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Um so we have new developments today.
If you go back to the declassification by Tulsi Gabbard, um, let's remind you of what she said when she announced she was making this declassification, some of the things that she found, uh, like for example, then CIA director John Brennan overruling uh CIA officers who dared to challenge the Russia Gate narrative.
Remember, the original intelligence assessment uh report that was put out uh was one that said that Donald Trump never colluded with Russia, and there was no evidence of such.
And this is weeks and weeks after the 2016 election.
Here's what she said.
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 6, 2017, which explicitly stated, quote, we assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.
End of quote.
With regards to the SEAL dossier, we now know that one of the source documents that the Obama administration used in the creation of this intelligence assessment in January of 2017 was none other than the discredited unverified steel dossier.
The House Intel report states, quote, contradicting public claims by then CIA Director Brennan that the dossier was not in any way incorporated into this intelligence assessment.
The dossier was referenced in the intelligence assessment's main body text and further detailed in a two-page assessment annex.
John Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered because he knew it was discredited.
It was a politically motivated, manufactured document.
He directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway.
They knew by December 2016.
That's why they got rid of Christopher Steele at the time.
They knew it was discredited.
They were even warned about it as early as August of 2016.
Bruce or warned James Comey not to trust the document, that it was political in nature.
And this was the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier.
And anyway, it was not only discredited and unverified, it has since been totally, completely debunked.
It was debunked by December of 2016.
And then it raises questions about Comey because it was the bulk of information also.
Also used for not one, not two, not three, but four FISA applications, three of which Comey personally signed on to himself even well after the point, designing at least two of them, knowing completely that it was discredited by law once he knows that information presented to a Pfizer court ends up being false.
At that point he has an obligation to go back to the Pfizer court and say, no, we made a mistake.
And we have this big story breaking earlier today that uh Cash Patel has turned over documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Chuck Grassley, which apparently he found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump Russia probe that were buried in multiple, quote, burn bags in a secret room inside the FBI.
And sources now telling Fox News Digital that the burn bag system is used to destroy documents designated as classified or higher.
And anyway, the multiple burn bags were found filled with thousands of documents and sources now saying that one of the documents the FBI officials found in the burn bag was the classified annex to the former special counsel, John Durham's final report,
which includes the underlying intelligence that he reviewed and the declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination with John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, Cash Patel, the FBI director, and the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the attorney general Pam Bondi, uh, according to people.
But anyway, this will be transmitted now to the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman.
And then this goes to the broader investigation opened by Cash Patel's FBI into what is a grand conspiracy to put cinder blocks on the scales of elections, which it appears uh based on everything we've been reporting now for years absolutely positively have happened.
Uh Sean Davis with the Federalist uh is gonna join us in just a second here is the CEO and founder of the Federalist and he put up a post that pointed out that there are five to ten people that have been deeply involved in reporting on the Russia collusion hoax from the very beginning back in early twenty seventeen he points out rightly so.
He's one of them uh also others and that they've been doing this for eight years.
Well we've been doing it on this show and been doing it on Hannity uh and we've had Sean Davis on him various times about all of this discussing it with with our ensemble cast.
Uh but the blockbuster revelations he points out from last week about the fraudulent intelligence uh community assessment is not old news and it's not and anyone saying that there's nothing new in the recent declassification is flat out lying uh and it's not a nothing burger.
Th these are called smoking guns in the industry.
Anyway, Sean Davis joins us now.
Uh sir how are you?
I'm doing well thank you for having me.
Well we were on similar uh parallel paths at the time and I I know that people like you and and others were were doing your work.
We had you on numerous times to talk about this and other issues, but what you're pointing out in your post, top Obama officials and their corrupt media stenographers repeatedly lied when they claim that the bogus steel dossier was which was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC was never referenced in the body of this intelligence assessment.
Now Tulsi Gabbard made that very bold statement based on the declassification announcement that she made and she made it clearly and fake news CNN which went wall to wall with this phony Russia collusion hoax all those years even cut away from the press conference because it totally discredited what they had been reporting for you know the longest period of times uh time but uh more specifically that three year period.
Right.
And this was a major blockbuster because there were always two big pillars that were erected in in service of the Russia collusion hoax.
The second one was this idea that Trump colluded with Putin to steal the election from Hillary.
That's what the steel dossier was all about.
But none of that would have been possible rhetorically without the first pillar which was the allegation that Russia interfered in the election in 2016 for the purpose of electing Donald Trump and defeating Hillary Clinton.
That really was the foundation of everything.
And what we've learned in the last week from Gabbard and Ratcliffe and God bless them for finding This information and getting it out there.
We found that that first pillar, this idea that Russia was interfering to help Trump win, that was a lie, that they knew it was a lie, that they never had any intel to support it, and that they even used the steel dossier, contradictory to John Brennan's sworn congressional testimony.
They even used the steel dossier to support this lie that Putin wanted Trump to win.
You can start on a basic level because lying to Congress under oath is a crime, and that would then therefore implicate a number of top people.
I would assume Brennan and Clapper and Comey, and we could just start there.
Is that correct?
It is that is correct, but there's also a five year statute of limitations if you're looking at perjury or or false statements.
Brennan's came within the last couple of years.
I think he told Congress uh this particular falsehood as recently as twenty twenty-three.
So if you're just looking at personality, well, some of them were b were i in 2020, and I believe that they can get this going and extend the statute of limitations is my understanding for those three in particular.
Well, I think uh uh they may be able to.
I think the better case for tolling the statute of limitations is to not look at singular false statements to Congress as the basis for all criminal charges.
It's to look at everything that was done since 2017 is as part of a massive fraudulent c conspiracy against the American people and and against the government of the United States, and each new false state that they make today or tomorrow or a week from now is an overt act in furtherance of that conspiracy, which starts that statute of limitations clock overall again.
That's all true, which is uh part of the reason why I'm looking at the broader investigation of Cash Fattel.
Now, from my vantage point, everything that we know about 20 seven 2016 and 17 and how the original intelligence assessment that came from rank and file, career, rank and file, senior and intel officials, they concluded something that was very clear that there was no Trump Russia collusion.
Well, it turns out that Barack Obama, according to the declassification and others, did not like that assessment.
And then they went about the business of of redoing it and creating a false narrative based in part on a debunked dossier that Hillary Clinton had bought and paid for that they were warned about, you know, early in the campaign, Brennan himself warning Obama, and that it was also used for not one but four FISA applications.
So I would argue that that's part of the grand conspiracy, and that is to undermine a duly elected president.
Then I would argue that it continues through 2020, because we know that they verified the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop, the FBI did in March of 2020, and then they systematically went about meeting on a weekly basis with all these big tech companies and warning them that they may be victims of uh of a Russia hoax and disinformation campaign.
And they also knew at the time that Rudy Giuliani's attorney, Bob Costello, had a copy of Hunter's very real laptop.
They knew it would become public.
They were warning these companies specifically that this Russian disinformation may be about Hunter or Joe Biden, and uh it might even include Barisma is my understanding.
And then when the story broke in the New York Post in October of 2020, uh those many of those those social media company leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and and Jack Dorsey at Twitter, they were asking the FBI, is this what you were warning about, or is it true?
They wouldn't give them the answer, even though they knew the truth.
They knew what the answer was.
They had pre-bunked the entire story, the story gets suppressed, that impacts the election.
To me, that's putting cinder blocks on the scales of an election.
And lastly, I would argue from 2020 to 2024 in the weaponization of the DOJ, uh, et cetera, and law fair that went on against Donald Trump.
That was that was the to bloody him up and destroy him so he would never be a viable candidate at all for 2024.
That to me, all combined would be the grand conspiracy.
You have many of the same actors, names, and players.
Thoughts.
Oh, I I completely agree.
And and let's transport ourselves back to when the FBI raided Trump's personal home in Mar-a-Lago, which was just a shocking, unprecedented act of suggery.
One of their stated reasons for going in there was they thought he had a bunch of these documents implicating them in their Russia-Gay conspiracy, and they were going back there to take all those documents back from him.
So even the raid of him, the federal charges against him were part of this larger conspiracy that started with the entire Russia Gate collusion hoax.
And this isn't just the biggest scandal of the last couple years or the biggest scandal of the 21st century.
I think it is the biggest political scandal in American history.
And to date, yet not one person has gone to prison for it.
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This is where I guess we have to manage people's expectations, right?
I mean, I I never like to overpromise and underdeliver.
I think the evidence is overwhelming.
I think it's incontrovertible.
I think the timeline is very clear.
The 51 former Intel officials, not one of them knew a thing about Hunter's laptop.
They knew that the steel dossier was garbage.
They knew the real value of Mar-a-Lago.
They knew that the statute of limitations had run out on a legal nondisclosure agreement, and then I can keep going and going and going.
It's just never-ending, made-up, trumped-up charges, pun intended, uh, to destroy this man and to impact presidential elections and impact the office of the presidency.
Now, I would agree with you.
I think it's the biggest scandal in history.
Uh, will anything happen in your view?
Well, I think one good development on on that front was when Attorney General Pam Bondi announced um the formation of what she called a strike force from DOJ.
And a strike force is a very particular type of entity.
It's not just one special prosecutor with the impramenter DOJ going to investigate stuff by himself.
It is a directive that that all agencies have to work together towards a common goal of investigating and prosecuting crime.
And if you look at the history of these DOJ uh strike forces, these multi-agency strike forces, they were really designed and used to great effect against organized crime, against mob crime, to root out and prosecute racketeering.
That to me is a sign that DOJ is very seriously looking at what happened, not as a series of discreet events whereby one or two Intel officials said something false before Congress, but a massive conspiracy designed to defraud the entire United States for a year.
So I think that's a great development from our DOJ so far.
Oh, I think it is as well.
Um I have a pretty high degree of confidence that this is not being done for no reason.
And uh, I hope we get to the bottom of it, because if we don't, uh I think what Dan Bangino was warning about this weekend and his widely publicized uh ex post.
Uh we're not we're not gonna have a republic at the end of this process if this type of thing can go on and continue and people are not held accountable.
Sean Davis, uh CEO, co-founder of Federalist, we appreciate you.
Thank you, sir.
Always a pleasure.
Thank you.
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All right, before we get back, I know it gets complicated.
And John Solomon will join us at the top of the next hour because we've only been working on this story for eight years, and that is the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
And this Durham Report annexed that was released today, and I agree with Senator Charles Charles Grassley, probably the biggest political scandal in history.
I have been saying, based on the declassification by Tulsi Gabbert, that this is so much bigger than Watergate.
Makes Watergate look like a jaywalking offense.
And it's so complex and sophisticated.
We're going to try and break it down.
It gets complicated, though.
But before we do that, I don't know how many of you saw the video.
We showed it again last night of this brawl that broke out in Cincinnati.
I love Cincinnati.
I've been to Cincinnati many, many times.
I love the people of Cincinnati.
And what's so sad about this is you watch this gang of people just pounding on this one guy, kicking him in the head, punching him in the head, one after another.
And somebody comes up and just colcocks this innocent woman out of nowhere.
She didn't see it coming, knocked her right to the ground, right out.
The fact that these two people are even alive today is somewhat miraculous.
And there's a lot of sad parts of this story.
There were a lot of people watching, standing around, filming, and my understanding is only one person took the time to even bother to call the police and bring the get them involved in all of this.
And the the second part of this, there weren't enough people that said, hey, you know, maybe put down your phone, stop recording, and maybe start helping the innocent people that potentially could die in this situation.
Now, the Senator from Ohio, Bernie Moreno, uh released, he said, This is Holly.
This is the woman.
He didn't see it coming.
She got punched in the face, knocked out, and he shared a photo of her or photos of her showing her injuries.
He said, She gave me permission to release the photo so others will never suffer what she had to suffer through.
And I look at these photos, and you can barely believe that she got out of this alive.
Quote, she wanted to have a nice evening out with friends and said instead she got this, he wrote on social media.
My friend Bill Cunningham.
He's the highest-rated talk show host in the history of talk radio in one single state.
And he remains so today.
Nearly 50 years on the air.
Bill Cunningham, God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
How are you, my friend?
Sean Hannity.
First of all, I want to go into the words of Mark Twain, who said that why does the sound of your voice make me laugh?
I don't know why.
But go ahead.
Mark Twain said when the world ends, he wants to be in Cincinnati, Ohio, because we won't find out about it for about 10 years.
Well, what's happening in Cincinnati happened 10 years ago in New York and Philadelphia de Blasio in Chicago with Lightfoot and Portland, Atlanta, just named the city.
And we had a run of pretty conservative, liberal, whatever you might want to say, Democratic mayors.
But now the last five or ten years, we've gone hard left.
And Cincinnati now is experiencing the same crap that goes on in every major American city controlled by Democrats.
And it began it began slowly before we get to Holly, with truancy violations not being uh not being dealt with.
The public school system is 25% of the student body doesn't show up.
Then there were curfew violations put in place, and the city cops all ignored that.
Then there was open air drug dealing and pot smoking, and the city cops were told to ignore that.
Then there was homelessness, homeless camps, and the city cops were told, well, ignore that.
And then there was open air, drug use, needles, prostitution, and the cops were told, well, ignore that.
And then there were traffic laws being violated.
So the city cops didn't want to pull people over.
So we had speed bumps put everywhere as kind of passive restraints on behavior because when you pull somebody over, you go hands on, don't have a license, no insurance.
So the city cops said, okay, quit doing that stuff.
Then we were declared to be a sanctuary city, uh, and then 250 cops retired, so we can't take it anymore.
We have lousy schools, bus stop violence.
We have uh 2,000 cars stolen every year.
We have in the city of Cincinnati, which is only like four miles by eight miles, 20,000 shots fired every year that only strikes about 400 people, thank God.
And when all of this is going on, our mayor Aftab Pureval, who's a metrosexual, has left town for a week or two to go on vacation as the music festival is going on, as the Reds are beating up on Tampa, as my good friend Ice Cube comes to town for the basketball tournament, the mayor is gone, leaving it in the hands of the president of the council, Victoria Parks, who said, quote, they begged for that beatdown.
And I would defy anyone to look at the terrible photos of that woman and said that she begged that to happen to her, and then when the apprehended, when the cops finally arrest some of these guys, a judge, of course, a liberal democrat, gave one of the perpetrators a four hundred dollar cash bond to get out of jail to go out and commit more crimes.
So Cincinnati is going through whatever major American city's gone through just a little bit late.
You know, Billy Cunningham, sometimes you ask people a question, how are you doing?
And then they actually answer, and you in your mind you're going, Why did I bother asking?
You expect, ah, I'm doing fine.
How are you?
And then they said, Oh, my life sucks, my life's miserable.
You are describing the disintegration of Middle America, one of what what was formerly one of the greatest towns and cities of all time?
And and this took place over the last 20 years.
You are correct in your analysis, describing this is New York and New Jersey and Illinois and Chicago, this is San Francisco, Los Angeles, every major metropolis, and you're describing almost th it's it's a carbon copy of failed policies in blue cities, blue states, and I hope to God it's not the rest of Ohio.
Well, it well, Cleveland, Columbus, Akron, Toledo, yes.
And the difficulty is can we be a great nation, the shining city on the hill?
Can we have an economy with three percent GDP growth with low unemployment with tariffs working, American job, when America's major democratically run cities are in total collapse?
It's total can we get long go with an idea that the top 20 Amer American cities, you you pay big taxes, you can't go to the public school system.
When you call police to come help me, no police arrive, confiscatory taxes, rules and regulations, also high insurance premiums, and the the jails should be full, but they're not.
Can America be a great nation when every democratically run city is in collapse?
How long can we survive, Sean Hannity?
How long can we exist as the greatest nation on the face of the earth over the accomplishments of Donald Trump, etc.
when every look at Philadelphia had garbage everywhere?
And that describes physically and metaphorically what's happening to Chicago, Portland, LA, San Francisco, Atlanta, just picked a city.
How do we exist when our major cities are in collapse because of policies?
And I'll say one other thing.
You know what happened after David Dinkins, you were there.
We went through a stretch of Rudy for eight years and Bloomberg for for twelve, twenty-year stretch in New York, and all of a sudden it worked.
We know what works to fix it.
So why don't the voters who are failing and losing if lousy streets and kids that can't go to school, bullets flying everywhere?
Why don't the voters of New York, Washington, and say, you know what?
We can't take it anymore.
We got to change.
Why?
It defies defies logic, doesn't it?
I mean, uh you think of think back to twenty sixteen and Donald Trump saying to to certain people going, what have you got to lose?
Because if you look at these blue cities and blue states, you know, by and large, you know, where where Democrats have run these cities and states for decades, and and you describe it perfectly, and it's like a horrible model that's been duplicated around the country.
And you have the worst schools, you don't have law and order, you don't have safety and security.
When, you know, when I was with you back in 2004 and 2008, I remember we were doing uh quite a bit on presidential campaigns in those years together, and I think back to the Cincinnati I once knew, the home of Skyline Chile, the home at that time, uh Willie's uh, you know, uh you you had a uh a bar, a sports bar at the time with the best chicken wings I ever had in my life.
I think of all the great things in Cincinnati.
You are not describing the Cincinnati I knew back then.
That's not that long ago, Bill Cunningham.
Three cities Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, the three largest cities in America.
When given a choice in Los Angeles, they select Karen Bass.
When given a choice in Chicago, after four years of the disastrous Laurie Lightfoot, what do we get?
We get Brandon Johnson, who's to the left of Laurie Lightfoot.
Now in New York, I guess unless our buddy Curtis Lewa arises like a Phoenix, and I hope he does, New York City's going to be run by Ma'am Donnie, who's a literal communist.
So the voters given a choice to go a different direction in LA, in Chicago, and in New York with the exact opposite direction.
And when the president of City Council says, quote, they beg for that beatdown, she's being supported by large parts of the civil rights so-called movement in Cincinnati because she reflects the values of so many voters.
How does Mam Donny get 40-some percent in the primary and then gets over the hump because of the voting system?
And I guess he's gonna win because if Cuomo runs and uh Curtis, they're gonna split the anti-Mamdani vote, and now you're gonna have something worse.
At what point were the Democrats wake up and say, What do you have to lose?
Why do we have to like this?
What what never?
Bill Billy Cunningham, I left New York.
You used to go to New York.
You had a national uh uh uh nationally syndicated talk show.
It was very popular.
You were very successful, and I'd see you in the streets of New York and and you would walk around.
You were like a rock star in New York City.
It was amazing to watch this young kid from Cincinnati and how successful you are.
And uh I'm asking you, Bill Cunningham, do you really believe there's hope to turn this around in the beautiful city of Cincinnati?
Because I I had made the determination that New York was finished, that nothing could be done, and like so many other companies and so many other people before me.
I had concluded that there was no hope, there was no turning it around, and now it's about to get 10 times worse if Mom Donnie gets in office.
I walked out of your studios on Sixth Avenue, Avenue of the Americas.
I could walk down to the Avenia 29th, I could walk into the park.
Bill Cunningham in 2014-15 could walk into Central Park and not feel unsafe.
I could walk to Rockefeller Plaza, I walked down to uh Battery Park at night, alive, vibrant, people walking around.
What man or woman today at 10 p.m. would go from your building where you had it in Fox News when you were there, into the park, then down to Battery Park about an hour walk and walk back.
Who could who in their right mind would do that today?
Because the knockout game has come to Cincinnati.
One punch, one out, and you have to get nine innings, and this poor woman named Holly was the second inning of a knockout game in which the perpetrator gets out on a four hundred dollar cash bond, and she's number two, and now the the social media is alive with the idea that this was staged.
This isn't real, And secondly, oh come on.
Look at her face.
Look at these pictures.
She's lucky she's alive today.
I feel so sorry for this woman.
Uh, I hope she sues the hell out of the city of Cincinnati for not protecting her.
I hope she sues the people that did this to her.
What last I read there were five people arrested.
Will anything happen, Bill Cunningham?
Final question.
Well, my my hope, I always say, Sean Hannity, uh, keep hope alive.
I have no hope that major American cities will see the light.
They pay off the political leadership, much like in the South when the Democratic Party ignored federal law constantly.
That resulted in the Civil War, and then it resulted in the Ku Klux Klan lynching of blacks, and then it resulted in the Ku Klux Klan walking down Pennsylvania Avenue and their outfits under Democratic leadership.
FDR kept the blacks out of the military.
And today, once again, the old Democratic Party is back, ignoring federal law to the detriment of the citizens who put them in power.
Bill Cunningham, I am going to invite you and anybody else from Cincinnati to move to my free state of Florida.
If you, if you if you feel that this is now your future and your destiny, Florida awaits you.
And you and you have my full blessing.
Bill Cunningham, God bless you.
God bless America.
You're a great American, sir.
God bless America.
Thank you, Sean.
Thank you, my brother.
Thank you.
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