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Senators Demand Accountability - October 8th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, Lindsey Graham, absolutely livid as he should be.
There were eight United States senators and a couple of other elected representatives, congressmen, that were spied on by Jack Smith.
We're going to talk to Senator Bill Haggerty, great guy from Tennessee.
He said, Jack Smith, he wrote on X, tracked my private communications and those of my colleagues during his witch hunt to investigate the president.
This is exactly the type of political weaponization of the federal government under Presidents Obama and Biden that Republicans and President Trump have been calling out for years.
We will get to the bottom of this, but every American should be shocked to see what happened here.
And he said if FBI Director Chris Ray was aware of this surveillance, it would be an abuse of power.
If he didn't, it was a dereliction of duty.
Either way, it's unacceptable.
He said, I am committed, as my colleagues are, to holding every person involved accountable.
The American people have lost faith in our justice system precisely for this reason.
We must restore that trust by ensuring these abuses are punished and never repeated.
And lastly, he said Jack Smith did this, you know, surveillance, and it's just insane.
Anyway, here's Lindsey Graham, a very angry Lindsey Graham yesterday, and he was on the show yesterday expressing that.
Tell me why my phone records, when I'm the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, were sought by the Jack Smith agents.
Why did they ask to know who I called and what I was doing from January 4th to the 7th?
Can you tell me that?
No, Senator.
And there were eight senators in total.
I've seen this movie before.
I am going to look at what happened to me and my fellow senators.
My lawyer, John Kennedy, will be on next.
And if they did this without good reason and without cause, I'm going to sue the crap out of these people.
Are you talking about suing Smith directly?
Whoever I can sue on behalf of the future of people who will come after me.
We cannot allow the abuse of power to go unannounced.
I mean, unchecked.
One guy went to jail for a year in Crossfire Hurricane.
Comey is finally being looked at after all these years.
If they don't pay a price now, they'll keep doing it.
Anyway, joining us now is Senator Bill Haggerty of the great state of Tennessee.
First, Senator, and I mean this sincerely, this is outrageous.
It is beyond the pale.
It's not shocking in light of all that we've lived through and all that I've been covering on this program on my television show for the last 10 years or the things that I've had to live through myself, including my social media suppressed and my private text messages, thousands of them released to the public without my permission.
So I've been through a little bit of this myself, and it is beyond disconcerting, and it doesn't represent the great Republic of America that I thought we lived in.
Yeah, Sean, you just went through the litany of things that have regrettably happened to you.
It's because you're a strong voice.
You're a strong voice for conservatism and a strong voice for America.
And I think you're precisely the type of person that the left hates.
And the weaponized bureaucrats in the federal government are more than happy to go after you from my standpoint.
This is the third time something like this has happened to me, Sean.
If you bear with me for a moment, I'm going to take you back in time.
You know my background.
I started my career at the Boston Consulting Group.
I took a year off to do a program called a White House Fellowship.
It's a mid-career program, and I was assigned to Vice President Dan Quayle at the time.
I was fired on the 20th of January when Bill Clinton came into office, not surprised.
But I find out about a year or so later that my personnel files are in Hillary Clinton's office.
Do you remember this when she had all the personnel files from the people that served in the prior administration in her office?
I do.
I was a private citizen at that point, couldn't do anything about it.
2016, I am one of the finance chairmen for President Trump's campaign.
He wins the election.
I moved into Trump Tower the next day to help him with the transition process and come to find out that using the pretext of this Russia hoax that Comey brought forward, that I was surveilled there.
Again, private citizen, what could I do?
My phone calls were surveilled by the federal government at that point as well.
But this time, Sean, I'm a United States Senator, and they've done it again.
They surveilled me.
They surveilled seven of my other Senate colleagues and other congressmen that we know of.
It is time to blow the lid off of this thing.
I am ready to sue them.
I'm ready to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this and do it as quickly as possible.
Why is it so hard?
And I think Senator Ted Cruz is going to make it easier to now sue government officials that abuse their power because, you know, I found myself powerless, you know, and I didn't mind.
I mean, it was all, for example, Sean Hannity's text messages with Paul Manafort have been released and maybe 1,200, 1,300, I don't remember the exact number.
And I remember, you know, it was all over all day long.
Fake news, CNN, MSDNC.
You know what their conclusion was, Senator?
Wow, his text messages sound like his monologues.
He must really believe this stuff.
And which blends the question, what?
Are you faking what you say?
Because I do believe what I say.
The forest, of course, but the fact is that they were trying to first smear Paul and then tie you into it by some guilt by association.
Why would they have leaked that if they really cared about getting at the bottom of anything?
They would have investigated rather than leaked.
It's just like what they did in Mar-a-Lago, Sean.
You think about what they did with the raid of President Trump's facilities in Mar-a-Lago, spreading out those documents, putting new cover sheets on them, taking a photograph and immediately leaking it.
This has been such a weaponization of the system.
It's just beyond the pale.
President Trump is in office now.
You've got Pam Bondi and Cash Patel in the position to do something about it in the executive branch.
And you now have eight United States senators who are on the rampage to stop this.
We are not going to let this pass.
These people will be held accountable.
And frankly, Sean, if we don't, not only is it to support what Lindsey Graham says, not only will they be empowered to just continue to do this sort of thing, but we have to restore the American public's confidence in law enforcement here in America.
This has been so destructive to the American public's confidence in our institutions like the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice.
I've worked with the rank and file FBI members, the ones that are in Memphis right now, Sean, are doing tremendous work.
But the leadership of the FBI, obviously, contaminated.
And the only way we found this out is that one of Jack Smith's foot soldiers made a documentation mistake.
That's the only way we found out that this had happened.
But now that we've got it, we're going to blow this thing wide open.
We've got to restore the DOJ, the FBI, our intelligence community to their former greatness and their purpose.
We've got to stop going after moms and dads at school board meetings and investigating them as domestic terrorists or peaceful pro-life protesters or people that are just because of their political point of view different than the radicals that are in power.
What we are learning is so, you know, we reported on this now for 10 years, Senator, and we were right the whole time, and I didn't know how right we were.
But I appreciate your time.
I'm sorry you had to go through this.
You're doing a great job for the people of Tennessee, and we always appreciate your time.
Thank you so much, Sean.
All the best.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get to our busy phones here as we say hi.
Let's see, Francisco in California, the United Socialist Utopia of Gavin Newsome.
What's going on?
Oh, Sean, this is an honor.
Thank you for taking my call.
This is a very important subject because the FBI and the CIA need new, higher, more stronger rails need to be set.
This has been going on since 1964, since MLK suicide letter, 1969, Fred Hammington, 1971, the media PA burglary.
All these keep happening because these agents who misbehave have jobs of mega pay, mega powerful positions on these corporations that are very liberal.
So they get rewarded for misbehaving.
And there's no, oh, you get fired from the FBI, but now you're going to a $2 million salary.
That's a bonus.
That's the problem here.
They're getting bonuses for misbehaving.
And what is, we have time is limited.
Time is very limited because Donald Trump only has three and a half years more left.
If we don't do anything now to set the rails, God forbid what kind of administration comes in and takes advantage of this fouling all around.
But all these agents misbehaving, they'll just do it again and again and again because it's been going on since 1964.
I'm telling you, the good news is, is there's a new sheriff in town.
And between Cash and Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino, I have all the confidence.
I know there was some of my A lot of them are fair weather, you know, MA people, but I'll save that argument for another day.
You know, all they wanted, why aren't we getting the Epstein files?
And I'm like, they've got a million things on their plate.
Everybody calm down.
We'll get to the bottom of all of it.
And now we're getting to the bottom of all of it.
And I don't hear a lot of praise from the people that were most critical, but we will.
Anyway, good call, Francisco.
Appreciate it.
Quick break.
We'll come right back.
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Michael, my free state of Florida.
Michael, how are you?
Glad you called.
Yeah, thanks for having me on, Sean.
It's an honor.
Just wouldn't you think things couldn't get worse after they raided Mar-a-Lago and tore the place apart and told everybody to leave and stand outside and with such force and degradation.
They do this.
They're monitoring phone calls of our sitting members of Congress.
It's beyond ridiculous.
Something's got to be done about this.
They're just out of control.
You know, I have a timeline, and the timeline is very revealing in terms of, you know, what happened when and why.
And if you look at the weaponization alone, putting aside everything that happened in 2016 and the dirty dossier and FISA warrants and then learning with declassified information that they had an intelligence assessment, said there's no Russia collusion, and then Obama ordering another one.
But, you know, as soon as Donald Trump announced and teased that he was going to continue to run in February of 2021, he'd run again.
And, you know, it was within a month, within two weeks.
Well, actually, within six weeks, the Biden administration opened up this Arctic Frost investigation.
I don't think it's a coincidence.
And then it was just a few months after that.
FBI agents, you know, raided Mar-a-Lago.
They already had access to Mar-a-Lago.
They had been invited in, had full access to Mar-a-Lago, called back and said, by the way, would you mind putting an extra lock on this one door?
But they could have taken any document they wanted at any point.
They didn't raid Hillary's home or office.
They didn't raid Joe Biden's four locations where he had top secret classified information, just Donald Trump.
And that is a dual justice system.
And that has to be resolved if we're going to believe in law and order, our Constitution, and equal justice under the law.
It has to be solved.
And I am, you know, after interviewing Pam Bondi a number of times and talking to Dan Bongino and having cash Patel on a number of times, I am more than ever convinced that having interviewed President Trump, I can, I'm more than convinced, more convinced than ever that they are all over this and that this is going to come to an end.
Now, do I think if they ever got back in power, they try to go right back to their old ways?
I do.
And that we have to always, you know, free, as Reagan said, freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
And it's our generation's duty and obligation to get this right.
And I am very confident in the people that we have there.
You know, Pam Bondi giving a beat down to these sanctimonious, self-righteous, phony frauds on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
I mean, if they had any pride, they'd be embarrassed about what they do.
You know what?
Anyway, Michael, I appreciate it, my friend.
God bless you.
Thanks for checking in with us.
Bill in Arizona.
Bill, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I am retired military.
I took an oath when I joined the military.
Police officers take a very similar oath when they join a police force.
And one of the caveats is to uphold the laws of the state.
And therefore, when someone is being physically assaulted in a police officer's city, those officers are bound by oath to render assistance.
It doesn't matter if the victims of the assault are residents of the city or other law enforcement officers.
So by demanding that the Chicago police refuse assistance to other law enforcement officers who are being assaulted, the governor, the mayor, and the police chief are instructing the Chicago police to violate their oath of office, and that constitutes an unlawful order, just like in the military, which the police have both a legal and moral obligation to disobey.
And I know.
I can tell you something.
I know a lot of people in law enforcement.
There's not one person in law enforcement that ever, ever would want to not respond to an officer of need, a fellow law enforcement officer of need.
It just isn't, it's not in their DNA.
It doesn't exist.
You know, it's outrageous.
Anyway, my friend, I do have to run, but you know what?
You raise a great point, you know, and we better get to the bottom of this.
And these people better be held accountable.
And we will flat out, it looks like, lied to.
Liberals are getting very angry.
You know, here is Kamala Harris talking about those mother effers are crazy blasting the Trump administration as her 107-day, let me make every excuse in the book and blame everybody but me for my failed presidential campaign.
Because there's so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they've lost their mind when, in fact, these mothers.
Oh, liberals love that.
They just absorb that.
They suck that up like manna from heaven.
And Chucky Schumer, no effing way we're letting Republicans take away people's health care.
Republicans shutdown is life or death.
Now, meanwhile, the monies he's talking about were monies that were supposed to be temporary that Joe Biden put in place in the middle of COVID and monies for illegal immigrants and programs for illegal immigrants to provide them free health care.
Now, if liberals feel that passionately about it, nothing's stopping them from organizing and having a fundraiser, and they could pay for the health care.
Oh, that's right.
I said it over and over again.
Liberals are only generous with your money, other people's money, not their own money.
Anyway, the left loving the F-word.
Here's Chucky.
So now we're in government shutdown.
And you may be asking yourself, how the hell did we get here?
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are hell-bent on taking health care away from 60 million people, closing community clinics, rural hospitals, nursing homes, all so they can keep giving tax breaks to their billionaire friends.
It's a disgrace.
So Democrats have three words for this.
No way.
It's literally life or death.
What he's really fighting for is to fund and use your tax dollars.
Yep, in part to pay for health care for illegal immigrants and to take benefits that were put in place for COVID that was supposed to be temporary and make them permanent.
Here's the problem.
It cost $1.5 trillion.
And they're going to close down the government, hold the country hostage, something Chuck has said his whole career he'd never do.
Anyway, let's get to our busy telephones.
So many of you have been patient here.
Let's say hi to David in Virginia.
David, watching a lot of what's going on in Virginia.
It's getting very interesting over there.
Hey, Mr. Hannity.
It's good to talk to you.
Honestly, dealing with Virginia, I don't know why Winsom Sears is not promoting herself more than she is.
She is by far the better candidate, the simple fact that she's an immigrant and loves this country.
I don't understand why they're not pushing her like they should be.
Well, I've had her on the program, radio and TV.
I've had Glenn Younken on multiple times, you know, pushing and advocating for her.
The polls now are beginning to shift in her favor as Abigail Spamberger gets exposed every single day.
And now there's no prominent Democrat that will condemn Jay Jones text fantasizing about the murder of even innocent children and the Speaker of the House there.
Yes, sir.
That needed to come out, and I'm glad that that did.
I'm speaking as a person on the inside of Virginia.
The only time I see anything for Winsom Sears personally is if an ad pops up on YouTube in my evenings.
I hear nothing.
Winston Sears did release an ad linking Spanberger to Jay Jones after these text surfaces.
Remember, the text said, if these guys die before me, I will go to their funerals and piss on their graves.
You know, send them out a wash in something.
Three people, two bullets.
Let's see.
Gilbert, meaning the speaker, Hitler or Pol Pot.
He'd use both bullets on the speaker.
Wouldn't kill Hitler or Pol Pot.
Anyway, I do have Winsom's latest ad if you want to hear it.
Let me play it for you.
We start with breaking news from the campaign trail.
Jay Jones is under fire tonight.
He's under fire.
Jay Jones is under fire after messages he sent in 2022 saying former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert should be shot.
I'm excited about this to get.
It's been great to be out on the campaign trail with Jay Jones.
You said that Gilbert's wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views.
He deserves an attorney general who will stand up for the people of Virginia.
Jones said, quote, Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot.
Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.
Jones doubled down saying, quote, do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil and that they're breeding little fascists?
Yes.
How can Virginians trust a man who said something so horrific, so callously?
Only when people feel paid personally, do they move on policy?
Does that make you feel a little bit better?
Absolutely.
Perhaps I can present it to you this way.
Do you think that possibly us in the southwest of Virginia and the rural mountain areas just get forgot about?
I do.
I do.
One of the things that Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. absolutely got in the one big beautiful bill was a lot more money for health care in rural areas.
You know, $50 billion worth, I think, is the numbers, an astronomical amount that had never existed before.
With their demands now, you're correct.
Yes, absolutely.
That was my original question.
I've been listening to the speaker and Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer.
I get engrossed in it.
I can't get away.
15, 20 reporters shouting questions.
Do you think he'll get any concessions?
How long do you think it'll last?
I have yet to hear anybody ask any of them why the Affordable Care Act enacted by Congress has to be subsidized by American taxpayer money.
The Affordable Care Act, if you go back to the time it was being discussed and debated, and what I tried to warn the country is this is designed to be a pathway towards universal health care and that eventually everybody, the promises would never be kept.
I've been proven correct.
You know, millions lost their doctors' plans and we're all paying 300% more.
And for many Americans, over 40% of them, they have one Obamacare exchange option.
It was designed to funnel people, everybody, into a government-run system.
They couldn't get that part through, so it's incrementalism.
And that's how they did it.
Well, they got a big chunk of it, and we're still dealing with the aftermath of it.
And this proves my point that, you know, when government promises you something, don't believe them.
You know, they're not doing a good job at law and order.
They didn't secure your borders.
They're not doing a good job in your school system.
You know, in blue states and cities, defund, dismantle, no bail laws.
That's not working out.
Why would we give more power and believe in more services from a government who's when Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare, they're all going to bank.
They're all headed towards insolvency.
Nothing for anybody that's paid into it, which is odd.
That can't happen.
We need to return to limited government greater freedom.
Doesn't mean we don't take care of those that need our help.
We're very generous people, and that's the right thing to do.
Appreciate the call, Dan.
God bless you.
Rick in Kentucky, what's up, Rick?
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
In the words of the great American across the river from me, you are a great American.
Sean Hannity, God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
You're talking about Willie Cunningham.
Cuttingham, yes.
Yeah.
He's a good guy.
He's a good guy.
He hears me doing my imitation of him and he goes, Sean Hannity, do I really sound like that?
I'm like, yeah, you do.
Hey, if you ever get a chance, he tells you a story about Jose Rio going to visit him and the Dominican with his wife, the judge, he will have you rolling off the floor.
Let me tell you something.
There's no better storyteller or guy to hang out with than Billy Cunningham.
I've hung with him.
He's a lot of fun, man.
We've had some good times together.
Good.
Really have.
Good for you.
Hey, my question is, I need a civics lesson from you.
Now, I know that states can secede from the union.
All right.
But is there anything in this Constitution that says we're going to kick you out?
We're tired of you being a state.
We're never going to, it's a hypothetical that would never, in my view, can I ever see it becoming a political reality?
Let me guess, New York or California, which one do you want to kick out?
Or both.
Yeah, I mean, I could actually see a more realistic scenario being they leave on their own.
I mean, if you talk to Gavin Newsom, why didn't they have water for the fire hydrants?
Why didn't they have water in the reservoir?
If you ask, well, why do you have the highest income taxes?
Why do you have the highest poverty rates?
Why do you have the highest sales taxes?
Why do you have the highest gas taxes?
Why do you have all these problems, you know, in terms of homelessness and quality of life issues?
We're the fourth biggest economy.
I'm like, I could see them wanting to leave us.
And if they do, I'm okay with it.
Yeah, so am I. So am I. Well, I'm not, you know, if that's what the people of California want, I would never want to force people to be part of the United States of America if you don't see it as the blessing.
All right, my friend.
Dan, God bless you, man.
Appreciate it.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Utah, Dave, is next on the Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Dave?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking the call.
I just wanted to comment on something you said about Biden and nobody prosecuting him.
I'm sorry, Biden and nobody trying to what?
Prosecute him?
Oh, no.
I mean, you know, well, he gave everybody in his family the preemptive pardon.
What?
You're breaking up on me, Dave.
I'm sorry.
Mary in South Carolina, what's up, Mary?
Hey, can you hear me?
I can hear you.
What's going on?
All right.
Mary in South Carolina, I have watched your show every night for the last 18 years.
I live in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
And this is my question.
Why every night you put AOC for 10 minutes?
What's her name?
And Gavin Newsome.
And Mondami, you give him 20 minutes.
And you don't give the one guy you want on there to win for 10 minutes every month or two.
I'm like, why don't you?
I don't know.
I don't put them.
I play little clips of them that go on for like 30 seconds.
We usually don't play clips longer than that.
And just to show you how crazy they are, and that's an education, I think, for people.
You're talking about AOC, the squad, Jasmine Crockett, you know, Comrade Marks's Mamdani.
I've had Curtis on radio and TV, I think, more than anybody.
You know, maybe with the exception of Mark Simone, my colleague in New York.
What?
I saw Curtis one time in the last month, but I see Mondami every night.
So I'm just curious.
We've had Curtis on a bunch on both radio and TV.
We have.
Good.
I just hadn't, I guess I've been missing that one night that you put him on there, but none of the rest of it.
Yeah, he was on last week, as a matter of fact.
I saw him one time in the last month, and he was so good.
I'm just like, every night till the election, put him on there and speak up for him rather than show Mondami every night.
Well, I'm trying to show people how crazy Mamdani is because a lot of people need to know the level of madness that's taken over the party.
But, you know, I love having Curtis on.
I want him to win.
I'm very clear.
I hope New York is sensible.
Although, I don't have a lot of hope.
I'm looking at polls.
I'm not Pollyannish.
I don't lie to my audience.
And when I think it's a very, you know, heavy lift, I just tell you the truth.
Mary, God bless you.
I appreciate you.
Quick break, right back.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Really, spying on innocent people, senators, congressmen.
What's going on?
Who's going to be held accountable?
Oh, yeah.
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Stand down order.
What's that all about?
Jonathan Turley, Trey Gowdy.
Also, breaking news from John Solomon and Peter Navarro about Peter Navarro.
We'll get to that.
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He got very heated today.
Stephen Miller, Clay Travis, set you DVR.
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