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Speaker 1: Hannity Show Told free or telephone numbers one, Seawan. You

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Speaker 1: right there, You mean like Hillary Clinton, like five foreign

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Speaker 1: the world about Donald Trump. None of the investigative team

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Speaker 1: members Department of Justice supporting them aware of the president's request.

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Speaker 1: You mean the request that what's the request? The crest

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Speaker 1: was very simple. You know. I did not say I

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Speaker 1: would let this go. I hope you can let it.

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Speaker 1: I hope you can let it go. This guy's been

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Speaker 1: through hell. Just like he said, I hope you'll let

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Speaker 1: it go on Hillary. If you guys find that, let

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Speaker 1: me know. All right, let's play. This is what he

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Speaker 1: said about Hillary, and your audience has kept saying, lock

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Speaker 1: him up. Do you want to special prosecutor? I think

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Speaker 1: you hired them. I don't want to hurt them. They're

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Speaker 1: good people. I don't want to hurt them. And I

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Speaker 1: will give you a very very good and definitive answer

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Speaker 1: the next time we do sixty minutes together. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to hurt that I you know, jeez, is that

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Speaker 1: any different than what he's saying about Flynn. No, not

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Speaker 1: a bit. You cannot see it in any other context.

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Speaker 1: I hope you can let it go. This guy's suffered

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Speaker 1: a lot. I don't want to hurt them. Same thing,

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Speaker 1: same consistent message, same exact thing. So anyway, it goes

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Speaker 1: on to say that, you know, after I spoke with

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General in person along with the President's leaks,

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Speaker 1: you know that um down the road investigation. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the problem. You have the law of the land, and

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Speaker 1: you have eighteen US Code four and it is a

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Speaker 1: criminal statute. It's a felony that the law required Comey

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Speaker 1: to immediately, not two weeks later, not when, not after

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Speaker 1: the investigation has gone down the road, you know, but

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Speaker 1: immediately he had a legal statutory responsibility to inform the

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Speaker 1: Department of Joice. Well, not because he might recuse himself later,

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Speaker 1: not because this person may not be there in a

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Speaker 1: little while. He had an obligation to immediately inform the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice of any effort to obstruct justice by

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Speaker 1: any person, even the President of the United States of America,

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Speaker 1: and his failure to do so could result in criminal

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Speaker 1: charges under what is the statute known as misprison of

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Speaker 1: a felony. You can expect you know, we saw, all right,

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Speaker 1: call me he's gonna trash Trump innuendo Trump, He's done

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Speaker 1: it in his opening statement. Democratic lawmakers, you know loathed

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Speaker 1: call me. You know, I think that's an important day.

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Speaker 1: They wanted him removed. Now he's their bff on a

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Speaker 1: hundred different levels. But that's politics. But the law imposes

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Speaker 1: an affirmative duty on federal officials to report the knowledge

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Speaker 1: of a felony in this case, if he believed it

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Speaker 1: to be obstruction of justice to the appropriate authorities. Whoever,

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Speaker 1: having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable

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Speaker 1: by a court of the United States, conceals and does not,

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Speaker 1: as soon as possible, make known the same to the

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Speaker 1: sub judge or person and, by the way, to a

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Speaker 1: judge and civil military authority. Under the United States, he

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Speaker 1: didn't have to go to the Attorney general at all.

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Speaker 1: Should be fined under this title or imprisoned not more

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Speaker 1: than three years, or both Now it's usually used against

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Speaker 1: those that have a special duty to report a crime,

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Speaker 1: like an FBI director. Active concealment is an element of

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Speaker 1: a crime, you know, suppressing incriminating memorandum concealment of a crime.

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Speaker 1: The memo would be evidence of an alleged crime. So

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Speaker 1: did Comey alert these people to the extent that he

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Speaker 1: should have? Apparently did, But they all decided, well, and

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Speaker 1: we will wait till this moves on. Well, now there's

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Speaker 1: more to this Comy opening statement. Then they had a

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Speaker 1: March THIRTI phone call where you know, he described the

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Speaker 1: Russian investigation the president as a cloud. By the way,

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Speaker 1: it was a cloud, NonStop RuSHA Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.

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Speaker 1: But Comy had already told the President that, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're not investigating him. He said, I didn't do anything

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Speaker 1: with Russia, no business with Russia. No hookers and Russia,

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Speaker 1: no pining on my bed in Russia. He always assumed

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Speaker 1: he was being recorded in Russia. So he said, all right,

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Speaker 1: you're telling me I'm not on an investigation. Can you

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Speaker 1: lift the cloud? He said, well, well, Comey says, well,

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Speaker 1: we were investigating the matter as quickly as we can.

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Speaker 1: And then Trump said, well, be a great benefit if

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Speaker 1: you can tell the public the truth you're telling me,

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Speaker 1: So what's wrong with that? Then the President asked why

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Speaker 1: there had been a congressional investigation at which I had,

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Speaker 1: as the Department of Justice director confirmed the investigation into

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Speaker 1: possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Anyway, so

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Speaker 1: it goes on from there that, you know, I reminded

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Speaker 1: him what I had previously told him. Comey said, and

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Speaker 1: he repeatedly told me, we need to get the fact

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Speaker 1: out that you're not investigating me and the president's You

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Speaker 1: went on to say, if there are some satellite associates

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Speaker 1: of his, if it is anybody else, if they did

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Speaker 1: something wrong, it would also be good to find that

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Speaker 1: out because also but he hadn't done anything wrong, and

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Speaker 1: he hoped that the public would know that the president

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Speaker 1: did nothing wrong. And then he shifted the attention of

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Speaker 1: discussion to the FBI Deputy director McCabe, saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about McKay because his wife was

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Speaker 1: running for office and all this money was raised by

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Speaker 1: Terry mccaullu blah blah blah blah. He finished by stressing

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Speaker 1: the cloud was interfering with his abilities to to serve

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Speaker 1: the country. Immediately after the conversation, I called the acting

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Speaker 1: Deputy Attorney General, Dana whatever her name is. Sessions had

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Speaker 1: recute to report the substance of the call from the President.

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Speaker 1: I said I would wait and await his guidance. I

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Speaker 1: did not hear back from him before the President called

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Speaker 1: me two weeks later, and President called on April eleven,

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Speaker 1: What have you done to get out the information that

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Speaker 1: he's not personally under investigation? Now that information was offered

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Speaker 1: by call me himself. Why wouldn't the President want the

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Speaker 1: FBI director to say that publicly? FBI director saying it

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Speaker 1: behind closed? Why can't he tell the American people? Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: All right, when we get back art, we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: through more with this. It gets a little confusing, but

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Speaker 1: we gotta handle on this. And one of the bigger

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Speaker 1: aspects of this is the Senate hearing with national security

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Speaker 1: heads today. No nobody ever asked me to do that,

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Speaker 1: No way. I was never asked to do anything pressure

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Speaker 1: to do anything illegal and moral, unethical, or inappropriate. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that'll be ignored by the media. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of I've been watching media all that not even touching it.

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Speaker 1: We'll show you tonight on Hannity. The media is so

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Speaker 1: freaking corrupt in this country. We'll take a break. Our

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Speaker 1: legal team will analyze both Comey's statement that it will

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Speaker 1: be reading tomorrow and the national security heads all saying

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Speaker 1: the same thing. They were never pressured to do anything

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Speaker 1: illegal and moral and ethical are inappropriate? Will continue, all right,

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Speaker 1: so much to get to um we have the Senate

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Speaker 1: hearing when national Security heads that took place earlier today. Yes, Oh,

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Speaker 1: let's say General Rogers and Rod Rosenstein, and then Coates

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Speaker 1: and and Andrew McCabe. Oh, no one from the White

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Speaker 1: House asked ever influence an investigation, and nobody asked us

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Speaker 1: to do anything illegal and moral and ethical and appropriate.

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Speaker 1: And then James Comey's innuendow filled the opening statement from tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: which is being mismanaged by the media. We have the

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Speaker 1: truth with our attorneys next. So if the Dredey General

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Speaker 1: senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation,

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Speaker 1: can they halt that FBI investigation? In theory? Yes, has

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Speaker 1: it happened? Not in my experience, because it would be

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Speaker 1: a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing

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Speaker 1: something that without an appropriate purpose. I mean, we're oftentimes

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Speaker 1: they give us opinions that we don't see a case there,

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Speaker 1: and so you ought to stop investing resources in it.

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Speaker 1: But I'm talking about a situation where we were told

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Speaker 1: to stop something for a political reason. That would be

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Speaker 1: a very big deal. It's not happened in my experience.

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Speaker 1: Not happened in my experience. That was James Comey. That

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Speaker 1: was James call Me on May three. Now, James call

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Speaker 1: Me has released his opening statement that he will read

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Speaker 1: tomorrow before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and he

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Speaker 1: goes through great detail where he first met Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: on January six, the Trump Tower, and that's where they

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Speaker 1: started in on the Russian hookers at the Ritz Carlton

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Speaker 1: and urinating on the bed. Come he didn't tell him.

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Speaker 1: I assumed that he was trying to hire the guy

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Speaker 1: that had put that dossier together until all these revelations

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Speaker 1: became public and then it became a little untenable for

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Speaker 1: Comey to do that. I didn't see that in his

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Speaker 1: opening statement, which is pretty interesting here. Um, and you know,

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Speaker 1: so much came out of this that I want to

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Speaker 1: just go through some of this and then we're gonna

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Speaker 1: bring our our team of attorneys here for the hour

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna analyze all of this. And anyway, he

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Speaker 1: went on to say that he and the President had

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Speaker 1: a private discussion, and we knew the media would want

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Speaker 1: to report the material about all of this stuff, and

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Speaker 1: you know that there was some effort to compromise the

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Speaker 1: incoming president, that we could blunt any such effort with

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Speaker 1: a defensive briefing, and anyway, he was staying in his position, supposedly,

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Speaker 1: and we agreed that I would do the the presentation

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Speaker 1: to the President elect alone and minimize potential embarrassment to

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Speaker 1: the President elect. And he talked about the FBI was

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Speaker 1: conducting a counterintelligence investigation, etcetera, etcetera. And at one point

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Speaker 1: he goes on to say, you know, explain, FBI counterintelligence

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Speaker 1: investigations are different than criminal investigations. And then he's, you know,

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Speaker 1: talked about the methods that they used, and that the

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Speaker 1: FBI uses UH an understanding that there are places that

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Speaker 1: want to steal our secrets and the FBI uses that

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Speaker 1: understanding to disrupt those efforts. And sometimes disruption takes the

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Speaker 1: form of a lerning a person who's targeted for recruitment,

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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, yeah, what about Hillary Clinton server? What

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Speaker 1: about five foreign intelligence agencies having access to top secret

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Speaker 1: and special access programs? That is not going to be

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Speaker 1: any of what you hear in the media today. There's

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Speaker 1: they're going to go for highlighted sound bites that they're

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Speaker 1: going to edit out of this piece, but they won't

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Speaker 1: ask that important question anyway. He talked about discussing the

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Speaker 1: FBI's leadership team and whether he should be prepared to

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Speaker 1: assure President Electrump that they were not investigating. So he

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Speaker 1: did admit numerous times in this document that in fact

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Speaker 1: he told the president in this case the president elected

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Speaker 1: and later as president, that they were not investigating him personally. Okay,

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Speaker 1: fair enough, And he said he felt compelled to document

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Speaker 1: this first conversation with the President elected a memo to

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Speaker 1: ensure accuracy. He started typing on his laptop in an

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Speaker 1: FBI vehicle outside of Trump Tower the meeting the minute

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Speaker 1: he walked out of the meeting and creating written records

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Speaker 1: immediately after they won on one conversations. And then he

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Speaker 1: goes on to say that had not been my practice

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Speaker 1: in the past, and he talks he didn't do it

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Speaker 1: with with President Obama. Well why not? Why did Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: you know, cause him to do this? Anyway, Then he

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Speaker 1: describes his dinner on January, seven days into his presidency,

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Speaker 1: in the Green Room in the White House, and anyway,

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Speaker 1: it turned out there seated there together, and he describes that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the President began by asking whether he wanted

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Speaker 1: to stay at the FBI, etcetera, etcetera, And he had

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Speaker 1: already assured him that he intended to. And he said,

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Speaker 1: lots of people Trump said wanted his job, and given

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Speaker 1: the abuse, he'd take it. He would understand if he

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Speaker 1: wanted to walk away. Now this is what call me, writes.

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Speaker 1: My instincts told me that the one on one setting

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Speaker 1: and the pretense that this was our first discussion about

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Speaker 1: my position meant the dinner was at least in part,

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Speaker 1: an effort to have me ask for my job and

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Speaker 1: create some sort of patronage relationship. So that's what he

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Speaker 1: went into this thinking that concerned me greatly, given the

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Speaker 1: FBI is traditionally independent status in the executive branch. I replied,

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Speaker 1: I love my work, intended to stay, and because the

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Speaker 1: setup made me uneasy, I added that I was not

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Speaker 1: reliable in the way politicians used that word, but he

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Speaker 1: could always count on me to tell the truth. And

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Speaker 1: I added that I was not on anybody's side politically

647
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Speaker 1: and could not be counted on any traditional political sense,

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Speaker 1: a stance I said, was in the best interest of

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Speaker 1: the president. After a few moments, the president, so I

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Speaker 1: need loyalty. I expect loyalty. Now the media has been

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Speaker 1: fixated on this forever today. Now does loyalty mean that

652
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Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't want deep state leaking? Does loyalty mean

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Speaker 1: that he wants fidelity to the law. Does loyalty mean

654
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: that he doesn't want him to be political? I didn't move,

655
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 1: I didn't speak or change my facial expression in any way.

656
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: During the awkward silence that followed, we simply looked at

657
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: each other's in silence. He's like he's writing a spine novel.

658
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: The conversation then moved on, and he returned to the

659
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: subject near the end of the dinner. At one point,

660
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: I explained why it was so important of the FBI

661
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,760
Speaker 1: and the Department of Justice be independent of the White House.

662
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: I said it was a paradox. Throughout history, some presidents

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Speaker 1: have decided that because quote problems come from justice. They

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Speaker 1: should try and hold the Justice Department close, but hurrying

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Speaker 1: those boundaries ultimately makes the problems worse by undermining public

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Speaker 1: trust in the institutions and their work. Near the end

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Speaker 1: of the dinner, the President returned to the subject of

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Speaker 1: my job, saying he's glad I wanted to stay, adding

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Speaker 1: that he had heard great things about me from Madison,

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Speaker 1: Sessions and others. He said, I need loyalty, I replied,

671
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Speaker 1: you will always get honesty from me. He paused and

672
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: then said, well that's what I want. Honest loyalty. Okay.

673
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: I paused and then said, well, you will get that

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Speaker 1: from me. And as I wrote in the memo I

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Speaker 1: created immediately after the dinner, it is possible we understood

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Speaker 1: the phrase honest loyalty differently, but I decided it wouldn't

677
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Speaker 1: be productive to push it any further. The term honest

678
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: loyalty had helped end a very awkward conversation, and MY

679
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: explanation had made clear what he should expect. During the

680
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: dinner of the President returned to the salacious material. You know,

681
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: the hookers at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow and a

682
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Speaker 1: dossier from a guy or m I six that act,

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Speaker 1: Uh call me wanted to hire You didn't mention that

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Speaker 1: in the letter, as I said, you consider ordering me

685
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Speaker 1: to investigate the allegation to prove blah blah blah. All right,

686
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: let's bring in our attorneys just on this point here,

687
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 1: because we've covered a lot of ground. Jay Secular, Chief

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Speaker 1: Council for the American Center for Law and Justice. Tom Fitton,

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Speaker 1: President of Judicial Watch. All right, Jay, loyalty, What does

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Speaker 1: does loyalty mean to the country. Does loyalty mean I

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Speaker 1: don't want you leaking? Uh? Does loyalty mean I don't

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Speaker 1: want you doing what you did with Obama taking over

693
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Speaker 1: Loretta Lynch's role when you shouldn't have. What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: I think you can mean all of those, but let's

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Speaker 1: start with the with the reality. What does loyalty mean.

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Speaker 1: Loyalty to the Constitution of the United States. That's what

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Speaker 1: it means. I want loyalty. It's a two minute we

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Speaker 1: want all right, Jay, we're losing you there. Let's get

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Speaker 1: let's get you on a better line. Tom Fitton, what's

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Speaker 1: your take. I'll just warn you show him out an attorney.

701
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Speaker 1: So what I'm going to say, President Trump is president

702
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Speaker 1: of the United States, and he has a right to

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Speaker 1: can indicate with the FBI director, even though the FBI

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Speaker 1: director thinks he should be immune from communications with the President,

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Speaker 1: who he obviously dislikes. He didn't talk about his lunch

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Speaker 1: meetings with his friend Benjamin Wittis where he said he

707
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: was disgusted by the President's quite honest efforts to shake

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Speaker 1: his hand in public. This this this FBI director didn't

709
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Speaker 1: like the president. The President obviously was alienated by the

710
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Speaker 1: fact the FBI was using and obviously spreading around this

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00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: salacious gossip about him. And uh, you know, at the

712
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Speaker 1: end of that conversation, he and Comey agreed, honest loyalty.

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Speaker 1: This is what the constitutional government is about. As Jay

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Speaker 1: has pointed out, let me go back to jad. I

715
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Speaker 1: think we got him on a better line here, Uh, Jake,

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Speaker 1: pick up your point here. Honest loyalty. Okay, I expect loyalty.

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Speaker 1: The media is running nuts with this, you know, and

718
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Speaker 1: of course you can always count on John McCain. I

719
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: just I'm when was John McCain just gonna jump to

720
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. It's disturbing. What's does disturbing about? Honest

721
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: loyalty or loyalty to the constitutional, fidelity to the truth.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with this? Well, of course that's where it

723
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Speaker 1: starts when when he says I want your loyalty, it's

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Speaker 1: loyalty to the United States, to the Constitution of the

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Speaker 1: United States. That's what loyalty means. So that's number one.

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Speaker 1: Number two, loyalty also means we've got leaks that are

727
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Speaker 1: affecting our national security that needs to stop. That's loyalty.

728
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Speaker 1: There's not a personal pledge. Loyalty. And let's remember what

729
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: this is about. These are James Comey's notes after the fact. So,

730
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Speaker 1: but loyalty is very clear term. Do you want not

731
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Speaker 1: you who would not want your FBI director to be loyal?

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Speaker 1: Weals not asking for a personal pledge here, He's asking

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Speaker 1: for loyalty, loyalty to the Constitution. Should you wanted at that?

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Speaker 1: Number two? And I think this has Shawn the critical

735
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Speaker 1: part of this. James Comey acknowledges in his written statement

736
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Speaker 1: that President Trump did not, under any circumstance to do

737
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Speaker 1: anything that he thought was impinching on, infringing on, or

738
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Speaker 1: curtailing the broader investigation on the Russia Pope. He says

739
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: it exactly himself. I did not understand the President to

740
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Speaker 1: be talking about the broader investigation into Russia or possible

741
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Speaker 1: leads to his campaign case. Clothes indicates special counsel, Thank

742
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: you very much, because what are we dealing with. We're

743
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Speaker 1: dealing with a possible violation by General Flynn on a

744
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: ministerial Act, on an incorrect statement on a form. So

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00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: that's what this is all about. At the end of

746
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Speaker 1: the day, Let's not forget that the witch hunt that's

747
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: going on is much broader, But that's what it's really about. Well,

748
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Speaker 1: he also apparently during the din of the President talked

749
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Speaker 1: about the selations material. I sensed a deep hatred reading

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Speaker 1: this by callmey towards Trump. Why all of a sudden

751
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: is he investigating you know, Why all of a sudden

752
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: he start taking notes on this president but not the

753
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: last president. Why look at look at the inch sean,

754
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: look at the entire memo. I noticed the drapes and

755
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: as I walked past the Grandfather clock. Sounds like an

756
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: interesting novel. But this is coming from the FBI director.

757
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: So if this is if this is their case, if

758
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: this is what it's all about, this was a this

759
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: will be a big speech about nothing. Tomorrow period. We're

760
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: gonna take we'll take a break here. We we're gonna

761
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: keep them for the hour J Secular, Tom Finton, and

762
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna examine this. Also from the Senate hearing earlier today,

763
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: so much came out. I won't use the word exculpatory,

764
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: but I mean it just reinforces everything that everybody else

765
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: has been saying as it relates to this investigation. You know,

766
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 1: you've got Admiral rodgers uh in his testimony he's never

767
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: been pressured to do anything illegal. Mark Warners tell Rogers

768
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Speaker 1: that he's disappointed with an answer because it wasn't what

769
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Speaker 1: he wanted. The Director of National Intelligenceince dan Coat says

770
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Speaker 1: he's never been pressured to intervene Rod Rosenstein. You know

771
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Speaker 1: coaates Rogers and mcnabe. No one from the White House

772
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Speaker 1: has asked them to influence an investigation. And all of

773
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Speaker 1: this comes out. Nobody in the media pays any attention

774
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Speaker 1: to that today anyway one Shawn, you want to be

775
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Speaker 1: a part of the program. The other thing the media says, well,

776
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: Trump said, can we can we lift the cloud? Well

777
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Speaker 1: that's after call me twice told him there is no

778
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Speaker 1: investigation into him. I I am so live it at

779
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: the media coverage of this. All right, as we continue,

780
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: and at the bottom of the hour, we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to the Senate hearing and everything that was said today

782
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: that is so pertinent, everything we've been discussing now for

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Speaker 1: weeks and weeks and weeks. What about the exchange between

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Speaker 1: the President on the issue of Michael Flynn and when

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Speaker 1: the President I want to talk about Mike Flynn. He's

786
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Speaker 1: a good guy, didn't do anything wrong. I had to

787
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Speaker 1: let him go because he misled the Vice president. And

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Speaker 1: then he goes on to say, how you can see

789
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Speaker 1: your way clear of letting this go. I hope you

790
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: can let this go. Is that a problem? I mean,

791
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Speaker 1: letting it go is a ministerial act of the guy's

792
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Speaker 1: being accused. He's already lost his job, he's being accused

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Speaker 1: of violating it, not only on a form properly, And

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Speaker 1: and the President showed humanity to me that. By the way,

795
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Speaker 1: didn't he say the same thing about Hillary Clinton? Yes,

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Speaker 1: didn't he say that I I'd prefer not to do

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00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: anything else with this, which is what's that in her case,

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Speaker 1: though of course he said that she said she was

799
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Speaker 1: screenly careless which, by the way, the definition of growth

800
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: negligence under the criminal statute that you should have been

801
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: looked at. But nevertheless, James Comey has selective disclosure disease.

802
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: That's what he suffers from. Selective disclosure. He said, I

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Speaker 1: understood the President to be requesting we dropped the investigation

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00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: of Flint and connection with false statements about his conversations

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Speaker 1: with the Russian ambassador. I did not understand the president

806
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Speaker 1: to be talking about the broader investigation into Russia or

807
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: possible links for his campaign, but it was obvious that

808
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: he was wasn't talking about that, of course he was.

809
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 1: He was talking about According to James Comey, he understood

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Speaker 1: the President be requesting a drop an investigation of Flint.

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Speaker 1: By the way, he understood the President did not request

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Speaker 1: a drop of the investigation of General Flint. So he misunderstood, which,

813
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: by the way, this is a guy that's misunderstood before

814
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Speaker 1: Congress underwrote three times great to correct himself. So his

815
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,399
Speaker 1: understandings haven't been very reliable. Not a credible witness. But Shawn,

816
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: this whole thing is a self serving document, and you

817
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: know what it helps the president, So thank you this Sean.

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Speaker 1: It's gossip. It's gossip. What did the president tell you?

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Speaker 1: You know? And I think we should be clear here.

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Speaker 1: This testimony wouldn't take place if Donald Trump objected to it,

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Speaker 1: and he had good reason to object to it. These

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Speaker 1: are communications with his close advisor, and he could have

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Speaker 1: asserted executive privilege. I don't think it could have been

824
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Speaker 1: burst through. So he's letting Comey talk about this because

825
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: he knows what he did was not wrong. And for

826
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Speaker 1: called me to go out there and spill these supposed secrets.

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Speaker 1: As as Jay said, it's really a big nothing burger here.

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Speaker 1: And Mr Flynn, by the way, I'm not sure he

829
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Speaker 1: did anything wrong. I'm not even sure what they're investigating.

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Speaker 1: And are they investigating the timing of disclosures he made

831
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Speaker 1: in this town? Are you kidding me? Well? And then

832
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Speaker 1: with what Tom saying is right John, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: first of all, this is a ministerial form filling out.

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Speaker 1: That's number one. But here's the headline. You weren't the headline.

835
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Speaker 1: This is the headline. FBI director acknowledges that president did

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Speaker 1: not interfere or obstruct with ongoing Russia investigations. That's the

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Speaker 1: headline from the witnesses mouth. You know, we're told shown

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Speaker 1: also that these notes were so sensitive and he tried

839
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Speaker 1: to keep it close in and yet he leaves and

840
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,280
Speaker 1: they're all leaked out. So who else in the FBI

841
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: was involved in this? And after he was fired the

842
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: Washington Post report, I believe, and they were talking FBI sources.

843
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: They they they're not going to forget this, and they

844
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Speaker 1: were vowing retaliation as I interpreted it, and I tell

845
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Speaker 1: you that the FBI really needs to be cleaned out.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just Comy, because my guess is he creates.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask if Comy there's a leadership issue

848
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: over there. Beyond Comy, there is one issue where I

849
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: think Comey is really threatening and needle as to perhaps

850
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Speaker 1: acknowledging he may have committed a felony. And I'll explain

851
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: when we get back, and we'll go to the Senate

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Speaker 1: hearing with the National Security heads today and what the

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00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: media will ignore tonight, We'll have it all on Hannity

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Speaker 1: Tennis or a blockbuster show will continue with Jay Sekulo

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Speaker 1: and Tom Fitton. Straight ahead, all right, as we continue

856
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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show eight nine one, Sean, all right, we'll

857
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Speaker 1: get to the Senate hearing today with national security heads.

858
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Speaker 1: But James Comey's opening statement for tomorrow comes out. Jay Seculo,

859
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Speaker 1: Chief council for the American Center for Law and Justice.

860
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Speaker 1: Tom Fitton, President of Dishal Watch. All right, so when

861
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: Comey goes into this, this this exchange over Flynn, and

862
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: I hope you guys can let it go because he

863
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: just got fired, etcetera, etcetera. He misled the president, but

864
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 1: he didn't do anything wrong. He's a good guy. By

865
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Speaker 1: the way, the same thing that the President said about

866
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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and I didn't see. Call me concerned here,

867
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: But anyway, I understood the President requesting we dropped. I

868
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: understood the President of be requesting that we drop any

869
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Speaker 1: investigation in connection with false statements about the conversations with

870
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Speaker 1: the Russian ambassador, which by the way, was leaked intelligence,

871
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: which was a felony. I did not understand the President

872
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: to be talking about the broader investigation. I could be wrong,

873
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, but it was so concerning. Jay,

874
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: given the FBI's role as an independent investigative agency, says

875
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: that he met with his leadership team and they agreed

876
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: not to infect the investigative team, which we intended to

877
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: abide by, and we also concluded that given it was

878
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: a one on one conversation, there was nothing available to

879
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: corroborate my account. And then we concluded it made it

880
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: no sense to report to the Attorney general role and

881
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,760
Speaker 1: we expect it would likely recuse himself and the Deputy

882
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: attorney's role was then filled in an acting capacity, who

883
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Speaker 1: could also not be long in that role. So after discussing,

884
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: we decided that we weren't going to tell them. Is

885
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: he saying that he thought that the president did something wrong,

886
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: was concerned he did, and didn't report it because these

887
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Speaker 1: people wouldn't be there long. Is that well, no, I think,

888
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: looks John he's trying to James Cumby is trying to

889
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: get it both ways, because if in fact he thought

890
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Speaker 1: there was an obstruction issue, he had an affirmative obligation,

891
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: not a maybe, not an if, not a contingency. He

892
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: had an affirmative obligation under eighteen UFC for to walk

893
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: across the street and tell the Department of Justice, I

894
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: think there's something, uh the criminality here and report it.

895
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: But then he says this in his statement, but it

896
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Speaker 1: was only my word against basically the president's word, and

897
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:48,879
Speaker 1: that had no cooperation. So you know what, this is

898
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: a big backful of nothing except he acknowledges the president

899
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Speaker 1: did not intervene with with the Russian problem. Page specifically,

900
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: which quote are you talking about? You look, you look

901
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: at the whole Look at the page five, I think

902
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: is the is the most telling. Okay, h five guys.

903
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Speaker 1: I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about

904
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Speaker 1: Flint and this custom matter with the SBI senior leadership.

905
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Speaker 1: Had understood the President to be requesting to drop the investigation,

906
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Speaker 1: which again, by the way, is predicated with I had understood,

907
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: which obviously wasn't the case. So when you look at

908
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: the entire thing, and then he did not understand that,

909
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: of course, that this was to stop the Russia probe,

910
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: which he acknowledges. So what is what did James Comey

911
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 1: saying in his memorandum he had not shown to change

912
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: commy do anything. Who initiated the first one on one

913
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: conversation between the two men, James Comey? He conveyed this

914
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: confidential information in Mr Trump, uh, and he made it

915
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: clear he didn't want anyone else in the room and

916
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: now Dald Trump is being a drag through the mud

917
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: because he followed up and had additional one on one conversations.

918
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,879
Speaker 1: If the initial one, if the additional ones were so inappropriate,

919
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: why did Comy allow the first one to take place?

920
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 1: That's the one where Comy arguably should have had other

921
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: people in the room instead. He wants to have it

922
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: again both ways. It's okay for him to initiate one

923
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: on one conversations to talk about ongoing counterintelligence investigations involving

924
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: the president personally, but the president is not allowed to

925
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: have any conversations with him and or initiate any conversations

926
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: with him. This shows that President Trump was so right

927
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: to fire this man, so right. But I but I

928
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 1: find Comey's excuse for not reporting the conversations to his superiors,

929
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: based on his description, weak and vacuous. And in other words,

930
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: he said, he said it made little sense to tell

931
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 1: him because they're they're leaving and he's gonna recuse himself

932
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: and the next guy is not going to be there long,

933
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: which showing it made little sense for them to tell

934
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Speaker 1: him because there was nothing to tell. And if he

935
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: would have walked across the street and said something, he'd

936
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Speaker 1: be giving a false statement, so he would double his jeopardy.

937
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: So that's why he didn't walk across the street, because

938
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Speaker 1: there was nothing to tell. Basically, that's what his memo says.

939
00:52:55,880 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: All right, let me go to um the hearings that

940
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,839
Speaker 1: took place today with national security heads. I'm gonna play

941
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: a series of comments here. Mike Rodgers, the NSA director,

942
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: testifying a Mark Warnery never was pressured to do anything

943
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: illegal or moral, unethical, or inappropriate. And then you have

944
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: Dan Coates, director of National Intelligence, says he was never pressured.

945
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: And you know, let's start there, and Rogers, you draw

946
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: a short strong I'm gonna start with you before we

947
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: get to the substance of whether this call or request

948
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: was made. He've had a very distinguished career close to

949
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: forty years. In your experience, would it be in any

950
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: way typical for a president to ask questions or bring

951
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: up an ongoing FBI investigation, particularly if that investigation concerns

952
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 1: associates and individuals that might be associated with the president's

953
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: campaign or his activities. So today I am not going

954
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,760
Speaker 1: to talk about theoreticals. I am not going to discuss

955
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: the specifics of any interaction or conversations I may and

956
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: you could finished the police that I may or may

957
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: not have had with the President of United States, but

958
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Speaker 1: I will make the following comment. In the three plus

959
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: years that I have been the Director of the National

960
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: Security Agency, to the best of my recollection, I have

961
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical,

962
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: or inappropriate. And to the best of my recollection, during

963
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 1: that same period of service, I do not recall ever

964
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: feeling pressured to do so. And then, secondly, UM, when

965
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 1: I was asked yesterday to respond to a piece that

966
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: I was told was going to be written and printed

967
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: in the Washington Post this morning, my response to that was,

968
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: in UM, my time of service, which is uh an

969
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: interacting with the President of the United States or anybody

970
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: in his administration, I have never been pressured. I have

971
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: never felt pressure UH to intervene or interfere in any

972
00:54:56,320 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: way and shape with shaping intelligence and employe aical way

973
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: or um in relationship instigation. Now we'll go a step further.

974
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: Rod Rosenstein, Dan Coates, Mike Rogers, admir Rodgers, Andrew mcgabe,

975
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: the interim FBI director, testifying that no one from the

976
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 1: White House has asked them to influence an investigation or

977
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: let me ask this of everyone on this panel. Is

978
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: anyone aware of any effort by anyone in the White

979
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: House or elsewhere to seek advice on how to influence

980
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: any investigation? My answer is absolutely no, Senator, no one

981
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: has anything to add to that. I don't understand the question.

982
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: The question is, are you aware of any efforts by

983
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: anyone in the White House or the Executive Branch looking

984
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,399
Speaker 1: for advice from other members of the intelligence community about

985
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: how to potentially influence an invigation? Can talk about meat though, No? Okay,

986
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: who wants dance? I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand

987
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: the question. But if you're asking whether we I'm aware

988
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: of request to other people in the intelligence commune, and

989
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: I am not seeking advice on how we could potentially

990
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 1: influence someone, You're not aware of anyone ever saying or

991
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: reporting that to you. Has anyone ever come forward and said,

992
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: I just got a call from someone at the White

993
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: House asking me what is the best way to influence

994
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: someone on an investigation? Let's come. I've never received anything.

995
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: I have no direct knowledge of such a call. An

996
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: allegation made in one of the press reports. And that's

997
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 1: why I asked on a separate tomple, I'm sorry, who

998
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: does a confusion centery? We just want to make sure

999
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: we're clear on the question that it answer is no,

1000
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,959
Speaker 1: as I understand it, Jay, I mean, all of this

1001
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 1: does is reinforce everything that called me is. Can't everything

1002
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: Camey is saying, can't contradict that. Sean. Here's here's let

1003
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: me tell you something. When you read what you just played.

1004
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 1: So so far, no witness has come forward, Not one

1005
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: single witness has come forward to say that there's any

1006
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 1: information or evidence of a violation of the law. Right.

1007
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: That's number one. We've heard that from James Clapper. We've

1008
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: heard it from James Comy. Then we also have this

1009
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: in his testimony, and this is regarding the president being

1010
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: under investigation, and he says, I explained that we had

1011
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: briefed the leadership of Congress on exactly which individuals we

1012
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: were investigating, and that we had told those congressional leaders

1013
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: that we were not personally investigating President Trump. I reminded

1014
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: him that I had previously told him that. He repeatedly

1015
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: told me, we need to get that fact out. So

1016
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: there is the case. So we now have no obstruction

1017
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: of justice, we have no interference with the league, and

1018
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: we know that the president is not subject to it.

1019
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: Now is the mainstream meeting in a point that tonight,

1020
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: because that's the end right there? All right? And I

1021
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: do he'd be a witness against himself. I mean, it

1022
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: is an amazing thing. Isn't this also a case of

1023
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: he said, he said? And every instance and and call

1024
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: me at one point even acknowledges it. There's no way

1025
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: to corroborate in any of this. And the way the

1026
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: media has been reporting it all afternoon, and I've been

1027
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: watching this since it came out, is that every thing

1028
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: that that James Colemey, a bitter fired x FBI director

1029
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: who clearly hates the president, you can deceiving out of

1030
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: this letter, you know, is trying to write it up

1031
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: in novel form, clearly preparing for his book in a

1032
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: way that you know is as much as damaging without

1033
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: being able to be damaging. What's remarkable, Sewan, is that

1034
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: the President is right and is is being proven right

1035
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: repeatedly by Mr Comey. He was told three times he

1036
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: wasn't under investigation. You have the witnesses again confirming and Comey. Obviously,

1037
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: if he could have said that, he would have confirming

1038
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: that the President did not improperly pressure anybody related to

1039
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: any investigation. The President has said that, and he's been

1040
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 1: attacked for saying that. What today you may have heard

1041
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: the noise in Washington all the way up there in

1042
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: New York, but did you hear the hissing as the

1043
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: impeachment balloon deflating it ended? Let me tell you something

1044
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: that that's off the table. First of all, the person

1045
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: that better be watching what they're saying tomorrow is James

1046
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: call me. Okay, if I was his lawyer, you know

1047
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: what I tell him, don't do this. That's what I

1048
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: would tell him that. Well, because of the the the

1049
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: head fake on the head fakes on the you know,

1050
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: obstruction that he's been kind of saying, and he does

1051
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: this memo, but now he comes covers his his try

1052
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: to cover himself with the didn't walk across the street

1053
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: because I didn't think anybody would prosecute it because there's

1054
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: no cooberating evidence. And what do you what are you saying,

1055
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: James Colly? You know what you're saying. You were afraid

1056
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: to walk across the street because you'd be lying to

1057
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: an FBI, uh to a do O J official, and

1058
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: they may put you under oath. So he's under oath tomorrow.

1059
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: He better be really, really careful because so far, all

1060
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,919
Speaker 1: he's he's established three things. One President of the United

1061
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: States to not obstruct the investigation into Russia. Number two,

1062
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: that that the president is not, has not been, and

1063
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Speaker 1: is not a target of the investigation. And number three

1064
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,400
Speaker 1: when you read the loyalty thing, yeah, I want an

1065
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: FBI director that's loyal to the Constitution of the United States.

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Speaker 1: And it's a completely self serving document, including his description

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Speaker 1: of the of the drapes. What do you think ordinating

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Speaker 1: we called me on this testimony and seemingly approving it beforehand.

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Speaker 1: It's rather unusual, don't you think, Well, listen, coordinating it

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Speaker 1: with it in the fact that the witnesses coordinating your

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Speaker 1: testimony with the special counsel. I mean, you think that's

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Speaker 1: a good thing. I sure don't. And then yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's unusual. Oh my gosh, So this is his

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Speaker 1: best Yeah, so this is this is his best case.

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Speaker 1: So there's nothing there that I don't think they should

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Speaker 1: If this is what they've got, don't waste the taxpayer's money.

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Speaker 1: But that's what this is. They waste the taxpayer money. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: they have to investigate Paul Paul manaforts mortgages up in

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Speaker 1: Long Island. Yeah, because I really care about that special counsel.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, unbelievable day. I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: thank you both. J You're gonna be on tonight on Hannity. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll have you and Haraldo and Sarah Carter are joining us,

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Speaker 1: and Herman Kane joins us. And uh way do you

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Speaker 1: see this Piers Morgan confrontation with the Mayor of London. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I'll get to all of that. That's ten Eastern tonight,

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Speaker 1: Hannity on the Fox News Channel. We'll take a quick

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Speaker 1: break here, we'll come back, will continue on. Shawn is

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Speaker 1: our number at the time. Let me ask both of you,

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Speaker 1: has anyone ever asked you, now or in the past,

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Speaker 1: this administration or any administration to issue a statement that

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Speaker 1: you knew to be false? For me, I stand by

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Speaker 1: my previous statement. I've never been directed to do anything

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Speaker 1: in the course of my three plus years of director

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Speaker 1: the National Strip Directors asked that I felt to be inappropriate,

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Speaker 1: nor have I felt pressured to do so. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever been asked to say something that isn't true? I

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Speaker 1: stand by my previous statements, Sir, Director Coach, how I

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Speaker 1: do Likewise, well, let me ask this of everyone on

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Speaker 1: this panel. Is anyone aware of any effort by anyone

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Speaker 1: in the White House or elsewhere to seek advice on

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Speaker 1: how to influence any investigation? My answer is absolutely no, Senator,

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Speaker 1: No one has anything to add to that. I don't

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Speaker 1: understand the question. If the question is, are you aware

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Speaker 1: of any efforts by anyone in the White House or

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Speaker 1: the Executive Branch looking for advice from other members of

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Speaker 1: the intelligence community about how to potentially influence an investigation

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Speaker 1: and talking about me? No. If someone is to use

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Speaker 1: the unmasking process for a political purpose, is that potentially

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Speaker 1: a crime? Yet, Senator and Director um McKay perhaps or

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Speaker 1: Deputy Attorney General rosen Stein. For somebody to leak the

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Speaker 1: name of an American citizen that is unmasked in the

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Speaker 1: course of incidental collection, to leak that classified information, is

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Speaker 1: that also potentially a crime? Yes? I think that's the

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Speaker 1: most significant point, Senator. I think it's important for people

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Speaker 1: to understand unmasking is done in the course of ordinary,

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Speaker 1: legitimate intelligence gathering, when the identity of the person on

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Speaker 1: the other end of the phone there into the message

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Speaker 1: may be relevant to understand the intelligence significance of the communication.

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Speaker 1: Leaking is a completely different matter. Leaking is a crime

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Speaker 1: disclosing information to somebody without a legitimate purpose need to

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Speaker 1: know that information that will be prosecuted in appropriate circumstances.

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Speaker 1: All right, so there's Rubio as any administration official asked

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Speaker 1: you to make a false statement? No, cornin to Rosenstein.

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Speaker 1: Is it illegal to leak unmasked names? Yeah, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of illegal. We've got full complete coverage Hannity tonight ten

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Speaker 1: eastern on the Fox News Channel. Don't miss our coverage.

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Speaker 1: Jay Seculo, Haraldo Rivera will also check in with Greg

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Speaker 1: Charity has been great on discovering the law and what

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Speaker 1: what Comey was supposed to do with eighteen USC four.

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Speaker 1: And we will have also joining us Sarah Carter from

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Speaker 1: Circuit News. And then where do you see or we'll

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Speaker 1: show you pures Morgan beating the crap out of the

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Speaker 1: London mayor well, where are the people from Great Britain

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Speaker 1: who went to Syria to fight with ISS that came

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Speaker 1: back I don't know, really good grief. Ten Eastern tonight

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Speaker 1: will continue. You are mayor of the capital city where

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Speaker 1: the most recent terrorist attack has taken place. How many

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Speaker 1: of those four hundred have come back to London that

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Speaker 1: the estimate is just over half. Where are they when

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Speaker 1: you look at well, when you look at the letting

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Speaker 1: people back in to the UK who have who haven't

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Speaker 1: just been trained, they've actually fought potentially against our troops.

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Speaker 1: How are we letting them back in without knowing exactly

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Speaker 1: where they are and what they're up to. Because out

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Speaker 1: of all the thousands of people that were concerned about,

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Speaker 1: surely those who have actually gone to fight are the

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Speaker 1: biggest risk. That's one of the reasons why it doesn't

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Speaker 1: make sense for the government to be cutting resources from those. Rather,

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Speaker 1: you're the mayor of this I can't follow people. What

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Speaker 1: I can do is make sure posses because what we

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Speaker 1: can do those make sure that the resources for the

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Speaker 1: police and the experts. You instruct the police. Why can't

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Speaker 1: you call president right now and say, every one of

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Speaker 1: those people come back from a war zone, who's in London?

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Speaker 1: Let me I want them followed. Let me see why.

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Speaker 1: Because the Met Police budget roughly speaking, is funded by

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Speaker 1: me the mayor. The rest comes from central government. If

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Speaker 1: the Met Police budget is being shrunk and reduced, they've

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Speaker 1: got to prioritize and use their resources in a sensible saving.

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Speaker 1: It could be a bigger priority than people coming back

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Speaker 1: from a Syrian battlefield with intent to harm British citizens.

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Speaker 1: Why is it not the number one priority? Why are

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Speaker 1: these people just allowed to come back in in the

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Speaker 1: first place? And then the London mayor doesn't appear to

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Speaker 1: ever Cloe running of Mark, I mean no disrespect to you,

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Speaker 1: but where are they Well that's one of the questions

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Speaker 1: that obviously the police security services are But this this,

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Speaker 1: but this chap, you're the mayor of luve share of

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Speaker 1: the three men responsibly attack on Saturday night hadn't come

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Speaker 1: from overseas. They were, for all attain purposes, integrated into

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Speaker 1: our way life. Well, look he did remember them. He's

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Speaker 1: you know, as we know, if you're whack him, he

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Speaker 1: whacks your back, and he's whacked your back. Putting aside

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Speaker 1: the Twitter spat and everything else, and in my view,

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Speaker 1: his ill advised tweets this week was a lot the

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Speaker 1: right time to do it. But Donald Trump's whole position

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Speaker 1: on this has been that we are all at risk

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Speaker 1: from Islamist extremists who want to kill us, and he

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Speaker 1: has come up with endless ways he's suggesting of trying

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Speaker 1: to stop this. Right. You may not agree with them,

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Speaker 1: but that's where he's coming from. After what's been happening

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Speaker 1: in London and Manchester. Has Trump not got a point?

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Speaker 1: Is he not allowed as president United States to say,

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Speaker 1: wake up, everybody, we are under attack. We're in a

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Speaker 1: war here. I think I've been very generous to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: I'm not actually reflecting I think what he would say

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Speaker 1: he was here. Let me tell you what I was

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Speaker 1: commented on when I said he was ignorant the I

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Speaker 1: at the time when he was a candidate of abandon

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Speaker 1: all Muslims from going to the USA, and I made

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Speaker 1: the point that he's to use ignorant. Why they're ignorant

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Speaker 1: because there are literally millions of Americans born and raised

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Speaker 1: in America who love their country and who are practicing Muslims.

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Speaker 1: But also there are millions of US clings around the

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Speaker 1: world who love America, me included, who love Americans, who

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Speaker 1: have got family in America, and to play into the

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Speaker 1: so called isis and dish narrative that Western liberal values

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Speaker 1: incompared on with Islam is ignorant. But for a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in this country right now, they will be

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Speaker 1: thinking that. For a lot of British Muslims, we don't

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Speaker 1: know how many. We know there's twenty three thousand Jaddy

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Speaker 1: suspects right A lot of them have not assimilated into

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Speaker 1: the Western values and culture and actually wishes harm. And

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Speaker 1: that is where Trump's coming from. He might be clumsy

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Speaker 1: in the way he phrases it, and he might be

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Speaker 1: offensive in some of his tweeting, but that's where he

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Speaker 1: comes from. I can tell you I've spent the last

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Speaker 1: prove months in this job, foremants, in this job speaking

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Speaker 1: to all sorts of people, not just leaders organizations, about

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Speaker 1: ordinary rank and file citizens are of Muslim faith. And

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Speaker 1: that's what and that's what and that's what and that's

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Speaker 1: what good government's about, is engaged in all stakeholders. Now

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Speaker 1: you can talk about articles in the newspapers about what

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Speaker 1: one organa you may get. The point is is that

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Speaker 1: you can't just pick and choose who you speak to.

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Speaker 1: You can't just speak to Uncle Tom's. You can't just

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Speaker 1: speak to people who will say what you want to

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Speaker 1: what you want them to hear. But I can assure

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Speaker 1: you and you can speach governmentisters who will tell you

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Speaker 1: the hot time they got talking to ordinary British citizens,

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Speaker 1: Muslim faith, British groups or Muslim faith. And I can

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Speaker 1: see you needing all of them a critical friend, and

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Speaker 1: I willing to say how it is all right? What

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Speaker 1: an incredible exchange now, that was between Piers Morgan and

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Speaker 1: the Mayor of London, who had made some really insane,

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Speaker 1: ridiculous statements after the attack on London Bridge the other day. Literally,

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Speaker 1: London is safe, okay, unless you're one of the people

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Speaker 1: that was killed or severely injured on London Bridge and

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Speaker 1: the surrounding areas where the mall and the pub are.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's not so safe for those people, just

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Speaker 1: like you said, well this, you know, radical Islamly it's

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Speaker 1: just gonna be in our future, just the way of life.

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Speaker 1: And Piers Morgan was talking specifically about okay, so all

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Speaker 1: these these people from Great Britain, they go and they

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Speaker 1: fight with Syria for ices and you're letting them back

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Speaker 1: and you don't know where the hell they are. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you add to this everything we now know, you know,

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Speaker 1: jee Hottis you know living next store a documentary with

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Speaker 1: one of the terrorists with the black flag of Isis

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Speaker 1: and talking about Shariah coming to ten Downing Street and

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Speaker 1: and and praising Allahu at bars he it bends down

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Speaker 1: in so called prayer. And you've got to ask, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we spent all this money on intelligence to find the

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Speaker 1: people that might potentially be involved in terror, Well then

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Speaker 1: why didn't we do the simple things like find the

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Speaker 1: people in the documentary that we're singing praises of Isis

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Speaker 1: and throw them the hell out? Is that so hard

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Speaker 1: to do? And we find out Italian you know, secret

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Speaker 1: services that they had they understood one of the other

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Speaker 1: and had background on one of the other terrorists. Unbelievably

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Speaker 1: unresponsive and and frankly bordering on recklessness and care carelessness

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Speaker 1: by government in this case the mayor of London. By

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Speaker 1: the way, if the U. S Embassy in London is

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Speaker 1: on a lockdown him at a bomb threat. You know,

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Speaker 1: I always like to have her on for fun, but

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Speaker 1: I never seemed to be able to. Katie Hopkins is

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Speaker 1: with us, the Gabby one from Great Britain, our friend

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Speaker 1: of the Daily Mail. How are you. I'm well, thank you, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're right. It's some the new US embassy that's just

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Speaker 1: being built uh in and it's it's yet to have

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Speaker 1: people moved in. But they've just had a controlled explosions.

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Speaker 1: Their buildings on lockdown. There's a perimeter fence set up

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Speaker 1: and the met Police and the Fire services are on standby.

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Speaker 1: But they're saying now that the vehicles that they had

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Speaker 1: suspected had turned out to be harmless. But there was

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Speaker 1: some kind of controlled explosion there. Um. And that's just

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Speaker 1: off the back of a stabbing that just happened earlier

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. I was just walking through the area. Um,

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Speaker 1: a lady who works in a kindergarten with small children. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: she was crossing the road attacked from behind by three women. Um.

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Speaker 1: Not to the groundbreaker. Ribs stabbed repeatedly with Stanley lives

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Speaker 1: in the name of Allah, and the London Sorsi's have

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Speaker 1: just announced that that was not an act of terror. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: What did you make. I gotta be honest, I've come

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Speaker 1: to really I used to compete against Piers Moore. Well

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Speaker 1: it really wasn't much of a competition. Next time you

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Speaker 1: see him, tell him I said that, But I really

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Speaker 1: like I like this guy. I mean, the dumbest thing

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen in the history of television is a

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Speaker 1: brit coming to America and lecturing Americans on their love

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Speaker 1: of the Second Amendment in firearms. It wasn't exactly brilliant

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Speaker 1: ratings gathering television for him, but I know he was

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Speaker 1: following his heart, so I respect him. Um, but I

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Speaker 1: think that he is a really iconic, clastic and and

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Speaker 1: of fun in an abrasive way, agitator, and I like

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Speaker 1: people like that. He's a fighter and what he did

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Speaker 1: with the London Mayor was pretty spectacular. Yeah, he is

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Speaker 1: doing a great job. And to be honest with you, Sean,

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Speaker 1: you know, very often Piers and I, you know, we're

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Speaker 1: brother and sister on the same newspaper, and we are

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Speaker 1: usually at each other's throats for a variety of things.

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Speaker 1: But I started my him this week with exactly that

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Speaker 1: same line. You know that. I would never thought I

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Speaker 1: would say this, but Piers Morgan is doing a fantastic job.

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Speaker 1: He is, and he's starting to feel like the last

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Speaker 1: voice of the regular punter looking at people just asking

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Speaker 1: those very basic questions that we cannot understand how we

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Speaker 1: are letting our country just go down the plug hole

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Speaker 1: do nothing about it. And it's almost laughable, Sean, to

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Speaker 1: think if it weren't so tragic. You know that there

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01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 1: was a documentary called The Hardy next Door that the

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Speaker 1: last attack of for London Bridge checked in at an airport.

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01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 1: Asked for the reason for his travel, he said, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go and be a terrorist. I mean, you

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01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: don't need intelligence, do you to work out what their

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01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: role is in life? You know? I mean, it's so

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01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: sad to me that these deaths, many of them, could

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Speaker 1: have been prevented if you didn't have Did you ever

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01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: watch the documentary g hadd He's living next Door? It's like,

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01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 1: I could. I can't watch that sort of thing. It

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01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 1: just winds me up, Sean. I end that taking. But

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Speaker 1: my understanding is Katie, that it was on television for

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01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 1: like a year? Is that true? Oh yes, oh yes,

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01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 1: And actually quietly, well they hoped quietly, they only just

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Speaker 1: took it off Netflix. It was still on Netflix, available

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01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 1: for viewing until about two hours after they found out

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01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: who this guy was, So it was still there right

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Speaker 1: until a couple of days ago. Widely available for viewing.

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Speaker 1: These guys with their ISIS flag in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a London park, praying, celebrating Isis. That was all seen

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01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:31,759
Speaker 1: as okay. But what we've got a lot of today

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Speaker 1: coming out from the Metropolitan Police is a push on

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Speaker 1: hate crime. That they were encouraging people to report any

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Speaker 1: hate against them if they are from a Muslim or

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Speaker 1: Islamic faith. Yeah, well either. It seems to me that

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Speaker 1: at some point that government bears the responsibility of their

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01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: bad decisions. You know, can we say that the government

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Speaker 1: of Great Britain bears some responsibility and not throwing the

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Speaker 1: is his flag, worshiping allaho ark bar radical Islamist out

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01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:08,680
Speaker 1: of the country before he went on this rampage on

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01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:12,600
Speaker 1: London Bridge and surrounding areas. Absolutely, you'd hope so. But

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Speaker 1: the curious thing for us Sean is we're just about

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01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: to as you know, tomorrow, we've got our elections. Got

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01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,679
Speaker 1: lots of emails in my inbox on people saying, Katie,

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01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? Who am I supposed

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01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:25,799
Speaker 1: to vote for? Corbin is a sympathize with the Ira

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01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: Hammas and largely sides with the civil liberties of terrorists

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01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: and then we've got to reason may who was the

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01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:35,760
Speaker 1: in charge of the Home Office at the time that

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01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 1: these cuts were made, cuts to the intelligence services, and

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01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 1: she was the one that decided terrorists, suspected terrorists shouldn't

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01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:44,759
Speaker 1: be on lockdown in their homes. They should be allowed

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01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 1: to roam free, they should be allowed to go wherever

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01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:49,759
Speaker 1: they want, and they should be allowed access to the Internet.

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01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: So people are faced with this sort of not wanting

1346
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 1: to vote for anybody because they don't want to reinforce anyone,

1347
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: because no one's standing up for the things we need

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:01,480
Speaker 1: to hear right now, All right, right there, Kitty Hopkins,

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01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 1: our friend the gobbi one from the Daily Mail. Right

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01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 1: as we continue, the Mayor of London confronted on morning television,

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Speaker 1: but Piers Morgan, who did a fabulous job. All these

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01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 1: fighters go from Great Britain and they fight with ISIS

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01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: and Syria and then they come back to the country

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01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:20,680
Speaker 1: and the Mayor of London is clueless and has no

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01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: idea where they are now, on top of the fact

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01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: that they had jihadi's living next door. A documentary where

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,639
Speaker 1: you have one of the terrorists involved in the London

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01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: Bridge knife attack car attack and and he was literally

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01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: on television for a year worshiping the Isis flag and

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01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 1: saying Allahu Akbar and saying that great Britain is gonna

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01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: live under Shariah ten Downing Street, and Katie Hopkins and

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01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 1: I are just scratching our our wooden conservative heads here together,

1363
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: saying how could we be so dumb? It's a question

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01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 1: everybody's asking and no one's got an answer to. And

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01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that's really been reinforced

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01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,759
Speaker 1: in the last couple of days, Sean, is this sense

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Speaker 1: that we live in two countries here in the UK.

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Speaker 1: There's a country called the rest of the UK, and

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Speaker 1: then there's a country, a dark place called London, where

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Speaker 1: the people live that voted that wanted to remain in

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Speaker 1: the EU, that are under the governance of the mayor,

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Speaker 1: the mayor who was sworn in on a Koran, the

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Speaker 1: mayor who was the consultant legal representative for a nine

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Speaker 1: eleven bomber. You know, there's London, London is stand as

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01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 1: I like to refer to it, and then there's the

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Speaker 1: rest of the UK. And I think the problem is

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01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: the rest of the UK doesn't feel it has a voice.

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01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: I mean, apart from Peers who did a great job

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01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 1: of helping articulate the frustration that so many feel. How

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01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 1: is this going to impact the elections on Thursday. I

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01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:38,719
Speaker 1: think in terms of where we sit with the elections,

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01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: Theresa May the Conservative Party will come out ahead because

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01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,680
Speaker 1: of of the two parties that you could vote for,

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01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:48,919
Speaker 1: the Labor Party and the Conservatives. Conservatives do feel somewhat

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01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:54,440
Speaker 1: more reassuring. The Labor Party just put its own Home secretary,

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01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: so the shadow Home Secretary on their kind of what

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 1: would you say, sick leaves because she's had so many

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01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:04,839
Speaker 1: catastrophic TV interviews they can't risk her being on TV anymore.

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01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: The Labor Party then decided to place replace the woman

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01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 1: who would have been in charge of our defense at

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01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 1: a time of acute terror in the UK with a

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01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 1: woman who kicked and pushed a blind man out the

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01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: way in the House of Commons and swat at his

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01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:19,840
Speaker 1: guide dog. So I'm not sure the Labor Party are

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01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: having the best campaign and I think Theresa will win

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: almost by default. But also that's frustrating Grexit here. I

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01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 1: watched her get a little tougher on terror over the weekend.

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01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:32,839
Speaker 1: On Sunday, I think it was and She made comments

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01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 1: that seem reassuring, but her actions shall otherwise, don't they, Yes,

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01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: they do. You know she stood outside that door of

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01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 1: number ten. She said enough is enough, and I was

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 1: hopeful for a moment. You know, a moment is time.

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01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: I looked up at the TV and I thought, here

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01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 1: she goes, we're gonna round up the three Thouns and

1405
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:52,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna hunt down the six fifty g Hardy's returned.

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01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna shut down Saudy funded mosques. That's what I

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01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 1: thought I was going to hear. But no, she's going

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01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 1: to have a look at how she can get large

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01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:04,520
Speaker 1: courts to have more control of their internet service provision

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01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 1: for Hardy's. You know, that's not sufficient. So she will

1411
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: win by default, and she will win off the back

1412
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: of breakit brexiteers who want Brexit. But I think there's

1413
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 1: a lot of distrust that she's ever going to do

1414
01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:17,639
Speaker 1: what she says she's going to do, because there's been

1415
01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:21,719
Speaker 1: so many U turns during her campaign. All right, Katie Hapkins,

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01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: I wish we could have you back on and have

1417
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: more fun with you like we usually do, but we will.

1418
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: There will come a time, and I also want to

1419
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: find out how much trouble you get in every day

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01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: every time I read about you in Great Britain. You're

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01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,519
Speaker 1: under controversy for something. I mean, do you ever live

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01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:37,120
Speaker 1: a day not being under fire? Ever? I think we

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01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,599
Speaker 1: all just have to get broad shoulders, don't we? And

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01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: I think you know you have you been reading about me?

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01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:45,719
Speaker 1: What do you think we're living through? Well? Indeed, Darling,

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01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,960
Speaker 1: I stand with you. We started Darling. Thank you all right,

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01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 1: Garby won my darling, God bless you all right. Katie Hopkins,

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01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,640
Speaker 1: thank you. When we come back, wide open telephone, she

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01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:56,719
Speaker 1: cracks me up. Quick break right back. It's the Sean

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01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:05,840
Speaker 1: Hannity Show coming up next. Our fake It was round up.

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01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:09,840
Speaker 1: Apparently the president gets two scoops. You know, everyone around

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01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 1: around the table gets one. Uh I no word if

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01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,519
Speaker 1: there were sprinkles at the dessert course. He gets two

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01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 1: scoops of a no ice cream with his chocolate cream

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01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 1: pie and of the single scoop for everyone else. I

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01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:25,719
Speaker 1: would be remiss if I did not ask you both

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01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:29,960
Speaker 1: about the hand swat scene around the world. It wasn't

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01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 1: even a complete sentence tweeted out by President Trump just

1439
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: after midnight. Despite the constant negative press. What's that word?

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01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 1: Koffifi fest koffifi cosmfefy professionals could only guess at how

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01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 1: to pronounce it. We're pretty sure the President meant to

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01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 1: type negative press coverage, but the koffe tweet stayed up

1443
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: for almost six hours. A case of chivalry or a phobia?

1444
01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:00,040
Speaker 1: A theory about why President Trump grabbed the British a

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01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,880
Speaker 1: minister's hand now getting the phones down. Sanon's Genie most

1446
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 1: explains all this, Whether it be not shaking the German

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01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 1: Chancellor's hand or clutching the hand of Britain's Prime Minister,

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01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 1: President Trump's hands seemed to end up in headlots. For instance,

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01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:23,800
Speaker 1: the BBC headline donald Trump is scared of stairs scarecase

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01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 1: shortly won British paper back when President Trump took Prime

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01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 1: Minister May his hand as they navigated a ramp at

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01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 1: the White House. Fatm phobia a fear of ramps and stairs,

1453
01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: really watching a step coming down the stairs of the Capital,

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01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 1: even while climbing just a couple of steps at the

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01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: White House, coming off his plane, eyes on his feet,

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01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 1: clutching the railing when asked if the President has fear

1457
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 1: of stairs, a White House spokesperson said, no offense, but

1458
01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:54,799
Speaker 1: this is an absurd question. The growing Russian investigation seemed

1459
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 1: to be taking toll and President Trump, according to sources

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01:20:56,920 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 1: who speak with him and in a general way, they

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01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: say being president is not agreeing with the president. He's

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01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 1: gains weight. According to these sources, he doesn't trust people

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01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: around him. He's withdrawing. Not a good picture. It's the

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01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: one being painted by those sources for the first time

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01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: in four years. The script's national spelling b has a

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Speaker 1: solo champion twelve year old and none Yea then wins

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Speaker 1: the championship trophy at a dollar first prize, and a

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Speaker 1: nonven a joins us. Now, congratulations, So Ananya, we have

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Speaker 1: a challenge for you. We'd like you to spell a word.

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Speaker 1: It has recently become popular. Not sure if you're familiar

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Speaker 1: with it or if you know the definition. Do you

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01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:40,600
Speaker 1: know the word coffe? Definition? Please? The definition is a

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01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:44,680
Speaker 1: non sech word made up by the President of the

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Speaker 1: United States in a late night tweet. Language of a

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Speaker 1: language of our gibberish. Yeah, CNN, fake news in this

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Speaker 1: lab Where were you yesterday? By the way, poor Sunshine said,

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01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:04,880
Speaker 1: come on, let's move, and she looks at me with

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01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 1: the daggers in her eyes like I had said the

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Speaker 1: worst thing in the world to her. Um there, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm just waiting until I can. You just

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01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: for attacking my people, but go ahead continue. I can't wait. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I was very nice shift. Oh no you weren't. No

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01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:22,320
Speaker 1: you weren't. Uh yeah I was. No, no no. When

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Speaker 1: I'm not here, I know what goes on. Okay, because

1485
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 1: I when the cats away to Mike, come are the

1486
01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: words I said, come on, come on, come on, come on,

1487
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 1: come on. That's what I said. Let's go, go to go,

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01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: Let's go. But that's how I always am. And you mean,

1489
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:34,599
Speaker 1: like how I talked to you when you're on your

1490
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: when you're called to me when I'm doing it. Yeah,

1491
01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 1: all right. So I don't know if you saw you

1492
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:41,880
Speaker 1: saw my tweet. I think it was one of the

1493
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,200
Speaker 1: best tweets I've ever put out in my humble opinion.

1494
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: And so CNN got caught staging this protest in London

1495
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: and just see the the images. It goes on for

1496
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 1: two nine minutes. You got this producer right, and he's like, okay,

1497
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 1: this is where you stand, and then he takes one

1498
01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:57,759
Speaker 1: of the one of the protest signs with the placards,

1499
01:22:57,800 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 1: and he holds it up and then you hold it

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01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 1: up at its levels so we can actually see your face.

1501
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:04,240
Speaker 1: Two and children in front, and you can like see

1502
01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: it's all being directed places everybody place to take a

1503
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: pace that they are the children stop moving, stop moving,

1504
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 1: No fidgety, no fidgety, and then you know they're sorry.

1505
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 1: Ready fake news three to one action? Did you see?

1506
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: It's the greatest thing. I feel so bad for the kid.

1507
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: This poor kid is like being like, you know, dragged around.

1508
01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: It's like, shouldn't he be in school or doing something

1509
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:29,479
Speaker 1: productive with his life? Staging fake news? I don't know.

1510
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very funny. If it's not so sad,

1511
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:36,759
Speaker 1: it's pathetic. It's pathetic. And and I see poor Morning

1512
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 1: Joe called the president of schmuck today and that's the

1513
01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: great coverage you get over at the MSNBC. That's what

1514
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: Mika gave him permission to say today. So well, I mean,

1515
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,360
Speaker 1: I don't think you like my tweet when I suggested

1516
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: that I'm wondering if every inquiring mine wants to know

1517
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: if they hold hands underneath the desk. I mean, I

1518
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 1: thought the Saturday Night Live piece on them one, I

1519
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 1: think it's more like Shackles. I'll be listen, I'll be honest.

1520
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:01,360
Speaker 1: I even tweeted out congratulation, trying to be nice, not

1521
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: have a not have a fight with anybody, and you know,

1522
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 1: but then he they started and then this guy, remember

1523
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 1: he sucked up to Obama, was doing the show at

1524
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: the Obama White House. Alright, no real conservative got near

1525
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 1: the Obama White House. So I call him liberal Joe,

1526
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: and nobody really watches his show, and he calls me.

1527
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: He called me comrade, and I started laughing. I'm like,

1528
01:24:22,200 --> 01:24:24,880
Speaker 1: and he says, I'm envious and jealous. I said, there's

1529
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: so much to be envious and jealous. I'm like, Joe, No,

1530
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 1: I said, well, if anyone's jealous here, you're the guy

1531
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: that kept calling over begging Fox News for years to

1532
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,720
Speaker 1: hire him, and everybody seems to forget. I ran him

1533
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: out of the nine pm time slot when he was

1534
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 1: up against us. I mean, he got like a zero

1535
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: point four every night and we're getting two shares. And

1536
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:46,680
Speaker 1: that's you know, I don't know, should be fighting, you know,

1537
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 1: you shouldn't. You should pity him because he's going to

1538
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:52,280
Speaker 1: spend the rest of his life with Mika. That's not nice.

1539
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 1: I can say that. I'm allowed. No, that's my first time. Listen,

1540
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: she does have the they together have these I guess

1541
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 1: emotional meltdowns that together, which is bizarre to me. So

1542
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,639
Speaker 1: that the couple, the couple that cries together, stays together.

1543
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:09,639
Speaker 1: Are you done? Because that breaks down together stays together.

1544
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: You can't support President Trump, right boy, because he's all

1545
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: sucked out from sucking up to Obama for eight years.

1546
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:17,719
Speaker 1: He's puckered out, He's done, it's got nothing left. Okay,

1547
01:25:18,200 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: eight one Sean, if you want to be a part

1548
01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: of the program, all right, let's go to Jefferson Brooklyn,

1549
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 1: New York on the All New A M seven ten

1550
01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 1: w o R. The Talk on New York, the Talk

1551
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: of New York and New Joysey and Long Island. What's happening,

1552
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:33,800
Speaker 1: big Jeff? How you doing? I haven't spoke to you

1553
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: since the election. Yeah, it's been a what's going on?

1554
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: I sat back and I observed, thank God for Donald

1555
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 1: Trump and thank God for a fighting like you. We

1556
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: wouldn't have any chance. I mean, we put in all Congress,

1557
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 1: we put in the Senate, we put it for We've

1558
01:25:47,360 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: been fighting, like I'm here in New York City where

1559
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 1: it's like ninety two. Set the opposite, and I fought

1560
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 1: the good fight. I fighted my business. We find at

1561
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: home on my kids go to professors, tell him the

1562
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,559
Speaker 1: opposite in school, and we keep going. But to see

1563
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:01,960
Speaker 1: to be public can never fight back. I mean, if

1564
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: if if there's any fault, it's them, it's not Donald Trump.

1565
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants to push tax wants to push Obamaca,

1566
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: wants to push who comes into our country, who comes

1567
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:13,080
Speaker 1: across our border. They're not doing it. What's gonna happen

1568
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 1: is I'll stay with Trump as far as we could go,

1569
01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: right to the end, and if he's no longer yet,

1570
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 1: well yet from now, if it doesn't happen that way,

1571
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody stuck back in that following Republican

1572
01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:24,639
Speaker 1: because what's the difference if you have all three branches

1573
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:27,679
Speaker 1: and you do nothing with it. Nothing. Listen, I'm gonna

1574
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:29,800
Speaker 1: be honest. I am so disappointed in so many of

1575
01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: the Republicans now. I saw the Freedom Call because is

1576
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:35,280
Speaker 1: saying no August recess, and I hope Ryan and the

1577
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:38,720
Speaker 1: leadership take their cues from from by the way that

1578
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: we've got the I want to get back to the

1579
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:43,720
Speaker 1: FBI director's opening remarks, but I'm just telling you right

1580
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 1: now this is really really important to me. Um. I

1581
01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 1: want the agenda accomplished. You know, remember the forgotten men

1582
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:52,080
Speaker 1: and women that nobody in d C. Or Hollywood or

1583
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: or you know, the New York elite or the Hollywood

1584
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 1: San Francisco elite seemed to give a rip about, you know,

1585
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:02,000
Speaker 1: but the people in Wisconsin and Chicken in Ohio, Pennsylvania,

1586
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:04,840
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Florida that need work and need jobs and

1587
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:07,240
Speaker 1: need an economy moving. And you know, these people are

1588
01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 1: suffering all of this nonsense that's going on that we

1589
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,400
Speaker 1: see in the weakness of Republicans. Remember I said, there

1590
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:14,439
Speaker 1: are four groups of people trying to hurt the president.

1591
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 1: You've got the deep state, You've got Democrats, You've got weak,

1592
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: pathetic Republicans obviously, the destroy Trump media. And then you've

1593
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 1: got the never trumpers that are are begging for relevance

1594
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: once again in their lives and and they so desperately

1595
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 1: want to say people like you and me were wrong

1596
01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:33,680
Speaker 1: and that we had it wrong. So I just want

1597
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:36,280
Speaker 1: the country fixed. Honestly, I want the agenda fulfilled. I

1598
01:27:36,360 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 1: want these guys to do their freaking job. You know,

1599
01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:41,479
Speaker 1: I was talking to Linda just seconds ago about you know,

1600
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 1: come on, come on, let's go. Do I have felt?

1601
01:27:43,840 --> 01:27:45,720
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, let's go, let's go my whole life.

1602
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:48,719
Speaker 1: I remember one day I was framing a house, framing

1603
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:52,719
Speaker 1: houses with this contractor guy, and there was a foreman

1604
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:55,280
Speaker 1: on the job. And you know, we had spike sixteen

1605
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 1: n inch nails and they didn't have the nail guns

1606
01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 1: like they do today, and he wanted that. He wanted

1607
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:03,080
Speaker 1: that's sixteen inch now on three shots with a sixteen

1608
01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:05,559
Speaker 1: ounce hammer that I had, and if I took four,

1609
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 1: he was pissed. He'd sit there counting, like you know,

1610
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: standing over and just shut up. I used to say, though,

1611
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:12,639
Speaker 1: I'm going as fast as I can, and I'd be moving.

1612
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:15,639
Speaker 1: And that's how we worked to a certain sense of urgency. Congress.

1613
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:18,639
Speaker 1: We've got a month vacation, we got a Memorial Day week,

1614
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:20,519
Speaker 1: all this week off, we got this week. I'm like,

1615
01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: go to go work. Well, we need to meet. We're

1616
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: our constituents. No, your constituents want you to work and

1617
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: or or don't work. And just get out of the

1618
01:28:28,320 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 1: way and let Trump do his job. That's frustrating. All right,

1619
01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 1: eight show. Well, all right, we'll stay in New York

1620
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: with Mike and Brooklyn, New York. How are you, Mike?

1621
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:38,519
Speaker 1: What's going on? So? My father grew up in bed style?

1622
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:40,760
Speaker 1: What's happening? You're a great American. I appreciate all you're

1623
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 1: doing fighting for Trump because nobody else really is fighting

1624
01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 1: as hard as you are. So and I gotta tell you,

1625
01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:47,599
Speaker 1: I disagree with you. You need to fight with Joe.

1626
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:49,320
Speaker 1: Those are the guys you need to pick a fight

1627
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:50,800
Speaker 1: with you, and you need to make it as public

1628
01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: as possible. But all right, well I'm doing it and

1629
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: on Twitter today and I'm doing it on TV tonight.

1630
01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: So I'm not. I don't back down from anybody. I don't.

1631
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,120
Speaker 1: I don't. I will fight anybody because I don't hear

1632
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: what those people think of me. He does. He desperately

1633
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 1: wants to be loved by that media establishment. Absolutely absolutely.

1634
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 1: But you know the thing that really bothers me, Sean

1635
01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:10,000
Speaker 1: is I play a game every day. I go on

1636
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:11,720
Speaker 1: to Fox News, and I go on to see an

1637
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 1: n dot com, and I compare the headlines and I

1638
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:18,120
Speaker 1: compare what you know each news organization considers news, and

1639
01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:22,000
Speaker 1: it's a really interesting game. Really. I wish we weren't

1640
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:24,720
Speaker 1: losing you here. We're losing you, Mike. Let's uh, let

1641
01:29:24,760 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 1: me put you on hold. It's Mike Kristen and Oklahoma

1642
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 1: will bring Mike back if we can. What's up, Kristen?

1643
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:31,680
Speaker 1: How are you glad you called? I'm good. How are

1644
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,280
Speaker 1: you sewing? I'm good? What's going on? Well? I will

1645
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:35,720
Speaker 1: take up a lot of your time, but I just

1646
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: wanted to let you know that my husband I love

1647
01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:41,839
Speaker 1: you so much. I didn't watch the news or anything.

1648
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 1: And my husband was like, because all the negativity and

1649
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And my husband was like, you need

1650
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:48,880
Speaker 1: to watch Hannity. You need to listen to him because

1651
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:51,920
Speaker 1: he tells the truth. He's awesome. So I started listening

1652
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 1: to you, and I get so excited to hear you

1653
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:58,120
Speaker 1: every day fighting for our country, telling the truth, staying

1654
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:00,160
Speaker 1: in that for Trump. We love it. We just love

1655
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 1: you in Oklahoma. Listen. I I really respect. I loved

1656
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:08,680
Speaker 1: what I do, but I respect where this microphone comes from,

1657
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 1: and that's from people like you. And I look, I

1658
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:13,960
Speaker 1: know we are not the average person in the mainstream media.

1659
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 1: We do forge our own path here, and we do

1660
01:30:16,360 --> 01:30:18,960
Speaker 1: our own background and investigative work, and we make our

1661
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:23,200
Speaker 1: own phone calls here. And we're in a very different path. Uh,

1662
01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: it's it's perpendicular to the the average parallel path that

1663
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:30,760
Speaker 1: every news media organization. You know, they regurgitate each other,

1664
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 1: and you know, going against the grain like that, we've

1665
01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:36,560
Speaker 1: made a lot of enemies and and you make this

1666
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 1: show possible and and we're getting I think a lot

1667
01:30:39,160 --> 01:30:41,760
Speaker 1: more work completed than they could have a dream of.

1668
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:43,760
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm proud that you give me this mic

1669
01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:45,760
Speaker 1: every day and I'm gonna keep working hard. Let me

1670
01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:47,720
Speaker 1: tell you something. It's horrible what they're doing to you,

1671
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,560
Speaker 1: try to silence you, and it's wrong. We we have

1672
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:53,600
Speaker 1: a voice too, and you you tell it lack it

1673
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:55,799
Speaker 1: is on the air and me and my husband screamed

1674
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:58,840
Speaker 1: at the radio when you know, when you know, people

1675
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:01,400
Speaker 1: come on there and start fashion Trump in our country

1676
01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 1: and it's just horrible. But we want you to know

1677
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:06,120
Speaker 1: that we love you here in Oklahoma and we stayed

1678
01:31:06,160 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 1: by you, and you're thank you, thank you. I and

1679
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:13,280
Speaker 1: I've been to Oklahoma many many times. Norman, Oklahoma, city

1680
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:15,439
Speaker 1: and I love it, and I love the first thing

1681
01:31:15,479 --> 01:31:17,519
Speaker 1: you see when you get off of oil fields and

1682
01:31:17,800 --> 01:31:21,640
Speaker 1: and oil oil pumps running. I'm like, good the lifeblood

1683
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:24,720
Speaker 1: of our economy. People are making money in Oklahoma. Good

1684
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:27,880
Speaker 1: for them. I even stopped by actually looked at the

1685
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:32,160
Speaker 1: damage after the tornado was more More Oklahoma or what

1686
01:31:32,280 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 1: was the name of the team, It was More. It

1687
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:39,599
Speaker 1: broke my heart and you could literally see I mean yeah,

1688
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 1: you could just see the damage. It was so devastating

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01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 1: and it was like you could see the line whether

1690
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:47,519
Speaker 1: tornado went and it was so heartbreaking. I was really

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01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 1: glad to hear that that Toby Keith did a concert

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01:31:50,360 --> 01:31:52,000
Speaker 1: there for people. That was pretty cool. I think he's

1693
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:54,920
Speaker 1: from more l about Oklahoma. He was really awesome. Everybody

1694
01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 1: come together in Oklahoma and supported each other, and you know,

1695
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 1: it was really nice to see. It really was. But

1696
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: you know, we just we want we want a safe country.

1697
01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:08,400
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to be afraid of something happening.

1698
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:11,040
Speaker 1: With everything going on in London and everything like that.

1699
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:13,439
Speaker 1: It's just really well that's you know, and people think

1700
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:16,560
Speaker 1: you I just want the nation secure. I want the

1701
01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:18,640
Speaker 1: people on poverty, on food stamps and out of the

1702
01:32:18,760 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: labor force, back to work and and live in the

1703
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:23,639
Speaker 1: American dream. What I want is not complicated. I want

1704
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:26,760
Speaker 1: America energy independent and safe and secure. Anyway, thank you

1705
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:29,120
Speaker 1: so much, Kristen, Quick, Mike, and Brooklyn. We're gonna let

1706
01:32:29,160 --> 01:32:30,439
Speaker 1: you make your final point as we go to the

1707
01:32:30,439 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 1: break here. Sorry we lost you, sir, Yeah, sorry about that.

1708
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:34,680
Speaker 1: I don't worry about it. But you know, I just

1709
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: un understand when innuendos and hypotheticals become headlines for seeing them.

1710
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:41,719
Speaker 1: You know, this morning they had a headline clapper says,

1711
01:32:41,760 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 1: smoking gun. This is not good. Then you open it up,

1712
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 1: you read the article and it's completely uh goes against

1713
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:51,080
Speaker 1: what the headline said. I it makes me want to

1714
01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:54,479
Speaker 1: vomit and I torture myself. And I watched CNN in

1715
01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:56,439
Speaker 1: the morning to see what Chris Cuomo and that other

1716
01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:59,559
Speaker 1: idiot has to say, h Alison Camarado or whatever her

1717
01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:01,680
Speaker 1: name is, And I just I don't even say how

1718
01:33:01,720 --> 01:33:05,759
Speaker 1: they have jobs. You know, listen, these networks are agenda driven.

1719
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:09,640
Speaker 1: Do you do you once you see media bias, you

1720
01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:13,439
Speaker 1: can't not see it. It's like once the veil is lifted,

1721
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:16,280
Speaker 1: you can't put it back on. You know, you know

1722
01:33:16,520 --> 01:33:18,960
Speaker 1: the sun is shining. You know, fake news now when

1723
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:21,480
Speaker 1: you see it. That's why I thought it was so hysterical.

1724
01:33:21,560 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the superfluous stories about ice cream and ramps

1725
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:27,880
Speaker 1: and and and the president having a hand phobia and

1726
01:33:27,960 --> 01:33:30,480
Speaker 1: all those nonsense. And that add to that the orchestrating

1727
01:33:30,520 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 1: of protests. I mean, it's as clear as it's ever been.

1728
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 1: I um. And that's why I feel a real sense

1729
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 1: of responsibility to do their job because they're not doing it.

1730
01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:42,280
Speaker 1: We are not on a parallel path here on this program.

1731
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:45,160
Speaker 1: We're on a very different trajectory than they are. And

1732
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: I believe in the end, like with Obama, we're out

1733
01:33:48,479 --> 01:33:50,600
Speaker 1: on a limb. We're gonna be proven right again. And

1734
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:53,760
Speaker 1: thank you for sticking with us. All Right, that's gonna

1735
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:55,680
Speaker 1: wrap things up to today. All Right, the media has

1736
01:33:55,720 --> 01:34:00,519
Speaker 1: gotten this, this comy opening statement, so wrong, so god

1737
01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:04,719
Speaker 1: awfully wrong, and we will give you the analysis I promised.

1738
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 1: Nobody else has. It's it's so frustrating to me, but

1739
01:34:08,120 --> 01:34:10,519
Speaker 1: we'll do their job as we always do. In news

1740
01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:13,680
Speaker 1: and information you can't get anywhere radio, television, and we've

1741
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:16,519
Speaker 1: got great analysts. Tonight we'll check in with our friend

1742
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:19,360
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett and Sarah Carter and Jay Sekula. We're gonna

1743
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 1: break all of this down, step by step, ten Eastern tonight.

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01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:23,559
Speaker 1: Hope you'll join us. See you back here tomorrow