1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: The best of Sean Hennedy is on now. 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 2: Well, we have come to your city saying you a concert, 3 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: zell will be hire. 4 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 3: And if you want a little bang, ye I come along. 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 3: Sixty six percent of Americans disapprove of the Democratic Party, 6 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 3: including the majority of Democrats, because they don't believe that 7 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 3: we have a credible economic argument. 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: The most unpatriotic people that we have in this country 9 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: are Mado and this president. 10 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 2: We are the real patriots. 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,639 Speaker 4: But right now, with all due respect, we're walking down 12 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 4: a damn different path. We're fighting fire with fire and 13 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 4: when to punch these sons in the mouth. 14 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 2: Afraido is back in style. 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 3: Welcome to the revel. 16 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 4: Coming way against and sane. 17 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: You a conscious son, New. 18 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: Sean Hennity show, more him the Scene's information on freaking 19 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: news and more bold inspired solutions for America. Coming up 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: next our final news round up and Information Overload Hour. 21 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,839 Speaker 1: All Right, News round up in Information Overload Hour. Here's 22 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: our toll free telephone number if you want to be 23 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: a part of the program. It's eight hundred and nine 24 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: to four one Sean if you want to join us. 25 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: I've been arguing that the left liberals, they they have 26 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: never regained their footing after Donald Trump's beat down of 27 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: them in the twenty twenty four election. In large part, 28 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: there's not been any introspection. There's been those course correction 29 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: you know, in my life if things go wrong, I 30 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: usually try to stop, stand back and say, Okay, what 31 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: did I do wrong? What can what can I do 32 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: to improve my life? How can I change? How can 33 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: I be a better person. That's not happen in terms 34 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. It's very interesting to watch the evolution, 35 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: for example, of Gavin Neussom. Gavin Newsom, you know, from 36 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: day one when Donald Trump was elected, he made the 37 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: decision he wanted a legal fund so he could fight 38 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Then he seemed to moderate and he 39 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: became a podcaster, and then he's interviewing conservatives so they 40 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: could we can now begin to have a dialogue as 41 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: a country, interviewing the likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. 42 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: And then of course in the Charlie Kirk interview, you know, 43 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,839 Speaker 1: he got caught saying, I don't know where this word 44 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: LATINX came from, and he you know, we found instance 45 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: after instance where he was using the term LATINX and 46 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: the same with gender affirming care issues and men playing 47 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: women's sports. But that's not Gavin's biggest problem. And now 48 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: he's now he's getting very aggressive. Now he's talking about 49 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: punching people in the face, and I'm willing to take 50 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,399 Speaker 1: the hit rather than go after some probably overweight politician 51 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: that doesn't know how to defend themselves and Texas because 52 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: he doesn't like what they're doing legally in Texas with redistricting. Meanwhile, 53 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: every blue state has been Jerry Mander to death. I'm 54 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: offering to let him take a swing at me if 55 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: he wants, just because I care about other people. I 56 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: know how to defend myself. These guys probably don't know 57 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: how to defend themselves. So I'm wedding Gavin. I'm offering 58 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: to be let Gavin take the punch at me. Listen 59 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: the Republican parties. He doesn't even reflect itself. I mean, 60 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: look at these Republicans cowering to this guy. Look at 61 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: your Republican governor used to claim to be a conservative. 62 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: What a farce. 63 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 4: Nothing conservative about this, by definition, nothing conservative about that. 64 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 4: This is radical rigging of a midterm election, radical rigging 65 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 4: of an election, destroying vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law. 66 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 5: So I'm sorry. 67 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 4: I know some people's sensibilities. I respect and appreciate that, 68 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 4: but right now, with all due respect, we're walking down 69 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 4: a damn different path. We're fighting fire with fire, and 70 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 4: we going to punch these suns in the mouth. 71 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure this is all going over very very well 72 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: with moderates and independence, and I'm sure when he makes 73 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: his run for the presidency, I'm sure America is going 74 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,799 Speaker 1: to choose to become California, even though it's the state 75 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: with the number one mass migration, the highest poverty rate 76 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: in the nation, the highest gas taxes in the nation, 77 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: the highest state income taxes in the nation, the most 78 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: regulation in the nation, record homelessness in the nation, and 79 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: the list goes on and on, and I'll get into 80 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: more specificity as we go on to this half hour. 81 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: But first we welcome back to the program, friend of 82 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: the program, editor in chief of the new interactive video 83 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: platform it's called Two Way, host of the Next Up podcast. 84 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: He's on Megan Kelly's network and Markalper and his back 85 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: with us. How are you good to have you back? 86 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 3: Sean, good to talk to you now. 87 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 2: I brought you on. 88 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: Because I saw your comments that you opened up with 89 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: a monologue on your show on why Gavin Newsom is 90 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: misunderstood and what sets him apart for twenty twenty eight. 91 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: You challenge people to be prepared to put aside their 92 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: preconceived notions of who this man is and what he 93 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: is about. And you've talked about then former Senator Mark Pryor, 94 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: who joined you on the on the Democrats structural challenges, 95 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Look, I don't doubt that he 96 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: could be the nominee in twenty twenty eight at all. 97 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: I don't doubt that one bit. And I think that 98 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: he's made a political calculation that trying to be a 99 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: moderate and trying to get along with conservatives and have 100 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: a conversation and understand them is not something he's willing 101 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: to have. 102 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 3: Well, look, I appreciate your listening to what I said 103 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 3: in a nuanced way, because a lot of people are misunderstanding. 104 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 3: I'm not saying gab Newsom is going to be president. 105 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of gabnews not my job, but 106 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 3: this is a very weak field. And Sean, you know, 107 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 3: because you've spent time with him, this guy has some talent. 108 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 3: Is he a hugely successful governor. You could talk for 109 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 3: three hours about why he's not. The point is it 110 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 3: is a weak field, and this guy contains multitudes. He's 111 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 3: a complicated person. He has some positions that are liberal, 112 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 3: some that are super liberal, but he's also got some 113 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: ones that are more moderate in the context of the 114 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 3: Democratic Party. So when people want to say he's a disaster, 115 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 3: he's so liberal, he's so fail he can't possibly win 116 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 3: the presidency. I'm not talking about the general election. Can 117 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 3: he be the Democratic nominee in a weak field? 118 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 5: He can't. 119 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 3: My grandfather, my great great grandfather, back in the Old Country, 120 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 3: was like five foot ten in Eastern Europe. He was 121 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 3: the tallest man in the village, sean at five to ten, 122 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 3: because the best of the people in the village were 123 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 3: five eight and below. This guy is a major major 124 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 3: at the political figure in his party, and if you 125 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 3: look at the other people running, they don't have anything 126 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 3: like his experience. So all I'm telling people on the 127 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 3: right is if you want to think about who the 128 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 3: Democrats are going to nominate, this is the guy to 129 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 3: focus on today. Now, ironically, I'm the only one I 130 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 3: know who doesn't think he'll run in the end. I 131 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 3: think he'll approach the finished starting line and then and 132 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 3: then bail out. But right now he's in a class 133 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 3: by himself because he's done, he's done what he's done, 134 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 3: what Barack Obama did, Bill Clinton did, George Bush did, 135 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 3: and uh and Donald Trump did. He's simultaneously doing some 136 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 3: things on the base side and some things in the center. 137 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 3: And for people to say that new something, what is. 138 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: He doing on the center, I'd take issue with that. 139 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: I mean, he tried for a brief period to be 140 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: a little bit in the center. I don't see any 141 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: center policies of Gavin Newsom. 142 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 3: Okay, I'll tell you. 143 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 5: I'll tell you what they are. 144 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 3: And again I'll say they're in the center in the 145 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 3: context of the Democratic Party, are they? Are they in 146 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 3: the center? 147 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: For the republicle you're talking about a radical left party now, 148 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: cour that's about to elect a Marxist in New York 149 00:07:58,960 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: City as mayor. 150 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: But Sean, that's the state of the Democratic Party. Someone 151 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 3: who says what he says to Charlie Kirk, someone who 152 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 3: EsPAS is dealing with the homeless in a more aggressive 153 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,119 Speaker 3: way than the party. Someone who will talk to Charlie Kirk. 154 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: These are in the context of the no somebody who 155 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: would have tried to talk to Charlie Kirk it didn't 156 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: work with his polling, and then shifted gears and like 157 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: a chameleon politician, you know, decided to go this aggressive route, 158 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: talking about punching people in the mouth and fighting fire 159 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: with fire when his state is one of the most 160 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: jerry manderd in the country. 161 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 3: I agree, and that's what he's doing. And looked the 162 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 3: whole Democratic Party crying crocodile tears over Texas when they 163 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 3: then have to accept the Illinois and Massachusetts and Maryland 164 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 3: and all these blue states have done it. I'm not again, 165 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 3: I'm not here as a spokesman for Gavin Newsom. I'm 166 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 3: just telling you he in his and if you look. 167 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: At it, by the way, we're totally getting that message. 168 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: You've given enough caveats. 169 00:08:58,880 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 2: I get it. 170 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: You're just given political analysis, which is what you're great at. 171 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: I want your political analysis. 172 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 3: So what I'm telling you is to be the nominee 173 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 3: in this day and age, you have to be an 174 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 3: aircraft carrier. You have to be able to hire great people, 175 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 3: raise tens of millions hundreds of millions of dollars. You 176 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 3: have to be able to go on toe to toe 177 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 3: with Sean Hannity. And right now there's no other aircraft 178 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 3: carrier in this field, in this forming field. So if 179 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: Republicans just want to denounce anyone who says Gavin Newsom 180 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 3: is the front runner, so free. But you're making a 181 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 3: mistake because today you would be the nominee with all 182 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 3: the variables out there, what states are going to vote first, 183 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 3: and who else is going to run? No one else. 184 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 3: These other people who are talking about Bashir Shapiro, Wes Moore, 185 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 3: they are not in this guy's league in terms of 186 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 3: what you look at to say, who's an aircraft carrier. 187 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 3: And that's not. 188 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 5: To say he's been a great governor. 189 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 3: It's not to say he's not super liberal on some issues. 190 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 3: But this is the Democratic nomination we're talking about. 191 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: I would continue Our friend Mark Halpert is with US, 192 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: editor in chief, New interactive video platform Two Way, host 193 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: of the Next Up podcast. Okay, if we're only talking 194 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: about the Democratic nomination, I can completely and totally and 195 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: utterly agree with you. And but it's you know, often 196 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: people in a primary, you know this from you many 197 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: many decades of following politics, they will they will run 198 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: hard to the left or to the right, and then 199 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: they'll move to the center in a general election. Gavin's 200 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: got a big problem. He's got a Michael Dukaccus problem, 201 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 1: and that is, you know, do you want America to 202 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 1: be Massachusetts? Do you want America to be California? And 203 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: you know, I said this last night, and I'm going 204 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: to stop, and I'm going to backtrack and just tell 205 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: you I know Gavin. I even texted him last night 206 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: during my show and I said, please, don't stop doing 207 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 1: what you're doing. It's like it's manna from heaven for 208 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,719 Speaker 1: me to get this material from him every single day 209 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: of him ranting like a lunatic, and he's going for 210 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: the hard left, and he's passionate. If you meet him 211 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: in real life, he's charming, he is slick, he is nice. 212 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: He did have courage. He did the debate. No first, 213 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: he did an interview with me one on one, and 214 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: then he did the debate that I had with him 215 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: in Ron De Santis. 216 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 2: Correct. He has since pulled back for me. I tried 217 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 2: to reach out to him. 218 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: I said once he came out when Donald Trump was reelected, 219 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: and I said, instead of you know, funding, you know, 220 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: a legal strategy against Donald Trump to Trump proof your state, 221 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: I said, why don't you go sit down with him. 222 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: I'll arrange the meeting. I actually offered to do that. 223 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: I don't mind making that part of public. And you know, 224 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: he just dismissed my suggestion. And that's fine too, but 225 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 1: I think it would have been a lot better off 226 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: for him and the people of California. With all that said, 227 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: after the Pacific Palisades, he you know, Donald Trump stepped 228 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: up and he's helping, but they're still not giving permits 229 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: for people to build homes out there. It's unbelievable. Yeah, 230 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 1: and that's his problem. I mean, his record is so 231 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: bad when America becomes aware of it. I'm just telling 232 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: you there's no way this guy could get elected in 233 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: my opinion as of today. 234 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 3: And Sean, you mean when the presidency and again I 235 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 3: share your view and that skepticism, and that's in part 236 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 3: why I don't think he'll run. There are other reasons. 237 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 3: We had a guy on two way last night, a 238 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 3: dad two young kids now lives in Oregon, left the 239 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 3: Bay Area, had to say he couldn't afford to he 240 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 3: couldn't afford to live there, couldn't deal with all the 241 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 3: negative impacts that he largely attributes to Gavin Newsom. If 242 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom does run, and again I don't think he will, 243 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 3: they're going to be people who run against him from 244 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 3: the left who will find thousands of Californians who say, 245 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom sailed us, and we're on the left. And 246 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 3: you'll also find thousands and tens of thousands, millions maybe 247 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 3: on the right. If he's the nominee, who will be there. 248 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 3: The Republican ad makers will not know who to cast 249 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 3: in the ads because they will have sympathetic real Californians, 250 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 3: many of whom have left the state, who will say, 251 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 3: if America thinks they're getting a deal with Gavin Newsom 252 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 3: and getting in California, you're wrong. I believe in the 253 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 3: end that'll be part of why he doesn't run. But 254 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 3: right now, the Democratic Party values one thing above all else. 255 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,839 Speaker 3: Are you there round the clock punching Donald Trump in 256 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 3: the face metaphorically and he's doing it. That's what the 257 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 3: party wants. 258 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 2: He's doing it now. 259 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: This is the latest iteration, this is the latest evolution 260 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: of him and him and the social media team. I 261 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: think for him, knowing him, it's inauthentic and I find 262 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: it embarrassing. I'm kind of embarrassed for him. I think 263 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: he's looking stupid, but he can't run away from something. 264 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: He's very sensitive. But if Trump calls him nuskam, he 265 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: hates it. He's very sensitive if you point out his 266 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: failures surrounding the Pacific Palisades wildfires and they had hydrants 267 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 1: that had no water in them in an empty reservoir. 268 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: You know, he's very, very sensitive on issues about being 269 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: the high taxed a state in the country and they 270 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,439 Speaker 1: still have a massive budget deficit. He's very sensitive about 271 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: all the illegal immigrants that I've committed crimes, although they 272 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: don't keep statistics out there. He's very sensitive, you know, 273 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: about the highest poverty rate, homelessness rate, highest gas taxes, 274 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: income taxes. 275 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: It's to me that's why he won't run. 276 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: I think in the end, I think you're right, he's 277 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: going to get right up to that line and then 278 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: probably not. I can see the announcement, you know, at 279 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: the last minute. 280 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, and his family is a big consideration as well, 281 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 3: and the scrutiny he'd get. This guy has gotten. The 282 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 3: people always say Alway's been governor of California, He's been scrutinized. 283 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 3: He has not. There's tons of scrutiny that will come 284 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 3: his way or anyone else who runs, And I don't 285 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 3: think he wants to deal with that, and his family 286 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 3: deal with that. But the reason I've been talking about 287 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 3: this so much this week is because you can learn 288 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 3: a lot about where's the Democratic Party right now and 289 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 3: what does it mean to compete with Donald Trump for attention. 290 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 3: You can't deny that he's succeeded by that metric. Everybody's 291 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 3: saw him about him, and they're not talking about well more, 292 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 3: you know, And that's that is something. You may say 293 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 3: that he's an authentic in how he's doing it. You 294 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 3: may say it's successive, or it's undignified, as our friend 295 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 3: Dana Prino says, but it is. It is achieving what 296 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 3: two things that Democrats want, they want, they want. 297 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: He's placating a very very small and dwindling base, and 298 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: he is not He's not expanding the the base that 299 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: he would need if he wanted to be a real 300 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: if he wanted to be a contender. He's not doing that. 301 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: We do appreciate your insight. Thank you, Mark Alprin. We 302 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: appreciate you as always, and I think you're right. I 303 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: think he is. He's the front runner for the nomination. 304 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine four one Seawn. If you want to 305 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: be a part of the program when we come back 306 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: more of the best of the Sean Hannity Show, stay tuned. 307 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: You are listening to the best of the Sean Hannity Show. 308 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: James Camy, you have the right to remain silent, and 309 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: you might want to use it. 310 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 2: This is the Sean Hannity Show. 311 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: It has been a huge breaking news week for our 312 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: friend John Solomon, editor and chief founder and chief investigative 313 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: reporter justinnews dot com. John broke the big story about 314 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: James Comy last night. He's broken other stories this week. 315 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: We woke up to the news that in fact, FBI 316 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: agents have rated former National security advisor John Bolton's home. 317 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 2: I have sources. 318 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: I know what this is really all about, but we'll 319 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: see what John sources have to say first and then 320 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: see I see if our sources match. Mister Solomon, You've 321 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: had quite a week, and we're gonna do a little 322 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: summary of the week. You've had a great investigative week. 323 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: Now I know how hard you work. We've worked for 324 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: years together. There's nobody that digs in deeper. There's nobody 325 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: that has deeper contacts than you, and I congratulate you 326 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 1: on your hard work. And in many ways it's a 327 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: culmination of all the work and all the reporting that 328 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: you did for the years that we did Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, 329 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: Ukraine and everything in between. I mean, so, I'm very 330 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: proud of you, proud to be your friend, and thank 331 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: you for all your hard work. And you've been proven right. 332 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: We've been proven right on this show. And we never 333 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: get credit. I don't think I'm getting a pull of surprise, 334 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: although you definitely deserve one. 335 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I don't want to put surprise. I just 336 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 6: love doing this and I love telling the truth. And 337 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 6: you and I have been able to do so many 338 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 6: amazing things together. And you know, this morning we wake 339 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 6: up to another sign of what law and order may 340 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 6: look like in the Trump era, which is something that 341 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 6: comes from court, not from a political playbook. In Hillary 342 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 6: Clinton's basement or Barack Obama's basement, a court the FBI 343 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 6: permission and ordered it to search the home of former 344 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 6: National Security Advisor John Bolton. Yeah, he's a critic of 345 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 6: Donald Trump. He's a critic of Cashptell. 346 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 5: He tried to, I think, opposed Cashptel's nomination for FBI director. 347 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, they go to 348 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 5: a court, they raise some concerns about classified information releases 349 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 5: and maybe perhaps misuse of the classified information. They get 350 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 5: a chance to review his home, get the evidence out 351 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 5: of the home, and then see where it leads. This 352 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 5: is an investigation they got stymied under Joe Biden. Today 353 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 5: it is back in motion, and it shows it. No 354 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 5: matter how powerful you are, no matter how many friends 355 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 5: you have in Washington, how much to distinguished work he did, 356 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 5: he was a U in the back. 357 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,360 Speaker 1: By the way, are there such things as friends in Washington? Seriously, 358 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 1: because if you want a friend in DC, you should 359 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: get a dog. I offered to get the President Trump 360 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: a dogg He laughed at me. 361 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 5: Dog's a much better choice. There's no doubt about it. 362 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 5: But you know he obviously he's been in the establishment 363 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 5: a long time for administrations he served in. But at 364 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 5: the end of the day, the law appears to be 365 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 5: blind on this, and we'll see how they treat them 366 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 5: what they learned from the raid, what they get in 367 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 5: the search warm and then see if there's anything that 368 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 5: comes of it. But that happened today, and I think 369 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 5: there's a you know, things are returning to normal. It's 370 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 5: like common say, settling over the city. This is the 371 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 5: way the Justice Department used to work before it got 372 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 5: hijacked at the end of the Obama administration. Courts approved things, 373 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,199 Speaker 5: things happen. There's not a lot of politics involved. There 374 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 5: isn't a lot of you know, political fanfare being started up. 375 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 5: Parah went and did its job. They're not going to 376 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,479 Speaker 5: talk about it, and they go on. And I think 377 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 5: that's the way the court system used to run before 378 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 5: it got weaponized and politicized by the Democrats and their 379 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 5: friends and government. So that's what happened today, and I 380 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 5: think it's a reminder that maybe under Donald Trump, things 381 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 5: are getting back to normal. 382 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 3: No. 383 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: Now, I've had sources tell me that this is more 384 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: directly involved to intelligence that he had access to, and 385 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 1: that it might have to do with foreign adversaries. 386 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 2: Have you heard anything similar, Well, there's. 387 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 5: Always that concern. That's why there's a national security component 388 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 5: to classified information. You want to make sure that somebody 389 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:13,360 Speaker 5: either neither intentionally or unwittingly provided information that could give 390 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 5: comfort or aid or a strategic advantage to a foreign enemy. 391 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 5: I think we ought to we can see, let's see 392 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 5: what comes of this information. Let's see what weight comes 393 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 5: of the thing with John Bolton had a lot of clients. 394 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,159 Speaker 5: You know, he's a foreign policy advisory as a business 395 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 5: at one of the places they searched this morning was 396 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 5: his business office. But I think one of it, just 397 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 5: like the justice system, is getting back to being normal. 398 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 5: I think the way we in the media should treat things, 399 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 5: which is, let's give everybody the benefit, not let's see 400 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 5: what the search warrant returns. The next thing we'll learn 401 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 5: is somewhere in the next few weeks the FBI will 402 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 5: report to the court, here's the search warrant returns, and 403 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 5: here is the affidavit of why we search. The court. 404 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 5: When we get that information, we'll have a little bit 405 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 5: better sense of the skill. But I do think anytime 406 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 5: you're talking about a classified information league, the first concern 407 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 5: is did this intentionally or unintentionally given assistance to one 408 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 5: of our enemies, one of our foreign powers. And I 409 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 5: think that is at the root of this case as well. 410 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: Let me give you a little background on my relationship 411 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: with John Bolton, because there was a time we got 412 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: along and I did have respect for him, and it 413 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 1: was during very early on when Donald Trump won the 414 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: election in twenty sixteen. I remember where I was when 415 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,239 Speaker 1: he called me. We had a very long and at 416 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 1: times a little bit heated conversation, and he was asking 417 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 1: me if I would, you know, put in a good 418 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 1: word with him with a president. I'm like, well, that's 419 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: not what I do. I said, I've known President Trump 420 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: for thirty years. I know he's looking for good people. 421 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: But I said, John, I've known you a long time. 422 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: Your foreign policy does not match up, is not in 423 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: sync with Donald Trump's. And it really, for me, was 424 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: that simple. And he assured me over and over and 425 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: over again. Oh no, no, I've evolved that I'm I'm 426 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 1: I want to serve the president's foreign policy. 427 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 5: Now. 428 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: It seemed like very early on he had a very 429 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: different agenda. Was not He did not live up to 430 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: the promise that he was making me when he was 431 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: begging me to speak out on his behalf. 432 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, there's a moment, and there's a gentleman that 433 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 5: worked for John Bolton for a long time, very well 434 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 5: respected former CIA unless he became the chief of Staff 435 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 5: of the National Security Council and Trump won Fred Flights 436 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 5: and Fred Flights wrote a really powerful article on Fox 437 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 5: News around the time that John Bolton put his book out. 438 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 5: In the book is the first time that we had 439 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 5: some questions about whether he had improperly really classified information 440 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 5: or was going to really improperly classified information. And Fred 441 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 5: Flights wrote a really thoughtful article which is Listen, John 442 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,880 Speaker 5: Boltons had a lot of the fingers things in his career, 443 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 5: made a lot of friends, he worked at the un 444 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 5: served multiple presidents. But this book is not a book 445 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 5: to help the American people understand national policy or foreign policy. 446 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 5: It's avenger book, a revenge book, and that is beneath 447 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 5: John Bolton. He really encouraged John Bolton not to publish 448 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 5: the book, which was, you know, for John Bolton, probably 449 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 5: a shock. This guy had always worked with him and 450 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 5: they had a great relationship. But something happened at the 451 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 5: end of the first the Trump administration with John Bolton. 452 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 5: Obviously he didn't see how to die when the president 453 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 5: the president fired him. The president's foreign policy has proven 454 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 5: to be very successful, as many European leaders just admitted 455 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 5: Monday in the White House. But I think John Bolton 456 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 5: went in a different direction, and for the first time, 457 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 5: a guy who seemed to be very buttoned up and 458 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 5: really just about the policy and just about humbly serving 459 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 5: the president became a guy who thought he could challenge 460 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 5: a president. And at the end of the day, I 461 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 5: think he bet wrong. I think the American people made 462 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 5: a better bet than he did. And the question now 463 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 5: is in that drive and that effort to become suddenly 464 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 5: an opposition to a president he had served, did he 465 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 5: do something that compromised national security? And we'll see what 466 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 5: the FBI finds. 467 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: You know what's fascinating about it is, you know there 468 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: was a time he did not evolve with the advancement 469 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: of military technology. I mean, look at, for example, the 470 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: impact drones are having in the conflict in the Middle 471 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: East and the conflict in Europe. I've been arguing for 472 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 1: some time the next generation of weaponry will enable wars 473 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: to be fought in air conditioned offices, not on a 474 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 1: battlefield like like had been done historically. And there just 475 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: seem to be people that want to cling to this 476 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: old version of warfare, and Donald Trump's not one of them. 477 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: He's talking about a golden dome that would keep this 478 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: country safe. It may if he's successful at building it, 479 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 1: I mean he might that might end up being as 480 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: greate as Legacy. The media made fun of Strategic Defense 481 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: of Ronald Reagan when he proposed it. They called it 482 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: star wars Wars, they mocked it, and they generated all 483 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: this animation on TV. And you know, now it plays 484 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: out in real time in the Middle East, in Israel, 485 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: and it's saving lives, you know, almost on a daily basis. 486 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: So I don't think he really grew. I don't think 487 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: Liz Cheney or the Cheneys grew, and they just they've come. 488 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: They just have this hatred of Trump. But with that said, 489 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: I agree with you. You know, people are innocent until 490 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: proven guilty. Let's see if my sources turn out to 491 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: be right. I hear it has to do with national 492 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 1: security secrets. He wrote the book. He didn't get permission. 493 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 2: All right. 494 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: Now, let's move on to your one of the other 495 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 1: big stories of the week, and you've had a lot 496 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: of them, that's James call me. 497 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,479 Speaker 5: Thanks. Yeah, listen, this is important when these doctors were 498 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 5: released a couple of weeks ago. We got a couple 499 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 5: of good scoops out of them. One of them was 500 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 5: the Adam Shift story that Adam Shiff's own stafford went 501 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 5: to the FBI and said he authorized the leak of 502 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 5: classified information. I think that's illegal, unethical, in treasonous. That's 503 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 5: the exact words that the Democrat stafford told the FBI. 504 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 5: But of course Adam Schiff got a pass. There was 505 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 5: a large block of these documents that had a big 506 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 5: black markup and they were redacted. They were kept from seedings. 507 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 5: I believe they contained information that was not classified nor 508 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 5: was it covered by grand jury secrecy. And so I 509 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 5: appealed to Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team and 510 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 5: she agreed, and she, alongside of Caspitial, they unredacted that 511 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,719 Speaker 5: information yesterday they sent it back to Congress. I got 512 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 5: a copy of it. And what you see in that 513 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 5: is that Comy's own chief lawyer is chief counsel when 514 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 5: he was the FBI director, told the FBI that he 515 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 5: James Comy, James Baker, the lawyer and the witness who's 516 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 5: admitting to this, and the chief estaff for James Coby, 517 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 5: James Ravickey all at the FBI, The top three guys 518 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 5: in the FBI worked together to illegally go lead classified 519 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 5: information to the New York Times the first time in 520 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 5: October twenty sixteen, right on the eve of the election, 521 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 5: where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were neck and neck, 522 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 5: and then there were some concerns that that happened again afterwards. 523 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 5: That is a rear moment when an insider in the 524 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 5: inner circle of a person, a leaker admits that this 525 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 5: happened and a prayer that it got kept from us. 526 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 5: The first time that cash Bettel got the documentary American public, 527 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 5: the Justice Department had made that redaction. They admit it 528 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 5: was a mistake. They unredacted him. We now know that 529 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 5: the United States government had very strong evidence to believe 530 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 5: that James coming had authorized the leak of classified information 531 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 5: information that would harm national security because it was released 532 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 5: and the once again, just like the Hillary Clinton Foundation investigators, 533 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 5: just like the IRS agents who tried to go after 534 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 5: Hunter Biden for the tax crimes, just like the agents 535 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:26,479 Speaker 5: who want to go after Hillary Clinton's classified email server issues. 536 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 5: They FBI, the Justice Department shut down this investigation and 537 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 5: said you're not going to die you on, but decide 538 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 5: not to indict anyone. In fact, there's a moment where 539 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 5: they have a chance to get some emails that would 540 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,679 Speaker 5: be corroborating and really understand just how far the leaking 541 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 5: may have been and just who was involved in it. 542 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 5: And the ustneys I was say, no, you don't need 543 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:45,959 Speaker 5: to go get We're not going to go get those. 544 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,439 Speaker 5: So once again an example of the dual system of justice, 545 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 5: the lack of curiosity that seemed to occur whenever someone 546 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 5: who was a Democrat or a friend of the Democrat 547 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 5: and government was accused of wrongtoing, they got protected and 548 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 5: very different in the way than dot Donald Trump got 549 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 5: tracked treated and his followers got treated in that same system. 550 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 5: This is a story that's going to be now. People 551 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 5: say it's just a history lesson Tom, Why should I care? 552 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 5: The answer is, there is a ten year statute covering 553 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 5: this potential type of disclosure of national intelligence information. And 554 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 5: Pam Bondy was very clear in my story saying that 555 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 5: people who were entrusted. First of all, she said that 556 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 5: James Comy, based on what's in these documents, clearly engaged 557 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 5: in abhorrent conduct along with his top leaders, but he 558 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 5: had And I think this is a warning sign to Combe. 559 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 5: If I'm Comy's lawyers, I'm a little more nervous today. 560 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 5: Quote this is directly from Pam Bondy. There must be 561 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 5: accountability for those who were entrusted with safeguarding our nation's 562 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 5: secrets and failed to do so. And I think that's 563 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 5: a sign that with these grand juries coming up, the 564 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 5: grand conspiracy case, the strike force that's been that James 565 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 5: Comy may be looked at it and this evidence may 566 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 5: still be relevant to criminal charges going forward. 567 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: All right, click break right back more with John Solomon, 568 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: editor in chief, founder and chief investigative reporter Justinnews dot 569 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: Com on the other side. Also coming up later in 570 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: the program, our friend Mark Halpermill join us, and how 571 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: do you protect yourself and your family because if you're 572 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: waiting for police, it's going to be too late. We'll 573 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: talk about that. We'll get to your calls this Friday, 574 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn, as we continue. 575 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 5: Keeping the Truth Alive. Kennedy is on right now. 576 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 2: This is the Sean Hannity Show.