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	This is an iHeart Podcast.
	And welcome back to the Sean Hennedy Show.
	I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean today and tomorrow.
	I'm a Fox News legal analyst and a trial attorney by trade.
	And obviously, the big news today is the newly launched criminal investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI into the actions of James Comey and John Brennan in the Crossfire Hurricane, otherwise known as the Russia hoax.
	Happy to have with us Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, author of a new book that is out today.
	You've got to get it, Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback.
	Newt is obviously number one New York Times best-selling author, and so many of his books I've read, and all of them are absolutely terrific.
	Mr. Speaker, many thanks for taking the time on what I know is a busy day.
	And let me begin by you got one heck of an endorsement on social media from Donald Trump.
	And if you'll allow me, let me just read it.
	It's pretty short.
	The wonderful Newt Gingrich has just written a book that is the talk of D.C.
	It's called Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback.
	Word is that it's fantastic, but I haven't read it yet.
	I've been a little too busy.
	When I do, I'll let you know what I think of it.
	But Newt always does it right by a copy now.
	Mr. Speaker, that's a fantastic endorsement, isn't it?
	Well, Chris and I were both sort of surprised when it came out, and of course, obviously very grateful and delighted.
	I do think that Trump's triumph has a lot in it that helps people both understand the recent election and helps them have a sense of where we're going in the next couple years.
	And it's been an astonishing rate of change.
	I mean, the number of things that President Trump has done per day is just unimaginable, I think.
	And of course, you're a great analyst, and we've done a number of podcasts and other things together.
	I'm always impressed with your knowledge.
	And this decision, which I think personally, as a non-lawyer, think is exactly right to go after the former head of the CIA and the former head of the FBI for what I think are clearly felonies, where they were deeply abusing the power of government, doesn't surprise me, but it sure does take a lot of courage on Trump's part.
	Yeah, it absolutely does.
	And I do want to talk to you about that and get more of your thoughts on that, as well as the big, beautiful bill.
	But your book is so opportune at this moment.
	Again, it comes out today.
	It's called Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback, really is since the reelection of Grover Cleveland, the only person to, you know, get non-consecutive terms.
	But as your book points out, Trump was never a typical political candidate.
	He was the leader of a movement which he recognized in the American people.
	Trump didn't invent make America great again, you write.
	He intuited it.
	That's pretty remarkable, isn't it?
	Well, it is.
	I mean, look, I think Trump is one of the most extraordinary presidents in American history.
	He's certainly in a very, very small group of genuine change agents.
	And he has a remarkable ability to sense where the American people are.
	And I thought in a way it was captured during the campaign when he went to McDonald's to hand out french fries, recognizing that 87% of the country goes to McDonald's at least once a year.
	I mean, you could not place yourself anywhere that has a greater natural affinity for Americans than to be having french fries at McDonald's.
	And it's just typical of his ability to sense the country.
	And the thing which I think is driving the Democrats crazy, but that the American people and Trump are singing one song and the Democrats are off in a corner singing a weird, radically different song, and nobody's joining him and singing it.
	You know, your book makes a great point when it says that Trump assembled a massive coalition of Americans from all backgrounds who were tired of being told what to do, what to say, what to believe.
	And he made historic inroads with voter groups that traditionally don't vote Republican.
	You know, how did he know how to do that?
	Was it instinctual?
	Or do you think he actually has an uncommon understanding of the working class in America that used to be championed by Democrats who have now turned against them?
	Well, look, I think it's a couple of things.
	I think, first of all, he was a construction real estate guy, not a finance real estate guy.
	So he was out there on the street talking to the folks who were building the buildings or who were developing the golf courses.
	I mean, Trump's ability to hang out with people, listen to them, be pleasant with them is just amazing.
	Years ago, Oprah Winfrey actually did a whole series of videos with Trump where he went to one of his hotels and he wore the uniform of every different job in the hotel.
	My favorite is he's the doorman and he walks the dog for one of the guests, comes back and says, Now, do I get a tip?
	It's just amazing to watch.
	So he has this instinct.
	Second, remember, for 13 years, he had a top-rated NBC show.
	And I always used to tell reporters in Washington that if the apprentice had come on PBS right after Downton Abbey, they would have understood how really good Trump was at doing this.
	And then third, for some reason, and I think it's coming from Queens to Manhattan, for some reason, he intuitively understands being the underdog and being the everyday guy and never being accepted by the elites.
	I think his own life was like that.
	And I think as a result, he has far more affection for African American or Latino or blue-collar workers than for the folks who are at the Harvard Club in Manhattan.
	Yeah.
	You know, I don't recall an American president who has had as many successes in such a short period of time as Donald Trump.
	You know, we're five months into his presidency.
	And of course, it looks all the more impressive following the bungled presidency of Joe Biden on foreign policy, whether it's Iran or negotiating ceasefires and long-standing, what we hope will be long-standing treaties here at home,
	Supreme Court victories in the last couple of weeks are really quite astonishing, finally getting the High Court after decades to kill the insane practice of judges issuing nationwide injunctions that were halting his agenda and freezing the function of government.
	But, you know, he won that one in a landmark decision.
	And of course, the most recent is his big beautiful bill.
	What's your assessment of, now that it's been passed, of the impact that will have on the nation?
	Well, it's enormous.
	I mean, it's the largest tax cut in history.
	It is a huge bill in terms of deregulation.
	It's a big bill in terms of energy production.
	It has begun to cut parts of the federal government that need to be cut.
	All these things wrapped up in one bill, which, frankly, I give John Thune a lot of credit.
	Getting a bill that big through the Senate that quickly is virtually miraculous.
	But its impact is going to be felt in every part of America.
	And it begins to reset some key values.
	It says, you know, if you're able-bodied, you ought to be working.
	Well, that's what we did in the 90s, but the Democrats hated it.
	For some bizarre reason, Democrats don't believe in work and don't want to incentivize work.
	The bill provides that we're not going to pay tax money for illegal immigrants.
	And again, the Democrats hated that because they want to give our tax money away to anybody who shows up.
	So you go down the list and you realize this is a very powerful, remarkable bill that's going to take months and months to totally work its way through the system.
	But when it's done, it will have moved America decisively away from the corrupt establishment that we have been saddled with and towards a very different future.
	Have the Democrats lost their way?
	They seem completely lost.
	They don't seem to be in favor of anything, only opposing everything that Donald Trump does and stands for.
	No, I don't think that's fair.
	Look, I mean, with all due respect, Greg, they are in favor of transgenders competing in women's sports.
	They are in favor of open borders.
	They are in favor of defunding ICE.
	They are in favor of a weak America overseas.
	I mean, there are a lot of things they favor.
	I mean, if you look at their newest great leader, Mamdanis, who is Mamdani rather, who favors getting rid of all the billionaires in New York, wants to radically raise taxes, favors a government-run grocery store.
	You go down the list and you think, I mean, this guy is like nuts.
	But he's probably going to be the Democratic mayor of New York.
	Yeah, I think you're right about that.
	And, you know, he calls himself a socialist, but when you look at what he advocates, particularly, you know, taking over all manufacturing and production, that's straight out of Karl Marx.
	And Jonathan Turley wrote about this.
	He said, you know, Mandami is a Marxist.
	And of course, anybody who's read Hegel and Marx know that the ultimate goal of Marxism is communism.
	And, you know, I envision a New York city that's going to wake up the day after the election and be mortified.
	And they should only blame themselves because if the last election is anything like the one coming forward, which had like 23% of people actually voting, they're going to have buyers' remorse on the first day, aren't they?
	Well, I think that what you're going to see is people who are rational will leave.
	I mean, New York could have the biggest exodus in its history.
	And you have to ask yourself, given the failure of communism in Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, why would you think this is going to work?
	Why would you think that a government-run grocery store is going to be better than the private sector?
	And you just have to wonder, I mean, how do these people manage to avoid learning?
	Yeah.
	No, I mean, it befuddles me.
	I'm confounded at what has become of New York.
	Let me shift over to what has been our top story in the last hour in this criminal investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI into John Brennan and James Comey.
	You know, it's been a long time coming.
	I wrote two books about it, The Russia Hoax and Witch Hunt.
	And I identify all the crimes that I suspect people like Comey and Brennan and all the others have committed.
	People, Democrats will say this is retribution.
	It's vengeance by Trump.
	No, isn't it upholding the rule of law?
	I mean, I would say, what are we supposed to do if we discover that the head of the CIA and the head of the FBI deliberately and willfully broke the law, knew they were breaking the law, and did it for political purposes?
	I mean, you just shrug your shoulders and say, hope you have a nice retirement.
	I think that's absolutely totally correct and an example of the rule of law to investigate them, to indict them.
	They have every right to then defend themselves in court.
	And I think the trial, candidly, I think the trial will be fascinating, and you will have a heyday explaining it to the American people.
	You know, I called it the dirtiest political trick in American history.
	This collusion delusion that was perpetrated by people like Comey and Brennan and Hillary Clinton, who financed it, and so many others were involved.
	I mean, you're a professor of politics.
	Would you agree that this has to rank among the dirtiest political tricks ever?
	Well, it's among the most frightening because if you have your national police force, which is the FBI, and you have the center of your intelligence system, which is the CIA, and the top two people are actively plotting against the president of the United States, I mean, this is the stuff of novels and movies.
	You know, this is totally, I mean, it's virtually, it really verges on treason, what they were doing.
	Yeah.
	And the irony, of course, is it was John Brennan who publicly accused Donald Trump of treason.
	Newt Gingrich, I want to thank you so much.
	You've got a wonderful endorsement by President Trump of your brand new book.
	It's called Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback.
	It comes out today.
	You can order it online.
	Go to your local bookstore.
	Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, many thanks for being with us today.
	Great to be with you.
	We're going to pause and take a quick break.
	I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean Hannity.
	Give us a call.
	Pretty soon we'll be taking your phone calls, 1-800-941-7326.
	The number is 1-800-941-Sean.
	Look forward to your calls and your comments.
	Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
	I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean today and tomorrow.
	Sean, hardest working guy in television news, is taking a little break.
	He richly deserves it.
	And coming up next, I'm looking at the board.
	We've got a bunch of people, and we're going to hear from them.
	Harla, Norm, Matt, Jim, if you'd like to make a comment or ask a question, all you have to do is give us a call.
	Our number is 1-800-941-7326-1-800-941 Sean.
	And when we come back, we're going to hear from Harla and then Norm, Matt, and Jim.
	Hey, welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
	I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean today.
	We have a lot of callers we're going to get to right away.
	You can follow me on social media, on X, formerly Twitter, at Greg Jarrett.
	I've got a new column out today.
	A new CIA report finally reveals the secret plot to take down Donald Trump.
	And of course, it comes on the heels of late yesterday's breaking news that the FBI and the Department of Justice have opened criminal investigations into the former CIA director John Brennan and the former disgraced FBI director James Comey.
	So you can read that on social media on X, or you can go to my website, thegregjarrett.com.
	Let's go to our callers.
	Harla joins us from Doylesburg, Pennsylvania.
	Harla, thanks so much for waiting and appreciate your phone call.
	Do you have a question or comment?
	I'd just like to comment that I'm a big fan of Sean's show, and I really enjoyed your interview style with Newt Gingrich that you just did today.
	Well, thank you.
	That's very nice of you.
	You know, Newt is such a learned person.
	And, you know, he is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to American politics and American history.
	Of course, he used to be a history professor before he became a member of Congress and later Speaker of the House.
	But, you know, he's uncommonly eloquent and yet very direct with plain language.
	And his books are all worth reading.
	Thanks so much.
	Did you have any other question or comment, Harla?
	Well, I definitely believe what's going on with what they're discovering today, what you were talking about.
	I'm a big fan of certain writers of espionage stories, and they would believe it because of what they would write about.
	Yeah, you know, it's funny.
	I have often made the remark similar to yours, Harla, that, I mean, you couldn't make this up unless you were writing detective fiction or some sort of spy novel.
	And, you know, I love fiction.
	I mostly read nonfiction, but I read books by Michael Connolly, John Grisham, Dan Brown.
	Recently, I read seven books by Daniel Silva, who is such a fine, fine writer.
	And, you know, I don't think any of those terrific authors could have come up with a plot as devious as this was against Donald Trump, the Russia hoax.
	And if anybody wants to read more about it, my second book on the subject called Witch Hunt, the story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history, I invite you to read it.
	You can buy it on Amazon.com or it's in many bookstores as well.
	Harla, thanks so much for your phone call.
	Norm joins us from Long Island.
	Hey, Norm, how are you?
	Good afternoon.
	Hi, I'm good.
	I have a couple of questions.
	The first one is, what's going on with Letitia James?
	You know, we heard a lot about it.
	It was front page in the New York Post, and now you don't hear anything going on of her being indicted.
	Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
	There is, of course, the Department of Justice lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James, the AG in New York, for obstructing federal immigration and enforcement and deportation.
	There is also a criminal investigation that was launched against Letitia James based on allegations of mortgage fraud.
	That in order to get favorable terms, she lied about a variety of things.
	Now, that is still pending.
	And, of course, we are also waiting for the appellate court in New York to completely knock out or knock down the case she brought against Donald Trump, in which she accused him, ironically, of loan fraud and tried to put him out of business.
	And, you know, I listened into some of the appellate arguments, and it was pretty clear that the judges weren't buying what Letitia James sold.
	And so we're waiting for that decision to probably overturn some, if not all, of the judgment against the Trump organization.
	So thanks for your call.
	I was wondering the same thing.
	Matt joins us now from Massachusetts.
	Hey, Matt, how are you?
	I'm good, Greg.
	And it's great to talk to you.
	It's a two-part question.
	As a lawyer, I believe the CIA head and the FBI had swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the country.
	And also the politicians that allowed this invasion of dangerous criminals into the United States to cause havoc.
	Now, they also swore an oath.
	And I don't know, under the law, is that high crimes and misdemeanors and considered treason, or is it not?
	Well, it's an interesting question.
	High crimes and misdemeanors relates to impeachment, but both Brennan and Comey are no longer in office, so that doesn't really apply.
	Treason.
	But the first part.
	Yeah, I mean, look, ironically, it was Brennan who accused Trump of treason.
	And then, of course, when the Mueller report came out and found that there was no collusion conspiracy, Brennan sheepishly on television said, oh, gee, I guess I had bad information.
	But it was worse than that.
	And your point is well taken, Matt, because if you are abusing the reins of power and breaking the law in the process, it could constitute a number of different crimes, deprivation of rights under color of law, perjury, false statements, fraud upon the government.
	Whether it's treason, I tend to doubt.
	I'm not a fan of treason cases.
	They tend not to succeed when it comes to political activities.
	So we'll wait and see what happens.
	You know, this criminal investigation should have happened a long time ago, but with Merrick Garland as the Attorney General under Joe Biden, of course, all of it was swept under the rug.
	And he spent most of his time as Attorney General trying to protect Hunter Biden and those who conspired with Hunter Biden and the Biden family to basically sell out the presidency and the vice presidency of Joe Biden for financial gain.
	You know, I think that is something that the pardons that Biden issued to Hunter and five of his family members notwithstanding should still be investigated.
	Let me go to Earl on our phone line.
	He joins us now from Indiana.
	Hi, Earl.
	How are you?
	I'm very well.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	I appreciate what you say and especially your legal responses on everything.
	But I'd like to tell you that I was born very, very poor.
	My father was an oilfield laborer, had six major back operations.
	My mother in and out of the hospital for 10 years because of a ledge failure surgery.
	So my brother and I were alternately based between my maternal and fraternal grandparents.
	I got a job after high school, attending Wrights High School in Evansville, Indiana.
	And I got a job and saw rights at an airport, $2.
	I took a ride.
	I was hooked.
	I was only making $1,250 a week at the time, and I was hooked on flying.
	I eventually got my private pilots, commercial pilots.
	Because I was poor, the people at the airport took a collection, sent me to Artworld, Baltimore, where I received my flight instructor's rating.
	So I have just under 6,000 miles flying time.
	But I say this because God's been so good to me.
	I have a bachelor's, master's, and I was working on my doctorate in Indiana University, taking legal courses and all of that.
	But when I was first able to vote, I voted for John F. Kennedy, I think, a very conservative Democrat.
	But quite frankly, the Liberal Democratic Party left me.
	Since I've been a very, very conservative Republican, and I want to say that I back President Trump and everything he does.
	And I want to say I'm also a member of the LST Treaty 325, the only LST award on the Ohio River, only LST that's sailing the waters of the United States.
	Proud member of that crew, but I must say, God bless President Trump and everything he and his people are doing, and God bless America.
	Well, God bless you.
	You've had an incredible life, and you've achieved a great many things.
	And thank you for sharing that with us.
	You know, you bring up John F. Kennedy.
	It's so interesting how Democrats have changed over the years.
	You know, it was the Democrats who lobbied against civil rights.
	And it was also John F. Kennedy who enforced civil rights, and he also cut taxes.
	And his theory famously was that a rising tide lifts all boats.
	And that, you know, if you cut taxes for even the wealthy, they're the job creators through their businesses.
	You know, they're the ones who put money in people's pockets.
	And if the government's taking away all that money, there is no entrepreneurship.
	There is no investment in research and development and expanding corporate America, which provides jobs.
	And Kennedy understood economics.
	It's sad that Democrats don't.
	They want to continue to raise taxes, which is why they oppose the big beautiful bill, which if it hadn't been passed, would have raised taxes.
	They would have reverted back to pre-Trump first term taxes.
	So, you know, I think Democrats need to study a little bit more of history and economics.
	But if they want to bankrupt America, if they want open borders in a welfare state and free everything, that ain't going to end well.
	Let me go to my next caller.
	And Earl, thank you for that.
	Our next caller is Jim from Minnesota.
	Hey, Jim, how are you?
	Hey, Greg.
	This is, yeah, I'm from Wisconsin.
	I'm just, I'm a trucker.
	I'm driving to Minnesota.
	I've got a statement, two quick questions.
	My statement is, please keep track of Tim Walls.
	You're such a great investigative journalist.
	That guy is so corrupt and he wants to be president.
	So keep track of Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota.
	Here's my two quick questions.
	Is there anything Trump and the executive branch can do with these rogue district judges legally other than impeachment?
	We're wasting so much of our taxpayer money going all the way to Supreme Court.
	Supreme Court keeps overturning these district judges.
	Is there anything legally they can do to get rid of these judges so that they quit?
	You know, they're obviously political.
	They're not going by the rule of law.
	And then my second question I thought of with one of your other callers was, can a police officer legally go against his mayor or his governor when they're telling him he can't help ICE?
	Isn't he also supposed, just like a military person, supposed to uphold the rule of law?
	Yeah, I mean, look, most sheriffs, but not all, and police chiefs, again, not all, are elected.
	I'm from Los Angeles, where, you know, the sheriff is elected.
	I think the police chief is not.
	But no, I mean, they have a duty to enforce the law, and they should do that.
	And likewise, I think your point is well taken about judges.
	For example, this Massachusetts judge, Indira Tawani, just recently blocked Trump's administration from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding, even though the Supreme Court just about 10 days ago said the Trump administration can cut off funding of Planned Parenthood.
	That is a serious ethical violation, and it would merit impeachment proceedings of a federal judge.
	15 have been impeached, and some of them for ethical violations.
	We'll be right back with more of your phone calls, 1-800-941-7326.
	Give us a call.
	We're back with a Sean Hannity Sean.
	Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean.
	We've been taking some of your phone calls, and I'm looking at the board.
	We've got John and Lewis and Mark standing by, and I'll ask you to stand by, if you would, just a little bit longer.
	I've got a great interview coming up with Mike Howell, who's president of the Oversight Project.
	We're going to be talking about the AutoPen scandal and the investigation into President Joe Biden's declining mental health.
	You're not going to believe what happened today during an investigation hearing.
	We'll be right back with more of your phone calls.
	Don't go away.

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