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And welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. 21 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: I'm Greg Jarrett's sitting in for Sean Hannity today over 22 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: the course of the next three hours. Why because Sean 23 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: is down in McCallum, Texas, with President Donald Trump. Trump 24 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: is there meeting with US Border Patrol agents, He's participating 25 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: in a round table on immigration and border security. He's 26 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: visiting the Rio Grand River and receiving an in person 27 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: briefing on border security efforts. And Sean will be sitting 28 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: down with the President for an exclusive one on one 29 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: interview with President Trump. And as soon as Sean finishes 30 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 1: that interview, he'll be calling in here to his own show, 31 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: and Sean and I will be talking about what the 32 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: President said, what the President intends to do next, And 33 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: be sure to tune in on the Fox News Channel 34 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: at nine o'clock Eastern time on Hannity because the entire 35 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: one on one interview with President Trump, conducted by Sean 36 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: Hannity will air in its entirety tonight on The Hannity 37 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: Show on Fox News Channel. That's nine o'clock Eastern time. 38 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: So lots to talk about here. Let's begin with what 39 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: the president has done and what he may do next. 40 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 1: He met on Capitol Hill yesterday with Democratic leaders of 41 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: the House and the Senate other congressional leaders, and he 42 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: offered to sign all of the bills they proposed to 43 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: reopen the partial government shutdown in exchange for their consideration 44 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: of funding. And the President didn't demand a specific amount, 45 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: but he'd like to have five billion dollars, but consideration 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: of some funding of a barrier. And as you know, 47 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: the President of the other night in his Oval Office address, 48 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: he was even willing to say, all right, it doesn't 49 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: need to be a wall, it doesn't need to be concrete. 50 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: How about a metal or steel barrier, an olive branch 51 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,559 Speaker 1: that the President extended to his critics and political opponents 52 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill, the Democrats who control the House, Nancy Pelosi, 53 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: Pelosi their speaker, and Pelosi said yesterday along with Schumer, no, 54 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. So the only offer 55 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: so far by Nancy Pelosi visa v. The wall is 56 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: one dollar. That's literally what's on the table. She jokingly said, 57 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: I'll give you a dollar, mister President, and that's where 58 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: she stands. The President is willing to compromise, has offered 59 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: various options, and Democrats say, absolutely not, We're not going 60 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: to do it. So the Democrats are to blame early 61 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: the shutdown, partial shutdown of the federal government. So what 62 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: does the president do next? Here is what the president 63 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: should do. He should, as his predecessors before him, exercise 64 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: the right to declare a national emergency and then direct 65 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: under a specific federal statute the construction by the military 66 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: of the wall that he proposes on our southern border. 67 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: Now can the president do that? Of course he can 68 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: do that. First of all, the Constitution provides the president 69 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: with broad executive power to wage war, not against just 70 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: foreign foes, but to wage war against emergencies. In fact, 71 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: if you know your history, and I'm sure you do, 72 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: that was the basis upon which Franklin Roosevelt in nineteen 73 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: thirty three. Is soon as he took over the presidency, 74 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: he assumed jurisdiction over all banks in America. And he 75 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: did so because it was an emergency. There was no 76 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: specific statute or constitutional provision that says you may do that. Instead, 77 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: there are inherent powers within the Constitution that gave him 78 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: that right, that power, that ability. It's long been established 79 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: that the president's principal duty, after all, is to protect 80 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: the lives and the safety and the security of American citizens. 81 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: No one doubts that if President Trump declares that illegal 82 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: entry into the United States is jeopardizing the health and 83 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: security of Americans, their very lives, he may act. So 84 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: is that illegal immigration jeopardizing lives? Look at the statistics 85 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: provided by the Department of Justice. In the last two 86 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: years alone, criminal aliens have been responsible for approximately two 87 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five thousand violations of law, four thousand homicides, 88 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: thirty thousand sex crimes, over one hundred thousand violent assaults. 89 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: In just two thousand and eighteen, seventeen thousand individuals with 90 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: criminal records were apprehended at the southern border. And it 91 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: goes beyond that. The crisis is also that of drugs. 92 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:45,679 Speaker 1: We are experiencing an acute opioid crisis in America. Three 93 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: hundred Americans are killed every single week from heroine, and 94 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: ninety percent of that heroine is flooding across our southern border. 95 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: So is there a crisis our lives in jeopardy? Of course, 96 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: So beyond the inherent powers of the president to declare 97 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: an emergency, the president also has specific constitutional authorities. Look 98 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: it up. Article two, Section three. The president quote shall 99 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: take care that the laws be faithfully executed. End of quote. 100 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: Since crossing the border without government permission is against the law, 101 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: it's a crime, the president is empowered to take action, 102 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: such as building a wall, to halt that law breaking. 103 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: And if you have any question at all about whether 104 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: a barrier at the southern border, whether it be a 105 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: fence or a steel barrier or a concrete wall, works, 106 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: just listen to the Secretary of Homeland Security the other day. 107 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: She stood in of telephones and microphones and television cameras 108 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: and said, in places where a wall exists on our 109 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: border with Mexico, ninety to ninety five percent of illegal 110 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: immigration is reduced. So it works ninety to ninety five 111 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: percent of the time. But beyond the inherent powers of 112 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: the Constitution, there's something else. In nineteen seventy six, Congress 113 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: passed the National Emergency's Act, vestings specific authority in the 114 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: president to decide if and when a national emergency shall 115 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: be declared, and permitting the president to issue an order 116 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: pursuant to what he deems to be an emergency. Congress 117 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: waived its veto power over his decision to determine what 118 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: constitutes an emergency, and by the way, that was affirmed 119 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: by the West Supreme Court in nineteen eighty three. The 120 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: Emergency Act gives the President greater authority to take actions 121 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: that he might otherwise be constrained to take. He can, 122 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: for example, redirect funds money on an emergency basis to 123 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: meet the crisis. So it's a two step process. First, 124 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: the President declares a national emergency, and then he's authorized 125 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 1: under a specific federal statute passed by Congress. I don't 126 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: want to get wonky on you, but here it is 127 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: ten USC. Twenty eight o eight. I have it in 128 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: front of me. It's really simple, one page long, three paragraphs. 129 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to read it to you. In the event 130 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: of the declaration by the President of a national emergency, 131 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: in accordance with a National Emergency Act, the Secretary of Defense, 132 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: without regard to any other provision of law, may undertake 133 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: military construction projects, and may authorize the secretaries of the 134 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: military departments to undertake military construction projects not otherwise authorized 135 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: by law. In other words, it doesn't have to be 136 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: a specific authorization from Congress to build a wall. The 137 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: President may direct the Secretary of Defense start building the 138 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 1: wall using military contractors. And the president not only has 139 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: the power to issue that order, no one can stop him. Now, 140 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: will somebody file a lawsuit? Of course, you know in America, 141 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: anybody sadly can file a lawsuit, regardless of whether it's 142 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: legally merited. Senator Kamala Harris, who's surely going to be 143 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: announcing very soon she's running for president of United States, 144 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: Democrat from California, has said on the record she will 145 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: sue the President to stop him from using his emergency powers. 146 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: But remember, since Congress conferred and in fact abdicated its 147 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: authority to the president for handling emergencies, her lawsuit and 148 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: any other one like it will be very difficult to 149 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: sustain because they have no legal basis to complain. I mean, 150 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: if Congress intended to have some say in what constitutes 151 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: an emergency, it failed to place any limiting language in 152 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: the National Emergencies Act. Congress gave the president unfettered power 153 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: and determination. And by the way, you know, this is 154 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: a president who would be doing very much what other 155 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: presidents have done since the passage of the National Emergencies Act. 156 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: Presidents have utilized the authority. Bill Clinton seventeen times, George W. 157 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 1: Bush twelve times, Barack Obama thirteen times. And in fact, 158 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: there are currently thirty one emergencies still in effect, dating 159 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: all the way back to President Jimmy Carter's emergency declaration 160 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: punishing I ran back in nineteen eighty and many of 161 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: those I have a list here. But almost all of 162 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: these declared emergencies deal directly with foreign threats, and the 163 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: same certainly can be said of illegal border crossings from 164 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: Mexico into the United States. But you know, you hear 165 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,439 Speaker 1: people in the media who are among the dumbest people 166 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: I know, who say, well, where's the crisis? Crisis? What crisis? 167 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: Reminds me of the Supertramp album? You know that was 168 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: one of my favorite albums in young people these days 169 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,719 Speaker 1: go Supertramp? What's Supertramp? One of the great albums was 170 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: what Crisis? And that's the media these days. But they 171 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: weren't complaining when Barack Obama issued a national emergency declaration 172 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: to block the property of certain persons contributing to the 173 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: conflict in Central African Republic. Same thing contributing to the 174 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:32,719 Speaker 1: situation in Burundi and South Sudan. If you ask the 175 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: average American do you think Burundi and South Sudan and 176 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: the Central African Republic constitute US national emergencies? The average 177 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: person would say, are you kidding me? Burundi and South 178 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: Sudan and the Central African Republic are not a national 179 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: emergency to the United States, And yet no one complied 180 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: and when Barack Obama declared them national emergencies. But here 181 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: we have, as I outlined a serious life or death 182 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: crisis at our border, and I gave you the statistics 183 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: a moment ago, and you still have members of the 184 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: media saying, well, it's not really a crisis. Um, I 185 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: want to play this cut here of commentary of individuals 186 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: saying this is not a crisis and other individuals explaining 187 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: how they're wrong. This is cut eighteen. Take a listen. 188 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: But the big scam of the whole address was that 189 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: there's a crisis. There's not a crisis. Ninety being in 190 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: a red car. What is the overdocing on? I think 191 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: my neighbor and her sister wrote overdo the victim appeared 192 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: to have been executed and left in the street. We 193 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: were able to identify a group of emas thirteen gang 194 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: members who we believe are responsible in a suspect in 195 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: a series of brutal crimes is a gang member and 196 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: illegal immigrant who's been deported four times. Tommy Vladim Alvarado 197 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: Ventura is accused of stabbing two women and sexually assaulting 198 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: a two year old girl. We saw from Trump today 199 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: the typical lying, the nonsensity spinning of crises out of 200 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: whole class ms. Thirteen gang members were rounded up this morning, 201 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: charged in three murders. Sixteen year old Kla Quavis and 202 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: her fifteen year old best friend, Nissa Mickens brutally beaten 203 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: to death. Miguel Albarez Flores and Diego Hernandez Rivera both 204 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: based aggravated kidnapping and murder charges for allegedly killing a 205 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: teenage girl during a Satanic ritual last month in Texas. 206 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: America's overdose crisis is worse than ever before because of 207 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: the synthetic opioid fentel. It is deadlier than a heroin overdose, 208 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: so that we have almost double this time last year. 209 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: A synthetic opioid fentyl is causing carnage like America has 210 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: never seen. Overdoses are now the leading cause of death 211 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: for Americans under the age of fifty. Let's start out 212 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: with this idea of crisis. The President use that word 213 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: several times in the speech. Just because you say it's 214 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: a crisis, George, doesn't necessarily make it once. Suffolk County 215 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: Police announcing the arrest of seventeen gang members after a 216 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: series of violent incidents, including the massacre of four young men. 217 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: If Haro was the epidemic, fentenol's the plague, and the 218 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: plague is here process by the way, it feels like 219 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: it's a colossal waste of time. So he can deliver 220 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: on a chant he began three years ago at some 221 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: of his rallies. It's all about nothing. I'm Greg Jared 222 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: on the Sean Hannity Show. Will be right back. 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And Sean Hannity 240 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: is as we speak down of the border near McAllen, 241 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: Texas and the Rio Grand and he is with President 242 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and he'll be interviewing President Trump one on 243 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: one sit down interview, and as soon as he finishes it, 244 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: he'll be calling into this program to talk to us 245 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: about what the President said and what he intends to 246 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: do next. Will he declare a national emergency and direct 247 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: the military to begin construction of a wall in areas 248 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: where it is needed. And the President has requested funding 249 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: from Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer refuse to budge, 250 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: And that interview, by the way, will be played live, 251 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: well live to tape in its entirety tonight at nine 252 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: o'clock on Hannity on the Fox News channel. So you'll 253 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: want to be sure to tune in then to see 254 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: all of the interview. But Sean's going to call in 255 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: over the next couple of hours and give us an 256 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 1: update on what the President said. And I'd like to 257 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: put the question to you, and I would hope that 258 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: you would give me a call and tell me what 259 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 1: you think. The number, by one, by the way, is 260 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one. Sean, that's eight hundred 261 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: nine four one seventy three twenty six. Will be getting 262 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: to your calls in just a moment. We have quite 263 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: a few standing by. But the question is this, should 264 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: the President declare a national emergency and order the Secretary 265 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: of Defense, as authorized by law, to begin construction of 266 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: a border wall in places where it is needed. The 267 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: president has absolute authority to do this. Other presidents have 268 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: declared national emergencies for a whole lot less. And when 269 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: you think of what's at stake here, criminal aliens, in 270 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 1: the last couple of years have committed two hundred and 271 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: thirty five violations of the law, including four thousand homicides, 272 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: thirty thousand sex crimes, over one hundred thousand violent assaults, 273 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,719 Speaker 1: and ninety percent of the heroine that luds across our 274 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: southern border, killing three hundred Americans every single week. Does 275 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: that not constitute an emergency a crisis? It does, that's 276 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: my opinion. What are your thoughts. Let's go to our 277 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: phone lines. Drew stands by in Daytona Beach. Drew, what 278 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: do you think? Great? My question is, assuming that the 279 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: President does declare a national emergency, he's gonna have to 280 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: use military funding to construct the wall. Would it be 281 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: possible for Kevin McCarthy to add in that dollar figure, 282 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: whatever it is, into the continuing Resolution and still get 283 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: that funding back again for the military basically to kind 284 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: of sweep this all together in one deep little well. 285 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: He could, but Pelosi would stop him from doing so, 286 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: and since she's now the Speaker of the House and 287 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: controls the majority in the House, that's probably unlikely. But 288 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: the president doesn't need that. Look, there is a budget 289 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: for the military construction projects of one hundred billion dollars, 290 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: So you're only asking for five billion to be diverted 291 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: from existing military construction projects to wall funding, So that 292 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: would seem to be the logical choice. And again, the 293 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: President is authorized not just by the National Emergencies Act, 294 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: but by the statute that I recited earlier, which is 295 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: a ten USC twenty eight o eight. Specifically, Congress passed 296 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: the laws saying you can do this, and plus on 297 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: top of that, how could the Democrats possibly complain? Because 298 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: they pass the Secure Fence Act of two thousand and six, 299 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: empowering the Homeland Security Department to build a physical barrier 300 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: enhancement along the border. And you know Democrats have long 301 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: fought for a barrier that separates Mexico from the United States. 302 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: I want to play you a clip of what many 303 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 1: prominent Democrats once said about building a wall in what 304 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: they now say an absolute hypocritical flip flop. Here it is, 305 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to 306 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent 307 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants from coming in. And you voted for in America, 308 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: where we build bridges, not walls. People who enter the 309 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 1: United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal 310 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: aliens should not be treated the same as people who 311 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: entered the US legally. To so many Americans, we do 312 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: not want the wall to be a symbol of America, 313 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: much preferring the Statue of Liberty be that symbol. Those 314 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: who enter our country illegally and those who employ them 315 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in 316 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we cannot 317 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: allow people to pour into the US undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. 318 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: If there are disruptions in these countries, that there's conflict, 319 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: if there's bad governance, if there's war, if there's poverty 320 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 1: in this new world that we live in, we can't 321 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind the wall. All of 322 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 1: us agree that we need to have comprehensive bipartisan immigration 323 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: reform that can only begin strong border control. We must 324 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: have that. We must control our borders. But the wall 325 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: is an immorality. It's not who we are is So 326 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: how do you explain that? I'll tell you how I 327 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: explain it. Hypocrisy born of stupidity is endemic on Capitol Hill. 328 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 1: These are people who opposed who are opposing the wall, 329 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,719 Speaker 1: who once supported the wall, and they're only opposing it 330 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: now because Donald Trump wants it, and they don't want 331 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: to give anything Donald Trump wants because they hate him. 332 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. They hate him as a person, 333 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: they hate his policies, they hate what he stands for. 334 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: They're unabashed scorn and visceral hatred of the president is 335 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: reflected in their decision making now opposing the wall that 336 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: they have long fought in favor of. They have advocated 337 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: for a barrier, and now they're against it only because 338 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: Trump is in favor of it, and there's no other 339 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: way of looking at it. That is the plane unadulterated truth. 340 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: Let's go to our next caller. Max joins us from Utah. Max. Hello, 341 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: I think the Democrats are opposing this wall because their 342 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: way for donations from across the border, the drug card 343 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: tells will pay handsomely to stop the wall. You know, 344 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: you could fund the wall if you just used all 345 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: of the seized assets of El Chapo. There's a better way, 346 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: and that's what I call it about. He can build 347 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: the wall, he can make the Mexicans pay for it 348 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: with already existing funds that he has of his disposal. 349 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: Which funds are those? Okay, everybody in the world, nobody 350 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: pays taxes to the federal government except for US citizens. 351 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: Had people to hold a green card, so it's called 352 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: legal aliens. The illegal aliens. When they pay taxes, they 353 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: do so with unverified so security numbers with unverified names. 354 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: Now they can't because they can't bear it. All this 355 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: fun beam that is paid by these people working here 356 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 1: in the United States goes into an account called the 357 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: donation account. Okay, because they can't verify it. And we're talking, well, 358 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: who controls who controls that account? Oh, the Federal Reserve. 359 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: And since their incarnation, the Federal Reserve has never been audited. 360 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: You can ask Ron Paul about this. He went on 361 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: and on about how they knew that the Federal Reserve 362 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 1: if you where our money actually go, you know, I 363 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: like the idea. Maybe we need to get Ron Paul 364 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: on the telephone. Next. This got our next caller, Richard 365 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: joins us from New Jersey. Richard, how are you hey, 366 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: how you doing today? Thank you for having me on. 367 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: I think I have a little kind of unique perspective 368 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: on things. First of all, I'm a government contractor who's 369 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: out of work, so I can speak about that. But 370 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: the also thing that is something that happened to me 371 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: just this morning. Well, whenever are you, are you out 372 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: of work because you were furloughed or out of work 373 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: because for other reasons for furlough Yeah, I'm part of 374 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,479 Speaker 1: the government for okay, Friday. Friday was my last day 375 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: I was able to work. Do you support the President's position? Nonetheless? Yeah? Absolutely? 376 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: Why and um, well, just as an example, this morning, 377 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: I went through was taking my daughter to school and 378 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: was passed by two police vehicles screaming by, and found 379 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 1: out just earlier today that a young man had overdosed 380 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: and fatally just this morning, a few blocks from my home. 381 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: And staystically speaking, probably what twenty five thirty of the drugs. Um, 382 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: there's a chance that the drugs that he took actually 383 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: came across the Mexican board. Yeah, it depends on the drugs. 384 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, as we indicated before, the vast majority 385 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: of the heroine in the United States is coming across 386 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 1: our southern border, meth cocaine. I mean, who knows, but 387 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 1: point point well taken Richard in New Jersey. Richard, thanks 388 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: very much, appreciate that let's go to Rob in Pennsylvania. Rob, 389 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: you're on the air, right, you know, just as desperately 390 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 1: as we need a border wall, as we need dams 391 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: and levees and sea walls as infrastructure to keep out 392 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: things that are dangerous coming in and control the flow. 393 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: But you're you're citing some US Code and there are 394 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: laws that are never ever enforced, and I don't understand why. 395 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: And you will be familiar with Title eight thirteen twenty 396 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: four of US Code, which makes it a crime to 397 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: encourage or help people to get here illegally, and also 398 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: makes it a crime, a felony as a matter of fact, 399 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: to harbor them, house them, or transport them. Those laws 400 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: just aren't enforced exist federal law. There is no ninth 401 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: Circuits going to overturn existing federal law. I don't think 402 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: it's never enforced. You can't harbor one, you can't house them, 403 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: you can't transport them, and you can't aid them to 404 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: get here. You know, you're absolutely right. I am well 405 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: familiar with that specific statute in the criminal codes, and 406 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: it makes it a crime to harbor, harbor, or shield 407 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,479 Speaker 1: anyone who is here illegally, and the punishment is up 408 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: to five years behind bars. And if somebody is killed 409 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: as a consequence of you're enabling in harboring and shielding 410 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: an illegal alien who commits that crime, the punishment is 411 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: life behind bars. So you know, you think about the 412 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: sheriff in San Francisco, the mayor in San Francisco, who 413 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: were harboring and shielding the illegal alien who came here 414 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: and murdered a young woman on the pier in San Francisco. 415 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: Why weren't they criminally prosecuted back then? I argued vociferously 416 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: that they should have been, But at the time it 417 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: was the Obama Department of Justice. They took no action. 418 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:53,719 Speaker 1: I encouraged Jeff Sessions to take action. He suggested generally 419 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 1: he might, and the feckless incompetence Sessions never did. We 420 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: to start enforcing the laws on the books. We're gonna pause, 421 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: take a quick, great time. Greg Jared in for Sean Hannity. 422 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: He has an interview with President Trump. He is going 423 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: to be calling in very shortly to tell us what 424 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: the President said. You can watch the entire interview tonight 425 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. We'll be right back. 426 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity, Shawn, I'm filling in 427 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: for Sean. I'm Greg Jared by the way, the Fox 428 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: News Channel, legal analyst, former lawyer, author of the number 429 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: one New York Times best selling book, The Russia Hoax, 430 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: and we'll be talking about that at the top of 431 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: this next hour in a few minutes. But I'm here 432 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: because Sean is down at the border. He is with 433 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: President Trump as he meets with border security agents getting 434 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: a briefing on illegal immigration and border security. As soon 435 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: as the Sean finishes is one on one interview with 436 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: the President, he'll be calling in to this program, so 437 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. He'll give us an update on 438 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: what the President said in tonight at nine o'clock Eastern 439 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: on the Fox News Channel on Hannity, you can watch 440 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: the entire interview with President Trump. In the meantime, we're 441 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: taking your telephone calls. Got a couple of minutes left. 442 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: Want to go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, you're a 443 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: police officer, as I understand, and and God bless you 444 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: and thank you for your service as a law traishman official. 445 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thanks. Greg. How are you today? I'm well, 446 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: I just you know, I wanted to lead off by thaying, 447 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: we're even in Pennsylvania here, we're affected by a lot 448 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,719 Speaker 1: of the illegal aliens, mostly here working on the farm. 449 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: But the reason I'm not a police officer anymore is 450 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: because I was injured by one who was attempting to 451 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: get away from me and you know, erect my police 452 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: cruiser and he was never deported even after he was caught. Unbelievable, 453 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: which was very frustrating. I did have a question, just 454 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: as a teaching moment. I am newer into politics, but 455 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: did did Nancy and Chuck and all of them use 456 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: the border funding in the past as a way to 457 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: get elected or yeah, that's the first place. Well, you know, 458 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: some of it was built, some of the fence was built. 459 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you know, there is nothing that 460 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: happens on Capitol Hill, especially among people like Chuck. I'd 461 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: walk a mile for a camera, Schumer and h Nancy. 462 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: We've got to pass the bill to find out what's 463 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: in at Pelosi. There's nothing that they do that doesn't 464 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 1: directly extend to their own benefit, and that is their 465 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 1: perpetuation of power on Capitol Hill, which is sad, empathetic 466 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: and tragic, but that's the truth of the matter. Bill 467 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania, Thanks very much. Sean Hannity will be calling 468 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: in to give us an update on his conversation with 469 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: a president down at the border. Stay tuned for that. 470 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean on the Sean 471 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: Hannity Show. Stay with us, and welcome back to the 472 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: Sean Entity Show. On Greg. Jared's sitting in for Sean 473 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: today is down in McCallan, Texas, near the border the 474 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: Rio Grand River, where the President has been getting a 475 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: briefing from border security on illegal immigration and how to 476 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: stop the illegal crossings into the United States and all 477 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: of the crimes that come with it, not to mention 478 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: the American deaths by virtue of the illegal drug traffic 479 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: across our border, mostly heroine, which is claiming three hundred 480 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: lives of Americans a week. Those are facts. Those are statistics. 481 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: You can find them from the Department of Justice and 482 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: other law enforcement agencies. But to those who say crisis, 483 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: what crisis. There isn't an emergency. This doesn't have anything 484 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: to do with national security in the safety and security 485 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 1: of Americans. Tell that to the family of Officer Ronald Singh. 486 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: Gunned down by an illegal immigrant just after Christmas Day. 487 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: His five month old son will never know his father. 488 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 1: And that, ladies and gentlemen, his life and death. Or 489 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,879 Speaker 1: tell that to the family of Pierce Corkran. A few 490 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: days later, December twenty nine, he was killed by a 491 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: suspected illegal immigrant driving without a license, without insurance, on 492 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 1: the wrong side of the road. Pierce was only twenty 493 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: two years old. Tell that to his family. There is 494 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,800 Speaker 1: a crisis. And a few minutes ago, the President was 495 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: standing in front of television cameras briefly and said, this 496 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 1: is common sense. As the Secretary of Homeland Security said 497 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,759 Speaker 1: the other day, the wall works ninety to ninety five 498 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: percent of the time in places where we have it. 499 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 1: It prevents illegals from coming across our border with drugs 500 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: and with crime. And so, you know, all of the 501 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer who have long 502 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 1: advocated for a barrier on our southern border now don't 503 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: want it because Trump wants it. And that is nothing 504 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:28,799 Speaker 1: but petty partisan politics. And haven't we had enough of 505 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: that in the United States? And the President repeated just 506 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: minutes ago that if Pelosi and Schumer and other Democrats 507 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,720 Speaker 1: will not come to the table and offer some kind 508 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:50,399 Speaker 1: of a compromise, and he has offered several options over 509 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:56,399 Speaker 1: the last twenty days of the federal shutdown. Then the 510 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: President said he would in a national emergency under the 511 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: National Emergencies Act authorized by Congress, and then employ another 512 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: specific statute that I've been talking about ten USC twenty 513 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: eight h eight that says the military can use their 514 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: existing funds to start construction of a different project not 515 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:30,760 Speaker 1: authorized by Congress. That's the law. It's plain and simple. 516 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: Let you get the opinion of a terrific lawyer in America, 517 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,319 Speaker 1: civil liberties attorney David Schoen, who joins us now to 518 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: discuss this important aspect of American life right now, a 519 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: partial government shutdown, furloughed workers because Democrats refuse to come 520 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:56,280 Speaker 1: to the table to offer some sort of a compromise. So, David, 521 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: you know I've laid out in the last hour the 522 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 1: very specifics of the National Emergencies Act, and I also 523 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 1: explain ten USC. Twenty eight OA emergency powers that specifically 524 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:17,919 Speaker 1: include constructing any unauthorized construction project by the military at 525 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 1: the direction of the Secretary of Defense, who is directed 526 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 1: by the President of United States, So the president, do 527 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 1: you agree David does have a legal basis for taking 528 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:36,280 Speaker 1: unilateral action? Yes, I do, and I think frankly, they've 529 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: done their homework to make the case to the American 530 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 1: public for it for the exercise of those powers, putting 531 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:47,719 Speaker 1: aside the complete chaos created by this shutdown. They have 532 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: the statistics now that they've marshalled about the numbers trying 533 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,400 Speaker 1: to come across the border and the threat that that 534 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 1: poses to national security. I also think, you know, there 535 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,520 Speaker 1: is another issue. It seems to be at least if 536 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: the president is dealing in this case with a foreign 537 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,480 Speaker 1: power power that is Mexico, the president certainly has the 538 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,520 Speaker 1: authority unilaterally to act in matters of foreign affairs. I 539 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: think this also is another justification for him to act 540 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,800 Speaker 1: if that's what it takes. But it shouldn't come to that. Again. 541 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: Congress has to relearn how to work by consensus. It 542 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: hasn't happened this entire administration, and so it only becomes 543 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: about ego, about who's going to own a problem rather 544 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 1: than fixing a problem, and we see it with issue 545 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 1: after issue after issue. You know, I'm glad you brought 546 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,360 Speaker 1: that up because I have in front of me the 547 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 1: list of the thirty one existing national emergencies, beginning with 548 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter, then on to Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, 549 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:55,320 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama. And I don't 550 00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,879 Speaker 1: see any, frankly, that don't deal with foreign threat. But 551 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 1: you know what's interesting is a lot of these foreign 552 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:10,440 Speaker 1: threats in which national emergencies are declared, most Americans wouldn't 553 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 1: consider to be foreign threats or national emergencies. Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine, 554 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: South Sudan, Burundi, the Central African republic A, Cuba. Um, 555 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,240 Speaker 1: you know, the most Americans are, what a minute, where's 556 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 1: the national emergency there? Uh, Nicaragua, El Salvador, I mean Burundi. 557 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: Really it's a national emergency. I mean I said that 558 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,280 Speaker 1: to the other day to my wife, and she said, really, 559 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,279 Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. And yet no, that was 560 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,200 Speaker 1: a Barack Obama national emergency blocking property of certain persons 561 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,360 Speaker 1: contributing to the situation in Burundi November twenty third, twenty 562 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: and fifteen. So you know, it's completely erroneous and specious 563 00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,520 Speaker 1: for people to say, oh, you know, Max, because not 564 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:06,919 Speaker 1: a national emergency. Yeah, it is. Can you imagine if 565 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: Congress would martial forces with the President to come up 566 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,000 Speaker 1: with the optimal security fence wall whatever the answer is. 567 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,320 Speaker 1: The President is not locked into concrete versus Steele versus 568 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: something else. They paid them that way in the media. 569 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,759 Speaker 1: If they could just come to consensus with the best 570 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,560 Speaker 1: experts about what kind of barrier would be the best, 571 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: that would serve the American people the best, That's how 572 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: government should function. The folks on the other side of 573 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: the president all say not all, mostly say they believe 574 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,840 Speaker 1: there is a national security threat involved here and that 575 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: border security has to be enhanced. So we're really shutting 576 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: down the government because they don't like the president's idea 577 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: on how it's best to be enhanced. It's just an 578 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,800 Speaker 1: absolute absurdity. And five billion dollars, you know, the money 579 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,799 Speaker 1: that they waste. Take away twenty million from the Mueller 580 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,800 Speaker 1: investigation for starters. Yeah, I'm with you on that. Speaking 581 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,320 Speaker 1: of which, I want to get your reaction to something else. 582 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,319 Speaker 1: And before I do that, let me just tell our 583 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,120 Speaker 1: listeners that Sean's going to be calling in. He is 584 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: doing an interview with President Trump down of the border. 585 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: That interview will air in its entirety tonight on Hannity 586 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,239 Speaker 1: on the Fox News Channel. Tune in then, but stay 587 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,320 Speaker 1: tuned here because Sean will be calling in and he 588 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 1: he'll tell us what the President had to say, give 589 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 1: us a preview of the entire interview tonight on the 590 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: Fox News Channel. But the other news that's broken over 591 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,880 Speaker 1: the course of the last hour is news that Michael Cohen, 592 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:45,400 Speaker 1: presidents one time now disgraced personal attorney, will apparently be 593 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,160 Speaker 1: testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on February seventh. Now, 594 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,440 Speaker 1: of course Democrats control that committee. Now, Elijah Cummings is 595 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,000 Speaker 1: the chairman of the committee, and in his statement, Cohen 596 00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: said he accepted the invitation from Cummings quote furtherance of 597 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers. 598 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,080 Speaker 1: I look forward to the privilege of being afforded a platform. 599 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah Michael Cohen, who is an admitted 600 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 1: prodigious liar and a considerable confessed criminal. So you know, 601 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,360 Speaker 1: I don't believe anything Michael Cohen ever says. You know, 602 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:33,000 Speaker 1: once a liar, always a liar. And you know who's 603 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,600 Speaker 1: to say he won't be lying in front of the committee. 604 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,919 Speaker 1: What do you think. I have a couple of thoughts 605 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,239 Speaker 1: about it. One is I think that Michael Cohen is 606 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,240 Speaker 1: going to speak publicly, ought to get his playbook straight 607 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 1: on what his motivation is, because we heard originally, you know, 608 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,960 Speaker 1: he'd take a bullet for the president. Then he's had 609 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,120 Speaker 1: enough of this. His family comes first. Everything he does 610 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: from now on is for himself and his family. Now 611 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, is for the American people and 612 00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 1: the good of the American people. So first off, I 613 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,640 Speaker 1: think he has to get his motivation straight. We're gonna 614 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 1: speak about it publicly. But secondly, can you imagine how 615 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:12,000 Speaker 1: the Democrats would scream bloody murder if when the Republicans 616 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,800 Speaker 1: had the House, a House committee had subpoenaed to testify 617 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,000 Speaker 1: an ongoing witness in the Mueller investigation. They would have 618 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,080 Speaker 1: said obstruction, they would have said complete interference with the 619 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 1: Muller investigation. They would have screamed bloody murder. And now 620 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,040 Speaker 1: Cohen is still trying to earn himself points by cooperating 621 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,200 Speaker 1: with Muller. In fact, they said they had to check 622 00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 1: with Mueller to make sure nothing he said would interfere 623 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 1: directly for the investigation. All these folks are working together. 624 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:44,120 Speaker 1: That's the collusion to steal a word, and it's just 625 00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:49,279 Speaker 1: the hypocrisy once again raises its horrible heads. You know, 626 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 1: Cohen's the kind of guy if you put a statement 627 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,520 Speaker 1: in front of him that said I am Carrie Grant 628 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:03,399 Speaker 1: aka Archibald Leak signed Michael Cohen, he would sign that 629 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 1: happily if if there, if there was some benefit to him, right. 630 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,200 Speaker 1: I mean, this is the kind of narcissistic, self absorbed 631 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 1: in a sociopathic liar that Michael Cohen's record demonstrates. And 632 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,960 Speaker 1: so I mean, I'm you know, what do you really 633 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,360 Speaker 1: get out of listening to this guy in front of 634 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,360 Speaker 1: the Oversight Committee? I just don't know. Just grandstanding, just 635 00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,000 Speaker 1: show voting, same thing that goes on with all of 636 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,600 Speaker 1: these so called investigations, whether it's buy the Muller team 637 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,920 Speaker 1: or buy the Democrats in the house. Unfortunately it's a 638 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,560 Speaker 1: public show. You know. Interesting. I don't mean to switch 639 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 1: subjects too much on you, but I note something today 640 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:51,240 Speaker 1: just completely it fanomizes this. There was you know, Attorney 641 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:55,719 Speaker 1: General nominee bar was on the hill meeting with Democratic 642 00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:01,800 Speaker 1: senators today. So Feinstein, for example, said that she's interested 643 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 1: in knowing what was the genesis of the memo that 644 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,400 Speaker 1: Attorney General to be Barr wrote about the Muller investigation. 645 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 1: So then someone said, well, did you ask him when 646 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,319 Speaker 1: you met with him? She said, no, I didn't ask 647 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:14,920 Speaker 1: him that when I met with him. I want to 648 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,360 Speaker 1: ask him that in public. Do you want the information 649 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,320 Speaker 1: or do you just want a grandstand? It's just unbelievable. 650 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,279 Speaker 1: Oh my god. You know, Diane Feinstein, I you know, 651 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,240 Speaker 1: I don't know how she thinks for that, Brandon Hurst, 652 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,680 Speaker 1: I really don't, you know. And it's one of the 653 00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:33,160 Speaker 1: problems by having a non lawyer on the Judiciary Committee. Um, 654 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:37,560 Speaker 1: but you know there she is for a lawyers. Lawyers 655 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,680 Speaker 1: do a bad enough job. You're right. I don't know 656 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,600 Speaker 1: if you can distinguish among them. They really do. They're 657 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,480 Speaker 1: awful there. It's unbelievable. All right, um, listen, can I 658 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 1: hold you over because I want to talk to you 659 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,960 Speaker 1: about the imminent departure of Rod Rosenstein. I wrote a 660 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,640 Speaker 1: column about it on Foxnews dot com. Um, and I'd 661 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,880 Speaker 1: love to get your reaction to Rod Rosen's n's departure 662 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,560 Speaker 1: and what will happen next with soon to be Attorney 663 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,960 Speaker 1: General William Barr. David Shones with us. Our telephone number, 664 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,680 Speaker 1: by the way, is one eight hundred nine four one Sean. 665 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:17,560 Speaker 1: That's one eight hundred nine four one seven three two six. 666 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,600 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Shawn, 667 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,560 Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett. Sean will be calling in very shortly with 668 00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,760 Speaker 1: his interview of President Donald Trump down of the border 669 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,640 Speaker 1: in McAllen, Texas, Elier in its entirety tonight on Hannity 670 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,000 Speaker 1: on the Fox News Channel. In the meantime, let's talk 671 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,160 Speaker 1: for a moment about Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General 672 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 1: who will thankfully leave the Department of Injustice and so 673 00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:50,080 Speaker 1: we may get a reprieve and hope of reform at 674 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,640 Speaker 1: the DOJ. David Shones with US Civil Liberties Attorney David, 675 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,240 Speaker 1: what do you think? I think to your article today 676 00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 1: is phenomenal and says it all. You eat on every problem, 677 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,719 Speaker 1: almost every problem. I don't know if everybody knows all 678 00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,680 Speaker 1: the problems they have arisen with Rod Rosenstein in this 679 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,120 Speaker 1: positions called Greg Jared why Rosenstein's departure will help restore 680 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,000 Speaker 1: the rule of law at the Justice Departments today on 681 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,560 Speaker 1: Fox dot Com. Everybody's got to read that. That says 682 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,440 Speaker 1: at all. Listen, the guy who's been a disaster, he 683 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,879 Speaker 1: shouldn't have been in a position to the first place. 684 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,920 Speaker 1: It's a very mediocre sort of person who I think 685 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,960 Speaker 1: was it was just a mistake to appoint him. But 686 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,000 Speaker 1: since then, as you point out in your article, I mean, 687 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,160 Speaker 1: the guy has never seen a conflictive interest that he 688 00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,640 Speaker 1: didn't love. It would seem he you know, as you 689 00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,160 Speaker 1: point out, he's a fact witness for the Muller investigation. 690 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,400 Speaker 1: He wrote the memo justifying Komey's departure, but then he 691 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,000 Speaker 1: fell all over himself to indulge Komey by appointing Mueller. 692 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,240 Speaker 1: He's got no business in this position. He's leaving now, 693 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,440 Speaker 1: you know, I've read a piece the other day. Nobody 694 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,200 Speaker 1: seems to know whether he's got control of the Mueller 695 00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,520 Speaker 1: investigation or Whittaker does. Whittaker has the authority to have 696 00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,320 Speaker 1: control over it. We should have seen some affirmatives depths 697 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,200 Speaker 1: by him to rein in the misconduct by those investigators. 698 00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,480 Speaker 1: I think we will with Bill Barring there. I got 699 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,800 Speaker 1: about forty seconds left. But what's your opinion of Bill Barr. 700 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,799 Speaker 1: I think he is the man for the job right now. 701 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,000 Speaker 1: You know, this is who the President picked after careful consideration. 702 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,440 Speaker 1: It's the role now of the legislators to consent to 703 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,640 Speaker 1: that after ask him the questions they want to ask. 704 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,359 Speaker 1: I saw the Senator Klubischer said that she thinks it's 705 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,040 Speaker 1: being rushed. This is being rushed. You have a Department 706 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,279 Speaker 1: of Justice and complete chaos. You need a man with 707 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,279 Speaker 1: a person with experience to take the helm now and 708 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:37,440 Speaker 1: write the ship. The Great David Sean, civil liberties attorney, 709 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,759 Speaker 1: and he's going to stay with us for the next 710 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,719 Speaker 1: segment to talk a bit more about Rod Rosenstein. And 711 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,719 Speaker 1: we're waiting for Sean to call in his interview one 712 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,040 Speaker 1: on one with President Trump down at the southern border. 713 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,440 Speaker 1: We'll be right back and it is back on the 714 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,560 Speaker 1: radio right now, and in fact, Sean will be on 715 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,080 Speaker 1: the radio in just a few moments, we hope, as 716 00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,720 Speaker 1: soon as he finished is his interview with President Donald 717 00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,320 Speaker 1: Trump down at the border in McAllen, Texas, where the 718 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:10,200 Speaker 1: President is being debriefed by security officials there, Sean will 719 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,680 Speaker 1: join us and tell us what the President told him 720 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,680 Speaker 1: in a one on one interview that you can watch 721 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,840 Speaker 1: in its entirety tonight on Hannity on the Foxnews Channel 722 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:23,959 Speaker 1: nine o'clock Eastern Time. In the meantime, we've been talking 723 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:28,320 Speaker 1: about the imminent departure of Rod Rosenstein, and I wrote 724 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,960 Speaker 1: a column. You can look at it on foxnews dot 725 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:35,480 Speaker 1: com the opinion section. It's entitled why Rosenstein's departure will 726 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,239 Speaker 1: help restore the rule of law at the Justice Department. 727 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,879 Speaker 1: And let me just read one part of it here, 728 00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:47,920 Speaker 1: which really synthesizes the role Rosenstein has played over the 729 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,680 Speaker 1: last two years. He has been the de facto Attorney General. 730 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,920 Speaker 1: Rosenstein engineered and presided over signal abuses at the Department 731 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,799 Speaker 1: of Justice, transforming the rule of law into the rule 732 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:07,319 Speaker 1: of lawlessness. He championed abusive double standards of enforcement and 733 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,640 Speaker 1: ignored wrongdoing in his own department. In the FBI, justice 734 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:18,160 Speaker 1: took a back seat to petty partisanship. More egregiously, Rosenstein 735 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,120 Speaker 1: was an active participant in one of the dirtiest tricks 736 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:27,760 Speaker 1: perpetrated in modern politics, the targeting of the president without 737 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:32,960 Speaker 1: legal cause or evidence. David Chone rejoins this now civil 738 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:38,440 Speaker 1: liberties attorney, and I appreciate you're reading my column and 739 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,920 Speaker 1: mentioning it, David. You know, Rosenstein has so much answer 740 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,239 Speaker 1: for him. One of the things that really sort of 741 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:53,080 Speaker 1: chafes at me is that he has consistently resisted requests 742 00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:59,839 Speaker 1: by Congress to question him about his actions. Yeah, I mean, 743 00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,480 Speaker 1: I'm not sure really why he's been given the choice 744 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,320 Speaker 1: so many times and why the Republicans missed some great 745 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,720 Speaker 1: opportunities with it. He had some very aggressive committee chairs, 746 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,520 Speaker 1: Devennunions did a great job in many ways. A lot 747 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,960 Speaker 1: of these guys good lad but I think they left 748 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,319 Speaker 1: the job unfinished. Unfortunately, bred Rosenstein got away with a 749 00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,239 Speaker 1: lot of it. I'm waiting to see now, though, when 750 00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,000 Speaker 1: Elijah Cummings will call him before his committee and we'll 751 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,680 Speaker 1: hear from Rosenstein how he obviously was forced out more obstruction, 752 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,040 Speaker 1: something like that. I hope that's not going to be 753 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,200 Speaker 1: what happens. I hope he'll just you know, ride off 754 00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,600 Speaker 1: into the sunset. Because this has been a disastrous reign 755 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:38,959 Speaker 1: at the Justice Department. It started when you know, mister 756 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,799 Speaker 1: Sessions felt the ad to recuse himself, and from that 757 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,239 Speaker 1: point forward, the emblem of the Justice Department has been 758 00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:50,359 Speaker 1: the Mueller investigation and it's gotten off track so badly everybody, 759 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,319 Speaker 1: most people in this country want to see us get 760 00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,799 Speaker 1: back on track with policy. Stop the Mueller investigation, move 761 00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:01,200 Speaker 1: forward with moving the country forward toward greatness economy, get 762 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,200 Speaker 1: back on track with the president had it headed. You know, 763 00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:10,759 Speaker 1: Rosenstein is the one who brought us this national nightmare 764 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,759 Speaker 1: of Robert Muller and his team of partisans in their 765 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:21,160 Speaker 1: investigation into Trump Russian collusion without any evidence, without probable cause, 766 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,040 Speaker 1: and violation of the regulations. It was you know, it 767 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,440 Speaker 1: was Rosenstein who who volunteered to write the memo to 768 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,560 Speaker 1: Trump citing all of the reasons that Comey should be 769 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:34,360 Speaker 1: fired for usurping the power of the Attorney General, violating 770 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:40,120 Speaker 1: the FBI and dj rules. So the President adopts Rosenstein's 771 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:44,640 Speaker 1: recommendation and he sacks Comy, and Rosenstein's memo becomes public. 772 00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:51,680 Speaker 1: And then suddenly Rosenstein is upset and angry the Democrats 773 00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:58,040 Speaker 1: are blaming him, so he doesn't about face, seeks retribution. 774 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:05,040 Speaker 1: He secret proposes to secretly record the President in an 775 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:10,200 Speaker 1: attempt to gain damaging information about him. He solicits, allegedly 776 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:14,680 Speaker 1: others to wear wires, recruiting cabinet members to depose the 777 00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,600 Speaker 1: president under the twenty fifth Amendment. And you know there 778 00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:23,880 Speaker 1: are three top FBI officials, Andrew McCay, Lisa Page, James Baker, 779 00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:28,759 Speaker 1: who all have confirmed in their testimony to Congress that 780 00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:35,480 Speaker 1: these were serious and deliberate efforts by Rod Rosenstein to 781 00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:40,879 Speaker 1: remove President Trump. I mean, he's just outrageous, isn't it. 782 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,799 Speaker 1: I think it's unprecedented. But I think the best way 783 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:48,400 Speaker 1: maybe to get snapshot of again the hypocrisy would be 784 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:52,720 Speaker 1: just take a second closure eye and imagine that President 785 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,840 Speaker 1: Obama were presidents still, and you just heard a story 786 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,719 Speaker 1: about senior officials in the Justice Department and FBI trying 787 00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:03,680 Speaker 1: to say him up, record private conversations with him, and 788 00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,200 Speaker 1: paint him as if you were a lunatic. Can you 789 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:11,120 Speaker 1: imagine the public outcry. But here, because there's a sense 790 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,319 Speaker 1: in the media of get Donald Trump, no matter what, 791 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:18,080 Speaker 1: the media becomes cheerleaders for this kind of outrageous misconduct 792 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,000 Speaker 1: rather than saying, these people have no business at the FBI, 793 00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,920 Speaker 1: no business in the Justice Department. And you're right so 794 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,360 Speaker 1: much of that. Everything your article is right by the 795 00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,080 Speaker 1: way about Rosenstein today and every word of it should 796 00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,840 Speaker 1: be read by everybody. But one of the factors is 797 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,399 Speaker 1: you've just talked about a bit. Rosenstein was responsible for 798 00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:40,000 Speaker 1: one session stepped aside forgetting us this horror show of 799 00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,680 Speaker 1: the special counsel. He was triggered under six hundred point 800 00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,520 Speaker 1: one of the regulations. He had options and have you 801 00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,480 Speaker 1: read one paragraph further to six hundred point two, he 802 00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,880 Speaker 1: could have simply had an informal investigation without appointing a 803 00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,160 Speaker 1: special counsel and seeing that there's no basis for this, 804 00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,600 Speaker 1: all of this business we hear about. Oh but mother 805 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,359 Speaker 1: has gotten so many convictions, Matt convictions for what we 806 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,279 Speaker 1: were told this investigation was. For most of them are 807 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,319 Speaker 1: subsidiary crimes because Muller felt people lied to him, turn 808 00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,640 Speaker 1: the screws to them and they pled guilty to it. 809 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,520 Speaker 1: It's like Alice in Wonderland, all of this business and 810 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,640 Speaker 1: Rob Rosenstein's in the heart of it. So the point 811 00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,360 Speaker 1: is that you were making is Rosenstein has a conflict 812 00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,960 Speaker 1: if you're going to appoint the special Council under six 813 00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,760 Speaker 1: hundred point one, it's because in this case he found 814 00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,359 Speaker 1: there to be a conflict of interest for the Justice Department. Well, 815 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,840 Speaker 1: not only do you have a great part of Muller's 816 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,640 Speaker 1: team made up of Justice Department people. You have Rob 817 00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,960 Speaker 1: Rosenstein's overseeing that investigation still at the Justice Department, but 818 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,520 Speaker 1: he's a fellow who is a fact witness. He signed 819 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,040 Speaker 1: a FISA warrant in this case. It's just it's outrageous. 820 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:46,080 Speaker 1: And again, every other watchdog and any other administration would 821 00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:52,200 Speaker 1: be absolutely enraged by this, and instead anything that they 822 00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:55,080 Speaker 1: think helps bring down the president is a good thing 823 00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,680 Speaker 1: and consistent with the rule of law. Somehow, you know, 824 00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:03,560 Speaker 1: in my book The Russia Hoax, I cite a myriad 825 00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:08,319 Speaker 1: of law professors and legal experts who were all in 826 00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:15,560 Speaker 1: unison aghast that Rod Rosenstein never recused himself, And I 827 00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,000 Speaker 1: point out, at my calm, think of it this way, 828 00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:22,200 Speaker 1: Rosenstein was interviewed as a as you point out, a 829 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,640 Speaker 1: fact witness in the Special Council probably was interviewed by 830 00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,759 Speaker 1: the Special Counsel. So what if Rosenstein was lyne Well, 831 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:37,160 Speaker 1: the only Rosenstein would be authorized to decide whether to 832 00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:43,080 Speaker 1: prosecute himself for line, which is exactly why the Code 833 00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:47,120 Speaker 1: of Professional Responsibility, not to mention the DJ regulations say 834 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,959 Speaker 1: you can't be a prosecutor and a witness all rolled 835 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,719 Speaker 1: into one and yet you're exactly right. You're exactly right. 836 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,120 Speaker 1: And it's really highlighted by the way in this setting 837 00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:02,920 Speaker 1: because under the regulations, Rosenstein has the specific authority to 838 00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,520 Speaker 1: determine the scope of any investigation, and he can call 839 00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,040 Speaker 1: off any avenue that the Special Council intends to go in. 840 00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:15,520 Speaker 1: That's expressly written into the regulation and six hundred point 841 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,560 Speaker 1: nine I don't need to go through it the specific regulations, 842 00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:25,440 Speaker 1: but that's his authority. And so you're right, he's you know, actor, judge, executioner, 843 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,840 Speaker 1: and deciser over who they're going to investigate, when they're 844 00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,240 Speaker 1: going to investigate it, and when Mueller's tactics are appropriate 845 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,320 Speaker 1: or not appropriate. I mean, you know, if this was 846 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,960 Speaker 1: on an ethics exam for the bar, you know, I mean, 847 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,120 Speaker 1: any idiot could have answered it correctly. And yet yet 848 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:49,240 Speaker 1: Rosenstein has violated all of this with impunity. It's it's 849 00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,080 Speaker 1: really quite amazing. And the other thing is, you know, 850 00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,360 Speaker 1: the illegitimate nature of the appointment of the Special Council. 851 00:57:55,840 --> 00:58:00,320 Speaker 1: This case was a counterintelligence pro The Special Council of 852 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:05,560 Speaker 1: Regulations allows for a special counsel in a criminal investigation, 853 00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:10,800 Speaker 1: not a counterintelligence probe. And not only that you must 854 00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,160 Speaker 1: state evidence of a suspected crime. There is none that 855 00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:20,200 Speaker 1: was named or identified in the authorization order, which was 856 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:24,040 Speaker 1: clearly defective, and yet it has gone on for a 857 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,919 Speaker 1: year and a half. Last word on this, David, Yeah, 858 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,800 Speaker 1: I'll tell you the crime. The crime is stealing my 859 00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:32,400 Speaker 1: tax dollars for the public investigation. I mean, we still 860 00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,160 Speaker 1: don't know what their budget has been. We'll find out 861 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,480 Speaker 1: one day. It literally is in the double digits of 862 00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,720 Speaker 1: millions of dollars. And we're how far into it now. 863 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,520 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's gonna be two years coming up. 864 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:47,240 Speaker 1: It's just it's got to end. The country wants to 865 00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:50,760 Speaker 1: get back on track with policy. Yeah, that's the real 866 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,440 Speaker 1: crime right there, And yet it goes on and on 867 00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:59,160 Speaker 1: and on. David Sean, several liberties attorney. Always great talking. 868 00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,560 Speaker 1: You're such a wealth of knowledge and we always appreciate 869 00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,480 Speaker 1: your sharing it with us. David Chone, thanks very much, 870 00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:08,720 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All Right, when we come back, 871 00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:12,440 Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you about either this subject 872 00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,720 Speaker 1: or the President's visit down at the southern border. Sean 873 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,720 Speaker 1: Hannity is with him one on one exclusive interview. When 874 00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,440 Speaker 1: Sean finishes, he will be calling in with an update. 875 00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:27,840 Speaker 1: So talk to us about the government shutdown, border security, 876 00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,120 Speaker 1: the building of a wall, or talk to us about 877 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:34,320 Speaker 1: the Muller investigation and Rosenstein. Our number is eight hundred 878 00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:38,680 Speaker 1: nine four one, Sean, that's one eight hundred nine four 879 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,560 Speaker 1: one seven three two six. I'm Greg jareded sitting in 880 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:48,160 Speaker 1: today for Sean Hannity. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Shawn, 881 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,560 Speaker 1: Greg Jared. I have the pleasure of sitting in for 882 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,840 Speaker 1: Sean today because he's down to the border with President 883 00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:57,760 Speaker 1: Trump and just concluded an interview exclusively. You can see 884 00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,800 Speaker 1: tonight in its entirety on Hannah. But right now, Sean 885 01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,160 Speaker 1: joins us on the phone. Sean, good afternoon. Hey Greg, First, 886 01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:10,680 Speaker 1: thanks for jumping in. I do like this role reversals, says, 887 01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,880 Speaker 1: I'm always interviewing you, so it's about time you get 888 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:17,880 Speaker 1: to throw me. Uh. Well, we're in McCallen, Texas. You know, 889 01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:21,800 Speaker 1: I've just some background. I've been down to the border 890 01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:26,520 Speaker 1: at least I think thirteen fourteen times now, and you 891 01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,640 Speaker 1: know when I talk to these agents that are there, 892 01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:32,200 Speaker 1: especially this is the where the Rio Grand Section is 893 01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:36,520 Speaker 1: in McAllen, Texas, and I could walk across where we 894 01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:40,080 Speaker 1: were into Mexico and I've needed in less than two minutes, 895 01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:42,600 Speaker 1: minute and a half, depending how fast I was walking. 896 01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:46,800 Speaker 1: And after talking to all of the border patrol guys, 897 01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:50,760 Speaker 1: the ice guys, all the law enforcement guys, they are 898 01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:54,560 Speaker 1: explaining in detail, you know, all of the drugs that 899 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:59,520 Speaker 1: are being confiscated. You know the list of countries where 900 01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:04,920 Speaker 1: people are coming from Pakistan, Indonesia and La dash then 901 01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,440 Speaker 1: all over the world, and they're crossing at the Rio 902 01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:12,280 Speaker 1: Grand And we talked a lot about the human toll 903 01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,440 Speaker 1: of all of this, and the president's plans is and 904 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,320 Speaker 1: those things. Now if they continue to spin met by 905 01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:22,480 Speaker 1: obstructionist Democrats that have changed their position from two thousand 906 01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:26,120 Speaker 1: and six to thirteen, that he would go ahead and 907 01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:30,880 Speaker 1: declare a national emergency. And as you have written quite 908 01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:35,080 Speaker 1: eloquently and Mark Levin and all the smart legal scholars, 909 01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,480 Speaker 1: that is going to probably be the meaning point he 910 01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:43,640 Speaker 1: does this. It's sad that we're politicizing something that so 911 01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:48,040 Speaker 1: important when ninety percent of America's heroin is coming from 912 01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:51,000 Speaker 1: that southern border where literally just about five minutes ago, 913 01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:53,960 Speaker 1: and we know now fet and all is coming in 914 01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:56,560 Speaker 1: in greater and greater numbers. And we know Americans are 915 01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,720 Speaker 1: dying it around three hundred per week because of the 916 01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:04,640 Speaker 1: coming into the country. And you know, Hollisley, Nancy Pelosi, 917 01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,880 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer, everybody in the media with a little talking 918 01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,720 Speaker 1: point that there's a manufactured crisis. Well tell that to 919 01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,680 Speaker 1: police officers, things parents, or tell that who you know, 920 01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:19,560 Speaker 1: this guy Pierce Porker in the twenty two year old 921 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,200 Speaker 1: and Knockville that was killed by an illegal immigrant, or 922 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,840 Speaker 1: tell that to any of the families that lose a 923 01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:30,000 Speaker 1: lot one because of heroin the heroine of abusing epidemic 924 01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:33,000 Speaker 1: in the country. The President was adamant that he's gonna 925 01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,960 Speaker 1: stay strong and he's gonna find any way he can 926 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:40,760 Speaker 1: to get the job done, and there's no backtracking on 927 01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,800 Speaker 1: his side. I also had a chance to interview Senator 928 01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,360 Speaker 1: Ted Crews and Senator Cornin Uh. They are united, they 929 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,000 Speaker 1: said in the Senate last night. I interviewed Kevin McCarthy. 930 01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,240 Speaker 1: They seem united in the House. I don't see a split. 931 01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:57,320 Speaker 1: I see full support for the president. President is basically 932 01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,520 Speaker 1: saying this is a life and depth issue for the 933 01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:03,920 Speaker 1: American people, and he takes his job seriously protect and 934 01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,919 Speaker 1: defend the homeland. Well, I'll quote you from a few 935 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,560 Speaker 1: days ago, and you've said it more times than once. 936 01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:15,240 Speaker 1: Four thousand homicides, thirty thousand sex crimes, over one hundred 937 01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:19,840 Speaker 1: thousand violent assaults, all from illegals crossing our border to 938 01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,920 Speaker 1: the south. And that's just in the past two years alone. 939 01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,160 Speaker 1: So it is utterly absurd when you hear members of 940 01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:30,920 Speaker 1: the media as well as Democrats who say crisis, what crisis? 941 01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,600 Speaker 1: How could they are? But the last time I was 942 01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,960 Speaker 1: down here, it was in the exact same spot. I 943 01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:43,080 Speaker 1: set through a security briefing with Victoria, Texas, and six 944 01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:48,480 Speaker 1: hundred and forty two thousand crimes were committed against Texans 945 01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:51,840 Speaker 1: alone in a seven year period. And yes, that includes 946 01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:57,600 Speaker 1: some murders, homicides, grape, violent crimes, not all of them, 947 01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,920 Speaker 1: but some. And I'll be the first I would just 948 01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,560 Speaker 1: ninety percent of the people that want across that border 949 01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:06,280 Speaker 1: right see the city and freedom that we had, and 950 01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:09,640 Speaker 1: they wanted the life of themselves and their families. But 951 01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:13,760 Speaker 1: it's the two percent criminal elements, the drug deals, there's 952 01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:17,680 Speaker 1: the human traffickers. Those are the people that we have 953 01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:21,080 Speaker 1: open borders are hurting the country. Sean Hannity calling on 954 01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:25,440 Speaker 1: the Sports Illustrative Football Phone. We'll be right back. Welcome 955 01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,040 Speaker 1: back to the Sean Hannity shown. Greg Jared's sitting in 956 01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:30,400 Speaker 1: for Sean, who called in just a few minutes ago 957 01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:34,440 Speaker 1: close to the Mexican border where he interviewed President Trump. 958 01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:40,320 Speaker 1: You can watch that interview of the president exclusive interview 959 01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:44,240 Speaker 1: tonight at nine o'clock on Hannity on the Fox News 960 01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:48,320 Speaker 1: Channel nine o'clock Eastern Time. Sean sit down interview with 961 01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:51,880 Speaker 1: President Donald Trump. The President is down there to see 962 01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:57,040 Speaker 1: firsthand the situation and to talk with a border security 963 01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:04,640 Speaker 1: agents to determine the risks that Americans are facing without 964 01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:09,160 Speaker 1: a wall. And of course the President has a long 965 01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:13,400 Speaker 1: promise to build a wall. That wall's work. The Department 966 01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:18,400 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security Secretary Christian Nielsen two days ago stood 967 01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,800 Speaker 1: in front of television cameras and said, where the wall exists, 968 01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:27,880 Speaker 1: it drops illegal immigration by ninety to ninety five percent. 969 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,760 Speaker 1: And so I'm looking forward to watching Sean's interview with 970 01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:36,880 Speaker 1: the President to hear whether or not the President decides 971 01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:41,320 Speaker 1: to act unilaterally. Given the fact that Nancy Pelosi, the 972 01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:43,760 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House and the minority leader in the 973 01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:48,440 Speaker 1: Senate Chuck Schumer are refusing to fund the wall, and 974 01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:52,920 Speaker 1: of course a partial government shutdown has ensued as a consequence. 975 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,320 Speaker 1: Joining us now to talk about this is Jessica Vaughan, 976 01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,280 Speaker 1: who is Director of Policy Studies for the Center for 977 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:04,040 Speaker 1: Immigration Studies. Also whether It's Jeffrey Lord, former associate political 978 01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:07,520 Speaker 1: director and the Reggae Administration, a columnist, author of the 979 01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:12,680 Speaker 1: book What America Needs The Case for Trump. So Jessica, 980 01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:15,720 Speaker 1: let me start with you, because because you know the facts, 981 01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:21,120 Speaker 1: the stats, talk to us about the problem of illegal 982 01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:28,040 Speaker 1: immigration and specifically whether there is a crisis and whether 983 01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:34,200 Speaker 1: walls work. Sure. Glad to be with you. Illegal immigration 984 01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:41,160 Speaker 1: has benifesting problem for decades now, and it but it 985 01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:45,160 Speaker 1: is a crisis now for a couple of reasons. Illegal 986 01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:50,040 Speaker 1: immigration is a problem because, first of all, it displaces 987 01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:55,320 Speaker 1: Americans from job opportunities. It depresses the wages of Americans 988 01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:59,840 Speaker 1: who are in the same industries as people coming here legally. 989 01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:04,440 Speaker 1: It represents a national security threat because if people are 990 01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,600 Speaker 1: coming in illegally, we don't know who they are or 991 01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:11,760 Speaker 1: why they're here. And it also is a public safety 992 01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:16,480 Speaker 1: problem because for the same reason, many of the people 993 01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:19,280 Speaker 1: who are coming here. Are not coming here just to work, 994 01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:24,240 Speaker 1: but they're coming here to join gangs or traffic drugs 995 01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:28,080 Speaker 1: or be involved in other criminal activity. And of course 996 01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:34,080 Speaker 1: this is a fiscal issue as well, because when people 997 01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,760 Speaker 1: settle here illegally and are working in lower paid jobs, 998 01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:42,800 Speaker 1: they are qualifying for welfare programs, and their kids are 999 01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:45,840 Speaker 1: going to school here, and so they represent and then 1000 01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:48,200 Speaker 1: they're not paying taxes I should add, or at least 1001 01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:51,720 Speaker 1: not enough to cover their services. And so this represents 1002 01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:56,840 Speaker 1: a tax burden for Americans to support illegal immigrants who 1003 01:07:56,880 --> 01:08:02,360 Speaker 1: are not self sufficient. And search shows that each illegal 1004 01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:07,240 Speaker 1: alien is a net fiscal loss of over eighty two 1005 01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:10,920 Speaker 1: thousand dollars over their lifetime. So this is a problem. 1006 01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,920 Speaker 1: It's a crisis now because of policy problems that we 1007 01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:20,200 Speaker 1: have loopholes and court imposed policies that are enticing people 1008 01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,920 Speaker 1: to come to the border with a child that because 1009 01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,280 Speaker 1: they know that they will be released into the country 1010 01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:32,639 Speaker 1: simply by claiming a fear of return. So the people 1011 01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,760 Speaker 1: are turning over their life savings and the promise of 1012 01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:40,519 Speaker 1: future earnings to smugglers and traveling all through Mexico because 1013 01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:42,320 Speaker 1: they know that they can get away with it, that 1014 01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:45,000 Speaker 1: they will get into the country released and not have 1015 01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:50,480 Speaker 1: any consequences. This is dangerous. This is enriching criminal organizations 1016 01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:53,639 Speaker 1: and causing problems in the communities that have to absorb them. 1017 01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:57,160 Speaker 1: So it is a legitimate crisis. All right. So you've 1018 01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:02,560 Speaker 1: named some important things that we should consider. Displacing Americans 1019 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:07,679 Speaker 1: from jobs, depressing wages, national security threat, safety problem. These 1020 01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:10,080 Speaker 1: are the crimes, a tax burden, and of course, as 1021 01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:13,160 Speaker 1: the President pointed out in his speech, coming with all 1022 01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:18,080 Speaker 1: that is the humanitarian crisis that exists. So, Jeffrey Lord, 1023 01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:21,200 Speaker 1: when you hear members of the media over the last 1024 01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:24,759 Speaker 1: forty eight hours since the President delivered his Oval Office address, 1025 01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:31,920 Speaker 1: a crisis. What crisis? How do you react to that? Well, 1026 01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:35,240 Speaker 1: the first way I react is the hypocrisy of it all, 1027 01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:38,479 Speaker 1: whether it's the media. I mean, you can't get into 1028 01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:41,360 Speaker 1: these media institutions. You've been in them, and you work 1029 01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:44,920 Speaker 1: in one, and I was at CNN, and you know 1030 01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:49,120 Speaker 1: they have effectively walls to keep people from going into 1031 01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:52,320 Speaker 1: the upper floors. They have security guards there, they have gates, etc. 1032 01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,240 Speaker 1: When I began my career in Washington working in the 1033 01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:59,800 Speaker 1: House and Senate, you could walk and drive anywhere on 1034 01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,960 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill now. And I was there the other day 1035 01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:07,280 Speaker 1: and drove by. You couldn't get close because they've erupted 1036 01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:11,040 Speaker 1: these low concrete walls all around the US Capitol building. 1037 01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,679 Speaker 1: They've blocked off all the streets with walls and these 1038 01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:19,280 Speaker 1: iron ramps that pop up from from belowground. Well, why 1039 01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:21,800 Speaker 1: are they doing that. They're doing it because they work, 1040 01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:24,679 Speaker 1: and they keep the Capitol and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck 1041 01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:28,599 Speaker 1: Schumer and all of their colleagues safe. So the notion 1042 01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:31,240 Speaker 1: that this is and the media of course is not 1043 01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:35,120 Speaker 1: going to cover that, and you know, the media pushes 1044 01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:37,680 Speaker 1: an agenda, Greg, And I'll give you one quick contrast. 1045 01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:41,519 Speaker 1: We all remember the Time magazine cover from last year 1046 01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,360 Speaker 1: that had President Trump. It was photoshop, had President Trump 1047 01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:48,519 Speaker 1: towering over this two year old Honduran girl who was sobbing, 1048 01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:51,639 Speaker 1: whose picture was taken at the border, and they tried 1049 01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:54,400 Speaker 1: to make you believe that she had been separated from 1050 01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:56,400 Speaker 1: her mother, which was not true. The mother just put 1051 01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:58,760 Speaker 1: her down right at her side so she could be 1052 01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:03,559 Speaker 1: searched appropriately by border patrolation. Sure, where is the Time 1053 01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:09,439 Speaker 1: magazine cover right now about Ronald Thing, the California police 1054 01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:13,160 Speaker 1: officer who was shot to death, it doesn't exist because 1055 01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:15,479 Speaker 1: there are too many to fit on a cover, too 1056 01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,720 Speaker 1: many victims. Yes, that's right, and they're not going to 1057 01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:22,640 Speaker 1: do it because they are pushing an agenda. Yeah, you know. 1058 01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:25,759 Speaker 1: I want to set up our next discussion by playing 1059 01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:29,800 Speaker 1: a montage of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi claiming that 1060 01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:32,400 Speaker 1: experts don't want a wall, We don't need a wall. 1061 01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,840 Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. The experts say you can 1062 01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:38,000 Speaker 1: do border security without a wall, which is wasteful and 1063 01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:41,000 Speaker 1: doesn't solve the problem. Your question is not about do 1064 01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:44,400 Speaker 1: we need to protect our borders? Of course we do. 1065 01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,800 Speaker 1: Is it effective to build a wall even if it 1066 01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:50,680 Speaker 1: costs ten cents? Is it an answer? My name is 1067 01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:53,400 Speaker 1: Brandon Jet. I'm the president of the National Bordertrol Council. 1068 01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:56,160 Speaker 1: I've been a bord troll agent for twenty one years. 1069 01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,960 Speaker 1: I can personally tell you from the work that I 1070 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,839 Speaker 1: have done on the South US border that physical barriers, 1071 01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,200 Speaker 1: that walls, actually work. The experts say you can do 1072 01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,719 Speaker 1: border security without a wall. Is it effective to build 1073 01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,600 Speaker 1: the wall even if it costs ten cents? Is it 1074 01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:14,040 Speaker 1: an answer? My name is de Gueto. I am a 1075 01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:16,759 Speaker 1: vice president with the National Border putul Council. It comes 1076 01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:19,800 Speaker 1: down to border security. We fully support the President and 1077 01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:23,040 Speaker 1: all his efforts to secure our nations borders. Experts say, 1078 01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:25,840 Speaker 1: you can do border security without a wall. Is it 1079 01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:28,960 Speaker 1: effective to build the wall even if it costs ten 1080 01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:31,759 Speaker 1: centse is it an answer? Once we deport these people, 1081 01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:34,599 Speaker 1: these people will not stay in their country. These criminal 1082 01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:36,760 Speaker 1: aliens that have been released from jail, that have been 1083 01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:40,320 Speaker 1: deported will come right back into the United States. However, 1084 01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,599 Speaker 1: we had a physical barrier, if we had a wall, 1085 01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:45,160 Speaker 1: we will be able to stop that. We asked a 1086 01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:48,000 Speaker 1: congressman to fund border security and fund the border wall. 1087 01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:51,400 Speaker 1: The experts say, you can do border security without a wall. 1088 01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:54,439 Speaker 1: Is it effective to build the wall even if it 1089 01:12:54,520 --> 01:13:01,160 Speaker 1: costs ten cents? All right? You know, you know Nancy 1090 01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:03,280 Speaker 1: and Chuck think they're experts on everything, but when you 1091 01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:06,280 Speaker 1: actually hear from the experts who were there, who have experienced, 1092 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,680 Speaker 1: they say Nancy and Chuck are full of it. What 1093 01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:14,559 Speaker 1: say you, Jessica, I've been to places where we have 1094 01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:20,280 Speaker 1: effective barriers and they most definitely work. Anyone who has 1095 01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:23,519 Speaker 1: been to look at the barrier systems that we have. 1096 01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:26,519 Speaker 1: Now that all of that, both Chuck Schumer and Nancy 1097 01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:30,960 Speaker 1: Pelosi voted for at one time, knows that they work. 1098 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:34,040 Speaker 1: Of course they do. And they work from Mexico too, 1099 01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:38,719 Speaker 1: because they you know, you don't get thousands of people 1100 01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:42,760 Speaker 1: literally amassing by the border where there's no barrier to 1101 01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:46,519 Speaker 1: try to cross undercover of darkness. It slows them down, 1102 01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:50,320 Speaker 1: It drives them to places that are more difficult to cross, 1103 01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:55,599 Speaker 1: and it deters people. The illegal crossings in California and 1104 01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:58,160 Speaker 1: parts of Arizona and around El Paso and a few 1105 01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:03,439 Speaker 1: other places have been decreased dramatically by putting up the fencing, 1106 01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,439 Speaker 1: and it makes the neighborhoods on both sides of the 1107 01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:10,479 Speaker 1: barriers much safer because the criminal cartels that control these 1108 01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:14,360 Speaker 1: areas moved to other places to get people and drugs 1109 01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:18,320 Speaker 1: and other contraband across the border, you know, Jeffrey the 1110 01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:23,360 Speaker 1: ever oblivious and dense. CNN's Jim Acosta was mocked across 1111 01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:26,839 Speaker 1: social media today for posting a video that he meant 1112 01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,519 Speaker 1: to downplay President Trump's claims of a border crisis, but 1113 01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:35,559 Speaker 1: in truth, it actually ended up supporting the President's argument 1114 01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,639 Speaker 1: that border barriers improve security. So here's a costa. He's 1115 01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:43,840 Speaker 1: walking along this steel barrier. And I'll quote him here, 1116 01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:47,240 Speaker 1: but you can see the video online. It's hilarious. Here 1117 01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:49,880 Speaker 1: are some of the steel slats that the President has 1118 01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:54,320 Speaker 1: been talking about. Acosta said, but as we're walking along here, 1119 01:14:54,600 --> 01:15:00,920 Speaker 1: we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger end of quote. No, Jim, 1120 01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:05,040 Speaker 1: you're not seeing a danger because the wall is there. 1121 01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:12,800 Speaker 1: You know, this kind of idiocy seems endemic among the media. Great, 1122 01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:15,400 Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I know, Jim Acosta, and 1123 01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,080 Speaker 1: when I was so astounded when I saw that that 1124 01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:22,320 Speaker 1: I tweeted him and just said, simply, maybe that's because 1125 01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:28,040 Speaker 1: walls work, Jesus. And he's there with his you know, 1126 01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:31,840 Speaker 1: his ray band shades like he's mister cool. You know, 1127 01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:35,040 Speaker 1: he's hoping to get on a late night talk show 1128 01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:39,559 Speaker 1: once again. I just you know, it's it's a mindset. 1129 01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:43,519 Speaker 1: And the President mentioned the other night, uh, two words 1130 01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:48,280 Speaker 1: common sense and you know, at thirty thousand feet to 1131 01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,240 Speaker 1: pull back of it. This is the problem of the 1132 01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:53,400 Speaker 1: American left, in American liberalism. There is just no common 1133 01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:56,160 Speaker 1: sense there about a whole range of things. But this 1134 01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:59,680 Speaker 1: is the most obvious one at the moment. I mean 1135 01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:02,960 Speaker 1: of horsewalls work. Of course they do this is why 1136 01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,599 Speaker 1: they surround Jim Acosta with him when he goes into work, 1137 01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:09,000 Speaker 1: so that he's safe and secure from people trying to 1138 01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:12,080 Speaker 1: get in there because of CNN. I mean, it is 1139 01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:15,160 Speaker 1: just mind boggling here that they can't seem to figure 1140 01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:17,760 Speaker 1: this out. It's it's you know, you don't know whether 1141 01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:20,760 Speaker 1: literally the laugh or crying. Yeah, well, you know he 1142 01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:22,880 Speaker 1: needs to do is go to the many places along 1143 01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:26,600 Speaker 1: the border that have nothing, yes, like around Laredo and 1144 01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:30,120 Speaker 1: in South Texas where the President is visiting. And then 1145 01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,040 Speaker 1: if Jim Acosta stood there long enough, there would be 1146 01:16:34,439 --> 01:16:40,880 Speaker 1: legal alien adults with kids accosting him thinking, and then 1147 01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:44,360 Speaker 1: he'd figured out what's going on. Acosta gets accosted. There's 1148 01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:48,280 Speaker 1: your natural headline experience. Yeah, I mean, you know, but 1149 01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:52,160 Speaker 1: he wouldn't go there because well, he's not smart enough 1150 01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:55,559 Speaker 1: to go there. But second of all, he'd probably end 1151 01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:57,320 Speaker 1: up being a victim of a crime. And you know 1152 01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,479 Speaker 1: Jim doesn't want that, all right, he knows it's danger Yeah, 1153 01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:03,960 Speaker 1: of course, you know, it's it's obvious to anybody with 1154 01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,719 Speaker 1: an ounce of common sense and half a brain, which 1155 01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:11,280 Speaker 1: excludes necessarily Jim Acosta. All right, if you guys could 1156 01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:13,280 Speaker 1: stick around for just a moment. I want to talk 1157 01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:15,000 Speaker 1: to you just a bit more. Going to squeeze in 1158 01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:18,559 Speaker 1: a quick break. I'm Greg jared In for Sean Hannity. 1159 01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:21,560 Speaker 1: His exclusive interview tonight with President Trump down at the 1160 01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:25,160 Speaker 1: Border will air on Fox News Channel at nine pm 1161 01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:29,519 Speaker 1: Eastern on Hannity. Back in a Flash, Welcome back to 1162 01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:32,120 Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show on Greg jared In for Sean 1163 01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:34,799 Speaker 1: Today because he is down at the border, just finished 1164 01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:41,559 Speaker 1: interviewing President Trump. That full interview will air tonight on 1165 01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:46,080 Speaker 1: Hannity at nine pm Eastern time on the Fox News Channel. 1166 01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:51,320 Speaker 1: Back with us are Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies 1167 01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:55,280 Speaker 1: for the Center for Immigration Studies, Jeffrey Lord, who is 1168 01:17:55,439 --> 01:18:01,760 Speaker 1: a former political director in the Reagan administration, a columnist author. So, Jeffrey, 1169 01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:06,640 Speaker 1: it appears to me to be imminent that the President, 1170 01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:12,719 Speaker 1: in light of the refusal of Democrats to negotiate, will 1171 01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:18,840 Speaker 1: act unilaterally by invoking the National Securities Act and then 1172 01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:25,000 Speaker 1: directing the military to engage in construction of a barrier 1173 01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:31,360 Speaker 1: where it's needed. Should he yes? Absolutely? Should you know? 1174 01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,439 Speaker 1: And you mentioned my time in the Reagan White House. 1175 01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:38,680 Speaker 1: President Reagan was faced with a strike from the air 1176 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:43,120 Speaker 1: traffic controllers in August of nineteen eighty one, and striking 1177 01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:47,599 Speaker 1: federal employees. That is illegal, And the Washington conventional wisdom 1178 01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:50,240 Speaker 1: of the day said, well, you can't fire them because 1179 01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:53,720 Speaker 1: there are sixteen thousand of them and will be in trouble, etc. 1180 01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:56,680 Speaker 1: And Reagan said, either they show up for work or 1181 01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm firing. They didn't show up for work, he fired them. 1182 01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,760 Speaker 1: The union finally went bankrupt to the president of the 1183 01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:06,120 Speaker 1: union found up selling real estate in Florida, all because 1184 01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:08,960 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan stuck to his guns. And I think President 1185 01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,680 Speaker 1: Trump is made of exactly the same stern stuff, and 1186 01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:13,679 Speaker 1: he's going to stick to his guns and he should. 1187 01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,280 Speaker 1: And in fact, you wrote about it quite eloquently today 1188 01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:22,200 Speaker 1: in a column entitled President Donald Gandhi Reagan And so 1189 01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:24,439 Speaker 1: that'll get your attention. You can find it at a 1190 01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:29,040 Speaker 1: spectator dot org. Final words from Jessica Vaughan. What about 1191 01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:33,000 Speaker 1: that using the National Emergencies Act. I've read it. The 1192 01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:36,880 Speaker 1: President is entitled legally to use it in a further 1193 01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:40,439 Speaker 1: statute to ten USC. Twenty eight oh eight, in which 1194 01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:49,160 Speaker 1: he can use emergency powers to specifically authorize construction. Yes, 1195 01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:52,280 Speaker 1: I think that he has the authority to do that, 1196 01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:57,200 Speaker 1: and there are some authorities in immigration law as well 1197 01:19:57,320 --> 01:20:00,800 Speaker 1: that would enable him, for example, to Deppe ties other 1198 01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:04,639 Speaker 1: federal law enforcement agents and stayed in local law enforcement 1199 01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:09,080 Speaker 1: agencies to assist at the border. And I would prefer 1200 01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:13,840 Speaker 1: that this gets done through Congress, all right, because I've 1201 01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,160 Speaker 1: gotta leave it there. Thank you both. We'll be right back. 1202 01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:20,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. Sean's interview tonight 1203 01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:25,360 Speaker 1: with President Trump will air live to tape. He did 1204 01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:28,840 Speaker 1: it live about an hour ago and it was tape recorded, 1205 01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,760 Speaker 1: and so you'll see it in its entirety tonight at 1206 01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:35,800 Speaker 1: nine eastern on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. That's 1207 01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:38,320 Speaker 1: why I'm here, Greg Jared sittin in for Shaun because 1208 01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:41,519 Speaker 1: Sean's down at the border with the President getting a 1209 01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:46,519 Speaker 1: security briefing down there from border patrol agents and others. 1210 01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:51,799 Speaker 1: Have some breaking news in the last few minutes. Lindsey Graham, 1211 01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:55,479 Speaker 1: United States Senator from South Carolina, prominent member of the 1212 01:20:55,560 --> 01:21:00,360 Speaker 1: Republican Party. The Republican majority in the Senate, has issued 1213 01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:04,200 Speaker 1: a statement quote, it is time for President Trump to 1214 01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:08,120 Speaker 1: use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border 1215 01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:15,000 Speaker 1: wall slash barrier end of quote, and Senator Graham cited 1216 01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:20,920 Speaker 1: to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal to negotiate on funding for 1217 01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:26,200 Speaker 1: a barrier wall, saying the path to negotiation has now 1218 01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:30,360 Speaker 1: been closed by Pelosi, and so Lindsey Graham calling for 1219 01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:33,920 Speaker 1: the President to use what I explain in great detail, 1220 01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:37,560 Speaker 1: citing the law a couple of hours ago, the president's 1221 01:21:37,680 --> 01:21:44,400 Speaker 1: emergency powers to order the Secretary of Defense to divert 1222 01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:50,800 Speaker 1: construction projects of the military to construct barriers where they 1223 01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:54,800 Speaker 1: are needed on our southern border. The president has unfettered 1224 01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:58,600 Speaker 1: authority to do it. He should do it. I have 1225 01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:02,400 Speaker 1: been advocating for it, and Lindsey Graham has now come 1226 01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:07,479 Speaker 1: out in favor of that, which quite frankly, probably means 1227 01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:09,840 Speaker 1: a lot to the president. I think it's inexorable the 1228 01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:15,439 Speaker 1: President will use his emergency powers. All right, Let's go 1229 01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:18,519 Speaker 1: to our next caller, Greg from South Dakota, and Greg, 1230 01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:20,160 Speaker 1: I want to thank you. You're a farmer there as 1231 01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:22,840 Speaker 1: I understand it, and you've been holding for a long time. 1232 01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:26,760 Speaker 1: I appreciate your patience. What are your thoughts. I've been 1233 01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:28,600 Speaker 1: here two hours. I'm going to take my time and 1234 01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,519 Speaker 1: get them all in. Number one is you were my 1235 01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:35,000 Speaker 1: pick for Attorney general from day one, mister Jarrett, thank you. 1236 01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:39,720 Speaker 1: Number two is build the wall, President Trump, because you 1237 01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:43,679 Speaker 1: can use the military. They will do it faster, better, cheaper. 1238 01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:46,479 Speaker 1: You're already paying them wages. You don't have that stuck on. 1239 01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:50,080 Speaker 1: You'll get more wall for your money. Good point number 1240 01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:54,320 Speaker 1: three And number three is homeline security. Back in December, 1241 01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:59,080 Speaker 1: when that Illinois Congressman Gooder, as I believe, was shastasizing 1242 01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:02,720 Speaker 1: Secretary Neil Right, the perfect comeback for him would have been. 1243 01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:06,120 Speaker 1: With all due respects here, I just thank god that 1244 01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:09,240 Speaker 1: Mary and Joseph were not Democrats. They'd just went to 1245 01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:13,160 Speaker 1: the closest planned parenthood and aborted an inconvenience pregnancy, and 1246 01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:16,719 Speaker 1: our savior never would have been born. Yeah, all right, 1247 01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:21,400 Speaker 1: I'm not sure I agree with that last point, but Greg, 1248 01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:25,720 Speaker 1: thank you for your thoughts. Greg from South Dakota. All right, 1249 01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:30,040 Speaker 1: let's go to our next caller. And it requires a 1250 01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:32,559 Speaker 1: bit of a set up here because we're transitioning now 1251 01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:37,280 Speaker 1: to the Robert Muller investigation, the Muller hoax, as I 1252 01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,479 Speaker 1: would call it. It began as the Russia hoax, and 1253 01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:43,879 Speaker 1: now has evolved into the Muller Hoax, with the media 1254 01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:48,479 Speaker 1: hoax and the impeachment hoax right behind it. I wrote 1255 01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:52,439 Speaker 1: a book called The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to 1256 01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:57,439 Speaker 1: clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. I'm proud to 1257 01:23:57,439 --> 01:23:59,840 Speaker 1: say it was a number one New York Times bestseller 1258 01:24:00,280 --> 01:24:03,679 Speaker 1: when it was published in July. Since then, I've updated 1259 01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:07,040 Speaker 1: the book for a paperback version, which will be published 1260 01:24:07,439 --> 01:24:11,720 Speaker 1: in four weeks on February twelfth. You can go to 1261 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:14,840 Speaker 1: Amazon dot com. It's already up there, the paperback version 1262 01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:18,240 Speaker 1: with an updated preface and epilogue, which provides you with 1263 01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:22,599 Speaker 1: additional new information that's taken place since the book went 1264 01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:27,280 Speaker 1: to print in June of this last year. So same title, 1265 01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:31,000 Speaker 1: The Russia Hoax, but it's an updated version of the hardback. 1266 01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,200 Speaker 1: You can buy it on Amazon dot com right now. 1267 01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:38,280 Speaker 1: You can preorder it. It'll be available in bookstores nationwide 1268 01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:43,640 Speaker 1: on February twelfth. I heartily recommend the book, if I 1269 01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,360 Speaker 1: do say so myself, because I think it lays out 1270 01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:51,520 Speaker 1: better than anyone else the facts, the law, and the evidence. 1271 01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:55,479 Speaker 1: So let's go to our next caller, Rick from Chicago. Rick, 1272 01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:59,519 Speaker 1: how are you hello? How are you Greg? I'm well, 1273 01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:03,760 Speaker 1: thank you, congratulations on your book and the work you're doing. 1274 01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:08,360 Speaker 1: Thank you. I'll get to the point. I was shocked 1275 01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,640 Speaker 1: when I read James Comey's testimony. We've been told for 1276 01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:17,160 Speaker 1: a long time now that Sally Yates sent the FBI 1277 01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:22,479 Speaker 1: agent to interview General Flynn on the idea that he 1278 01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:26,320 Speaker 1: violated the Logan Act, which is absurd, of course, as 1279 01:25:26,360 --> 01:25:30,920 Speaker 1: you know correct, but I was shocked to read the transcript. 1280 01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:34,599 Speaker 1: I'm sure you did as well. One of the few 1281 01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:39,759 Speaker 1: substantive things that mister Comy testified too was that number one, 1282 01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:43,599 Speaker 1: Sally Yates did not send the agents, in fact, that 1283 01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:46,720 Speaker 1: she called him afterwards him was upset that he had 1284 01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:52,040 Speaker 1: done so, and more importantly, number two that he came 1285 01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:54,040 Speaker 1: right out and said that the Logan Act had nothing 1286 01:25:54,080 --> 01:25:56,240 Speaker 1: to do with the reason he sent the agents, that 1287 01:25:56,320 --> 01:26:02,320 Speaker 1: it was part of his counterintelligence investigations, that General Flinn 1288 01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:06,400 Speaker 1: was under investigation as part of that problem, and not 1289 01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:09,759 Speaker 1: the Logan Act. So we've been told about this Logan 1290 01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:15,880 Speaker 1: Act issue, which he debunked. And also I had thought 1291 01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:18,719 Speaker 1: that Sally Yates was some kind of had a hand 1292 01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:21,120 Speaker 1: in the interview, but apparently did not. Did you see 1293 01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:25,160 Speaker 1: that yes, I did. I read both his December seventh 1294 01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:30,200 Speaker 1: testimony as well as his subsequent testimony. Everybody can read 1295 01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:33,200 Speaker 1: it online. It was published the day after each of 1296 01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:37,960 Speaker 1: his deposition interviews before Congress. You know, I would say this, 1297 01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:43,200 Speaker 1: I don't believe anything that James Cummy says. He is 1298 01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:48,640 Speaker 1: completely self serving and probably deep in his heart, he 1299 01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:53,280 Speaker 1: knows that he violated all kinds of rules and regulations, 1300 01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:58,439 Speaker 1: first in clearing Hillary Clinton and then launching the Trump 1301 01:26:58,520 --> 01:27:04,000 Speaker 1: Russia investigation without probable causing, without any evidence, and his 1302 01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:09,960 Speaker 1: conduct in in the Michael Flynn debacle. You know, they 1303 01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:14,880 Speaker 1: used the Logan Act as a pretext to go after 1304 01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:19,000 Speaker 1: Michael Flynn, to lie to Flynn, to convince him to 1305 01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:22,240 Speaker 1: do an interview with FBI agents who were just going 1306 01:27:22,280 --> 01:27:24,400 Speaker 1: to come over there and have a little chat, No 1307 01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:27,599 Speaker 1: big deal, no legal jeopardy, you don't need a lawyer. 1308 01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:30,479 Speaker 1: They were setting him up, and they used the Logan 1309 01:27:30,520 --> 01:27:32,439 Speaker 1: Act as a pretext. For people who don't know the 1310 01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:38,920 Speaker 1: Logan Act, it prohibits American citizens from interfering in diplomatic dispute. 1311 01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:43,120 Speaker 1: The Logan Act, which has never been successfully prosecuted in 1312 01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:47,479 Speaker 1: two hundred years, has no application to Michael Flynn because 1313 01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:49,760 Speaker 1: he wasn't a private citizen. He was acting in the 1314 01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:55,280 Speaker 1: course in scope of his position as the National Security 1315 01:27:55,280 --> 01:27:59,879 Speaker 1: Advisor for the incoming administration. So there's no Logan Act violation. 1316 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,320 Speaker 1: But they used that as a pretext. And now that 1317 01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:09,040 Speaker 1: Comey has been exposed for erroneously and wrongfully using that, 1318 01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:13,600 Speaker 1: he's trying to change his story. Oh, it's a counterintelligence investigation, 1319 01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:17,800 Speaker 1: Like what why would why would there be a counterintelligence 1320 01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:22,000 Speaker 1: investigation for Michael Flynn, who's doing his job. He's supposed 1321 01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:25,760 Speaker 1: to be making contact with foreign officials. I mean, that's 1322 01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:29,719 Speaker 1: what all transition officials do. So don't believe anything James 1323 01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:34,799 Speaker 1: Comey says. That's my advice. That's my opinion of James Comey. 1324 01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:40,880 Speaker 1: He has zero credibility and he is a confessed liar. 1325 01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:47,240 Speaker 1: Remember he said on television that he has lied. So 1326 01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:51,320 Speaker 1: you know, and by the way, the record proves that. 1327 01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:54,840 Speaker 1: Let's go to our next caller, which is Bill from 1328 01:28:55,040 --> 01:29:00,599 Speaker 1: Virginia High Bill. Hey, Greg, great booklet, listening to it 1329 01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:04,360 Speaker 1: now through audible, fantastic, Thank you very much, Thank you. 1330 01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:08,880 Speaker 1: And regarding THEO, you know, you're welcome. Regarding the Muller investigation, 1331 01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:12,920 Speaker 1: that we're doing. When is the accountability what's going to 1332 01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:18,360 Speaker 1: happen Rosenstein obviously everything he's done wrong. When is something 1333 01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:20,840 Speaker 1: actually going to be going to happen, and when some 1334 01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:25,640 Speaker 1: accountability gonna be placed? Well, with Democrats in control of 1335 01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:31,000 Speaker 1: the House, people are pessimistic that justice will be served, 1336 01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:36,639 Speaker 1: that there will be some fairness and objectivity associated with 1337 01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:39,920 Speaker 1: the end of the Mueller investigation in his forthcoming report. 1338 01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:43,800 Speaker 1: I actually am optimistic. And why because William Barr will 1339 01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:47,519 Speaker 1: surely be confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States, 1340 01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:51,080 Speaker 1: and I think he is a fair man who has 1341 01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:57,519 Speaker 1: impeccable legal credentials, an outstanding career, an agile mind, and 1342 01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:02,560 Speaker 1: experience as the Attorney general obviously, so I think Barr 1343 01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:07,880 Speaker 1: will examine the conduct of Robert Muller and his team 1344 01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:12,600 Speaker 1: of partisans, examine the findings of fact and conclusions of 1345 01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:18,559 Speaker 1: law stated therein, and make an equitable determination as to 1346 01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:24,960 Speaker 1: whether any action should be taken. Now, you know, just 1347 01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:28,040 Speaker 1: look at all of Muller's prosecutions. None of them so 1348 01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:31,560 Speaker 1: far have anything whatsoever to do with Trump Russia collusion 1349 01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:39,640 Speaker 1: to win the election, which was the stated order authorized 1350 01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:45,360 Speaker 1: by Rod Rosenstein. And so that suggests to me that 1351 01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:49,800 Speaker 1: in the end, there will be nothing there that will 1352 01:30:49,840 --> 01:30:54,360 Speaker 1: tie Donald Trump to Russian collusion. Now the question will be, 1353 01:30:55,040 --> 01:30:59,599 Speaker 1: are there other things in that report that rabid anti 1354 01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,639 Speaker 1: Trump Democrats will try to use to impeach him. Of course, 1355 01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:07,880 Speaker 1: whether that will be a wise political move, that's up 1356 01:31:07,880 --> 01:31:13,360 Speaker 1: to Nancy Pelosi and to some extent Chuck Schumer. You know, 1357 01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:16,160 Speaker 1: you've got to get a majority in the House to 1358 01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:20,559 Speaker 1: vote for impeachment, two thirds to convict in the Senate. 1359 01:31:21,240 --> 01:31:25,400 Speaker 1: I don't think that would ever happen, But the impeachment 1360 01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:29,280 Speaker 1: hoax is alive and well, so we'll wait and see 1361 01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:33,519 Speaker 1: what's in Mueller's report. It'll be important to also consider 1362 01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:39,839 Speaker 1: simultaneously the Trump counter report being prepared by Jay Secalo, 1363 01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:44,600 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani and the other attorneys on Trump's team, because remember, 1364 01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:48,040 Speaker 1: Mueller is a partisan. He's only going to be presenting 1365 01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:54,160 Speaker 1: the prosecutor's side. He's a prosecutor, and prosecutors only present 1366 01:31:54,479 --> 01:31:58,559 Speaker 1: one side of the story. It is never fair, it 1367 01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:04,160 Speaker 1: is never balanced. So to accommodate that, to counter that, 1368 01:32:04,200 --> 01:32:07,559 Speaker 1: you need to consider the Trump Report, which will also 1369 01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:10,760 Speaker 1: be coming out. We're gonna take a quick break more 1370 01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:14,200 Speaker 1: of your calls on the other side. I'm Greg Jarrett 1371 01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:18,160 Speaker 1: sitting in for Sean Hannity. My paperback, The Russia Hoax. 1372 01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:22,080 Speaker 1: The paperback. Updated version of the hardback comes out one 1373 01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:26,800 Speaker 1: month from now. You can order it on Amazon dot Com. 1374 01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,800 Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of the Sean Hannity Show. 1375 01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:35,560 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show on Greg Jarrett 1376 01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:39,200 Speaker 1: in for Sean Today. He's on his way back to 1377 01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:41,920 Speaker 1: New York, but first he was down at the border 1378 01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:46,000 Speaker 1: today in Texas interviewing President Trump, who was meeting with 1379 01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:51,120 Speaker 1: border security officials, looking firsthand at the situation there, the crisis, 1380 01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:55,519 Speaker 1: and the question now becomes, given the Democrats refusal to 1381 01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,479 Speaker 1: fund the wall, will the President act on his own 1382 01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:05,040 Speaker 1: unilaterally by invoke the National Emergencies Act and a further 1383 01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:09,200 Speaker 1: statute that allows him to construct the wall through and 1384 01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:13,720 Speaker 1: with the military, even though Congress has not authorized it. 1385 01:33:14,200 --> 01:33:18,439 Speaker 1: Congress passed that law. President is perfectly entitled to use 1386 01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:23,799 Speaker 1: that law. He's authorized and empowered and should. And Senator 1387 01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:26,320 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham a short time ago issued a statements saying 1388 01:33:26,360 --> 01:33:30,960 Speaker 1: this is what the President should do, act unilaterally build 1389 01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:34,599 Speaker 1: the wall on his own. Will there be lawsuits, of course, 1390 01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:39,759 Speaker 1: but there's no legal basis to sustain a challenge against 1391 01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:45,680 Speaker 1: the president's legal, unfettered authority to act. So you can 1392 01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:49,400 Speaker 1: watch Sean's interview tonight with the President. He'll be asking 1393 01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:54,439 Speaker 1: him about that nine o'clock Eastern on the Fox News channel, 1394 01:33:54,720 --> 01:34:00,240 Speaker 1: the program of courses called Hannity. And I've enjoyed being 1395 01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:02,120 Speaker 1: with you over the last three hours. I want to 1396 01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:04,960 Speaker 1: mention again my book, The Russia Hoax, will be coming 1397 01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:10,679 Speaker 1: out in a updated paperback version with new information, facts, 1398 01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:13,559 Speaker 1: evidence in law that have come to light since the 1399 01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:17,760 Speaker 1: hardback was published in July. You can order it now 1400 01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:21,920 Speaker 1: on Amazon dot com. It's up there. It'll be available 1401 01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:26,439 Speaker 1: in bookstores nationwide beginning February twelfth. The name of the 1402 01:34:26,439 --> 01:34:30,439 Speaker 1: book is The Russia Hoax, The illicit Scheme to clear 1403 01:34:30,560 --> 01:34:34,920 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. I want to thank 1404 01:34:35,160 --> 01:34:37,840 Speaker 1: all of our guests today. David Scheung was with us, 1405 01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:41,200 Speaker 1: Jessica Vaughan, Jeffrey Lord, and all of our callers who 1406 01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:43,800 Speaker 1: have a lot of great points to be made and 1407 01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:51,679 Speaker 1: some serious questions that were posed. You know, Muller hired 1408 01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:56,200 Speaker 1: a team of anti Trump partisans and he launched an 1409 01:34:56,240 --> 01:35:01,320 Speaker 1: intensive and indiscriminate search for some proof that the President 1410 01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:07,080 Speaker 1: had coordinated or conspired with Russians during the election. No 1411 01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:12,760 Speaker 1: evidence has emerged, so if frustrated Robert Mueller changed tactics. 1412 01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:17,320 Speaker 1: He expanded his mandate beyond its stated purpose to pursue 1413 01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:24,240 Speaker 1: anybody associated with Trump. The Special Council created opportunities for 1414 01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:28,000 Speaker 1: crimes where none existed, and if you want to read 1415 01:35:28,040 --> 01:35:31,760 Speaker 1: more about it, check out the updated paper version of 1416 01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:37,160 Speaker 1: The Russia Hoax available on Amazon dot com. I'm Greg Jarrett. 1417 01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:38,639 Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us.