Sean Hannity dives into breaking details on the FBI's burn bag scandal and recent DOJ court filings that unveil a flood of incriminating evidence against James Comey. With legal experts Greg Jarrett and David Schoen, the show dissects memos, leaks to the media, and alleged FISA abuses tied to Comey's leadership, as revealed by attorney Lindsey Halligans strategic filings. Sean frames the issue as a potential turning point for accountability in the long-running Crossfire Hurricane and Russia probe saga, shining a light on evidence of lying, obstruction, and misuse of classified information. Special attention is given to guest commentary highlighting both the legal significance and broader implications for public trust. This episode matters as it signals a possible tightening legal net and critical moment in the debate over government accountability and weaponization of justice.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We have a lot of important issues in terms of the legalization weaponization issue that are in the news today, but I got to get reaction.
David Schoen is with us, former counsel to President Trump Civil Liberties Attorney, Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, New York Times best-selling author.
Greg, when I did live in New York, had an office right next to mine.
Like me, he left to an undisclosed location.
Reaction, Greg Jarrett.
I mean, I think you lived in New York City for how long?
Oh, goodness. I both lived and worked in New York for 30 years.
And, you know, I could see what was happening.
And, you know, like you, I left without looking back.
Left without looking back.
But people ask me all the time, well, don't you miss some?
I might know.
I miss some of my friends, but they all want to come down and see me in the free state of Florida.
David, your reaction.
It's finished, I mean, in my view.
The history that we've known of the city is finished.
The fact that this guy was even in the running indicated that, I think.
He used to be a landlord in New York.
Very glad not to be.
And as you know, I'm sure there are signs already up in Florida, pre- and post-Mamdani, Mamdani prices on real dates.
Oh, no, it's absolutely hilarious.
And now, with all that said, I want to be very clear, as I said in the last hour.
I feel sorry for my friends that are there.
They're heartbroken, and I don't want to rub it in, but it's something that they have to face as a reality.
This is who they're living next to, people that have bought into all of this.
Let me move on a little bit.
The FBI launched the preliminary investigation into the Burn Bag Saga in July.
If we go back there, according to an open electronic communication made public by the DOJ and their filings in federal court, this filing began on Monday.
We're getting new information every day as part of the Comey prosecution.
Now, the Bureau said the classified information stashed away in a room at the FBI headquarters related to Operation Crossfire Hurricane launched three days after Donald Trump announced he was running for 2024, made public in DOJ filings in federal court.
And the Bureau saying that the classified information stashed away, I think they thought they got rid of it all.
And with this new avalanche of evidence, Greg Jarrett, let me start with you and this court filing by Lindsey Halligan in Virginia.
It seems extraordinarily damning to me.
Oh, it is.
I mean, it is a tsunami of new and incriminating evidence against Comey that could and should lead to, I think, additional criminal charges against him of lying and obstruction.
That is, you know, the destruction of evidence, concealing evidence from Congress.
The most damning evidence against him, notes that show Comey did indeed authorize and direct his friend and FBI special government employee Daniel Richmond to leak to the media, which Comey, of course, later denied in testimony before Congress.
That's the heart of the indictment against him.
So this is highly corroborating evidence of Comey's false statements.
It's in the hands of the prosecutors.
After one particular leak, Comey wrote, well done, my friend.
Who knew this would be so fun?
And the other evidence is also equally damning.
You know, while he was criticizing Hillary Clinton for breaking the law, jeopardizing national security using her private email as Secretary of State, guess what?
Comey himself was using a private email account to conduct official FBI matters.
So brazen and so stupid by Comey, but classic Comey.
In another message, you know, he bragged he'd soon be working for President-elect Clinton, and she'd be grateful that he helped her.
I mean, that really tells the whole story, doesn't it?
It really does.
David Shon, let's get your take on this because I think this is pretty damning.
And in the beginning, I thought this may be a very difficult case to prove.
I don't particularly love the jurisdiction in Virginia where it's taken place.
And that somewhat frustrated me.
And I think this is rather the low-hanging fruit for Comey in terms of the criticisms I have against him using the dirty Russian disinformation dossier as the basis of four Pfizer warrants, three of which he personally signed even after it was debunked.
And he had a legal obligation to go back to the PISA court and say the information presented to that court was false, not accurate, and give the judge in that case an opportunity to lift that warrant.
Yeah, there's no question about that.
There's no question the court's rules required him to go back and make the corrections.
They never did.
But I'll tell you this about the recent filing.
To me, all of this abuse that Lindsay Halligan got about, she's not an experienced prosecutor, insurance defense lawyer.
I think she's shown brilliance here and great public responsibility by this filing.
Listen, all we saw was former Justice Department officials, former big shots filing briefs in support of Comey, vindictive prosecution, selective prosecution, didn't do anything wrong.
It was brilliant to expose exactly what it is that she must have seen in this case and in deciding to bring the indictment.
I think she's talented, hardworking.
Never had the pleasure of meeting her, but I think this was the right move.
And I think the reason I say it's responsible is let the public know exactly what she was looking at when you see all of these people using their former offices for credibility to say there's nothing against Comey.
He did nothing wrong.
These emails and texts and other communications, Daniel Richmond, are very damning.
And I'll tell you this, I think there's a real issue about a conflict for his lawyers, Patrick Fitzgerald.
According to the filing here, memorandum between meetings between Comey and President Trump were leaked specifically to Patrick Fitzgerald at the time.
He's a part of this.
He may well be a witness in the case.
Oh, you think Patrick Fitzgerald might?
Tell me more about that.
Could be.
Patrick Fitzgerald, by the way, if you don't remember, he was the special prosecutor, counsel, whatever he was at the time.
And he's the one that went after Scooter Libby.
He was going after Karl Rove at the time.
Scooter Libby was the chief of staff for then Vice President Dick Cheney, who just passed away.
And they went after him hard.
But George W. Bush, I believe he commuted the sentence, but I got the pardon came from Donald J. Trump, interestingly enough.
Yeah.
So what the papers that were filed provide on page nine is that on May 9th of that year, after he was fired, Comey sent copies of four of seven memorandum he had drafted, purportedly summarizing one-on-ones with the president-elect and the president to one of his attorneys, Patrick Fitzgerald.
And so these memos are at the heart of the case, among other things, so on.
But again, you know, now we're getting a full picture of this.
So all we saw on the mainstream media was, oh, it's only because Trump is angry at him and so on.
There's real substance here, and it was appropriate for Lindsey Halligan to expose this stuff now for the public consumption because it's a matter of great public interest.
Yeah.
Greg, what do you think?
Yeah, I agree.
And there's another aspect to this.
In Comey's handwritten notes dated September 26, 2016.
Comey confirms that he learned that Hillary Clinton invented this phony Russian narrative to smear Trump.
And Comey's notes actually.
And by the way, that date is important, Greg.
Forgive me for interrupting.
That date is important because that's long before the first FISA warrant was filed, and the bulk of the information was the dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
That's right.
There were meetings at the White House with Comey and Brennan and Obama and Biden, in which Brennan alerted that, you know, we have evidence that Hillary Clinton invented this phony scandal to help herself get elected to smear Trump.
And Comey's notes state, and I'm quoting here: HRC planned to tie Trump to Russia.
That speaks for itself.
And of course, when Comey testified before Congress, he feigned acute amnesia and said, gee whiz, that doesn't ring any bells.
I have no recollection of any of that.
Well, that's something that you would never forget.
So Comey was lying.
And his own notes put a lie to his congressional testimony, which constitutes yet another crime.
And, you know, Comey's incriminating notes, other important documents, were stuffed in burn bags in a secret room of the FBI to be destroyed.
What is that under the law?
It's called obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress.
Yeah, very much so.
You know, a lot of people ask me all the time: you know, Hannity, you've spent all these years.
You've shown us the truth.
We've learned about the dossier.
We've learned about FISA abuse.
We've learned about the dual justice system.
We've learned about weaponization.
We have the declassification from Tulsi Gabbard.
And when do people become, you know, get held accountable?
And that's a hard question to answer.
And I understand people's frustration.
What did you all think of John Brennan when he was confronted?
I can play it for you.
Let's play the tape.
We never said it was disinformation.
We said it was Russian influence operations, which is what they do.
The big difference between influence operation and disinformation is no, you don't know that.
The only news.
The literary truth is all markets.
I mean, he's cursing, he's screaming, confronted really for the first time over the Hunter Biden laptop and signing on to this document, apparently circulated by Wink and Tony Blinken, David Schoen.
Wow.
If somebody starts poking me in the chest with their finger, they got a problem.
Yeah, especially you, given your background and training.
But anyway, no, it's inconceivable that this guy ever held the position that he did.
And Greg's point cannot be underestimated.
The fact that people at this level knew that Hillary Clinton had a scheme, a false scheme, clearly to affect the election, is absolutely astonishing.
You know, Sean, I've said this many times before.
If it were not for you and your show, I don't believe much of this stuff ever would have been exposed.
But you stayed on it.
You asked the question about accountability.
Some people might say to some degree the last election was some accountability.
But I think now you're starting to see real accountability.
And, you know, when President Trump speaks about these people being criminals and so on, they say, oh, gee, this is vindictive prosecution.
It can be that he's angry about crimes that were committed against the country and that they ought to be prosecuted.
That doesn't make it an illegal vindictive prosecution.
So, look, this stuff is huge now, and I think we've only scratched the surface on accountability.
Last word, Greg Jarrett.
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly.
And, you know, as to John Brennan, you know, I mean, he's always had the reputation of a bad temper and meaner and a junkyard dog.
And we know what the 51 former Intel people did.
They crafted a phony letter to protect Hunter Biden and in turn allow Joe Biden in a debate with President Trump in 2020 to cite them and their lies that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
The FBI had already confirmed its authenticity.
It has since been verified by anybody and everybody in the mainstream media and elsewhere.
So, you know, Brennan was part of the big lie, and that big lie succeeded because I think it was pivotal in helping, you know, Joe Biden win the 2020 election.
Yeah, I think so, too.
Let me ask you from a legal standpoint, both of you, real quick.
I have about 15 seconds for each of you.
If somebody starts poking you in your chest like that, do you have a right to stop them and defend yourself?
Yes, 100%.
Greg?
You know, if you feel threatened imminently with serious bodily harm or any kind of harm, the law entices you to defend yourself.
Now, I think your instincts are correct.
Step back first.
That's always the smart move.
But if it persists, yeah, you would have every right to punch the guy in the nose, and he deserves it.
All right.
Appreciate both of you.
Amazing times we're living in.
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You know, we have a national anthem.
I think some states, do some states have their own state anthems?
I guess they probably do, right?
But we just don't really pay that much attention to them.
I'm assuming they do.
Linda, do they?
I don't know.
I know there's college anthems.
By the way, how did your prediction work out that I told you was never going to come true yesterday?
I'm just asking.
Considering the amount of time.
How did your prediction come out?
It's terrible.
I've been crying nonstop.
It's heartbreaking.
Got a radical Islamic mayor in New York City 20 years after the Twin Tower attacks.
I'm like, great.
It's going great.
Yeah.
Good day.
Okay, but you were saying there's no way he's going to win.
That's the problem.
From the bottom of my heart, from the bottom of my heart, I'm going to believe that.
You didn't want to believe it.
You were in denial.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes.
Because you were on this program telling me Curtis was going to win.
And I'm like.
No, I was not in denial.
I didn't abandon Curtis like a lot of other people.
I was in full faith.
I believed he would win.
I didn't see the, look, the bottom line is the total between Cuomo and Curtis, Mamdani still won.
So, you know, this last-minute panic push to get Curtis out and people wanting to blame Curtis.
No, I blame Cuomo.
Cuomo should have taken the initiative.
You had the best idea to your credit, and he didn't do it.
But maybe they needed to.
Well, I got to be honest with you.
It wasn't Cuomo.
It wasn't Cuomo that should have done it because Cuomo should have never ran.
He didn't win.
He ran as an independent because he couldn't believe he didn't win.
And, you know, Charlie Hurt made a really good point.
Ethan and I were talking about this earlier.
Everybody's like freaking out.
Like, oh, my God, he won.
He won.
He actually didn't do that great.
You know, if you look at De Blasio and you look at Adams, they won by 60 and 65%.
This guy only won by the bare margin of 50%.
Like, it's not as bad as everybody thinks about it.
That's a bad analysis.
I'm sorry.
I don't agree.
Why is that bad analysis?
Because none of them had a high-profile name like Cuomo against them, which is a prominent political name in New York.
And you cannot deny that that is a massive difference in terms of the voting texture and scenario under which Mamdani was running.
I disagree with you.
When you got people coming in, you disagreed with me that you thought Curtis was going to win and you were.
I did.
And I have my own beliefs as to why he didn't.
We won't go there right now.
I don't want to hear it because you aren't even.
It's no point in hearing your analysis of this.
But I do have an idea for New York.
They need a state anthem.
What do you think of this one?
That's the national anthem of the former Soviet Union, Russia.
That is a Rocky IV song.
All right.
Let's not get things twisted.
Come on.
All right.
Or we can go to the national anthem of Cuba.
Maybe New York City can adopt this one, third option.
And that is the national anthem.
That sounds like a cartoon.
I don't know.
yeah that was maybe we should have people vote on what the what the state anthem of of new york city should be Let's see.
Etha, Washington State, Sean Hannity Show.
Etha, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Hey, listen, all of my kin are from, and my dad was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Bottom line is that Mom Donnie, your new communist, who's in, well, he's not my new communist.
I know.
Thank God you moved.
At any rate, bottom line is this: he wants to raise wages to like $30 per hour.
Okay, bottom line.
No, $30.
He wants a $30 minimum wage, twice what it is now.
Yes, exactly.
Okay, so the thing is that Trump can only do so much in regards to fixing the economy because when base wages all around the country, including the state of Washington and now New York, when they're higher, that means that prices are higher.
When you go to a Taco Bell that the minimum wage is $17 per hour, that's going to raise the inflation.
So Trump can only do so much to fix the wages.
Increase of wages increases product prices.
And I don't know how President Trump, while I love an adore, I don't know how he's going to fix that.
And not to disparage people, okay, yeah, great.
Higher wages, terrific.
But then the products that they're making are going to be higher.
Listen, there's only so much people are going to be willing to pay for a cheeseburger.
I like cheeseburgers, but I can't eat them very often.
Occasionally, I'll have one, you know, in a lettuce wrap with onions and, you know, a little bit of ketchup.
And I'm happy, you know, especially if it's in an in-and-out burger or a Crown burger.
You know, I like a lot of burgers, but I just don't eat them very much because I like to make my own healthy food.
I'm crazy about it.
But, you know, at some point, you're going to see a loss of jobs.
You're going to see a loss of business.
And you're going to see businesses shut down because the margins in the food industry are so minuscule.
You know, most restaurants don't make their money on the food that you're buying.
They make it on the booze that you're drinking or the wine that you're drinking, just in case you didn't know.
And I know from my many years working in the restaurant business, I mean, you can make some money, but there's a lot of waste involved.
You buy fish.
Okay, you only got, you know, two, maybe three days.
You can use that fish.
Then boom, it's going out the window.
It's going to be a special on Tuesday night thrown out on Wednesday morning.
So it's very, very hard.
Just, you know, it's so sad.
And the people that will be impacted by that are going to be young people that take those jobs and older people that are retired but like to work.
They're going to lose those jobs and they probably can use the money in many cases.
Anyway, Etha, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Beth, God bless Texas.
Glad you called.
How are you?
Hi. Thank you for taking my call.
It's an honor to talk to you.
My question is, how is Mandani even allowed to run?
And if you're in Congress and you're saying that you're a socialist, how in this country with our Constitution are you allowed to stay in office?
I don't understand.
Well, you can have any views you want.
And if the people decide to elect you, I mean, then that's the way the system works.
I mean, we do believe in freedom and you have the freedom to be dumb, ignorant, and stupid.
And New Yorkers can be dumb, ignorant, and stupid and vote for this guy.
And it will end in the predictable way that socialism, Marxism, statism, you know, always ends.
Unfulfilled promises and more poverty in the end than less and a loss of freedoms as the government takes over every aspect of your life in the name of false security.
That's how it's going to end.
And whether or not a state like New York wakes up, I don't know.
You know, I do feel badly.
I mean, I'm kind of joking around a little bit.
I mean, what do you want me to do?
You want me to come on the air like liberal Democrats and Rosie?
I am moving to Ireland.
I can't take it anymore.
I'm not doing that.
There's been plenty of times in the course of my life and career when elections don't go my way and you just stay in the fight and you try to stop, mitigate the damage that bad politicians with bad ideas and bad values are going to instill on you.
That's my advice to the people that have to stay in New York.
Now, I can tell you that there is going to be a massive exit plan out of New York.
You know, I mentioned an article earlier today.
I mean, a whole big article today about how real estate in Florida is going to go through the roof.
I would have preferred, even though it's my free state of Florida, here's the headline.
New York City election drives a $100-plus million dollar Florida real estate surge as nervous New Yorkers flee.
Now, there's going to be a Mamdani real estate effect, and that's going to, it's going to benefit places like, look, the God bless Bruce Blakeman.
Nassau County ended up fine last night.
They did great.
Bruce Blakeman's done a great job.
Nassau County's red.
Suffolk County, same thing.
But for New York City, the five boroughs, you're going to get the government you deserve.
And I feel bad for you, but it is what it is.
Thank you, Beth.
Appreciate it.
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Wes in Tennessee.
Wes, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hey, good afternoon, Sean.
So I wanted to talk about why I think socialism and communism principles actually have any traction to begin with.
I had the blessing slash slash misfortune of growing up in the 90s, you know, when parents told you, well, you can be anything you want and you'll succeed.
You can do anything you want and you'll succeed.
Go to college, you'll succeed.
I was fortunate that I had my grandfather, who was the voice of reason.
I remember being a small kid listening to Hannity and Holmes, and here I am, you know, 30 years later almost.
And essentially, people grew up with this mentality that just because you're an American, you didn't have to face adversity.
Things didn't have to be difficult.
But I tell my kids that adversity builds character, it builds resiliency.
And people go out in the world and they face adversity for the first time.
And they're like, well, I should be successful.
So they expect the system to make them successful in that regard.
Does that make sense?
Listen, let me tell you something.
There's nobody in this life.
I don't care if you grow up rich, you grow up poor, you grow up middle class, you grow up somewhere in between.
There's nobody in life that escapes the ups and downs, the trials, the tribulations that life presents all of us.
It just doesn't happen that way.
It's not designed to work that way.
And what we, you know, if we, if we stand back and we, I put a religious perspective on it, and I think that is God's plan to strengthen us.
As a matter of fact, the Bible says God will test us and strengthen us and fortify us and make, and basically it's all designed for us to come to a recognition and realization that we're nothing without him.
And by calling out to him, you know, therein lies human salvation.
You know, there's a misperception, I believe, of Christianity.
And, you know, the left and ignorant people, you know, will say, you know, Christians are self-righteous and pompous and pious, etc.
Actually, it's the complete opposite.
If you be a Christian to me is to have a desire in your heart to want to be better with the recognition that you're not good, with a recognition that you have failed, with a recognition that you want help, with a recognition that you want to connect with that which puts you on this earth.
You're God, your creator, endowed by our creator.
And by reaching inward and upward, that you are calling out to God for salvation.
The word repentance is to change one's heart.
And, you know, to do that, you seek forgiveness.
You seek, you know, his blessing and support to live carefree in your life and find the purpose for which you have created.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
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