligence Committee and didn't get to the bottom of what DOJ and FBI are doing, they might have put Donald Trump in jail back then.
I mean, look how many people went to jail under this Russia collusion hoax.
Look how many people's rights were violated, like a Carter Page that you had mentioned.
Justice was never done for these people, but at least a light was shined on it.
There's now clairvoyance on the issue.
Everybody knows what happened.
And I think Kash Patel, there's nobody better than him to go in there with his background, what he's been through to clean the FBI up and restore it to its former state of glory, as you say.
You know, Matt Taibbi writes about Cash, and I will tell you, I remember at the time, I remember it well.
I mean, I spent three years covering this story, and it was like I'm peeling layers of an onion to get to the bottom of it.
And the rest of the media, as usual, because they're wrong about everything, I mean, for the most part, which is why people, I think, don't trust legacy media anymore.
And I list, Devon, you know, so many big stories where we're right and they're wrong.
Russia collusion is one.
FISA is another.
Impeachment Ukraine is another.
The real quid pro quo is with Joe.
But, you know, I was right about Richard Jewell going back in the day.
I was right about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri.
We were right about what happened at UVA.
We were right about Duke La Crosse.
We were right about, you know, some Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
So many of these stories get wrong.
And the news media at the time was breathlessly, hysterically peddling lies and conspiracy theories.
You yourself were under tremendous fire.
Adam Schiff just lied through his teeth repeatedly and just told America there's evidence of collusion when it never existed.
Nobody knew that Hillary Clinton had bought and paid for that dirty Russian dossier.
Then we find out that the FBI was warned not to use it in August of 2016.
They used it anyway, four separate times.
Matt Taibbi says about cash, he was one of the only Justice Department officials willing to publicly break with enforcement consensus when virtually everyone considered the Mueller probe a Watergate-like supernova destined to consume the Trump presidency.
And that's how they treated it.
And it was three years of the Trump presidency.
Never mind the FISA abuse, what they did to Donald Trump, spy on him, spy on Carter Page, et cetera.
And then don't forget, what did we find out later?
This has been locked on people because of the news cycles and it was so long after the fact.
But I want to point this out.
During that time period, when we were exposing the FBI and the DOJ, and we were going in to meet with Rod Rosenstein, with Director Ray, we were saying, hey, we think you're up to no good here.
It was myself.
It was Trey Gowdy, John Ratcliffe.
We were all having meetings.
Kash Patel was in those meetings also.
You know what they did?
They went to Google, at least to Google, we think the other internet email companies, and they got warrants against my staff and Chuck Gratley, Senator Gratley, who was also leading the effort on the Russian collusion hoax in the Senate.
They went and spied on House and Senate staffers.
Nothing has ever been done about that.
But Kash Patel was one of those people.
So the very people that were investigating the people for wrongdoing went out and did more wrong and went and got subpoenas and warrants against the congressional staff.
And, you know, unfortunately, I think Jim Jordan looked at it for the weaponization.
But of course, did Ray or Merrick Garland do anything about it in the last couple of years when that was known?
Hell no, they didn't.
They buried it.
So not only did they, did Cash expose them, Cash was also a target along with many other congressional staffers.
And look, and who knows?
You know, Chuck Grassley and I, we don't even know to this day, did they stop with the staffers?
Was it a way to reverse target on members of Congress?
I think this is something that obviously the DOJ and the next DOJ, they need to get to the bottom of this.
They need to work with the likes of Chuck Grassley and Jim Jordan and figure out what the hell were they doing to Congress back in these days when we were investigating this.
That just can't sustain a democratic republic that we live in.
You cannot have a trusted justice system if the very people that are supposed to be overseeing you actually turn around and spy on you to try to dig up dirt on you.
All right, quick break more with Devin Nunes on the other side.
Then we'll get to your calls, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
All right, we continue now with Devin Nunes as we talk about the nominee for the FBI, Kash Patel.
He's the CEO of Truth Social and the Trump Media and Technology Group.
Trey Gowdy said, quote, I worked elbow to elbow with Kash Patel for two years.
You would not know about the foundation or the funding of the Steel dossier.
You wouldn't know about FISA abuse.
You wouldn't know about Fusion GPS had it not been for the hard work of a guy named Kash Patel.
He is the most unfairly maligned person that I worked with for the entire eight years I was in Washington.
I know the left is setting their hair on fire over his appointment, but that's because of what he found, not because of who he is.
And you would not know about FISA abuse if it wasn't for Kash Patel.
But I would say the same thing about you, to be very frank, the two of you.
Yeah, and look, and of course, Cash or not Cash was targeted because he was the lead investigator.
But there were several other staff, right, that remain nameless today that are also part of that.
And look, members of Congress that, you know, we were all targeted.
Yes, I was the chairman, so I took the bulk of the heat.
But this is why they don't want Kash Patel in there, Sean.
It's really simple.
They don't want somebody that knows the bad things that happened over the last decade or more.
And they don't want anybody to go and reform it.
And I just find it the height of hypocrisy here that at a time when all of this malfeasance, whether it's the Mar-a-Lago raid or all the stuff we've been talking about, and they're going to build a new FBI building in the D.C. area.
By the way, Cash says, don't do it.
I agree with him.
And move the agents to the parts of the country where they're actually supposed to serve we the people.
After 20 years of this downhill slide that the FBI and DOJ have been under, the last thing we need are more people in Washington, D.C.
We need less.
And look, with the cuts that need to be made with our bloated budget, I just don't know how you justify building a new building for the FBI.
We need people out in the field actually going after criminals and get out of the politicization business.
Yeah, I think it's well said.
Well, honestly, there were not many of you.
I think I counted one time.
There were maybe 10 people in the media and about 10 people in Congress that were really pivotal in getting to the bottom of it.
And both you, Cash, are among the 10 in Congress.
You know the other eight people I'm talking about.
And you know the people in the media because, I mean, it was breathless, hysterical lying and conspiracy theory peddling all over television, every second, every minute, every hour of every day.
And it went on for nearly three years.
It's unbelievable it happened to our country.
And we need to put in measures so it can never happen again.
Devin Nunes, we appreciate you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
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Jon Stewart slamming, I mean, ripping the hypocrisy in pardoning Hunter and Democrats defending it.
Listen.
The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden's pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment.
One political party remains committed to the rule of law and the other doesn't.
It's that simple.
Hunter Biden's not above the law.
No one is above the law.
Democrats stand for the rule of law.
We accept the outcome because that's how the rule of law works.
Because the justice system that convicted his only surviving son is the same justice system he's vowed to protect.
And if that doesn't tell you who Joe Biden is, I don't really know what does.
I think I know what does.
And now look at the dance Democrats have to do.
Be honest.
The only reason why they went after Hunter the way they did, and I've talked to many federal prosecutors about this, is because he's the president's son.
People have to remember: the president has lost two children already, and he does not need to lose another one to more political witch hunts.
The, you know, crowing from Republicans.
But we're talking about, you know, Donald Trump is a convicted felon who literally pardoned his daughter's father-in-law and just made him ambassador to France.
So for anyone that wants to clutch their pearls now because he decided that he was going to pardon his son, I would say take a look in the mirror.
This is what Biden's decision has done.
Look how confident and eloquent our Democratic representatives were back when they thought they had the moral high ground on this issue.
I've not heard a single Democrat anywhere in the country cry fraud, cry fixed, cry rigged, cry kangaroo court.
You don't hear a single peep out of any Democrat saying that why we believe in the rule of law.
And now look at what even he, one of the most verbally dexterous attorneys we have on Capitol Hill, has been reduced to.
Do you think President Biden should pardon Hunter Biden?
So there are lots of claims of political prosecution and political.
And was Hunter politically?
Well, I mean, obviously that's a judicial point, and you've got to look at what the evidence is.
And I don't know.
Should the president pardon him?
I mean, again, that is a unilateral executive power, you know, power that.
And should he use it?
Well, you know, the power exists for the president to show mercy for people.
I mean, we have an executive and we have a judicial and then a legislative and then smoke bomb!
I mean, this is why Jon Stewart and Bill Maher stand apart.
And neither one of them likes me.
They have attacked me over the years repeatedly, and I'm perfectly fine with it.
I especially like it when it's funny.
And if it's funny, I just want these guys to be funny.
This is why you're going to probably see the cancellation of late-night comedy shows because they're doing so poorly because they're not funny anymore.
They've become nothing but political propaganda outlets for all things radical, extreme, socialist Democrats, and they've alienated more than half the country.
Greg Gutfeld is funny, and he goes after conservatives and he goes after liberals anyway.
But it's interesting to watch Whoopi Goldberg tearing into Democrats clutching their pearls over the Hunter Biden pardon.
She has no problem with it.
You know what I think is hurtful for the American people?
I think what is hurtful is denying that if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
He is the president of the United States, and it is his right, and he doesn't have to explain to anybody.
This is his right as president.
He can pardon, if he wants to pardon Bozo the clown, he can pardon Bozo the clown.
So I'm not sure why, again, why people are clutching their pearls while the left is clutching their pearls.
Because did y'all forget all the stuff that we said was going on?
Or that doesn't matter?
Because it seems to me, and I had to write it down because I didn't think I would remember it.
I just want to say, Democrats, you can't have it both ways.
You can't have it both ways.
You can't let people tell you you're not taking the moral ground when we take the moral ground all the time.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones, shall we?
And let us say hi to, let's see, Tony in Iowa.
Tony, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean and Linda.
Hey, this is regarding Hunter's universal retroactive pardon.
Now, I hear the dummy crack parroting that, you know, if his name wasn't Hunter Biden, they wouldn't be prosecuting him.
But if he wasn't Hunter Biden, he wouldn't have laundered money, evaded over $1.5 million worth of his fair share of taxes, violated FARA laws to act as Joe's silent partner, and I'm sure, you know, a lot of other stuff as well.
And, you know, Menendez, isn't that the name of the senator that just got busted for 40 years?
Yeah, that's the senator from New Jersey.
Yeah.
No, former senator, I guess.
Yeah, so do you think maybe this is like the perfect portal for a probable cause for Cash's FBI to do some deep diving in this congressional moonlighting where they're all...
I think there's a lot to be investigated here.
Who benefited?
You know, what did Joe know and when did he know it?
You know, if we're going to, if, if it's okay to impeach Donald Trump after he's out of office, why would it not be okay to do it to Joe Biden?
Uh, do I think that there are more pardons likely coming?
My answer is probably, yeah, I would think so.
You know, but I'm going to eat my shoes, I swear to God.
No, I could see that happening as well.
I don't know.
I don't know what their relationship is.
But, you know, presidential, look, the power of the pardon is absolute.
So this is a done deal.
Now, he does lose his ability to plead the fifth, and he must cooperate in any future investigations.
But Hunter does implicate his own father and saying that, you know, I'm sitting here with my father, and between everybody he knows and my ability to hold the grudge, you better send the money that you promised us.
And lo and behold, two, three days later, $5 million from a Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.
You know, half my income goes to Pops.
You know, which account should we pay for Pops home repairs?
Pictures of Joe Biden and meetings that we know of Joe Biden with Hunter and his foreign business partners.
What were they talking about?
The weather the whole time?
I tend to doubt it.
And according to testimony of Bob Olinski and others, Joe was intimately involved in what his son was doing.
So I think there is a criminal, you know, again, he's vice president, and you know, it would raise some issues here.
If you go back to the Supreme Court decision, Nixon v.
Fitzgerald, the president has absolute immunity from civil damages and actions regarding conduct within the outer perimeter of their duties.
However, in the Clinton Jones case in 97, the court ruled against temporary immunity for sitting presidents from suits arising from pre-presidential conduct.
Well, this would be pre-presidential conduct.
So, you know, we'll see what happens.
All right, my friend, appreciate the call.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let us say hi to Rick.
He's in Rhode Island.
Rick, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Thank you for being with us.
Have you ever been to the Black Pearl in Newport, the best New England clam chowder on the face of this earth?
Oh, I agree, Sean.
I've been there many times.
Isn't it great?
It's a great question.
I used to, when I was doing contracting when I lived in Rhode Island, I would go out, I would drive 40 minutes just to get a big bowl of clam chowder at the Black Pearl.
Can you believe that?
Worth every minute.
Worth every minute.
Anyway.
Oh, my gosh.
What's on your mind?
Well, I want to say thank you very much for having me on.
I've been trying to get through for literally three years, and I finally got Sean Hannity.
Persistence pays off.
Persistence pays off.
Well, first of all, I'm very honored that you've stuck with me for that long.
I'm honored that you've kept trying, and I'm honored that you're on the show.
And I'm going to give the floor to you.
Thank you for calling.
Absolutely.
Well, first, Sean, real quick, I think that you, Jesse, Laura, all the people on Fox News should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump for helping to save the United States of America by showing that your voters out there what is really going on behind the scenes instead of listening to the mainstream media crap that they spew out 24-7-365.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping to save this country.
I can't wait till Donald Trump gets in office.
I can't wait.
Well, let me thank all of you because if you remember, I tried to deputize every member of this audience and every member that watches, every person that watches my TV show.
And it definitely got out there and into the consciousness of the American people, the Kamala files, her and her own words, the Walls files.
And we spent a lot of time putting that together and promoting it because I knew that the legacy state-run media mob would never do it.
And I want to thank every American who took the time, that understood that this was an inflection point for the country.
You know, Joe lied about what he would do in pardoning Hunter, but I don't think that Kamala Harris would ever secure the border.
I don't think she'd ever abandon defund, dismantled, no bailaws.
I think in her heart she wants to ban fracking and have no drilling.
We would have had those EVs forced in our driveway.
We would have had the refrigerators we don't want, the freezers we don't want, the washers and dryers we don't want.
And we would have had higher taxes, and we would not have a world of peace.
And I believe Donald Trump has an opportunity to transform not only the U.S., but transform the world order and restore America's role in the world as the leader for the cause of liberty and freedom.
I really believe that.
I believe too.
And I believe that you guys are part of the reason why he has that opportunity.
But anyway, the main focus of my call was to just address the sheer hypocrisy of the Democrats, not just because of this pardon.
It goes way further than that.
I actually heard yesterday that Joe Biden saying that the reason, part of the reason he pardoned his son was because, quote, the DOJ made a political case out of prosecuting.
His prosecution was for purely political reasons, and the DOJ was weaponized.
I almost choked on my cereal in the morning when I heard him say that.
I said, what?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You guys perfected the art of political prosecution.
You perfected the art of weaponizing the DOJ and the FBI against the Democrats, against the Republicans and Trump in particular.
You had Florida DAs running on the platform, simply one platform playing, I will get Trump.
When does that happen in a constitutionally Democratic country?
That just doesn't happen.
That happens in Venezuela.
That happens in Bolivia.
That happens in these banana republics run by crazy dictators.
That can't happen in this country.
And it went on for years and years and years and years.
And it just, every time I heard it, I just had a nightmare.
I was like, you've got to be kidding me.
They can't do this.
They can't do this.
But you know what?
They did it.
But guess what?
They're not going to be able to do it anymore.
Once Trump gets in office, this is all going to change.
And if I was those people, I'd be quaking in my boots.
Well, we're going to see.
I think the world's about to change.
And I don't know if they're quite ready for it.
Anyway, I appreciate you working so hard to get on the show.
Hopefully, we'll talk a lot sooner next time.
And next time you're at the Black Pearl, tell them Sean Hannity loves their clam chowder.
Thank you, my friend.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We got a great Hannity 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Set your DVR.
Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy, both who know Kash Patel, the nominee to be the next FBI director, really, really well.
Tom Holman on the plans to get rid of criminals and cartel members and known terrorists and murderers out of this country.
Also, Reince Priebus, Victor Davis Hansen, Joe Concha, Greg Jarrett, and Alan Dershowitz.
9 Eastern on Fox.
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