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Um, a lot of news to get to today.
I don't know why.
Everybody I know, we'll get into this later, is talking about this big concert jumbotron kiss that took place.
Um it was just a weird moment.
It was at a Coldplay concert.
And I guess, you know, like they have if you go to a ball game or you go to like uh for example, where I I love the Florida Panthers two time now, back to back Stanley Cup champions.
Just saying, and I think they have a good shot at a third one.
Um, but anyway, so they have these moments where there are people they put the audience members up on on the big screen, the jumbo screen.
And anyway, so they show this couple that are up there.
Linda, you've seen this, right?
We'll talk more later.
And anyway, the band's frontman is is Chris Martin.
This guy was once married to uh what?
Gwen Gwenneth Poultra.
I mean Paltra, whatever her name is.
I just I care less.
Whatever company she runs, what is it called?
Goop goop cop.
Yeah.
She's a raging liberal.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
And they did a conscious decoupling or something.
See, my memory's pretty good for I'm not gonna do it.
It's actually a little weird how much you know about this.
I'm starting to get get concerned.
Well, you're getting concerned.
Anyway, so are you listening to like sad Coldplay songs like when you're alone?
Like, what's going on?
I I couldn't name one Coldplay song, not one.
Can you?
Yeah, I have a bunch of their albums, actually.
I think they're they're pretty good.
Skyful Stars is probably my favorite.
All right.
So the front man says, I'm not gonna be look, I I I'm not even gonna make an inference, but I mean, it they're getting hammered.
I mean, anyway, so the camera pans towards the this couple, and the guy's got his arms around kind of like the upper chest area, what it looks like to me, and I'm looking at the picture right here in front of me in the New York Post, and their hands at another point are intertwined,
and then the moment where they realize they're up on the jumbo drum actually happens, and they they see that, and immediately, you know, she flings her hands over her face, turns around, he ducks down out of view.
Martin, you know, thought the camera had captured a sweet moment.
Oh, look at these two.
Uh, but their reaction kind of initially leaves him confused.
He goes, uh oh.
And then he could be heard saying on stage, well, either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.
And anyway, I don't know uh much about them except what has been written about them.
And apparently the wife of the guy saw this and deleted her married name from her Facebook page.
Did you see that?
I did.
I don't know.
I would that was pretty quick.
That was done like in this probably probably a little something something going on already, I would think.
Um you know, women are not stupid.
I'm sure she knew.
I don't know.
Um, some people get away with this stuff.
I mean, I guess.
There's a part of me that's like, you know what?
If if you were that brazen and and you want to go out there and and by the way, we have members on our staff saying, oh no, if you're cheating, you should go to an obscure restaurant.
I'm like, why would you know that?
Why would you think that way?
It's not about knowing that.
It's just it's listen.
A normal person is a good thing.
It's supposed to be common.
It's supposed to be common knowledge, where to go to cheat.
The whole idea of cheating is that you're doing something nefarious that you're not supposed to be doing, like any other crime, whether it's a crime of passion, crime against community, taking robbing, whatever.
It's something you're not supposed to be doing.
So it should be done on the down low.
It shouldn't be done on the jumbotron.
Now, obviously that wasn't their choice, but they shouldn't have even been standing the way they were standing.
What they should do is statistical.
They were in Gillette Stadium for crying out loud.
I mean, the odds.
Yeah, I know that's my point.
So, like, you know, I don't know.
Go to like your local sushi restaurant in a town you don't live in.
Just the thought, if you're gonna do it, at least do it where you're not hurting people, you know.
You're already committing a sin.
I don't know.
You There's no such thing as doing it and not hurting people.
By doing it, you're hurting people.
I don't know, Sean.
I think doing it on the Jumbotron or your entire family finding out.
Your little kids finding out, that's really hurting people.
They could hurt a lot less.
I used to hate it.
You know, I'd go to events in New York and they'd put my face up there, and half the time I get booed.
Very upset.
I get tri I get triggered.
I'm no, I'm not triggered at all.
Um, just the news dot com and John Solomon will join us later.
That's the biggest story of the day.
We're going to get to.
We have new declassified emails showing key spies uh were shocked to learn that the steel dossier was used in the Russian meddling.
In other words, what I'll I'll give you a quick summary of it.
So you have rank and file people that are in the intelligence community.
In other words, career people that are dedicated to their craft, good at their jobs, loyal, uh, that are straight arrows.
And then all of a sudden, that information that they determine there's nothing nefarious in terms of any collusion or any efforts uh by Vladimir Putin to influence the election.
They write about it repeatedly and extensively, and then it ends up in the hands of the big people, and they start polluting it and destroying it and contaminating it and using it to harm Donald Trump.
And apparently now, because of a foyer request by John Solomon, who'll join us later, uh, we now know that it was a conscious effort to destroy Trump.
The whole thing was a hoax from the very beginning.
We spent three years on this program going over this.
So we're gonna get to that.
Now, um, we have the demise.
I've been predicting this forever.
How long have I been saying that these late night comedy shows are all on cancellation watch?
Linda, how many times have you heard me say that?
They are officially on cancellation watch.
All right.
Well, the first one is down, and that would be Stephen Colbert, who I actually think is the least likable of all of them, as much as I hate Kimmel, and I don't like Kimmel.
Kimmel's a jackass.
And you know, goes after oh, Melania Trump's accent.
And he's tried to have fights with me.
Every time he does, I just bury him.
I mean, on X and social media.
Maybe when he l well, maybe when he he's not held under a ABC Disney contract, which is probably coming pretty soon for him.
Um maybe we can maybe you can reignite that battle.
I'd look forward to it.
That's one that I like.
Anyway, so Colbert got canceled.
Here's what he said uh last night.
Before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night.
Next year will be our last season.
The network will be ending the late show in May.
And yeah, I share your feelings.
It's not just the end of our show, but it's the end of the late show on CBS.
I'm not being replaced.
This is all just going away.
And I do want to say I I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners.
I'm so grateful to the Tiffany Network for giving me this chair and this beautiful theater to call home.
Well, it's not home anymore.
Look, the reason that I've been able to make this prediction, it is very, very simple.
Is it is a ratings-driven business.
They stopped being funny a long time ago.
They became hyperpartisan political, left-wing, radical hacks a long time ago.
And when you stop being funny and it's supposed to be a comedy show, then guess what?
And your audience goes away in mass.
There was never any course correction by any of these three.
And that's Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert, none of them.
The one guy in late night that's funny is Greg Gutfeld, and he's crushing it.
Absolutely crushing it.
President Trump took a victory lap on Friday after learning that CBS had canceled the late show.
I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.
His talent was even less than his ratings.
Is that I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.
I'll put the odds at eighty, twenty, ninety, ten, somewhere in there that Kimmel is definitely next.
He has even less talent than Colbert.
Greg Gutfeld's much better than all of them combined, including the moron on MBC who ruined the once great tonight show, who's talking about Jimmy Fallon, and Trump has ripped Colbert in the past, calling him very boring and a total loser.
He's not funny.
Look, I can acknowledge, even if I am the butt of the joke when people are funny.
How many times, Linda, have we acknowledged on this program when people do bits about me or attack me, but it's done in a really funny way.
We even play them.
I don't mind being I like a good sense of humor, even if it's about me.
Great.
I love it.
You know, John Stewart, why they picked Stephen Colbert over Stewart in the first place was a dumb decision.
Now, Stewart does have this little anger side to his personality, as does Bill Maher, but at times they can be funny and they're far more intellectually honest and curious than are all these three late night guys combined.
Now, so I think that I think it's pretty obvious to say that it's probably over.
Jimmy Kimmel is probably going to be next.
F Fallons are ready.
They all been cut to four days a week instead of five.
And it's only a matter of time.
But the media is in for a rude awakening.
Now, earlier today, too, the House gave final approval to President Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting, and that means they passed legislation to defund MPR and PBS.
Why should Fed there are more cable channels available that are for sale at bottom basement prices now because they've been run into the ground, mismanaged, not funny, and and they've gotten lazy and their programming is is nothing but 15-year-old show reruns, then nobody watches them and they don't make any money.
If you wanted to buy a cable channel and and run, you know bar and tones, you'd probably get better ratings than some of these places.
But why should we be paying one red cent on top of that with all the political bias that they have?
And I'm gonna make some other predictions here.
You ready for predictions?
Here's my prediction.
I love predictions.
Well, first of all, Kimmel rushed to have the back of his buddy Colbert.
Love you, Stephen.
F you and all your your sheldon CBS.
He does cry a lot, if we're being honest.
Okay, he's a big baby.
I don't get it.
I don't get the crying thing.
I really I do not get the crying thing at all.
So now we're not we're defunding this.
This but the landscape and media is changing.
What do you think is factored into this?
Maybe the fact that they have gotten so overtly political.
Is that factored into the fact?
You know, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and early in Letterman's career, he was not as political.
In his later years, he was becoming more and more political.
And as he did, his ratings began to s he was more political.
Now he's just a weirdo, looks like a homeless guy with a beard and a show on Netflix that isn't particularly interesting.
His guests occasionally are interesting.
And it's just a shame that all this is happening.
On the one hand, on the other hand, it's just an opportunity for other people to emerge, and that's why you see podcasts that are interesting, emerging and doing well and thriving.
Um I think these people are just out of touch with the rank and file of in the American landscape and the American people.
It's but they're but here's the next thing that's gonna happen.
I think there's probably 50-50 odds that CNN, as we know it may not exist in the next couple of years.
I'm not sure MSDNC survives over the next couple of years.
I'm not sure that these newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, LA well, LA Times has gotten a lot better, to be honest.
Um, it's under new ownership.
Uh, but I I'm not sure if these these companies can survive anymore.
And I think that the media landscape.
Now, does it have anything to do with the fact that they are constantly 24-7, 365 hate Trump?
Yes, it does.
Because you're alienating more than half the country.
Does it does it impact them at all that they they go along, they don't call out lies like the border's secure and Joe's not a cognitive mess and inflation is transitory.
Yeah, lying to your audience is a bad idea.
If you want a one-on-one 101 on how to be a little successful in broadcasting, don't lie to your audience and tell them and give them news and information that they're not going to get out elsewhere and try and talk about it in a very New York style fun talk radio way and drink some coffee while you're doing it.
You know what I'm talking about?
Indeed.
You add a lot of humor to the show.
Mm-hmm.
We'll get into that later, too.
All right, so this is a huge story, and it started with a foyer request by our friend John Solomon, JustinNews.com.
He'll join us at the top of the next hour.
But we have new details about the Steel dossier's impact on the Intel community in the 20 and their assessment of Russian meddling and with the release of these declassified documents.
And apparently they were deeply de in other words, they were deep classified documents, and Tulsi Gabbart has declassified bombshell emails showing the shocked reaction of a top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly informed in 2019 that the discredited anti-Trump Steel dossier had been used to develop the Obama administration's intelligent assessment on Russian meddling in 2016.
Well, I was just as uh surprised and shocked as well.
When we get to the bottom line of this, and I tell you this story, and John tells you this story, it will blow your mind.
That's coming up.
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Now, there's been all this all these myths that you can't escape Alcatraz, and Attorney General uh Bondi went out there with Doug Bergram yesterday and they were looking around, and and maybe they're gonna turn this thing back into a prison.
But the issue, you know, all the the lore surrounding this and whether or not people can escape Alcatraz.
You've ever been to the wharf in San Francisco and you look out there, you can you can see it.
Um I think it's a good idea.
Anyway, Riley Gaines, did you know that she made the swim last year?
I couldn't believe it.
Now last night, what's that?
Said it's insane.
Oh, she's such a she's such a great athlete.
She really is.
So I brought it up last night, and she's now, and she made this public.
I would never make it public.
Um I never want to give out people's personal information.
So she is making the swim today.
I don't know if she finished it.
He's not so worried about the sharks she said about it.
He said the water's freezing.
And she's gonna make the swimming.
She tweeted out an hour ago.
She said, I escaped Alcatraz at nearly 31 weeks pregnant.
I'm basically just a human submarine for a baby girl.
I just texted it to you.
That is pretty awesome.
I mean, that's pretty badass.
And then she was talking about Clay Travis that he might try to do it.
I'm like, Clay Travis couldn't do this in a million years.
And I said, I'm betting on you, and I'm betting against him.
Apparently he was talking about it on his radio show today.
Let's hear what he said.
Riley actually texted me and told me, hey, I just obliterated you on Hannity, and I was like, send me the link, and I hadn't seen it, and I had totally forgotten about it.
I mean, I think that I would uh I'm gonna have to swim it.
I'm gonna have to swim it.
And maybe Sean needs to be in the boat, like watching, reporting uh minute by minute.
Oh, I will get in the launch boat alongside.
It'll be the safety boat to make sure when you start to drown, we'll pull you out.
And Sean can just be there with the bullhorn trying to motivate you.
He is right, and I've had some bad bets with Sean.
I think I owe Sean like a thousand dollars on sports bets over the year.
He hasn't tried to collect yet.
And so I've been trying to avoid him because I don't have a lot of cash on me all the time.
I hate you, Sean Hannity.
I also hate you, Riley Gaines.
You're off the Christmas card list.
Wow, I didn't even know I was on the Christmas card list.
You know, I'm finding out from from friends in my life that Christmas cards are like a really big deal to people.
Do you send out Christmas cards?
It's so funny you're saying this.
I do not, and I get yelled at every year.
Okay, I've never sent out a Christmas card in my life.
Now I'm inundated with them, and there's been a very big shift generational.
I think the word that you meant to say was I'm blessed with them.
Blessed by them, blessed to receive them.
Inundated sounds a little ungrateful.
Okay, people send me these these cards, and on it, it's like everybody that posts on social media, it's the same thing.
They want they want to portray the picture of the most wonderful, perfect, beautiful life, perfect family, etc.
etc.
Nobody has a perfect anything.
We could all pretend that we have perfect stuff.
Nobody has a perfect anything.
And I look at the pictures and you see the little doggie in the walks on the beach and the sunset behind them, and so many of them, I don't know what the obsession is with dressing all in white, but they dress in white.
I'm like, I hope to I pray to God I'd never ever have to send out a Christmas card with my face on it.
Umes that sound a little anti-Christmas.
No, I have to say I kind of agree with you.
I love the cards where people send me pictures of their kiddos, especially when they're younger.
It's just super cute.
But when you start putting pictures of yourself on your cards in your I don't know, I think it's weird.
I'd rather see a picture that was more about religion, more about God, more about what the day is for.
Well, that's the generational thing because it used to be 100%, you know, a picture of the baby Jesus.
It used to be, you know, Mary and Joseph and the manger.
You know, those torts of those sorts of things.
It's now it's like, ho, ho, ho, here's Santa.
Where's your gift?
It's like, oh, come on.
Have you watched season five of The Chosen yet?
I haven't watched season one of the chosen yet, so I'm a little behind.
I have told you a million times.
Why don't you ever listen to me?
You never listen.
I have to mandate it.
I mean you, that's why.
Yeah, I know.
Annoying me.
And instead of annoying me, you could be bringing Jesus into your life.
I am telling you.
Jesus is in my life.
I don't need chosen to put Jesus in.
I'm actually the Bible in a year.
Just so you know I've been doing that too, but it's I I'm planning on doing it in three years because I just I'm just a little bit slower.
It's hard.
It definitely is very hard.
I'm I have I've been doing it.
But I love the series, The Chosen.
Do you realize I've watched it in full three times already?
Three times.
You have?
When?
I watch it late at night.
That's the last I either play chess, look at real estate, or watch the chosen.
Those are my that's my late night pattern.
My goodness.
That's why I never get any sleep.
And then I'm looking also for articles while I'm watching it.
And then Jesus will enlighten me whether or not I should whether or not I should be talking about this issue.
By the way, we want to give a shout out today, special shout out.
Uh we got a request from Calvin Wimbish.
He's a colonel, U.S. Army, Special Forces, and it's a very cool story that his dad and his mom they live in Baltimore.
They've been married over 80 years this past April 13th, 1945, and still alive and well together.
Mama's now 98 and told Dad he's gotta hang around until she gets over too.
Wow.
And they have pictures of him.
Very cool.
Anyway, God bless them all.
Married over 80 years.
You could barely spend three hours a day with me without like losing it.
Mm-hmm.
So I guess his dad's birthday is today.
He's 101.
And then it's amazing.
But their pictures are incredible.
So shout out to Calvin for being a good son.
I think that's really cool.
Um I haven't really started the show yet today.
I'm just sort of in one of those moves.
Who's been talking for the past 40 minutes?
I'm just I'm I'm just kind of I don't know.
Not in the I'm I'm gonna get dialed in with John Solomon in a minute because uh John Solomon is awesome.
I love him as a person.
He's such a great investigative reporter, he's a good friend.
He's always working.
I mean, uh the conversations we have late at night always were talking about stuff.
Um the criminal referral that was filed by the director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency provides more details about the mortgage and tax scandal plaguing the congenital liar Adam Schiff and identifies the array of federal laws that he may have violated by improperly claiming two primary residences.
The referral was sent to Attorney General Pam Bondy, director uh William Palti says that Schiff may have violated several statutes, including government wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution by claiming two homes, one in Maryland, the other in California as primary residences.
And based on media reports, Adam Schiff has in multiple instances falsified bank documents, property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from tw 2003 to 2019 for a Potomac, Maryland based property.
And they he leads the federal housing finance agency, which oversees Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack, and the federal home loan bank system.
As a regulator, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack, and the federal home loan banks.
We take very seriously allegations of mortgage fraud and other criminal activity.
I was involved in an investment property, and they said, Oh, Hannity apparently got one of these government backed loans, which by the way, almost everybody in business does if if you invest in some real estate projects, and I was only one member of it.
And the funny thing is uh the loan was guaranteed that that loan took place during Obama's presidency.
And they wanted to tie it to Trump.
Whoopsie Daisy.
Sorry about that, guys.
Um this runs very deep the story that we're gonna spend a lot of time on with with John Solomon, And what we have are new details about the the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for steel dossier and their impact on the intelligence community in 2016 and their assessment of Russian meddling as it continues now to emerge.
We have now new declassified documents thanks to John Solomon's FOIA request and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and she declassified bombshell emails that show shocked reaction of a top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly informed in 2019 that the discredited,
and remember, they were warned not to use the steel dossier before it became the bulk of information for the four FISA applications to spy and ruin Carter Page's life and then backdoor spy on Trump and developed the Obama administration's intelligence assessment on Russian meddling.
Um and steel, if you recall, former M MI6 agent had been hired in 2016 by an op research firm uh, which then was being paid by Hillary Clinton attorney Mark Elias, and the dossier by the discredited steel was used by the FBI to obtain Pfizer warrants against the Trump campaign official,
and evidence continues to emerge about how it was included in the intelligence community assessment, what's called an ICA on Russia and the 2016 election.
Quote, we have a problem.
This is a very key phrase.
The intelligence officer on the U.S. National Intelligence Council wrote when he learned by accident about the dossier's influence in the December 2016 Intel community assessment, seemingly by accident from an email sent by another top intelligence officer who had asked him to search for material in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
That's that by the way is John Solomon.
And the revelation so disser disturbed this deputy national intelligence officer for cybersecurity that he blew the whistle first to the U.S. intelligence community's watchdog, then to Gabbard personally, and uh then by the way, sources relate all this to JustHnews.com.
At no time in my IC career has dossier material ever been represented to me in a work setting as something the NIC viewed as credible or that was influential in crafting these products.
Now, the CIA's recent eight-page lessons learned review released earlier in June, focused on the 2016 assessment about Russia and November 2016, which was made public in 2017.
Now, the review concluded at the direction of John Ratcliffe, CIA director, concluded the decision by the agency heads to include the steel dossier in the assessment ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment.
And according to these newly declassified, partially unredacted September 2019 emails obtained by JustTheNews.com.
One surprising assertion was the steel dossier had played a role in the assessment seemed to originate with a top IC election security official who had been appointed by the election uh threats ex uh executive and within the director of national intelligence by then DNI Dan Coates just a couple of months prior,
and the office of the director of national intelligence said in July 2019, now an email from a redacted all of this.
Uh, you know, you just get into this.
Let me see if I can sum this up for you.
The Obama administration, with Obama's knowledge, apparently, according to this new information, and Clapper's knowledge and Brennan's knowledge, manufactured and politicized intelligence that was put together by career rank and file people that had integrity.
And what they did is, and I was talking to John earlier, they polluted it.
They hijacked it.
They absolutely purposely distorted it.
And by the way, as backed up by the Durham report as well.
And anyway, and they even went on early on in December of 2016, weeks after the election, you know, even James Clapper's talking point said foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on the election infrastructure.
Like in other words, so then it gets in the hands of these political deep state operatives, and that would be the people like Clapper and Brennan and other high-ranking administration officials, and they weaponized it all to go after Trump, in spite of the brief saying it was highly unlikely that any of this had any impact on the election.
And we now know they knew in December 2016 that the Steele dossier had been debunked.
Anyway, the communications and the FBI presidential daily briefing stated it should not go forward until the FBI had shared its concerns.
Remember, James Comey was warned not to use the dossier.
He signed three of the four warrants.
I think John will do a really good job explaining it to you next.
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