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Nov. 1, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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GOP Calls for Watergate-like Hearings
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Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-Seano Number.
If you want to be a part of this program, we continue our deep dive investigation into all things abuse of power.
We now have a record 430 individuals and entities.
We don't have any indication that there were any warrants to spy on them.
We need to get to the bottom of it.
Apparently, okayed by Merrick Garland, Christopher Ray in the loop.
You know, these people need to be asked about all of this.
And anyway, Tim Thiebault, the anti-Trump agent, I'm reading from Chuck Grassley's X account who violated the Hatch Act, opened Arctic Frost with other partisans, then gave the case to Jack Smith, who secretly subpoenaed Republican senators' phone records.
Arctic Frost was partisan from the start.
Remember, this whole thing began three days after President Trump announced that he was going to run in 2024.
So the timing here, let's play Chuck Grassley, Senator Grassley.
197 subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and his team.
These subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions.
And one of the points of contact on many of these subpoenas was that person I previously named special agent Walter Giordino.
The subpoena requested records and communications related to over 430 individual and organizations.
All of them appear to be aimed at Republicans.
A subpoena to event strategies requested records relating to Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorney General's Association.
Wow.
I mean, and it just goes on and on.
Now, let me play for you, Jim Jordan, affirming that telecom companies gave up phone records of senators to the FBI, didn't tell them they were being targeted.
And this was the main point that Trey Gowdy was making the other night on TV by saying, tell me the underlying crime.
Listen.
Is that normal protocol that a major telecom company is going to give up everybody's information on their phone, even if including a sitting senator?
Yeah, this is how the FBI operated.
Yeah, this is how the FBI operated.
And they don't tell the person who's being targeted until after the fact, until months or years later, they tell him, okay, now we're allowed to tell you that we had to turn this stuff over to the FBI because they came asking for this information, came requiring this information.
I think that's something, frankly, we need to look at.
But yeah, this is how bad it was.
This is how pervasive it was.
And again, it's why I think it's important we dig into all this.
All right, joining us now.
I mean, this is hilarious, by the way, is Senator Eric Schmidt.
He's a great guy.
I actually had time to spend with him when we were in, when I was in D.C. for Charlie Kirk's Medal of Freedom ceremony and had a chance to spend significant time with him and a bunch of other senators.
It really is interesting, you know, when you can talk freely to people off the record.
And I honor off the record, unlike a lot of other people.
Yes, I'm a member of the press if you don't understand that part.
But anyway, remember, you know, left-winger David Korn years ago, Linda, I don't know if you remember that.
He used to come on the show years ago.
Haven't seen him in years.
And he now has an article out that says the most dangerous man in the U.S. Senate.
Saying that about Eric Schmidt, who joins us now from Missouri.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing great.
I'm framing that, by the way.
I will be framing that headline.
I'll take it.
From him, I would take it as a badge of honor.
I'd frame it.
I'd blow it up.
I'd make it big.
I'd put it at the entrance of your home.
Yeah, I'm going to sign an autograph and send it back to Corn.
You know, you're over a target if a commie like you're on to something, right?
You know how I know I'm over the target a lot of times?
Like, we got Russia, Russia, Russia, right?
We got the FISA stuff, right?
We got impeachment, right?
You know, we got the Hunter Biden burisma, you know, Biden family syndicate issue, right?
We got the FBI putting cinder blocks on the scales of the election by not by pre-bunking that very real dossier that they had affirmed was authentic in March of 2020.
We got, you know, all of these issues, right?
And I'm not looking for credit or patting myself on the back, Senator.
I really am not.
That's not the purpose of this.
But I can tell you, all these people that get these issues wrong are unbelievably lazy.
Now, if we have 430 Americans and entities that are conservative or Republican getting subpoenaed and getting financial information and getting communication information, you used to be the AG of Missouri.
You tell me.
Is that legal?
Of course not.
And actually, so I was chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association at the time that they subpoenaed the records of that organization.
It was just one of hundreds that were targeted, including Turning Point.
And I think it's important, Sean, to put this in context.
You have, of course, the spying, the Russia gate to try to prevent him from getting in office the first time.
Then they laundered that through the intelligence agencies to sideline President Trump in his first term.
Then you had the FBI engaged in the Hunter Biden laptop, which we uncovered in the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, to keep him from having a second term.
As soon as they get in three days later, they start the censorship regime.
Three days after he announces he's running for president, what do they do?
They start Arctic Frost.
It's this massive sweep, not just for President Trump, but anybody who was a Republican who had any kind of influence, right?
They also, Sonny Willis down in Atlanta, state prosecutor, her number two starts meeting with the White House.
Why would they do that?
Alvin Bragg starts his criminal investigation.
The number three person at DOJ leaves that spot to go to New York for that criminal prosecution.
What needs to happen, Sean, is we need Watergate-style hearings for months to uncover all of this.
Was there coordination?
What was the role?
By the way, Boseberg, you mentioned it.
Judge Bostberg, who somehow magically wasn't the assignment judge in a lot of these early Trump cases in 20 this year, somehow magically got him in D.C. We also found out that he, when the subpoenas were issued, told the phone companies not to, that the Ted Cruz and others weren't to be informed.
That's highly suspect, maybe illegal.
The House, I think we've seen enough for the House to begin an impeachment inquiry of Bostberg.
There's enough there.
And if we don't have impeachment proceedings for something like this, I don't know why we have them.
So this corruption runs so deep, Sean.
This was an attempt, and they used January 6th as an excuse, to sweep up the entire Republican apparatus to try to put President Trump in jail for the rest of his life, to bankrupt his family.
This is the biggest scandal in at least 100 years in this country, maybe ever.
And we ought to dig in it.
And by the way, there ought to be resignations.
There ought to be criminal prosecutions.
There'll be all kinds of stuff that flows from this.
Well, I just can't believe this is the ⁇ it's like a police state that we're living in here and an enemies list that's being created.
That's what it sounds like to me.
I don't know any other way to describe it.
And now that we're seeing between declassified information from Tulsi Gabbard.
The depth and extent of information.
For one example, Tulsi Gabbard declassifies.
We had senior career intelligence officials, in spite of Hillary's bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier that they were warned not to use, but they used as the basis of four FISA applications, even after it was debunked and even after Christopher Steele was kicked out.
They didn't care.
They kept using it anyway.
By law, they're supposed to go back to the court and tell them they gave them false information.
But this declassified information, senior career intelligence officials in our community did their job.
No Trump-Russia collusion.
Obama gets a hold of it based on the declassification.
And he says, no, no, no, let's have another assessment, one that I prefer the conclusion thereof, to sabotage an incoming president after it wasn't effective enough to stop Trump from winning the presidency in 2016.
That's right.
And here's the sin.
They never forgave Trump for coming down the escalator in the first place.
And from that moment on, it's been a decades-long effort.
You've done a great job of uncovering this, too.
And we need more people to do this.
It's been a 10-year effort to sideline him.
And by the way, not just him, but his supporters, right?
The deplorables, the bitter clingers, the trash.
But, you know, as Obama and Hillary and Biden described half of this country, the thing is, they never thought he would come back.
He pulled off the greatest political comeback with the American people.
So all of this stuff, Sean, would still be in burnback.
Well, they would have been in burnbags.
They would have just kept going with this stuff.
They never thought he'd get back.
And only because he won again are we learning all of this stuff, right?
Because the FBI is now turning over things.
You've got whistleblowers that are coming to Chuck Grassley and saying we feel compelled to turn.
That's how this Arctic frost came about.
It's the whistleblowers who are still remaining in the FBI, the patriots that are still there, who weren't the corrupt guys who are part of all this.
So there's a lot of cleaning up that has to happen at the Department of Justice with the revelations here.
But there's no doubt that they felt that they considered half the country a threat to democracy.
And everybody's a Nazi and everybody's Hitler.
And President Trump is Orange Man Bad.
It's just, it's a sickness.
It's Trump arrangement syndrome, but it's worse than just a psychosis.
They perverted the law and weaponized the legal system in a way we've never seen in this country before.
You know, I go out, I meet people, and people appreciate the fact that we have uncovered so many things.
And, you know, I have spent the better part of 10 years, the last 10 years in broadcasting covering some aspect of all of this abuse of power, deep state corruption.
And then I get asked the ultimate question by smart people that listen to this show, watch my TV show.
And that question is, why doesn't anybody get held accountable?
Now, finally, some people are going to be held accountable.
As far as I'm concerned about Comey, it's the tip of the iceberg.
The statute of limitations have run out unless there is a grand conspiracy case that Cash Patel had mentioned that ever comes to the forefront, which I believe a strong case can be made on.
And unless that happens, okay, now we're left with, oh, he lied to Congress, which is low-hanging fruit and doesn't really get to the heart of what I believe was a double standard in terms of justice in America, a dual justice system, unequal justice under the law, and abuse of power.
And these warrants, for example, are great.
And this isn't Comey, but it is another example where, you know, who's going to finally be held accountable?
Yeah, I agree.
I get asked all the time, too.
And it's an important and fair question to be asked.
And as a former crop prosecutor myself, former AG, I think you hit the nail on the head.
Some of the statute limitations may have run, but not on a conspiracy.
And here's what's important for people to understand about a conspiracy.
Comer or Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and many more.
Once you're a co-conspirator at mile marker one, even if you take an exit ramp on mile marker five, you're still liable for the criminal conspiracy at mile marker 10.
And I think we're at mile marker 10.
And it was very interesting in Pam Bondi's oversight hearing, the AG just a couple of weeks ago in the Judiciary Committee.
She didn't want to comment on a lot of questions that were coming.
I took that as, and I said this in the hearing, that you're not going to comment as the prosecutor in an ongoing investigation.
I think the time has come for these conspiracy charges to be brought.
There is enough there.
I think the people that laundered that fake intelligence report to sideline a presidency, again, once that's initiated, Sean, that's been used as a predicate for all kinds of other things that happened down the road.
I mean, the midnight, you know, the dawn raid of Mar-a-Lago, where they're going through the first lady's underwear tour.
This stuff, again, they thought they were so justified that they thought they were going to get away with it.
They thought they had essentially sidelined the president and were going to put him in jail in a show-me-the-man, show me, you know, I'll show you the crime kind of Jack Smith prosecution.
And here's the truth about Jack Smith, Sean, and I'll just close with this.
In prosecutor world, everybody knows who Jack Smith is.
He's the guy you appoint when you want, you know, to go get somebody.
He's a dirtbag, a total dirtbag, and it's all being exposed now.
There's more to do.
Well, I hope we get to the bottom of it, but you're right.
And you want to talk about a double standard?
Hillary Clinton, top secret classified information on servers washed out with bleach pit, acid wash with bleach pit, devices destroyed, SIM cards removed.
Then you have Biden forced separate locations.
And then they raid Mar-a-Lago.
Now, there's one advantage Donald Trump had in terms of having access to top secret classified information.
And by the way, he did give the FBI full access to Mar-a-Lago.
And they were in the room where they thought they saw information that maybe shouldn't be there.
Then they called back and said, would you put a lock on it, an extra lock on it?
And they did.
Nothing was stopping them from just knocking on the door saying, hey, do you mind if we take a look at this and take it back with us?
Nobody would have stopped them.
And that's the double standard that has got to stop.
I'll give you the last 20 seconds.
Yeah, 100%.
This was a total witch hunt.
It lasted a decade.
We're continuing to learn more, Sean.
There's going to be more, but I do think there ought to be prosecutions.
I also think the Senate Judiciary Committee ought to really dig into this for months.
This makes Watergate look like small potatoes.
Totally agree.
I hope people get it.
All right, quick break more with Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt.
We'll continue with us.
Then we'll get to your calls this Friday on the other side, 800-941.
Sean is.
All right, I got to go over Kamala Harris here for a minute because she's losing her mind.
She has literally lost her mind.
We played this earlier in the week.
That is the most professional Dodge, an Australian interviewer.
You know, what was it?
What did she say?
Professional?
Professional.
It's a world-class world-class pivot.
World-class pivot.
That was it.
That was awesome.
I want to replay that because it's so funny.
Listen.
Wasn't Joe Biden then to put it on him?
Wasn't his refusal to recognize his own frailties?
The reason that you faced a nearly impossible task.
I ran against Donald Trump for president, and Donald Trump ran on a platform that was in large part, I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people.
I do believe that there are a fair number of people that voted for Donald Trump who believed him when he told them that his first priority on day one is going to be to bring down prices.
Forgive me.
And I want you to calendar in terms of the clock.
I want to interrupt you because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden's failure to recognize his own frailties and what that did to you.
The question is about Joe Biden.
Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president?
In what regard, please?
Well, just in terms of that question.
So you went.
What exactly would you like to ask?
Be more specific, if you don't mind.
Was it Joe Biden's decision, his failure to recognize his own frailties in that position that put you in the position that made it almost impossible to win that race?
He was not frail as president of the United States, but he had frailties.
We all saw the debate.
I do believe that Joe Biden had the capacity to be president of the United States, and I have never doubted that he had the capacity to be president of the United States.
Now, the week just keeps getting worse for her.
She goes on with Jon Stewart.
And Jon Stewart, you know, she talks about Biden's cognitive issues, knowing, you know, what I know now I'd approach different things differently.
She said, that to me is nothing.
Then she stuns Stewart.
Listen to this.
When she declared Biden was competent to serve another four years, even Jon Stewart's like, are you high, basically?
Like, I'm surprised to hear you say that.
Now, if it was me, you'd tell me to go after myself.
But listen.
And I don't mean that in the personal sense of not ready.
I meant it more in the sense of the policies that he wanted to implement or the way that they were implemented or the governance obstacles more than the competence conversation.
Yo, I'm not talking about competence.
Right.
Yeah.
No, I'm not talking about competence at all.
No, I believe he was fully competent to serve.
Do you really?
Yeah, I do.
That surprises me, actually.
No, I do.
But there's a distinction to be made between running for president and being president.
And the week didn't stop there.
Then she goes absolutely berserk over Donald Trump and the whole, the left wing is going nuts.
You know, we've had, you know, 20 presidents modernize the White House and add this and add that.
Donald Trump is doing his best.
It's not one taxpayer's cent.
She goes berserk over Trump's ballroom construction, especially because SNAP funds are set to expire.
Well, let her call her Democratic friends and former colleagues and talk to them about opening up the government.
They've had 13 opportunities.
Listen.
And so listen, disruption is important, but destruction for the sake of some grand gesture of look what I can do quickly overnight and just get rid of a thing without any plan for actually what's it going to why?
And what is it going to actually do to improve people's lives?
And not to mention, I mean, are you kidding me?
This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the snap benefits end in just hours from now?
Come on.
So what I'm not going to be distracted by, oh, does the guy have a big hammer?
What about those babies?
The last thing I found the most interesting of her really crazy insane week is she was griping that Biden called just before the Trump debate and showed that he's all about himself.
She's like talking out of both sides of her mouth.
That's the last one I'll play.
Then we'll get to your calls.
I'm in the hotel room with Doug, with my husband, and the president calls.
And I was told that he wanted to call me so that I'd be ready.
And I was so sure it was to buck me up and go get him.
And he did say that for the first beat.
And then he went on to talk about a group of people in Pennsylvania who were saying bad things about me because they heard I was saying bad things about him.
And when I hung up the phone, I was just, I was, it was unbelievable.
And I was, yes, I was angry and deeply disappointed.
It just, it was so unnecessary.
There are only two people in the world other than me that has debated this guy, Hillary Clinton and him.
And you know what's like, it's going into a debate with the stakes being that high and Trump hadn't agreed to another debate.
The stakes were so high.
So that's an example of what I mean.
You took some things from that.
You took an underlying message about one's intentions from that.
Because I would.
If someone called me in the lead up to debate prep and said something like that to me, I would assume that they don't want the best for me.
My takeaway is his motivation was all about himself.
That's what I would assume from that.
Yeah, right.
Obviously, right.
Yeah.
It wasn't about my performance at the debate.
I mean, what a bizarro week.
I'd love to do two hours of three hours on this radio show with Kama.
Love to.
Why are you looking at me like that?
I'd rather see Bob Ross paint for the rest of my life than listen to three hours of that moron.
You need to watch me paint a room.
I'm good.
Not paint a room.
Remember what wasn't his name?
Bob Ross, the painter?
You remember him?
Happy Little Trees.
Okay.
Happy Little Tree.
Listen.
I love that guy.
I'm talking about real painting, painting a room.
That's real.
What was it?
I was talking about happy little treats.
Oh, we did.
Oh, we unearthed a clip of Obama scolding Republicans over shutting down the government.
I think that's worth playing too.
Let's play that here.
Shutting down the government just because you don't like a law that was passed.
I have to say, no Congress before this one has ever, ever in history been irresponsible enough to threaten an economic shutdown to suggest America not pay its bills just to try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions.
I will not negotiate on anything when it comes to the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
We're not going to submit to this kind of total irresponsibility.
Congress needs to pay our bills on time.
Congress needs to pass a budget on time.
Congress needs to put an end to governing from crisis to crisis.
Oh, everybody's getting shutdowns, but nobody's calling on the Democrats to open up the government.
As of tomorrow, snap benefits and it's their fault.
Richard in my free state of Florida.
What's up, Richard?
How are you, my friend?
Wow, Mr. Handy, it's such an honor to talk to you.
First time call a long time listener.
Love watching you at nine o'clock on Fox News.
Thank you.
But my biggest thing is, is that, you know, I'm a retired combat veteran, disabled combat veteran.
Thank you, by the way.
And I'm sorry you're injured.
What's your injury?
Back injury from Iraq.
Back injuries are the worst.
Yes, sir.
But I also was a federal employee for 15 years working for the National Guard at several maintenance facilities.
So I understand shutdowns.
This shutdown is beyond ridiculous.
It ceased being funny three weeks ago.
You know, I don't like the nuclear option.
I never have.
And I usually advocate against it.
But in this particular instance, I think Leader Thun may need to just go ahead and pull the thing out and do a nuclear option for clean CRs.
Make sure it's only a clean CR that they do it for and get this government back open.
You can't, you can't have our military not being paid.
You can't have TSA.
This is ridiculous.
I am very, very reluctant for Republicans to be the ones to blow this up for political reasons.
I actually think that after the election on Tuesday, I think Eric Schmidt was on the program earlier, is going to be his prediction is probably accurate sometime later next week.
This thing opens up.
They're waiting for the election.
That's what I think.
I don't like the idea because, look, you have to assume one day Democrats, I hope they don't, would get back in power.
You know, I'd love it for Trump because you get the whole agenda through.
And I guess you could argue that if we make things so amazing for the American people, they're never going to want to switch parties.
But eventually there's an ebb and float of political cycles, right?
And there's only one Donald Trump.
People ask, who's the next Donald Trump?
I'm like, there is none.
You're never going to meet.
There's nobody like this guy.
I'm telling you, he's unique.
And he is just, you know, qualified in ways that I never thought.
But anyway, Richard, well thought out.
Let's see what happens next week.
Let's wait till next week.
I might be asking people to go to the local food banks and help out last week, next week, if things really go bad.
Pennsylvania, Rich Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Rich?
How are you?
Sean, you're a great American.
Thanks for taking my call.
You're a great American, sir.
What's going on?
I'm going to keep it light.
82 to 86, I was in the U.S. Coast Guard.
83, I was at America's Cup in Newport.
Oh, wow.
Perhaps you are absolutely right that...
By the way, I lived in Rhode Island at that time.
I know.
Oh, we have three degrees of separation, you and me, in a lot of ways.
The Black Pearl bar none, the best doing a clam shouder anywhere.
If I wasn't on a never-ending diet, you know, I just got to tell you something.
I would love the Black Pearl.
I would break my diet any day of the week for the Black Pearl.
Silver palette pasta sauce.
I tried it out here in Pennsylvania.
It is the best jarred pasta sauce I've ever had, and I'm Italian.
Okay.
Now, you said pasta sauce.
You said it the right way.
What do you think of how Linda says it?
Linda, say it.
Listen, Linda and me, you got to take it easy on Linda a little bit.
What do you mean I have to take it easy?
Oh, one for Linda.
All right, say it, Linda.
Happy Halloween to me.
Say it.
Yeah, it says in New York.
I lived in New York.
Of course you are.
You understand the way it needs to be said.
It's said two ways, sauce or gravy.
That's it.
Sauce.
Nobody calls it sauce.
Yes, they do.
He didn't call it sauce.
He just said he does.
It depends.
No, he said he likes silver paletpasta sauce.
There's a difference.
He was just doing that for you.
He's calling you, so he's being nice.
All right.
Who says it right?
Me or her?
Richard, you're the decider here.
Oh, you're going to put me in that spot.
You're going to put me in the corner, are you?
Yep.
Yep.
I like the way Linda says it.
Oh, too for Linda.
Tough day, boss.
Why are you sucking up to Linda?
Why do people suck up to Linda?
It's unbelievable.
Because I'm fun.
And kudos for, you were talking to a gentleman yesterday about how to tip.
And kudos to you.
I know I bust tables and was a dishwasher back in the late 70s as a kid.
And yeah, we got a tip.
You got a tip better.
People got a tip better.
They got to tip over 25, 30%, you know, especially how far the dollar goes these days.
Look, if you can afford it, if you can't, you know, I totally get it.
Standard is 20%.
You know, if you can't afford to pay 20% tip, then don't go eat.
That's my take on it.
My father actually taught me that.
He said, you never go to a dinner and not try to pick up the check.
And Linda, can anyone pick up the check with me?
Nope.
Nope.
Don't let it happen.
And, you know, there was a time in my life I wouldn't go out to dinner.
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