Sept. 2, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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| And it is a big day. | |
| I think either way it's a big day, but if we get this solved, it's a really big day because we're going to save a lot of lives. | |
| Do you then decide, okay, we're going to use mustard gas on civilians? | |
| The what Trump ordered Abbott to do in Texas is mustard gas on our democracy. | |
| And the perception of this pres of the Biden presidency. | |
| It was just a weak and ineffective presidency. | |
| But the fact of the matter is his legacy is Donald Trump came back. | |
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| Hour two Sean Hannity Show, 800 941 Sean is on number. | |
| If you want to be a part of the program, um, we have a lot of news that we're going to be breaking in the course of this show today. | |
| One, we're gonna update you on the autopen issue and the Joe Cognitive uh decline issue. | |
| Uh, we'll get to that in a second. | |
| John Solomon has some huge breaking news, uh, pretty much smoking gun breaking news regarding James Comey. | |
| We'll get to that today. | |
| Uh also, Senator Tom Cotton on what's going on in DC and Ukraine and Russia and uh Leo 2.0 Terrell, the president going out uh following in the on on the heels of the trip by Pete Hegzeth, Stephen Miller, and J. D. Vance yesterday in the streets of DC. | |
| Uh, we do have an update on that. | |
| Sure, the liberal media won't report too much on it. | |
| DC has had a murder-free week uh and seventy-seven more arrests in the federal takeover and the National Guard protecting the people in our nation's capital. | |
| It's it's it's unbelievably shocking to imagine that if all the the capitals of every country in the world, we have the highest homicide rate per capita for a hundred thousand uh by more than double, nearly triple the next highest country. | |
| And uh when we're talking about Baghdad and and El Salvador and you know, c Mexico City. | |
| I mean, you would think America's capital would be the safest, not even close. | |
| Uh so they're trying to restore law and order and safety and security for people there. | |
| Um this is getting fascinating and more fascinating by the day. | |
| Um, one of President Biden's staunchest defenders in the last year of his presidency has been this guy, Ian Sams. | |
| And James Comer is now saying, after an interview that took place with Mr. Sam's uh today, uh, that he thinks that this might be the most informative interview in this probe so far. | |
| And Comer's taking the lead in terms of these closed door transcribed interviews, and today it was he and Sam's turn, who served as the top spokesperson on matters related to congressional investigations and other probes uh during the latter two years of the Biden administration. | |
| He said, quote, that was probably the most informative transcribed interview, slash deposition we have had thus far. | |
| Uh let me play Comer in his own words and what he has to say. | |
| Listen. | |
| I mean, I I I can't say this enough. | |
| I want to say this one more time so everyone understands. | |
| Ian Sam's, who was the White House spokesperson for a significant amount of Joe Biden Thomas President interacted with him two times. | |
| Two times. | |
| So, you know, we're gonna continue to bring people in. | |
| Um again, this this person, Ian Sam's is the one that would counter everything. | |
| Uh Robert Herr, or any time anyone would suggest that Joe Biden wasn't mentally fit. | |
| He would say, No, he's at the top of his game. | |
| Every time he tweeted out in there several times, he gave interviews on MSNBC. | |
| Every time I've interacted with the president, he was sharp. | |
| He has great questions. | |
| In there, under oath, he interacted with the President two times the entire time. | |
| The entire time he worked in the White House. | |
| That's astonishing. | |
| It really is stunning, and it does bring into focus the level of of cover up in terms of nobody really got to see Biden except that very small group of people that I would argue knew damn well that he was in a full significant serious cognitive decline that raises the issue, as the New York Times had pointed out. | |
| Okay, that Joe Biden set down criteria, standards for commutations and pardons, uh, but then they use the auto pen, but we don't know who authorized the use of the autopen, and we don't believe that Joe Biden authorized every commutation and and every pardon. | |
| Anyway, Mike Howells with us, president of the Oversight Project, leading figure in uncovering the autopen scandal. | |
| Uh he has uh more information on this as well, uh, because a top Justice Department official warned the Biden administration that thousands of last minute pardons signed by autopen were legally flawed and went against President Biden's intentions of granting clemency to violent offenders who killed children and police officers. | |
| All right, what are we learning? | |
| Mike Howell, welcome back. | |
| Hey, thanks for having me on. | |
| So it's a bombshell document. | |
| It's it's an email in black and white. | |
| So we gotta take it back to January seventeenth, uh, the final days of the Biden administration, and the White House announces a record setting uh pardoning and commutation of nonviolent drug offenders. | |
| That's how they styled it. | |
| And there's a press release uh that you know says it's from Biden, but as you know, we're hearing from me and Sam said who knows who wrote the press release or who it really came from, but bragging about the scale of what they did. | |
| So, fast forward just one day on Saturday morning, the top lawyer at DOJ for office, Merrick Garland's right hand career official writes a highly unusual and emphatic email to the White House saying these are not legal. | |
| We cannot effectuate and execute these as it currently stands. | |
| And he lists out all of the reasons. | |
| One of the biggest ones is on the face of these what's called a warrant, which is you know, the the documents that that effectuates the commutation, uh, it doesn't even describe what they need to do. | |
| And if they were to take it at its word, it necessarily would apply to guess what? | |
| Violent criminals, and it did, and they were released from jail. | |
| I'm talking about people who killed cops, who killed children, who uh killed witnesses, the worst of the worst. | |
| And so for the first time we have evidence of Biden officials in writing saying this autofense strategy is illegal and not working in its practice and implementation. | |
| All right, let's go through some of what you found here. | |
| Four specific points. | |
| The language offenses described to the Department of Justice in the warrant is highly problematic. | |
| And in order to resolve its meaning appropriately and consistent with the President's intent, we will need a statement or direction from the President on how to interpret the language. | |
| And let's go through the four possibilities that they lay out in this piece, uh, starting with the commutation applying to all federal offenses, and explain why it's problematic in your mind. | |
| It's problematic because the document that effects you at a warrant needs to actually describe the offenses and the people. | |
| Uh keep in mind how ahistorical this was, and that's what Biden was bragging about. | |
| Just the the scale of the whole thing. | |
| But for it to actually legally work, you have to name the people and the offenses that they committed. | |
| And the warrant did not do that. | |
| And so here you have DOJ saying, we can't interpret this with how you've done it. | |
| And to do it, like and it's logical kind of construction would apply to basically this w wide universe of people that I don't think the president wants out, who in their right mind would want these violent criminals and gangbangers out. | |
| They don't match the rhetoric of even the the furthest left advocacy groups. | |
| And so that's that's what he's basically saying. | |
| And the other examples there are basically his best attempt from DOJ of we're gonna need to fix this. | |
| It's it's it's badly broken now. | |
| Here are four ways to fix it. | |
| And and those are the other examples that that he walks through, but they all revolve around one thing, Sean. | |
| Clarification from guess who? | |
| The President of the United States, because that's what Doing this needs to do pardons of commutations. | |
| It's a special power in our Constitution reserved to one person and one person alone, and that is the President of the United States. | |
| And so DOJ is screaming, basically. | |
| If you read this email, we need that one guy to tell us what he actually means because this autopen strategy cannot hold up. | |
| Well, remember when the New York Times wrote that he was setting down criteria and standards, and it heavily implied and and uh pretty much outright said that he didn't approve each one himself, and we still to this day don't know who authorized the use of the autopen. | |
| And then we have this whole issue of was Joe even cognitively aware enough and mentally strong enough to even make the decision. | |
| That's absolutely right. | |
| And so that New York Times article, keep in mind the oversight project in March went public with our auto pen investigation, and the New York Times covered it, but they called it a conspiracy theory, Sean. | |
| Uh and their reporters that that was their their you know narrative on it in March. | |
| Well, you fast forward a month ago. | |
| Enough damage had been done that finally the Biden camp decided they needed to do something. | |
| His legacy will be defined by the autopen. | |
| And it whether he likes it or not, that's where it's at. | |
| And so they went to the New York Times, gave a 10-minute interview in which the New York Times has not released the audio tape of the Biden interview, by the way, in which Biden basically uh if you're to believe the New York Times made the limited disclosure of admitting, yeah, okay, I didn't do this stuff. | |
| But hey, I did enough. | |
| I I said broad categories, and his admission there is enough for all of these things to fall, because as we just outlined. | |
| When you say fall, that would invalidate them, correct? | |
| Correct. | |
| And mayor remind everyone, President Trump already has. | |
| He said it over and over again. | |
| He put it out truth social in May that all these are null and void. | |
| And here's where things get really interesting, Sean. | |
| Some of the commutations, which for your viewers is a little different than a pardon. | |
| It's a shortening of the sentence. | |
| Guess what? | |
| Some of those people are still in jail. | |
| And so President Trump could refuse to release them. | |
| One of the guys, a crack cocaine kingpin, is being released today, and he's got one of these no good pardons commutations. | |
| And so this is a case in which we hope, and we've called on A. G. Bonnie and others, let's get the ball moving and start knocking some of these out. | |
| And the easiest way to do it, and we'll get to Ship and everyone else later, is to do no more harm and to release none of these people that are still in jail back into the street. | |
| And frankly, I'd like to see those that have already been released rearrested and put back in prison because they don't belong on our streets. | |
| Quick break. | |
| More with Mike Howell. | |
| He's the president of the Oversight Project, leading figure in uncovering the auto pen scandal. | |
| And uh, what a hearing today with Ian Sams, who admitted he only talked to Biden, saw Biden two times, and this guy has been saying it's a conspiracy theory. | |
| Anybody that says that Joe is a cognitive mess. | |
| Uh, also new details on how Biden's own Justice Department absolutely warned Biden that that the process they were using with these last minute pardons were not going to hold muster that they weren't legal. | |
| We'll break all that down and more as we continue. | |
| All right, we continue. | |
| Mike Howell is with us, president of the oversight uh project. | |
| Uh we're now discovering that the number two at the DOJ of Joe Biden warning these last minute pardons and commutations were not going to hold up legally, especially by the president not making the selection himself and the autopen issue coming into real focus now, and all of them will be invalidated in my view over time. | |
| Let me put a little more emphasis on items three and four in the letter that you're describing. | |
| Again, this is this is Merrick Garland's number two is to his right-hand man, if you will, point three, because no offensive offenses have been described to the department from the president. | |
| The commutations do not take effect. | |
| Now, this is Biden's Justice Department just in the the final hours of his administration. | |
| It goes on, in essence, describing offenses to the department as a condition precedent to the commutations being effective, and without a description, they do not take effect. | |
| I have no idea what interpretation the incoming administration will give to the warrant, but they may find the interpretation attractive as it gives effect to the language, but does not go beyond the four corners uh corners of the warrant. | |
| Last point. | |
| There is yet to come clear direction from the president giving meaning to the language for the offenses described to the DOJ. | |
| Ideally, this would be a list of each emate uh inmate listing the offenses that are covered by the commutation. | |
| By far, this is the clearest and least problematic alternative. | |
| Given the above, I think the best that we receive is a statement of direction from the president as to the meaning of the warrant language. | |
| This will then allow us to give the full effect of the commutation warrant in the manner intended by the president. | |
| They didn't do any of this. | |
| I mean, this is their top lawyer, one of the this number two lawyer at justice saying, guys, wake up. | |
| This ain't gonna take effect. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| He's begging for direction. | |
| He's saying, help me clean up your mess. | |
| Give me something that we can use to actually put these into motion because they just are not a vehicle to do whatever the autopen thought they would achieve. | |
| And so that's what that email is absolutely screaming. | |
| And if you read between the lines, the the top lawyer keeps saying, I need to hear from the president. | |
| He's not putting in writing, you know, uh, hey, I'm not gonna talk to an autopen or a staffer about this, and I think that's the bogus reason. | |
| But implicit in everything he's saying is we need this from the top, and he's not getting it. | |
| Wow, pretty amazing story. | |
| How do you think this ends? | |
| Does this go to the courts? | |
| Does the Trump administration invalidate it and then it will be challenged in the courts? | |
| What do you think? | |
| So uh I'll start by saying, and I know I I'm beating a dead horse on this, but President Trump has already invalidated it. | |
| He's he's said so multiple times. | |
| He's the chief executive. | |
| He's he's put it in writing. | |
| He's issued an executive order, he's open to White House Council investigation. | |
| He's called them null and void. | |
| So it's about time for the government to start getting in line with what the president says and treating these things as null and void. | |
| And there's several things that can do to start that process. | |
| The first is not releasing these guys from jail, and I think that's an easy clear-cut legal case because you have Biden's DOJ agreeing. | |
| The second, I think, more controversial one that'll end up in the Supreme Court, is charging people like Schiff, Milley, the January 6th Committee, etc., all those people who received the funky pardons. | |
| And that's what I think Colbert's team is getting at. | |
| And Chairman Comers and then his team who we work with very closely is developing that you know, fundamental record set so the Trump administration can charge those people who have invalid pardons, which of course they will take all the way up to the Supreme Court. | |
| But for these violent drug offenders still in prison, that's a laugh. | |
| I don't even think that gets to the Supreme Court, Sean. | |
| Well, I really appreciate your time. | |
| That's a great update. | |
| Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| We appreciate you being with us. | |
| We continue. | |
| Leo 2.0 Tyrrell, senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights is with us. | |
| Can you explain this rise of anti-Semitism? | |
| It's worldwide, it's in the halls of Congress, it's on college campuses. | |
| Even some people that, you know, claim to be conservative. | |
| Uh I'm I'm having a hard time understanding, having been to Israel as often as I have been, having been in the terror tunnels, having been having been to border cities, having seen underground bunker playgrounds that kids play in because those cities in ten years have been hit with tens of thousands of rockets. | |
| Uh, having seen video that very few people were able to see that I was able to see thanks to the IDF about murder and rape and kidnapping and torture and beheading and and Israel fighting for its very survival against radical Islamic terrorists like the ones that attacked us on 9-1101. | |
| What why are people having a hard time understanding that Israel uh just like America has a right to defend itself? | |
| I mean, what happened October 7th, based on their population size versus ours, that's the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day. | |
| Where is this coming from? | |
| Well, thank you for that question, Sean, because I've been spending again. | |
| I have to thank President Trump and Pam Bondi because they have given me the tools to work on combating anti-Semitism. | |
| Let me answer your question. | |
| In my entire lifetime, I've never seen anti-Semitic behavior as rampant as it is right now. | |
| Why? | |
| Because you have a well-finance organization outside this country, inside this country. | |
| Twenty years of indoctrinating our young people at college and university. | |
| Now they want K-12. | |
| I'm not going to mention their name. | |
| You've got media. | |
| Media lying on Israel, protecting, justifying what happened on October 7th. | |
| I don't want to mention their name, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times. | |
| They're trying to put Israel in the most unfavorable light. | |
| And this college, what I call outrageous conduct where they're attacking Jewish Americans. | |
| It's been made popular, Sean. | |
| And I'm telling you, thank God for President Trump. | |
| The Jewish Americans should be happy that Trump is president. | |
| Why? | |
| Because he's been putting up the guardrails to stop it. | |
| And I'll tell you right now, we got three and a half years to get these guardrails up to protect Jewish Americans. | |
| If we don't protect Jewish Americans, we're next, Sean. | |
| And I want to tell you, as an African American, I'm proud of being head of the task force. | |
| Why? | |
| Because I know the Jewish Americans stood by black Americans in the 60s, walked with Dr. King, funded the NAACP. | |
| So I want people to understand this is not a Jewish issue. | |
| This is an American issue. | |
| This is a Western civilization issue. | |
| And thank goodness for Pam Bondi and Donald J. Trump. | |
| You're loving your job. | |
| I can hear it in your voice. | |
| I've known you a long time. | |
| I love it, and I'm proud. | |
| You don't understand. | |
| I'm in a historic moment of time to make a change for this country. | |
| Thank you, President Trump. | |
| Thank you, Pam Bondi. | |
| Thank you, Sean Hannity, for helping me see the light and giving me this airtime for Americans to understand my commitment to eradicate anti-Semitism and to clean up these cities like Washington, D.C. Thank you for this airtime. | |
| Thank you, Leo. | |
| Because you know what? | |
| You make us proud and um you're making a difference. | |
| And all of you are making a difference, and we're very grateful, and saving lives is a very noble cause. | |
| The great Leo 2.0 Torrell, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. | |
| Leo, appreciate you, man. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Love you, John. | |
| Sean. | |
| Bye-bye. | |
| Love you back. | |
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