Sean Hannity and guests John Solomon and Greg Jarrett dissect Senate subpoenas for Jack Smith and Kash Patel's records, framing them as proof of a decade-long Democratic conspiracy involving Crossfire Hurricane and the Steele dossier. They allege the FBI weaponized the DOJ to target Trump allies under false pretenses while concealing intelligence failures to protect Hillary Clinton, citing illegal surveillance of Susie Wiles and a congressional "wish list." Ultimately, the hosts argue these actions transformed justice into an attack machine, urging civil lawsuits against officials like Merrick Garland for constitutional violations. [Automatically generated summary]
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So the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, yesterday, or actually earlier today, but I saw the story last night, released two subpoenas from the former special counsel Jack Smith, now FBI director of FBI Director Kash Patel, and his phone records from Arctic Frost.
And the records were released ahead of the hearing by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts Oversight Agency Action.
Now, in a minute, we'll be joined by John Solomon, Greg Jarrett, for analysis.
And what we are finding is Arctic Frost, it seems, now is the tip of the iceberg.
There are multiple other layers and levels of this type of, I believe, abuse in terms of unreasonable search and seizure and abuse of power.
We know about congressmen.
We know about senators.
We know that their phone records were subpoenaed.
Even people on the committee, on the committees that were investigating these very matters.
And for more than two years, they got two years' worth of phone records from now FBI Director Kash Patel.
This is before he became FBI Director.
And it shows that Smith's team was asking Verizon for his phone records from October of 2020 through February of 2023.
Now, this has happened to friends of this program, people like Jim Jordan and people like Ted Cruz.
Lindsey Graham has sworn that he's going to sue.
Let me play Ted Cruz talking about it because I think this is important.
You understand, and I've lived through a series of my own personal private text messages being released publicly.
They didn't get the text messages from me, but text messages, thousands of them with Paul Mattafort, my text messages with Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, my text messages with Kaylee McEnany, my text messages with others as well.
And what about my right to privacy?
Here's Ted Cruz.
Arctic Frost is the culmination of a gross pattern of abuse by Democrats for partisan ends to elect and re-elect a Democrat president.
In 2016, Obama's FBI began spying on the Trump campaign just a month before Election Day.
In 2020, Biden's FBI met with Senators Johnson and Grassley in an effort to throw off their investigation into the now infamous Hunter Biden laptop, calling the laptop disinformation, a claim we now know was false.
The FBI went to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and lied to him in an effort to change the outcome of a presidential election.
Democrats for years have exhibited the pattern of abusing public law enforcement powers for the sake of politics.
A pattern this committee under the leadership of Chairman Grassley is now working to uncover and expose.
Because no administration, Republican or Democrat, has any business turning the surveillance powers of the federal government against its political opposition.
Then Senator Cruz, now he's right about this.
There's a culmination of an abuse of power.
This gets to the heart of weaponization that we have talked so long about and a grand conspiracy.
Danny Tall calls out Democrats for not speaking out against the DOJ and their abuse of power.
And many of them knew a lot more than they'd let on at the time.
Listen.
50 years ago, this nation was confronted with an abuse of power.
And it responded not with indifference, but with accountability.
I'll tell you one of the big differences of Watergate versus Arctic Frost.
When Richard Nixon and his corrupt attorney general and his corrupt administration abused their law enforcement powers to go after their political opponents, Republican senators stood up to the president of their own party and defended the rule of law.
Where is even a single Democrat senator who has said one word about this abuse of power?
Is there not one?
There are 47 Democrats in this body.
Is there not one who can come forward and say, you know what?
Turning the Department of Justice into the OPPO research and attack machine of the DNC is not what the DOJ is supposed to be.
Now, this is critical, especially as this investigation is now going to expand forward.
And I believe this may tie into the big one grand conspiracy that has not been discussed in a while, but FBI Director Kash Patel has talked about it.
The Attorney General Pam Bondi has talked about it.
Now, Chuck Grassley announced that he is releasing the records of the wish list from Jack Smith's team of members of Congress they wanted data on.
This is Jack Smith's team wanting data on.
Listen to this.
Today, we're making new records public.
Some records are dated January 2023 before Jack Smith's team secretly sought most member tolling data.
The records include a wish list created by Smith's team naming 14 members of Congress for whom they've wanted to seek tolling data.
Some of those members are senators on this very committee.
But the list notes that Smith's team already knew these members had communication, so include text messages for some members with individuals associated with President Trump.
And Jack Smith was certainly aware of this effort to quote from the emails we're making public today, quote, before we tell Maine, meaning Maine justice, we're going to fire off subpoenas for so many members' tolls.
I should make sure that Jack's aware.
And the last thing that Chuck Grassley said is making public two subpoenas for toll records of Kash Patel, along with non-disclosure orders that kept all of this secret.
And lastly, today, we're also making public two subpoenas for toll records of FBI Director Patel, along with non-disclosure orders that kept them secret.
This committee's work will continue.
They kind of knew, I interpret that to mean that they kind of knew what they were doing is wrong.
Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this and expand out that Arctic Frost is only the tip of the iceberg.
John Solomon, he's the founder, editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, number one New York Times best-selling author.
Welcome both of you.
And let me start with you, John, because you're telling us Arctic Frost, and you reported on this program on your own program, is only the tip of the iceberg, that there are multiple other examples of this abuse of power that you believe you've uncovered.
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Four consecutive counterintelligence and criminal investigations by the FBI, all having special code names, all targeting President Donald Trump and his followers.
Hundreds of people caught up in him.
Almost all of them innocent, never going to be charged, never were charged.
And yet their privacy, their rights intruded on.
I encourage everybody to watch the exchange that just happened a short while ago between Senator Mike Lee and the current chief of staff of the FBI, Will Chamberlain.
In it, he walks him through classic interrogation.
Did the FBI listen in on a phone call with Susie Wiles and her private lawyer that should be privileged?
Yes.
Did they pretend they had permission?
Yes.
Did they have permission?
No.
Was that a wrong thing to do?
Yes.
Should a president be able to use his FBI to spy on the conversations of a campaign manager or his rival?
No, they shouldn't, sir, he answered.
It is an extraordinary two-minute exchange that occurred in the Senate.
Why is that so important?
That's just one of several tactics that occurred during this 10-year period where the FBI looked at Donald Trump first under Crossfire Hurricane, then under Operation Round River, then under Plasmic Echo, and then ultimately Arctic Frost.
Now, we believe the listening in on Susie Wilson phone calls occurred during Plasmic Echo.
But whatever, wherever they occurred, however they happened, you now have a senior FBI official acknowledging it shouldn't have happened.
It was wrong to do so.
And the reason we only know about it now is because the Chris Ray FBI put these things in prohibited access files that couldn't even be found by the next director without a lot of look.
Kash Patel had to spend months looking for these records because they were hidden even inside the FBI from their own people.
Just an extraordinary day today.
I want to point out one consequence from today.
Chuck Grassley's records today raised questions about testimony that Jack Smith previously gave to Congress.
If you remember a little while ago, Jack Smith testified to the House Judiciary Committee, and he said that the January 6th report and its findings were a really small part of all of his investigation.
Really didn't play a big role.
Today, just Chuck Grassley put out records saying where Jack Smith's talking about, they're going to log every finding of the report, and they're going to use it as leverage, and they're going to target people for interviews based on what the January 6th committee found.
The email suggests that the January 6th report and the work that the Democratic Select Committee did were a major part of Jack Smith.
Jack Smith told Congress they were a minor part.
That's a big conflict that I wouldn't be surprised will end up in a referral to the Justice Department for possible false testimony.
That was another big moment today in the hearing.
Wow.
Now, Greg Jarrett, you're one of the smartest lawyers I know.
Now, you tell me, is there culpability here?
Is this abuse of power?
Is this criminal?
Oh, absolutely.
All kinds of constitutional protections and rights were violated.
Due process was shredded.
And, of course, those are actionable crimes.
And you're so correct to point out, Sean, that Arctic frost is just one part of an elaborate criminal conspiracy to get Trump that stretched over a decade beginning in 2016 with the Russia hoax.
And of course, it is now, and John has written extensively about this, it's now the subject of a criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida where prosecutors are building on evidence uncovered by House and Senate committees.
James Comey, the latest to receive a subpoena for his pivotal role in knowingly promoting a hoax, the Russia hoax.
And of course, it began when Hillary Clinton approved a plan to smear Trump with a phony narrative that he colluded with Russia.
John Brennan and the CIA director discovered the plot, rushed to the White House, told Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and instead of telling the truth about Hillary's diabolical scheme to Congress and the American people, they concealed it.
They knew that the collusion narrative was all a lie.
So did James Comey's FBI, Brennan's CIA.
They knew the steele dossier was utter fiction.
They had debunked it near the outset.
But on Obama's orders, Comey and Brennan altered a key intelligence assessment to say otherwise.
And armed with that fabricated document, they then leaked it to the media to falsely implicate Trump, even though he committed no wrongdoing.
It is truly the dirtiest political trick ever perpetrated in American history.
An egregious abuse of power.
And the list of crimes really are endless.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Greg Jarrett.
John Solomon on the other side.
And is there any recourse for the people that have had their rights abused during this weaponization process?
We'll ask Greg Jarrett that question.
We continue with John Solomon, Johnstenews.com, and Greg Jarrett, 800-941-Sean.
We'll get to your calls at the bottom of the hour.
John, let me ask you, because I know we're up on the clock here, but I want you to give a preview of coming attractions because you know more about this than I do.
And how deep is this going to be, this abuse of power?
And why do I suspect that people like you have probably also been targeted?
I've been told by others, and I was told by Jim Jordan on a number of occasions, that I have been looked at repeatedly.
My social media is suppressed repeatedly by the deep state.
What's coming next?
Well, I think what you're going to see is a clear and comprehensive story starting to develop where the storyline is the original Russian investigation was designed to keep President Trump from becoming president.
Then the middle investigations are to keep him from winning reelection.
And then when he loses and he's trying to get back in power, the investigation of Joe Biden, the ones that are under Smith and under the FBI and Arctic Frost, they're literally spying on the opposition candidate to make sure they've got leverage to make sure he can't get back in office.
That continuum, if you and I tried to write a Hollywood script like this with Greg 10 years ago, people say, you're nuts.
No one would do that.
No one would believe that happened.
That's exactly what we're now seeing the evidence be laid out.
I think if 14 members of Congress, just like Chuck Grassley suggested today, were being targeted, anyone could have been targeted.
I don't have any reason to know whether Arctic Frost targeted me.
I do know the Justice Department targeted me.
I had to cooperate with the U.S. Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office.
I got cleared once they reviewed my report and realized it was accurate.
But if I had to go through that just for reporting stories, I can't imagine who else was caught up in this.
You see, especially people that were investigating zero experience, Hunter.
My understanding is that is a big part of this, too.
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That's what they're looking at.
That's what Round River seems to be about, protecting Hunter Biden and dishonoring or disabling people who are legitimately looking at very serious issues here.
So that's wrapped up.
And then we've got to keep a close eye on some of the election stuff that Tulsi Gabbard is starting to find.
That's also another area of foreign interference in our elections, foreign threats to our elections, I should say.
That's another piece.
More documents coming down the pike in the next few weeks.
All right.
I know, John, you have to run.
Greg, if you have a minute or two, I want to ask you on the legal side of this if there's any recourse for the victims of this weaponization and what it might be.
If you have a minute, John, thank you.
Appreciate you sharing your report with us as always.
Greg, hopefully you have a minute.
You can stay with us.
Then we'll get to calls.
800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right.
Greg Jarrett graciously agreed to stay a bit longer with us.
I do have one main question.
We've been talking about the weaponization, you know, this new information that, in fact, Democrats now even admitting that what they did in terms of spying on congressmen and senators.
And I cannot believe that they would ever spy on a call between the president's campaign manager, now chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and her own attorney.
And initially, they tried to say, no, no, the attorney gave us permission.
That turned out to be completely bogus and untrue.
And the attorney even said, if that's true, I deserve to be disbarred.
It never happened.
And now they acknowledge it never happened.
How deep, how wide this ultimately goes, I don't know.
But my one major legal question, Lindsey Graham has said he's going to sue.
We're talking about congressmen and senators and other people in Donald Trump's orbit.
And now we know it was Kash Patel for years they were looking into his records.
You talk about unreasonable search and seizure, a lack of constitutional authority and rights.
I mean, this was a wild, reckless phishing expedition.
And, you know, the law be damned, Constitution be damned, so it seems to me.
Greg Jarrett, for the people that are victims here, is there any recourse?
Lindsey Graham would like to sue.
I would like to see him be able to sue not only the government, but the people that were involved and responsible for shredding the Constitution here.
Oh, absolutely you can sue.
I mean, Joe Biden and his cronies secretly assigned the DOJ, the FBI, and out-of-control special counsel, Jack Smith, to persecute anybody in Trump's orbit.
And one of the ways they did that was to abuse their subpoena power.
Some 12 senators, roughly 400 individuals, all Republicans, 100,000 private communications were swept up in this digital sweep.
And 200 clandestine subpoenas that were hidden from view.
That's due process violation.
It's a violation of the Fourth Amendment, unreasonable search and seizure.
And it's actionable.
And there's a statute that's quite pivotal, deprivation of rights under color of law.
It is both criminal and it is civil.
So in other words, you can sue Lindsey Graham or somebody else, even yourself, if your rights were intruded upon.
You can sue for money damages caused by the harm of that egregious violation.
You know, I have found it very, very frustrating and hard over the years, as, again, I had mentioned that my own private personal text messages get released to the public, messages with Paul Manafort.
Now, when those messages came out, Greg, and I think we talked at the time, the most fascinating part of it, and it became, you know, breaking news on fake news, CNN, and MSDNC.
Sean Hannity's text messages with Paul Manafort are released, and it went on for, you know, an entire day almost.
And the most amazing thing to me is this is what they were concluding after reading it.
Oh, my gosh, he really believes this stuff.
This sounds just like his monologues.
Now, I took that to mean for me, does that mean everything that they're saying is false?
That they're fake, that they're different behind the scenes?
Because I never expected those text messages to be made public, but frankly, I viewed it as an intrusion on my privacy, my personal privacy, and I think I have a right to personal privacy.
The left always lectures us about personal privacy, don't they?
Yeah, they do.
And, you know, they're the ones that seem to be violating it the most.
And you're right.
You and I did talk about it when your text messages came out.
But they simply instilled confidence that what you were saying on the air is true, and it turned out to be true.
And you believed it to be true.
You know, look, anybody who was swept up in this digital sweep, as I described it, 100,000 private communications, you know, I would suggest that they consider talking to a lawyer because, you know, I'm talking to a really good one right now.
There isn't complete immunity for people in government who abuse power and violate the law themselves.
That limited conditional immunity vanishes, and they can be held.
The government can be held.
They individually can be held legally liable in a court of law.
That's going to be interesting to see.
I've gotten a little bit of a tip off that there's going to be a lot of public figures that likely at some point were targeted as well as these elected officials.
We'll see.
But, you know, I do have pretty good sources over the years.
I don't want to get over my skis.
I don't want to get ahead of myself, but we'll wait, watch, and see.
But it's good to know that in a case like this, if in fact they did it.
Now, you're not only talking about the government, what about the people that made the decision to do, to commit what is obviously a violation of one's constitutional rights?
What happens to them?
Well, they're in legal jeopardy, both criminally and civilly.
And, you know, we know that it wasn't just Jack Smith and individuals at the Department of Justice, but the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, approved this plan.
Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, FBI Director Christopher Ray, they all approved this confidential plan to collect private communications of 12 senators and roughly 400 individuals, as I say.
And, you know, they went to Judge Bosberg, a federal judge who's become rather notorious to try to hide it, particularly from members of Congress who by law are required to be told when that kind of collection is undertaken.
They were not told.
It was deliberately kept in the dark.
So, you know, I think the individuals associated with it are in legal jeopardy, both criminally and civilly.
Greg Jarrett, appreciate you, as always, best-selling author, Fox News legal analyst.
Thank you, Greg.
Appreciate you.
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You want to be a part of the program.
Jim in Michigan.
Hey, Jim, how are you?
Hey, son.
It's an honor to talk to you, long-time listener.
Hey, Bob.
Thank you.
Several things come up, just like they were just talking.
You know, the evidence is in.
It's clear.
Why do we keep investigating this time and time again?
I mean, I heard you talk last week something about MAGA might be losing support for President Trump or whatever.
We're behind President Trump.
We're just sick and tired of the continuous investigations and stuff, and nothing's happening.
Nobody gets prosecuted.
Let me put your heart at rest a little bit.
And I know the wheels of justice roll along very slowly.
I'm telling you right now, I know for a fact, I have a lot of good sources.
I think if you listen to the show, I think you would acknowledge that I know a lot of important people.
I'm just telling you that there is a real grand conspiracy investigation.
They're very hard to build, very, very time consuming.
Remember, all of these people that would be involved in that all have other jobs like keeping all of us safe and secure in the interim.
But I am telling you that it is not being ignored at any level at all.
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It's not fast enough.
It's not at the pace I would like or you would like.
But I'll give you these two words.
Stay tuned.
Let's see what happens.
Okay, my friend.
Your phone is a little off, so I'm going to have to move on.
All right, back to our phones.
Let us say hi to Lois in Alabama.
Lois, how are you?
Where in Alabama are you?
I'm doing very well, sir.
And you?
I'm good, ma'am.
Where are you from?
Birmingham.
You know what I love about Alabama?
I lived about 90 minutes north in Athens, Alabama.
If you go down 65, I used to go to the Birmingham Zoo all the time because I like zoos.
The most amazing thing about Alabama, the people there are wonderful.
Let me put it that way.
And it's just a great place.
Anyway, I digress.
What's on your mind?
Well, I had a question about wanting to know why President Trump can't use his executive orders to stop all this and so we can go in and pay TSA.
It seems like with it being an emergency, with us having a war going over there in Iran, that it would be like he would have the ability to be able to say, okay, you know, I can push this through now because we've got this war going on.
It just seems like it's so dangerous.
Or why don't we take the money from the tariffs that we've gotten from the other countries and borrow that to pay our TSA workers and everyone who is lacking a paycheck.
And then when the Democrats get through playing their little pity party thing, then we can put the money back into that tariff money.
I mean, because that's extra money anyway, right?
Well, let me tell you what Donald Trump cleverly did.
And he's not going to get credit for this.
And it looks like the president is open to this deal proposal where they will fund the Department of Homeland Security less ICE.
I don't think the mask issue the Democrats will win on, but those are the two sticking points.
The reason I think the president will do it is because too many people are being hurt.
Too many Americans are being impacted.
The Democrats have voted five times not to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
It's their responsibility.
They're now beginning to cave, and the president wants to be responsible.
And we need these agents.
We're in the middle of a war against the number one state sponsor of terror.
And they have already signaled that they want to trigger any sleeper cells that are in this country.
So the president will be the adult.
He'll probably sign on to it.
I would have preferred that it be tied to the SAVE Act, but the president has got, he's got so many, he's got a greater responsibility for the greater good.
And I understand his decision completely.
I really do.
And I ran into TSA agents this weekend, and I talked to them.
I always talk to them.
I never stop talking.
I never shut up.
And I'm talking to them, and they haven't been paid now for 39 days, these people.
They're struggling.
They need to be paid.
And half of them just decided, I'm not coming to work unless you pay me.
And I don't blame them at all for not going to work.
But to see Americans waiting six, seven hours online all around the country to just get up to the gate so they can get to their plane is insane.
To get a text from your airline saying, well, you need to arrive five hours early.
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I mean, that's awful.
We can't live our lives that way.
And also the voter ID thing, it's almost like the Democrats are afraid that if they pass this law, that they won't be reelected for their positions.
And I'm beginning to think that they wouldn't be because they know that theirs is coming from so many illegal voters.
That's why Chris Murphy gave it all away.
He said that illegals are the people the Democrats care the most about.
I'm going to roll along.
Lois, God bless you.
God bless Alabama.
Appreciate you.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I feel sorry for the people, the family, this University of Alabama kid, where was he?
He was in Barcelona.
Oh, my gosh.
Did you see that story, Linda?
I did.
I don't believe it.
It's so hard.
My antenna is so, it is like through the roof of my house right now.
I don't believe what we're being told.
I don't believe this kid died in shallow water.
It's an accident.
Five-minute investigation.
No, we think it's an accident.
I never trust that.
You never, first of all, that country is a mess right now.
Second of all, at the end of the day, we were not there.
We don't know anybody that was there.
He's supposedly left alone.
If I had my drothers about me, he probably got drugged.
They slipped something in his drink.
They took him out the back door, and that was that.
It's sad.
It's terrible.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We got a great Hannity tonight.
The president says Iran has agreed to end their nuclear weapons program.
Does this mean Epic Fury is coming to an end?
What are the conditions that the Iranians must agree to?
We'll have more detail.
We'll ask Jack Keene tonight.
We have Reince Priebus, Kayleigh McGee-White, James Comer, Greg Jarrett, and John Solomon.