Sean reacts to the news that FBI Director Christopher Wray has offered his resignation, paving the way for President Trump to select his nominee Kash Patel. WIth any luck, this is the absolute end of lawfare in this country!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| Thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of you for being with us. | |
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| It's 800-941 Sean. | |
| If you want to be a part of the program, uh we have so much to get to today. | |
| Christopher Ray out as the FBI director. | |
| I think the definitive no confidence letter, 11 pages, came from Senator Chuck Grassley. | |
| It is devastating. | |
| Says he will resign in January. | |
| He told the employees that he intended to resign in January. | |
| Knows that Donald Trump is going to replace him. | |
| And his failures are numerous. | |
| We'll go into a lot of them in the course of the program today. | |
| He had an opportunity after James Comey politicized the FBI when he was director. | |
| And frankly, what he did was despicable. | |
| He just continued the practice instead of restoring the FBI as the world's premier law enforcement agency not being weaponized or politicized. | |
| That was the opportunity he had. | |
| Under his watch, he allowed the Biden Harris administration to allow millions and millions and millions of unvetted illegal immigrants into our country, and he should have put his foot down. | |
| He would go before Congress the last five or six times I can think of, and he would tell Congress the threat level has never ever, ever been this high. | |
| The chatter has never been this loud. | |
| The danger has never been this great, which to me sounded more and more like a CYA than it did about him, you know, doing his job and enforcing the laws of the land. | |
| And he allowed, as a result, we have known terrorists in this country. | |
| We don't know where they are, but they're here. | |
| You know, as a result, we have had murderers. | |
| We've had Americans murdered. | |
| We've had Americans, including children, raped. | |
| We have had Americans victims of violent crimes, terrorists, cartel members, gang members in 16 states. | |
| The Trend Aragua gang is uh is all over, getting more bold emboldened every day. | |
| This all happened on his watch. | |
| I predict the legacy of Harris, Biden, Mayorcus, Ray, their intelligence community that similarly has been politicized and weaponized, uh, is going to be a terrorist attack on this country. | |
| You cannot allow known terrorists into the country. | |
| What do you think that they're doing while they're here? | |
| You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that they're plotting, they're planning, they're scheming an attack on our homeland. | |
| I don't think it's a matter of if. | |
| I think it's a matter of when. | |
| I think they already have blood on their hands. | |
| And because they just they just they failed. | |
| There's a dereliction of duty at the highest level, and we'll get back to that in a minute. | |
| I I I will start with this today. | |
| I am obsessed over how this can happen in our country. | |
| And that is these drones that are flying over the state of New Jersey. | |
| I I I'm I am stunned we are we have allowed this to happen. | |
| Today is Wednesday. | |
| We have known about these drones since the weekend. | |
| Over the weekend, there were 49 separate sightings of these drones. | |
| Now, these uh for example, a friend of mine is a drone operator, camera drone uh operator, actually went to drone school to learn how to fly it and is very good at it. | |
| Came over my house once. | |
| By the way, this is a little this is a little baby drone. | |
| Anyway, would I I had a a uh studio that had an open window and he'd fly it right up to the window and he'd be filming me in my studio. | |
| It was pretty amazing technology. | |
| But this is a little baby drone. | |
| I talked to friends of mine in New Jersey when these drones are flying overhead, sounds like you know, revved up Harley, you know, flying over their their home, and here we are, days and days and days later, and we don't know a single thing about where these drone drones came from, who's operating them, what their intentions are. | |
| These are not your your little drones, drones that hobbyists and and people that that just like it for kicks and giggles use it for. | |
| These apparently the size of a large dining room set, and people are seeing it now. | |
| According to the New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, he's no genius. | |
| He's a complete idiot. | |
| He actually said and acknowledged that these drones are very sophisticated. | |
| And even went as far as to say the minute you get your eyes on these drones, they go dark. | |
| And then he acknowledged public frustration about it, but so there's no evidence of a threat to public safety. | |
| These are apparently very as I understand it, very sophisticated. | |
| The minute you get eyes on them, they they go dark. | |
| And you know, we're obviously most concerned about uh uh sensitive targets and sensitive critical infrastructure. | |
| So we've got military assets, we've got utility assets, we've got the president elects one of us homes here. | |
| This is something we're taking deadly seriously. | |
| You're taking it deadly seriously, then on the uh you're speaking out of both sides of your mouth when you say there's no evidence of a threat to public safety. | |
| If you don't know anything about where they came from, who's operating them, why they're there, why there's so many of them. | |
| You have no business reassuring the people of New Jersey or this country that it's not a threat to public safety. | |
| And then he said, the most important point to say is we don't see any concern for public safety. | |
| You can't say that either. | |
| Now, I I if you look at these drones, and I've spoken to I've spoken to military experts and other sources, and then by the way, Colleen Jean Pierre said that they're not foreign drones. | |
| They don't know if they're foreign drones, they don't know anything about the origin of the drones, which is scary. | |
| Now, these drones this size, according to the experts, and we'll have an expert later on the program talking about it, they can be used not only for surveillance, but also they can drop payloads. | |
| And my sources have told me they are capable of hitting targets if they are armed with a missile. | |
| Miles and miles and miles away. | |
| It can take out infrastructure. | |
| It could be maybe maybe result in a total knockout of all communications. | |
| Who knows what they're capable of? | |
| I mean, we have a president elect that has a property in New Joycey. | |
| Well, Donald Trump probably can't go to that property anytime too soon. | |
| It can ruin communication signals. | |
| It is capable of everything. | |
| This is these are the drones that are all over Russia and Ukraine now. | |
| I keep saying that in future wars, they're not no longer going to be fought on a battlefield the way they once were. | |
| They're going to be fought from air conditioned offices. | |
| And we better pick up our military technology advantage that we once had that we've since lost. | |
| We better get hypersonic technology fast and do catch up, and then we've got to advance our military technology so it is far superior to that of our top geopolitical thr uh foes and any other threat that may that may pop up its ugly head. | |
| And I love Donald Trump's idea of an iron dome across America, and that would include being able to stop ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles. | |
| We are in that gap of vulnerability zone thanks to Harris and Biden and their incompetence. | |
| Now, I don't want to scare you here, but we do have a couple of Congressmen that have spoken out about all of this, and what they're saying is, you know, in one case, Congressman Tony Gonzalez says, I feel like I'm in the twilight zone up here, | |
| and he he is a top Biden FBI official is telling Congress as of uh yesterday that the Bureau has no idea who's behind the deluge of drone sightings at a hearing, Congressman Tony Gonzalez says, You're telling me you don't know what the hell these drones in New Jersey are. | |
| Robert Wheeler, assistant director of the critical Incident response group for the FBI said, Yeah, that's correct. | |
| That's crazy, Gonzalez replied. | |
| That is madness. | |
| Sometimes I feel like I'm in the twilight zone up there. | |
| We had a c another congressman from Texas saying you chaired the hearing. | |
| The threat is real. | |
| Opened up the questioning. | |
| Let's start with current events. | |
| What's going on in New Jersey? | |
| The Bureau is actively investigating unexplained sighting of drone activity over that part of New Jersey. | |
| That's not an answer. | |
| Including proximity to sensitive sites and areas of concern. | |
| We do not attribute that to an individual or group, yet I do not have an answer of who's responsible. | |
| This is days after they were first spotted. | |
| And he got I I don't know. | |
| We don't know who's responsible. | |
| One or more people. | |
| They don't know. | |
| So is the public at risk? | |
| Are we concerned that there are nefarious intentions that could cause either an actual security, a public safety incident? | |
| There's nothing that is known that would lead me to say that. | |
| Well, there's nothing known either that would lead you to say anything otherwise. | |
| He had a Brooklyn congresswoman from Staten Island in Brooklyn saying that her constituents have reported drone sightings over a power plant near the Verrazano Bridge, which is within the vicinity of the U.S. Coast Guard base in Fort Hamilton, a U.S. Army instant installation in Brooklyn. | |
| They're flying over sensitive infrastructure. | |
| This is like the Chinese, you know, the spy balloon incident. | |
| They just flat out lied to us again and again and again. | |
| And they then the lies just you know, the hits keep coming. | |
| Congressman Jeff Van Drew says the mystery drones very possibly, according to his sources, are from Iran. | |
| Probably about a month ago that contains these drones. | |
| That mothership is off. | |
| I'm gonna tell you the deal. | |
| It's off the east coast of the United States of America. | |
| They've launched drones, is everything that we can see or hear. | |
| And again, these are from high sources. | |
| I don't say this slightly. | |
| Now, you know, we know there was a probability. | |
| It could have been the our own government. | |
| We know it's not our own government because they would have let us know. | |
| It could have been some really glorified hobbyist or hobbyists that were doing something unbelievable. | |
| They don't have the technology. | |
| Uh but let's pretend that's possible. | |
| The third possibility was somebody, an adversarial country doing this. | |
| Know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and technology in order to go forward. | |
| Um the sources I have are good. | |
| They can't reveal who they are because they are speaking to me in confidentiality. | |
| These drones should be shot down. | |
| Whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can't imagine, or whether it is Iran, and I think it very possibly could be, they should be shot down. | |
| We are not getting the full deal, and the military is on alert with this. | |
| Where is Joe? | |
| Where's Kamala? | |
| Where's Mayorcus? | |
| Where's our military? | |
| Congressman Van Drew, Jeff Van Drew, pretty credible Congress person. | |
| I agree with him. | |
| Why hasn't one of these drones been shot down and examined or captured? | |
| We have another New Jersey Congressman, you know, and you know, this isn't some amateur out there flying a few of these things. | |
| There's so many, they're so big, you just don't know the intent of these. | |
| Now look, maybe it's nothing. | |
| Maybe and I'll be the first to say, I have no idea what this is all about. | |
| And if I did, I would tell you, I do know this. | |
| It could very well, can you imagine if Jeff Van Drew is right that Iran launched a mother ship that contains these drones? | |
| Now, would it really be far-fetched when you consider that Iranian assassination squads are in known to be in this country targeting Americans, not just Donald Trump, but his family members, his campaign team, and and others associated with the last administration. | |
| How do I know? | |
| Because I have really good sources. | |
| All of that is true. | |
| So does this sound that far fetched? | |
| And by the way, God help the Iranians if they did this. | |
| Because in 40 days, a new sheriff will be in town. | |
| There will be hell to pay. | |
| I do also know this. | |
| Congress intended the upcoming annual defense funding package to seal off America from this Chinese drone company deemed to be a national security threat. | |
| They currently sell nearly eighty percent of unmanned aircraft that fly in American airspace today. | |
| So China would be at the top of my list as well. | |
| And the fact that, you know, this they knew about this for days and days on end, and fifty drones come over the country, at least a dozen, you know, trailing a Coast Guard ship. | |
| I mean, this is insanity. | |
| You know, up to 30 drones tailed a U.S. Coast Guard boat, according to USA Today. | |
| A 47 foot Coast Guard boat on Sunday night, law enforcement tracked another. | |
| Why wasn't the military called in immediately to deal with this? | |
| I I I cannot believe it's just like the spy balloon. | |
| They knew it was a spy balloon. | |
| They didn't want to tell us. | |
| Then we found out later they knew the whole time. | |
| What do they know this time? | |
| What are they hiding this time? | |
| All right, a lot of ground to cover Chris Ray announcing his resignation, a brutal no confidence letter by Charles Grassley. | |
| We will go over. | |
| Um I understand that there are legitimate complaints people have with insurance companies, health insurance, hurricane insurance, uh car insurance. | |
| I I get that. | |
| But that's separate and apart from the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a father and a husband. | |
| Very, very different. | |
| But it is worth examining the issues of health care, why we have them and alternatives we have discussed many times over the years. | |
| All right, 25 till the top of the hour. | |
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| He is uh, you know, it looks like Kerry Pickett was right on the money uh Monday. | |
| She had her report for the Washington Times. | |
| And uh, and we covered it that afternoon. | |
| FBI director Ray planned to resign before Donald Trump takes office. | |
| NBC News and just about everyone else now catching up. | |
| It is Wednesday. | |
| Anyway, uh the FBI director plans to resign at the end of the administration. | |
| After weeks of careful thought, I decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down. | |
| My goal is to keep the focus on our mission. | |
| That's a joke. | |
| The indispensable work you are doing on behalf of the American people every day. | |
| Let me pause here. | |
| There are many rank and file FBI people that are amazing people that are protecting us. | |
| I don't want, I don't want the fact that you have the politicized FBA, uh FBI and a weaponized DOJ, you know, to bias your views against people that do put themselves in harm's way for all of us, and those people we need, and these those jobs are indispensable. | |
| Anyway, so he goes on to say, and then we we know President Trump already said he's he's picked Cash Patel. | |
| And Trump said that he wasn't thrilled the way Ray invaded Mar-a-Lago. | |
| I I thought I think this I think it was going to happen anyway, but I think Charles Grassley, the senator from Iowa, did the biggest beatdown in an 11-page letter about Ray's failed leadership within the FBI. | |
| He had an opportunity to restore this what was once the world's premier law enforcement agency back to its former greatness. | |
| He said, for the good of the country, it is time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter of your lives. | |
| I've spent my career fighting for transparency. | |
| I've always called out those in government who have fought against it. | |
| He went on to say, for the public record, I am I must do so once again now. | |
| Grassley goes on that he must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI. | |
| And he said, you know, for my part, I've seen enough. | |
| I hope your respective successors will learn from your failures. | |
| Oof. | |
| This is a brutal beatdown. | |
| And then he gives examples. | |
| He goes on. | |
| And he says that that Ray had shattered my confidence in your leadership and the confidence and hope of many others in Congress that we placed in you. | |
| He went on to write that Ray has failed as FBI director, and he pointed out the unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago, and including, by the way, searching Melania Trumps, the former First Lady's clothing drawers. | |
| I can't say that word. | |
| Closet. | |
| Let's put it that way. | |
| The raid occurred despite serious questions about the need for it. | |
| And Donald Trump had voluntarily turned over 15 boxes of documents. | |
| On top of that, we learned later that the FBI had full complete access to Mar-a-Lago, that when they went in the room where eventually they found some some boxes with information in it. | |
| Donald Trump doesn't pack boxes. | |
| He didn't pack the boxes that were sent to Mar-a-Lago. | |
| Anyway, and they called they they had the opportunity to remove all of them without a warrant and an FBI raid. | |
| And it turned out the only thing they called back a few days later, would you mind putting an additional lock on that door? | |
| So they knew it was there, and they could have called and asked to come back. | |
| They didn't. | |
| She never faced a raid. | |
| She and her staff mishandled high the classified information. | |
| And by the way, so did Joe Biden. | |
| He also hit the FBI for acting as an accomplice for Democrats' false information campaign to undermine his investigation of Biden family corruption. | |
| He said on October 6th, 2020, Senator Ron Johnson and I were finishing our report on the Biden family financial connections to foreign governments, questionable uh foreign nationals, and you succumbed to pressure from Democrats in Congress and provided an unnecessary briefing that Democratic leadership requested in an effort to falsely label our investigation as Russian disinformation. | |
| That briefing consisted of information we already knew and information that wasn't connected to our Biden investigation. | |
| We made clear at the time our concern that the briefing would be subject to a leak that would shed false light on the focus of our investigation, and predictably May 1st, 2021, the Washington Post did just that. | |
| Falsely labeling our investigation as Russian disinformation. | |
| He added the FBI sat on a on bribery allegations against Biden when he served as vice president, as well as Biden's son Hunter. | |
| He said, consistent with the FBI failure, yet another glaring example of your broken promises under your leadership. | |
| It is inexcusable failure to investigate bribery allegations against the former vice president while strictly scrutinizing former President Trump. | |
| You have repeatedly claimed you would ensure the FBI does justice free of fear, favor, or partisan influence. | |
| The FBI under your watch, however, had possession of incriminating information against President Biden for three years until I exposed the existence of the record outlining those allegations, but you did nothing to investigate it. | |
| I mean, he just goes on and on. | |
| I could just keep going for the rest of the show. | |
| It was brutal. | |
| You know, then he pointed out the FBI came under fire for refusing to provide information to Congress on the FBI's Richmond memo, known as the anti-Catholic memo for depicting traditional Catholics as violent extremists. | |
| I mean, he hindered my work, the work of others in Congress. | |
| You have shown a continued double standard and failure to promise through on promises. | |
| Wow. | |
| It was devastated. | |
| Devastating and deserved. | |
| Sad. | |
| Now we have to restore the FBI to being the world's premier law enforcement agency. | |
| Now I want to say this. | |
| What has happened to the health care system in this country is a disaster. | |
| There's no other way to put it. | |
| And I understand that probably most of you in this audience has had some unpleasant or difficult or challenging dealings with a health insurance company. | |
| There are a lot of reasons for it. | |
| And there are it's been a long time since I've talked about alternatives to the current system. | |
| I can't even count how many Titans we've had the founder of Atlas MD out of Wichita, Kansas, Dr. Josh Umber on this program. | |
| I mean, he he has a system. | |
| He offers people in Wichita for $50 a month for adults. | |
| I don't know if the price has gone up since I last spoke to him. | |
| $10 a month for children, unlimited consultations 24-7 around the clock. | |
| That's called concierge medical care. | |
| If you go to his, they'll take care of broken bones, they'll take care of stitches, they'll take care of pretty much everything. | |
| They even have chemotherapy drugs. | |
| If you have cancer, you're diagnosed with cancer. | |
| They can't do everything, but they do most things that most people need. | |
| And then you couple that with catastrophic care that would take care of the God forbid heart attack, stroke, bad accident, cancer. | |
| And catastrophic plans, usually the higher the deductible, the cheaper the plan. | |
| That's if the you know worst case God if scenario occurs. | |
| And it just is such a better way. | |
| Americans will promise something called Obamacare. | |
| Keep your doctor plans, save on average $2,500 per year. | |
| I understand people's frustration with that. | |
| Forty percent of the country, 40 plus percent of the country, they have one Obamacare Exchange option. | |
| Basically, take what they are offering you or forget it. | |
| Many of you get your health care plans from your employer. | |
| Many of you don't know where there might be gaps in coverage in that plan. | |
| Americans don't spend the time and go through the due diligence. | |
| If you get home insurance and you're in an area that's prone to hurricanes like I am, well, you've got to check and make sure that your insurance plan covers not only wind damage, but also flooding. | |
| If you're in a flood zone, I mean, a lot of people say, well, you know, the insurance adjuster came by and he said, Well, I'm I'm not covered for flood insurance. | |
| I'm only covered for hurricane winds. | |
| Okay, well, that that you didn't have the coverage you need. | |
| It's it's a mess. | |
| I also talked for years about health care savings accounts. | |
| Talked about the Cato Institute. | |
| I get everyone's frustration with the insurance. | |
| You know, the high cost of auto insurance, health insurance, the high cost of home insurance. | |
| It's it's cost prohibitive, especially when you're paying 13 grand more a year than you were paying four years ago for bare necessities. | |
| And then people have to make tough choices. | |
| But all of this, and it's all legitimate criticism. | |
| And we have we there there are so many great ideas out there. | |
| Health savings accounts. | |
| That's another one. | |
| Health care cooperatives like Atlas MD out of Wichita. | |
| That's another one. | |
| You know, or getting a catastrophic plan. | |
| That's another option. | |
| You know, maybe to enhance whatever care you you have from either your employer or your Obamacare exchange. | |
| If you can afford any of this. | |
| But none of this justifies, you know, the giddiness on the left. | |
| There are people apparently wanting to marry Luigi Mangioni. | |
| And they're they're coming up with memorabilia, and they are praising this assassin, and they're justifying it. | |
| It's unconscionable what people are saying and what people are doing. | |
| You know what, Sean? | |
| I have something I wanted to tell you, and I don't know if you heard me before when I was in your ear, but Ethan had a great point, which was these were the same people that went online after President Trump was um there was an attempted assassination on him the first time, and everyone kept saying, Oh, how sad he missed. | |
| Like the moral compass. | |
| I mean, I don't know. | |
| This is insane. | |
| It's upside down, obviously. | |
| Alex uh Baronson said so when the rich kid who went to a 40,000 dollar year high school and hung out in Hawaii, allegedly, executes the University of Iowa graduate who worked his ass off for 25 years. | |
| The elites are really getting what they deserve. | |
| Health insurance bashing assassin praised Michael Moore and a New York Times reporter in his manifesto. | |
| Great, inspired by Michael Moore. | |
| You know, unbelievable. | |
| It appeared to reference the lefty doc lefty more and former New York Times reporter. | |
| Uh and also illuminated the corruption and greed of the healthcare industry. | |
| There are legitimate, legitimate criticisms of the healthcare industry. | |
| But those are separate discussions. | |
| That is not relevant to the issue of the assassination. | |
| Not even a little bit. | |
| By the way, if you want to read a great book, read The Rainmaker by John Grisham, or watch the movie. | |
| It's a great movie. | |
| It was out in 1997. | |
| And it tells the story, which is you know, about uh an insurance executive, but their whole their whole business plan was to deny, you know, claims of people. | |
| We have Jimmy Kimmel reads his producer's text messages obsessing on Luigi Mancioni. | |
| I would visit him in prison. | |
| Nothing funny about this. | |
| Elizabeth Warren is saying, well, violence is wrong, but you can only push people so far. | |
| Stop and think overall about the social contract. | |
| You know, part of the deal and how we've kept this this democracy economy, this country on a fairly steady path for more than 200 years, has been that those at the top pay a little more in taxes, pay a little less rich than they otherwise might be. | |
| And everybody else at least gets chance. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And what happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And look, we'll say it over and over. | |
| Violence is never the answer. | |
| This guy gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of United Health. | |
| But you can only push people so far. | |
| And then saying that, justifying what this guy did. | |
| That's not how you change the system. | |
| He considered this guy bombing Manhattan and Penn sick to uh a sick to do list before shooting this health care CEO. | |
| One Obamacare provision among Ivy League murder suspects. | |
| You know, uh that this guy's background has been one of nothing but liberal leftist radicalism and privilege. | |
| No, I don't blame liberals for this, but the amount of support is sick. | |
| You know, his capture draws booze from the daily show audience, hashtag free Luigi trends as support surges for the murder suspect. | |
| You know, wanted posters of top health CEOs appear in New York City. | |
| You know, we have anti Trump DA's decision making. | |
| I mean, it's crazy. | |
| And then you have a U Penn professor professor hiding social media after celebratory post, you know, of the murder of this guy, and then they're going after the Altoona McDonald's uh that that identified the guy and did the right thing. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| 800 941 Sean. |