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If you want to join us, um, we're learning now through our friend John Solomon, who will join us in a minute, and the horror that Peter Navarro, our friend, went through.
Uh, as Senator Chuck Rasley said, this may be worse than Watergate.
I'm talking about this Arctic Frost investigation and Jack Smith.
And it is it is so beyond the pale.
Now we have a full understanding that he was targeting eight U.S. senators and Congress people as well.
Uh, but Grassley, you know, uh showed us earlier in this week, two days ago, he shed light on how they handled the arrest of Peter Navarro.
Peter Navarro's been a longtime friend of this program.
He's a good man.
Peter Navarro was held in contempt of Congress, which by the way is a misdemeanor.
And because of whistleblowers uh and John Solomon's reporting, they provided additional records to Chuck Grassley uh related to the Biden FBI.
And, you know, the the most uh incredible part of this story is Peter Navarro lives next door to FBI headquarters.
So he would have willingly turned himself in.
They were talking to his lawyers, but no.
Instead, they decided to follow him and surveil him and his fiancee all morning, follow him and then arrest him in public at Reagan Airport.
It's called a perp walk, uh, all over a misdemeanor charge.
He could have just walked next door.
It would have been that simple.
Uh a lot of this information over the last 10 years, we would not have, but for my friend John Solomon.
And he does not get enough credit for all of his, you know, incredible reporting.
He's been a partner uh with us on radio and TV.
Um, and uh this is something we have talked about privately for years.
And now it's all beginning to come to light, and thank God it is John Solomon.
Uh good to be with you, Sean.
And by the way, I couldn't have done any of it without you every day helping me and getting it out and explaining it to the American public.
So I'm very grateful for everything you've done for me.
Well, I'm gonna tell you, so why don't you give your take on the story, and then we'll go to the personal side in a great article that was written by Peter in a second.
So a couple of years ago, I uh interviewed uh an FBI Genius served for two or three decades, and he said at the very end of his career he became very disturbed by what he saw in the come uh ray era of the FBI, and he said part of it was biased going after liberals differently than you went after conservatives, liberals got a pass, conservatives got the uh the hardest path possible.
But the most concerning of all things is he started to see, particularly in the era of Russia collusion to January 6th, that they were creating uh making it so that the FBI would make the process, the punishment.
Meaning, even if you didn't something wrong, they were going to put you through a process that was so punishing, it would break you financially, it would break you psychologically.
And he said that we made uh the process the punishment for people we didn't like, and that disturbed him more than anything.
He saw it as an abuse of uh power, an abuse of uh color of government uh authority.
And so he uh when I got this document a couple days ago, compliments of Cash Patel and Senator uh Chuck Brassley, it really gave us perhaps the most compelling example to date of what that looks like.
As you mentioned, Peter Navarro is in a dispute between Congress and the old Trump White House.
It's a constitutional issue.
He's decided not to testify to honor President Trump's uh uh claims of executive privilege, the Biden Justice Department and the Democratic Congress decide they want to find him in contempt.
It's a misdemeanor issue.
FBI doesn't even normally make arrests on misdemeanor issues.
They usually just give you a um summons and you show up in court.
But in this case, they not only plan to arrest uh Peter uh Navarro, they intended to make it the most honorous possible public spectacle they could.
And so they took a surveillance team, a team that you normally save for major spies, for major terrorists, for major drug king penalty.
Yeah, the special ops group.
Yeah, that's it.
They have this group that does this, and they surveilled him all day on the day they wanted to arrest him to wait for the moment where he was in the most power public possible humiliating place so that then they can arrest him and humiliate him in public on a misdemeanor, basically an administrative dispute between Congress and there, and they do that.
They wait till he gets to the airport, they arrest him, they put him in leg iron.
This is a 74-year-old guy.
He ain't running off their own form show, they knew he was not armed or dangerous, but they went through that process to make sure that the process was the punishment.
Even if he were to be acquitted down the road or found uh to have done nothing wrong, they will have humiliated him in public with the power and color of government authority.
That's what this document shows, Senator Grassi said it was a a prime example of the politization of the White House.
And when you look at the document and you look at what happened, you have to ask yourself, why did we, the taxpayers, spend all that money to surveil a man who was willing to turn himself in just so that someone could make a political statement under the color of the FBI authority, and that is a legacy of the Chris Ray Justice Department.
Everyone focuses on Comey for all the right reasons that you and I chronicled.
But Chris Ray's FBI worked the same way.
He might have had a different personality in congressional hearings.
He might have got a different pass from uh Republicans in Congress, but Chris Ray's FBI did the same weaponization, the same politicalization uh that uh Comey's did.
And when you're all done and said, one of the most important documents I made public in the last three weeks is a after-action report.
And in that after-action report, there are scores of FBI agents.
Scores, not one or two scores of agents saying we have become a politically biased agency, that we treat liberals differently than conservatives, that we are not following the letter of the law, we're following the letter of politics.
They use words like we're political pawns, where we have political bias.
We're no longer good in our core competencies because we're more worried about what color mask we wear and what gender we hire than about solving crimes.
It perhaps it was in real time FBI agents boiling over and telling Chris Ray's leadership we got a bias problem, and Chris Ray swept that under the rug.
That document was created in 2021 after the January 6th investigation began.
Four years later, we finally learned about it.
It is an extraordinary document.
When Chris Ray looked at everybody and said, Oh, political bias is a MAGA talking point.
At that moment, there was a body of evidence that said his own agents knew they had a political bias problem.
That's what the Peter Navarro story is all about.
Peter, um you become a good friend, and I've come to admire you so much.
I went to prison, so you won't have to.
Um you live right next door to the FBI, right?
That's I mean, and and you even offered to turn yourself in if they were going to come after you.
Is that correct?
Check both boxes.
Uh it was a field goal kicker back in the day.
And you'd literally kick a field goal from my apartment building and hit the FBI that was that close.
Uh and what's true, by the way, Sean, you are in the dedication of I went to prison, so you won't have to, because of all the support uh you gave me over the years, and I I can't thank you enough.
And I should say that uh I always loved years ago, starting years ago, how you would go through your monologues with breaking down the Russia hoax, like step by step, person by person by person.
And I think, Sean, what's important about what we're learning now about my arrest uh from these documents uh is that I am kind of like the thread that weaves over an eight year period of conspiracy, don't use that word lightly, through this agent Walter Giadina, FBI agent Walter Gene.
He he was the guy who led this crazy takedown of me at the airport, who put me in handcuffs, who put me in leg irons, but he's also the guy going back, Sean, to 2016 and 2017, who gave the green light to the steel dossier as being legitimate, which begat crossfire hurricane, which G. Dina was involved in.
He was involved in the Mueller report, Operation Crimson River, which was that crazy Egyptian fake thing, and then Artic Frost, which you're referencing now.
And I got caught in the middle of whole out wave.
It wasn't just the fact that the process was punishment.
Process was punishment, but I also went to prison.
But Sean, everybody I served with in the Trump White House in the first term paid a weaponized lawfare price, whether it was hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars in legal fees on one end or imprisonment on the other end, and everything in between.
And I'll tell you what, Sean, if I had gotten that document that was just released this week by whistleblowers during my trial, that would have been a game changer.
But the judge, Obama appointee who got his job bundling campaign contributions for Obama and the prosecutors denied me that document and a whole bunch of others, which I think are going to come to light because of the good work of the FBI and folks like Solomon.
And everything about what I went through was weaponization.
Everybody involved, Sean.
With my incarceration was a Democrat.
Every single person, whether the Congress, the Attorney General, the the uh uh Matt Graves, the U.S. district attorney, if you had the my prosecutors, a loy, and crab, and they all have names, Sean, and the whole point of I went to prison so you won't have to.
That's the tagline from the speech, Sean.
And I gave the day, the night of the day I got out of prison.
I walked onto that stage, didn't know what to expect.
I was just so warned by the by that reception, but I went to prison so you won't have to, is the warning call.
If we don't hold these people accountable, Sean, they will do it again and again and again.
And that was on full display this week with the Senate judiciary hearing that Grathley held because when he turned the microphone over to those clowns on the Democrat side of the fence, whether it was Durbin or Schiff or everybody in between, they talked just like they wanted to do it again.
They have learned nothing, nothing.
And so we've got to hold them accountable.
It's old Testament time, Sean, and because of all the work you've done over the years, we know their names.
It's not just Comey, it's Clapper, it's Brennan, it's Page, it's truck, it's Rosenstein, it's Shift.
You just go on down the line.
We've got a problem we've got to solve.
If we don't solve it, Sean, we're gonna just keep doing this crazy stuff with weaponized justice system.
The American people are losing faith in the whole system, sir.
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Um unbelievable developments in this story.
What they did, the lengths they went to try and embarrass and humiliate him over a misdemeanor.
It is unprecedented and has to stop.
You wrote, sir, that the ray this circus arrest was not an anomaly.
It was a case study in lawfare, uh, where the process is the punishment.
They could have you again, you could have walked over.
You're in your 70s, and they're putting you in handcuffs and leg irons over a misdemeanor.
And oh, it just so happens fake news CNN cameras just happen to be there like they happen to be at Roger Stone's house at 5 a.m. the morning that they raided his house.
Oh, what a I got sure just a coincidence.
Yeah, and let's not forget uh Jeff Clark, who they banged down the door on, and his poor poor young, very young children.
Manafort too.
Go exposed to that.
And Manafort.
And I I'll tell you, one of the themes, Sean, if I went to prison, if you look at the cover, it's got my fiancee with me on that stage.
And she actually, it's a book is is uh largely a diary kept by both myself and and Bonnie.
And the the lesson there for the these weaponized democrats is that it's not just when you come after me, okay, that's fine.
But when you go after family, loved ones, they wind up doing the time with you.
And Bonnie did the time with me, Sean.
She stood by me, but it was tough.
And and these people need to be held accountable for that.
And you know, I understand politics, and okay, it's a dirty, dirty business.
They went after me.
But they when they went after her, they perplked her, Sean.
They pumpwalked her.
I mean, that that you can't.
You can't do that.
Well, uh I'm looking I'm gonna say this, and and both of you are gonna be on TV tonight.
Um, and you did this out of principle.
You could have pled the fifth or walked out of there, and it would have been done.
But you you believe so much in our constitution and and executive privilege, and unless the president himself waived that and he did not, uh, you're right in terms of the law and the principles of it.
John Solomon, uh, just real quick.
Peter mentioned, you know, th this one particular arresting agent, but I want to know who made the who gave the order.
I want to know who knew.
And this would be at the time of director Ray at that point.
That's correct.
I believe Congress is beginning to put those documents together all the way up the food chain, who was approving, extending, encouraging Uh the carrying out of Arctic Frost.
It's going to certainly lead up to the top of the Washington field, also the FBI.
I think it's going to go much higher.
We hope to see some of those documents transmitted to Congress in the next few weeks.
We're going to finish this conversation tonight on Hannity.
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I appreciate your courage, Peter.
I appreciate your hard-nosed reporting, John.
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So immediately as the news was breaking, as I was coming on the air last night on Hannity on Fox News.
Um I I just texted the president.
I said, Wow, I didn't think I'd see this in my lifetime.
I'll be, you know, very transparent with what I said.
I really didn't think I'd see this in my lifetime.
And the real possibility of real peace.
I mean, for two years and now three days, we've had all these hostages, and those that are remaining will be released.
The bodies of those that did not survive will be released to their families as well.
That's obviously very important to them.
And um I just said to the president, I said, I I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Would you with any chance you'd call in?
And he said yes, right away.
And I want to play that interview.
This is right after the deal was announced.
All right, joining us now, live on the phone is the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, Mr. President.
Um wow.
Um if you would have asked me two years ago yesterday if this was possible, I'd I would have bet everything I had no.
Congratulations, sir.
Can you give us uh more of the details?
Well, thank you very much, John.
It's a great honor to be involved in it.
We had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from uh Steve Whitcuff and Jared Kushner and Marco and we had everybody.
JD, the whole the whole group was just amazing.
And the military was, as you know, very instrumental in getting this done.
We have a great military with great leadership.
Uh the whole world came together, to be honest.
Uh so many countries that you wouldn't have even thought of it.
They they came together.
The world has come together around this deal.
And that's something I would say that without that uh wouldn't happen.
Uh so many countries that you wouldn't have thought of have wired their uh best wishes and and their commitment to do whatever is necessary.
The countries surrounding have all signed.
I mean, they're all signed up and uh it's it's been it's been really an amazing period of time.
And so great for Israel, so great for Muslims, for the Arab countries, uh, and so great for this country, for the United States of America, and that we could be involved in, you know, making a deal like this happen because it was, you know, many years they talked about peace in the Middle East.
This is more than Gaza, this is peace in the Middle East, and it's uh an incredible thing.
Mr. President, you you said in your statement that this is the first phase of the peace plan and that the host hostages will be released very soon.
Uh I assume that means both those that are alive and those that are not alive, and Israel will will withdraw their troops to an agreed upon line.
Um can you expand on that and tell us maybe what part two is there a part two or part three?
Uh, because the idea has to be a lasting peace, and would that include uh the security guarantees that Hamas can no longer be armed with weapons that they can fire into Israel.
I was I was in a a city, uh a border city in Gaza, uh near Gaza.
They had gotten hit with 10,000 rockets in ten years.
I was in those those terror tunnels.
I think you're gonna see all of that disappear.
I think you're gonna see people getting along, and you'll see Gaza being rebuilt.
Uh, we're forming a council that uh the Council of Peace, we think it's gonna be called, and it's gonna be very powerful, and uh it's gonna really uh I think to a large extent it's gonna have a lot to do with uh the whole Gaza situation, people are gonna be taken care of.
Uh it's gonna be a different world.
I think really the Middle East came together amazingly, they came together.
You know, they have some countries with extraordinary wealth, and just spending a small portion of that wealth can do so much for that area.
So we'll uh we'll be involved in it, but the big the big thing is uh hostages are going to be released.
It's probably uh our time would be probably Monday.
And you know, it's it's uh they're terribly a terrible situation.
They're they're deep, they're deep in in the earth, and they're being gotten, and a lot of things are happening right now.
As we speak, so much is happening to get the hostages freed, and uh, we think they'll all be coming back on Monday.
So it looks like that's uh the thing.
And that that'll include uh the bodies of the dead.
And you know, the parents, uh the parents that we're I've I talked to so many of them, but the parents are more uh uh almost more intent, but equally intent is getting getting their in just about all cases the son, their son's body back than they are as as though the the young man was alive.
Uh it's just uh the same intensity.
They want they want their their baby's body back.
That's what one woman said, I want my baby's body back, and you know, the son is 25, 26 years old.
So that's a very big part of it.
Getting all of the it's about twenty-eight, the numbers twenty-eight, we'll be coming back, but unfortunately, dead.
Mr. President, a last question, and I could ask you a million questions about the Schumer shutdown, about the Antifa round table you had today.
I can give you know me, I can keep going, but I won't.
Um by the end of this term as president, what do you what vision do you have?
What would you like to see Gaza look like?
What will the relationship with Israel and other Middle Eastern countries be like, you know, as this as this process continues to unfold, and as you have convinced these these other nations to finally involve themselves, and then and then we'll let you go, sir.
Well, Gaza is going to be a uh peaceful, much safer place.
Obviously, it's been blown to pieces, and this is just not by Israel.
This is over years and years and years.
It's been heartache for many years.
A lot of people say this is a deal for 3,000 years.
So whether you say 500, because some people say 500 based on events, but other people say this is something historic for 3,000 years is nothing ever going to be bigger than this.
And so Gaza, we believe is going to be a much safer place, and it's going to be a place that reconstructs, and other countries in the area will help it reconstruct, because they have tremendous amounts of wealth, and they want to see that happen.
And we'll be involved in helping them make it successful and helping it stay peaceful, but I think it's going to be peaceful.
I think again the Iran situation was very important doing what we had to do, which was again 22 years uh it was planned to be done, and nobody, no other president wanted to do it or whatever for whatever reason, but they didn't do it.
And having that was very important.
But you know, I'm very uh I'm very confident there'll be peace in the Middle East.
I mean, the words peace in the Middle East are something people have been striving for for hundreds of years for for centuries, but many centuries, and uh we really have w every country has come together and on a a little different scale, but so important.
It seems like everything's at a different scale.
But uh, we're gonna make our cities safe.
We're gonna make Chicago safe.
We're gonna make Memphis, Tennessee, where they're right now, we're making it safe that there's a difference in one week.
There's like it's like day and night.
I'm so uh it's so important what we did in DC.
Uh Washington, DC, our own capital that people come to and it was crime ridden, and now it's as safe as there is anywhere in the country.
It's safe, it's clean, we've cleaned it, we've uh gotten rid of the thugs.
We took one thousand seven hundred in many cases career criminals, and in many cases people coming from other countries that shouldn't have been allowed to come.
Uh gang members from other countries, jail people from jails are jail the jails were literally opened up in Venezuela and other countries into our country, and we've gotten them out, and we're getting them out, but we took out seventeen hundred in Washington, DC, seventeen hundred criminals that are no longer there, and we have a safe, beautiful capital again.
You can go and eat at the restaurants, the restaurants are booming.
They were closing one after another, and now they're booming.
They're opening.
And this all took place over the last two months.
It's amazing, actually.
Nobody's nobody's ever seen a transformation like that in Washington, DC.
It's it's as hot as uh as as it can get.
It's beautiful.
It's a beautiful thing to watch, and to see it be safe with our you know, beautiful buildings, the graffiti's off the walls, the tent from all over thousands of tents in our beautiful parks, our national parks, the tents are all gone, everything is uh is and it's only gonna get better over the next year.
It's gonna be there'll be some rebuilding and some fixing up and some cleaning up, and people are proud of our capital again.
But the beautiful thing is it's really safe.
You can walk down the middle of the street with your wife, you can walk down the middle of the street by yourself, your your family can, and you have no fear.
If you did that, if you said that a year ago, uh they had almost no chance of making it to the other side of the town.
And uh so we're very proud of DC, and it serves as a catalyst and it serves as as really an example of what can be done.
But to do that, you have to bring uh people in to do it.
You can't have uh woke uh police people that aren't suited to be police.
You can't have uh the kind of problems that we have that you it's it I mean, almost in all cases it's Democrat run cities.
So you can't do that.
So we're very proud of Washington, it's a safe place, and everybody should you want to see some beautiful things in Washington, you go and you go there right now, you'll you're probably your biggest problem is gonna be you're probably not gonna be able to get into a restaurant.
They're packed and they're booming.
Oh, Mr. President, I think uh there's a lot of lessons to learn for how we got to this point tonight.
The proper use of the the strength of the United States military played a big role in this happening, the appropriate use of it as well, and your willingness obviously to invest a lot of political capital and time and energy and resources and networking and uh you know, to bring a lot of people to the table.
Uh we pray for the people in the region, and we pray this is a peace that lasts forever.
But this is a great first step, Mr. President.
Uh historic by every measure.
We appreciate you being on with us tonight, sir.
Thank you very much, Sean.
Thank you.
All right, thank you.
All right, that was President Trump's initial reaction after announcing this peace deal with uh Israel.
Um you know what?
The world's a safer place.
He took out Iran's nuclear sites.
You know what?
The world's a safer place because he established uh a really good relationships with Arab nations that for decades, even centuries, if you want to know the real history of it, uh have been unwilling to take part in any solution for peace in places like Gaza.
Um, and the president got it done.
Uh, it's also got done because the region is very aware when he says he will obliterate you after taking out Iran's nuclear sites that he means it.
Pretty transformational, consequential, which is what I knew this presidency would be if he got elected.
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