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Glad you're with us Wednesday edition Sean 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.480 Hannity Show Told free or telephone numbers one, Seawan. You 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.960 want to be a part of this extravaganza. Uh A 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.800 lot happening and it's gonna take me time to go 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.800 through and explain in detail. And it my my blood 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:30.399 vessels in my brain may burst because of the media 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:35.840 spin about James Comey's opening statement to the Senate Select 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.800 Committee on Intelligence that he will be reading from tomorrow 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.520 has now been released, which, by the way, totally obscuring 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:47.520 the Senate hearing from earlier today where national security heads 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.000 one after another saying they had never ever been pressured 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:57.040 to do anything illegal, immoral, an ethical, inappropriate, none, nothing zip, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.280 including Admiral Rodgers and the Director of National Intelligence stand 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.919 codes He's never been pressured to intervene, interfere in any 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.360 way with shaping intelligence in a political way or in 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.959 a relationship to an ongoing investigation, or rod Rosenstein, Coates 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:18.239 and Rogers and the interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifying 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.840 that no one from the White House has asked them 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.680 to influence any investigation. So, uh, we'll get to that tape. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.200 The media will ignore that tape today and let me 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.919 give you a bottom line conclusion on what is a 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.800 seven page opening statement by James Comey. The President of 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:41.000 the United States did not obstruct justice number one. Number two. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:47.320 Comey confirmed numerous times to the president, once as president 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.680 elect but also as president, that he was not the 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:54.360 target of any investigation into Russia, that he it is 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.679 obvious to some general observations as we get started here, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:04.360 it is obvious the deep resentment and hatred that James 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.960 Comey has and frankly double standard treatment of Donald Trump 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.399 versus his predecessor, Baracus saying Obama. And we'll get into 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.960 all of that. The next thing is is what did 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.880 I say about call me? I said, call me? I 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.480 said what happened? I said, just a matter of time 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.360 before he has a book deal and before he's working 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:29.240 on MSNBC. It's it's clear he's got an agenda. Clear, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:34.720 it's obvious the firing of him really really hurt him. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.680 And you know the other thing that you've got to 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.160 remember in all of this is this is his words, 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:44.720 This is what he thinks, this is his interpretation, this 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.680 is his recollection, and even admits, well, I didn't have 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:51.400 any ability to corroborate it. But he also is threading 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.680 a needle. And I'll explain in detail where he himself. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.040 What I have been warning about is that he himself 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:06.240 is has got some serious, significant questions to answer as 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.560 to if he if he really felt certain things like 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.000 he says that he was feeling, and he didn't act 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.520 on them because well, Jeff Sessions might recuse himself and 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:20.200 the person that replaces him might not be there very long. Well, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.840 that still puts him in serious legal jeopardy himself, because 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.560 the law requires and friend Greg Jarrett was the first 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.400 to dig this upper at the Fox News Channel that um, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:38.919 he's he has a duty to immediately immediately, not considering 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.520 the status of the Attorney general's position on an investigation, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:48.600 not considering the the the deputy Attorney general's likely position 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.960 might not be there long. He had a moral duty, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:57.200 legal obligation to go over to the Justice Department and 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.960 tell them of any effort if he felt the obstructure 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.520 and of justice was being made by any person, even 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.520 the President of the United States, and that the failure 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.839 to do so what a result there could result in 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.920 criminal charges under a statute known as miss prison of felony. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.400 It's eighteen US Code four. So as expected, call me 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.599 is trashing Trump and has expected disparaging the man who 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.080 fired him, and and and sort of writing a spine 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.240 novel in the process of the wording of this is 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:32.200 so bizarre, I mean, you know, and he contradicts himself 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.760 as to what the role of the FBI is as 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.320 it relates to national security with the you know, then 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.440 you have to ask questions about Hillary Clinton. Now, let 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.839 me go through this memo very slowly with you so 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.640 I can bring you up to speed, because I assume 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.800 most of you have more important things in your day 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.200 to do than to be reading seven pages of this stuff. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.720 That's my job, and my job is to bring it 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:57.080 to you. Now. He describes his first meeting with then 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.760 President elect Trump on January six and the conference room 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.400 at Trump Tower, and that he was there with other 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:08.000 intelligence community leaders to brief him and his new national 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:12.280 security team on the findings of the intelligence community's assessment 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.080 concerning Russian efforts to interfere in the election, and he 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.640 describes at the conclusion of that briefing that he remained 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.960 alone with the President to brief him on some of 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.840 the personally sensitive aspects of the information assembled during the assessment. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.040 In other words, Oh, there's a dossier by a guy 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.120 that didn't tell the president. I'm sure he wanted to 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.039 hire until this became public. Remember the m I six 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.920 guy that put together the dossier that talked about hookers 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.480 urinating in Trump's bed at the Riz Carlton in Moscow, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.560 which never happened. James Comey wanted to hire that guy. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.800 He wanted to hire the m I six guy. So 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.520 you know the nice little fact that Comy left out, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.920 and only because it was made public did he not anyway, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.840 And he wanted to make sure alert the president of 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.360 the existence of the material of sellasious and unverified as 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.080 it was. Then if it's so unbearable, why did you 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.920 want to hire the guy? But put that aside, and 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.840 we knew the media was about to publicly report the material, Well, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.440 how did you know that? We believe the i C 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.760 should not keep knowledge of material and imminent release from 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.360 the President elect And to the extent there were some 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.640 effort of compromising an incoming president. We could blunt any 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.520 such effort with a defensive briefing anyway, So the d 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.920 Director National Intelligence asked that I personally do this. That 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.680 would be Clapper portion of the briefing, and he agreed 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.040 to do it alone to minimize political embarrassment. Now he's 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.560 setting the president up here in this to make himself. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.640 He's so trying to make himself look like the good guy. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.520 Call me's the good guys trying to you know it 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.160 just as the most self serving, uh document I think 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.440 I've ever read in my life. So anyway, he he 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.320 does this, and he does it alone with the president. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.160 And and although we agreed it made sense for me 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.120 to do the briefing, the FBI's leadership and I were 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.560 concerned the brief he might create a situation where a 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.520 new president came into office uncertain about whether the FBI 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.960 was conducting a counter intelligence investigation of his personal conduct. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.160 It is important the FBI understand to understand the FBI 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.280 counter intelligence things. And he was on to say the 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.600 bureau's goal and a counter intelligence investigation different from its 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:21.640 criminal investigative work, is to understand the technical human methods 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.360 of hostile foreign powers that are are what they're using 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.119 to influence the United States or steal our secrets. Stop 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:34.280 right there, You mean like Hillary Clinton, like five foreign 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:40.080 intelligence agencies, five of them foreign intelligence, having access to 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.520 her emails that never should have been in a mom 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:48.640 and pop bathroom closets server, and the fact that she 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.400 mishandled documents that these are all felonies that she committed. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.600 And then he overstepped his bounds and came to a 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.360 conclusion and overrode and took the role of the attorney 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.240 general in that case. Lauretta Lynch, I'm reading this and say, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:08.160 what a phony, hypocrite. This man is what a phony anyway, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.720 and the FBI uses that understanding to disrupt blah blah blah. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.920 This man should have been fired. The fact that he stayed, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.000 I honestly, is beyond any understanding. And then he said 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.080 it's you know, and then he describes what they do. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.199 And then the nature of hostile foreign nations is well known. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.320 Counter intelligence investigations tend to be centered on individuals the 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.079 FBI suspects to be winning or unwitting agents of that 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.280 foreign power. When the FBI develops reason to believe in 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.360 Americans target and then he goes on and on. In 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.520 that context, I discussed the FBIS leadership team whether I 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.319 should be prepared to assure President elect Trump that we 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:50.439 were not investigating him personally, and so what he writes here, okay, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.760 that was true. We weren't. We didn't have an open 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.160 counter intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.880 so if circumstances warranted, and during one on one meeting 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:05.120 at Trump Tower, based on the President's reaction, UH, and 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.760 without him directly asking the question, I offered that reassurance. Oh, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.120 and he does it another time. So what Trump said 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.200 is yeah, three times he told me stop, you know, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.400 I mean, am I being investor? No? And then Trump, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.240 can we tell the American people this for once because 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.600 it's hampering my job, my ability to do my job, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.640 and I felt compelled to document and listen to this. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.880 I felt compelled to document my first conversation with the 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.800 President elected a memo and UH to ensure accuracy, I 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.920 typed it in my laptop as soon as I got 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.920 out of Trump Tower in an FBI vehicle, creating record 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.320 written records. Immediately after one on one conversations with Trump 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.760 was my practice from that point forward. That had not 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.080 been my practice in the past. Spoke with President Obama 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.920 twice in person, once in once blah blah, and neither 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.160 of those circumstances that I remember that he do this. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.800 I can recall nine one on one conversations with Trump 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.800 in four months, three in person, six on the phone. Alright, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.120 big deal, Why didn't he do it to Obama? All right, 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.920 let's not the biggest deal here. Then he had a 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.400 dinner with Trump on January seven, days after the president 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.439 is sworn into office, and he invited me to dinner, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.280 saying he's gonna invite my whole family, will do that 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.600 next time. Anyway, it's in the green room president, whether 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.600 he likes staying in his job, if he's gonna stay in. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.120 I said, well, I already assured him that I intended 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.280 to um and so on in. Trump said, well, I'd 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.360 understand that to the abuse you've taken, if you wanted 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.160 to walk away. Now this is now all speculation. Listen 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.000 to this, my instincts. This is called He told me 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.400 that the one on one setting, and the pretense that 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.000 this was our first discussion about my position meant that 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.080 dinner was at least in part and effort to have 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.120 me asked for my job and create some sort of 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.960 patronage relationship. Stop right there. The first meeting was was 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:09.120 initiated by Comey, not by Trump. That is, before even 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.800 walked in. He had this interpretation that concerned me greatly, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.480 given the FBI is traditionally independent. Said then, why didn't 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.880 you say no, Comey, Why if you're so pure and 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.120 proper and you thought this was so bad? I replied, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.040 I love my work, intended to stay served my term 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:33.080 as the director. And then because the setup made me uneasy, 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.920 I was not reliable in any way like a politician 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.600 uses the word. But it can always count on me 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.760 to tell the truth. And I added that I'm not 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.360 on anybody's side politically, and that cannot be counted on 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.360 in a in a traditional political sense. And I said 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.320 that was in the best interests of the president. Now 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.280 this is what the media is making. Well, I need loyalty, 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.679 the President said, I expect loyalty. I didn't move, I 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.520 didn't speak. Here's the novel part. I didn't change my 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.520 facial expression in any way. During the awkward silence that 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.400 followed we simply looked at each other in silence, and 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.600 the conversation moved on, but he returned to the subject 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.640 near the end of the dinner. At one point, I 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.079 explained why the FBI was so important at the Department 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.760 of Justice, FBI independent from the White House, and he 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.040 goes on to say, I said it was a paradox. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.520 Blah blah blah. Some parent presidents want any close to 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.120 the Department, but it blurs the line of trust. Near 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.760 the end of the dinner, the President returned to the 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.800 subject of my job, saying he's glad I'm staying on, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.840 adding that he had heard great things about me, and 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.840 then he said, I need loyalty, loyalty to the Constitution, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.840 the rule of law, not loyalty to the deep state. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.280 Not loyalty to those that are leakers, those that want 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.920 to undermine the presidency, those that would lie and and 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.160 and not have fidelity to the truth. I replied, You'll 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.920 always get honesty from me. He paused, what that's all 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.200 I want. I want honest loyalty. We'll pick it up 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.880 from there when we come back. Most self serving document. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.360 But at the end of the day, Homie might have 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.680 just put himself in a little bit of legal jeopardy. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.000 He admits the President did not obstruct. He admitted to 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.720 the president was not a target and yeah, I want 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.520 you to be loyal to the constitution, which the media 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.400 is going crazy on. Also tell you about the conversation 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.640 on General flynt Hey with optimism once again on the 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.480 rise in America. The working people of this country are 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.720 more important than ever. Well, now they have a podcast 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.960 that celebrates them and tells their stories. On the Job 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.440 from Hired to Retired. 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Right as we along, Sean Hannity Show 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.200 toll free telephone numbers eight hundred nine Poll one, Shawn, 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.520 you want to be a part of the pro As 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.000 I said this is the most self serving document I've 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:10.880 ever seen in my life. But at the end of 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.840 the day, no matter what the media says here, at 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.840 the end of the day, nothing that they say in 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.840 any way implicates the president. President didn't try to obstruct justice, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.040 was not the target of an investigation. Okay, I expect 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.800 you to be loyal. We're gonna get to that in 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.120 all its detail in a second. And he contradicts himself 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.160 so many different ways as it relates to Okay, if 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.880 you really care about states that are stealing our secrets, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:42.200 how do you explain five foreign intelligence services getting into 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.240 the email server of Hillary in a mom and pop 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:52.000 shop bathroom closet, certainty that that happened, or her mishandling 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.480 of things, or the double standard he's dripping with hatred 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.560 towards Trump. It's so obvious. And if he felt so 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.520 uncomfortable in this dinner, and oh, I didn't want to 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.480 go on. My instincts told me that, oh my gosh, 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.240 this might be some sort of patronage relationship. And I 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:12.040 lectured the President about the the sanctity of of being 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.360 separate and apart from the White House, and the President said, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.920 I need loyalty but we agreed on honest loyalty. Is 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:23.480 that it that's the worst part, and that callmey was 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.440 going to hire the person that gave uncorroborated salas salacious 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.840 details about hookers and a rich Carlton in Moscow. We 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.200 wanted to pay this guy until that that was revealed, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.760 and then he had to not hire the guy. What 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.080 is wrong with this guy? Call me something is very 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.960 off now. He also describes this other meeting where the 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.680 issue of General Flynn came up and the President, by 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.440 the way, has everyone forgotten the President saying, Oh, I 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.560 don't want to go after Hillary. Uh yeah, let's leave 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.120 her alone. Oh they suffered enough. So the President basically 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.760 says the same thing about General Flynn and anything wrong 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.520 in speaking with the Russians. I had to let him 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.879 go because he misled the Vice president at the end 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.960 of the day that that's what that case is about. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.600 And he'd been through a lot, and I feel bad 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.359 for him, and I hope you can see your way 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.560 clear of letting it go. I hope you can let 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.880 it go. Hope hope, hope, hope not let it go. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.000 And we'll get to that in a second. Alright. Eight 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.160 one Sean and all of the other issues of the day. 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.119 On Shawn is a toe free telephone number. But I 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.119 gotta tell you that this is the biggest nothing burger. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.680 We got our legal team that is going to weigh 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.840 in on all of this, and way do you hear 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.480 what the security had said at the intelligence meeting today? 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.320 That's coming up, and Rogers, you draw a short strong 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.439 I'm gonna start with you before we get to the 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:45.000 substance of whether this call or request was made. He've 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.439 had a very distinguished career close to forty years. In 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.439 your experience, would it be in any way typical for 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:57.560 a president to ask questions or bring up an ongoing 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:05.119 FBI investigation? Tarchiculally that investigation concerns associates and individuals that 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.159 might be associated with the president's campaign or his activities. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.040 So today I am not going to talk about theoreticals. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.240 I am not going to assess the specifics of any 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.840 interaction or conversations I may or can you if I 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.000 could finish the police that I may or may not 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.840 have had with the President of United States. But I 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.680 will make the following comment. In the three plus years 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.200 that I have been the director of the National Security Agency, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.000 to the best of my recollection, I have never been 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.360 directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical, 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.600 or inappropriate. And to the best of my recollection, during 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.200 that same period of service, I do not recall ever 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.320 feeling pressured to do so. Oh, by the way, Admiral 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.920 Rodgers and as a director, testify he's never been pressured 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:52.440 to do anything illegal, immoral, unethical, inappropriate. Dan Coates, Director 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.159 of National Intelligence, testifying today he's never been pressured to 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.560 intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.240 a pool of go away or in a relationship to 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:06.520 an ongoing investigation. Then Rod Rosenstein and Dan Coates and 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.400 Mike Rogers and the interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifying 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.960 today that no one from the White House has asked 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:19.639 how how to influence an investigation in any way? Excuse me, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.960 does any of this matter except a disgruntled, fired ex bitter, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.800 you know, double standard preaching FBI director who may actually 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.239 himself have put himself in legal jeopardy. And I'll get 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.159 to that in a second here. So anyway, if you're 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.240 just joining us, those are two big stories. The Senate 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.240 hearing with the national security heads that all said what 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.240 I just told you, and then the seven page opening 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.280 statement that callmey will read tomorrow and anyway, so let 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.080 me go back to the Mike Flynn do we have 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.240 in there? Um when the President said leave Hillary alone? 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:56.919 By and by the way, when the President said it 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.560 kind of piste me off. I'm gonna be honest, I'm like, seriously, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.720 why why does she get little? I don't want to 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.000 bring any pain to the Clintons. Uh. Okay, So he's 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.560 being a nice guy, nicer than I would be. And 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.119 by the way, it's not his call at the end 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.560 of the day either, it's not his call when he 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.600 says to comey as it relates to Flynn, and that 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.480 Flynn hadn't done anything wrong in speaking with the Russians, 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.080 and that he had let it go because he had 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.440 to lead, let him go because he misled the Vice president, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:26.920 and then saying that guy had been through a lot 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.679 and it sucks, and that he had been the victim. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:31.240 By the way, Coleby, I don't know if they've ever 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:35.680 discussed the issue of the felony committed against Michael Flynn 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.440 by leaking unmasked raw intelligence. That's what got him into 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.879 trouble and got him fired. And then Trump saying, well, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.159 I hope you can let this go. And remember that 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.040 was the one felony was against Flynn, which is so 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:56.000 annoying anyway. So then Comey goes on to say, in 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:00.600 this opening statement that you'll hear tomorrow, I immediately prepared 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:05.960 an unclassified memo okay, on class about the conversation about Flynn, 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.119 and I discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership. I 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.600 had understood the President to be requesting that we dropped 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.960 any investigation into Flynn in connection with the false statements 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:25.200 about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December. Okay, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.320 that's what he understood. It to be his own words here, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.000 and then he goes on to say, I did not 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:34.480 understand the president to be talking about the broader investigation 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.360 into Russia. Okay, let me read that again. I did 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.679 not understand the President, I would assume call me as 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.800 an intelligent man, to be dropping about the dropping the 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.879 broader investigation in a Russia or possible links to his campaign. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.040 I could be this is called me. I could be wrong, 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:52.760 but I took him to be focusing on what had 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.159 just happened to Flynn's departure in the controversy of around 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:00.359 the account of his phone calls. Regardless, it's can learning 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:07.320 the FBI's role as an independent, independent investigative agency. Yeah, well, obviously, 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:11.280 Comey has a double standard in the application of the laws. Otherwise, 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:15.200 how does Hillary get away with everything that he admitted, 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:20.760 every crime that she committed. You cannot see this without 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:24.359 seeing how he acts in the past. He doesn't take 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:28.320 memos after meetings with Obama. You know, in the case 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:32.920 of Hillary, she commits a variety of crimes. He lays 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:35.720 out the case better than anybody, which he did back 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:40.200 last July, but he lets her go. Then he says, 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:44.600 the FBI leadership team agreed with him that was important 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:51.280 not to infect, really infect like a disease. The investigative team, 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:54.240 with the president's request, which we did not intend to abide, 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:57.680 also concluded that given it was a one on one conversation, 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:02.600 there was nothing available to corroborate my account. Oh, the 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:04.960 account where you just got done saying I did not 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:08.280