Sean Hannity opens with breaking coverage of the House Oversight Committees bombshell report, "The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House," chaired by Congressman James Comer. Comer details findings of staffers shielding President Bidens cognitive decline and using an autopen for over 4,000 pardons and executive actions without direct presidential involvement. Hannity frames this as an unprecedented constitutional crisis, citing stonewalling witnesses and mounting evidence of a cover-up. Comer, featured guest, explains why the committee is urging the DOJ to void these actions and presses for transparency, arguing the scandals scope undermines executive trust and demands public reckoning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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So yesterday, we spent a lot of time on this program going over the release by the House Committee on Oversight, the Oversight Committee, chaired by Congressman James Comer, friend of this program.
It's called the Biden Autopenn Presidency, Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House.
And it was prepared by the committee.
I'll go right to the conclusion.
Now, you don't need to read all 91 pages as I did, but it's fascinating reading, and you can't believe all this happened.
The committee recommends the Department of Justice investigates all former President Biden's executive actions, particularly clemency actions to assess whether legal action must be taken to void any action that former president, the former president did not, in fact, take himself.
They lay out a compelling case.
Here is James Comer on with our friend John Solomon, investigative reporter, justthenews.com, saying they should all be null and void.
Listen.
I think all the pardons should be declared null and void that were signed with the auto pen.
These were all done during the lame duck period when Joe Biden was checked out.
I think the executive orders that were done during the lame duck period should be declared null and void.
Then the committee also released this montage of the people that testified before the committee, including those pleading the fifth.
We're watching the testimony of this woman here, Annie Thomas Sr.
She's the former senior advisor to President Joe Biden.
She was the third person set to appear before James Congress committee.
She has now taken the fifth.
There is now a pattern of key Biden confidants seeking to shield themselves from criminal liability for this potential conspiracy.
Were you ever told to lie about the president's health?
The advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon physician patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
Let the record reflect that Dr. O'Connor has invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Dr. O'Connor, did you ever believe the president was unfit to execute his duties as president?
And we can tell you that he will have the same answer with respect to any questions that are asked.
Did any unelected official or family member of President Joe Biden execute the duties of the presidency?
Did Joe Biden, a member of his family, or anyone at the White House ever instruct you to lie regarding his health?
On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the questions as soon as my fifth amendment addresses under the Constitution.
All right, joining us now, he is the chairman of the all-important House Oversight Committee.
He's the chairman, James Comer, is with us.
Well, you've been busy.
This is about as damning a report as I've ever read coming out of Congress.
It is extraordinarily, meticulously well-researched, well-written, well-laid out, with, I believe, the right conclusion.
But I want to hear it directly from you because you've been spending a year of your life on this.
Well, thanks, Sean.
And it is a very substantive report.
We did hours and hours and hours of depositions with all of the players in the Biden administration that had any role whatsoever in the use of the AutoPen.
What we concluded were two things.
First of all, the obvious, and you said it forever, we all saw it with our own eyes, but there was a cognitive decline in the president, and his inner circle covered that up.
They shielded him from even his most inner circle of staffers.
There were staffers like Ian Sams that would go out and speak on behalf of Joe Biden every day to the national media.
And when we got him under oath, he admitted he only saw and spoke to Joe Biden in person two times in two years.
The same with his executive secretary at Near Attendant.
She would go weeks and weeks and weeks without seeing him.
That's your most closest staffer as a president of the United States.
So there was a cover-up.
The staffers admitted under oath that they talked about giving Joe Biden a cognitive test.
I mean, who does that, Sean?
I mean, no one's sitting around Fox News saying Sean Hannity or Laura Ingram should be taking a cognitive system.
I mean, you only say that if it's obvious.
I think liberals would like me to take one, but I'll lace it.
I'm not worried about it.
Well, but at the end of the day, they all said they decided against it.
Now, if you thought he should take a cognitive test, and if the American people, even some in the left-wing media were saying the president should take a cognitive test, and then you ultimately rule against it, I mean, that shows that you had no confidence he was going to pass it.
But we found there was a cover-up.
And secondly, we found that there was no evidence that Joe Biden was involved in any of the decision-making process with respect to the pardons.
And by the way, just to remind people, we're talking about over 4,000 of them and executive actions on top of it.
And Joe Biden gave one interview post-presidency, and he gave it to the New York Times, and he admitted to the New York Times, and what should have been a puffpiece article for him, that he didn't review all the pardons that he delegated that.
that's not how it works Sean you have to well it actually was more than that because he said he set up standards and practices and guidelines for his staff to make the decisions but the But as you rightly point out in your report, and you quote our Constitution, the power of the pardon is absolute.
There's no disputing that.
However, the decision has to be made specifically by a president.
Yes, and again, there were no notes in the National Archives.
There was no chain of custody.
There was no emails back and forth.
We just met with the president and he said this.
When the pardons were authorized on the auto pen, it was a different process for different pardons.
It would be a phone call from a staffer to a friend, to another staffer, and they would say, well, yeah, the president gave the okay.
And that, you know, there was no, there was no, in the archives, there's no meetings.
There are no planning sessions.
There are no notes, nothing.
And again, with the way the staff shielded the president of the United States and the way they just disregarded him and pushed him aside after that debate, after he dropped out, that's when the autopin use went off the charts.
It is when Joe Biden, when the American people saw with our own eyes that he's not mentally capable of performing the duties of the presidency, that's when the staff seemed to take over.
And even we found, Sean, there were emails from the Department of Justice, from the Merritt Garland Department of Justice, questioning whether or not Joe Biden was involved in the decision-making process with the pardons and warning the staff of the excessive use of the auto pen on legal documents.
Well, you go through a lot of specificity and detail, and you really, I think, went very hard, rightly so, at Dr. O'Connor, who propped up Biden with, you know, what you describe as grossly misleading assessments in all of this, and how Biden, you go into specificity, was losing command of himself.
You know, Congressman, I first started pointing this out to the American people in 2019.
It was apparent to me.
And all men and women are created by the thing.
Oh, you know, the thing.
I mean, it was like moment after moment.
And then as his presidency went on, it was worse and worse.
It was mumbling.
It was bumbling.
It was fumbling.
It was slurring.
It was, which way do I go?
You know, having somebody direct him off the stage.
You go into all of this and how scripted everything was and how his inner circle controlled his every step.
There was extreme gatekeeping with his inner circle and how delusional, either they were delusional or lying.
I happen to lean towards believing that a lot of people lied.
That's my own personal opinion.
Well, look, Sean, nobody's disputing it.
And all we've seen from the Biden camp is a statement from some unnamed staffer.
I thought, how consistent is that with the report, the way the White House was operating?
You don't know who wrote that statement.
But at the end of the day, no one in the Biden administration wants to come out and dispute this because they don't want to be brought in before the Justice Cabinet or before the oversight committee because we saw with our own eyes.
You have always reported this accurately about the mental decline of Joe Biden.
Everyone saw it.
Everyone saw it.
And if you really want to see a sad example of Joe Biden's mental decline, then you need to watch the Robert Herr interview, where Joe Biden had to sit there.
The staffers couldn't stand it.
And when are we going to get access to view it?
Well, we're going to do everything we can to make that public.
So you've watched it.
Yes, yes.
And it's painful.
Can you describe it?
He doesn't know.
He gets confused.
He thinks he's vice president.
He gets confused on what year it is.
I mean, this is an unbelievable situation.
And what I think you could see is Joe Biden was good for 5, 10, 15 minutes.
I wouldn't say good.
He was coherent.
But as time went on, he deteriorated.
He lost focus.
He forgot dates and he would forget the question.
Robert Hurd would ask him a question and he would start mumbling.
And then he would get sidetracked and he would be talking about something completely irrelevant to the question, something that happened in Delaware 30 years ago.
I mean, all the characteristics of people that you see with early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's or things like that.
We all have people in our family.
We've all seen the symptoms of that.
And that's why Robert Hurt put that in the report.
You kind of have a different appreciation for the her report when you watch the video of the interview.
So I think that we're releasing all the audio of the depositions and we're going to do everything we can so the American people can see for themselves the situation the president was in.
And then you realize there was a cover-up by a few staffers because a lot of his cabinet secretaries like Budijig, they didn't see him for months and months at the end of his administration.
Quick break, right back more with the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer on the other side.
Then your call's coming up.
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Let me ask you this.
Now, you have said that they should be null and void, meaning the pardons and the commutations.
Okay, I appreciate all of that, and I agree with your conclusion.
I think it was transparent.
It was obvious for anybody with eyes to see that wasn't politically biased.
I mean, why did they have that debate so early in June?
Because I believe he was pushed into it for the purpose of him being exposed.
Am I wrong in believing that?
I think you're right.
And we asked every one of the 12 Biden staffers that exact question.
And they would all have different reasons.
Well, we just wanted to get it started and get the momentum building.
And I think the same thing you think.
I think that there were people in the Democrat Party, maybe Obama, people like that, that.
That's never happened before.
They never knew there was a problem.
And they're like, all right, we've got to put him out here.
Let him hang himself.
And then we'll try to put him.
We'll go in for the kill and he won't be able to run.
I mean, the moment when Trump was asked, well, what do you think about Biden's answer?
He said, well, I don't think he knows what he says.
I don't know what he said.
I don't think he knows what he said.
That was it for him.
All right, last question.
How do you null and void these pardons and commutations?
And would that include the pardons for his family?
Absolutely.
And, you know, the only pardon that he signed for his family was for Hunter.
And Hunter's pardon was months before.
What about his, what about his, oh, you mean the one he signed personally?
What about his brother and others?
They were all signed with the autopen.
The brother, both brothers and their spouses, they were all signed with the autopin.
So, but the process, Sean, would be the Department of Justice would then declare them null and void.
It will end up in court.
We believe that this investigation, the 93 pages, the links to all, plus all the transcripts of the deposition, plus all the emails and all the evidence is enough evidence to hold up in court if the Department of Justice comes to the same conclusion that we came to the President.
I'm not going to ask this audience to read 91 pages because everybody's busy.
But I'm going to put up the five-page executive summary.
And you did phenomenal work here.
It's a shame that we don't have more honesty.
And I think at some point somebody's going to open up and say, yeah, we all knew.
I'm just waiting for that moment to happen.
Phenomenal work.
I know it's been a heavy lift.
I know you've been under heavy fire because of it, but this is a, you know, this is a scandal unlike any we've ever seen in this country.
Who was in charge?
We don't know.
Who gave the okay for all these decisions?
We don't know.
Congressman James Comer, great work.
We really appreciate you more than you know.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, let's go to Israel, Jerusalem, Isaac on the Sean Hannity show.
Are you listening in Jerusalem?
Yes, I'm in Jerusalem right now, Sean.
What's going on?
Thanks for listening.
Glad you called.
Yes, yes.
First of all, I'm from Brooklyn.
I'm only here for a few months.
And it was amazing seeing President Trump come here and how the country was celebrating two weeks ago and how the president just made a whole country just on such a high, high happiness.
And it was amazing to see it as an American experiencing it.
And also, Sean, the way they love you over here also, they like your support.
They love your support, the way you stand with them.
Because not too many people in the world staying with Israel.
And when they see America.
You know, can I just stay away from the state?
Can I make a statement about this?
Are you still there?
Did I lose you?
I think I might have lost him.
You know, I will say this.
There's times in life when you need moral clarity.
You need a moral compass.
And when I hear and see the rise of virulent anti-Semitism, it disturbs me a lot because there's a lot of ignorance behind the positions that people have.
And I don't care if you're hearing it in the halls of Congress, on college campuses, if you see the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide, you know, in the punditry class, it's everywhere.
And, you know, everyone's entitled to their opinion, but an opinion that's based in ignorance, to me, is it's just intellectually lazy and it's missing a sense of right and wrong and moral clarity.
And, you know, I don't know what part of Israel having to withstand hundreds of thousands of rockets over the decades being fired into their countries by groups that have in their charter, like Hamas, a call for the destruction of Israel.
And they follow through, culminating in what happened on October the 7th.
You have a very small population in Israel, under 10 million people.
You know, compare that to America's population, what, 350, 60 million people.
That would be like losing 40,000 Americans in a day.
And I'm having a hard time understanding those that don't understand that Israel does have their right to exist and their own country.
And what would you want your country to do if some country was firing all of these missiles into American towns, American cities, killing 40,000 Americans in a day, kidnapping thousands of Americans in a day?
Never mind the rape, the kidnapping, the torture, and the beheadings that I also know took place because I've seen the videos.
Anyway, did we get Isaac back from Jerusalem?
All right, we'll give you a last comment.
I was explaining that to me, this is a simple right-wrong moral clarity issue.
Yeah, Sean, and you're totally right and everything you're saying.
And it really, really, it's really comforting to hear you and Mark, Mark Levin also, and all the people on the right, because it's a shame how there's people on the right also now.
I love President Trump, and the Tuckers and everyone, how they go against Israel.
Listen, I mean, everyone's entitled to their opinion.
And for me, it's, you know, radical Islamists, we need to understand them.
You know, for example, when the president wiped out the ISIS Caliphate and he took out Iran's nuclear sites, you know, the world is a safer place because he did both things when he took out Soleimani and Baghdadi.
You know, the world's a safer place.
There's a proper use of military that fits into the Trump doctrine, which is also no forever wars.
I appreciate you calling in from Jerusalem.
Thank you, my friend.
800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Frank, North Carolina, next, Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Frank?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, thanks for the call.
Two-time caller, long-time listener.
Well, thanks for being here.
By the way, North Carolina is beautiful.
I've been in the mountains of North Carolina above the clouds, you know, visiting a friend that lives there.
Anyway, retired Navy, 24 years, fleet Marine Force.
But I wanted to ask what you thought about Fetterman using his position in the Senate to coerce Dems as a run for, as a ruse or a springboard for 2028 presidential run.
You know, I actually have come to like Fetterman a lot.
I think Fetterman is an anomaly in the Democratic Party.
And when I interviewed him about a week or so ago on Hannity, you know, we just had a fair open discussion.
He goes, if you're looking, you know, I'm not the Democrat that's going to be screaming Nazi, fascist, racist.
I do believe the president made the right call on Iran's nuclear sites.
I do support Israel's right to exist, and I'm not going to be shy about who I am.
And he goes, I'm not running for reelection right now.
I don't care what the consequences are.
Now, that's not something you often hear from an elected official.
And I kind of admire that a lot.
And, you know, I think he understands his party's radicalized.
He just refuses to go along with it.
Yeah, he's definitely making a better name for himself, definitely.
Leveraging and getting more attention from what I believe Republicans see him as something that we can get behind.
Now, I'm not saying I'm going to get behind him, but, you know, I kind of like him definitely over Newsome.
Definitely over Newsome.
Well, you got Newsome.
You got Pete Buddha Judge.
You got Kamala Harris.
You got AOC.
I mean, I don't see a more moderate Democrat breaking through and winning a primary because I think the basis is with the radicals.
I think the whole party's been transformed.
You know, I mentioned this study earlier in the program.
You know, 70%, there's hundreds of thousands of people surveyed see that the Democratic Party is too extreme and too radicalized and that they're wrong on the borders.
They're wrong on law and order.
They're wrong on the economy.
And they're too fixated on all the wrong issues.
Those are devastating numbers.
I doubt the Democrats will pay attention to it.
You know, the reason Bill Maher was right in his observation that every Democrat is on the ballot in New York City is because he's right.
I mean, the whole country's going to watch that election.
And assuming Mamdani wins this election, that he will be the poster child of the new radicalized Democratic left.
It will empower the likes of AOC and the squad and Newsom and all the people that are pretty radical left.
And, you know, if it's either Harris or Newsom, okay, when you get to a general election, assuming they win the primary, you know, do you want New York?
Do you want America to be California?
And I think most of America will reject that.
You know, it doesn't mean things can't change over time.
Thank you, Frank.
Appreciate it, buddy.
God bless you.
800-941 Sean is a number.
Todd in Arizona.
What's up, Todd?
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for having me.
You're a great American.
Thank you.
Shutdown.
I think the Democrats are showing their cards.
42 million people on SNAP is a problem in itself.
But with that said, I would venture to say the bulk of those constituents belong in Democratic-run cities.
And so they're just cutting their people loose over health care for illegal immigrants.
And a very small percentage, I wanted to point out, and it doesn't affect very many people.
My wife and I were both junior enlisted with two children and full-time employed, obviously, in the military.
But when we were young, we still qualified for WIC programs.
So there's a portion of the military out there with larger families that are being deployed and whatnot that are dependent on government subsidies on top of their minuscule government paycheck for what they're doing.
No, it's terrible.
It's terrible.
I mean, we've got to have a livable wage for people that serve, you know, the last caller served 24 years.
Thank him for his service.
It's just, but you're right in your observation.
42 million Americans.
Now, it's not the time to really have the conversation about why so many people are in need of basic food assistance like this in this country.
You know, this is why I keep reminding everybody that you have all of these high-paying career jobs now in the pipeline.
And we're talking about $17 trillion in committed monies for manufacturing.
You'll have the massive impact when it kicks in of the economy and the Trump tax cuts really take hold.
I would say by this time next year, you're going to see a dramatically different economy.
That's my prediction.
And it took Reagan about a year and a half to get out of the malaise of Jimmy Carter once his plan was passed.
So I think it's going to take about that long.
But, you know, the president very cleverly, you know, is incentivizing building these auto plants, pharmaceutical plants, semiconductor chip plants, and rare earth, you know, minerals, and then also opening up, you know, energy dominance jobs that are going to be, you know, high-paying, career-oriented.
All of this is, you know, now it's kind of been jacked up on steroids and human growth hormone because of the president.
And this, you know, 100% deduction, part of the big, beautiful bill, you get 100% depreciation if you build a manufacturing facility.
That's awesome.
That means they're going to get it up and running now while they get the tax benefit of doing it while simultaneously creating all those jobs, including in construction.
Once you get interest rates down, it went down another half point today, and we get a new Fed chair in May.
Then you're going to see sale of pre-existing homes skyrocket.
Now you're going to see new home construction begin to skyrocket.
And, you know, things are going to be humming along at a pretty good clip.
That's my prediction.
That's what I believe.
I'm a supply-side economics guy.
This is it on steroids.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Real quick, Carol in California.
Carol, how are you?
I'm fine, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I got about a minute, but it's all Euros.
Go.
We need help.
Newsom is trying to push this Prop 50, telling people that it's giving the power back to the people.
It's the exact opposite.
We used to have a committee that drew the lines.
Now they're trying to take it away from us.
They're trying to circumvent this.
This is a gerrymandering ploy by the Democrats.
Yes.
But, you know, remember, all the gerrymandering in the world has been done in liberal states like yours.
Yes.
I don't know how they can do it any worse, but they're trying to take the few people that we have away from us.
We need your help.
Tell the people no on 50.
No on 50.
I just told them.
And I'm serious.
This is not good.
No, it's terrible.
Terrible.
We need your help.
Why do you stay out in California?
Well, my house is paid for.
I couldn't afford to live here otherwise, and I'm involved in a religious.
Well, Prop 13 was good because you get capped out on your property tax.
That's helpful.
Are you retired?
Yes.
All right.
So your income is not being taxed at the highest rate in the country, but you still pay the highest sales and gas taxes in the country.
Right, exactly.
I don't know how young people can do it.
I really don't.
Well, it's not a surprise you have the highest poverty rate in the country.
True.
No, I've tried to have productive conversations with Gavin, but frankly, it's sadly become a waste of time as his presidential aspirations grow by the day.
When are they going to?
Carol, I got to run, though.
I appreciate your call.
God bless you.
And, you know, it is a beautiful state in terms of geography, but I don't see California switching.
Steve Hilton would be a great governor.
You know, I hope he can make it competitive.
Anyway, we're going to be in New Jersey tomorrow night for Hannity with Jack Chitterelli.
They now have another pollout, one-point race.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
But I have good news.
We have a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Please set your DVR, Senator Josh Hawley tonight.
We also have Senator Tom Cotton, Trey Gowdy tonight, Jonathan Turley tonight.
Also, Jason Chaffetz.
We have Clay Travis.
We have Peter Ducey, who's been with the president, Kaylee McGee White, and much more.
News you'll never get from the state-run legacy media mob 9 Eastern tonight on Hannity on Fox News.
We'll see you then.
We will be in New Jersey tomorrow for tomorrow night's town hall with Jack Chitterelli.
New Jersey's in play, as is Virginia, New York City.
