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Jack Smith's Legal Shenanigans 00:14:53
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I think if you look at Arctic Frost, and now we do know for a fact, it's been confirmed by the Attorney General Pam Bondi.
It's been confirmed by the FBI Director Kash Patel that there is an investigation into what is a grand conspiracy to influence the outcome of elections and much more, going back to the dirty disinformation dossier, the double standard in terms of applying the law.
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute July 2016.
Of course, that was Mr. Higher Honor himself, James Comey.
The FISA warrant abuse all the way through Russia, Russia, Russia, all the way through every other issue.
The Biden's being protected, the family syndicate.
I mean, this is a real investigation.
When they had Jack Smith before Congress, I think one of the best moments was when Congressman Brandon Gill slammed Jack Smith for making up his own legal theory as a means of justifying his conduct, and in this case specifically about spying on members of Congress and then hiding it with non-disclosure orders on top of making payments, which is a separate issue.
Here's that exchange.
In May of 2023, you also issued subpoenas for toll records of nine U.S. senators and an additional representative.
Is that right?
In May of 23, we did issue.
You did.
And there were non-disclosure orders in conjunction with those subpoenas as well, right?
That's correct.
Consistent with department policy and law.
So again, nobody would know what you were doing.
The senators would, and the representatives would, and the American people wouldn't know what you were doing.
Is that right?
The toll records that we secured and the non-disclosure orders were consistent with policy and consistency.
And you knew whenever you were doing that that there was a risk you were violating the speech or debate clause.
Is that right?
The toll record subpoenas that we secured were with the concurrence of the public and television.
Your own analysis says that you knew there was a risk you were violating the speech or debate clause.
I have it right here.
This is an email from John Keller at Public Integrity Section to your team.
As you are aware, quote, as you are aware, there is some litigation risk regarding whether compelled disclosure of toll records of a member's legislative calls violates the speech or debate clause in the D.C. Circuit.
That's from your own analysis right there.
So you did know, didn't you?
Sir, with respect to the item you just put up on the screen, the last sentence states.
Oh, we're going to get to the last sentence.
Okay.
We're going to get to the last sentence.
And you cite case law in here, quote, the bar on compelled disclosure is absolute.
Is that right?
Or do you think that you didn't have to abide by that precedent?
To be clear, this is not, this statement is not from my office.
This is the statement.
This is your justification for those subpoenas and NDOs that you ordered.
This was part of your analysis.
It's a cursory analysis.
I think it's worth noting.
But let's get to that last sentence then.
Quote, given my understanding of the low likelihood that any of the members listed below would be charged, the litigation risk should be minimal here.
In other words, you're using a novel legal theory, which you knew was novel, has never been tested by any court.
You're not charging any of these members.
Nobody's going to know about it because you issued NDOs.
Nobody's going to sue about it.
So sue this.
So who cares?
We're going to do it anyways.
I mean, you walked all over the Constitution throughout this entire process.
Chairman, the gentleman's time since I'm here.
I'm members of Congress, and you know it.
It's absolutely disgraceful.
All right, Congressman Brandon Gill joins us now from the great state of Texas.
God bless Texas.
Sean, I'm doing great.
Thanks for having me.
All right.
So a very important exchange, in my view.
Do you think anything's going to happen with this?
Probably the question I get asked the most is, yeah, Sean, you've done great work.
You've exposed a lot of corruption and then nothing ever happens.
And, you know, I try to explain to people in a lot of cases, the statute of limitations have run out.
Well, that could be the case here.
The goal of these hearings, whether we do it on Somali fraud or about Jack Smith or anybody else, the goal of the hearings is to develop the information to bring a case that DOJ can then use to prosecute people who have engaged in illegal activity.
It seems like Jack Smith probably did engage in quite a bit of illegal things throughout this entire investigation.
Remember, this whole Arctic Frost investigation began with testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson that was completely debunked.
Then they used information from the January 6th Select Committee, which was run by Democrats for Democrats.
That was highly political.
And then, of course, Jack Smith.
By the way, do you believe a crime took place?
Because apparently all of the records involving I call it the predetermined outcome made for primetime movie, the novel that was the January 6th hearings.
I mean, they used Cassidy Hutchinson, but not the driver of the vehicle that had testified that Donald Trump never tried to commandeer the car that he was being driven in that day.
But, you know, a hearsay witness will put that person up because that person heard that Donald Trump tried to.
Right.
We're going to base this entire DOJ special investigation off of hearsay and then use that to start justifying, tapping, collecting phone data on sitting Republican congressmen and sitting Republican senators, including the then Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.
And they were doing this all in order to get one person, and that was to get President Trump, press charges against him, influence the results of the 2020 election.
I mean, and throughout this entire process, just walked all over the Constitution, violating the speech or debate clause for one, by collecting data on sitting Republican congressmen around the time of a major vote.
And you mentioned it earlier.
In order to sort of justify himself, we have the internal analysis that Jack Smith used to get these phone taps.
And even their own analysis said that we believe that there is some litigation risk, but we're going to do it anyways.
We're going to do it anyways because we're not collecting data or we're not pressing charges rather on these members of Congress.
So we're going to concoct an entirely new legal theory that says that this is okay.
Remember, this legal theory has never been tested in any court.
And we're going to slap NDOs on it, non-disclosure orders, so nobody knows what we're doing.
In other words, this is probably illegal, but here's some new legal theory that we're going to use to justify it, and nobody's going to know.
So we're going to do it anyways.
I mean, that was the analysis.
It was about a paragraph long legal analysis that Jack Smith used.
I mean, this was so flagrantly unconstitutional, but that's what we were dealing with.
And that's what we're trying to get to the bottom of still right now.
I mean, it really is remarkable.
They knew all these top members of Congress and the Senate.
They knew who they called, where the call was made from.
They knew the location of where they made the call, the location of who received the call.
I mean, this is so invasive and intrusive.
Wouldn't you normally, you know, under the Fourth Amendment have protections against unreasonable search and seizure?
Of course you would.
And I think Jack Smith knew that.
And that's why he wanted to keep all of this private.
In conjunction with those phone taps, the subpoenas that he issued, he also issued non-disclosure orders.
And I found the nondisclosure order related to Kevin McCarthy particularly interesting because he referred to, in that order that he sent to a judge, referred to Kevin McCarthy, the sitting Republican Speaker of the House, as a flight risk.
As if you think that Kevin McCarthy is going to hop on a plane and fly to Argentina and live his life as a fugitive.
I mean, that is insane.
And yet that was the justification that he brought forward with a judge.
Now, they try to claim that those NDOs are just sort of standard form letters, but we also have the NDOs that they use to collect data on Senator Cruz and other senators, and they don't refer to them as a flight risk.
Well, explain to me how the January 6th committee was able to destroy, or I guess they're missing, all of the records.
Because I assume and suspect, let's put it that way, maybe a better word, I suspect they got rid of those records because they knew it would be incriminating with the new Trump administration coming in, and they were not going to leave any evidence behind.
I think you're right there.
And, you know, the amazing thing about this whole Arctic Frost investigation that we're doing to oversee what happened is most of the information we have isn't coming from the FBI, and that's not a reflection on Kash Patel.
He's been great.
It's because the people who were engaged in this knew what they were doing is wrong.
They destroyed documents.
They hid documents.
What we have here is information that we got from whistleblowers primarily.
I mean, they knew what they were doing was wrong.
You know, typically, if you want to hide what you're doing, you probably have something on your conscience that you know what you're doing in this context is illegal and unconstitutional.
Quick break more with Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas on the other side.
Then we'll get to your calls coming up, 800, 941, Sean, as we continue.
All right, we continue with Brandon Gill, Congressman Texas.
Then we'll get to your calls coming up, 800, 941, Sean, as we roll along this Tuesday.
Let me ask you about it.
Well, it's kind of related.
Everything in Washington's related.
And for those that don't know, by the way, there was an announcement earlier that we reported on.
The House did pass this bill to end the government shutdown, a $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown.
Today, it cleared a bipartisan vote under the insistence of President Trump.
I don't know what's going to happen if Democrats want to run on defunding the Department of Homeland Security and eliminating ICE.
I'm all in favor of that because the American people in overwhelming numbers won't want that, and it won't go over well, and it won't end the way they think it'll end.
But, you know, you had written Mitch McConnell asking his committee, and this goes back sometime, on the issue of the SAVE Act and how 83% of Americans want proof of citizenship to vote.
The House did their job with it.
The Senate needed to do theirs.
Where are we with that?
That's something that we're continuing to push.
The shutdown is over.
We've got the bill passed out of the House today.
But I think that the fight on the SAVAC still remains, and we've still got a DHS appropriations bill that we're going to be working on there as well.
And I agree, I'd love to hear Democrats run this next election cycle on defunding ICE and reopening up the borders and all of the things that stopping all of the things we got a mandate to do last fall.
But with the SAVE Act, this is something that the vast majority of Americans, including Democrats, agree with that the American people do not want illegal aliens or foreign nationals influencing our election system.
I mean, that's a core part of American stock.
Well, a big part of it, though, is proof of citizenship.
Now, I've said We need national standards, voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody, control for any mail-in ballots.
They should be under a camera's watch from the minute it enters any voting facility so nobody can tamper with it, updated voter rolls, partisan observers in every precinct watching the voting all day and the vote counting all night.
I'd prefer paper ballots myself.
Why would Democrats be against that?
You know, I think the Democrats believe that this is an existential political battle for them because their whole ticket towards long-term electoral politics in the U.S. is allowing foreign nationals and illegal aliens to vote.
I mean, that was the core premise behind open borders for four years under Joe Biden.
We'll let his million.
So in other words, we'll let you come in.
We won't vet you.
Among you will be murderers, rapists, child molesters, known terrorists, cartel members and gang members.
And then we'll give you something of great value, American citizenship.
And wink, wink, we hope you vote for us.
Is that what it was?
That's exactly what it was.
And on top of that, illegal aliens being in the United States are counted in the census, which impacts congressional apportionment, meaning the number of congressmen that each state gets.
So blue states get bigger representation than red states do because they tend to be the states where you have more sanctuary jurisdictions.
So this entire open borders agenda from the left was intended to systematically rig America's elections in favor of the left.
Look, the polls show this isn't popular.
I think it's in the high 80s in terms of the percentage of Americans that want proof of citizenship to vote.
If you look at the actual numbers, and I went over this last night, the number of people that want illegal immigrants sent home is in the upper 60s.
It's breathtaking to me that Democrats have now staked out this hill where they want to defund dismantle, have no bail laws, reimagine the police, open borders, and they are fighting against ICE deporting the worst of the worst criminals and attacking them and smearing and slandering them.
They voted for the largest tax increase in history.
They have, you know, they have married themselves to the climate alarmist religious cult, and Republicans voted for the largest tax reduction in history.
I'm like, okay, I'll take a choice election like that every day of the week.
Oh, I mean, you're exactly right.
I mean, this is the same party who told the American people that boys can become girls and boys should be playing in girls' sports and thought that that would be politically popular.
And this isn't a party that's particularly known for a living in reality.
But the bet that they made, they think that however unpopular open borders are, however unpopular just wildly unchecked spending is, what we can do is bring these people in and we will tell them, you vote for Democrats and we'll give you amnesty.
And that's the plan.
That is their electoral strategy.
They can't win over voters in the country currently through logic or through any kind of compelling political argumentation.
So they've got to rig the elections.
Billie Eilish's Homage 00:02:01
All right.
We appreciate your time.
Brandon Gill, Congressman Texas.
Thank you, sir.
Keep up the good work.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Now, did you see or hear, were you watching this weekend, any of the Grammys?
You're like me.
I didn't watch it, but I saw the highlights of it.
You know, Billie Eilish?
I do.
Okay.
Now, did you know that Billie Eilish said that we all live on lands that were stolen?
I did hear that, yes.
Did you know that Billie Eilish has a $3 million home?
I do know that, yes.
Yeah, she was railing against ICE and insisting that no one is illegal on stolen land.
That was the comment that she made.
She has a $3 million mansion in Los Angeles.
And now, it was a little background check by the New York Post.
The indigenous inhabitants of the L.A. basin, known as the First Angelinos, said they appreciate Eilish's sentiment.
However, they noted the performers never contacted them directly, insisted the next time she explicitly referenced them.
Quote, Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property.
We do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of our country.
And it is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles basin remains part of their territory.
Huh.
Well, I guess you're not.
I'm sure she's going to sell her house right away.
Absolutely.
Really, what she should do is she should, with her own money, turn it into some sort of incredible museum to pay homage, as you would say, to all of these.
Homage To A Woman 00:11:26
It was too easy.
I had to do it.
Homage.
That's right.
It's homage.
It's not homage, like you usually say.
I do say homage, but I was teasing you.
It's homage.
She really should turn it into a museum for the tribe.
It's not sauce.
It's not source.
It's not.
It is.
It always is.
She should hand it over.
She should hand it over and turn it into a museum and pay for her home to be turned into the museum to pay homage to the tribe and really just do it all in her own time to show that she's committed.
She is committed to the effort.
You're butchering the King's English, just for the record.
All right.
This is one weird story.
Joe Biden, her ex-husband, arrested yesterday on charges.
He murdered his wife in their Delaware home in December.
Guy's name's William Stevenson, previously married to the former first lady.
He's been hit with first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing his current spouse at their Oaks Hill, you know, according to the house at Oaks Hill in Delaware.
Cops responded, domestic dispute, found her unresponsive on the floor.
What the hell is that?
And, you know, there was an article about the woman from Arkansas that Hunter had a child with.
The girl, there's a picture of the little girl.
She was just adorable.
How do you, as a father, I'm not saying you have to stay with somebody.
I'm just saying, how about if you bring a child into this world, you got to man up and be responsible.
Take care of your kids, man.
Yeah, but he doesn't see it like that.
He told her he didn't want that kid.
He told her to handle it.
And she said, no, I don't believe in that.
I'm going to have the baby.
He's like, all right, you're on your own.
So, I mean, why are these people saying she's a former stripper?
I don't care what she did for a living.
They had a consensual relationship.
She had a child.
And then the worst part is the president and first lady ignored her at the time.
Joe Biden and Joe Biden wouldn't even acknowledge their own granddaughter.
Honestly, in the long run, I think it's a really good thing.
I don't even know why this woman wants anything from these people.
You know what?
That's actually not a bad analysis.
I don't maybe, you know, I do know people that get divorced and then like one parent just skips out and they just check out and they just go away.
And it's actually in the best interest of the kids that that person is gone.
A hundred percent.
There are horrible people that are not meant to be parents.
It's totally true.
So I met Savannah Guthrie one time, and now I knew Katie Kirk.
Never liked Katie Courrick.
Katie Couric was not a nice person.
She just wasn't.
Every time I used to, remember I used to do all those shows, GMA and The View and The Today Show and all those shows.
Okay.
I don't do that crap anymore.
I don't need it.
I don't need them.
But anyway, I met her.
She could not have been nicer.
And I'm just straight up telling you she was a very genuine, nice person.
Wasn't triggered or offended that Sean Hannity the conservative is there.
She didn't care.
And I met her, talked to her a little bit, really liked her.
I feel terrible for her because, you know, the sheriff out there is saying that her 84-year-old mother did not leave on her own from their residence on Saturday night.
And, you know, more details are coming out.
And they think that she might have was likely snatched from her bed in her home.
And Lapima County Sheriff, Chris Nanos, you know, said to CBS, I can't think of the last time we're in the middle of the night in someone's bed, an 84-year-old woman disappeared on us.
We believe she was taken out against her will.
Now, I think she had a ringtone, one of those ringtone, everyone should really have Simply Safe.
They're just so much, they're so superior.
But ringtone is pretty good, I guess.
It's better than nothing.
But they think this woman was abducted from her home.
And I, you know, why would anyone want to abduct an 84-year-old woman that apparently was not doing well health-wise?
It's terrible.
Yeah, I mean, they said after 24 hours that she was going to be in bad shape because she's going to need her medicine.
I have Ring, and I have to say, you know, I actually have Ring and Simply Safe.
I have two systems.
And I've had Simply Safe for years, and then we added Ring on for another reason.
Anyways, more details than you need.
But the point is.
Have you gotten the updated AI-generated outdoor guard protection for Simply Safe?
I haven't gotten that.
You need to update it because it is like it's the next generation on steroids.
It's incredible.
No, they have a great program and it works really great.
And we've kept it for years.
But I will tell you that.
I have facial recognition.
I have a recording all day long that lasts for years.
It just is a scary environment because the left is so radicalized.
I mean, you know, how chilling is it for Savannah Guthrie and her 84-year-old mom, what looks like a ransom note being reported, as we said earlier by TMZ.
It's scary.
It is scary.
And what's more scary is it's like, okay, if they pay this ransom, do they get their mom back?
Has this person already hurt their mom?
Like we said it before, you know, again, she hasn't had her medication in 24 hours.
It's been 36, I think, or 40 hours since she's been missing.
I mean, it's a really scary thing.
We're praying for Savannah's mom.
It sounds terrible.
The only thing I'm going to add to it, and it's separate and apart, it's just a commentary.
I think we should give the proper amount of attention in the hopes of finding this woman.
And everybody now in the country knows this woman is missing and knows what she looks like.
That's a good thing.
However, in the month of January, 130 some odd people shot, nearly 30 dead in Chicago.
Nobody knows one name.
And then all of the people that have been raped and murdered and victims of violent crime and child molestation that ICE has been arresting, that never gets put into perspective by the legacy media mob.
Now, they might not seem related in many ways.
They're not.
However, with all the concern, rightly, that we're giving Savannah Guthrie's mom, why don't we give concern about, you know, this is like the Democrats not standing for Lake and Riley's family or Jocelyn Nungari's family.
You know, either you care about humanity or you don't.
You know, Black Lives Matter.
Every life matters to me.
I believe God created every man, woman, and child on this earth.
I don't like it when people are raped and murdered and victims of violent crime.
And you can't think of a worse punishment for a child molester in my mind.
I agree with you.
And I will say I read a story yesterday about a gentleman whose daughter was snatched out of her bed.
And there was a child predator that was registered in the area.
He was released because all across these blue cities, we have lowered the incarceration time for people who commit any type of pedophilia, which is beyond me.
And this guy climbed into her window, took this child, and was in the process of raping her.
And her father came and killed him and rescued his daughter, and he went to jail.
He's now out of jail and running for Congress, which is kind of amazing in and of itself.
But those are the stories we don't hear about every single day.
So while I love that, you know, people are paying attention and praying for Savannah Guthrie.
I wish they prayed for everybody this way.
I wish they played.
Then I think if we did and people, I wish people appreciated ICE.
Anyway, let me get to our phones.
800-941 Sean is on number.
Greg in Tennessee.
What's up, Greg?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Sean.
It's good to talk to you.
Pleasure is mine, sir.
Glad you called.
Yeah, we go way back to, I don't know, 1989 when you used to fill in for Rush.
So I've listened to you for a long time.
I hope you didn't hear that first show at Rush.
The golden EIB mic fell and Rush comes back from vacation.
John Hannity panted the golden EIB microphone.
I mean, is there anybody that was more there were people that never understood Rush and it cracked me up because he had his tongue in his cheek the whole time and that's so stupid.
He was a great guy.
The reason why I'm calling is I have a, well, first of all, you know, I'm sure there's tens of thousands of people around the world that want to become U.S. citizens.
And they do things like they go to the U.S. embassies, wherever they're, you know, whatever country they're in, and they do things the proper way.
So my question is, how many of those people are bumped or even denied because of all the illegal immigration into our country?
You know, the millions that come here illegally.
How does that affect legal immigration?
I mean, there's a fundamental unfairness to it, and people don't want to bring that part up.
Look, what I want ICE to do is to first prioritize all the violent criminals to make our streets, towns, cities more safe and secure.
As it relates to the people that enter this country illegally, I think that we have a system in place that works perfectly.
They self-deport.
We pay for their airfare home.
We give them money in their pocket and the right to come in legally after we vet them.
I think that there's got to be a penalty.
And I'm quoting Barack Obama when I say that.
However, that's not the immediate problem.
The immediate problem are the murderers, rapists, child molesters, other violent criminals, gang members, known terrorists in the country.
I would prioritize them first, which is what they're doing.
I agree with that.
However, I want them all to leave because the people that do it legally are probably going to be a better benefit to our country and help our country not be a bad thing to our country.
they're going to take from us instead of get to us as, you know, as American citizens and cost us money.
And of course the, it's costing untold hundreds of billions of dollars.
And this is why I like Lindsey Graham's bill.
It'll totally, completely codify once and for all that sanctuary cities and states have to be abolished.
And they're not going to get any taxpayers' support if they don't.
Because they're aiding, abetting, and obstructing.
And it has to end.
It has to.
And they do it.
They've institutionalized this lawbreaking.
It has to stop.
Officially On Iran Watch 00:00:50
All right.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
We will have the latest Savannah Guthrie, this TMZ blockbuster.
Now it looks like there might be a ransom note.
We're following that.
Nancy Grace will join us on that.
We will have the latest on the immigration insanity.
Ari Fleischer, Rein's previous Senator Tom Cotton, will join us.
We are officially, officially on Iran Watch.
Trisha McLaughlin, Tommy Larin, and much more.
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