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I think we are in the midst of generational change, and we'll see that continue to unfold.
I mean, Liz Release sounds like uh someone who was broken out of the insane asylum.
Like he'd just be all over the place.
This is Gestapo like behavior where plainclothes officers wearing masks are terrorizing immigrants.
Freedom is back in style.
Welcome to the revolution.
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Fox News legal analyst, number one best-selling New York Times author Greg Jarrett is with us.
Uh, before we get to a lot of the legal issues of our time, and there's a ton of legal issues in the news today.
I do think this issue first broken by John Solomon, uh, but actually first broken by our our ensemble cast, including Greg Jarrett, John Solomon, and and others, as it relates to Nellie Orr, and what we have discovered is that the Department of Justice knew damn well a long time ago that Nellie Orr,
who whose husband was Bruce Orr, deputy assistant uh uh district attorney or whatever it was, not district attorney, but attorney general.
And he that she was up to her eyeballs working for Fusion GPS.
Uh, they of course were responsible for working with former MI6 agent Christopher Steele.
They came up with the dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
That dossier was then used four times, even though it was debunked even after it was debunked in in December of 20 seven uh 2016, and they still used it as the bulk of information for the FISA applications.
Comey signed three of the four of them.
You had to renew it every three months.
And on page 53 of Greg's number one best-selling book, uh, he did point out all of this six years ago.
Greg Jarrett, take on a victory lap.
You deserve it.
Well, thanks.
And uh again, you were instrumental in all of this, and you know, we discussed it uh six years ago in 2019 when my book Witch Hunt came out.
So I was reading through these newly declassified FBI documents showing that Nellie Orr gave false testimony.
Um and I knew we're uh that had been written before because I wrote it almost word for word, uh, chapter two, page fifty-three, and then many pages thereafter.
And I detailed all of her false statements.
I had gone through the testimony.
I had also obtained documents which showed the same thing.
Um, she denied, for example, in her testimony, sharing her dossier research with anybody at the Department of Justice, and but as I wrote in the book, there are 339 pages of emails showing that she sent it to at least three prosecutors at the Department of Justice.
And in fact, those same emails proved that she knew of the DOJ's parallel investigation of Trump, even though she testified to the exact opposite.
But it's important to remind people, Greg, that that dirty dossier, and there are even claims and and people that believe and and maybe you believe that she actually wrote at least part of it, if not all of it, uh that in fact that they knew it was false, they didn't care, and it without any real basis to start an investigation, it became the impetus for the uh opening of of what was known then as uh and now as Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which was the Russia hoax.
Yeah, she helped research at least two phony dossiers on Trump that essentially were mimicked or merged into Christopher Steele's infamous uh bogus dossier.
Then she and her husband, Bruce Orr, the number four at the Department of Justice, met secretly with Christopher Steele, 9 a.m. at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. on July 30th, 2016.
I wrote all of this in my book, Witch Hunt.
And that date's important because the very next day, the crossfire hurricane investigation of Trump was launched without any legal basis, no credible evidence, and in direct violation of FBI regulations.
So as you and I were talking last night, it was crooked top to bottom.
And James Comey knew at the outset that it was all a complete fiction.
He didn't care.
He hated Donald Trump so much, he was willing to abuse the law, lie to the courts, deceive the American people, all to take down President Trump.
And you know, the the lesson here is the people we entrust to enforce the law can themselves become law breakers, and yet none of them were ever charged or held accountable.
Well, I think that's the key thing.
They were in charge, they weren't held accountable, and and I I guess the statute of limitations probably by this point has run out on this.
You know, it and it's very interesting as you watch this uh for example, all these issues, the media has had a reckoning.
In 2007, and again, give me a little bit of time to set this up here.
In 2007, I said journalism's dead.
After this past election, I said legacy media is dead, they just don't know it yet.
And I think it's it's it's it's coming to be true and proven more true every single day.
I mean, you know, if you look at fake Jake Tapper, for example, I mean, his show has hit the lowest ratings they've ever had since 2015.
So the legacy media mob, I would argue is paying a price, and I don't think they'll ever get credibility back.
These bureaucrats that were in the what we call deep state, they were not held accountable.
But back to the media.
I mean, I learned a lesson because I was on the air when the Atlanta Journal Constitution came out with, oh, Richard Jewell fits the profile of the lone bomber.
He lives with his mother.
And I said on the air, I didn't know Richard Jewell was listening to me.
And I ended up getting one of the first interviews with him as a result.
I said, just because he lives with his mother does not make him a terrorist.
This is ridiculous.
And I was the only one that did it, and he said that to me, and I when I was shocked when he said it, but it opened my eyes and I didn't rush to judgment.
The media got wrong, Duke LaCrosse.
We got it right.
You were on my show off and then we got UVA right, uh, we got Bergus and Missouri right, hands up, don't shoot, never happen.
We got Freddie Gray and Baltimore right because we had sources.
I had a source in the George Zimmerman case that told me early on, now there's gonna be eyewitness testimony that will claim that it was George Zimmerman screaming because his head was being pounded into the cement, and that would probably mitigate any any guilty verdict.
Uh and they've got every one of those issues wrong and they rush to judgment every time.
So there's this unholy alliance with the legacy media and this deep state, and they never get held accountable, although I would argue media is being held accountable because people don't trust them.
Sorry that took so long.
No, i it's worth reciting, and you know, back in two thousand and seven seven, when you uh predicted that uh or pronounced the mainstream media dead, you weren't just pressured.
You had eyes and ears and you were paying attention, and you saw what they were doing.
They were rushing to judgment.
They were allowing their own uh political bias to infect their reporting and not just the stories they chose to publish, but uh the way they told those stories.
And what's so interesting about all the examples that you just recited quite accurately, I must add, is that um you know there was never any Mea culpa from the mainstream media for getting it wrong.
They never apologized for it.
And the Russia hoax was the classic example.
Uh when in the end they were finally uh forced to admit the New York Times or the Washington Post they got it wrong, they didn't give back their Pillitzer prize.
Um no, they just moved on to the next faux scandal that they either generated or inflated um and never looked back at all of their chronic mistakes.
They never apologize to the American people.
And it look, Americans are smart, and that's why they no longer trust people in the mainstream media.
They have utterly lost faith in them because they have gotten it wrong so many times, and not just innocuous mistakes, it was done with malice.
It really was, Greg, and all credit to you, and and here's the even the the more the the irony and uh it gets more ironic is that they got pull at surprises.
Now, I'm not saying that we deserve a pull of surprise, but there was a very, very small circle of us that were doggedly all over the Russia hoax.
We spent about three years of our lives covering that story, unfeeling every layer of the onion.
You were a big part of the coverage, John Solomon, Sarah Carter, Catherine Heridge.
I I and I'm gonna miss names here, but there wasn't many more, and maybe about six uh sources that were so rock solid and we protect our sources because we are a members of the press.
But you know, but for those six people or seven people maximum, you know, the story never would have been told.
Yeah, I mean, look, I had good sources, you had good sources, but a lot of it was in the public sphere, and journalists, mainstream journalists, became incredibly lazy.
They were happy to jump on the I hate Trump bandwagon.
He's uh, you know, a Russian stooge who colluded in the bowels of the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin.
I looked at a lot of this uh as a lawyer and I began with the FAI regulations.
I said, Wait a minute.
Uh Colly's violating the regulations.
He has no credible evidence, none.
Zero.
Um and yet but you even took it further than that, because after he knew definitively in December of twenty sixteen that they knew by then that it was debunked.
Christopher Steele was fired.
And and in spite of that, they still continued to use that dirty Russian disinformation dossier that Hillary paid for as the as the bulk of information before the Pfizer court.
Now the law, you pointed out to me at the time, required that if you make a mistake, you go back to the court immediately and tell them.
Yeah, and I I poured through all of those uh applications uh to the Pfizer court, James Comey's on name uh and signatures on three of the four, and McCabe on another one.
Um, including Rod Rosenstein, by the way, and that's a whole nother story.
But look, what he was doing was telling the court that this is based on the dossier.
The dossier is credible, and Christopher Steele is reliable without telling the court that Steele was not reliable, in fact, so unreliable and such a liar that the FBI fired Steele as a confidential human source for a lying.
And but they didn't disclose that to the court.
Now, what is that?
That's lying to the court.
And if I ever did that in front of a judge, I better bring my toothbrush because I'm going to be held in criminal contempt.
And yet, don't you don't have to worry, because I'd come with a cake and a file.
You'd be good.
Thanks, pal.
I appreciate it.
But look, the point here is that these people were getting away with it.
Uh, you know, James Comey and his whole crooked gang at the FBI.
And they're still getting away with it because they were never held accountable.
I it it apparently is not enough for you and I and John Solomon and others and Catherine Harridge to uh disclose the truth backed up by documentary proof.
That's apparently not enough.
And you know, this Nellie Orr, they buried that classified document for the better part of a decade until you know Cash Patel came in, started going through the vaults where all this stuff is hidden away so that nobody would ever see it.
And he began to go through it and reveal it to the American public.
They deserve the truth, and you know, God bless Cash Patel for doing that.
It takes a lot of courage.
All right, quick break, we'll come right back and we'll continue more.
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All right, we have the Fourth of July coming.
Don't you want to fly the American flag with pride?
Don't you feel when you're in your more quiet and introspective moments, aren't you glad and grateful and and humbled that you live in the greatest country God gave man?
I remember writing a friend of mine.
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I was in Riyadh.
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It was hot and it was an arid desert.
All right, we continue now with number one New York Times best-selling author, Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett is with us.
You know how I know that I'm right.
And we were right on this program.
We started chronicling Joe's cognitive decline in 2019.
And and I've proven that on radio, and we're we're gonna go deep in the paint tonight on Hannity on TV on this, because I think it's the biggest White House and presidential scandal in history, what they did.
And I'm sorry, but I'm I'm gonna be dogged on this because it uh and please watch tonight's show.
It's gonna be definitive.
Is the media ignores me when I'm right.
They ignored the my reporting on his cognitive decline, except to criticize me occasionally and take cheap shots, a hit and run.
But it's the same with the Russia hoax.
They never followed our lead.
They were clear watching every single night.
They knew the truth and they didn't care.
Last word.
Well, you were uh talking about it in 2019.
I went back and I pulled a August 2020 podcast.
I warned uh that if Joe Biden was elected, he would be a marionette president manipulated by White House puppeteers.
That literally was the title of my podcast.
Of course, that's exactly what happened.
Uh puppeteers were pulling the strings, his White House aides, his wife, um, and you know, once again, I was simply paying attention as you were paying attention.
We could see it with our own eyes.
The mainstream media wanted people to deny what their eyes and ears they were calling it in late 24 cheap fake videos.
They were mocking us, and we were playing very real videos.
I have to run, but I will tell you, um, it makes me proud to be associated with people like you and John and and Sarah and and everybody that was part of our ensemble cast.
Uh, we, you know, we all we all dug down as deep as we could, and our staffs also work so hard on those issues, and we like being right.
And if we're wrong, we'll admit it.
But that's something they won't do.
Greg Jarrett, appreciate you being with us, my friend.
And so thank you to you as well.
Have a great weekend.
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Well, we've been talking a lot about the Democrats and how they're sinking.
There's a great article in Salon.
How long will Democrats sink before the DNC acts?
I don't think they're going to be able to act.
There's no way.
Well, first of all, there aren't many moderates to begin with.
That's number one.
Number two, they continue to remain woke.
You heard AOC talking about, oh, let's uh let's abolish ice.
You know, they keep on this narrative that they want to defend the right of men and champion the rights of men to play women's sports.
They continue to champion the rights of illegals, even gang members and cartel members over the safety of Americans.
They continue to think that if you try to rein in insane government spending and rob from our kids and grandkids that you're a horrible person.
I I think the most amusing part of all of it to me, though, is the fact that they have no clue what has happened to them.
They have no clue and no understanding of why the American people are rejecting them in droves.
They don't understand that that most Americans don't want taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants and for convicted felons, the way Kamala Harris did.
They don't want to pay for college tuition for illegal immigrants.
They want people to follow the law.
They want people vetted before they enter our country.
I think what made me laugh the most this week is this insanity of the left when when it was announced that they're spending 20 million taxpayer dollars.
Twenty million to figure out how could we talk to men, especially younger men.
Hey, bro, how are you?
What's up, dude?
You want to get a brewski?
I mean, what the hell is that?
Anyway, here to sort this one out.
It really is a job for one man and one man only.
Our good friend Rick Burgess is back.
He's now the author of the book Men Don't Run in the Rain.
He's the host of the hit Rick Burgess Show.
Uh for many years he it was the Rick and Bubba show, and I know Bubba uh is sadly retired.
I know he's doing great things.
We uh miss him, and I know you guys are still great friends, which I'm glad to hear.
And uh I can't make fun of his tennis game anymore.
I had so much fun doing that.
Well Yeah, I mean that that you never saw Bubba and thought to yourself, now there's a tennis player.
Um, no, you never saw Bubba said, Yeah, there's a great tennis player.
But he was a great guy, and uh and you guys uh had an incredible run together, and I'm glad you're continuing in broadcasting, and I'm wishing him all the best.
Uh he's been a great friend of the show, as you have been.
Uh by the way, so the name of your book is Men Don't Run in the Rain, his son's reflections on life, faith, and uh on an iconic father.
And I want to talk a little bit about it.
But first, I mean, twenty million dollars Democrat spending to learn how to talk to men.
Hey, Rick, how are you?
What's up, bro?
How you doing?
What's going on?
Want to catch a brewski together?
I mean, what the hell is that?
I can't imagine my dad, you know, because this book represents a dying generation.
Um, don't forget the left are the very people that uh on one hand told us that men and women are not beautifully distinct, they're interchangeable, that women can be men, men can be women, but all of a sudden they decided that they're gonna lead the way on how to talk to men after telling us there's no such thing as men and women.
Only the left could have that kind of logic.
Yeah, it's it's all true, but I mean, if you have to study that question, that means you you don't have any authenticity.
You know, I learned very early in my career that the only way I was going to be successful is to just be myself.
When I when I first started in Talk Radio, I had listened to guys like Bob Grad, hey, uh, get off my phone, you creep you scumbag, you know, and all this stuff.
So when I started at radio, I tried to be like that, and I realized that's not really who I am.
And I just uh evolved into myself more and more, and you're you can't fake it for three hours a day, and your authentic self is coming out, period and a sentence if you're gonna have any level of success.
But what I love about you is, you know, you you guys cut up, you have a good time, you laugh, you tell jokes, and then you also have a serious side.
You're very open about your Christian faith in your book, A Son's Reflections on Life, Faith, and an iconic father, few things shape a life more profoundly than the lessons of a father.
Well, that's gonna make the the left in this country bubble and fizz like Alka Saltzer, you know, because you know, it's too masculine uh in its title.
Yeah, you're exactly right.
And And that title, Men Don't Run in the Rain, it came from, you know, I remember growing up, and you remember these men, Sean.
I mean, you you saw them and and uh they they were men, they didn't apologize for being men, and now what what at one time we called basic masculinity, the left has tried to label toxic max masculinity.
Now there is a toxic masculinity, and there there are men who who are a detriment to society, but just because uh a person is masculine, it does not make it toxic.
There there was also a beautiful masculinity that I believe was created by God when he made them male and female, made them equal, but beautifully distinct.
And I remember seeing my father, it was raining, and we I was just a child.
I was a little boy, and I noticed that he never changed his gait.
He was walking in the rain as if there were no rain falling at all.
And he came over, and even my my friend, he said, Did you notice your dad doesn't run in the rain?
And I'm like, No, I've never I've never seen him run in the rain.
So when I became a teenager, uh, and he was the athletic director and football coach at the local high school, I was in the junior high program.
So, you know, mom said, Ride home with your dad when he's done.
So we were about to go out to his his truck, you know, three on the column, like real men drove, and and so it started raining.
You know, we're from Alabama, you know, just about every summer afternoon, you're gonna get some sort of rain because the humidity, and I went to run to his truck, and he took his massive forearm, Sean, and he just stopped me and he said, Men don't run in the rain.
We'll walk to the truck.
I kind of love that.
That's a pretty cool story about your dad, and it's very old school.
Yeah, you're right, it would be called toxic uh masculinity.
You know, I I said to where I was having this conversation with a friend of mine.
I mean, you know, what does it mean to be the head of your household or the man in the home?
Uh well, in my view, and I don't care if people want to call me Bam Bam or Fred Flintstone, uh, if there's an intruder in my house and my family is there, I'm gonna be the one that goes out and takes care of the threat.
That's my job.
I view it as my job.
And even though, quote, I view myself as quote, the head of the household, you you you're the man of the household, but you're a gentleman.
It's like I still believe in the old fashioned way of opening doors for women uh in a car.
I believe men should pay for a date.
You know, I did this idea of you pay half, I pay half.
I don't I don't get that.
I wasn't raised that way.
Uh I was taught that you don't say certain words to a woman ever, except Linda, because she uses them more than me.
Well, let's face it, Linda's a different case.
But but when you're our household, you you you said that correctly.
My dad was clearly the authoritative figure in the home, but it was a servant leadership.
He was our protector.
I remember, I mean, the day he passed away, my mother uh was there, and my and my wife was there, and my mother and my wife both said the same thing.
When he passed, there was a moment where my wife looked at me and she said, He was our protector.
He was the patriarch of the family.
The very thing the left is trying to remove from society.
And if there was a moment there when I realized it would now shift to me.
It would shift to my brother.
And and there we realized there was a passing of the torch, but there was a certain comfort he brought because we knew what you said, Sean, he would he would make sure that nothing could ever harm us.
But at the same time, he opened the door for my mother.
He told us never disrespect our mother.
I better never never hear you say a harsh word to your mother.
And he served our house as well as led our house, and he had a humility that was uh something that's been lost, and I'm trying to use this book to say these kind of men are leaving our society, so we can use this platform where I can share this incredible man, this true original, with a generation that aren't being taught this.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with Rick Burgess, radio host, author of the brand new book, Men Don't Run in the Rain, a son's reflections of life, faith, and an iconic father, Amazon.com, Hannity.com.
Also your calls, Andy Ogles on this radical left Nashville mayor, as we continue.
We continue with Rick Burgess, uh very successful radio host and author of the brand new book, Men Don't Run in the Rain, a Son's Reflections of Life, Faith, and a iconic father, Amazon.com, Hannity.com.
Let's talk about, I mean, because i i I mean it all of this was displayed you right on the on the football fields in the Southeast as a a player at Auburn and later as a champion uh ship uh championship winning coach at at a high school and at the collegiate level, but he was a father.
What are the other lessons you learned from your dad?
Well, my dad my dad tried to eradicate stupidity, I think, from the planet.
He loathed it.
Uh he phrases that that I would never forget.
My brother and I one time set the the woods on fire, the stories in the book, and after and what we did was so stupid, and he looked at us and he said, Boys, if I had other uh ordered a truckload of stupid people, and all I got were you two, I would have got my money's worth.
I love that.
That is awesome.
What a great lesson.
Uh what did you what was your now my dad used to, you know, pull off the belt and give me a good licking and I can look back in retrospect.
I know you I never did it with my kids.
I didn't have to.
I just took their stuff and that was enough.
But I I can tell you that I deserved it every time, every single time, and it didn't traumatize me.
No, because my dad loved me enough to discipline us.
Our only version of timeout was asking for one when he got the belt out after a exactly.
Right.
Hey Dad, how about a timeout?
How about he was he was completely under control.
He never lost control, he never abused us.
He corrected us, and he corrected us because he loved us.
And he also taught us he could not stand for a man to make excuses.
He he said, Um you if you make a mistake, own it.
What a what a strange concept nowadays.
If you make a mistake, don't make an excuse, just own it, correct it, and do it do it right the next time.
But don't shuck your responsibility.
Don't shirk that.
Don't say that, hey, I slipped.
I remember one time, you know, playing for him, a guy you know, breaks containment on the outside, and he said, I'm sorry, coach, I slipped.
You know what he said?
Just tell me you didn't get the job done.
How about this?
You can't slip.
Don't don't make an excuse.
Just say you didn't get the job done, and then get back up on the next play and and and do it right.
You know, now everything, everybody's got an excuse for for everything.
No one owns anything anymore.
I I will tell you the words I was wrong, I'm sorry.
I mean, they the they're not used often enough.
They really aren't, and they're very powerful words.
And and those are things that I learned from my parents.
My parents were very devout.
They grew up really, really poor, and they understood why working was so critical to life and and developing a strong work ethic.
You know, I was twelve years old.
I got home two, three in the morning and nobody was waiting up, nobody cared.
They didn't know that I had two St. Pauli girls at the bar before I left at twelve and I'd fly home on my bicycle.
That part I didn't tell them.
You know, a work ethic, if you could pass that along to your kids.
Well you know what we do, Sean?
I'll tell you the mistake we make, and I hope this book helps.
We work so hard to give our children the things we didn't have when we really need to concentrate.
If you were raised the way you and I were raised, don't forget to give them the things that you did have.
Discipline, a work ethic, um, you know, uh learn to look a man in the eye, learn to shake hands, learn to do a good interview, you know, learn the difference between confidence and arrogance.
You know, we talk about that in the book.
Um, you know, learn to be tough and push through adversity.
You know, my dad had a question that he would always ask when you know you were hurt, he would say, Can you go?
And you know, at one time I didn't really fully understand that.
It wasn't about football.
I can't tell you the things that I faced in my life, including, as you know, Sean, you you actually helped walk through that with me.
Uh when my youngest son died, that's when I understood when he was teaching me, hey, can you go?
He was teaching me something about toughness that was much larger than the game of football.
I think that's the hardest thing that any parent can go through, and I remember it well.
I really do, and I I to this day, I I I feel horrible for you, and I know your son's in a better place and you'll be with him again, but it's not easy.
Uh by the way, the word confidence, some people think being confident is arrogant.
It's not.
It's from the Latin.
It means with deity.
Meaning you put God first, which is a big part of the message in your book as well.
And, you know, I guess we're both very fortunate, Rick, in that we both stand on the shoulders of unbelievably loving parents that sacrificed so much for us.
And I hope people get a lot out of your book.
We're going to put it on Hannity.com.
It's on Amazon.com.
It's now in bookstores around the country.
And it is Men Don't Run in the Rain, a son's reflections of life and faith, and an iconic father.
And uh look, few things shape life more profoundly than the lessons of a great dad, and we both were blessed with one.
Uh Rick Burgess, thank you, my friend.
God bless you.
Appreciate you uh more than you know.
Thanks again.
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