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Nov. 22, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Jim Jordan Exposes Unprecedented Government Overreach
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It turns out that this report about sitting senators, there were first eight, then there's nine, were not the only Republican operatives around the country that were being targeted and spied on.
Now it turns out that our friend Jim Jordan was one of them.
And I have now had an opportunity to review documents obtained by Jim Jordan showing that in 2022, lawyers running the Arctic Frost investigation subpoenaed Verizon for Jim Jordan's complete phone records going all the way back to January of 2020.
Now, understand, this was supposed to be an investigation about January 6th, 2021.
And that's not all.
They wanted his address, his payment information, unique identifiers of all his devices.
In other words, they wanted to know where he was the moment he contacted anybody, called anybody, texted anybody.
And by the way, that would mean they know the location of the people he was calling and texting.
And then to top it all off, the subpoena came with a court order of secrecy, and Verizon was not allowed to tell anyone about the data requests because a court determined, and this is the sickest part of all this, this is Jim Jordan.
He is the chairman of the very powerful House Judiciary Committee.
He has been a well-respected congressman his entire career.
But anyway, a court determined that, quote, disclosure would result in flight from prosecution or witness intimidation.
How you come to that conclusion is obscene, absurd, unjust, unfair, and an invasion of one's personal liberties, constitutional liberties.
Never mind unlawful search and seizure.
Verizon answered.
We reached out to them and they said to us, we uncovered new information regarding Chairman Jordan.
We shared it with him as soon as possible.
We're committed to restoring trust through transparency.
Why did they ever hand it over in the first place?
And in case you forgot, this is our friend Jim Jordan of Ohio.
I mean, straight as an arrow, Jim Jordan.
Anyway, he joins us now.
Sir, welcome back to the program.
Yeah, good to be with you, Sean.
And then, Sean, if they can do it to the president, if they can do it to you, if they can do it to me, imagine just think about normal people, great, great people across this country.
They can do it to anybody, all your listeners, all your viewers.
I mean, that's the part that is most frustrating and I think most troubling is if they can get who you called, who called you, how long the call was, when the call took place, and where you're standing at, where you're located at when you make the call for two and a half years, get all that.
Think about the, they can determine pattern of life.
They know when you're talking to your staff, when you're talking to your kids, when I'm talking to our grandkids, for goodness sake, they can learn all that stuff.
That is just so wrong for the government to do that when they're supposed to be investigating an alternate electorate slates from certain states.
Why do they want to go back clear until January of 2020?
And so I want to know, did Chris Rayno did?
Did Lisa Monica?
We know Lisa Monico signed off on the start of Arctic Frost because we have that document that we got from the Justice Department and told Merrick Garland, we think you should sign off an okay Arctic Frost beginning this investigation.
Well, the day when they signed off and Arctic Frost started, 12 days later, they sent a subpoena to Verizon to get the phone records we just talked about for two and a half years.
So I want to talk to those guys at some point, too.
But the first one on the list is Jack Smith.
Well, I want to talk to him, too.
now he's been demanding a public hearing is uh why would Congress allow him to create what he wants to create, which is a public circus?
You're not under any, you know, you're not compelled in any way to give him a platform for him to go out there and pontificate and try and shift the narrative rather than answer questions that he's supposed to be answering Congress.
And by the way, that is the job of Congress.
We have co-equal branches of government that, you know, one of your roles is designed to be a check and balance against other roles of government.
And clearly, to me, this has crossed the line.
And so what's going to happen in that regard?
Yeah, no, that second, all good points, Sean, and a great question.
But the second one, we are a separate equal branch of government.
We have what's called the speech or debate clause, which says when you're doing your job, they can't go get that information or you couldn't do your job as a member of the legislative branch.
Not to mention that, you know, I happened to get the privilege of being the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, and they were doing this.
So we think the fundamental problem here with how they did this to senators, to the former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, and now for two and a half years for me.
So that is critical.
And you're right.
We may want to bring Jack Smith in for a public hearing.
That may be appropriate.
But we want to talk to everyone beforehand and him beforehand in a deposition format where we can take our time, ask all the questions, do the follow-up questions.
And remember this, Thomas Wyndham, who we refer to the Justice Department for obstructing our investigation, was Jack Smith's top deputy.
We brought him in.
He wouldn't answer questions.
He literally tried to obstruct, and that's why we referred him.
One of the questions we asked him, one of the questions we asked him, because this was after we first learned about the senator several weeks ago, we asked him, who else?
What other members of Congress, what other members of the United States Senate did you get the phone logs on?
And he would not answer that question.
Well, now we know why.
Because it was, we didn't know.
Did he answer any questions?
Because my understanding is a number of these guys took the fifth on every question.
Yeah, he took the fifth 71 times.
Mr. Bratt, another key deputy of Jack Smith, took the fifth 74 times.
So, yeah, these guys, so again, we want all this information.
We're getting it from the carriers.
We're going to go to every agency that was involved in this whole thing, whether it was the National Archives, whether it was the Postal Service, the Inspector General, the FBI, the DOJ, and we're going to go to Verizon and AT ⁇ T, get every, and the banks that were involved, because it looks like they got some bank records of certain people.
So we want to get all that information and bring in Mr. Smith, ask him the questions that I think we all need answers to and the country needs answers to.
I remember at different times because thousands of my personal text messages that were never gotten from me were released to the public between Paul Manafort, January 6th, Kaylee McEnany, and the list goes on and on, Mark Meadows.
All of this was released publicly.
Nobody asked for my permission.
Nobody cared about my privacy.
And it was wall-to-wall coverage on networks like MSDNC and CNN.
And not one person really cared about my civil liberties.
And you watch these people, you would think that Donald Trump is taking away everyone's civil liberties.
Nothing has ever happened like this that I can think of in history.
Let me play you Lindsey Graham's reaction when he found out that, in fact, his records were targeted.
My phone records were seized as part of this.
I am tired of this.
The third leading DOJ lawyer left DOJ in Washington to work for Alvin Bragg in Manhattan.
What was that all about?
Fannie Willis's boyfriend spent a day in the White House talking to the Jack Smith people.
What was that all about?
I think this was worse than Watergate, an effort to destroy President Trump, charge him with crimes that are just ridiculous, and come after people like me.
I'm not going to put up with this crap anymore.
I'm going to sue.
I'm going to sue the hell out of my people.
How much are you going to sue?
Tens of millions of dollars because I went to Fannie Willis in Atlanta, spent $1.2 million with that in Atlanta.
Now I find out they spy on my phone records as a senator and a private citizen, chair of the Judiciary Committee in 2023.
I'm going to sue.
If you don't sue, they'll keep doing it.
Don't run away from this, Republicans.
Fight back.
I agree with him.
What do you plan to do?
We passed legislation to change how these non-disclosure orders work with the judge.
You can't put these gag orders for these extended periods of time, years and years, and you got to notify.
And we raised the threshold when you can do it.
We just passed that bill out of committee on Tuesday.
I actually think we should also look at for members of Congress, because of the separate and equal branch of government, because of the Constitution, because of the speech or debate clause that is in the Constitution, we should say you cannot get a gag order on information that is given to the Justice Department on a member of Congress.
You cannot do that.
Now, if you have a Congressman who did something like William Jefferson did years ago, where he had $10,000 cash in his freezer in his office, well, that's a criminal thing.
So go get a warrant and treat it as a criminal.
That's fine, but the defendant has a chance to know all that.
This is a phishing expedition.
That's all this was, a phishing expedition.
How did they ever get permission to do any of this?
Lisa Monaco signed off on this investigation.
We have the signature on the page.
She signed off and she recommended to the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, head of the Justice Department in the Biden DOJ, in the Biden administration.
They signed off on that.
They okayed Arde Frost, and they did that on April 13th, 2022.
12 days later, they issued a subpoena for two and a half years of my phone records.
That is how this thing started.
And you know why, Sean?
You know why your text has got leaked?
You know why they did this to me?
Because you're close to the president.
You talk about weaponized government, weaponized Justice Department, where it's supposed to be equal treatment under the law.
We had, we're going to go fishing for anything and everything up to two and a half years for the top Republican on the judiciary committee.
We're going to get that information, gather it all up, figure out who he's calling, where he's at, who's he talking to, how long he's talking.
We'll get all that information.
And oh, by the way, then we're also going to go out to people not only on that side, but we're going to go after and try to censor what they tweet, what they post, what they say.
That is how bad it was.
And God bless President Trump.
If he doesn't win, if he doesn't win, you know they were going to put him in prison.
Oh, forget it.
I mean, we're going to do it.
Look, I'm not complaining.
We live in the greatest country God gave, ma'am.
But this is an abuse of power that I believe is a clear and present danger to our constitutional republic and a clear violation of our bill of rights, our privacy rights.
And it is far worse than people think.
Look, I've almost come to accept that this is a part of my job.
I know that you have come to accept that this is a part of your job.
However, I do think we owe it to the country that no other American has to go through this.
It may not sound like a big deal to some people, but I promise you, when it happens to you, it's going to be a big deal.
Yep, yep.
By the way, and when they got your phone records, I want to know how many times you and I were talking because it's not a shock to anybody listening to this program that I consider you a dear personal friend.
Yep.
I mean, they get that information, and they know in.
I mean, it's just like, and they know where you're at when you're doing it.
It's wrong.
And everyone knows we have a Fourth Amendment, we have a Bill of Rights.
We have the greatest Constitution ever put down, ever, ever, ever.
And they know it's wrong.
And yet these guys went.
Well, we were probably talking about the fact that Jim Jordan was one of the greatest wrestlers in the state of Ohio.
That's right.
All his time wrestling in high school and at Ohio State, you only lost one match your entire career, correct?
Well, that's high school.
I lost a few more in college and I coached at Ohio State, but I wrestled for the Badgers in college.
But yeah, it's been good.
I always say, Sean, I wanted to play middle linebacker, but when you're my size, you got to wrestle.
So it's been a great time.
Actually, you didn't have to play middle linebacker.
You would have been a great fullback, in my view.
You would have been awesome.
You would have been incredible, actually.
Well, you're kind.
You're kind.
Anyway, I appreciate what you do and the fact that you get the truth to millions and millions of people every day.
You said something last night.
I want you to reiterate this.
You know, all of these issues, FISA warrants and Russia-Russia, impeachment issues.
We were right on all of it.
And I'm proud of the fact that we did our due diligence and worked hard and got it right.
But this is what you always say.
Explain.
Yeah, the only thing we get wrong when we start these investigations, the only thing is it's always worse than we thought.
Every single time.
Every single time.
We thought, like when we first got into this Russia stuff, the Russia, the spy on his campaign, they spied on his campaign.
They got four FISAs.
They lied to the FISA.
It's always worse than we thought.
And you go impeachment one, impeachment two.
Then it's then it's Fonnie Willis.
That was worse than we thought.
Who thought that this Wade guy would be involved going to the White House talking with January 6th committee here in D.C.?
And then Arctic Frost, Jack Smith.
You know, it just, it's always worse.
And it's, and the one constant for the Democrats, the one constant over the last decade, go after Trump and anyone close to him.
That's what they've done.
And that is exactly what they've done.
So much so, they shut the government down for 40 for a month and a half because they thought it would hurt President Trump.
That's how crazy it has become.
And again, I think most Americans see through it, but what helps them see through it is the fact that you're talking about it and you have a voice to reach so many people.
That has made a huge difference.
But you go back to the beginning.
It was basically you and a handful of journalists, good journalists, a handful that were working a lot with you, and then a handful of people in Congress.
That was it.
Everyone else was like, oh, this Russia clues, there must be some truth.
Like, it's BS.
It was all BS.
But you saw it and you talked about it.
But for you talking about it, I don't know that we get it done in Congress.
What Devin was able to do, what we were all able to work on.
It just doesn't happen.
So thank you for all that.
Congressman Jim Jordan, sorry this happened to you, and I mean that with all my heart.
Thank you for being with us.
You know, obviously, you know, Comrade Marxist Mamdani and Trump and meeting, and I wish more of it was public.
But going into this meeting, we have Mamdani, the candidate.
You know, he's going to take on Donald Trump.
Then we have the lead up to this meeting today.
Very different tune.
Listen.
My administration would be Donald Trump's worst nightmare.
I have many disagreements with the president.
And I believe that we should be relentless and pursue all avenues and all meetings that can make our city affordable for every single New Yorker.
I intend to make it clear to President Trump that I will work with him on any agenda that benefits New Yorkers.
Looks like Zoron, and by the way, the Democratic Socialists of America are pissed off at him, you know, for changing his position.
Then we have Mamdani talking about these free buses and how important they are.
But yesterday says he has no idea how he's going to fund it.
I can tell you why.
He's really the governor of New York, and he'll get Hochul to do whatever he wants her to do.
He is ostensibly the governor of New York.
He's governor of name only.
Listen.
And the other one you've been talking about fast and free buses in your meeting with the governor, I've heard you talk about many times that you don't want to take money away from the MTA.
You want to put money back in.
It's something that she agrees with, right?
We don't want to take away money from the MTA.
How are you getting that money, the $700 million to make the buses free, into the MCA if she's not for raising taxes?
You know, I think that the two clearest ways to raise that money is through the raising of the state's corporate tax to match us in New Jersey.
I think that a lot of this is still a case to be made, whether it's the corporate tax or that's personal income tax on those who make more than a million dollars a year or more.
I think that these are the clearest ways.
I've also said that if there are other ways to raise this funding, the most important fact is that we fund it.
Not the question of how we do it, but that we do it.
I mean, these people are pathetic.
They are just, they are cowering before these people.
All right, Donnie Dallas, next Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Donnie?
How are you?
Sean, my brother, it is an honor and I'm proud to talk to you.
How are you?
I'm good, my brother.
Did you hear we had on Greg Abbott this week and Chiproy this week?
Greg Abbott thinks that in your city of Dallas that there may be Sharia courts.
They're investigating that now.
Yeah, I follow that pretty close.
Of course, you know, I listen to talk radio all day long, listen to your show every day.
And so, yeah, close eye on that.
I'm a little shocked by it.
But anyway, what's going on?
Well, with Moron Mamdani going to the Oval Office today, it just seemed kind of appropriate to call, especially you.
I wanted to get your opinion on how long do you think that it's going to be in New York before the people that voted for Mamdani to start rioting whenever they figure out that they're not going to get all this free stuff?
I don't think that's what's going to be.
I don't think that's going to create the unrest in New York.
I think the Momdani supporters are going to believe they're carte blanche to do any darn thing they want.
And that means if you think the protests in the summer of 2020 were bad, buckle up.
I think it's going to get a lot worse.
And I think it's going to spread all throughout the city and the five boroughs, as they refer to them affectionately in New York.
I think it's going to be that bad.
And I don't think Momdani is going to do a thing to rise up against the very people that put him in office.
Do you?
You know what?
I don't see how he can because, you know, these people had proven.
Well, what do you think he's going to do?
He's not hiring police.
He's going to send in social workers.
You think he's actually going to stop the people that voted from him when they go out there and they're protesting and those protests become predictably out of control and probably violent?
I don't believe he's going to lift a finger.
He's probably going to be there supporting them.
Yeah, and I think he'll be too afraid to.
And somehow or another, he'll get Hokul involved and pass the buck on to her.
No.
Well, if anything, he's going to blame Hokul, but he'll get Hokul to do whatever he wants him to do.
Hokul knows her political future now is in Mamdani's hands.
He's not the governor.
He's ostensibly the governor.
He's governor in name only.
It's not going to end well.
That I can predict.
I mean, it's going to give us a lot of material for the next four years to cover, but not material that I'd like to cover.
I'd rather be covering the revival of New York and, you know, Rudy Giuliani 2.0, but they blew that opportunity.
Now, Linda doesn't like when I bring it up, but she had predicted Curtis Lewa was going to win up till the day before the election.
I said, I love Curtis.
I stayed with him.
I'm totally urging people to vote for him, but he's not going to win.
Did I not tell you that, Linda?
You did?
Why don't you say it?
Voice, you were right.
You're not right.
The reason that we didn't have a fair election is because they don't have a fair election process in New York.
And even though he got 7% of the vote, he could have got 700% of the vote.
It wouldn't matter.
They would have just kept bringing 11 people.
You're going to vote over and over again.
There's no voter integrity.
That's a crazy conspiracy line.
That's not conspiracy.
They don't do voter ID here.
I could go in three times and vote.
Donnie, thank you.
Martin, in my free, sensible state of Florida.
What's up, Martin?
How are you?
Good.
Happy Friday, Sean.
I am doing okay.
I'm glad to be back on the show.
And I just want to say hi to you and Linda.
And I apologize with the last time I was on.
Last time you kicked me off because I gave Linda props.
But I got something important that I do want to bring up about what they're talking about in that ad that the Democrats are pushing.
Oh, you mean you have a duty, an obligation, and a right, and we'll support you to disobey orders.
That ad.
That ad.
And what I want to point out is this is extremely dangerous because they're setting up the environment for the next Fort Hood shooter to happen.
And how this will happen is you'll have that one guy.
And I'm saying this isn't characteristic of the military.
Most of the military guys, and I'm speaking as a veteran, I did time in the Marine Corps.
I did time in the Army.
But you'll have the one guy that just doesn't fit in.
And that's like maybe one out of 100.
Maybe one out of a thousand.
Probably one out of 10,000.
You know, these guys are very special people that want to sacrifice, protect others, put their lives on the line for the rest of us.
They're just very special people.
Yeah, and we'll do that all day long without question.
And the good thing is we know and we're taught what is lawful and unlawful orders.
And it's like, I hate, I hate to frame it this way, but I'm going to because I'm afraid it's going to end up as a big nothing burger, but it's the subtext of what they're saying.
We know not to follow unlawful orders, but there are no unlawful orders being issued.
They're just putting that out there as basically, I hate to say it like that, but it's chicken what they're doing.
It's very cowardly what they're doing because they want to motivate somebody to act, but they will take no accountability for when that person acts out.
Well, I got to tell you something.
They won't.
I have faith in our military.
I have trust in the military.
I think they understand that, you know, politics has no place in the military.
They have a job to protect and defend our liberties, our freedom, our constitutional republic.
They're great at it.
And I think they'll live up to the pledge and the promise that they made to the country.
I have every faith that they will.
There is one thing I wanted to bring up because I memory hold this a long time ago.
And I spoke to Rush Limbaugh about this.
The Democrats get very sneaky whenever it comes to the Constitution.
About during the, I say about midway during the Obama administration, I went through this thing in the Army.
We call it BNOC, his basic non-commissioned officers course.
And in the curriculum, I got excited because the Constitution was being taught.
And I'm thinking, okay, this is great.
I love these topics.
When we got down to it, it got one slide.
We talked about it for five minutes.
And I asked the question, why was there so little coverage on the Constitution?
We swore an oath to put our lives up to defend this.
And the rebuttal that I got back was because it was too controversial.
I doubt that's the case now.
But this is what was going on.
And this is what the games that they like to play with our Constitution and the games that they like to play with our military.
The Constitution is sacred to this country.
And we're seeing, and we talked about this with Jim Jordan.
It is something we have got to protect.
And the left has been shredding it before our very eyes because they just, their Trump derangement syndrome has caused them to act in ways that I never thought we'd see in our lifetime.
But with that said, we can return to constitutional order.
Look, it's a little early to talk about 2026.
In January, I'm going to come on this program and I'm going to lay out all the arguments, what is at stake, what is important, what you need to be looking for.
And I can only tell you, if you don't treat this as the single most important midterm election in your lifetime, then we are going to live through two years of never-ending impeachment, never-ending investigations, never-ending lawfare, and an abuse of power, probably on steroids and human growth hormone, because they're so angry.
But I got a role, man.
Appreciate it, Martin.
Glad you called.
Thank you for your service.
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Let's say hi to Johnny in New Orleans.
Johnny, how are you?
Sean, how are you today?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Happy Friday.
Oh, always well, my man.
Happy Friday.
You do the same.
I understand that you and Linda went train shopping.
Okay.
Yeah, we did.
We had been on some trip and her son was younger at the time and her son loved choo-choo trains and we went to Target.
And after about an hour of her turning over every train and examining it and comparing the prices, which at Target is relatively inexpensive, I got sick and tired of it.
And I was with Sweet Baby James and my friend Gomez.
And I just asked them, and I said, let's go get a shopping cart.
We went and got a shopping cart and I just threw a bunch of trains in the shopping cart and I said, we're done.
Let's go.
Well, I figure Linda's got to be kind of a studious, right?
Which one did she like after all?
Which one did she pick?
Well, which one did her son like the most?
Linda, you can answer that.
He likes Thomas.
His favorite was Thomas at the time.
Thomas the Train.
Thomas the Choo-Choo Train.
If you remember the show, you know, Thomas the Little Engine, the Little Tank Engine, and they had the whole series with all the other engines and the little British thing.
Well, then, if you knew that, why did you torture us for over an hour?
I didn't know it.
I was looking at it.
I was going to pick him, and I was like, I think I'm going to pick this one.
First of all, you know, one part of the story that you leave out is you weren't invited, okay?
You guys were bored and decided to come to Target with me, which I would never go to Target.
We went into protect, A, to protect you.
B, to protect me from this.
You never know who's in Target.
Oh, my God.
You guys were the worst.
You were walking all around, you talking to everybody, you're talking to people on the line.
I'm like, oh, for God's sakes, I'm here for one train.
One train, and over an hour you spent, you know, criminals should be afraid of me.
I'm scary.
You know what?
You better watch their ass.
You think you're throwing away?
I'll throw a train right in their face.
You should go throw some swords.
Oh, gee, Thomas, if you come near me, I'm going to throw Thomas the train at you.
Not so threatening.
I'm going to be armed.
In one hand, I'm going to have silver palette pasta sauce, and in the other hand, I'm going to have a train.
So you get the jar or the train, but it's coming at you either way.
Okay, you didn't have a jar of silver palette pasta sauce at that time because that didn't exist.
You're so literal.
But the point is, you think you're tougher than you are.
You're not so tough.
You talk a big game.
I'm pretty tough, actually.
And you were agonizing over picking one stupid train as a toy gift for your son.
And I got sick and tired of waiting after an hour.
Oh, my God.
That's on you, not on me.
And then I generously bought a bunch of trains so that your son could pick from a variety of them.
While it was generous, it was generous out of exasperation.
You were like, oh, my God, enough.
I'm glad you finally admit you can be exasperating.
That's correct.
That is the right adjective.
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