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Speaker 1: lot happening and it's gonna take me time to go
Speaker 1: through and explain in detail. And it my my blood
Speaker 1: vessels in my brain may burst because of the media
Speaker 1: spin about James Comey's opening statement to the Senate Select
Speaker 1: Committee on Intelligence that he will be reading from tomorrow
Speaker 1: has now been released, which, by the way, totally obscuring
Speaker 1: the Senate hearing from earlier today where national security heads
Speaker 1: one after another saying they had never ever been pressured
Speaker 1: to do anything illegal, immoral, an ethical, inappropriate, none, nothing zip,
Speaker 1: including Admiral Rodgers and the Director of National Intelligence stand
Speaker 1: codes He's never been pressured to intervene, interfere in any
Speaker 1: way with shaping intelligence in a political way or in
Speaker 1: a relationship to an ongoing investigation, or rod Rosenstein, Coates
Speaker 1: and Rogers and the interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifying
Speaker 1: that no one from the White House has asked them
Speaker 1: to influence any investigation. So, uh, we'll get to that tape.
Speaker 1: The media will ignore that tape today and let me
Speaker 1: give you a bottom line conclusion on what is a
Speaker 1: seven page opening statement by James Comey. The President of
Speaker 1: the United States did not obstruct justice number one. Number two.
Speaker 1: Comey confirmed numerous times to the president, once as president
Speaker 1: elect but also as president, that he was not the
Speaker 1: target of any investigation into Russia, that he it is
Speaker 1: obvious to some general observations as we get started here,
Speaker 1: it is obvious the deep resentment and hatred that James
Speaker 1: Comey has and frankly double standard treatment of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: versus his predecessor, Baracus saying Obama. And we'll get into
Speaker 1: all of that. The next thing is is what did
Speaker 1: I say about call me? I said, call me? I
Speaker 1: said what happened? I said, just a matter of time
Speaker 1: before he has a book deal and before he's working
Speaker 1: on MSNBC. It's it's clear he's got an agenda. Clear,
Speaker 1: it's obvious the firing of him really really hurt him.
Speaker 1: And you know the other thing that you've got to
Speaker 1: remember in all of this is this is his words,
Speaker 1: This is what he thinks, this is his interpretation, this
Speaker 1: is his recollection, and even admits, well, I didn't have
Speaker 1: any ability to corroborate it. But he also is threading
Speaker 1: a needle. And I'll explain in detail where he himself.
Speaker 1: What I have been warning about is that he himself
Speaker 1: is has got some serious, significant questions to answer as
Speaker 1: to if he if he really felt certain things like
Speaker 1: he says that he was feeling, and he didn't act
Speaker 1: on them because well, Jeff Sessions might recuse himself and
Speaker 1: the person that replaces him might not be there very long. Well,
Speaker 1: that still puts him in serious legal jeopardy himself, because
Speaker 1: the law requires and friend Greg Jarrett was the first
Speaker 1: to dig this upper at the Fox News Channel that um,
Speaker 1: he's he has a duty to immediately immediately, not considering
Speaker 1: the status of the Attorney general's position on an investigation,
Speaker 1: not considering the the the deputy Attorney general's likely position
Speaker 1: might not be there long. He had a moral duty,
Speaker 1: legal obligation to go over to the Justice Department and
Speaker 1: tell them of any effort if he felt the obstructure
Speaker 1: and of justice was being made by any person, even
Speaker 1: the President of the United States, and that the failure
Speaker 1: to do so what a result there could result in
Speaker 1: criminal charges under a statute known as miss prison of felony.
Speaker 1: It's eighteen US Code four. So as expected, call me
Speaker 1: is trashing Trump and has expected disparaging the man who
Speaker 1: fired him, and and and sort of writing a spine
Speaker 1: novel in the process of the wording of this is
Speaker 1: so bizarre, I mean, you know, and he contradicts himself
Speaker 1: as to what the role of the FBI is as
Speaker 1: it relates to national security with the you know, then
Speaker 1: you have to ask questions about Hillary Clinton. Now, let
Speaker 1: me go through this memo very slowly with you so
Speaker 1: I can bring you up to speed, because I assume
Speaker 1: most of you have more important things in your day
Speaker 1: to do than to be reading seven pages of this stuff.
Speaker 1: That's my job, and my job is to bring it
Speaker 1: to you. Now. He describes his first meeting with then
Speaker 1: President elect Trump on January six and the conference room
Speaker 1: at Trump Tower, and that he was there with other
Speaker 1: intelligence community leaders to brief him and his new national
Speaker 1: security team on the findings of the intelligence community's assessment
Speaker 1: concerning Russian efforts to interfere in the election, and he
Speaker 1: describes at the conclusion of that briefing that he remained
Speaker 1: alone with the President to brief him on some of
Speaker 1: the personally sensitive aspects of the information assembled during the assessment.
Speaker 1: In other words, Oh, there's a dossier by a guy
Speaker 1: that didn't tell the president. I'm sure he wanted to
Speaker 1: hire until this became public. Remember the m I six
Speaker 1: guy that put together the dossier that talked about hookers
Speaker 1: urinating in Trump's bed at the Riz Carlton in Moscow,
Speaker 1: which never happened. James Comey wanted to hire that guy.
Speaker 1: He wanted to hire the m I six guy. So
Speaker 1: you know the nice little fact that Comy left out,
Speaker 1: and only because it was made public did he not anyway,
Speaker 1: And he wanted to make sure alert the president of
Speaker 1: the existence of the material of sellasious and unverified as
Speaker 1: it was. Then if it's so unbearable, why did you
Speaker 1: want to hire the guy? But put that aside, and
Speaker 1: we knew the media was about to publicly report the material, Well,
Speaker 1: how did you know that? We believe the i C
Speaker 1: should not keep knowledge of material and imminent release from
Speaker 1: the President elect And to the extent there were some
Speaker 1: effort of compromising an incoming president. We could blunt any
Speaker 1: such effort with a defensive briefing anyway, So the d
Speaker 1: Director National Intelligence asked that I personally do this. That
Speaker 1: would be Clapper portion of the briefing, and he agreed
Speaker 1: to do it alone to minimize political embarrassment. Now he's
Speaker 1: setting the president up here in this to make himself.
Speaker 1: He's so trying to make himself look like the good guy.
Speaker 1: Call me's the good guys trying to you know it
Speaker 1: just as the most self serving, uh document I think
Speaker 1: I've ever read in my life. So anyway, he he
Speaker 1: does this, and he does it alone with the president.
Speaker 1: And and although we agreed it made sense for me
Speaker 1: to do the briefing, the FBI's leadership and I were
Speaker 1: concerned the brief he might create a situation where a
Speaker 1: new president came into office uncertain about whether the FBI
Speaker 1: was conducting a counter intelligence investigation of his personal conduct.
Speaker 1: It is important the FBI understand to understand the FBI
Speaker 1: counter intelligence things. And he was on to say the
Speaker 1: bureau's goal and a counter intelligence investigation different from its
Speaker 1: criminal investigative work, is to understand the technical human methods
Speaker 1: of hostile foreign powers that are are what they're using
Speaker 1: to influence the United States or steal our secrets. Stop
Speaker 1: right there, You mean like Hillary Clinton, like five foreign
Speaker 1: intelligence agencies, five of them foreign intelligence, having access to
Speaker 1: her emails that never should have been in a mom
Speaker 1: and pop bathroom closets server, and the fact that she
Speaker 1: mishandled documents that these are all felonies that she committed.
Speaker 1: And then he overstepped his bounds and came to a
Speaker 1: conclusion and overrode and took the role of the attorney
Speaker 1: general in that case. Lauretta Lynch, I'm reading this and say,
Speaker 1: what a phony, hypocrite. This man is what a phony anyway,
Speaker 1: and the FBI uses that understanding to disrupt blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: This man should have been fired. The fact that he stayed,
Speaker 1: I honestly, is beyond any understanding. And then he said
Speaker 1: it's you know, and then he describes what they do.
Speaker 1: And then the nature of hostile foreign nations is well known.
Speaker 1: Counter intelligence investigations tend to be centered on individuals the
Speaker 1: FBI suspects to be winning or unwitting agents of that
Speaker 1: foreign power. When the FBI develops reason to believe in
Speaker 1: Americans target and then he goes on and on. In
Speaker 1: that context, I discussed the FBIS leadership team whether I
Speaker 1: should be prepared to assure President elect Trump that we
Speaker 1: were not investigating him personally, and so what he writes here, okay,
Speaker 1: that was true. We weren't. We didn't have an open
Speaker 1: counter intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do
Speaker 1: so if circumstances warranted, and during one on one meeting
Speaker 1: at Trump Tower, based on the President's reaction, UH, and
Speaker 1: without him directly asking the question, I offered that reassurance. Oh,
Speaker 1: and he does it another time. So what Trump said
Speaker 1: is yeah, three times he told me stop, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, am I being investor? No? And then Trump,
Speaker 1: can we tell the American people this for once because
Speaker 1: it's hampering my job, my ability to do my job,
Speaker 1: and I felt compelled to document and listen to this.
Speaker 1: I felt compelled to document my first conversation with the
Speaker 1: President elected a memo and UH to ensure accuracy, I
Speaker 1: typed it in my laptop as soon as I got
Speaker 1: out of Trump Tower in an FBI vehicle, creating record
Speaker 1: written records. Immediately after one on one conversations with Trump
Speaker 1: was my practice from that point forward. That had not
Speaker 1: been my practice in the past. Spoke with President Obama
Speaker 1: twice in person, once in once blah blah, and neither
Speaker 1: of those circumstances that I remember that he do this.
Speaker 1: I can recall nine one on one conversations with Trump
Speaker 1: in four months, three in person, six on the phone. Alright,
Speaker 1: big deal, Why didn't he do it to Obama? All right,
Speaker 1: let's not the biggest deal here. Then he had a
Speaker 1: dinner with Trump on January seven, days after the president
Speaker 1: is sworn into office, and he invited me to dinner,
Speaker 1: saying he's gonna invite my whole family, will do that
Speaker 1: next time. Anyway, it's in the green room president, whether
Speaker 1: he likes staying in his job, if he's gonna stay in.
Speaker 1: I said, well, I already assured him that I intended
Speaker 1: to um and so on in. Trump said, well, I'd
Speaker 1: understand that to the abuse you've taken, if you wanted
Speaker 1: to walk away. Now this is now all speculation. Listen
Speaker 1: to this, my instincts. This is called He told me
Speaker 1: that the one on one setting, and the pretense that
Speaker 1: this was our first discussion about my position meant that
Speaker 1: dinner was at least in part and effort to have
Speaker 1: me asked for my job and create some sort of
Speaker 1: patronage relationship. Stop right there. The first meeting was was
Speaker 1: initiated by Comey, not by Trump. That is, before even
Speaker 1: walked in. He had this interpretation that concerned me greatly,
Speaker 1: given the FBI is traditionally independent. Said then, why didn't
Speaker 1: you say no, Comey, Why if you're so pure and
Speaker 1: proper and you thought this was so bad? I replied,
Speaker 1: I love my work, intended to stay served my term
Speaker 1: as the director. And then because the setup made me uneasy,
Speaker 1: I was not reliable in any way like a politician
Speaker 1: uses the word. But it can always count on me
Speaker 1: to tell the truth. And I added that I'm not
Speaker 1: on anybody's side politically, and that cannot be counted on
Speaker 1: in a in a traditional political sense. And I said
Speaker 1: that was in the best interests of the president. Now
Speaker 1: this is what the media is making. Well, I need loyalty,
Speaker 1: the President said, I expect loyalty. I didn't move, I
Speaker 1: didn't speak. Here's the novel part. I didn't change my
Speaker 1: facial expression in any way. During the awkward silence that
Speaker 1: followed we simply looked at each other in silence, and
Speaker 1: the conversation moved on, but he returned to the subject
Speaker 1: near the end of the dinner. At one point, I
Speaker 1: explained why the FBI was so important at the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice, FBI independent from the White House, and he
Speaker 1: goes on to say, I said it was a paradox.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Some parent presidents want any close to
Speaker 1: the Department, but it blurs the line of trust. Near
Speaker 1: the end of the dinner, the President returned to the
Speaker 1: subject of my job, saying he's glad I'm staying on,
Speaker 1: adding that he had heard great things about me, and
Speaker 1: then he said, I need loyalty, loyalty to the Constitution,
Speaker 1: the rule of law, not loyalty to the deep state.
Speaker 1: Not loyalty to those that are leakers, those that want
Speaker 1: to undermine the presidency, those that would lie and and
Speaker 1: and not have fidelity to the truth. I replied, You'll
Speaker 1: always get honesty from me. He paused, what that's all
Speaker 1: I want. I want honest loyalty. We'll pick it up
Speaker 1: from there when we come back. Most self serving document.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, Homie might have
Speaker 1: just put himself in a little bit of legal jeopardy.
Speaker 1: He admits the President did not obstruct. He admitted to
Speaker 1: the president was not a target and yeah, I want
Speaker 1: you to be loyal to the constitution, which the media
Speaker 1: is going crazy on. Also tell you about the conversation
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Speaker 1: toll free telephone numbers eight hundred nine Poll one, Shawn,
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the pro As
Speaker 1: I said this is the most self serving document I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, no matter what the media says here, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, nothing that they say in
Speaker 1: any way implicates the president. President didn't try to obstruct justice,
Speaker 1: was not the target of an investigation. Okay, I expect
Speaker 1: you to be loyal. We're gonna get to that in
Speaker 1: all its detail in a second. And he contradicts himself
Speaker 1: so many different ways as it relates to Okay, if
Speaker 1: you really care about states that are stealing our secrets,
Speaker 1: how do you explain five foreign intelligence services getting into
Speaker 1: the email server of Hillary in a mom and pop
Speaker 1: shop bathroom closet, certainty that that happened, or her mishandling
Speaker 1: of things, or the double standard he's dripping with hatred
Speaker 1: towards Trump. It's so obvious. And if he felt so
Speaker 1: uncomfortable in this dinner, and oh, I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go on. My instincts told me that, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this might be some sort of patronage relationship. And I
Speaker 1: lectured the President about the the sanctity of of being
Speaker 1: separate and apart from the White House, and the President said,
Speaker 1: I need loyalty but we agreed on honest loyalty. Is
Speaker 1: that it that's the worst part, and that callmey was
Speaker 1: going to hire the person that gave uncorroborated salas salacious
Speaker 1: details about hookers and a rich Carlton in Moscow. We
Speaker 1: wanted to pay this guy until that that was revealed,
Speaker 1: and then he had to not hire the guy. What
Speaker 1: is wrong with this guy? Call me something is very
Speaker 1: off now. He also describes this other meeting where the
Speaker 1: issue of General Flynn came up and the President, by
Speaker 1: the way, has everyone forgotten the President saying, Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't want to go after Hillary. Uh yeah, let's leave
Speaker 1: her alone. Oh they suffered enough. So the President basically
Speaker 1: says the same thing about General Flynn and anything wrong
Speaker 1: in speaking with the Russians. I had to let him
Speaker 1: go because he misled the Vice president at the end
Speaker 1: of the day that that's what that case is about.
Speaker 1: And he'd been through a lot, and I feel bad
Speaker 1: for him, and I hope you can see your way
Speaker 1: clear of letting it go. I hope you can let
Speaker 1: it go. Hope hope, hope, hope not let it go.
Speaker 1: And we'll get to that in a second. Alright. Eight
Speaker 1: one Sean and all of the other issues of the day.
Speaker 1: On Shawn is a toe free telephone number. But I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you that this is the biggest nothing burger.
Speaker 1: We got our legal team that is going to weigh
Speaker 1: in on all of this, and way do you hear
Speaker 1: what the security had said at the intelligence meeting today?
Speaker 1: That's coming up, and Rogers, you draw a short strong
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with you before we get to the
Speaker 1: substance of whether this call or request was made. He've
Speaker 1: had a very distinguished career close to forty years. In
Speaker 1: your experience, would it be in any way typical for
Speaker 1: a president to ask questions or bring up an ongoing
Speaker 1: FBI investigation? Tarchiculally that investigation concerns associates and individuals that
Speaker 1: might be associated with the president's campaign or his activities.
Speaker 1: So today I am not going to talk about theoreticals.
Speaker 1: I am not going to assess the specifics of any
Speaker 1: interaction or conversations I may or can you if I
Speaker 1: could finish the police that I may or may not
Speaker 1: have had with the President of United States. But I
Speaker 1: will make the following comment. In the three plus years
Speaker 1: that I have been the director of the National Security Agency,
Speaker 1: to the best of my recollection, I have never been
Speaker 1: directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical,
Speaker 1: or inappropriate. And to the best of my recollection, during
Speaker 1: that same period of service, I do not recall ever
Speaker 1: feeling pressured to do so. Oh, by the way, Admiral
Speaker 1: Rodgers and as a director, testify he's never been pressured
Speaker 1: to do anything illegal, immoral, unethical, inappropriate. Dan Coates, Director
Speaker 1: of National Intelligence, testifying today he's never been pressured to
Speaker 1: intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in
Speaker 1: a pool of go away or in a relationship to
Speaker 1: an ongoing investigation. Then Rod Rosenstein and Dan Coates and
Speaker 1: Mike Rogers and the interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifying
Speaker 1: today that no one from the White House has asked
Speaker 1: how how to influence an investigation in any way? Excuse me,
Speaker 1: does any of this matter except a disgruntled, fired ex bitter,
Speaker 1: you know, double standard preaching FBI director who may actually
Speaker 1: himself have put himself in legal jeopardy. And I'll get
Speaker 1: to that in a second here. So anyway, if you're
Speaker 1: just joining us, those are two big stories. The Senate
Speaker 1: hearing with the national security heads that all said what
Speaker 1: I just told you, and then the seven page opening
Speaker 1: statement that callmey will read tomorrow and anyway, so let
Speaker 1: me go back to the Mike Flynn do we have
Speaker 1: in there? Um when the President said leave Hillary alone?
Speaker 1: By and by the way, when the President said it
Speaker 1: kind of piste me off. I'm gonna be honest, I'm like, seriously,
Speaker 1: why why does she get little? I don't want to
Speaker 1: bring any pain to the Clintons. Uh. Okay, So he's
Speaker 1: being a nice guy, nicer than I would be. And
Speaker 1: by the way, it's not his call at the end
Speaker 1: of the day either, it's not his call when he
Speaker 1: says to comey as it relates to Flynn, and that
Speaker 1: Flynn hadn't done anything wrong in speaking with the Russians,
Speaker 1: and that he had let it go because he had
Speaker 1: to lead, let him go because he misled the Vice president,
Speaker 1: and then saying that guy had been through a lot
Speaker 1: and it sucks, and that he had been the victim.
Speaker 1: By the way, Coleby, I don't know if they've ever
Speaker 1: discussed the issue of the felony committed against Michael Flynn
Speaker 1: by leaking unmasked raw intelligence. That's what got him into
Speaker 1: trouble and got him fired. And then Trump saying, well,
Speaker 1: I hope you can let this go. And remember that
Speaker 1: was the one felony was against Flynn, which is so
Speaker 1: annoying anyway. So then Comey goes on to say, in
Speaker 1: this opening statement that you'll hear tomorrow, I immediately prepared
Speaker 1: an unclassified memo okay, on class about the conversation about Flynn,
Speaker 1: and I discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership. I
Speaker 1: had understood the President to be requesting that we dropped
Speaker 1: any investigation into Flynn in connection with the false statements
Speaker 1: about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what he understood. It to be his own words here,
Speaker 1: and then he goes on to say, I did not
Speaker 1: understand the president to be talking about the broader investigation
Speaker 1: into Russia. Okay, let me read that again. I did
Speaker 1: not understand the President, I would assume call me as
Speaker 1: an intelligent man, to be dropping about the dropping the
Speaker 1: broader investigation in a Russia or possible links to his campaign.
Speaker 1: I could be this is called me. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I took him to be focusing on what had
Speaker 1: just happened to Flynn's departure in the controversy of around
Speaker 1: the account of his phone calls. Regardless, it's can learning
Speaker 1: the FBI's role as an independent, independent investigative agency. Yeah, well, obviously,
Speaker 1: Comey has a double standard in the application of the laws. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: how does Hillary get away with everything that he admitted,
Speaker 1: every crime that she committed. You cannot see this without
Speaker 1: seeing how he acts in the past. He doesn't take
Speaker 1: memos after meetings with Obama. You know, in the case
Speaker 1: of Hillary, she commits a variety of crimes. He lays
Speaker 1: out the case better than anybody, which he did back
Speaker 1: last July, but he lets her go. Then he says,
Speaker 1: the FBI leadership team agreed with him that was important
Speaker 1: not to infect, really infect like a disease. The investigative team,
Speaker 1: with the president's request, which we did not intend to abide,
Speaker 1: also concluded that given it was a one on one conversation,
Speaker 1: there was nothing available to corroborate my account. Oh, the
Speaker 1: account where you just got done saying I did not
Speaker 1: understand the president to be talking about the broader investigation
Speaker 1: into Russia and possible links to his campaign. That's what
Speaker 1: you just said, that's what you believed, that's what you thought,
Speaker 1: that's how you interpreted it. Yeah, there is nothing available.
Speaker 1: What if the president interpreted it otherwise? What if your
Speaker 1: recollection was wrong? You know, how in court do you
Speaker 1: get to say, well, in a one on one conversation,
Speaker 1: just sation, it's he said, he said, and call me
Speaker 1: as a lot to be bitter about having been fired
Speaker 1: in this particular case, disgruntled ex employee out for vengeance,
Speaker 1: having a political agenda, treating Obama one way, treating Hillary
Speaker 1: another way. We concluded, now this is where he might
Speaker 1: be in trouble. Pay attention here. This is not anything
Speaker 1: you'll hear from the mainstream media. We concluded it made
Speaker 1: little sense to report it to the attorney general, who
Speaker 1: we expected would likely recuse himself from the involvement in
Speaker 1: Russia related investigations. Well, wait a minute, you just got done, sane.
Speaker 1: I did not understand the president to be talking about
Speaker 1: the broader investigation into Russia or possible links to his
Speaker 1: campaign now he said. We concluded it made little sense
Speaker 1: because why because he's expected to likely recuse himself. He
Speaker 1: did so two weeks later, so he was expected to.
Speaker 1: But he hadn't. Okay, Now, one step further, the Deputy
Speaker 1: Attorney general's role was then filled in an acting capacity
Speaker 1: by a United States attorney would also not be long
Speaker 1: in that role. Okay. So after discussing and holding it
Speaker 1: very closely, you know, we decided, you know, resolving to
Speaker 1: figure out what to do with it down the road
Speaker 1: as our investigation progressed, the investigation will speed ahead. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's great and you know, all the innu window in
Speaker 1: the world about Donald Trump. None of the investigative team
Speaker 1: members Department of Justice supporting them aware of the president's request.
Speaker 1: You mean the request that what's the request? The crest
Speaker 1: was very simple. You know. I did not say I
Speaker 1: would let this go. I hope you can let it.
Speaker 1: I hope you can let it go. This guy's been
Speaker 1: through hell. Just like he said, I hope you'll let
Speaker 1: it go on Hillary. If you guys find that, let
Speaker 1: me know. All right, let's play. This is what he
Speaker 1: said about Hillary, and your audience has kept saying, lock
Speaker 1: him up. Do you want to special prosecutor? I think
Speaker 1: you hired them. I don't want to hurt them. They're
Speaker 1: good people. I don't want to hurt them. And I
Speaker 1: will give you a very very good and definitive answer
Speaker 1: the next time we do sixty minutes together. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hurt that I you know, jeez, is that
Speaker 1: any different than what he's saying about Flynn. No, not
Speaker 1: a bit. You cannot see it in any other context.
Speaker 1: I hope you can let it go. This guy's suffered
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't want to hurt them. Same thing,
Speaker 1: same consistent message, same exact thing. So anyway, it goes
Speaker 1: on to say that, you know, after I spoke with
Speaker 1: the Attorney General in person along with the President's leaks,
Speaker 1: you know that um down the road investigation. Now here's
Speaker 1: the problem. You have the law of the land, and
Speaker 1: you have eighteen US Code four and it is a
Speaker 1: criminal statute. It's a felony that the law required Comey
Speaker 1: to immediately, not two weeks later, not when, not after
Speaker 1: the investigation has gone down the road, you know, but
Speaker 1: immediately he had a legal statutory responsibility to inform the
Speaker 1: Department of Joice. Well, not because he might recuse himself later,
Speaker 1: not because this person may not be there in a
Speaker 1: little while. He had an obligation to immediately inform the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice of any effort to obstruct justice by
Speaker 1: any person, even the President of the United States of America,
Speaker 1: and his failure to do so could result in criminal
Speaker 1: charges under what is the statute known as misprison of
Speaker 1: a felony. You can expect you know, we saw, all right,
Speaker 1: call me he's gonna trash Trump innuendo Trump, He's done
Speaker 1: it in his opening statement. Democratic lawmakers, you know loathed
Speaker 1: call me. You know, I think that's an important day.
Speaker 1: They wanted him removed. Now he's their bff on a
Speaker 1: hundred different levels. But that's politics. But the law imposes
Speaker 1: an affirmative duty on federal officials to report the knowledge
Speaker 1: of a felony in this case, if he believed it
Speaker 1: to be obstruction of justice to the appropriate authorities. Whoever,
Speaker 1: having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable
Speaker 1: by a court of the United States, conceals and does not,
Speaker 1: as soon as possible, make known the same to the
Speaker 1: sub judge or person and, by the way, to a
Speaker 1: judge and civil military authority. Under the United States, he
Speaker 1: didn't have to go to the Attorney general at all.
Speaker 1: Should be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
Speaker 1: than three years, or both Now it's usually used against
Speaker 1: those that have a special duty to report a crime,
Speaker 1: like an FBI director. Active concealment is an element of
Speaker 1: a crime, you know, suppressing incriminating memorandum concealment of a crime.
Speaker 1: The memo would be evidence of an alleged crime. So
Speaker 1: did Comey alert these people to the extent that he
Speaker 1: should have? Apparently did, But they all decided, well, and
Speaker 1: we will wait till this moves on. Well, now there's
Speaker 1: more to this Comy opening statement. Then they had a
Speaker 1: March THIRTI phone call where you know, he described the
Speaker 1: Russian investigation the president as a cloud. By the way,
Speaker 1: it was a cloud, NonStop RuSHA Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Speaker 1: But Comy had already told the President that, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not investigating him. He said, I didn't do anything
Speaker 1: with Russia, no business with Russia. No hookers and Russia,
Speaker 1: no pining on my bed in Russia. He always assumed
Speaker 1: he was being recorded in Russia. So he said, all right,
Speaker 1: you're telling me I'm not on an investigation. Can you
Speaker 1: lift the cloud? He said, well, well, Comey says, well,
Speaker 1: we were investigating the matter as quickly as we can.
Speaker 1: And then Trump said, well, be a great benefit if
Speaker 1: you can tell the public the truth you're telling me,
Speaker 1: So what's wrong with that? Then the President asked why
Speaker 1: there had been a congressional investigation at which I had,
Speaker 1: as the Department of Justice director confirmed the investigation into
Speaker 1: possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Anyway, so
Speaker 1: it goes on from there that, you know, I reminded
Speaker 1: him what I had previously told him. Comey said, and
Speaker 1: he repeatedly told me, we need to get the fact
Speaker 1: out that you're not investigating me and the president's You
Speaker 1: went on to say, if there are some satellite associates
Speaker 1: of his, if it is anybody else, if they did
Speaker 1: something wrong, it would also be good to find that
Speaker 1: out because also but he hadn't done anything wrong, and
Speaker 1: he hoped that the public would know that the president
Speaker 1: did nothing wrong. And then he shifted the attention of
Speaker 1: discussion to the FBI Deputy director McCabe, saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about McKay because his wife was
Speaker 1: running for office and all this money was raised by
Speaker 1: Terry mccaullu blah blah blah blah. He finished by stressing
Speaker 1: the cloud was interfering with his abilities to to serve
Speaker 1: the country. Immediately after the conversation, I called the acting
Speaker 1: Deputy Attorney General, Dana whatever her name is. Sessions had
Speaker 1: recute to report the substance of the call from the President.
Speaker 1: I said I would wait and await his guidance. I
Speaker 1: did not hear back from him before the President called
Speaker 1: me two weeks later, and President called on April eleven,
Speaker 1: What have you done to get out the information that
Speaker 1: he's not personally under investigation? Now that information was offered
Speaker 1: by call me himself. Why wouldn't the President want the
Speaker 1: FBI director to say that publicly? FBI director saying it
Speaker 1: behind closed? Why can't he tell the American people? Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: All right, when we get back art, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: through more with this. It gets a little confusing, but
Speaker 1: we gotta handle on this. And one of the bigger
Speaker 1: aspects of this is the Senate hearing with national security
Speaker 1: heads today. No nobody ever asked me to do that,
Speaker 1: No way. I was never asked to do anything pressure
Speaker 1: to do anything illegal and moral, unethical, or inappropriate. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that'll be ignored by the media. As a matter
Speaker 1: of I've been watching media all that not even touching it.
Speaker 1: We'll show you tonight on Hannity. The media is so
Speaker 1: freaking corrupt in this country. We'll take a break. Our
Speaker 1: legal team will analyze both Comey's statement that it will
Speaker 1: be reading tomorrow and the national security heads all saying
Speaker 1: the same thing. They were never pressured to do anything
Speaker 1: illegal and moral and ethical are inappropriate? Will continue, all right,
Speaker 1: so much to get to um we have the Senate
Speaker 1: hearing when national Security heads that took place earlier today. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 1: let's say General Rogers and Rod Rosenstein, and then Coates
Speaker 1: and and Andrew McCabe. Oh, no one from the White
Speaker 1: House asked ever influence an investigation, and nobody asked us
Speaker 1: to do anything illegal and moral and ethical and appropriate.
Speaker 1: And then James Comey's innuendow filled the opening statement from tomorrow,
Speaker 1: which is being mismanaged by the media. We have the
Speaker 1: truth with our attorneys next. So if the Dredey General
Speaker 1: senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation,
Speaker 1: can they halt that FBI investigation? In theory? Yes, has
Speaker 1: it happened? Not in my experience, because it would be
Speaker 1: a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing
Speaker 1: something that without an appropriate purpose. I mean, we're oftentimes
Speaker 1: they give us opinions that we don't see a case there,
Speaker 1: and so you ought to stop investing resources in it.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about a situation where we were told
Speaker 1: to stop something for a political reason. That would be
Speaker 1: a very big deal. It's not happened in my experience.
Speaker 1: Not happened in my experience. That was James Comey. That
Speaker 1: was James call Me on May three. Now, James call
Speaker 1: Me has released his opening statement that he will read
Speaker 1: tomorrow before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and he
Speaker 1: goes through great detail where he first met Donald Trump
Speaker 1: on January six, the Trump Tower, and that's where they
Speaker 1: started in on the Russian hookers at the Ritz Carlton
Speaker 1: and urinating on the bed. Come he didn't tell him.
Speaker 1: I assumed that he was trying to hire the guy
Speaker 1: that had put that dossier together until all these revelations
Speaker 1: became public and then it became a little untenable for
Speaker 1: Comey to do that. I didn't see that in his
Speaker 1: opening statement, which is pretty interesting here. Um, and you know,
Speaker 1: so much came out of this that I want to
Speaker 1: just go through some of this and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: bring our our team of attorneys here for the hour
Speaker 1: and we're gonna analyze all of this. And anyway, he
Speaker 1: went on to say that he and the President had
Speaker 1: a private discussion, and we knew the media would want
Speaker 1: to report the material about all of this stuff, and
Speaker 1: you know that there was some effort to compromise the
Speaker 1: incoming president, that we could blunt any such effort with
Speaker 1: a defensive briefing, and anyway, he was staying in his position, supposedly,
Speaker 1: and we agreed that I would do the the presentation
Speaker 1: to the President elect alone and minimize potential embarrassment to
Speaker 1: the President elect. And he talked about the FBI was
Speaker 1: conducting a counterintelligence investigation, etcetera, etcetera. And at one point
Speaker 1: he goes on to say, you know, explain, FBI counterintelligence
Speaker 1: investigations are different than criminal investigations. And then he's, you know,
Speaker 1: talked about the methods that they used, and that the
Speaker 1: FBI uses UH an understanding that there are places that
Speaker 1: want to steal our secrets and the FBI uses that
Speaker 1: understanding to disrupt those efforts. And sometimes disruption takes the
Speaker 1: form of a lerning a person who's targeted for recruitment,
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, yeah, what about Hillary Clinton server? What
Speaker 1: about five foreign intelligence agencies having access to top secret
Speaker 1: and special access programs? That is not going to be
Speaker 1: any of what you hear in the media today. There's
Speaker 1: they're going to go for highlighted sound bites that they're
Speaker 1: going to edit out of this piece, but they won't
Speaker 1: ask that important question anyway. He talked about discussing the
Speaker 1: FBI's leadership team and whether he should be prepared to
Speaker 1: assure President Electrump that they were not investigating. So he
Speaker 1: did admit numerous times in this document that in fact
Speaker 1: he told the president in this case the president elected
Speaker 1: and later as president, that they were not investigating him personally. Okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough, And he said he felt compelled to document
Speaker 1: this first conversation with the President elected a memo to
Speaker 1: ensure accuracy. He started typing on his laptop in an
Speaker 1: FBI vehicle outside of Trump Tower the meeting the minute
Speaker 1: he walked out of the meeting and creating written records
Speaker 1: immediately after they won on one conversations. And then he
Speaker 1: goes on to say that had not been my practice
Speaker 1: in the past, and he talks he didn't do it
Speaker 1: with with President Obama. Well why not? Why did Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, cause him to do this? Anyway, Then he
Speaker 1: describes his dinner on January, seven days into his presidency,
Speaker 1: in the Green Room in the White House, and anyway,
Speaker 1: it turned out there seated there together, and he describes that,
Speaker 1: you know, the President began by asking whether he wanted
Speaker 1: to stay at the FBI, etcetera, etcetera, And he had
Speaker 1: already assured him that he intended to. And he said,
Speaker 1: lots of people Trump said wanted his job, and given
Speaker 1: the abuse, he'd take it. He would understand if he
Speaker 1: wanted to walk away. Now this is what call me, writes.
Speaker 1: My instincts told me that the one on one setting
Speaker 1: and the pretense that this was our first discussion about
Speaker 1: my position meant the dinner was at least in part,
Speaker 1: an effort to have me ask for my job and
Speaker 1: create some sort of patronage relationship. So that's what he
Speaker 1: went into this thinking that concerned me greatly, given the
Speaker 1: FBI is traditionally independent status in the executive branch. I replied,
Speaker 1: I love my work, intended to stay, and because the
Speaker 1: setup made me uneasy, I added that I was not
Speaker 1: reliable in the way politicians used that word, but he
Speaker 1: could always count on me to tell the truth. And
Speaker 1: I added that I was not on anybody's side politically
Speaker 1: and could not be counted on any traditional political sense,
Speaker 1: a stance I said, was in the best interest of
Speaker 1: the president. After a few moments, the president, so I
Speaker 1: need loyalty. I expect loyalty. Now the media has been
Speaker 1: fixated on this forever today. Now does loyalty mean that
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't want deep state leaking? Does loyalty mean
Speaker 1: that he wants fidelity to the law. Does loyalty mean
Speaker 1: that he doesn't want him to be political? I didn't move,
Speaker 1: I didn't speak or change my facial expression in any way.
Speaker 1: During the awkward silence that followed, we simply looked at
Speaker 1: each other's in silence. He's like he's writing a spine novel.
Speaker 1: The conversation then moved on, and he returned to the
Speaker 1: subject near the end of the dinner. At one point,
Speaker 1: I explained why it was so important of the FBI
Speaker 1: and the Department of Justice be independent of the White House.
Speaker 1: I said it was a paradox. Throughout history, some presidents
Speaker 1: have decided that because quote problems come from justice. They
Speaker 1: should try and hold the Justice Department close, but hurrying
Speaker 1: those boundaries ultimately makes the problems worse by undermining public
Speaker 1: trust in the institutions and their work. Near the end
Speaker 1: of the dinner, the President returned to the subject of
Speaker 1: my job, saying he's glad I wanted to stay, adding
Speaker 1: that he had heard great things about me from Madison,
Speaker 1: Sessions and others. He said, I need loyalty, I replied,
Speaker 1: you will always get honesty from me. He paused and
Speaker 1: then said, well that's what I want. Honest loyalty. Okay.
Speaker 1: I paused and then said, well, you will get that
Speaker 1: from me. And as I wrote in the memo I
Speaker 1: created immediately after the dinner, it is possible we understood
Speaker 1: the phrase honest loyalty differently, but I decided it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be productive to push it any further. The term honest
Speaker 1: loyalty had helped end a very awkward conversation, and MY
Speaker 1: explanation had made clear what he should expect. During the
Speaker 1: dinner of the President returned to the salacious material. You know,
Speaker 1: the hookers at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow and a
Speaker 1: dossier from a guy or m I six that act,
Speaker 1: Uh call me wanted to hire You didn't mention that
Speaker 1: in the letter, as I said, you consider ordering me
Speaker 1: to investigate the allegation to prove blah blah blah. All right,
Speaker 1: let's bring in our attorneys just on this point here,
Speaker 1: because we've covered a lot of ground. Jay Secular, Chief
Speaker 1: Council for the American Center for Law and Justice. Tom Fitton,
Speaker 1: President of Judicial Watch. All right, Jay, loyalty, What does
Speaker 1: does loyalty mean to the country. Does loyalty mean I
Speaker 1: don't want you leaking? Uh? Does loyalty mean I don't
Speaker 1: want you doing what you did with Obama taking over
Speaker 1: Loretta Lynch's role when you shouldn't have. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: I think you can mean all of those, but let's
Speaker 1: start with the with the reality. What does loyalty mean.
Speaker 1: Loyalty to the Constitution of the United States. That's what
Speaker 1: it means. I want loyalty. It's a two minute we
Speaker 1: want all right, Jay, we're losing you there. Let's get
Speaker 1: let's get you on a better line. Tom Fitton, what's
Speaker 1: your take. I'll just warn you show him out an attorney.
Speaker 1: So what I'm going to say, President Trump is president
Speaker 1: of the United States, and he has a right to
Speaker 1: can indicate with the FBI director, even though the FBI
Speaker 1: director thinks he should be immune from communications with the President,
Speaker 1: who he obviously dislikes. He didn't talk about his lunch
Speaker 1: meetings with his friend Benjamin Wittis where he said he
Speaker 1: was disgusted by the President's quite honest efforts to shake
Speaker 1: his hand in public. This this this FBI director didn't
Speaker 1: like the president. The President obviously was alienated by the
Speaker 1: fact the FBI was using and obviously spreading around this
Speaker 1: salacious gossip about him. And uh, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of that conversation, he and Comey agreed, honest loyalty.
Speaker 1: This is what the constitutional government is about. As Jay
Speaker 1: has pointed out, let me go back to jad. I
Speaker 1: think we got him on a better line here, Uh, Jake,
Speaker 1: pick up your point here. Honest loyalty. Okay, I expect loyalty.
Speaker 1: The media is running nuts with this, you know, and
Speaker 1: of course you can always count on John McCain. I
Speaker 1: just I'm when was John McCain just gonna jump to
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. It's disturbing. What's does disturbing about? Honest
Speaker 1: loyalty or loyalty to the constitutional, fidelity to the truth.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with this? Well, of course that's where it
Speaker 1: starts when when he says I want your loyalty, it's
Speaker 1: loyalty to the United States, to the Constitution of the
Speaker 1: United States. That's what loyalty means. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, loyalty also means we've got leaks that are
Speaker 1: affecting our national security that needs to stop. That's loyalty.
Speaker 1: There's not a personal pledge. Loyalty. And let's remember what
Speaker 1: this is about. These are James Comey's notes after the fact. So,
Speaker 1: but loyalty is very clear term. Do you want not
Speaker 1: you who would not want your FBI director to be loyal?
Speaker 1: Weals not asking for a personal pledge here, He's asking
Speaker 1: for loyalty, loyalty to the Constitution. Should you wanted at that?
Speaker 1: Number two? And I think this has Shawn the critical
Speaker 1: part of this. James Comey acknowledges in his written statement
Speaker 1: that President Trump did not, under any circumstance to do
Speaker 1: anything that he thought was impinching on, infringing on, or
Speaker 1: curtailing the broader investigation on the Russia Pope. He says
Speaker 1: it exactly himself. I did not understand the President to
Speaker 1: be talking about the broader investigation into Russia or possible
Speaker 1: leads to his campaign case. Clothes indicates special counsel, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, because what are we dealing with. We're
Speaker 1: dealing with a possible violation by General Flynn on a
Speaker 1: ministerial Act, on an incorrect statement on a form. So
Speaker 1: that's what this is all about. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, Let's not forget that the witch hunt that's
Speaker 1: going on is much broader, But that's what it's really about. Well,
Speaker 1: he also apparently during the din of the President talked
Speaker 1: about the selations material. I sensed a deep hatred reading
Speaker 1: this by callmey towards Trump. Why all of a sudden
Speaker 1: is he investigating you know, Why all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he start taking notes on this president but not the
Speaker 1: last president. Why look at look at the inch sean,
Speaker 1: look at the entire memo. I noticed the drapes and
Speaker 1: as I walked past the Grandfather clock. Sounds like an
Speaker 1: interesting novel. But this is coming from the FBI director.
Speaker 1: So if this is if this is their case, if
Speaker 1: this is what it's all about, this was a this
Speaker 1: will be a big speech about nothing. Tomorrow period. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take we'll take a break here. We we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep them for the hour J Secular, Tom Finton, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna examine this. Also from the Senate hearing earlier today,
Speaker 1: so much came out. I won't use the word exculpatory,
Speaker 1: but I mean it just reinforces everything that everybody else
Speaker 1: has been saying as it relates to this investigation. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got Admiral rodgers uh in his testimony he's never
Speaker 1: been pressured to do anything illegal. Mark Warners tell Rogers
Speaker 1: that he's disappointed with an answer because it wasn't what
Speaker 1: he wanted. The Director of National Intelligenceince dan Coat says
Speaker 1: he's never been pressured to intervene Rod Rosenstein. You know
Speaker 1: coaates Rogers and mcnabe. No one from the White House
Speaker 1: has asked them to influence an investigation. And all of
Speaker 1: this comes out. Nobody in the media pays any attention
Speaker 1: to that today anyway one Shawn, you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the program. The other thing the media says, well,
Speaker 1: Trump said, can we can we lift the cloud? Well
Speaker 1: that's after call me twice told him there is no
Speaker 1: investigation into him. I I am so live it at
Speaker 1: the media coverage of this. All right, as we continue,
Speaker 1: and at the bottom of the hour, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to the Senate hearing and everything that was said today
Speaker 1: that is so pertinent, everything we've been discussing now for
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks and weeks. What about the exchange between
Speaker 1: the President on the issue of Michael Flynn and when
Speaker 1: the President I want to talk about Mike Flynn. He's
Speaker 1: a good guy, didn't do anything wrong. I had to
Speaker 1: let him go because he misled the Vice president. And
Speaker 1: then he goes on to say, how you can see
Speaker 1: your way clear of letting this go. I hope you
Speaker 1: can let this go. Is that a problem? I mean,
Speaker 1: letting it go is a ministerial act of the guy's
Speaker 1: being accused. He's already lost his job, he's being accused
Speaker 1: of violating it, not only on a form properly, And
Speaker 1: and the President showed humanity to me that. By the way,
Speaker 1: didn't he say the same thing about Hillary Clinton? Yes,
Speaker 1: didn't he say that I I'd prefer not to do
Speaker 1: anything else with this, which is what's that in her case,
Speaker 1: though of course he said that she said she was
Speaker 1: screenly careless which, by the way, the definition of growth
Speaker 1: negligence under the criminal statute that you should have been
Speaker 1: looked at. But nevertheless, James Comey has selective disclosure disease.
Speaker 1: That's what he suffers from. Selective disclosure. He said, I
Speaker 1: understood the President to be requesting we dropped the investigation
Speaker 1: of Flint and connection with false statements about his conversations
Speaker 1: with the Russian ambassador. I did not understand the president
Speaker 1: to be talking about the broader investigation into Russia or
Speaker 1: possible links for his campaign, but it was obvious that
Speaker 1: he was wasn't talking about that, of course he was.
Speaker 1: He was talking about According to James Comey, he understood
Speaker 1: the President be requesting a drop an investigation of Flint.
Speaker 1: By the way, he understood the President did not request
Speaker 1: a drop of the investigation of General Flint. So he misunderstood, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, this is a guy that's misunderstood before
Speaker 1: Congress underwrote three times great to correct himself. So his
Speaker 1: understandings haven't been very reliable. Not a credible witness. But Shawn,
Speaker 1: this whole thing is a self serving document, and you
Speaker 1: know what it helps the president, So thank you this Sean.
Speaker 1: It's gossip. It's gossip. What did the president tell you?
Speaker 1: You know? And I think we should be clear here.
Speaker 1: This testimony wouldn't take place if Donald Trump objected to it,
Speaker 1: and he had good reason to object to it. These
Speaker 1: are communications with his close advisor, and he could have
Speaker 1: asserted executive privilege. I don't think it could have been
Speaker 1: burst through. So he's letting Comey talk about this because
Speaker 1: he knows what he did was not wrong. And for
Speaker 1: called me to go out there and spill these supposed secrets.
Speaker 1: As as Jay said, it's really a big nothing burger here.
Speaker 1: And Mr Flynn, by the way, I'm not sure he
Speaker 1: did anything wrong. I'm not even sure what they're investigating.
Speaker 1: And are they investigating the timing of disclosures he made
Speaker 1: in this town? Are you kidding me? Well? And then
Speaker 1: with what Tom saying is right John, I mean it's
Speaker 1: first of all, this is a ministerial form filling out.
Speaker 1: That's number one. But here's the headline. You weren't the headline.
Speaker 1: This is the headline. FBI director acknowledges that president did
Speaker 1: not interfere or obstruct with ongoing Russia investigations. That's the
Speaker 1: headline from the witnesses mouth. You know, we're told shown
Speaker 1: also that these notes were so sensitive and he tried
Speaker 1: to keep it close in and yet he leaves and
Speaker 1: they're all leaked out. So who else in the FBI
Speaker 1: was involved in this? And after he was fired the
Speaker 1: Washington Post report, I believe, and they were talking FBI sources.
Speaker 1: They they they're not going to forget this, and they
Speaker 1: were vowing retaliation as I interpreted it, and I tell
Speaker 1: you that the FBI really needs to be cleaned out.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Comy, because my guess is he creates.
Speaker 1: I want to ask if Comy there's a leadership issue
Speaker 1: over there. Beyond Comy, there is one issue where I
Speaker 1: think Comey is really threatening and needle as to perhaps
Speaker 1: acknowledging he may have committed a felony. And I'll explain
Speaker 1: when we get back, and we'll go to the Senate
Speaker 1: hearing with the National Security heads today and what the
Speaker 1: media will ignore tonight, We'll have it all on Hannity
Speaker 1: Tennis or a blockbuster show will continue with Jay Sekulo
Speaker 1: and Tom Fitton. Straight ahead, all right, as we continue
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show eight nine one, Sean, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: get to the Senate hearing today with national security heads.
Speaker 1: But James Comey's opening statement for tomorrow comes out. Jay Seculo,
Speaker 1: Chief council for the American Center for Law and Justice.
Speaker 1: Tom Fitton, President of Dishal Watch. All right, so when
Speaker 1: Comey goes into this, this this exchange over Flynn, and
Speaker 1: I hope you guys can let it go because he
Speaker 1: just got fired, etcetera, etcetera. He misled the president, but
Speaker 1: he didn't do anything wrong. He's a good guy. By
Speaker 1: the way, the same thing that the President said about
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and I didn't see. Call me concerned here,
Speaker 1: But anyway, I understood the President requesting we dropped. I
Speaker 1: understood the President of be requesting that we drop any
Speaker 1: investigation in connection with false statements about the conversations with
Speaker 1: the Russian ambassador, which by the way, was leaked intelligence,
Speaker 1: which was a felony. I did not understand the President
Speaker 1: to be talking about the broader investigation. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, but it was so concerning. Jay,
Speaker 1: given the FBI's role as an independent investigative agency, says
Speaker 1: that he met with his leadership team and they agreed
Speaker 1: not to infect the investigative team, which we intended to
Speaker 1: abide by, and we also concluded that given it was
Speaker 1: a one on one conversation, there was nothing available to
Speaker 1: corroborate my account. And then we concluded it made it
Speaker 1: no sense to report to the Attorney general role and
Speaker 1: we expect it would likely recuse himself and the Deputy
Speaker 1: attorney's role was then filled in an acting capacity, who
Speaker 1: could also not be long in that role. So after discussing,
Speaker 1: we decided that we weren't going to tell them. Is
Speaker 1: he saying that he thought that the president did something wrong,
Speaker 1: was concerned he did, and didn't report it because these
Speaker 1: people wouldn't be there long. Is that well, no, I think,
Speaker 1: looks John he's trying to James Cumby is trying to
Speaker 1: get it both ways, because if in fact he thought
Speaker 1: there was an obstruction issue, he had an affirmative obligation,
Speaker 1: not a maybe, not an if, not a contingency. He
Speaker 1: had an affirmative obligation under eighteen UFC for to walk
Speaker 1: across the street and tell the Department of Justice, I
Speaker 1: think there's something, uh the criminality here and report it.
Speaker 1: But then he says this in his statement, but it
Speaker 1: was only my word against basically the president's word, and
Speaker 1: that had no cooperation. So you know what, this is
Speaker 1: a big backful of nothing except he acknowledges the president
Speaker 1: did not intervene with with the Russian problem. Page specifically,
Speaker 1: which quote are you talking about? You look, you look
Speaker 1: at the whole Look at the page five, I think
Speaker 1: is the is the most telling. Okay, h five guys.
Speaker 1: I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about
Speaker 1: Flint and this custom matter with the SBI senior leadership.
Speaker 1: Had understood the President to be requesting to drop the investigation,
Speaker 1: which again, by the way, is predicated with I had understood,
Speaker 1: which obviously wasn't the case. So when you look at
Speaker 1: the entire thing, and then he did not understand that,
Speaker 1: of course, that this was to stop the Russia probe,
Speaker 1: which he acknowledges. So what is what did James Comey
Speaker 1: saying in his memorandum he had not shown to change
Speaker 1: commy do anything. Who initiated the first one on one
Speaker 1: conversation between the two men, James Comey? He conveyed this
Speaker 1: confidential information in Mr Trump, uh, and he made it
Speaker 1: clear he didn't want anyone else in the room and
Speaker 1: now Dald Trump is being a drag through the mud
Speaker 1: because he followed up and had additional one on one conversations.
Speaker 1: If the initial one, if the additional ones were so inappropriate,
Speaker 1: why did Comy allow the first one to take place?
Speaker 1: That's the one where Comy arguably should have had other
Speaker 1: people in the room instead. He wants to have it
Speaker 1: again both ways. It's okay for him to initiate one
Speaker 1: on one conversations to talk about ongoing counterintelligence investigations involving
Speaker 1: the president personally, but the president is not allowed to
Speaker 1: have any conversations with him and or initiate any conversations
Speaker 1: with him. This shows that President Trump was so right
Speaker 1: to fire this man, so right. But I but I
Speaker 1: find Comey's excuse for not reporting the conversations to his superiors,
Speaker 1: based on his description, weak and vacuous. And in other words,
Speaker 1: he said, he said it made little sense to tell
Speaker 1: him because they're they're leaving and he's gonna recuse himself
Speaker 1: and the next guy is not going to be there long,
Speaker 1: which showing it made little sense for them to tell
Speaker 1: him because there was nothing to tell. And if he
Speaker 1: would have walked across the street and said something, he'd
Speaker 1: be giving a false statement, so he would double his jeopardy.
Speaker 1: So that's why he didn't walk across the street, because
Speaker 1: there was nothing to tell. Basically, that's what his memo says.
Speaker 1: All right, let me go to um the hearings that
Speaker 1: took place today with national security heads. I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: a series of comments here. Mike Rodgers, the NSA director,
Speaker 1: testifying a Mark Warnery never was pressured to do anything
Speaker 1: illegal or moral, unethical, or inappropriate. And then you have
Speaker 1: Dan Coates, director of National Intelligence, says he was never pressured.
Speaker 1: And you know, let's start there, and Rogers, you draw
Speaker 1: a short strong I'm gonna start with you before we
Speaker 1: get to the substance of whether this call or request
Speaker 1: was made. He've had a very distinguished career close to
Speaker 1: forty years. In your experience, would it be in any
Speaker 1: way typical for a president to ask questions or bring
Speaker 1: up an ongoing FBI investigation, particularly if that investigation concerns
Speaker 1: associates and individuals that might be associated with the president's
Speaker 1: campaign or his activities. So today I am not going
Speaker 1: to talk about theoreticals. I am not going to discuss
Speaker 1: the specifics of any interaction or conversations I may and
Speaker 1: you could finished the police that I may or may
Speaker 1: not have had with the President of United States, but
Speaker 1: I will make the following comment. In the three plus
Speaker 1: years that I have been the Director of the National
Speaker 1: Security Agency, to the best of my recollection, I have
Speaker 1: never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical,
Speaker 1: or inappropriate. And to the best of my recollection, during
Speaker 1: that same period of service, I do not recall ever
Speaker 1: feeling pressured to do so. And then, secondly, UM, when
Speaker 1: I was asked yesterday to respond to a piece that
Speaker 1: I was told was going to be written and printed
Speaker 1: in the Washington Post this morning, my response to that was,
Speaker 1: in UM, my time of service, which is uh an
Speaker 1: interacting with the President of the United States or anybody
Speaker 1: in his administration, I have never been pressured. I have
Speaker 1: never felt pressure UH to intervene or interfere in any
Speaker 1: way and shape with shaping intelligence and employe aical way
Speaker 1: or um in relationship instigation. Now we'll go a step further.
Speaker 1: Rod Rosenstein, Dan Coates, Mike Rogers, admir Rodgers, Andrew mcgabe,
Speaker 1: the interim FBI director, testifying that no one from the
Speaker 1: White House has asked them to influence an investigation or
Speaker 1: let me ask this of everyone on this panel. Is
Speaker 1: anyone aware of any effort by anyone in the White
Speaker 1: House or elsewhere to seek advice on how to influence
Speaker 1: any investigation? My answer is absolutely no, Senator, no one
Speaker 1: has anything to add to that. I don't understand the question.
Speaker 1: The question is, are you aware of any efforts by
Speaker 1: anyone in the White House or the Executive Branch looking
Speaker 1: for advice from other members of the intelligence community about
Speaker 1: how to potentially influence an invigation? Can talk about meat though, No? Okay,
Speaker 1: who wants dance? I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand
Speaker 1: the question. But if you're asking whether we I'm aware
Speaker 1: of request to other people in the intelligence commune, and
Speaker 1: I am not seeking advice on how we could potentially
Speaker 1: influence someone, You're not aware of anyone ever saying or
Speaker 1: reporting that to you. Has anyone ever come forward and said,
Speaker 1: I just got a call from someone at the White
Speaker 1: House asking me what is the best way to influence
Speaker 1: someone on an investigation? Let's come. I've never received anything.
Speaker 1: I have no direct knowledge of such a call. An
Speaker 1: allegation made in one of the press reports. And that's
Speaker 1: why I asked on a separate tomple, I'm sorry, who
Speaker 1: does a confusion centery? We just want to make sure
Speaker 1: we're clear on the question that it answer is no,
Speaker 1: as I understand it, Jay, I mean, all of this
Speaker 1: does is reinforce everything that called me is. Can't everything
Speaker 1: Camey is saying, can't contradict that. Sean. Here's here's let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. When you read what you just played.
Speaker 1: So so far, no witness has come forward, Not one
Speaker 1: single witness has come forward to say that there's any
Speaker 1: information or evidence of a violation of the law. Right.
Speaker 1: That's number one. We've heard that from James Clapper. We've
Speaker 1: heard it from James Comy. Then we also have this
Speaker 1: in his testimony, and this is regarding the president being
Speaker 1: under investigation, and he says, I explained that we had
Speaker 1: briefed the leadership of Congress on exactly which individuals we
Speaker 1: were investigating, and that we had told those congressional leaders
Speaker 1: that we were not personally investigating President Trump. I reminded
Speaker 1: him that I had previously told him that. He repeatedly
Speaker 1: told me, we need to get that fact out. So
Speaker 1: there is the case. So we now have no obstruction
Speaker 1: of justice, we have no interference with the league, and
Speaker 1: we know that the president is not subject to it.
Speaker 1: Now is the mainstream meeting in a point that tonight,
Speaker 1: because that's the end right there? All right? And I
Speaker 1: do he'd be a witness against himself. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is an amazing thing. Isn't this also a case of
Speaker 1: he said, he said? And every instance and and call
Speaker 1: me at one point even acknowledges it. There's no way
Speaker 1: to corroborate in any of this. And the way the
Speaker 1: media has been reporting it all afternoon, and I've been
Speaker 1: watching this since it came out, is that every thing
Speaker 1: that that James Colemey, a bitter fired x FBI director
Speaker 1: who clearly hates the president, you can deceiving out of
Speaker 1: this letter, you know, is trying to write it up
Speaker 1: in novel form, clearly preparing for his book in a
Speaker 1: way that you know is as much as damaging without
Speaker 1: being able to be damaging. What's remarkable, Sewan, is that
Speaker 1: the President is right and is is being proven right
Speaker 1: repeatedly by Mr Comey. He was told three times he
Speaker 1: wasn't under investigation. You have the witnesses again confirming and Comey. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if he could have said that, he would have confirming
Speaker 1: that the President did not improperly pressure anybody related to
Speaker 1: any investigation. The President has said that, and he's been
Speaker 1: attacked for saying that. What today you may have heard
Speaker 1: the noise in Washington all the way up there in
Speaker 1: New York, but did you hear the hissing as the
Speaker 1: impeachment balloon deflating it ended? Let me tell you something
Speaker 1: that that's off the table. First of all, the person
Speaker 1: that better be watching what they're saying tomorrow is James
Speaker 1: call me. Okay, if I was his lawyer, you know
Speaker 1: what I tell him, don't do this. That's what I
Speaker 1: would tell him that. Well, because of the the the
Speaker 1: head fake on the head fakes on the you know,
Speaker 1: obstruction that he's been kind of saying, and he does
Speaker 1: this memo, but now he comes covers his his try
Speaker 1: to cover himself with the didn't walk across the street
Speaker 1: because I didn't think anybody would prosecute it because there's
Speaker 1: no cooberating evidence. And what do you what are you saying,
Speaker 1: James Colly? You know what you're saying. You were afraid
Speaker 1: to walk across the street because you'd be lying to
Speaker 1: an FBI, uh to a do O J official, and
Speaker 1: they may put you under oath. So he's under oath tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He better be really, really careful because so far, all
Speaker 1: he's he's established three things. One President of the United
Speaker 1: States to not obstruct the investigation into Russia. Number two,
Speaker 1: that that the president is not, has not been, and
Speaker 1: is not a target of the investigation. And number three
Speaker 1: when you read the loyalty thing, yeah, I want an
Speaker 1: FBI director that's loyal to the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 1: And it's a completely self serving document, including his description
Speaker 1: of the of the drapes. What do you think ordinating
Speaker 1: we called me on this testimony and seemingly approving it beforehand.
Speaker 1: It's rather unusual, don't you think, Well, listen, coordinating it
Speaker 1: with it in the fact that the witnesses coordinating your
Speaker 1: testimony with the special counsel. I mean, you think that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. I sure don't. And then yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's unusual. Oh my gosh, So this is his
Speaker 1: best Yeah, so this is this is his best case.
Speaker 1: So there's nothing there that I don't think they should
Speaker 1: If this is what they've got, don't waste the taxpayer's money.
Speaker 1: But that's what this is. They waste the taxpayer money. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they have to investigate Paul Paul manaforts mortgages up in
Speaker 1: Long Island. Yeah, because I really care about that special counsel.
Speaker 1: At the same time, unbelievable day. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: thank you both. J You're gonna be on tonight on Hannity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll have you and Haraldo and Sarah Carter are joining us,
Speaker 1: and Herman Kane joins us. And uh way do you
Speaker 1: see this Piers Morgan confrontation with the Mayor of London. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'll get to all of that. That's ten Eastern tonight,
Speaker 1: Hannity on the Fox News Channel. We'll take a quick
Speaker 1: break here, we'll come back, will continue on. Shawn is
Speaker 1: our number at the time. Let me ask both of you,
Speaker 1: has anyone ever asked you, now or in the past,
Speaker 1: this administration or any administration to issue a statement that
Speaker 1: you knew to be false? For me, I stand by
Speaker 1: my previous statement. I've never been directed to do anything
Speaker 1: in the course of my three plus years of director
Speaker 1: the National Strip Directors asked that I felt to be inappropriate,
Speaker 1: nor have I felt pressured to do so. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been asked to say something that isn't true? I
Speaker 1: stand by my previous statements, Sir, Director Coach, how I
Speaker 1: do Likewise, well, let me ask this of everyone on
Speaker 1: this panel. Is anyone aware of any effort by anyone
Speaker 1: in the White House or elsewhere to seek advice on
Speaker 1: how to influence any investigation? My answer is absolutely no, Senator,
Speaker 1: No one has anything to add to that. I don't
Speaker 1: understand the question. If the question is, are you aware
Speaker 1: of any efforts by anyone in the White House or
Speaker 1: the Executive Branch looking for advice from other members of
Speaker 1: the intelligence community about how to potentially influence an investigation
Speaker 1: and talking about me? No. If someone is to use
Speaker 1: the unmasking process for a political purpose, is that potentially
Speaker 1: a crime? Yet, Senator and Director um McKay perhaps or
Speaker 1: Deputy Attorney General rosen Stein. For somebody to leak the
Speaker 1: name of an American citizen that is unmasked in the
Speaker 1: course of incidental collection, to leak that classified information, is
Speaker 1: that also potentially a crime? Yes? I think that's the
Speaker 1: most significant point, Senator. I think it's important for people
Speaker 1: to understand unmasking is done in the course of ordinary,
Speaker 1: legitimate intelligence gathering, when the identity of the person on
Speaker 1: the other end of the phone there into the message
Speaker 1: may be relevant to understand the intelligence significance of the communication.
Speaker 1: Leaking is a completely different matter. Leaking is a crime
Speaker 1: disclosing information to somebody without a legitimate purpose need to
Speaker 1: know that information that will be prosecuted in appropriate circumstances.
Speaker 1: All right, so there's Rubio as any administration official asked
Speaker 1: you to make a false statement? No, cornin to Rosenstein.
Speaker 1: Is it illegal to leak unmasked names? Yeah, that's kind
Speaker 1: of illegal. We've got full complete coverage Hannity tonight ten
Speaker 1: eastern on the Fox News Channel. Don't miss our coverage.
Speaker 1: Jay Seculo, Haraldo Rivera will also check in with Greg
Speaker 1: Charity has been great on discovering the law and what
Speaker 1: what Comey was supposed to do with eighteen USC four.
Speaker 1: And we will have also joining us Sarah Carter from
Speaker 1: Circuit News. And then where do you see or we'll
Speaker 1: show you pures Morgan beating the crap out of the
Speaker 1: London mayor well, where are the people from Great Britain
Speaker 1: who went to Syria to fight with ISS that came
Speaker 1: back I don't know, really good grief. Ten Eastern tonight
Speaker 1: will continue. You are mayor of the capital city where
Speaker 1: the most recent terrorist attack has taken place. How many
Speaker 1: of those four hundred have come back to London that
Speaker 1: the estimate is just over half. Where are they when
Speaker 1: you look at well, when you look at the letting
Speaker 1: people back in to the UK who have who haven't
Speaker 1: just been trained, they've actually fought potentially against our troops.
Speaker 1: How are we letting them back in without knowing exactly
Speaker 1: where they are and what they're up to. Because out
Speaker 1: of all the thousands of people that were concerned about,
Speaker 1: surely those who have actually gone to fight are the
Speaker 1: biggest risk. That's one of the reasons why it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense for the government to be cutting resources from those. Rather,
Speaker 1: you're the mayor of this I can't follow people. What
Speaker 1: I can do is make sure posses because what we
Speaker 1: can do those make sure that the resources for the
Speaker 1: police and the experts. You instruct the police. Why can't
Speaker 1: you call president right now and say, every one of
Speaker 1: those people come back from a war zone, who's in London?
Speaker 1: Let me I want them followed. Let me see why.
Speaker 1: Because the Met Police budget roughly speaking, is funded by
Speaker 1: me the mayor. The rest comes from central government. If
Speaker 1: the Met Police budget is being shrunk and reduced, they've
Speaker 1: got to prioritize and use their resources in a sensible saving.
Speaker 1: It could be a bigger priority than people coming back
Speaker 1: from a Syrian battlefield with intent to harm British citizens.
Speaker 1: Why is it not the number one priority? Why are
Speaker 1: these people just allowed to come back in in the
Speaker 1: first place? And then the London mayor doesn't appear to
Speaker 1: ever Cloe running of Mark, I mean no disrespect to you,
Speaker 1: but where are they Well that's one of the questions
Speaker 1: that obviously the police security services are But this this,
Speaker 1: but this chap, you're the mayor of luve share of
Speaker 1: the three men responsibly attack on Saturday night hadn't come
Speaker 1: from overseas. They were, for all attain purposes, integrated into
Speaker 1: our way life. Well, look he did remember them. He's
Speaker 1: you know, as we know, if you're whack him, he
Speaker 1: whacks your back, and he's whacked your back. Putting aside
Speaker 1: the Twitter spat and everything else, and in my view,
Speaker 1: his ill advised tweets this week was a lot the
Speaker 1: right time to do it. But Donald Trump's whole position
Speaker 1: on this has been that we are all at risk
Speaker 1: from Islamist extremists who want to kill us, and he
Speaker 1: has come up with endless ways he's suggesting of trying
Speaker 1: to stop this. Right. You may not agree with them,
Speaker 1: but that's where he's coming from. After what's been happening
Speaker 1: in London and Manchester. Has Trump not got a point?
Speaker 1: Is he not allowed as president United States to say,
Speaker 1: wake up, everybody, we are under attack. We're in a
Speaker 1: war here. I think I've been very generous to Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I'm not actually reflecting I think what he would say
Speaker 1: he was here. Let me tell you what I was
Speaker 1: commented on when I said he was ignorant the I
Speaker 1: at the time when he was a candidate of abandon
Speaker 1: all Muslims from going to the USA, and I made
Speaker 1: the point that he's to use ignorant. Why they're ignorant
Speaker 1: because there are literally millions of Americans born and raised
Speaker 1: in America who love their country and who are practicing Muslims.
Speaker 1: But also there are millions of US clings around the
Speaker 1: world who love America, me included, who love Americans, who
Speaker 1: have got family in America, and to play into the
Speaker 1: so called isis and dish narrative that Western liberal values
Speaker 1: incompared on with Islam is ignorant. But for a lot
Speaker 1: of people in this country right now, they will be
Speaker 1: thinking that. For a lot of British Muslims, we don't
Speaker 1: know how many. We know there's twenty three thousand Jaddy
Speaker 1: suspects right A lot of them have not assimilated into
Speaker 1: the Western values and culture and actually wishes harm. And
Speaker 1: that is where Trump's coming from. He might be clumsy
Speaker 1: in the way he phrases it, and he might be
Speaker 1: offensive in some of his tweeting, but that's where he
Speaker 1: comes from. I can tell you I've spent the last
Speaker 1: prove months in this job, foremants, in this job speaking
Speaker 1: to all sorts of people, not just leaders organizations, about
Speaker 1: ordinary rank and file citizens are of Muslim faith. And
Speaker 1: that's what and that's what and that's what and that's
Speaker 1: what good government's about, is engaged in all stakeholders. Now
Speaker 1: you can talk about articles in the newspapers about what
Speaker 1: one organa you may get. The point is is that
Speaker 1: you can't just pick and choose who you speak to.
Speaker 1: You can't just speak to Uncle Tom's. You can't just
Speaker 1: speak to people who will say what you want to
Speaker 1: what you want them to hear. But I can assure
Speaker 1: you and you can speach governmentisters who will tell you
Speaker 1: the hot time they got talking to ordinary British citizens,
Speaker 1: Muslim faith, British groups or Muslim faith. And I can
Speaker 1: see you needing all of them a critical friend, and
Speaker 1: I willing to say how it is all right? What
Speaker 1: an incredible exchange now, that was between Piers Morgan and
Speaker 1: the Mayor of London, who had made some really insane,
Speaker 1: ridiculous statements after the attack on London Bridge the other day. Literally,
Speaker 1: London is safe, okay, unless you're one of the people
Speaker 1: that was killed or severely injured on London Bridge and
Speaker 1: the surrounding areas where the mall and the pub are.
Speaker 1: I guess it's not so safe for those people, just
Speaker 1: like you said, well this, you know, radical Islamly it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be in our future, just the way of life.
Speaker 1: And Piers Morgan was talking specifically about okay, so all
Speaker 1: these these people from Great Britain, they go and they
Speaker 1: fight with Syria for ices and you're letting them back
Speaker 1: and you don't know where the hell they are. I mean,
Speaker 1: you add to this everything we now know, you know,
Speaker 1: jee Hottis you know living next store a documentary with
Speaker 1: one of the terrorists with the black flag of Isis
Speaker 1: and talking about Shariah coming to ten Downing Street and
Speaker 1: and and praising Allahu at bars he it bends down
Speaker 1: in so called prayer. And you've got to ask, Okay,
Speaker 1: we spent all this money on intelligence to find the
Speaker 1: people that might potentially be involved in terror, Well then
Speaker 1: why didn't we do the simple things like find the
Speaker 1: people in the documentary that we're singing praises of Isis
Speaker 1: and throw them the hell out? Is that so hard
Speaker 1: to do? And we find out Italian you know, secret
Speaker 1: services that they had they understood one of the other
Speaker 1: and had background on one of the other terrorists. Unbelievably
Speaker 1: unresponsive and and frankly bordering on recklessness and care carelessness
Speaker 1: by government in this case the mayor of London. By
Speaker 1: the way, if the U. S Embassy in London is
Speaker 1: on a lockdown him at a bomb threat. You know,
Speaker 1: I always like to have her on for fun, but
Speaker 1: I never seemed to be able to. Katie Hopkins is
Speaker 1: with us, the Gabby one from Great Britain, our friend
Speaker 1: of the Daily Mail. How are you. I'm well, thank you, Yes,
Speaker 1: you're right. It's some the new US embassy that's just
Speaker 1: being built uh in and it's it's yet to have
Speaker 1: people moved in. But they've just had a controlled explosions.
Speaker 1: Their buildings on lockdown. There's a perimeter fence set up
Speaker 1: and the met Police and the Fire services are on standby.
Speaker 1: But they're saying now that the vehicles that they had
Speaker 1: suspected had turned out to be harmless. But there was
Speaker 1: some kind of controlled explosion there. Um. And that's just
Speaker 1: off the back of a stabbing that just happened earlier
Speaker 1: this afternoon. I was just walking through the area. Um,
Speaker 1: a lady who works in a kindergarten with small children. Obviously,
Speaker 1: she was crossing the road attacked from behind by three women. Um.
Speaker 1: Not to the groundbreaker. Ribs stabbed repeatedly with Stanley lives
Speaker 1: in the name of Allah, and the London Sorsi's have
Speaker 1: just announced that that was not an act of terror. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: What did you make. I gotta be honest, I've come
Speaker 1: to really I used to compete against Piers Moore. Well
Speaker 1: it really wasn't much of a competition. Next time you
Speaker 1: see him, tell him I said that, But I really
Speaker 1: like I like this guy. I mean, the dumbest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in the history of television is a
Speaker 1: brit coming to America and lecturing Americans on their love
Speaker 1: of the Second Amendment in firearms. It wasn't exactly brilliant
Speaker 1: ratings gathering television for him, but I know he was
Speaker 1: following his heart, so I respect him. Um, but I
Speaker 1: think that he is a really iconic, clastic and and
Speaker 1: of fun in an abrasive way, agitator, and I like
Speaker 1: people like that. He's a fighter and what he did
Speaker 1: with the London Mayor was pretty spectacular. Yeah, he is
Speaker 1: doing a great job. And to be honest with you, Sean,
Speaker 1: you know, very often Piers and I, you know, we're
Speaker 1: brother and sister on the same newspaper, and we are
Speaker 1: usually at each other's throats for a variety of things.
Speaker 1: But I started my him this week with exactly that
Speaker 1: same line. You know that. I would never thought I
Speaker 1: would say this, but Piers Morgan is doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 1: He is, and he's starting to feel like the last
Speaker 1: voice of the regular punter looking at people just asking
Speaker 1: those very basic questions that we cannot understand how we
Speaker 1: are letting our country just go down the plug hole
Speaker 1: do nothing about it. And it's almost laughable, Sean, to
Speaker 1: think if it weren't so tragic. You know that there
Speaker 1: was a documentary called The Hardy next Door that the
Speaker 1: last attack of for London Bridge checked in at an airport.
Speaker 1: Asked for the reason for his travel, he said, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go and be a terrorist. I mean, you
Speaker 1: don't need intelligence, do you to work out what their
Speaker 1: role is in life? You know? I mean, it's so
Speaker 1: sad to me that these deaths, many of them, could
Speaker 1: have been prevented if you didn't have Did you ever
Speaker 1: watch the documentary g hadd He's living next Door? It's like,
Speaker 1: I could. I can't watch that sort of thing. It
Speaker 1: just winds me up, Sean. I end that taking. But
Speaker 1: my understanding is Katie, that it was on television for
Speaker 1: like a year? Is that true? Oh yes, oh yes,
Speaker 1: And actually quietly, well they hoped quietly, they only just
Speaker 1: took it off Netflix. It was still on Netflix, available
Speaker 1: for viewing until about two hours after they found out
Speaker 1: who this guy was, So it was still there right
Speaker 1: until a couple of days ago. Widely available for viewing.
Speaker 1: These guys with their ISIS flag in the middle of
Speaker 1: a London park, praying, celebrating Isis. That was all seen
Speaker 1: as okay. But what we've got a lot of today
Speaker 1: coming out from the Metropolitan Police is a push on
Speaker 1: hate crime. That they were encouraging people to report any
Speaker 1: hate against them if they are from a Muslim or
Speaker 1: Islamic faith. Yeah, well either. It seems to me that
Speaker 1: at some point that government bears the responsibility of their
Speaker 1: bad decisions. You know, can we say that the government
Speaker 1: of Great Britain bears some responsibility and not throwing the
Speaker 1: is his flag, worshiping allaho ark bar radical Islamist out
Speaker 1: of the country before he went on this rampage on
Speaker 1: London Bridge and surrounding areas. Absolutely, you'd hope so. But
Speaker 1: the curious thing for us Sean is we're just about
Speaker 1: to as you know, tomorrow, we've got our elections. Got
Speaker 1: lots of emails in my inbox on people saying, Katie,
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? Who am I supposed
Speaker 1: to vote for? Corbin is a sympathize with the Ira
Speaker 1: Hammas and largely sides with the civil liberties of terrorists
Speaker 1: and then we've got to reason may who was the
Speaker 1: in charge of the Home Office at the time that
Speaker 1: these cuts were made, cuts to the intelligence services, and
Speaker 1: she was the one that decided terrorists, suspected terrorists shouldn't
Speaker 1: be on lockdown in their homes. They should be allowed
Speaker 1: to roam free, they should be allowed to go wherever
Speaker 1: they want, and they should be allowed access to the Internet.
Speaker 1: So people are faced with this sort of not wanting
Speaker 1: to vote for anybody because they don't want to reinforce anyone,
Speaker 1: because no one's standing up for the things we need
Speaker 1: to hear right now, All right, right there, Kitty Hopkins,
Speaker 1: our friend the gobbi one from the Daily Mail. Right
Speaker 1: as we continue, the Mayor of London confronted on morning television,
Speaker 1: but Piers Morgan, who did a fabulous job. All these
Speaker 1: fighters go from Great Britain and they fight with ISIS
Speaker 1: and Syria and then they come back to the country
Speaker 1: and the Mayor of London is clueless and has no
Speaker 1: idea where they are now, on top of the fact
Speaker 1: that they had jihadi's living next door. A documentary where
Speaker 1: you have one of the terrorists involved in the London
Speaker 1: Bridge knife attack car attack and and he was literally
Speaker 1: on television for a year worshiping the Isis flag and
Speaker 1: saying Allahu Akbar and saying that great Britain is gonna
Speaker 1: live under Shariah ten Downing Street, and Katie Hopkins and
Speaker 1: I are just scratching our our wooden conservative heads here together,
Speaker 1: saying how could we be so dumb? It's a question
Speaker 1: everybody's asking and no one's got an answer to. And
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that's really been reinforced
Speaker 1: in the last couple of days, Sean, is this sense
Speaker 1: that we live in two countries here in the UK.
Speaker 1: There's a country called the rest of the UK, and
Speaker 1: then there's a country, a dark place called London, where
Speaker 1: the people live that voted that wanted to remain in
Speaker 1: the EU, that are under the governance of the mayor,
Speaker 1: the mayor who was sworn in on a Koran, the
Speaker 1: mayor who was the consultant legal representative for a nine
Speaker 1: eleven bomber. You know, there's London, London is stand as
Speaker 1: I like to refer to it, and then there's the
Speaker 1: rest of the UK. And I think the problem is
Speaker 1: the rest of the UK doesn't feel it has a voice.
Speaker 1: I mean, apart from Peers who did a great job
Speaker 1: of helping articulate the frustration that so many feel. How
Speaker 1: is this going to impact the elections on Thursday. I
Speaker 1: think in terms of where we sit with the elections,
Speaker 1: Theresa May the Conservative Party will come out ahead because
Speaker 1: of of the two parties that you could vote for,
Speaker 1: the Labor Party and the Conservatives. Conservatives do feel somewhat
Speaker 1: more reassuring. The Labor Party just put its own Home secretary,
Speaker 1: so the shadow Home Secretary on their kind of what
Speaker 1: would you say, sick leaves because she's had so many
Speaker 1: catastrophic TV interviews they can't risk her being on TV anymore.
Speaker 1: The Labor Party then decided to place replace the woman
Speaker 1: who would have been in charge of our defense at
Speaker 1: a time of acute terror in the UK with a
Speaker 1: woman who kicked and pushed a blind man out the
Speaker 1: way in the House of Commons and swat at his
Speaker 1: guide dog. So I'm not sure the Labor Party are
Speaker 1: having the best campaign and I think Theresa will win
Speaker 1: almost by default. But also that's frustrating Grexit here. I
Speaker 1: watched her get a little tougher on terror over the weekend.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, I think it was and She made comments
Speaker 1: that seem reassuring, but her actions shall otherwise, don't they, Yes,
Speaker 1: they do. You know she stood outside that door of
Speaker 1: number ten. She said enough is enough, and I was
Speaker 1: hopeful for a moment. You know, a moment is time.
Speaker 1: I looked up at the TV and I thought, here
Speaker 1: she goes, we're gonna round up the three Thouns and
Speaker 1: we're gonna hunt down the six fifty g Hardy's returned.
Speaker 1: We're gonna shut down Saudy funded mosques. That's what I
Speaker 1: thought I was going to hear. But no, she's going
Speaker 1: to have a look at how she can get large
Speaker 1: courts to have more control of their internet service provision
Speaker 1: for Hardy's. You know, that's not sufficient. So she will
Speaker 1: win by default, and she will win off the back
Speaker 1: of breakit brexiteers who want Brexit. But I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of distrust that she's ever going to do
Speaker 1: what she says she's going to do, because there's been
Speaker 1: so many U turns during her campaign. All right, Katie Hapkins,
Speaker 1: I wish we could have you back on and have
Speaker 1: more fun with you like we usually do, but we will.
Speaker 1: There will come a time, and I also want to
Speaker 1: find out how much trouble you get in every day
Speaker 1: every time I read about you in Great Britain. You're
Speaker 1: under controversy for something. I mean, do you ever live
Speaker 1: a day not being under fire? Ever? I think we
Speaker 1: all just have to get broad shoulders, don't we? And
Speaker 1: I think you know you have you been reading about me?
Speaker 1: What do you think we're living through? Well? Indeed, Darling,
Speaker 1: I stand with you. We started Darling. Thank you all right,
Speaker 1: Garby won my darling, God bless you all right. Katie Hopkins,
Speaker 1: thank you. When we come back, wide open telephone, she
Speaker 1: cracks me up. Quick break right back. It's the Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity Show coming up next. Our fake It was round up.
Speaker 1: Apparently the president gets two scoops. You know, everyone around
Speaker 1: around the table gets one. Uh I no word if
Speaker 1: there were sprinkles at the dessert course. He gets two
Speaker 1: scoops of a no ice cream with his chocolate cream
Speaker 1: pie and of the single scoop for everyone else. I
Speaker 1: would be remiss if I did not ask you both
Speaker 1: about the hand swat scene around the world. It wasn't
Speaker 1: even a complete sentence tweeted out by President Trump just
Speaker 1: after midnight. Despite the constant negative press. What's that word?
Speaker 1: Koffifi fest koffifi cosmfefy professionals could only guess at how
Speaker 1: to pronounce it. We're pretty sure the President meant to
Speaker 1: type negative press coverage, but the koffe tweet stayed up
Speaker 1: for almost six hours. A case of chivalry or a phobia?
Speaker 1: A theory about why President Trump grabbed the British a
Speaker 1: minister's hand now getting the phones down. Sanon's Genie most
Speaker 1: explains all this, Whether it be not shaking the German
Speaker 1: Chancellor's hand or clutching the hand of Britain's Prime Minister,
Speaker 1: President Trump's hands seemed to end up in headlots. For instance,
Speaker 1: the BBC headline donald Trump is scared of stairs scarecase
Speaker 1: shortly won British paper back when President Trump took Prime
Speaker 1: Minister May his hand as they navigated a ramp at
Speaker 1: the White House. Fatm phobia a fear of ramps and stairs,
Speaker 1: really watching a step coming down the stairs of the Capital,
Speaker 1: even while climbing just a couple of steps at the
Speaker 1: White House, coming off his plane, eyes on his feet,
Speaker 1: clutching the railing when asked if the President has fear
Speaker 1: of stairs, a White House spokesperson said, no offense, but
Speaker 1: this is an absurd question. The growing Russian investigation seemed
Speaker 1: to be taking toll and President Trump, according to sources
Speaker 1: who speak with him and in a general way, they
Speaker 1: say being president is not agreeing with the president. He's
Speaker 1: gains weight. According to these sources, he doesn't trust people
Speaker 1: around him. He's withdrawing. Not a good picture. It's the
Speaker 1: one being painted by those sources for the first time
Speaker 1: in four years. The script's national spelling b has a
Speaker 1: solo champion twelve year old and none Yea then wins
Speaker 1: the championship trophy at a dollar first prize, and a
Speaker 1: nonven a joins us. Now, congratulations, So Ananya, we have
Speaker 1: a challenge for you. We'd like you to spell a word.
Speaker 1: It has recently become popular. Not sure if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with it or if you know the definition. Do you
Speaker 1: know the word coffe? Definition? Please? The definition is a
Speaker 1: non sech word made up by the President of the
Speaker 1: United States in a late night tweet. Language of a
Speaker 1: language of our gibberish. Yeah, CNN, fake news in this
Speaker 1: lab Where were you yesterday? By the way, poor Sunshine said,
Speaker 1: come on, let's move, and she looks at me with
Speaker 1: the daggers in her eyes like I had said the
Speaker 1: worst thing in the world to her. Um there, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm just waiting until I can. You just
Speaker 1: for attacking my people, but go ahead continue. I can't wait. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I was very nice shift. Oh no you weren't. No
Speaker 1: you weren't. Uh yeah I was. No, no no. When
Speaker 1: I'm not here, I know what goes on. Okay, because
Speaker 1: I when the cats away to Mike, come are the
Speaker 1: words I said, come on, come on, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: come on. That's what I said. Let's go, go to go,
Speaker 1: Let's go. But that's how I always am. And you mean,
Speaker 1: like how I talked to you when you're on your
Speaker 1: when you're called to me when I'm doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. So I don't know if you saw you
Speaker 1: saw my tweet. I think it was one of the
Speaker 1: best tweets I've ever put out in my humble opinion.
Speaker 1: And so CNN got caught staging this protest in London
Speaker 1: and just see the the images. It goes on for
Speaker 1: two nine minutes. You got this producer right, and he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is where you stand, and then he takes one
Speaker 1: of the one of the protest signs with the placards,
Speaker 1: and he holds it up and then you hold it
Speaker 1: up at its levels so we can actually see your face.
Speaker 1: Two and children in front, and you can like see
Speaker 1: it's all being directed places everybody place to take a
Speaker 1: pace that they are the children stop moving, stop moving,
Speaker 1: No fidgety, no fidgety, and then you know they're sorry.
Speaker 1: Ready fake news three to one action? Did you see?
Speaker 1: It's the greatest thing. I feel so bad for the kid.
Speaker 1: This poor kid is like being like, you know, dragged around.
Speaker 1: It's like, shouldn't he be in school or doing something
Speaker 1: productive with his life? Staging fake news? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very funny. If it's not so sad,
Speaker 1: it's pathetic. It's pathetic. And and I see poor Morning
Speaker 1: Joe called the president of schmuck today and that's the
Speaker 1: great coverage you get over at the MSNBC. That's what
Speaker 1: Mika gave him permission to say today. So well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think you like my tweet when I suggested
Speaker 1: that I'm wondering if every inquiring mine wants to know
Speaker 1: if they hold hands underneath the desk. I mean, I
Speaker 1: thought the Saturday Night Live piece on them one, I
Speaker 1: think it's more like Shackles. I'll be listen, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I even tweeted out congratulation, trying to be nice, not
Speaker 1: have a not have a fight with anybody, and you know,
Speaker 1: but then he they started and then this guy, remember
Speaker 1: he sucked up to Obama, was doing the show at
Speaker 1: the Obama White House. Alright, no real conservative got near
Speaker 1: the Obama White House. So I call him liberal Joe,
Speaker 1: and nobody really watches his show, and he calls me.
Speaker 1: He called me comrade, and I started laughing. I'm like,
Speaker 1: and he says, I'm envious and jealous. I said, there's
Speaker 1: so much to be envious and jealous. I'm like, Joe, No,
Speaker 1: I said, well, if anyone's jealous here, you're the guy
Speaker 1: that kept calling over begging Fox News for years to
Speaker 1: hire him, and everybody seems to forget. I ran him
Speaker 1: out of the nine pm time slot when he was
Speaker 1: up against us. I mean, he got like a zero
Speaker 1: point four every night and we're getting two shares. And
Speaker 1: that's you know, I don't know, should be fighting, you know,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't. You should pity him because he's going to
Speaker 1: spend the rest of his life with Mika. That's not nice.
Speaker 1: I can say that. I'm allowed. No, that's my first time. Listen,
Speaker 1: she does have the they together have these I guess
Speaker 1: emotional meltdowns that together, which is bizarre to me. So
Speaker 1: that the couple, the couple that cries together, stays together.
Speaker 1: Are you done? Because that breaks down together stays together.
Speaker 1: You can't support President Trump, right boy, because he's all
Speaker 1: sucked out from sucking up to Obama for eight years.
Speaker 1: He's puckered out, He's done, it's got nothing left. Okay,
Speaker 1: eight one Sean, if you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program, all right, let's go to Jefferson Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: New York on the All New A M seven ten
Speaker 1: w o R. The Talk on New York, the Talk
Speaker 1: of New York and New Joysey and Long Island. What's happening,
Speaker 1: big Jeff? How you doing? I haven't spoke to you
Speaker 1: since the election. Yeah, it's been a what's going on?
Speaker 1: I sat back and I observed, thank God for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and thank God for a fighting like you. We
Speaker 1: wouldn't have any chance. I mean, we put in all Congress,
Speaker 1: we put in the Senate, we put it for We've
Speaker 1: been fighting, like I'm here in New York City where
Speaker 1: it's like ninety two. Set the opposite, and I fought
Speaker 1: the good fight. I fighted my business. We find at
Speaker 1: home on my kids go to professors, tell him the
Speaker 1: opposite in school, and we keep going. But to see
Speaker 1: to be public can never fight back. I mean, if
Speaker 1: if if there's any fault, it's them, it's not Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants to push tax wants to push Obamaca,
Speaker 1: wants to push who comes into our country, who comes
Speaker 1: across our border. They're not doing it. What's gonna happen
Speaker 1: is I'll stay with Trump as far as we could go,
Speaker 1: right to the end, and if he's no longer yet,
Speaker 1: well yet from now, if it doesn't happen that way,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody stuck back in that following Republican
Speaker 1: because what's the difference if you have all three branches
Speaker 1: and you do nothing with it. Nothing. Listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest. I am so disappointed in so many of
Speaker 1: the Republicans now. I saw the Freedom Call because is
Speaker 1: saying no August recess, and I hope Ryan and the
Speaker 1: leadership take their cues from from by the way that
Speaker 1: we've got the I want to get back to the
Speaker 1: FBI director's opening remarks, but I'm just telling you right
Speaker 1: now this is really really important to me. Um. I
Speaker 1: want the agenda accomplished. You know, remember the forgotten men
Speaker 1: and women that nobody in d C. Or Hollywood or
Speaker 1: or you know, the New York elite or the Hollywood
Speaker 1: San Francisco elite seemed to give a rip about, you know,
Speaker 1: but the people in Wisconsin and Chicken in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Florida that need work and need jobs and
Speaker 1: need an economy moving. And you know, these people are
Speaker 1: suffering all of this nonsense that's going on that we
Speaker 1: see in the weakness of Republicans. Remember I said, there
Speaker 1: are four groups of people trying to hurt the president.
Speaker 1: You've got the deep state, You've got Democrats, You've got weak,
Speaker 1: pathetic Republicans obviously, the destroy Trump media. And then you've
Speaker 1: got the never trumpers that are are begging for relevance
Speaker 1: once again in their lives and and they so desperately
Speaker 1: want to say people like you and me were wrong
Speaker 1: and that we had it wrong. So I just want
Speaker 1: the country fixed. Honestly, I want the agenda fulfilled. I
Speaker 1: want these guys to do their freaking job. You know,
Speaker 1: I was talking to Linda just seconds ago about you know,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, let's go. Do I have felt?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, let's go, let's go my whole life.
Speaker 1: I remember one day I was framing a house, framing
Speaker 1: houses with this contractor guy, and there was a foreman
Speaker 1: on the job. And you know, we had spike sixteen
Speaker 1: n inch nails and they didn't have the nail guns
Speaker 1: like they do today, and he wanted that. He wanted
Speaker 1: that's sixteen inch now on three shots with a sixteen
Speaker 1: ounce hammer that I had, and if I took four,
Speaker 1: he was pissed. He'd sit there counting, like you know,
Speaker 1: standing over and just shut up. I used to say, though,
Speaker 1: I'm going as fast as I can, and I'd be moving.
Speaker 1: And that's how we worked to a certain sense of urgency. Congress.
Speaker 1: We've got a month vacation, we got a Memorial Day week,
Speaker 1: all this week off, we got this week. I'm like,
Speaker 1: go to go work. Well, we need to meet. We're
Speaker 1: our constituents. No, your constituents want you to work and
Speaker 1: or or don't work. And just get out of the
Speaker 1: way and let Trump do his job. That's frustrating. All right,
Speaker 1: eight show. Well, all right, we'll stay in New York
Speaker 1: with Mike and Brooklyn, New York. How are you, Mike?
Speaker 1: What's going on? So? My father grew up in bed style?
Speaker 1: What's happening? You're a great American. I appreciate all you're
Speaker 1: doing fighting for Trump because nobody else really is fighting
Speaker 1: as hard as you are. So and I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I disagree with you. You need to fight with Joe.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys you need to pick a fight
Speaker 1: with you, and you need to make it as public
Speaker 1: as possible. But all right, well I'm doing it and
Speaker 1: on Twitter today and I'm doing it on TV tonight.
Speaker 1: So I'm not. I don't back down from anybody. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I will fight anybody because I don't hear
Speaker 1: what those people think of me. He does. He desperately
Speaker 1: wants to be loved by that media establishment. Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: But you know the thing that really bothers me, Sean
Speaker 1: is I play a game every day. I go on
Speaker 1: to Fox News, and I go on to see an
Speaker 1: n dot com, and I compare the headlines and I
Speaker 1: compare what you know each news organization considers news, and
Speaker 1: it's a really interesting game. Really. I wish we weren't
Speaker 1: losing you here. We're losing you, Mike. Let's uh, let
Speaker 1: me put you on hold. It's Mike Kristen and Oklahoma
Speaker 1: will bring Mike back if we can. What's up, Kristen?
Speaker 1: How are you glad you called? I'm good. How are
Speaker 1: you sewing? I'm good? What's going on? Well? I will
Speaker 1: take up a lot of your time, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to let you know that my husband I love
Speaker 1: you so much. I didn't watch the news or anything.
Speaker 1: And my husband was like, because all the negativity and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And my husband was like, you need
Speaker 1: to watch Hannity. You need to listen to him because
Speaker 1: he tells the truth. He's awesome. So I started listening
Speaker 1: to you, and I get so excited to hear you
Speaker 1: every day fighting for our country, telling the truth, staying
Speaker 1: in that for Trump. We love it. We just love
Speaker 1: you in Oklahoma. Listen. I I really respect. I loved
Speaker 1: what I do, but I respect where this microphone comes from,
Speaker 1: and that's from people like you. And I look, I
Speaker 1: know we are not the average person in the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: We do forge our own path here, and we do
Speaker 1: our own background and investigative work, and we make our
Speaker 1: own phone calls here. And we're in a very different path. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's perpendicular to the the average parallel path that
Speaker 1: every news media organization. You know, they regurgitate each other,
Speaker 1: and you know, going against the grain like that, we've
Speaker 1: made a lot of enemies and and you make this
Speaker 1: show possible and and we're getting I think a lot
Speaker 1: more work completed than they could have a dream of.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm proud that you give me this mic
Speaker 1: every day and I'm gonna keep working hard. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. It's horrible what they're doing to you,
Speaker 1: try to silence you, and it's wrong. We we have
Speaker 1: a voice too, and you you tell it lack it
Speaker 1: is on the air and me and my husband screamed
Speaker 1: at the radio when you know, when you know, people
Speaker 1: come on there and start fashion Trump in our country
Speaker 1: and it's just horrible. But we want you to know
Speaker 1: that we love you here in Oklahoma and we stayed
Speaker 1: by you, and you're thank you, thank you. I and
Speaker 1: I've been to Oklahoma many many times. Norman, Oklahoma, city
Speaker 1: and I love it, and I love the first thing
Speaker 1: you see when you get off of oil fields and
Speaker 1: and oil oil pumps running. I'm like, good the lifeblood
Speaker 1: of our economy. People are making money in Oklahoma. Good
Speaker 1: for them. I even stopped by actually looked at the
Speaker 1: damage after the tornado was more More Oklahoma or what
Speaker 1: was the name of the team, It was More. It
Speaker 1: broke my heart and you could literally see I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: you could just see the damage. It was so devastating
Speaker 1: and it was like you could see the line whether
Speaker 1: tornado went and it was so heartbreaking. I was really
Speaker 1: glad to hear that that Toby Keith did a concert
Speaker 1: there for people. That was pretty cool. I think he's
Speaker 1: from more l about Oklahoma. He was really awesome. Everybody
Speaker 1: come together in Oklahoma and supported each other, and you know,
Speaker 1: it was really nice to see. It really was. But
Speaker 1: you know, we just we want we want a safe country.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to be afraid of something happening.
Speaker 1: With everything going on in London and everything like that.
Speaker 1: It's just really well that's you know, and people think
Speaker 1: you I just want the nation secure. I want the
Speaker 1: people on poverty, on food stamps and out of the
Speaker 1: labor force, back to work and and live in the
Speaker 1: American dream. What I want is not complicated. I want
Speaker 1: America energy independent and safe and secure. Anyway, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Kristen, Quick, Mike, and Brooklyn. We're gonna let
Speaker 1: you make your final point as we go to the
Speaker 1: break here. Sorry we lost you, sir, Yeah, sorry about that.
Speaker 1: I don't worry about it. But you know, I just
Speaker 1: un understand when innuendos and hypotheticals become headlines for seeing them.
Speaker 1: You know, this morning they had a headline clapper says,
Speaker 1: smoking gun. This is not good. Then you open it up,
Speaker 1: you read the article and it's completely uh goes against
Speaker 1: what the headline said. I it makes me want to
Speaker 1: vomit and I torture myself. And I watched CNN in
Speaker 1: the morning to see what Chris Cuomo and that other
Speaker 1: idiot has to say, h Alison Camarado or whatever her
Speaker 1: name is, And I just I don't even say how
Speaker 1: they have jobs. You know, listen, these networks are agenda driven.
Speaker 1: Do you do you once you see media bias, you
Speaker 1: can't not see it. It's like once the veil is lifted,
Speaker 1: you can't put it back on. You know, you know
Speaker 1: the sun is shining. You know, fake news now when
Speaker 1: you see it. That's why I thought it was so hysterical.
Speaker 1: I mean, the superfluous stories about ice cream and ramps
Speaker 1: and and and the president having a hand phobia and
Speaker 1: all those nonsense. And that add to that the orchestrating
Speaker 1: of protests. I mean, it's as clear as it's ever been.
Speaker 1: I um. And that's why I feel a real sense
Speaker 1: of responsibility to do their job because they're not doing it.
Speaker 1: We are not on a parallel path here on this program.
Speaker 1: We're on a very different trajectory than they are. And
Speaker 1: I believe in the end, like with Obama, we're out
Speaker 1: on a limb. We're gonna be proven right again. And
Speaker 1: thank you for sticking with us. All Right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: wrap things up to today. All Right, the media has
Speaker 1: gotten this, this comy opening statement, so wrong, so god
Speaker 1: awfully wrong, and we will give you the analysis I promised.
Speaker 1: Nobody else has. It's it's so frustrating to me, but
Speaker 1: we'll do their job as we always do. In news
Speaker 1: and information you can't get anywhere radio, television, and we've
Speaker 1: got great analysts. Tonight we'll check in with our friend
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett and Sarah Carter and Jay Sekula. We're gonna
Speaker 1: break all of this down, step by step, ten Eastern tonight.
Speaker 1: Hope you'll join us. See you back here tomorrow