Sean opens hour two by recapping the presidents Davos speech criticizing Europe and Canada and underscoring Greenland's strategic importance. John Solomon of JustTheNews.com joins to detail documents alleging the FBI paid anti-Trump Sedition Hunters as informants in the January 6 and Arctic Frost probes, raising concerns about bureau rules and Director Chris Wray's leadership. He also shares a letter he obtained from Attorney General Pam Bondi to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison stating the Justice Department may seek sanctions over a move to block ICE, as Sean cites the Constitutions Supremacy Clause. The show tracks Capitol Hill developments as House Oversight moves toward contempt referrals involving Bill and Hillary Clinton, with Sean saying there is bipartisan support, while contrasting that with the prosecutions of Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro. Callers weigh in on U.S.- Greenland negotiations and Denmark's treatment of Greenlanders, and Sean highlights a recent FBI Top Ten fugitive arrest noted by Kash Patel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we'll get back to the president, his speech in Davos.
And he just laid out how weak and pathetic and impotent Europe is and Canada is.
And and really the geopolitical importance as we have laid out its history in in great length and detail on this program of Greenland.
And and just how Europe is collapsing under its own weight from woke.
policies, open borders, and horrible economic policies and radical redistribution policies and socialism, and it's just collapsing.
So we'll get back to that.
Last night on Hannity, we had the FBI director Kash Patel.
Now, Kash Patel was able to announce that this is now in one year.
They got five, the fifth person on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitive list, more than the entire previous four years combined.
That's how good a job that the FBI is doing.
In this particular case, you know, they announced the arrest of this individual, this Alejandro Rosalius Castillo, been arrested in Mexico, and he had been wanted in 2016 for the murder of a former coworker in North Carolina.
They found this guy working at a coworker in Mexico.
Anyway, that's just part of what he's been able to accomplish.
Our friend John Solomon, justthenews.com, founder, editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter, had a great article out today how Biden's FBI paid anti-Trump sedition hunters as informants in J6 and the Arctic Frost probes.
And that's just part of what's going on right now at the House Oversight Committee.
James Comer is daring Democrats to advance Clinton contempt of Congress resolutions or be exposed for being hypocrites.
Remember what they did to Peter Navarro.
Remember what they did to Steve Bannon.
And a lot of other people not only got referrals, but had to fight the court system exhaustively.
And I don't care how many times Clinton's spokesperson lashes out at Comer over the Epstein probe, but we have pictures of him in hot tubs and swimming pools with all of these girls that were pals of Jeffrey Epstein.
The Democrats all wanted to make this about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump threw Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago spectacularly in a loud fashion, publicly, humiliated this guy.
And, you know, when you're in a country club or any type of club environment to do that, if somebody had anything that would be damning against you, you probably wouldn't do it because you know that there'd be retribution.
Anyway, John Solomon, just the news.com, sir, welcome back.
You've been working hard.
A lot of shoe leather you keep wearing out every day.
We got a little break of news for you.
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter.
We obtained this letter to Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison saying the Justice Department may seek legal sanctions against your law license.
So the top law enforcement official in Minnesota may have his law license targeted by the Justice Department.
Why?
Because Keith Ellison filed a motion saying the ICE is not allowed to operate on Minnesota soil, so you got to throw them out.
Obviously, that's not true.
There's a supremacy clause in the United States Constitution.
It's pretty clear that the feds can do things like this.
Pam Bondi saying this is so frivolous.
We're probably going to file sanctions against your law license.
A new and sort of more aggressive posture by this Justice Department as it starts to crack down on the insanity of Minnesota.
Copy of the letter is up at just thenews.com.
Well, great work, as always.
You know, I keep quoting the supremacy clause, and federal laws, as this is constitutional, are enforced.
The jurisdiction lies with the federal government.
ICE agents are federal officials, just like states can prosecute federal officials that are involved in incidents in the line of duty.
As long as it's in the line of duty, that jurisdiction, again, lies federally.
It doesn't lie with the states because they wanted to go after this officer who, in self-defense, had a car accelerated towards him, was defending himself in that Renee Goode case.
Yeah, tragedy, but don't accelerate your car in the direction of a law enforcement official.
That lesson you can learn.
Let's talk about all this money now.
We know that, for example, a lot of people have been spied on, and we have both spent a lot of time covering that story, and you've broken a lot of news on it.
But now it runs deeper.
Now we're getting into, okay, money's being paid to people by the FBI in Arctic Frost and other investigations.
And how widespread is this?
And, you know, tomorrow I understand that Jack Smith's going to testify publicly.
I assume he's going to be asked about all of it.
Yeah, he certainly will.
And this is an important development because it takes us back to all the work you and I did, Sean, on Russia collusion.
We proved the Christopher Steele's owner.
This was a British MI6 agent.
So he had foreign ties, foreign influence on the Justice Department.
He was paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign, and he was telling the news media in violation of his confidential human source agreement that he was working for the FBI, which you're not supposed to do when you're informant service.
And Chris Ray takes over the FBI and says, all right, that was a really bad episode.
It's not going to happen again.
We're going to make sure that we don't hire confidential foreign sources that have foreign ties, political biases, and are going to blab that they're an informant when we're paying them.
Well, they didn't do a very good job at that.
What we have now learned from new documents that Kash Patel has dug up, that Justin News has obtained, that are going to be sent to Congress in the next several weeks, that the Biden-era FBI on Chris Ray's watch made more than $100,000.
It looks like about $150,000 in payments to informants who were members of an anonymous group of tech sleuths known as the sedition hunters.
Now, why is that important?
Sedition hunters were overtly anti-Trump, anti-conservative.
The FBI's own documents showed that they had foreign ties.
In fact, the work they were doing for the FBI was actually being done overseas with facial recognition software in Great Britain that apparently was trying to identify who were some of the January 6th defendants and what were people doing around the Capitol that day.
The third and perhaps most troubling thing is that this sort of work, the FBI could easily have done itself.
The FBI has contractors who do facial recognition software.
By the way, there are laws governing when you can and can't use it against an American citizen.
In this case, the FBI, according to Kash Patel, in his own words, ran over the FBI's operations manual.
It did not follow its rules.
It picked an anti-Trump group.
It picked a group with foreign ties.
And it picked a group doing work that probably should have been done through federal contracting, but we never knew about it because the FBI treated it as a confidential human source, and they hid it from the Congress.
They hid it from the American people.
And then here's the fourth thing: that's just like Christopher Steele 2.0, this group was bragging.
It was working with the FBI on its social media, doing exactly what Christopher Steele got fired for.
If you're a confidential human source, you're not supposed to talk about your relationship with the FBI.
All of Chris Ray's promises after Christopher Steele broken, according to Kash Patel, in this particular arrangement.
How come we never hear much about Chris Ray?
Because a lot of these deeds, a lot of these investigations happened under his watch.
And we only seem to hear about Comey, as bad as Comey was.
You know, the one thing that we had hoped, and we discussed this at the time, is that Ray would return the FBI to its once former greatness as the greatest law enforcement agency in the world.
Not only did he not do so, he seems to have kind of been able to push and distance himself from all the bad stuff that was going on.
And nobody ever seems to pay attention to his role in all of this.
Why is that?
That's a very important point here, and you're 100% right about it.
Chris Ray's watch, one could argue, was more consequential and more damaging to the FBI than even James Comey.
Because Comey was only in for a couple years.
Ray was seven years.
On Ray's watch, we now have really significant evidence that they were targeting Catholics.
On Ray's watch, they were screening FBI agents and deciding whether they got security clearances based on whether they supported President Trump or whether they were Second Amendment advocates.
If you were a pro-Trump Second Amendment advocate, you had a high risk of having your security clearance pulled by the FBI.
That's not just my reporting.
It was two years ago, but the Inspector General, the Justice Department, confirmed that on Chris Ray's watch, they raided Mar-a-Lago, even though the FBI's own agents said they didn't have probable cause.
They didn't meet the standard for a raid, a search warrant.
On Chris Ray's watch, they launched Arctic Frost, which was like an anchor dragging the ocean looking for any evidence and hopes they could find something on Donald Trump and his supporters.
And on Chris Ray's watch now, we know they did a Christopher Steele 2.0.
They hired a confidential human source that had a foreign tie, had an anti-Trump bias, and were doing work that probably should have been done by the FBI.
And we're bragging about the work, even though confidential human source agreements require that you don't brag about it.
That is Chris Ray's legacy, and you are 100% right.
Congress has been silent about his leadership, but it is increasingly clear some of the worst things in the FBI's record book occurred on his watch.
Well, I think that, you know, eventually we're going to probably get there.
I just don't know when.
All right, quick break, right back more with the founder, editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
John Solomon, your calls on the other side, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, if you missed the president's speech in Davos, I mean, it was rocket and rolling.
It was hardcore in your face, but also gracious in a lot of ways.
But anyway, we'll get to that speech.
You don't want to miss it.
I know most of you were busy this morning when he was giving it, but it was a classic Trump speech.
Maybe one of the best foreign speeches he's ever given, putting Europe allies on notice about how weak, pathetic, feckless they are, and how they're destroying their own countries.
And he's not wrong.
That's all coming up straight ahead.
All right, we continue now.
Our friend John Solomon, founder, editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter of justthenews.com.
What is the latest?
If you go back, and I know Peter Navarro, for example, really well.
And Peter Navarro felt that it was an issue, a constitutional issue, executive privilege.
And I agree with his point is that no advisor to the president is ever going to be free to tell the president what they really think if they're going to one day have to be questioned by Congress and answer those questions.
Now, what's amazing in the Banning case and the Navarro case is both could have gone before Congress and they could have pled the fifth and they could have walked out of there and there wouldn't have been a referral and they never would have gone to jail.
And both of them decided not to do that.
They decided to stand on principle.
In both cases, they went to jail.
The Clintons were faced with the same choice.
They were subpoenaed by Congress.
They failed to show up.
Now there's a criminal referral.
And the Democrats, they were the ones calling for Navarro's head and everybody else's head.
You know, where are they now when it comes to the Clintons?
Because they did the exact same thing.
Yeah.
Well, listen, we're going to find out whether Democrats are Hippocrats or not tomorrow on this issue because there'll be a House floor vote.
Is that a trick question?
Well, listen, James Comer told me this week that he feels confident that some Democrats are going to cross over and join with Republicans and be consistent.
Now, that's not all of them, but there could be some.
That's unusual for James Comer to make a prediction like that.
So he knows something that isn't public yet.
But here's the difference between what Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon were protesting and what Bill Clinton's protesting.
They had legitimate concerns, as you so eloquently laid out, about executive privilege.
They were trying to protect.
And until that issue was resolved, they wanted to protect the privilege because once you talk about it, you've eviscerated the privilege.
You can't go back.
They didn't get a fair run through the court system.
They got wrung up.
They went to jail.
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are going to refuse to testify about something that does not involve President Trump or President Clinton's presidential powers.
This was a private relationship, a private relationship with a private citizen when he was not president.
And still they want to avoid talking to Congress.
They don't have that executive privilege claim.
They don't have the other legal issues that are there.
They're simply saying, we don't want to talk.
We're sick of Congress.
Basically, their argument is, we're sick of you, and we don't want to deal with it anymore.
We're done with you.
That's going to make it a lot easier for some Democrats to cross over because the respect for Congress is just not there, and they don't have a legal or privileged argument.
They're simply trying to get out of doing something that every citizen probably has to do when called upon.
So I think the Democrats are going to have a tough day tomorrow.
I think there'll be some defections.
Not a lot, but some.
The Republicans do look like they have the votes.
And so Bill Clinton will be facing a criminal referral by dinner time tomorrow night.
Oh, I would imagine that if we have equal application of our laws, then they would face the same fate as Peter Navarro and the same fate as Steve Bannon.
But am I wrong in assuming that that would happen?
We'll have to see.
I mean, this will be a big test for the Pan Body Justice Department.
This will be a big test for the judges in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. that had no problem dispatching Bannon and Navarro to prison, putting Peter Navarro in leg irons.
Will they do the same thing to a Democrat?
These things are going to be tested.
It starts with Pan Body.
I think she'll authorize the prosecution.
And then it'll depend on how jurors in D.C. look at it and how a judge looks at it.
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But this will test our system.
And I think a lot of people have enormous doubt about whether we have the same justice system we had 20 years ago.
And I understand the polling on that is real.
This is a moment where judges and jurors in blue cities are going to have to show whether they believe in the Constitution or whether they're going to put their politics first.
Yeah, by the way, John, we just found out that there was a bipartisan agreement to hold them in contempt of court.
So we'll wait, watch, and see whether or not the Navarro banned treatment happens to the Clintons.
All right.
John Solomon, just thenews.com.
He's the founder, editor-in-chief, and chief investigative reporter.
As always, John, appreciate your time, your great work.
Thank you, sir, for sharing it with us.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Shall we let us say hi to John?
Is in Brooklyn and New York.
John, hi, how are you?
Here you have maybe two feet of snow headed your way.
I'm so sorry.
Right now, where I am in Florida, the free state of Florida, do you really want to know what the temperature is?
I'm going to guess it's 70-something.
70, 72 degrees.
Little overcast, but 72.
Yeah.
And for the record, very nice.
Nice, cool breeze.
Feels good.
For the record, it is sauce, Sean.
No doubt about that.
Sauce.
Okay, you're from Brooklyn.
Of course, you're going to say sauce.
You're from Long Island.
You were saying sauce not too long ago.
I've worked hard to eliminate the sauces, the coffees, the talk, how you're doings, and all that in my vernacular, considering.
Remember, I left New York five years in Rhode Island, although they have their own accent.
I lived five years in California, two years in Alabama, four years in Georgia, then went back to New York when Fox went on the air.
And now I'm in my third year down in the free state of Florida.
Thank God I got out when I did.
And I know you probably wish you could be down here with me.
I absolutely love Florida, and the media training has done a great job getting rid of your accent.
I love it.
I didn't get any media training.
I just finally, one day, I heard a tape of myself, and I said, oh, my God, do I talk like that?
And I realized I do.
And I just worked on it a little bit.
Touche, that's a fair point.
I wanted to chat about Greenland if you have a minute.
I do.
So, you know, my thought on this, and you're spot on when you tell every one of your guests, haven't we all seen how the president negotiates?
We know that, right?
He starts from the most extreme position and he works his way back.
And you think that everybody would kind of get that by now.
I think that that particular tactic has served him well and has worked well even for the country when he's in the role as president for a long time.
This particular transaction, I've said from the beginning back in 2019, strikes me more as an M ⁇ A transaction.
I think this particular transaction could have been handled better by sending over a team of investment bankers led by Jamie Dimon and the correct M ⁇ A lawyers.
That's right, lawyers, the right M ⁇ A law team.
And if it was handled in a bespoke private way, I think it could have been done a lot more effectively.
This seems to be a case of U.S. ambition in public against European stubbornness.
I think in this particular instance, he's going to have to find an off-ramp.
Now, he laid it out today by saying that he wasn't going to attack Greenland, which makes everybody feel better.
But at the end of the day, I think this could have been handled in a bespoke, private way, not to mention that this has to get done through Congress anyway, unless they're going to do it through the budget process, in which case you're going to need a supermajority or 60 votes in the Senate, which you're not going to get.
So this has hair on it in a variety of ways.
And again, even if he solved all of that and then got it into Congress, unless you're doing it through budget reconciliation, I don't know where you're getting the votes from Democrats that you would need to anyway.
Well, I'm telling you right now, I don't think he did it the wrong way.
I was saying, since this issue of Greenland came up, if you were paying attention to what I was saying on radio and TV, I said he's that this is, you would think after 11 years, people would understand how Trump works.
And you get it.
I get it.
The left, they just, you know, bubble and fizz like Alka-Seltzer and give off energy and they freak out at everything he says.
But that is his M.O. You'd think they'd figure it out by now.
Look, if I had to venture my best guess, what's going to happen next, okay?
For example, I made a lot of news the other night on TV when I said I'd give everyone in Greenland 100 grand and maybe a piece of the action in terms of the minerals.
The president addressed the rare earth minerals as he said, you know, it's way underground and there's maybe one month a year that you're even able to attempt to extract them.
It's not about minerals.
It's about the security of really the United States and the security of Europe.
They would be the biggest beneficiaries of America partnering with Greenland.
I'm going to make a prediction.
Donald J. Trump, art of the deal, is going to make them an offer that they can't refuse.
I think he's going to make them a very, very, very generous offer.
Remember, Denmark has treated the people of Greenland, 56,000 plus of them, horribly.
And, you know, the per capita income is about 60 grand, which includes $10,000 annually in welfare payments from Denmark.
As the president rightly pointed out today, you know, Denmark collapsed in about six hours when the Nazis came after them.
NATO is dead without the United States and the power and might of the U.S. military.
And, you know, for them to be, you know, so, so reactive, reluctant, resistant, and stupid.
And I love the president lecturing all of Europe on how they are destroying themselves with immigration policies, climate policies, their economic policies, their adaptation of socialism, their lack of requirement of assimilation.
I mean, you know, Sharia courts in Great Britain, no-go zones in parts of Europe is insane.
They are collapsing because of their politics.
They need the United States more than ever.
A strong United States in Greenland makes the world a better, safer, more secure place.
Now, the president said he's not going to invade.
I could have told you that, you know, when it first came up, and I did without saying it.
Now I'm telling you what the next step is going to be.
He's going to make them a very, very generous offer where if I had to guess, at the end of the day, every Greenlander is going to be a millionaire, if not multi-millionaires.
And I think that would be a good deal for the U.S. That's my prediction.
Let's see if I'm right.
Yeah, if we land in a good spot, then the ends justify the means.
It's strange for me to see Europe and Canada draw a line in the ice to say that the United States cannot have any territorial rights over Greenland.
It makes no sense why they would.
Obviously, we don't want a military invasion, but to come out and say essentially that there's no scenario where the U.S. can be controlling Greenland, that makes no sense.
But, you know, again, I would say this was an M ⁇ A deal and it could have been handled differently from the beginning.
And hope you don't want the president to lose faith by the end of it.
Well, let's see what happens.
It's going to be very, very interesting to watch.
I'll tell you that.
But I loved it.
It was so iconoclastic what the president did today.
It was great.
James and Alabama.
James, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm a Canadian PhD student.
I grew up in Canada.
I've been here for three and a half years.
Well, welcome aboard.
We're glad you're here.
We like our friends in Canada.
I think you have horrible leadership there.
And I think the president's right about Canada, too.
Canada would have no defense but for the U.S.
And I don't think they're very appreciative, to be very honest, generally speaking, as a country.
Okay.
I don't really have anything to say with that.
The reason I'm calling in is I wanted to start by agreeing with you about what you said on yesterday's program, what Denmark did to Indigenous women in Greenland through reproductive, reproductive coercion.
Do you remember you talking about this?
Yes.
Well, what happened is that Danish doctors, without the knowledge or consent of women, native Greenlanders, if you will, inserted unbeknownst to them, IUDs in them.
And only it took till December of 2024 until they acknowledged and apologized for it.
And frankly, it's repulsive.
And the way that, you know, for example, I read stories about people from Greenland that go to visit Denmark, and they're treated horribly.
They're not welcome.
It's terrible.
And the United States, I think, would welcome people from Greenland with open arms.
We'd love to partner with them.
I'd love to partner with them.
I think it would be in their best interest to partner with us.
Yeah.
So really, the reason I'm calling in is, you know, I believe that was an atrocity, and that's a full stop from me.
I'm genuinely so grateful that I have been given the opportunity to study in the United States, especially in the deep south.
I mean, it's been an incredible experience.
Culturally, it has been difficult for someone who grew up on the West Coast on Vancouver Island.
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And if you don't know where that is, it's above Seattle and next to Vancouver.
So I grew up on, you know, a liberal hippie island who spent six years in Toronto.
And, you know, I'm an academic.
And I'm also someone that listens broadly across the political spectrum because I believe societies work better if we can understand each other rather than talk past each other.
So when it comes to, you know, am I liberal?
Where do I fit?
I mean, Sean, I listen to your show just as much as I listen to crooked media, CNN, NBC, Fox News, and Newsmax.
And that is because I do not want to live in a cultural vacuum.
I don't want to sit there and nod my head and say, yes, bad, yes, good.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
In a way, I mean, okay, so you're open-minded, but you've got to admit that you get way more truth from me than any of the other outlets that you mentioned.
Well, I, I, I mean, whether it's BBC or Al Jazeera, I end up performing my own opinion.
No, I'm, listen, I'm going to give you a list of areas where I've been right.
Are you interested?
How come I got Richard Jewell right and the rest of the media got it wrong?
How come I got Duke LaCrosse right?
How come I got UVA right?
How come I got Ferguson, Missouri right?
How come I got issues in involving Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman right?
How is it that I can predict, as I did on election day, that Donald Trump was going to win every swing state?
What am I getting right?
How was I right way before anybody else on Joe Biden's cognitive decline, on Obama's radical associations, on the deep state, on the Russia collusion hoax, on FISA warrants?
I mean, I'm not patting myself on the back, but we take a lot of pride in getting things right on this program because that's my job.
It's not pride.
It's just my responsibility.
Why do you think I'm right and they're wrong a lot?
So I want to go back to the Richard Jewell thing because this directly aligns with what I study here at the University of Alabama, which is the threat security and the surveillance of the modern Olympiad.
And one of my chapters is on terrorism.
And I have a full chapter on Richard Jewell, where he was a scapegoat and he was treated very poorly.
And he had died, I believe, before they actually caught the real bomber.
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And he never really had a life after that.
So I agree with you 100% there.
What I want to talk to you about is, you know, we talk.
All right, you're taking too long to get to the point.
What is your point?
My point is that I would love to see, you know, if you're going to be talking about forced coercion, sterilization as an atrocity in Greenland, then it also is an atrocity in North America.
United States, federal investigations have documented serious consent failures involving Native women in America from the 1960s to the 1970s.
We also know about the Tuskegee experiments.
Canada is not immune to this.
There were legalized eugenics programs, and more recent findings involved the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women.
I was in British Columbia when they found mass graves of children buried at sites of schools run by the Catholic Church.
Look, so many countries have their original sin.
We all know that.
And, you know, the beauty of America's system, our constitutional republic and our framers and our founders, as imperfect as maybe some of them were, there's no such thing as a perfect person.
We've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, right?
But the beauty of our system is that it laid out a path to right wrongs, correct injustices, and America to get on the right path.
And throughout our history, we have proven over and over and over again that the genius of our framers and founders has played out exactly that way.
That's their genius.
Look, I'm just out of time.
I know we could talk all day.
I do appreciate your call.
Good luck at the University of Alabama.
I'm sure you're going to have a great time there and beautiful Tuscaloosa.