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	People that were sending out the criminals, the illegal aliens coming from their countries were taken aback.
	Are they going to take them back fast?
	And if they don't, they'll pay a very high economic price.
	An arrest of, quote, 50 illegal aliens right there.
	Alex.
	Yep.
	We call them undocumented immigrants.
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	I'm so sorry.
	I wish I could do something, but I can't.
	I don't know what to do.
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	Gonna play our guitars and say you a contra song.
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	Toll-free our number is 800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, we have so much ground to cover with hearings going on for RFK Jr., Kash Patel, and for Tulsi Gabbard.
	We've been discussing all of them today.
	As the hearings got started, I mean, Dick Durbin has been just a lowlife.
	He's sort of like Chuck Schumer out of Illinois.
	And, you know, he's just a smear merchant.
	And very early on in the hearings, he starts lecturing and insinuating that Kash Patel, who's been on this program, who has served his country, was the chief of staff for the Secretary of Defense, but insinuating that he's a racist.
	This is Dick Durbin.
	A number of my Republican colleagues on this committee have criticized Ms. Loomer's extremism.
	One of my colleagues described her as a, quote, crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage.
	Another called her really toxic.
	Giving all this, why did you associate with Ms. Loomer?
	Senator, as you can see, I took a photograph with an individual who showed up at a book event.
	I don't believe I'm guilty by association, and I certainly don't believe that an individual who was the first minority to serve as the deputy director of national intelligence for this country is a racist in any way.
	And I detest any conjecture to the contrary.
	Good for him.
	Very good for him.
	Then Lindsey Graham stepped in.
	Lindsay has his finest moments a lot at these hearings, and he was great.
	He pushed Kash Patel, who did not want to talk about this issue.
	He pushed him on it, and it got very interesting.
	Have you ever been subject to racism as an individual?
	Unfortunately, Senator, yes.
	I want to get into those details with my family.
	Well, let's get into a few of them.
	Tell me about it.
	Well, if you look at the record from January 6th, where I testified before that committee, because of my personal information being released by Congress, I was subjected to a direct and significant threat on my life.
	And I put that information in the record.
	I had to move.
	In that threat, I was called a detestable, and I apologize if I don't get it all right, but it's in the record.
	A detestable sand who had no right being in this country.
	You should go back to where you came from.
	You belong with your terrorist home friends.
	That's what was sent to me.
	That's just a piece of it.
	But that's nothing compared to what the men and women in law enforcement face every day.
	And that's why they have my support.
	Anyway, here to weigh in on this in Tulsi Gabbard's hearing.
	We have some cuts we'll play of her as well, is Brian Finch.
	He is the co-chair of the cybersecurity practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
	And you've been watching this Adam Schiff show go on.
	And this is what I told this audience would happen anyway.
	This is all they got.
	Whatever denial stage after November 5th Democrats were in, they're out of it.
	They're now in the rage and anger and lashing out stage.
	But I don't think they really laid a glove on any of these nominees.
	And it's just going to be up to Republicans to stiffen their spines and give the president the cabinet that he deserves.
	Sean, you're absolutely right.
	I mean, I've been in D.C. for almost 30 years.
	And at this point, I'm pretty jaded by the opposition in a lot of these confirmation hearings.
	It's just theater.
	It's theater that they're looking to produce scripts and copy that they can use in their fundraising emails, in their television commercials, and throw red meat or red soy meat, as the case may be for Democrats, to their loyal party supporters and their voters and saying, look, how I'm standing up to these horrible people who are dedicated to violating the Constitution and your civil rights.
	It's not true.
	I mean, it's just absolutely not true.
	And everybody recognizes it for what it is.
	It's just playing to your audience, and it's not truly serious lawmaking.
	You know, as we look at this, and we're learning more and more over time, is, and there was a pretty interesting story.
	It's long and it's somewhat complex.
	And I'm not sure if I have the time to go into it, but I'll give a little summary.
	It was on FoxNews.com today, but a previously identified anti-Trump FBI agent apparently broke protocol, played a critical role in opening and advancing the Bureau's original investigation related to the 2020 election, tying Donald Trump to the probe without any sufficient predication.
	Whistleblower disclosures have been obtained by Chuck Grassley Reveal along with Ron Johnson.
	And they shared internal FBI emails and predicating documents, legally protected whistleblower disclosures.
	And they found out that these documents prove that the genesis of the federal election interference case brought against Donald Trump began at the hands of one FBI assistant special agent.
	It's not even a special agent.
	And that Fox Digital reported in 2024 this individual had been fired from the FBI after he violated the Hatch Act in his political post on social media.
	Previously, whistleblowers claimed that this guy had shown a pattern of active public partisanship.
	And all of this was allowed to continue over Jim Comey, Mr. Higher Honor, and Christopher Wray.
	And I think cleaning out the FBI and taking away, you know, the FBI clearly has been politicized.
	The DOJ has been weaponized, and it's got to come to an end.
	And I know a lot of people say to me, you know, well, why are Democrats all of a sudden now interested in this?
	Because they remain silent the whole time.
	Because aren't they really afraid that the precedent that they themselves set would be used against them?
	In the end?
	They should be, and you're absolutely right.
	And the president, President Trump is absolutely right about trying to find nominees, and whether it's a director of the FBI, whether it's the Attorney General, whether it's the DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, people who not only are going to ask questions, but know to work with people who ask questions as well.
	And I think that's a bit of a subtler point that's not getting across to a lot of folks is that, you know, it may be that someone like Chris Ray, he had some, could have had some good intentions, but the people sitting below him, for example, might not have had good intentions and not given him the full information on any given matter.
	And so that's why the president has sought out people like Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and others and given them explicit direction to review, to reform, but also make sure that you're working with people who know how to ask the right questions and know not to game the system.
	And you can trust them to not game the system.
	There's always going to be one or two bad actors here or there.
	But if you don't take a top-down review and see who's really committed to doing the right thing, following the law, following the Constitution, et cetera, that's how you wind up with these organizations, which puts you in these spectacularly absurd situations like calling the president, the asset of Vladimir Putin or Tulsi Gabbard an asset of Shir Assad.
	Those are just ludicrous claims.
	And the president has been working steadily towards getting people in government who won't do that and have a system in place to protect against that.
	I mean, and then it borders on absurd.
	You know, Chris Kuhn's asking, you know, what would you do if ordered by Donald Trump to open an investigation into a political enemy?
	And his answer was, any law enforcement operation will only be launched on a factual legal basis.
	That's it.
	I'd never do anything unconstitutional or anything unlawful.
	You know, then asked if he would fire the agents who worked on Jack Smith's team.
	He said not FBI agents will be fired, not FBI agents will be fired for their mission assignments.
	He says that that's not an acceptable answer.
	You failed your first test of whether you'd stand up to Trump.
	I mean, it's just, they just, they can't help themselves.
	No.
	And Hirano asking if Cash has ever sexually abused anyone.
	Our number one question, it seems, every single time.
	You know, but at the end of the day, it's the same.
	It's sort of like wash, rinse, and repeat.
	This is all they've got, whether it's RFK, Tulsi, or Cash.
	And, you know, what's particularly galling to me, Sean, is when the opposite is true, which is they talk about Alvin Bragg's case against the president.
	They say, well, you know, he's a felon.
	The jury has spoken.
	The law has spoken.
	No one is above the law.
	And, you know, you sit there as a lawyer and you say, you've got to be kidding me.
	No reasonable prosecutor, no one who has any shred of decency or apolitical in them is going to look at the cases that were brought against the president and say, yeah, those are legitimate.
	They were entirely illegitimate.
	There was absolutely nothing there.
	These were political prosecutions designed for a very clear purpose to render Trump unelectable.
	And thankfully, it backfired.
	But if you bring those examples up to them and say, oh, that's completely different.
	We're much more worried about these strange theoreticals and hypotheticals that we've come up with with cash and Tulsi and others.
	And it's just nonsense.
	It's absolutely nonsense.
	As I watched the Tulsi hearings today, I mean, their obsession was with Edward Snowden, and she widely condemned it.
	And I've discussed this many times.
	You know, fool me once, shame on you.
	Fool us twice, three, four, five, six, 10, 15, 1,000 times, shame on us.
	You know, we know that we were hacked.
	The Trump campaign was hacked during this presidential election cycle numerous times by China and by Iran and likely by North Korea and other countries.
	And she's not supportive of what Edward Snowden did, and she was very clear.
	There was FISA abuse.
	That was their second point of contention when they used Hillary Clinton's unverified, now debunked, bought and paid for Russian disinformation as the basis of four FISA applications.
	And only years later did they say, oh, knowing what we know now, we never would have used that information.
	Well, they knew at the time and were warned ahead of time not to use it.
	And so that seems to be the heart of their biggest argument against her.
	And I thought she handled it particularly well.
	Susan Collins, I noted, you know, why is she asking Gabbard if she ever met with Hezbollah?
	She said it's an absurd accusation.
	I mean, or Gabbard, you know, going to Syria, saying it can benefit greatly by going and engaging boots on the ground.
	A woman that has served her country with honor and distinction.
	It's disgusting how they treat people.
	And it's probably why you're never going to want to, you're not going to get a lot of good people that ever want to go into government.
	No, no, absolutely not.
	And a lot of those same senators asking questions about Hezbollah, et cetera, remain absolutely silent in the face of claims saying that Israel has killed 60,000 civilians in the Gaza Strip, et cetera, or taking sympathetic views to that.
	Again, it's just pure hypocrisy.
	It's trying to strike down anybody you think is aligned with President Trump's values, policy perspectives.
	And these folks are there to ask the tough questions at the end of the day.
	And that's what someone like Director Gabbard should be doing.
	That's someone like Kash Patel.
	They should be doing that.
	They should be asking difficult questions.
	They should be contrarians a lot of the time to make sure that all sides are being explored.
	And that ultimately the policy decision makers, like for instance, Cash isn't a policymaker.
	He's the director of the FBI.
	He's on par with the director or the administrator of the DEA or the head of science and technology at DHS, their subcomponent.
	It's up to Pam Bondi and others to make those attorney, as the attorney general to make those decisions.
	And for Tulsi Gabbard, making sure that she is asking the right questions and then she brings to the president information and then he and Mike Waltz as the national security advisor and Pete Hexeth as the defense secretary, they make the decision.
	So I'm happy to see them asking those questions.
	Am I going to agree with every answer that they personally come up with?
	Not necessarily, but I want them asking the hard questions.
	Quick break, right back more with Brian Finch on the other side as we talk about the hearings of Tulsi, RFK Jr., and Kash Patel from earlier today.
	All predictable, all Democrats, all rage, all hate, all phony accusations.
	It's so amazing.
	They don't want done to them what they did to Donald Trump and all of his associates.
	That is their biggest fear.
	It's actually, you know, in a weird way, humorous.
	Quick break, right back.
	Your call's also coming up.
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	All right, we continue now with Brian Finch as we've been watching all day the hearings, day two of RFK Jr.'s hearings before the U.S. Senate.
	It's just an absolute clown show on top of Cash Fatel for FBI Director Tulsi Gabbard, DNI Director, as we continue to analyze this.
	Brian Finch, by the way, is the co-chair of the cybersecurity practice at Pillsbury, Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and knows all about the deep state.
	You're the cybersecurity expert.
	Are Americans, how often are we spied on and have no idea?
	Do you believe our government is accumulating massive amounts of data and holding on to it?
	I think the government is definitely monitoring a lot of people.
	I think they're doing it lawfully a lot of the time.
	Honestly, Sean, what bothers me more than that is the fact that the Chinese government, the Russian government, North Koreans, others, Iranians, they're going through our systems nonstop.
	And the American government throws its hand up and saying, well, there's not much we can do about it.
	If you look what happened towards the end of the Biden administration, it came out that the Russian government and others had completely hacked into, or the Chinese government actually had hacked into telecom systems of some of the major providers in the country.
	And the response from the Biden administration was, it's going to be really hard to get them out.
	So everybody be careful.
	That, to me, is far more offensive at the end of the day than anything that might be happening allegedly within the American government spying.
	And if you're asking me, we need to focus on the foreign threats first.
	It doesn't mean that the domestic overreach and spying isn't a problem and isn't something that shouldn't be carefully monitored.
	But for darn sure, I want to make sure that we have people like John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard, Hegseth, and Pam Bonte and others are going to stand up and say, China, Russia, absolutely not.
	If you do this to us, there'll be serious consequences.
	And the president's done that, and I support it 100%.
	It's about time these agencies get cleaned out.
	And those deep state operatives have got to go.
	And weaponization has got to end.
	Anyway, Brian, we appreciate you.
	Thank you.
	When we come back, we'll hit the phones.
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	Anyway, 67 people dying in this tragic crash last night.
	You know, I spent a lot of time talking to all my friends that are familiar with aircraft and helicopters and jets.
	And they all had a very interesting take on what happened in this incident.
	And it's just sad.
	President Trump addressed the tragedy today and was right to talk about, you know, Mayor Pete, Pothole Pete's failures.
	That was one thing he said, but he also provided a moment of silence for the victims of this crash and reported there were no survivors and pointed out we're one family, one nation.
	Our hearts are broken, and our hearts go out to all of these families.
	I'd like to request a moment of silence for the victims and their families, please.
	Thank you very much.
	I speak to you this morning in an hour of anguish for a nation.
	Just before 9 p.m. last night, an American Airlines regional jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter carrying three military service members over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. while on final approach to Reagan National Airport.
	Both aircraft crashed instantly and were immediately submerged into the icy waters of the Potomac.
	Real tragedy.
	The massive search and rescue mission was underway throughout the night, leveraging every asset at our disposal.
	And I have to say, the local, state, federal, military, including the United States Coast Guard in particular, they've done a phenomenal job.
	So quick, so fast.
	It was mobilized immediately.
	The work has now shifted to a recovery mission.
	Sadly, there are no survivors.
	We are a country of really, we are in mourning.
	This is really shaking a lot of people, including people very sadly from other nations who were on the flight.
	For the family members back in Wichita, Kansas, here in Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States and in Russia, we can only begin to imagine the agony that you are all feeling.
	Nothing worse.
	On behalf of the First Lady, myself, and 340 million Americans, our hearts are shattered alongside yours, and our prayers are with you now.
	And in the days to come, we'll be working very, very diligently in the days to come.
	We're here for you to wipe away the tears and to offer you our devotion, our love, and our support.
	His great support.
	In moments like this, the differences between Americans fade to nothing compared to the bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all.
	We are one family, and today we are all heartbroken.
	We're all searching for answers.
	It just sad.
	Our thoughts and prayers go to the people that were on this aircraft, on these aircrafts.
	Anyway, let's get to our phones.
	800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, James of North Carolina.
	Hey, James, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Sean, thank you so much for all you do, sir.
	You're a blessing to our country.
	Sean, I used to fly S-76 for a private corporation, very similar to the UH-60 aircraft involved.
	I was an airline pilot.
	I now fly private business jets.
	I fly into Teterboro, flown in and out of Reagan hundreds of times.
	Sean, the thing that's really bugging me is why did the TCAS system not generate an alert on that regional jet?
	Well, you're raising a great question.
	The TCAS system is the traffic collision warning system for people that don't know.
	That is correct.
	That's correct.
	And for helicopters to operate in that exclusion area, Washington, D.C. is located inside what's known as Class Bravo airspace.
	Very busy airspace, New York, LA, Atlanta, Charlotte.
	That airspace is considered Class B. For all aircraft operating in that, they're required to have a transponder that generates an altitude.
	That's called Mode C.
	And they're generating ADS information out as well.
	So that helicopter was transmitting enough information to where if the TCAS system was working properly on that candidair airplane, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
	But the TCAS computer, it will generate a solution and it'll tell the flight crew, it'll generate an alert.
	It'll say traffic, traffic, climb, climb now, or descend.
	And it'll actually give them a pass where to climb.
	It's actually, I just happen to know, and I have enough friends that are pilots that it's a verbal command.
	It's not like they're not hearing it.
	It's a verbal and a visual cue, and it actually tells the pilot where to put the nose, where to pitch.
	And if that had been working, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
	So a lot of unanswered questions.
	But had that system worked properly, this crash would not have happened.
	Yeah, I mean, I guess that's why we call them accidents.
	They're not designed to happen.
	And there's such redundancy in aircraft today.
	And, you know, we've almost, and I hate to say this in light of an incident like this, you know, in many regards, and maybe as a pilot, you would agree with this statement.
	We've come close to perfecting air flight.
	Am I wrong on that?
	Because when you think of the hundreds of thousands of flights, you know, that take off worldwide.
	We are getting, we have one of the safest systems in the world, but I have learned just when I think I've got my airplane figured out, I've been flying this particular platform.
	I'm flying now for 20 years.
	Just when I think I've got it mastered, something comes up and it humbles me.
	And we are nowhere near perfection.
	We've got a great system.
	We've come a long way, but there's still, you know, there's always room for improvement.
	I mean, are we ever going to stop having auto accidents?
	Are we ever, you know, I'm not looking for perfection, but I'm saying we've come near perfection when you consider the sheer volume of aircraft in the skies worldwide at any given time.
	And there are so few incidents, even when there are emergencies, you know, we have contingencies to bring it down.
	And the amount of redundancy in terms of avionics and, you know, backup systems and redundancy.
	I mean, it's all there.
	And it's a great.
	I feel very comfortable with flight, although it's not, it's not, I guess nothing with involving human beings will ever be perfect.
	But, you know, we're doing pretty well with the system.
	And this just turned out to be a horrible tragedy, which is not, none of this conversation is going to bring any comfort to any of the families and victims.
	No, not at all.
	Thank you so much for all you do, Sean.
	And I know you have the presidents here.
	One thing we've got to do to get away from the Pete Bootage Edge era, can we please bring back the term no-tam and get rid of notice to air missions?
	That's one of the dumbest things ever.
	You got it.
	Appreciate your call.
	Thanks for what you do.
	You know, a friend of mine who's so into aircraft, that's all he ever wants to talk about, actually said to me that, you know, pilots are great.
	He goes, piloting an aircraft is not hard.
	He said, I said, really?
	He said, well, you go through your basic training.
	You go through instrument training.
	You go through all of that.
	And then he said, when you need a pilot is when things go wrong, when you need a good pilot.
	Let's say hi to Frankie in Washington State.
	Hey, Frankie, how are you?
	Mr. Hannity, God bless you.
	What's up, sir?
	Hey, I talked to you last year.
	You did that big, huge donation for Ton of Towers.
	Yes, sir.
	I want to thank you so much for that for my brothers and sisters.
	So anyhow, real quick, I'm going to give my ADD version.
	All right.
	So being in the military, I was an engineer, right?
	MVGs, okay?
	Okay, that's finding Danny.
	You know, you're flying a plane, all that stuff.
	Yeah, okay.
	But when you go special ops, you're flying a helicopter, whatever.
	You got MVGs, night vision goggles, all right?
	Then you got an FOV, still the vision, okay?
	So when that plane's coming in with headlights hitting you, you lose 50% of your vision, especially if you're that close to a plane, you know?
	So I could see there's some confusion maybe.
	Something was there, you know?
	So that's where I'm going with that.
	I'm not saying there's no fault with anybody, but there's some parameters that people got to look at.
	Okay.
	Yeah, there's alerts and all that.
	But when you're coming in, are you watching everything?
	But regardless, let's say all of what you're saying is true.
	What about the TCAS system, the traffic collision warning system?
	Why wouldn't that have kicked in?
	You're coming in hot.
	You're coming in hot.
	You're coming in, you're landing, landing gear.
	Man, you're doing all your all your to-go-to coming in, landing gear down.
	You're doing all your case scenarios as you're coming in.
	Flaps down, you know, spoilers up.
	You're coming in.
	Throttle back.
	You're navigating all that stuff.
	There's a lot of stuff.
	When you get alert, when you're that low to the ground, and then you got a helicopter coming up that's got MVGs, it would probably come up silent.
	You know, they're doing something special ops, whatever it is.
	You don't know.
	Nobody really knows what happened.
	Nobody knows.
	And especially if you're flying with the MVGs, man, when you get hit with a light, you lose all your peripheral.
	You lose a lot.
	So there's no time of reaction.
	You know, as an engineer, that's what I'm saying.
	Okay.
	And then one real quick thing.
	Hey, you know what?
	China's doing all this stuff.
	I think that we should subject them with the COVID stuff and we take all that stuff back and we're going to charge them for the money.
	We're going to take the canal.
	We're going to take Bahram back.
	We're going to take all that stuff as payment, as payment for everything they did to us and continue to do to us.
	So we're going to get a tariff thing.
	We're going to nothing.
	We're just going to take them.
	They've gotten away with so much and have never been held accountable for what they knowingly did to the world.
	They wouldn't let any plane out of Wuhan fly to their country, but they let Wuhan flights go to all over the world.
	That tells me they knew.
	Frankie, appreciate it.
	We'll sneak in Paul in San Francisco.
	Next, the United Socialist Utopia of California.
	What's up, Paul?
	How are you?
	Good afternoon, Sean.
	It's an honor and a privilege to talk to you.
	I've been listening to you Since the 1980s, when you were here in California.
	Yeah, wow.
	Have I changed at all?
	That's all I asked people.
	I think I'm the same.
	My principles haven't changed.
	Yeah, your hair is bare.
	I deserve that.
	Linda, I can see her laughing.
	Go ahead, laugh away.
	Have fun at my expense.
	Listen, at least you can pull it off.
	That's true.
	At least I have hair.
	Anyway, what's on your mind today?
	Well, a couple of things.
	One, on this aircraft, you know, I've spent 20 years in the Marine Corps in aircraft maintenance.
	And as such, I watch a lot of those, you know, air disasters on TV and whatnot.
	And, you know, they always want to blame the maintenance first, even like your first caller was saying, you know, the air collision warning wasn't working.
	But it's been my experience probably eight or nine times out of ten.
	It's pilot error.
	You know, and like the other guy was saying, just before, you know, maybe he was over, you know, pilot overload in the cockpit.
	You know, the warning might have gone off, but, you know, he didn't have time to react to it.
	You know, it could be a lot of things, but, you know, it's terrible to say, but you're right.
	90 plus percent of the time it's pilot error or ATC air traffic control can be a part of it too.
	And it's just a fact.
	And, you know, it just is a reminder of whether you're driving your car.
	I mean, I used to speed a lot and I got pulled over a lot.
	And then as I got older, I said, you know what, this is ridiculous.
	And, you know, there's a time in my life I had two phones and I'd be like texting on both of them at the same time.
	It's stupid.
	And I refuse to text when I drive and I don't speed anymore.
	And if you don't like how that I'm going the speed limit, then okay, then drive up, drive.
	I'll drive on the right side of the road.
	You drive on the left side of the road.
	I just common sense, just a common courtesy for other people.
	I would never want to wake up having hurt somebody because I was doing something stupid.
	Anyway, my friend, I do appreciate your call and your service as well.
	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
	Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
	We'll have all the latest on the hearings at Kash Patel, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard.
	Also part two of my interview with JD Vance.
	We'll have the latest on this terrible crash that took place in Washington, D.C. How did it happen?
	Why did it happen?
	Did any of Blue to Judge Harris and Biden's DEI mandates impact air safety?
	We'll get into that too.
	We'll have the latest on this mid-air collision.
	9 Eastern, City DVR.
	Hannity on Fox.
	We'll see you then back here tomorrow.

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