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All right, news roundup, information overload hour toll-free on numbers 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
By the way, President Trump now calling for the release of the documents found inside the FBI Russia hoax burn bags that we've been talking about today.
We'll have full coverage of all of this tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern.
I want to go back to two issues from yesterday.
I cannot believe the amount of conversation around the country over Sidney Sweeney's American Eagles jeans ad.
And, you know, the interesting thing is, and I was kidding around with Linda the other day, I go, you know, you're getting old when you see somebody in the newspaper every single day, because I still get the, even though I'm in Florida, the hard copy of the New York Post every day.
Because ever since I was a kid and I was eight years old, and I delivered the Daily News at one point, I delivered the Long Island Press at one point, I delivered Newsday, and I always read the newspaper.
And the Daily News was a morning paper, so I'd get up early in the morning, I'd read the paper, I'd sit by the heater in the wintertime.
I'd, you know, not want to go outside and deliver those papers.
So I would, you know, procrastinate as long as humanly possible.
But I still, if there's one paper I'm going to read every single day, the hard copy, it's always going to be the New York Post.
I think it's a nationwide paper.
That's Miranda Devine's paper, for example.
And they have the best headlines.
They have the best gossip.
They have great sports coverage.
They've got news information.
They have national news, international news.
They have local news if you care about Mom Donnie, for example.
Anyway, this whole story of Sidney Sweeney has gone absolutely viral because the left has absolutely lost their mind on this.
The only thing I knew about Sidney Sweeney is for months now, and I actually asked my daughter at one point, what do you know about this girl, Sidney Sweeney?
And she knew all about her.
I'm like, oh, because she's in the paper every day.
And I'm like, was she a famous actress?
What is she best known for?
And because almost every day there'd be a picture, either on page six or in the paper.
I said, oh, okay.
So she does this American Eagles jeans ad and instead of spelling jeans J-E-A-N-S, they spell it G-E-N-E-S.
And here's the ad.
Jeans are pasta from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality.
Maybe what I call her.
My jeans are blue.
Sidney Sweeney has great genes.
Okay.
Now, somehow the radical left has taken that.
She's a young, attractive woman.
She's doing a gene ad.
They do a take on the spelling of genes and genes, and somehow that evolves into eugenics and Nazi Germany.
Does that make sense to anybody?
It doesn't make sense to me.
Anyway, joining us now, Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show at the Daily Wire.
What's your take on this?
Sean, great to be with you.
The biggest irony of the whole story, of course, is that the left's hero was an avowed eugenicist.
So the left's favorite nonprofit organization, Planned Parenthood, founded in the eugenics movement by an avowed eugenicist, Margaret Sanger.
But when Sidney Sweeney sells a pair of jeans, that is eugenics, and eugenics is, in that case, evil.
So the whole thing is ridiculous.
I think to your point.
But you don't even believe this has anything to do with eugenics.
It's just a take off on the fact that a lot of people, she's a very young woman to me, but they find her to be a young, attractive woman.
Am I wrong in my analysis of this?
Sean, if we were not living in such a crazy time, a beautiful young actress selling a pair of blue jeans would not be a national news story for the better part of a week now.
It's a sign of what a crazy time we're living in, that when you put a pretty girl out to sell a product, which is Marketing 101, it makes national headlines.
Of course, the left is being completely disingenuous here.
I think the reason they really don't like Sidney Sweeney is because she's not one of these Democrat activist actresses who's showing up to all the Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders fundraisers.
She's just a pretty girl.
She's normal.
She's the girl next door as American as apple pie.
And I think that's what they hate about it.
They don't like beautiful stuff.
And so a little bit of a return to normal is too much for them.
And then they bring up the issue of race and whiteness in America.
And it's like the same old game.
There's a part of me that so far she's kept quiet.
So far, America's responded, and American Eagle jeans are sold out everywhere, according to everything I'm reading.
American Eagle Jeans is doing better than they've ever done before.
That tells me you go woke, you go broke.
Case in point would be Bud Light, Dylan Mulvaney.
Didn't work out too well for Bud Light.
I think they slowly are beginning to recover.
I think they learned their lesson.
I think aligning with Dana White was a smart move.
I think Dana opening the door for them was actually gracious on his part.
Certainly, there's a financial incentive, but he didn't have to do it.
He could have had any beer company he wanted, but he also looked at the big picture.
And Anheuser-Busch has done a lot of great work for veterans groups, just a lot of great causes over the years.
And are you going to judge a company by one stupid incident, one decision made by somebody in a PR department?
I don't think you should.
So that didn't work out too well.
But I'm glad to see American Eagle Jeans apparently are doing better than ever.
This is like the most successful ad campaign in modern history.
Look, the numbers don't lie.
American Eagle's stock value jumped 10% in one day after that commercial aired.
I think they gained $200 million in market cap.
So, yeah, the people don't buy what the left-wing pundits are spewing, that a pretty girl selling blue jeans is the reinstantiation of Nazi Germany or something like that.
It's totally bizarre.
And of course, even on this point of whiteness and Nazism or whatever, does anyone think if Beyonce went out and sold those jeans and the ads said Beyonce has good jeans, would the left bat an eyelash?
Would they say this is eugenics?
This is the second coming of Adolf Hitler?
I don't think so.
It's so weak.
And I just think people are tuning it out.
The left makes a lot of noise on the internet.
Well, look at the stock value of American Eagle.
Look at the election results last November.
I think the people have had enough.
You know, I think they've had enough, too.
Let me go to Chucky Schumer.
You know, Chuck Schumer can't get out of his own way.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, to me, and if you have a different opinion, let me know.
They're not really leaders of the Democratic Party.
He's not the Senate minority leader.
Hakeem Jeffries is not the House minority leader.
They are both in a state of panic and fear over the radicals that have now taken over and now dominate their party.
And in both cases, neither one of them are willing to criticize, for example, New York City mayoral candidate Mamdani, you know, an avowed Marxist.
We call him affectionately Marxist Comrade Bomdani on this program.
But they won't speak out against them.
They won't speak out against AOC.
They won't speak out against the squad.
They won't speak out against virulent anti-Semitism.
They would never take on Grandpa Bernie or Pocahontas or any of these other people.
And, you know, Chuck Schumer, I guess, you know, if you can't beat him, join him.
He goes out the other day and he uses the typical every two, four-year talking point, the old playbook of the Democrats, which is Republicans don't want people of color to vote.
Listen to what he said.
It's been clear.
When we fight for democracy, when we protect democracy, we've got to fight fire with fire.
We're not going to stand idly by, as Maya said.
We're not going to let them revert to Jim Crow.
And if you don't think they want to revert to Jim Crow, just look what they did in the SAVE Act, which went back to Jim Crow for the whole nation.
But it shows why we need legislation because these guys are undoing everything in every way they can.
They don't want poor people to vote.
They don't want people of color to vote.
They don't want Democrats to vote.
They don't believe in democracy.
We do.
Okay.
That's the same.
Every two years, every four years, Republicans are racist.
They're sexist.
They're misogynists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.
They want dirty air and water.
They want old people to eat dog food and cat food until somebody that looks like Trump puts them in a wheelchair and throws them over a cliff.
It didn't work in the last election cycle.
All of their lawfare, all of their weaponization didn't work.
And now what we're finding is the real threat to democracy is what Democrats did to manufacture a phony Russia collusion hoax using and then denying that they used a bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier, ironically, bought and paid for by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And then, of course, 51 former intel agents lying in 2020 after they pre-bunked what had initially been authenticated by the FBI in March of 2020 as a very real laptop of Hunter.
And they used weaponization of the Department of Justice lawfare from 2020 to 2024 to bloody up Donald Trump so he'd never run again.
Do I have it right or am I wrong?
It seems to me I've heard that song before, Sean, from an old familiar score.
I mean, it's just the same story over and over, and you get the same talking points from guys like Chuck Schumer over and over.
But once again, I think to your earlier point, I don't think the Democrats have their message down because they keep contradicting each other.
On the one hand, Chuck Schumer says that anyone who opposes voter ID is pushing for new Jim Crow laws because we don't want citizens of color to vote.
But then I see a clip going around just a week ago from Yvette Clark, Democrat also from New York, saying verbatim that she needs more migrants in her district, quote, just for redistricting purposes because congressional allotment is based on population, not necessarily based on citizenship.
So she admits, she says, yeah, we want illegals to flood into the country.
Maybe some of them vote if they don't have to show ID, but we need it so that we can hold on to political power.
If I were Chuck Schumer, I'd say, Yvette, you got to cut it out.
Enough of that.
You're undercutting my point.
Not that anyone buys it.
How many times are we going to hear this Jim Crow talking point?
Every time Chuck Schumer says it, I think Trump is adding more black voters.
I think Trump is adding more Hispanic voters.
You just look at the returns from November.
That messaging is not working.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue more with Michael Knowles, Michael Knowles Show at the Daily Wire, 800-941 Sean is a number.
We'll get to your calls final half hour of the program.
Let me continue with Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show at the Daily Wire.
I mean, if you look at the Democratic Party now, I mean, we've been spending a lot of time talking about the tens of millions of dollars that they spent on how to communicate with men and, you know, how do we communicate with men?
Well, we're going to start cursing a lot more.
Donald Trump is a son of a bee, Gavin Newsom said.
And we're, hey, Joe, how are you doing, Joe?
Did you see the big game last night?
Want to go get a brewski?
How to appear to be more authentic.
Okay, if you have to try to appear to be authentic, that means you are not.
Just be more Trumpian without being Trump.
I mean, none of this is real.
The one thing they can't do is run on what they truly, really believe.
The Green New Deal wokeism.
They want to dictate what cars we put in our driveway, what stoves we can use, air conditioners we can use, refrigerate and freezers, what straws we can drink out of.
They want the Green New Deal, cradle to grave, womb to the tomb.
That's what they really want to sell, but they're afraid to.
Now, the problem for them is guys like Momdani are saying the quiet part out loud now, and it's kind of like they used to hide it.
Now they can't hide it anymore.
They can, especially the Momdani rise, the AOC rise, all of these young Democrats are really repelling a lot of voters.
So you had this problem that you talked about, which is, okay, the Democrats lost a ton of young voters.
They also lost ground among Hispanics, black people, women.
40% of women under the age of 30 voted for Trump back in November.
So they have this big problem, and they're trying to respond to it by changing superoffici aspects of their campaign.
They're going to use some swear words, or they're going to, I don't know, they're going to put on a baseball cap or something.
But that doesn't get to the reason that people voted for Trump.
The reason these voters moved is because he spoke to their interests.
He said, hey, workers, I'm going to do something for you.
You really have been left behind.
And guess what happens?
Because of those concrete policies, the Teamsters, shockingly, don't endorse the Democrats in 2024.
He says, hey, Hispanic people, hey, black people, hey, women, you have been left behind by Democrat policies.
I'm going to give you concrete policies that are going to be good for you and going to be good for the common good of the United States.
So the Democrats took the total wrong lesson from Trump.
Trump has great style, and they're trying and failing to emulate that style.
But the reason Trump won with all those groups is because he delivered the goods.
And the Democrats, right now, they don't even know what goods they could even try to deliver.
It's almost like they've been hoping and dreaming and praying for American failure, and Trump is just driving them insane because his policies have been so successful and he's been working at the speed of light.
I don't know how they counter that.
That's it.
I mean, when you run on Make America Great Again, and the Democrats for decades have said, America's not going to be great.
We're going to go into managed decline.
We were never that great.
We were always kind of evil.
Give up your hopes of a better country.
And Trump comes along and he says, no, I'm going to make it better.
And then he really does.
And he's successful in his first term.
He's so successful, he gets elected to a non-consecutive second term, only the second time in American history.
That is not only a rebuttal to the Democrat policies, it's a rebuttal to their whole political argument, which is why I think they're in such disarray.
They have absolutely no leadership.
They don't have a bench for the presidential in 2028.
And right now, you go pull 100 people on the street.
Who's the leader of the Democrat Party?
In the Congress, in the government, in media, wherever?
I don't think you would get a straight answer.
We appreciate your time.
Congratulations on all your success.
Michael Knowles of the Michael Knowles Show at the Daily Wire.
We appreciate your time, sir.
Sean, thanks so much for having me.
Great to be with you.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800, 941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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All right, big announcement.
Did you hear the big announcement, Linda?
Kamala Harris is writing a book about her failed presidential campaign.
You know what was more interesting about that announcement?
Wow.
She wrote it in crayon.
She's a very special woman.
Very special.
No, this is going to be an enlightening book.
You're wrong.
You're taking the wrong attitude about this.
You're wrong.
Me and the community.
We can't wait to hear about it.
No, because she's going to explain how 90% favorable media coverage and $2 billion in campaign cash still was not enough to even bring her close to the finish line and winning the presidency.
But she's going to publish this memoir in the fall.
She announced yesterday she's not running for governor of California.
Charlemagne Lagad is hyping Kamala's book, but warning about a second presidential run.
I'm like, good luck with that.
I'm not sure Democrats in California didn't even want her to run at all.
Here's Kamala announcing her new book covering 107 days of her presidential campaign.
Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for president of the United States, 107 Days, Traveling the Country, Fighting for a Future, the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.
It was intense, high stakes, and deeply personal for me and for so many of you.
Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends, and pulling my thoughts together.
In essence, writing a journal that is this book, 107 Days.
With candor and reflection, I've written a behind-the-scenes account of that journey.
I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward.
Oh, my gosh.
It's insufferable.
I can't, I honestly can't take it.
If that's their campaign, if that's the person they want, then I'm all for it.
Let her run.
The president has weighed in on our top story today when asked about the trove of burn bags containing this information about the Trump-Russia probe found by the FBI director Cash Patel.
I want everything to be shown as long as it's fair and reasonable.
I think it will be shown and it should be shown.
And I think Cash Patel feels the same way.
And I think Attorney General Pam Bondi feels the same way, but it's got to be stuff that really doesn't hurt people unfairly because you have so many people involved.
If they can do that in a fair way, I think it's great, which, by the way, is the responsible way to do it.
But we now, you know, we get another jolt of declassified information.
And this one going back as far as the summer of 2016, Hillary Clinton approving an operation to manufacture this fake Russian scandal, Russia, Russia, Russia, all in an effort designed to harm Donald Trump, and the FBI would fully participate in the plan.
This is now Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who has spent years fighting to declassify the intelligence gathered from a foreign enemy and delivered to Obama.
It now has released this information, which we've been going through for a better part of the day today.
I hope people understand the severity of all of this.
I hope people understand this because this is the biggest political scandal in our lifetime.
Because you do understand now, and the headline on foxnews.com is, and John Solomon, me, Greg Jarrett, all of us have been all over this story, but between CIA Director Ratcliffe and FBI Director Cash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, they're now coordinating the declassification in the annex.
And then you've got the smoking gun email and this appendix that was in the Durham report that had never been made public.
And the appendix reveals foreign sources allegedly tied to George Soros' Open Society Foundations, according to FoxNews.com.
The appendix saying that the Russian government actors in 2016 hacked emails from the Open Society Foundation, formerly known as the Soros Foundation.
And two of the apparently hacked emails have appear to have originated from that foundation, the appendix states, noting that the purported author of these emails was this guy, Leonard Bernardo, who was the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations.
And during the first stage of the campaign, due to a lack of direct evidence, it decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated technical structures, in particular, CrowdStrike and Threat Connect companies, from which the information would be disseminated through leading U.S. publications.
Now, this is where it gets interesting, and this is where the index says the media analysis of the DNC hacking appears to be solid, according to this report.
But another email from this guy, Bernardo, again, from the same article, says HRC, that would be Hillary Rodham Clinton, approved Julie's idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections.
This should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level.
He continued per the annex, quote, the point is making the Russia play a U.S. domestic issue, say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel manic since both the POTUS and Vice POTUS have acknowledged the fact that the IC would speed up independent counsel searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable.
Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI's investigation into Russia, Russia, Russia, was opened several days later.
The appendix reveals Durham's team interviewed numerous FBI personnel involved in the Crossfire Hurricane Probe, and Durham said those he interviewed believe that the Bernardo emails are likely to be authentic.
The appendix states that Hillary's campaign may have wanted or expected the FBI or other agencies to aid that effort to, quote, put more oil into the fire by commencing a formal investigation of the DNC hack.
And the communications the Durham team reviewed additionally supported that the Clinton campaign had been engaged in a plan to tie Trump to Russia and the campaign wanted or expected the office of the vice president, the FBI, other parts of the intelligence community, such as the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, to aid in this effort.
The office's best assessment is that the emails that purport to be from this guy, Bernardo, were ultimately a composite of several emails obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based think tank, including Open Society's Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment, and many, many others, according to the Durham Annex.
It's a logical deduction redacted that this person, at a minimum, was playing a role in the Clinton campaign efforts to tie Trump to Russia.
Now, put that together with what Tulsi Gabbard has released.
What do we learn?
That career senior intelligence officials did their post-2016 assessment on the issue of Trump in Russia and determined there was no evidence at all whatsoever.
Then it was, according to the declassified documents, then it was Obama's decision with the help of all these people like Clapper and Brennan and Biden and Susan Rice and others.
They came up with another intelligence assessment that directly contradicted what senior rank and file career intelligence officers had.
And they used the dirty Russian disinformation dossier that was debunked by this point in December of 2020 as the basis, even though Brennan went under oath and directly lied and said they didn't use it.
There's a lot of unanswered questions here.
Anyway, let's go to Gene in Tennessee.
Hey, Gene, how are you?
Glad you called.
How are you doing?
I just want to mention that, you know, they impeached Trump after he left office.
I fear they set the precedence.
Why don't we impeach Obama?
They did it.
So let's say what's good for the goose, good for the gander.
Let's go for it.
I could absolutely see this happening.
I am telling you, every person that we have mentioned, they're all scared to death.
A burned bag is supposed to be burned.
They didn't burn it.
Somebody screwed up big time.
That's resulting in this smoking gun email, which is just frankly the final nail in the coffin, as far as I'm concerned.
And now it's a matter of what did they know, when did they know it, and getting to the bottom of all of it.
And what you have is exactly what I've been describing now for years: a concerted effort to put cinder blocks on the scale of an election, sabotage Trump's presidency in his first term, certainly help Joe Biden in 2020, and then use web.
And that's what the 51 former Intel officials that knew nothing about the very real authenticated laptop from hell of Hunter Biden, and then weaponization of the DOJ and lawfare from 2020 to 2024 to bloody Trump up so he couldn't be a viable candidate.
That's what's gone on the last three presidential election cycles.
It's a disgrace.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
Let us say hi to Thomas in Iowa.
Thomas, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, how are you doing, Sean?
Longtime listener.
And thank you.
First time caller.
I've watched you back whenever you and Combs was on TV and that years and years ago.
So thank you very much.
God rest his soul.
He's a good guy.
Yeah, yeah, he was.
What is calling for, Nat?
I keep hearing you and Linda kind of go back and forth about you running for president and everything.
No, this is Linda going back and forth.
Linda's the one that started it.
Linda is the one that keeps it alive.
Wow.
And Linda's responsible for all of it.
I take no blame at all whatsoever for this.
Well, I think you would make a good president.
And I think Ted Cruz or even Don Jr.
would be a good VP.
I really do.
You got Constitutionalist and Ted Cruz.
You've got Don Jr., he's got business head.
You've got a business head on your shoulders.
I mean, I think you guys could do a good job running this country.
And if you ever did decide to run, you got my vote.
Listen, I'm actually surprised people keep bringing this up.
I'm very flattered.
I've never felt the calling to run at all.
If that does change, I'll let you know.
But I would imagine if I had any desire to run because I'm so interested in politics, I probably would have followed that path by now.
I've always believed that I probably couldn't get elected dog catcher.
Maybe in Florida, I could get elected dog catcher.
I don't know.
Do they have dog catchers anymore?
I'm not sure.
We like to call them pets and owners, but sure, you can be a dog catcher.
That's fine.
No, but remember in the old days, they had the, if a stray dog or a stray animal is out and about, you'd have.
Animal control is what they call it.
Animal control.
Oh, okay.
I got to get the new Sydney Sweeney version, the correct version.
I think it's all horrible.
If I had it my way, I'd have a farm with a bunch of dogs on it, but that's another show.
Anyways.
Well, you're not a good pet owner.
Why am I not a good pet owner?
I'm an amazing pet owner.
My animals love me.
Oh, they do.
But what happened to the cat you had that wore weighed this?
Oh, my God.
That cat weighed more than four other cats combined.
She loves food.
You love that cat so much, you overfed it and the cat risked dying.
You had to send the cat away.
There was just more of her to love, and I loved every piece of her.
Okay, and why did you have to send her away?
Because somebody wanted her.
They were going through a tough time.
Not true.
Fake news.
Don't you have like a spot or something to do here?
Don't you have something to say to the American people?
No, I mean, you sent her away because she was in such poor health because she was four times her normal healthy weight.
Isn't that true?
She did go to an area where she could run a little bit more.
That is true.
But she also went to that place with someone who was going through a tough time.
Uh-huh.
That's a new part of the story that I'd never heard until today.
Well, you know, that's why we stick to the story, Sean.
You never know what new development is.
You found a way to save the cat's life because it was four cats in one because you overfed it.
And you call that love.
I call that something different.
We can't all have Sydney Sweeney jeans.
All right, Sean.
You're welcome.
All right.
All right.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
What is the biggest political scandal in the history of the country, according to Senator Chuck Grassley?
We'll get into the Durham Antics, what it reveals, and the smoking gun evidence about Hillary Clinton's approval and who else was involved, who knew what and when.
Lindsey Graham, John Solomon, Greg Jarrett, Jonathan Turley.
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