Sean Hannity kicks off the show with breaking developments from Tulsi Gabbard's press conference and newly released declassified documents. Gabbard details how former President Obama and his national security team orchestrated a falsified intelligence community assessment in 2016 to fabricate Trump-Russia collusion—despite evidence to the contrary from career intelligence officials. Hannity dissects the revelations, tying them to Hillary Clinton’s disinformation dossier, the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop cover-up, and ongoing 2024 lawfare. It's a deep dive into how intelligence was weaponized to influence three presidential elections. Follow Sean and Our Guests on Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/SeanHannity X (Twitter): x.com/seanhannity Truth Social: truthsocial.com/@SeanHannity See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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You know, we spent three long years on this program talking about the Russia hoax.
And it was so obvious what has happened.
And it is getting more interesting by the minute.
Now we have new, you know, we've now had two uh batches of declassified information come out and how Tulsi Gabbard, and this and I've read much of it, that there was a gross politicizing and manipulation of intelligence by the Obama administration.
I've gone, I went through all of this in chapter and verse with the first batch of information that came out, and what we discovered was career, rank and file, intel officials had determined with no ambiguity that there was no Trump Russia collusion.
And now Tulsi Gabbard is released more information.
And she gave a press conference earlier today that there is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment, which by the way countered the one that already existed.
Now understand this never would have happened had Hillary Clinton won the election.
It was only because Donald Trump won the election.
They knew it would promote the contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true, and none of it was true.
And we were able to unpeel every layer of the onion.
The only interference as it relates to Russia in the 2016 election came in the form.
And I have said this, you know, consistently now for eight years.
Came from Hillary Clinton's uh bought and paid for phony Russian disinformation document that then also became the basis of four FISA applications, even though they knew it was debunked and it wasn't true.
And she said, all come back and uh come back to him and confirm the the same report that all of this was politicizing and the manipulation of intelligence, you know, and it was done purposeful, and it contradicted the actual real intelligence that they were handed.
And to de legitimize President Trump before he was even inaugurated.
And she said, we have referred and will continue to refer all those documents to the DOJ to the FBI to investigate criminal implications for this evidence.
The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment.
There was no need to do a second intelligence assessment.
And they only did it, not with any new information.
They only manipulated, or in the words of John Solomon, who will join us later, polluted and corrupted the intelligence that that said the exact opposite.
You know, I don't know, I don't care how many times Obama clapper and all these people deny it, but there was never any Trump Russia collusion.
Never existed.
Again, the only Russian influence came from Hillary Clinton's, you know, um bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
Let's spend some time here and listen to Tulsi Gabbard's case.
And with the support and coordination of the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, today we've released a declassified oversight majority staff report that was produced in September of 2020.
The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be of concern to every American.
This is not about Democrats or Republicans.
This has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast will count.
There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.
They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't.
The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried this out.
They manufactured findings from shoddy sources.
They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that disproved their false claims.
They disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence community standards and withheld the truth from the American people.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election in November of 2016.
They worked with their partners in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, and launching what would be a years-long coup against him and his administration.
We're here today because the American people deserve the truth, they deserve accountability, and they deserve justice.
The records that we released on Friday that were ODNI records, Senator Chuck Grassley's release on Monday of what is known as the Clinton Annex, which was an appendix to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General's 2018 report, as well as the House Intelligence Committee's oversight, majority oversight report that we're releasing today, all come back to and confirm the same report.
There was a gross politicization and manipulation of intelligence by the Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump even before he was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of the American people.
I'm going to go over the key findings from the House Intelligence report, which investigated the claims that were made by an intelligence community assessment ordered by President Obama and published in January of 2017.
First, Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process, not show any preference of a certain candidate.
In fact, this report shows Putin held back leaking, held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency.
In the January 2017 intelligence community assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan, who was CIA director at the time, and the intelligence community intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary Clinton until after her potential and likely victory.
The report goes into great detail about the information that Russia and Putin had on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts, like secret meetings with multiple named U.S. religious organizations in which State Department officials offered, in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, significant increases in financing from the State Department.
They also had documents that showed the patronage of the State Department to State Department employees who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's quote, psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.
Then CIA Director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a quote-unquote clear preference for Trump.
Brennan and the IC misled lawmakers by referencing the debunked steel dossier to assess quote unquote Russia's plans and intentions, falsely suggesting that this dossier had intelligence value when he knew that it was discredited.
The intelligence community excluded significant intelligence and ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence that contradicted the intelligence community assessment's key findings on Putin's alleged support for Trump, including this intelligence reporting would have exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if not ridiculous.
The intelligence community assessment omitted reliably sourced information, such as how some Russian intelligence officials were, quote unquote, planning for candidate Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assessed neither Trump nor Clinton would respect Russia's interests.
As was reflected in the ODNI documents that we released on Friday, multiple intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up to the November 2016 election concluded that Russia had neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the U.S. election.
On December 5th of 2016, the FBI and ODNI gave the House Intelligence Committee its first post-election classified briefing, in which there was no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency.
The Presidential Daily Brief, drafted on December 8th of 2016, stated that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts.
This document was pulled just hours before it was to be published due to quote unquote new guidance.
If it had been published, it would have been briefed to both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump.
On December 9th, 2016, a National Security Council meeting was called to gather President Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA Director Brennan, then Obama DNI James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others.
Following that secret meeting, DNI Clapper's assistant sent an email to the intelligence community with the subject line, POTUS tasking on Russia election meddling, tasking ODNI leaders to create a new assessment per the President's request.
The House Intelligence Committee oversight report that we released today reveals that, quote, unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the intelligence community assessment was a high-profile product ordered by the president, President Obama.
It directed senior intelligence community agency heads and created an intelligence community assessment limited to just five analysts using one principal drafter.
This is not something that occurs in the normal path of producing an intelligence community assessment that reflects the views across the intelligence community.
The production of this intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual directives directly from the president and senior political appointees, especially the former director of the CIA, John Brennan.
The House Intelligence Committee oversight report also shows how later that same day on December 9th, Brennan ordered the publication of quote unquote substandard reporting on Russian activities, which had previously been withheld from publication of prior assessments because the information was judged, quote, to have not met long-standing publication standards.
Some of the information later used in the Obama ordered assessment over the objections of veteran CIA officers was quote unquote unclear or from unknown sources.
The Intelligence Committee's oversight report reveals that CIA Director Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who challenged the Obama-ordered intelligence assessment, stating, quote, we don't have direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected.
Yet the Obama-directed assessment was published on January 6th.
Let me explain what she's saying here and break it down into plain language.
They had intelligence assessments through December, well past the election in 2016, that said this interference never happened in terms of Trump-Russia collusion.
Again, the only collusion was Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
What she's saying is that Obama personally ordered an intelligence community assessment after they had already had the assessment and that the rank and file took great objection to what it is they in fact did.
And that this was then manufactured at the highest levels.
This is what John Solomon has been saying when they got the intelligence that did not give them an assessment that that advanced the narrative that they wanted, that Putin and Russia colluded and Putin wanted Trump to win.
Then they they just rewrote It corrupted it, polluted it, changed it, you know, upside down and sideways to the opposite of what the real intelligence actually actually said.
And it was all designed to lay a trap for Donald Trump, and it was successful.
Because that then, you know, that that then hurt him for three years and distracted him away from his job.
Then you have, of course, they knew that the laptop from hell was going to be released by Bob Costello, Rudy Giuliani's then attorney.
And they they had validated its authenticity in March of 2020.
And that's why they met weekly with big tech companies.
And in the big tech companies, you know, we're told you may be victims of a Russian disinformation campaign.
And lo and behold, the New York Post drops the story, and big tech companies call the FBI.
Is this what you were warning us about?
They wouldn't tell them the truth.
Again, each election, they're putting a cinder block on the scales of election results, you know, the deepest crevices of the deep state in full operation.
And I would argue in 2024, the law fair and weaponization against Donald Trump was to bloody him up enough legally so that he could never get elected.
And that failed too.
I think we need to get to the bottom of all of it.
I'm telling you that all of these people that have been involved in what was the polluting and altering and this dissembling of this intelligence.
Uh I'm telling the they're gonna have a hard time getting out of it because it seems to me, my analysis, and I want to see all the information before I come to my final conclusion, is that they purposefully dismantled this information that was put together by the intelligence community ordering a reassessment because it didn't have the conclusion that they wanted.
The fact that this is that that this declassification is saying it came directly from Barack Obama, yeah, that would warrant him going before Congress and uh maybe a prosecutor and answering serious questions, but that would also be Comey and Brennan and Clapper and Susan Rice and anybody else involved.
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Um why do we need the uh IRS in massive numbers?
Let's spend another hire another 87 million IRS officials.
Let me go after grandma and grandpa.
Uh pretty amazing times we're living in.
I will tell you, if I was to cut to the chase, now we're gonna have John Solomon coming up.
We have Bill O'Reilly coming up.
Uh we also have the attorney general of South Carolina coming up.
Also, get your calls in here, but this is what this grand conspiracy investigation that was open weeks ago, we're now told by Cash Patel is really all about.
And that is are there people in this country at the highest levels of government that have coordinated efforts to put cinder blocks on the scales of a presidential election, not once, not twice, but three times.
And here's how it plays out.
In 2016, we know the deep state operatives did not they did not want Donald Trump to win the election.
That's just a fact.
And it's evident through a lot of these documents that are now being declassified.
They didn't want that to happen.
As a result, they went through their best efforts.
They didn't think he was going to win when he won, and they tried to sabotage him, and they in some ways you can argue they did so successfully.
Um, but what did we what are we learning from these declassified documents that there was really damaging evidence against Hillary Clinton and her top secret classified information on her servers that James Comey purposefully ignored before his July 2016 press conference?
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
And you know, well, she had top secret classified information on these servers more than anything that was ever found at Mar-a-Lago, and that was the result of an investigation.
We're now discovering that they had plenty more evidence that he ignored.
What else are we learning from these documents?
We're learning that if there was that that as I have been saying throughout the years, I you know, I got accused today by somebody, I don't remember who, maybe somebody online.
Sean Hannity said this in 2019.
Sean Hannity said this last night that there was no Russian interference.
I was talking about Donald Trump.
How many times if you are a regular listener to this program?
Linda, how rich would you be if you had a dollar over these eight years, nine years, whatever it happens to be, that you heard me say, Hillary Clinton's Otten paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
I mean, you're my own island.
I mean, you know.
Where would your island be?
Far, far away from anywhere that liberals can get to.
As far away as possible.
Okay, have I been clear that the only disinformation, the only Russian interference was the dirty Russian disinformation dossier bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton.
I said it all of the time.
As it relates to this narrative that was advanced by Democrats and the conspiracy theorists in the state-run legacy media mob that Donald Trump somehow uh conspired with Vladimir Putin in an effort to beat Hillary Clinton was never true.
And I have been consistently saying all of that the whole time.
Now getting to the bottom of this story was a very, very heavy lift.
And we put together an ensemble cast and getting to the bottom and getting to of all of this, getting to the truth of all of this, getting to the truth of the steel dossier was difficult.
Getting to, you know, Hillary Clinton's involvement of it.
I mean, you had Hillary Clinton, you know, ends up hiring an op research firm, which hires Christopher Steele and they come up with this series of documents that later become quote the dossier.
There were a series of independent doc documents.
Now, if you step, if you go forward just a little bit, it was totally completely and utterly debunked by early December of 2016.
And Christopher Steele was shown the door, former MI6 agent.
All right.
In the interim, you had people like Bruce Orr in August of 2016 warning people not to use Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
That's that's as far as the Russian disinformation goes in this campaign.
Because there was no Trump Russia collusion.
There was no Don Jr.
Russia collusion.
None at all, whatsoever.
What's in this dossier?
That was the dossier that had well, Donald Trump was in Moscow in the Ritz Carlton and Hookers were urinating on him.
None of it was ever true, but they put it out there.
Now, what where this declassification sheds so much light on things is it shows that the rank and file, and I always make a distinction, don't I, between FBI rank and file and you know,
intelligence community rank and file, people that many of whom, many of whom, some are not, but many of whom are just great Americans that risk their lives and understand that this world is full of evil people, and they do the very difficult job of gathering intelligence for the safety of small towns and big cities around the country, law enforcement people that do their job diligently every single day, and not people that would get involved.
Now, what this reveals is is that the Intel community came up with an assessment as it relates to the 2016 election and and Russia's so-called involvement, and they determined it it did not in any way, shape, manner or form impact the election.
Excuse me, I have to step away from my mic to grab a piece of paper.
And what is so fascinating about this is, and this was in the first drop that Tulsi Gabbard made.
Because I I I think what's very clear in all of this is we've we have got to understand just how deep and profound all of this is on our country, and and how this, you know, hung over the Trump presidency for his entire first term.
And here's the issue.
Why didn't they trust their own?
Why did Barack Obama go out there and and why, according to Tulsi today, in the statement she made today, after the intelligence concluded that there was no Russia involvement or no Trump Russia involvement, why did they ask for the intelligence community the new assessment?
Only because Trump won.
That's the only reason, and that what they came up with totally contradicted what the rank and file career intelligence community members had come up with.
You know, the intelligence community did not have any direct information at all that Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect Donald Trump.
But at the unusual direction of then President Barack Obama, they published this potentially biased and plausible intelligence suggesting otherwise that contradicted the early intelligence that was actually done on the ground.
And Tulsi Gabbard declassified this report prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence back in 2020.
That report was based on the investigation launched by the former House Intelligence Committee Chair, Devin Nunes.
Remember the the widely reported congenital liar Adam Schiff, who was the chairman of the committee, came up with a polar opposite conclusions.
Adam Schiff was lying.
That's why we call him the congenital liar.
Devin Nunes was right.
Now the report was never uh had never been released to the public, remained highly classified within the intelligence community.
Fox News did obtain the fully sourced limited access Investigation report that was drafted and stored in in limited access vaults at CIA head headquarters in Langley.
The report includes some redactions.
The committee focused on the creation of the intelligence community assessment of 2017, in which then CIA director John Brennan pushed for the inclusion of the dirty Russian disinformation dossier, which by that time had been completely debunked, and Christopher Steele was out of the picture, although they did keep paying him for some odd unbelievable strange reason reason.
And the ICA, which is this highly classified product that contradicted what rank and file intelligence community people had put together, directed by these agency heads was created by just five CIA analysts using one principal drafter and production of this extraordinary ICA was subject to unusual directives from then President Obama and senior political appointees,
and that the draft was not properly coordinated with the CIA or the independent counsel, ensuring that it would be published without significant challenges to its conclusions.
And they found that the five CIA analysts and drafter rushed the ICA's production in order to publish two weeks before President-elect Trump was sworn in.
And hurried coordination, limited access to the draft, reduced opportunities to discover any errors that might have been made or misquotes that might have been made.
The report states that Brennan ordered the post-election publication of 15 reports containing previously collected but unpublished intelligence, three of which were substandard containing information that was unclear, uncertain origin, potentially biased,
implausible, and those became the foundational sources of their conclusion and the ICA's judgments that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton when just the opposite was what the intelligence community was telling us up to that point.
They misrepresented those reports as reliable without mentioning all of the underlying flaws.
You know, and this unverifiable fragment that they found, you know, that that only intelligence information cited to suggest that Putin aspired to help Trump win.
And meanwhile, the rank and file concluded just the opposite.
The report stated the ICA failed to consider plausible alternative explanations of Putin's intentions, etc.
etc.
This was all an effort to get Trump from the beginning.
Now, the grand conspiracy investigation opened by Cash Patel goes way deeper than this.
Because this will be one part of it.
And in that election, what do we know?
We know that Hunter Biden's laptop was very real.
We know there was incriminating information about Joe Biden on that laptop.
We know that the FBI validated its authenticity in March of 2020.
We know the FBI then proceeded to have weekly meetings with big tech companies and pre-bunk what was in the Biden laptop, warning these big tech companies that they might be victims of a Russian disinformation campaign.
And there's been reports that they specifically talked about, yeah, it might be about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the Barisma, and how interesting that they chose that.
What else did they know?
They knew that this information would likely be leaked because people like Bob Costello, who I've known for many years, who was then Rudy Giuliani's attorney, they knew he had a copy.
They knew he would release it.
They knew that they couldn't stop him.
And sure enough, it ends up in the New York Post.
And here's the most fascinating part of it.
Then you get 51 former Intel officials organized by Morrell and Wing and Tony Blinken.
I'm not sure who organized it at this point.
And that these 51 former Intel officials that knew nothing about that laptop at all.
Not one of them ever saw the laptop.
Examine the laptop.
Didn't know the contents of the laptop.
That they came out and said this is all the earmarks of Russian interference on the eve of a debate between then President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Is that uh are these two cases not evidence of putting cinder blocks on scales of elections?
And that's what this is what this grand conspiracy investigation will be all about.
And I think a special prosecutor will probably need to be appointed.
Let me take it one more step.
What do you think all the weaponization that took place between 2020 and 2024 were all about?
That was the third attempt of deep state operatives to destroy Donald Trump.
And they did it by bloodying him up in the legal system with bony charges and a double standard in terms of, you know, justice in this country in the hopes that he could never be electable again.
They failed.
The American people saw through it.
Donald Trump is now president.
He's had the most dynamic six months of any president in the modern era.
more.
And some people were writing me, well, he needs to focus on his job.
Stephen A. Smith writes me that.
I said, call call into the show.
We'll talk to you.
All right, we'll get Bill O'Reilly's take.
We'll get John Solomon's take.
We'll get the South Carolina Attorney General's take.
