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Speaker 1: It is one day before Thanksgiving. And if it doesn't

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Speaker 1: sound like Sean here, you're right. I'm Greg Jarrett filling

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Speaker 1: I'm a Fox News legal analyst, also a lawyer. I

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Speaker 1: you haven't, you should. It's called the Russia Hoax, The

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Speaker 1: Illicit Scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: And the title pretty much tells the story. But who

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Speaker 1: They conspired to first clear Hillary Clinton of the obvious

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Speaker 1: they used it as a pretext to investigate Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: which is the investigation of Trump. And the words of

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Speaker 1: And they were off to the races in this scheme

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Speaker 1: It is topical, especially now because Robert Muller has received

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Speaker 1: Anthony in Virginia. Anthony, thanks for joining us. How are you? Hey? Great?

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Speaker 1: old news? Is non? Anthony, Thanks for your question. So, um,

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Speaker 1: his statements and conduct during the Kavanaugh hearing. He was,

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Speaker 1: you know, the real hero who helped confirm Brett Kavanaugh

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Speaker 1: to the US Supreme Court. All Right, we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: more of your calls on the other side. I'm Greg

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Speaker 1: Jarrett filling in for Sean Hannity on the Sean Hannity Show.

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Speaker 1: Our number is one eight hundred and nine four one Sean.

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Speaker 1: My Twitter handle is at Greg Jarrett. That's JR Egg

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Speaker 1: j A R r Ett. We'll be back with more

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Speaker 1: of the Russia hoax looking back with the Sean Hannity

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Speaker 1: shown Greg Jared filling in for Sean today the day

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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving, trying to get as many colors as I can.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to David in Colorado. So, David, we've only

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Speaker 1: got about a minute left, So if you would try

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Speaker 1: to be quit okay, Yeah, Hi, Greg. Hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think half of the country, and I think more

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Speaker 1: we're very frustrated that the Molar Special Council was appointed

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Speaker 1: immediately almost after Trump was elected. But what can we

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Speaker 1: do to demand that a special counsel is seated right

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Speaker 1: to investigate this ongoing co attempt by the Democrats? Well, people,

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Speaker 1: you know I agree with you, and I you know,

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Speaker 1: people have a voice, and you can also communicate with

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Speaker 1: the White House. I want a good, incompetent Attorney general

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Speaker 1: like Congressman John Ratcliffe, and Ratcliffe can decide to present

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Speaker 1: evidence about Hillary Clinton and Komey and McCabe and the

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Speaker 1: others to a grand jury. He can also appoint a

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Speaker 1: special counsel. So we'll wait and see, but make your

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Speaker 1: in just a moment. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity

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Speaker 1: Show and Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean Hannity today.

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Speaker 1: You just heard a cliff from the President referring to

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Speaker 1: it as a witch hunt. You know what he's talking about,

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Speaker 1: First the FBI investigation, then the Special counsel investigation of

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump into so called Russian collusion, which is not

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Speaker 1: even a crime excepting anti trust law, and it's not

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Speaker 1: any other crime. Try telling that to the media. They've

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Speaker 1: never read the Criminal Code in America, so they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: know they should read it. I heard some say, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: if it's if it's not specifically in the Criminal Code,

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Speaker 1: journalists say, it's got to be This was George Stephanopoulis,

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Speaker 1: it's got to be conspiracy, all right, little George, conspiracy

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Speaker 1: to do what you know, we conspire every day. Let's

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Speaker 1: That's a conspiracy, it's an agreement. In order for it

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Speaker 1: criminal activity. So then George went on to say, well,

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Speaker 1: it's conspiracy to defraud the government. George probably never read

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Speaker 1: the two Supreme Court prevailing decisions on conspiracy to defraud

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Speaker 1: and this was what Stephanopoulos was referring to, having a

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Speaker 1: trickery or dishonesty if all he intends to do is

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Speaker 1: defraud anybody, especially the American government. It would be in

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Speaker 1: who is the nominee to be president United States had

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Speaker 1: conspiracy due to fraud the government. Somebody else said, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's on a services fraud. Well, they didn't read Us

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Speaker 1: versus Skilling, the Supreme Court decision that said that requires

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Speaker 1: claimed that, so it's not on a services fraud. Some

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Speaker 1: people have said, oh, you know, it's a violation of

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Speaker 1: violation of federal election laws, intimating that, of course, it

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Speaker 1: was a criminal violation. Pelosi's not a lawyer, and she

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Speaker 1: Federal Campaign Election Act. And if you go to the

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Speaker 1: give money or receive money. And so you know, if

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Speaker 1: you attend a meeting and you're a foreign national, like

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Speaker 1: You're allowed to provide information. It's not a crime. It's

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Speaker 1: you know, I challenge anybody to show me where there

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Speaker 1: was a crime called collusion. And I go through this

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Speaker 1: in my book called the Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme

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Speaker 1: to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump, available in

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Speaker 1: bookstores or online, and you know, the titles say exactly

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Speaker 1: what it's about. I lay out the facts, the evidence

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Speaker 1: and law in this scheme, first to clear Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: and then to frame Donald Trump for things he didn't do.

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Speaker 1: The paperback version comes out in January with updated information

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Speaker 1: that has occurred since the book went to print, and

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Speaker 1: The Inspector General's report only corroborates what is in the book,

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Speaker 1: and so I would encourage you to get the book.

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Speaker 1: Might make a very good Christmas present for somebody under

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Speaker 1: the tree. We're going to be taking some of your

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Speaker 1: phone calls during the course of today's program. The number

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Speaker 1: is one eight hundred nine four one sean. That's one

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Speaker 1: Those who have been holding we'll try to get to

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Speaker 1: you first. Hanging there, sate your calling. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk to John Solomon. John Solomon is an award winning

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Speaker 1: investigative journalist. His work over the years has exposed US

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Speaker 1: and FBI intelligence failures before the nine to eleven attacks.

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Speaker 1: His expertise is especially apparent in his coverage of the

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Speaker 1: Russia hoax, and in fact, John has cited numerous times

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Speaker 1: in the book. There are more than seven hundred footnotes,

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Speaker 1: and some of his distinguished work is contained in the book. John,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being with us, Oh, Greg, my pleasure and

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Speaker 1: congratulations on the success of the book. It's a must read.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Now. You wrote

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Speaker 1: a column that was published yesterday and it's entitled questions

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Speaker 1: grow about FBI vetting of Christopher Steele's Russia expertise. What

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Speaker 1: did you find out? Well, one of the things is

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Speaker 1: want to know do they understand the landscape from which

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Speaker 1: they're operating, Do they have sources in Russia, do they

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Speaker 1: have sources in Moscow? How deeply embedded? Or are they

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Speaker 1: prone to being misled or had a compromise trick pulled

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department through the number four Justice official, a

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Speaker 1: guy named Bruce Or. They were talking and they were

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Speaker 1: starting to think about how they were going to get

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Speaker 1: evidence on Russia. He puts out an intelligence report to

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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is on the way out, He's losing his

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Speaker 1: grip on power in Russia. Now just think how absurd

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Speaker 1: Western feats, right he medals in the Russian in the

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Speaker 1: the CIA and the fbhin. And yet here the guy

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Speaker 1: who they're going to use as evidence that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: was colluding with Russia is making his prediction based on

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Speaker 1: his highly sensitive sources. He writes, and the intelligence is

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Speaker 1: so far fested it's one hundred addps opposite of what

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Speaker 1: at night, the CIA testifies in Congress that Vladimir Putin's

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Speaker 1: even more aggressive in twenty sixteen. So why is that important?

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Speaker 1: If you're vetting a source and you're going to base

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Speaker 1: be pretty darn sure your man knows his stuff. Here's

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Speaker 1: the only example that was sitting in front of the FBI.

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Speaker 1: The FBI knew he had no sources in Moscow. All

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Speaker 1: of his stuff was coming from a retired Russian intelligence

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Speaker 1: real questions about whether he was being played. It's a

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Speaker 1: real serious concern that it didn't vet this guy. And

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Speaker 1: out to me now as I look back at it,

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Speaker 1: there's a FBI intelligence analyst, John Moffam, one of the

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Speaker 1: most trusted guys, guys that analyzes Russian intelligence all day.

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Speaker 1: Congersorm Meadows asked him, did you buy any chance actually

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Speaker 1: already vetted the dassie before it was used in the FIST.

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Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, no, we were just starting the vetting.

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Speaker 1: We hadn't really verified it yet. We were just getting

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Speaker 1: started on it was an ongoing process. Well that's not

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Speaker 1: you know, because you wrote it in your book so eloquently.

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Speaker 1: You have to make sure that what you're submitting in

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Speaker 1: the court evidence is validated, verified, corroborated. It was when

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Speaker 1: they used Christopher Steele's intelligence to justify spying on Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: And that's where the conspiracy is. That is where the

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Speaker 1: failure and FBI work is most evident. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Inspector General found that Christopher Steele was unsuitable as a

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Speaker 1: which was he lied. And yet the FBI, through Bruce

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Speaker 1: and James Comey when he was on his thing glorious

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Speaker 1: book tour in which he was not only peddling his

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Speaker 1: book but his own moral purity. The irony lost on

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Speaker 1: No one called Steel credible and reliable. He was anything bought.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Christopher Steele fancied himself as James Bond. The

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's so called intelligence, as you point out

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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. I surmise that Steele just made it up

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Speaker 1: the same way his anonymous quadruple hearsay about Trump Russia

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Speaker 1: collusion in the dossier was fabricated. Well, that's such an

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Speaker 1: important point. The FBI had gone out of his way

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Speaker 1: he wasn't credible by their own admission. And here are

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Speaker 1: testified under oath that his dossier, Steele dossier was both

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Speaker 1: unverified and uncorroborated. That was ten months after the election

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Speaker 1: investigation that had already begun. If the FBI is willing

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Speaker 1: to say under oath is uncorroborated and it's verified and

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Speaker 1: it's delicious, you have to wonder about its credibility right. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: you have Lisa Page testify that nine months in they

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Speaker 1: couldn't verify the dossier's most important allegation that Trump and

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Speaker 1: it probably wasn't credible. We know from the man who

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Speaker 1: of the stuff that Steele was pushing through the stasier

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Speaker 1: to him and ultimately to the FBI. And then you

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Speaker 1: have the great conflict of interest, which is that Christopher

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Speaker 1: Steele is being paid by the Clinton campaign Democratic Party

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Speaker 1: to smear Donald Trump in the election, and they're taking

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Speaker 1: that at the FBI with no grain of salt and

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Speaker 1: going to a court while it's still unverified, and asking

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Speaker 1: for the most awesome of power to spy on a

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Speaker 1: presidential nominee. All of those things weigh against credibility, away

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Speaker 1: against what Director Comey said. And it's funny. Director Commy

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Speaker 1: may say one thing when he's under oath on the

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Speaker 1: book tour, but look at what he said when he

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Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable. All right, We are with John Solomon,

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Speaker 1: who is a terrific reporter for The Hill. He's going

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Speaker 1: to stick around for just a second. We'll squeeze in

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Speaker 1: a quick break. This is the Sean Hannity Show. I'm

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Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett, and in the back half hour we'll get

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Speaker 1: to your phone calls. This is the Sean Hannity Show

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Speaker 1: on Greg Jarrett in for Sean Hannity. On the first

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Speaker 1: page of my book, I write that James Commy, more

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Speaker 1: than anybody else, is responsible for the most notorious hoax

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Speaker 1: in American history. But he had help. A guy by

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Speaker 1: the name of Christopher Steele, who's not even an American,

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Speaker 1: provided the pretext, the excuse to not only investigate Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: but to spy on the Trump campaign. This guy's Steele

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Speaker 1: composed a dossier that was dubious and funny on its face.

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Speaker 1: The FBI knew that they didn't care. They used it

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Speaker 1: With us is John Solomon, who has a new column

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Speaker 1: about how the FBI's vetting of Christopher Steele was really

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Speaker 1: non existent. John, Yeah, there's no doubt. And you know

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Speaker 1: it's funny. Last night, you and I round Seaun's TV show,

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Speaker 1: and just before Stevin Nunez was on talking and he

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Speaker 1: and that is it's not only the failure to vet

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Speaker 1: Christopher Steel, which is now so well documented it's irrefutable.

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Speaker 1: They apparently submitted other evidence. He said last night for

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Speaker 1: the first time, first time I've heard say this, they

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Speaker 1: Christopher Steele's credibility, and that too will turn out to

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Speaker 1: be bogus and embarrassing. That's what Devin Nunion has, one

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Speaker 1: of the few people who've read the full evidence of

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Speaker 1: the FBI had. It really raises a concern what was

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Speaker 1: going on in the FBI that you how to use

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Speaker 1: bogus evidence, unverified evidence, a foreigner being paid by the

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Speaker 1: democratic rival of the person you're investigating to try to

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Speaker 1: make a case. And you know, we talked that you

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Speaker 1: opened your segment by saying there was no conspiracy, and

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Speaker 1: I believe that's going to turn out to be true.

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Speaker 1: Between the truck campaign and Russia, there was a conspiracy

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Speaker 1: to defraud the FISA Court of America. Oh yeah, And

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Speaker 1: that's what Americans should be most concerned about coming out

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Speaker 1: of this entire episode. They didn't tell the truth. The

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Speaker 1: FISA judges, who never even held a hearing, they simply

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Speaker 1: trusted the paper submission. But the FBI and the Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice, they trusted that they were being truthful, and

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Speaker 1: we now know that they were not. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: law specifically says regulations you may not submit unverified information

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Speaker 1: and the Department of Justice did precisely that. Solomon as

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Speaker 1: always great talking to you. Thanks so much for taking

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Speaker 1: the time to join us. Thanks, I have a happy

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Speaker 1: Thanks you two. We're gonna get back in just a

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Speaker 1: moment with your telephone calls. Our number is one eight

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Speaker 1: four one seven three two six. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show on Greg Jarrett. Um. Bit of a

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Speaker 1: kerfuffle over the last hour or so. You know, we heard,

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Speaker 1: of course, that a federal judge in where else, San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: one of the most liberal venues within the Ninth Circuit

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Speaker 1: Court of Appeals. The Ninth Circuit covers i think nine

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Speaker 1: different states, and this is a judge within that jurisdiction,

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Speaker 1: and the Ninth Circuit is, you know, the most liberal.

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Speaker 1: They get it wrong all the time. This judge ruled

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Speaker 1: against the president on his proculum proclamation on asylum, which

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Speaker 1: by the way, was perfectly legal. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: when a judge in that jurisdiction rules against the president,

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Speaker 1: you know that the president is correct and it will

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Speaker 1: eventually be upheld if it ever gets in front of,

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Speaker 1: for example, the United States Supreme Court. That's what happened

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Speaker 1: in the travel band case. You know, all of the judges,

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Speaker 1: some of the Ninth Circuit, including the Ninth Circuit Court

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Speaker 1: of Appeals, got it wrong and had to be corrected.

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Speaker 1: You know, if federal district court judges and Court of

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Speaker 1: Appeal judges got it right, we wouldn't need a US

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. So President Trump, one of the things that

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Speaker 1: people like about him is his candor, and he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's refreshing. And he basically said publicly that this was,

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Speaker 1: you know, an Obama judge, and he's right, and this

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Speaker 1: was a classic case of forum shopping. You know, those

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Speaker 1: those who don't like the President enforcing the law decided

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Speaker 1: to challenge him in court and they venue shopped and

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Speaker 1: with an Obama judge, and sure enough, that's what they got.

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Speaker 1: So the President, you know, rips into the judge for

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Speaker 1: being biased and extraordinarily, the Chief Justice of the United States,

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Speaker 1: John Roberts, issued a tweet I'll read it to you.

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Speaker 1: Roberts says, we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges,

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Speaker 1: Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an

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Speaker 1: extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to

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Speaker 1: do equal right to those appearing before them. Well in

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Speaker 1: an ideal world, Chief Justice John Roberts, don't we wish

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Speaker 1: it were so? But it ain't. And you know it.

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Speaker 1: There are Obama judges and Bush judges and Clinton judges,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes you get people who actually try to be

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Speaker 1: fair and impartial and interpret the Constitution according to its intent,

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Speaker 1: but not all. And for you to suggest that there

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Speaker 1: are no such thing as Obama judges with a liberal

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Speaker 1: band who try to legislate from the bench, is you know,

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Speaker 1: either gullible or naive or both. Let's go to our

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Speaker 1: phone lines. Robert joins us from Connecticut. Robert, what do

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Speaker 1: you think? Hey, Greg, how are you doing today? Good? Good?

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Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations on the success of your book.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. So I do want to, you know, further

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Speaker 1: talk about that. You know, I'm trying to get an

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Speaker 1: understanding of you know, it is important to me, is

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Speaker 1: important to a lot of people in my family and

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Speaker 1: a lot of the people that I keep in my circle,

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Speaker 1: that we do have independent judges. I'm a conservative, but

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Speaker 1: I personally believe that it's just as bad to have

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Speaker 1: a conservative judge as it is to have a liberal judge. Agreed,

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Speaker 1: So how do we get back to that? You know,

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Speaker 1: because Trump, you know, because you know Chief Justice Lets, yes,

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Speaker 1: he is acting very naively. His comments are a very

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Speaker 1: naive comment. Um. There actually ARETI partisan judges out there. Um,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I necessarily don't want a Trump judge.

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Speaker 1: I want an independent judge. So how do we get

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Speaker 1: back to that? How do we set up a system

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Speaker 1: where we can rely on our justice system to act

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Speaker 1: independently and not someone who just thinks conservative, not someone

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Speaker 1: who thinks liberal. Yeah, you know, it's a construction of

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Speaker 1: the Constitution. Lifetime appointments by the President of United States,

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Speaker 1: and you know, presidents over the years, and not just

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Speaker 1: recent years, but over history have appointed people that are

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Speaker 1: you know, consistent with their own political views. Really good

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Speaker 1: judges you know in America don't care about politics or partisanship.

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Speaker 1: They simply try to do the right thing and in

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Speaker 1: cases of constitutional matters, make decisions based on the intent

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Speaker 1: of the Constitution, how it was written, the meaning of

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Speaker 1: the language, and so forth. So you know, other than

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Speaker 1: changing the Constitution, you know, you're invariably going to get

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Speaker 1: judges with different points of view of how to interpret

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Speaker 1: the constitution, strict constructionists, those with a more elastic view

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Speaker 1: of the Constitution, And then you get judges they just think,

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Speaker 1: you know, what's the political result I want, and then

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Speaker 1: they figure out a way to get there by contorting

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Speaker 1: the law and the constitution. So, you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: it's an intractable problem. But it's been a problem for

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Speaker 1: the better part of a couple of hundred years, and

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Speaker 1: I wish, I wish there was an easy answer. We've

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Speaker 1: been talking a lot about the Russia hoax, the illicit

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Speaker 1: scheme to Claire Hillary Clinton had framed Donald Trump. It's

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Speaker 1: a book that I wrote and published in July, but

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Speaker 1: it continues to be topical almost every day. Why because

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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice and the FBI continue to obstruct

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Speaker 1: Congress in their lawful duty to obtain information at you know,

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Speaker 1: under the Constitution they have an overrite oversight obligation, and

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Speaker 1: the FBI and the Department of Justice continue to obstruct.

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Speaker 1: And Robert Muller's investigation continues to this day into so

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Speaker 1: called Trump Russia collusion. The president and most recently yesterday

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Speaker 1: had handed over answers to questions propounded by Mueller. We

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Speaker 1: don't know the questions. We don't know the answers, but frankly,

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Speaker 1: if the questions were only about collusion, it should have

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Speaker 1: taken about ten minutes for the president to answer them.

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Speaker 1: I did include with Russia. I don't know anybody in

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Speaker 1: my campaign who did. I don't have any information to

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Speaker 1: give you. You know, end of story, But our listeners

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Speaker 1: have several questions about that. So let's go to Rose

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Speaker 1: in beautiful Key West, Florida, High Rose. Hey, how you doing, Greg?

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Speaker 1: I'm well, thank you. One of my highlights of Sean show,

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Speaker 1: which I love, is when you and Sarah are own it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate that. Hey, you asked earlier. Do

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Speaker 1: you think they already have the answers to the questions

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Speaker 1: they're asking President Trump? What the answer is? Heck? Yeah

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Speaker 1: they do. It's a trap. Yeah, I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: How they How have you got to get these people

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Speaker 1: off his back? If he doesn't, you know, so he

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Speaker 1: keeps during this country down with good road. Well, everything

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Speaker 1: comes to an end, and inevitably Special Counsel Robert Muller's

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Speaker 1: investigation will end with a report. You know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are trying to read the TA leaves and say, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the questions to the president or probably the

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Speaker 1: final piece of Muller's twisted puzzle. And we do know

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Speaker 1: that Muller's team of partisans has been diminishing in numbers,

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Speaker 1: several of return to their jobs. That's another indication that

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Speaker 1: he may be whining things down. And you know, Muller,

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Speaker 1: like everybody in Washington, reads polling data. Surely he denied,

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Speaker 1: of course, but I'm sure he does. I mean, during

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Speaker 1: the most recent midterm election, exit polls showed a majority

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Speaker 1: of people think that the entire Russia probe is partisan

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Speaker 1: and politically motivated and a substantial plurality, you know, think

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Speaker 1: that you know it's wrong, and you know there's likely

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Speaker 1: no collusion. So you know, I think Muller probably knows

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Speaker 1: that and is probably trying to reach an end. But

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Speaker 1: you're right, I don't think. I mean, the President, more

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Speaker 1: than anybody, has been vocal and transparent about his denials

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Speaker 1: of collusion. You know, and when questioned about the Trump

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Speaker 1: Tower meeting, he said, uh, you know, I didn't know

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Speaker 1: about it in advance. And Muller knows the answer to that.

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Speaker 1: The statement he helped dictate about that meeting. The President

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Speaker 1: said repeatedly, look that that statement I dictated was accurate,

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Speaker 1: and it is, and I addressed that in the book.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Russia hacking of Clinton in the DNC,

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Speaker 1: you know, did you know about it in advance? No,

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Speaker 1: Like many Americans, you know, he assumed Clinton's emails were

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Speaker 1: vulnerable to being hacked since they were on illegally an unsecured,

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Speaker 1: and ten classified documents and probably many more, but she

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Speaker 1: destroyed so many of them. Will never know the answer

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Speaker 1: to that. So yeah, you know, Muller knows the answer

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Speaker 1: to all of this. You know, the White House handed

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Speaker 1: over one point four million pages of documents. Thirty White

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Speaker 1: House staffers and people from the campaign voluntarily gave interviews

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Speaker 1: to Muller's investigators. I mean, you know, he didn't need

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Speaker 1: to question the president. He has answers for all of this.

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Speaker 1: But there is the concern that if the President provides

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Speaker 1: any sort of answer, Muller will distort it to accuse

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Speaker 1: the President of lyne and you know, accuse him of

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Speaker 1: a FULTI misleading statement, which is a crime. And you

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Speaker 1: know that's what he did. That's what Muller did to

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Speaker 1: Michael Flynn. You know, a distinguished general who served the

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Speaker 1: country well, who didn't do anything wrong, who talked to

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Speaker 1: Ambassador Kissley actor in the transition as is normal. It's

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Speaker 1: not a violation of the Logan Act. Even though Sally Yates,

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Speaker 1: then the acting Attorney General, fought so she doesn't know

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Speaker 1: anything about that Logan Act. And it's a preposterous. So

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Speaker 1: he told the truth and the FBI agents who interviewed

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Speaker 1: him said he told the truth, and the FBI was

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Speaker 1: going to drop the whole thing, but Muller took takes over.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Bob Muller, you know, God Almighty knows

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Speaker 1: better than everybody else, and he prosecutes Michael Flynn and

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Speaker 1: ruins him. You know, this demonstrates that the immense power

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Speaker 1: of the federal government with unlimited resources, can destroy an

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Speaker 1: individual personally and financially just because they want to want

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Speaker 1: to do it. The law be damned, Muller could never

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Speaker 1: have proven his case against Michael Flynn. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: I mean, the statute requires that he'd have to show

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Speaker 1: that any statement that was misleading, was done so intentionally

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Speaker 1: and willfully and knowingly. Well, how can you do that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, Flynn's first witnesses would have been the two

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Speaker 1: FBI agents who would have sworn under growth in front

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Speaker 1: of a jury. The guy told the truth, but Muller

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Speaker 1: and Mueller knows that, but he knows that he can

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Speaker 1: drive somebody to near bankruptcy, forcing Flynn to sell his

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Speaker 1: own home to pay for his defense. And finally flew

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Speaker 1: through in the towel, mostly because Muller was threatening to

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Speaker 1: prosecute Flynn's son. I mean, how unconscionable is that? So

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Speaker 1: Flynn through in the towel, And that's the kind of

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Speaker 1: guy Bob Muller is, and everybody needs to know that.

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Speaker 1: It's good a Mike from Michigan. Mike, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 1: Hey Greg, it's good to talk to you. You can

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Speaker 1: help me out because I've been screaming at my radio

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Speaker 1: for months every time Sean talks about the way these

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Speaker 1: guys lied to the Fisichord judge. I'm a truck driver,

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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in Detroit and Chicago, and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of dirty judge in this country. Why

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Speaker 1: couldn't there be a dirty judge that's handling these cases

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Speaker 1: in the what do you call it courts? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: called a FISK, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well yeah, listen and thank you, Mike. It's a great question.

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Speaker 1: Here's the problem with a FI succort. It's secret. It's

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Speaker 1: a star chamber, and we know how that operated in

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Speaker 1: Old England, which is why, you know, we decided in

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Speaker 1: our constitution that you know, trials should be public and

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Speaker 1: that the accused should have the right constitutionally to face

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Speaker 1: his accuser. The FI succord is a whole different operation

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Speaker 1: because of national security secrets and classified information and so forth.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's in secret, and you should know, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it is not an adversarial process. One side

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Speaker 1: is presented, the government side. And in this particular case,

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Speaker 1: these judges I think were not corrupt, but they were fooled.

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Speaker 1: There was no court hearing, it was just a paper submission,

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Speaker 1: and they trusted what Comi and McCabe and Yates and

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Speaker 1: Rosenstein presented to them, which we know was unverified information.

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Speaker 1: They deceived the court and concealed vital evidence and perpetrated

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Speaker 1: a fraud on the Court. Well, that's it for now.

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Speaker 1: I'm Greg Jarrett. Stay tuned one more hour to go.

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity has the day off. I'm Greg Jarrett. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for being with us. We'll be back in a moment,

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Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show on Greg Jared.

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Speaker 1: Many thanks for the people who called in, great questions,

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Speaker 1: solid commentary. You folks know what you're talking about. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you read the book. It's called The Russia Hooks. The

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Speaker 1: Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Framed Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: A great Christmas present. I'm Greg Jarted, thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Coming up next our final news round up

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Speaker 1: and information Overload hour. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.

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Speaker 1: I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean. This is our

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Speaker 1: last hour and I want to thank you for joining

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Speaker 1: us for the total of three hours. To many of

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Speaker 1: you who have been here throughout on the author of

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Speaker 1: the book The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump. You can get it

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Speaker 1: at Barnes and Noble dot com, Amazon dot com, or

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Speaker 1: just dropped by your bookstore. Number one New York Times

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Speaker 1: best selling book and it is still relevant today. How so,

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Speaker 1: because the President has answered in writing questions from the

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Speaker 1: Special Council Robert Muller about so called collusion, even though

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Speaker 1: collusion can be found nowhere in the criminal codes and

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Speaker 1: there has never been any evidence of collusion. How do

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Speaker 1: we know that, by the way, because the top FBI

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Speaker 1: lawyer on the Russia case, Lisa Page, testified two months

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Speaker 1: ago in deposition that the entire time the FBI had

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Speaker 1: the case, they never found a whiff of Trump Russia collusion.

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Speaker 1: And that significan Again, what does it mean? It means

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Speaker 1: when they handed it off to the special counsel, they

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Speaker 1: violated federal regulations by appointing a special counsel because those

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Speaker 1: rules say there must be evidence of a crime. You

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Speaker 1: just can't appoint a special counsel for a fishing expedition

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Speaker 1: or a safari. You've got to have evidence of a crime.

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Speaker 1: That's the law. Let's bring into the conversation David Shone,

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Speaker 1: who's a terrific civil liberties attorney, and David, you know,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of the president answering these written questions.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't Robert Mueller essentially already have the answers to these

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Speaker 1: questions from all of the public statements to the president

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Speaker 1: has made, not to mention the thirty people in the

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Speaker 1: White House and the campaign that have been interviewed on

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Speaker 1: the one point four million million documents that were handed

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Speaker 1: over from the White House to Muller. I believe Robert

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Speaker 1: Mueller has answered any question anyone possibly could want to

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Speaker 1: ask on the subject of these questions. Listen, they've said

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Speaker 1: from the start. I don't believe mister Mueller or anyone

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Speaker 1: on his team is actually seeking information. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they seek to ask questions to learn more information, to

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Speaker 1: find out what happened. I think it simply as some

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Speaker 1: people call the purgery trap. But specifically what I think

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Speaker 1: it's for is because of the broad jurisdiction Mueller is

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Speaker 1: given under the Special Council Regulations, specifically Section six hundred

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Speaker 1: point four. By appointing Mueller, they created a whole new

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Speaker 1: set of crimes, and those crimes are simply in Mueller's

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Speaker 1: prerogative to charge if he finds if heating Mueller or

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Speaker 1: do you want the steam finds that the President, acting

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Speaker 1: with the intent to interfere with his investigation, or committed

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Speaker 1: burgery or obstruction of justice. Destruction. The other words, creating

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Speaker 1: the special Council position created a whole new set of crime,

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Speaker 1: so that all Mueller has to find is that he

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Speaker 1: doesn't believe the president's answer to any questions, and then

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Speaker 1: a new crime has been created. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: these members of the team, people like Weissman and Gregandre's

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Speaker 1: their masters at that kind of thing, coming up with

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Speaker 1: these new crimes simply because someone agreed to an interview.

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Speaker 1: I personally don't understand the thinking in agreeing to submit

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Speaker 1: the written questions of the answers to written questions unless

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Speaker 1: there's an agreement that that ends it and that there's

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Speaker 1: no grand jury subpoena, that there's no further request for

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Speaker 1: an oral interview, that kind of thing, and we don't

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Speaker 1: have those kinds of agreements, you understand it. Even if

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Speaker 1: the agreement with Mueller was we're not going to answer

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Speaker 1: any questions about the firing of coming, anything related to

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Speaker 1: obstruction of justice, anything that the president did after he

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Speaker 1: took office. You can ask him about the campaign and

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Speaker 1: any and all contacts with Russia that the president had

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Speaker 1: or didn't have, or his awareness of anybody else in

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Speaker 1: his campaign. If that's the agreement, explain the jeopardy. Well,

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Speaker 1: jeopardy is simply it's a unilateral decision by Muller as

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Speaker 1: to whether he believes something in the President's written answers

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Speaker 1: is untruthful. If it is, Muller can charge a crime.

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Speaker 1: It may be one hundred percent truthful. But if Mullard believes,

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Speaker 1: even if he doesn't genuinely believe it, if in order

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Speaker 1: to justify his existence, right, he tells everyone that the president,

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Speaker 1: he can charge the president. So in other words, he's

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Speaker 1: pulling a Michael Flynn routine all over again. Flynn was

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Speaker 1: interviewed by the FBI. The agents concluded he told the truth,

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Speaker 1: but Mueller charged Flynn with a false and misleading statement

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Speaker 1: charge anyway, exactly, And that's the danger of distinct And again,

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Speaker 1: these prosecutors in the who come from the Eastern District

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Speaker 1: of New York have done that kind of thing forever.

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Speaker 1: That's why they ask for interviews often, and then they

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Speaker 1: charge with false statements either to an agent or to them,

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Speaker 1: or obstruction of justice in their investigation. That I think

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Speaker 1: it's an American Frankly, yeah, I agree with you completely.

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Speaker 1: And here's the problem. It's easy for a guy like

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Speaker 1: Mullard to level an accusation or make a charge. Proving

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Speaker 1: an accord is difficult, and in the case of both

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Speaker 1: Papadopolis and Flynn, I think it would have been impossible.

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Speaker 1: He's certainly in the case of Flynn, there's no way

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Speaker 1: that Mueller would have obtained a conviction. Why because if

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Speaker 1: you look at the statute false and misleading statement, it

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Speaker 1: must be made willingly and knowingly that you're making a

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Speaker 1: false statement. That your line. Same thing with perjury. It

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Speaker 1: requires intent. So if your recollection of events is simply

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Speaker 1: different than Muller interprets it or somebody else remembers it,

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Speaker 1: you know Muller will charge, but he can't win under

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Speaker 1: that premise, under the statute. Well, that's of course right,

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Speaker 1: But as you know, well, everyone's life changes when he

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Speaker 1: or she is simply charged with a crime, when an

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Speaker 1: accusation is leveled, that change its life changing. And that's

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Speaker 1: the power that Mueller has been given, and that he

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Speaker 1: chose this team with an agenda to exercise. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, Greg, you know you pointed out in the

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Speaker 1: beginning there never should have been a special council appointed,

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Speaker 1: not only as there to be a basis for a

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Speaker 1: criminal investigation, but there's specific requirement under the Regulation six

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Speaker 1: One is that the appointment of the Special Council would

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Speaker 1: be in the public interest. I would respectfully suggest that

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Speaker 1: from all that we've seen, this is a disaster and

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Speaker 1: never was in the public injust And I'm hoping Greg

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Speaker 1: that you're going to write a sequel to your book

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Speaker 1: it describes the so called investigation and how far off

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Speaker 1: the tracks we went this country. Well, I'm thinking about

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Speaker 1: doing that, But in the meantime, I hope people will

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Speaker 1: read The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to clear Hillary

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Speaker 1: Clinton and frame Donald Trump, available in bookstores and online.

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Speaker 1: But you know, there's a third reason, David, that the

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Speaker 1: appointment of Robert Muller was illegitimate. Under the regulations, there

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Speaker 1: has to be a conflict of interest at the Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice in order for the acting Attorney General to

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Speaker 1: appoint a special counsel. Since Jeff Sessions had recused himself

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Speaker 1: under accusations of a conflict of interest and removed himself

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Speaker 1: from the case, didn't he also remove the conflict of

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Speaker 1: interest and therefore none existed? I agree. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: a catch all phase about extraordinary circumstances. But focusing on

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Speaker 1: the conflict of interest, I think you put your finger

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Speaker 1: on a very important point here, because there's also another

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Speaker 1: irony about that issue, which I think is an inherent

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Speaker 1: problem with the regulation. If there's a conflict of interest

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Speaker 1: for the Justice Department such the special Counsel had to

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Speaker 1: be appointed, then why did mother pick as his right

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Speaker 1: hand man Andrew Weissman, who comes from the Justice Department,

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Speaker 1: a current employee head of the fraud unit at the

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Speaker 1: Justice Department, and many other members of the team. It's

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Speaker 1: true the regulations allow it, but why would you do

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Speaker 1: that if you want to be above board and avoid

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Speaker 1: even the appearance of a conflict of interest? As I

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Speaker 1: explained in the book, Robert Muller had three, not one,

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Speaker 1: not two, but three disqualifying conflicts of interest, and one

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Speaker 1: of them was a mandatory disqualification, and yet he ignored them,

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Speaker 1: didn't care, and then he assembled a team of partisans.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't a reasonable conclusion be drawn therefrom that there is

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Speaker 1: nothing fair or impartial or neutral about this special Council team. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: the American people should have rejected this team from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: There's an entire universe of capable lawyers who could have

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Speaker 1: been picked for the Special Council team and should have

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Speaker 1: been picked if he cared in the least about the

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Speaker 1: public perception. And I would respectfully suggest again that the

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Speaker 1: public perception is a key to any Special Council investigation.

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Speaker 1: It has to be seen as fair and impartial. This

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Speaker 1: cannot be that every member of the team virtually has

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Speaker 1: an agenda that Matt is an anti Trump agenda. They're

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Speaker 1: nearly all were Democratic donors. Two of the individuals actually

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Speaker 1: represented either the Clinton Foundations, foundation or people involved in

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Speaker 1: the investigation in a Hillary Clinton's criminal conduct in mishandling

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Speaker 1: classified documents and destroying documents and jeopardizing national security. How

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Speaker 1: could those two individuals have been chosen? You're on a percent, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've said it over and over and everyone

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Speaker 1: who cares sees it. I mean, Jimmy Ree represented missus

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Speaker 1: Clinton and the very thing that's at least related to

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Speaker 1: all of this investigation and the competing investigations. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I can just envision what happened. James Cummy was interviewed

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Speaker 1: by the Special Council. He's a key witness in any

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Speaker 1: potential obstruction case. Longtime close friend ally former partner with

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Speaker 1: Robert Muller. So Muller has a choice. Am I going

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Speaker 1: to believe my longtime friend or the President United States,

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Speaker 1: the man who fired my longtime friend. That's true. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can just see why the conflict of

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Speaker 1: interest recusal regulation was written to prevent that sort of

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Speaker 1: thing from happening, and yet Muller ignored it with impunity.

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, from from start to finish. I

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Speaker 1: don't look, I hate to sound so cynical. I don't

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Speaker 1: believe there ever was a search on mister Muller's part

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Speaker 1: and any member of his team's part to seek the

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01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: truth here or to get information. I think there's been

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Speaker 1: an agenda, and now I think it's a matter of

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01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,920
Speaker 1: justifying the exist and the agenda was driven I think

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Speaker 1: by retribution inventions, which is what I write about in

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Speaker 1: my book The Russia Hoax. That Muller had every motivation

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Speaker 1: to target Trump unfairly in an act of retribution for

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Speaker 1: firing his longtime friend, or maybe he just doesn't like

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. You know, they had a financial dispute, and

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Speaker 1: another conflict of interest was Muller had actually interviewed the

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Speaker 1: day before he became special counsel, he'd interviewed with Trump

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Speaker 1: to take the job place. James, Comey, there's another conflict

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Speaker 1: of interest. It wasn't disclosed to the president. Yeah. Now

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Speaker 1: the question is what will be in Muller's report, And

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Speaker 1: I am willing to bet, although there is there is

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01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 1: no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, that Muller

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Speaker 1: will write something in the report that will be highly

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01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:26,839
Speaker 1: critical of Trump, whether it's collusion or obstruction of justice,

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Speaker 1: so that this will be fodder for Congress Democrats in

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Speaker 1: Congress who want to impeach the president. What do you think? Sure,

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think it will be full

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Speaker 1: filled with cheap shots and unsupported allegations. Listen, let's be honest.

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Speaker 1: The President was an outsider from the beginning of this thing,

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01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: has never been a part of mister Mueller's network, and

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Speaker 1: these folks operate in networks. Again, I'm a huge fan

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Speaker 1: of the FBI. As I said before, my father was

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Speaker 1: an FBI agent. But there's a close knit circle. Mueller

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01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 1: has his fans and he has his enemy within that circle.

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Speaker 1: But Mueller is a part of that package package of

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Speaker 1: government and former government employees and Donald Trump. I has

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Speaker 1: never played ball with him. All Right, David showan stick

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01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:12,560
Speaker 1: around for just a moment. We're gonna squeeze in a

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Speaker 1: quick break here on the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking when we come back from the

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Speaker 1: break about the man, the lawyer that you know Americans

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01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 1: love to hate, Michael Avanatti, the creepy porn lawyer who

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Speaker 1: now is accused of felony domestic violence. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett.

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Speaker 1: With us is David showan civil liberties attorney. David. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the sudden turn of

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Speaker 1: events as to the fate of Michael Avanatti. This is

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01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:50,599
Speaker 1: a man who represented Stormy Daniels in numerous lawsuits against

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01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 1: the President United States and others. This is a guy

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01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 1: who now stands accused of domestic felony abuse. He insisted

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Speaker 1: he is innocent, and I, for one, have said from

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Speaker 1: the very beginning, and so is Sean Hannity, that he

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Speaker 1: is entitled to the presumption of innocence and due process.

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Speaker 1: But I must say that some of the evidence that

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01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: is beginning to surface is not looking so good for

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01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: Michael Avanati. The woman who is his accuser was granted

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Speaker 1: a temporary restraining order by a judge in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: and the court documents she submitted to the judge to

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Speaker 1: keep Avanati away from her, she says he dragged her

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Speaker 1: on the floor, threw her into a public hallway dressed

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Speaker 1: only in her T shirt and underwear, that he allegedly

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Speaker 1: hit her in the face with pillows and engaged in

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Speaker 1: Let me just give you a quote here. He dragged

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Speaker 1: me on the floor of the partment toward and out

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Speaker 1: the door into the public hallway. I was wearing my

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Speaker 1: undershirt and T shirt at the time and suffered scratches

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Speaker 1: to my bare skin and my side and leg. That's

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Speaker 1: a report from the New York Times, based on the

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Speaker 1: court documents that were filed. What do you think is

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Speaker 1: going to happen? Oh, I don't know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: But the allegations are absolutely chilling. I mean, he cornered her,

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Speaker 1: according to the allegations, sworn allegations cornered her. He threatened

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Speaker 1: her if she were to go a begging her not

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Speaker 1: to go to the police, not to go to the press.

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Speaker 1: After leaving Marx on her We're told, absolutely chilling. But listen,

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Speaker 1: you're right, he's deserves due process, as he even now

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Speaker 1: has come to the conclusion that a defendant an accused

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01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: deserves due process. That wasn't this position, of course with

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Speaker 1: prospective Supreme Court justice then Kavanaugh. But listen, everything that

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Speaker 1: comes up with this guy, though there's a denial, everything

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01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,479
Speaker 1: is every charge against him his baselet baseless. A court

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Speaker 1: finds that he cheated people out of money. No, actually

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01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: they cheated him out of money, he said, nao him

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Speaker 1: Moore bar complaintless filed for serious misconduct. There was no

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Speaker 1: bar complainters. There was no misconduct, he says. It's he's

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Speaker 1: a media created phenomenon that is absolutely mind boggling. I'm

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Speaker 1: afraid now I was hoping we might see Abananti Stormy

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Speaker 1: Daniels as the tickets of the Democratic Party. I'm afraid

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Speaker 1: now he may have hurt those chances. Stormy Daniels might

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Speaker 1: still be in the running. But anyone who coasties up

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Speaker 1: to Michael Abnanti after all of this got to be

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Speaker 1: out of their minds. But he just keeps coming and

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01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 1: coming and coming. He's got more than nine lives. I

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Speaker 1: want to say thanks to David Showing, civil liberties attorney

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Speaker 1: who's been with us over the course of the last hour.

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Speaker 1: David many thanks. This is the Sean Hannity Show. I'm

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Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett. We'll be right back and welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity. I want to talk now about Jim Acosta,

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Speaker 1: CNN and the White House new press rules. As you

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Speaker 1: may know, it all began with the insufferable, incorrigible Jim

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Speaker 1: Acosta of CNN when during a presidential news conference, he

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Speaker 1: decided that he was the most important person in the

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Speaker 1: rule room and he was going to voice his opinion

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Speaker 1: on the president and engage in an intemperate argument with

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Speaker 1: the President. Let's take you back to that moment, thank

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Speaker 1: you as president, to challenge you on on one of

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01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:28,559
Speaker 1: the statements that you made in the tailing of the campaign, uh,

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Speaker 1: in the terms that here we go that well, if

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Speaker 1: you know, miss President, that this caravan was an invasion,

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Speaker 1: as you know, as you know, Miss President, the caravan

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01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: was not an invasion. It's a it's a group of

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Speaker 1: migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with

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Speaker 1: the US. Why why did you why did you characterize

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Speaker 1: it as such as I consider an invasion. You and

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Speaker 1: I have a difference of it. But do you think

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Speaker 1: that you demonized immigrants this election to try to want them.

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Speaker 1: I want them to come into the country, but they

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Speaker 1: have to come in legally. You know, they have to

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01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:04,600
Speaker 1: come in jim through a process. I wanted to be

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Speaker 1: a process and I want people to come in, and

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01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: we need the people. Your campaign, your campaign, Wait, you

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01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: know why I wouldn't need the people, don't you Because

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01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: we have hundreds of companies moving in. We need the people.

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Speaker 1: But your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over

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01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:21,760
Speaker 1: walls and such. But they weren't actor not going to

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01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: be doing they weren't actors. Well, no, it's true. Do

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Speaker 1: you think they were actors. They weren't actress, They didn't

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Speaker 1: come from Hollywood. These were these were people. This was

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Speaker 1: an actual you know, it happened a few days ago,

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Speaker 1: and they're hundreds of miles away. Though they're hundreds and

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Speaker 1: hundreds of miles away, that's not an invasion. Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: think you should let me run the country. You run

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Speaker 1: CNN and if you did it well your ratings. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you, if I may ask the question, President,

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Speaker 1: if I may ask you a question, are you worried?

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Speaker 1: That's enough that president that asked one of the other folks,

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Speaker 1: that's enough. Pardon me, ma'am, I'm miss presiding that's enough.

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Speaker 1: As President, one of the I may ask on on

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Speaker 1: the Russia investigation? Are you concerned that that you may

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01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 1: have I'm not concerned about anything you may have investigation

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Speaker 1: because it's a hoax. Are you that's enough? Put down

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Speaker 1: the mic? This president? Are you worried about indictments coming

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01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:16,640
Speaker 1: down in this investigation? Mister president, I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: CNN should be ashamed of itself. Haven't you working for them?

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Speaker 1: You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn't be working

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Speaker 1: for CNN. Go ahead, I think that's under a very

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01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 1: rude person. The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible,

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Speaker 1: and the way you treat other people are horrible. You

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01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 1: shouldn't treat people that way. Go ahead, and going to Peter.

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Speaker 1: In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him.

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Speaker 1: He's a diligent reporter who bustles. I'm not a big

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Speaker 1: fan of yours either, So to be honest, every time,

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Speaker 1: every time I hear that, I gotta laugh. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've been a reporter journalists for I don't know, thirty

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Speaker 1: five years or so. I have never seen such an obnoxious, abrasive, rude,

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Speaker 1: self centered, self absorbed reporters Jim Acosta. And he's like

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Speaker 1: that every day. This is a guy who would walk

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Speaker 1: a mile for a camera so he can grandstand in

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Speaker 1: the hopes that any confrontation with the president of the

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Speaker 1: White House Press secretary will be played over and over

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Speaker 1: in a constant loop on social media and on CNN

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Speaker 1: and elsewhere. Jim Acosta doesn't care about asking questions. He

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Speaker 1: cares about drawing attention to himself and imposing his own

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Speaker 1: opinion on everybody, including the President of United States. Acosta

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Speaker 1: starts out by lecturing the President, as you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not an invasion, he said to President Trump. Because Acosta

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Speaker 1: had the audacity the temerity to disagree with a noun,

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Speaker 1: Acosta needs to go back to grade school. And I'd

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Speaker 1: begin if I you, Jim, with Webster's dictionary. An invasion

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Speaker 1: is an unwanted intrusion. So it's fair for the President

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Speaker 1: and a great many Americans to regard a caravan composed

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Speaker 1: of thousands of people who broke through a guatemal In

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Speaker 1: fence by force into Mexico and headed to our border

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Speaker 1: with perhaps the same intentions to be called an invasion.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Jim Acosta doesn't care about the truth.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't care about the facts. He just cares about

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Speaker 1: Jim Acosta and somehow elevating his status on the world

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Speaker 1: or the national stage. I want to talk to Seb

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Speaker 1: Gorka about this. Seb has written a wonderful book called

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Speaker 1: Why We Fight. He's a former White House advisor. Seb Oh,

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Speaker 1: He's great to have you with us. I want to

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Speaker 1: get your take on Jim Acosta. Am I wrong that

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Speaker 1: he is the most obnoxious and insufferable person in the

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Speaker 1: White House press corps? You're not wrong, Greg, You're just

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01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: far too polite. Jim Acosta is a punk, That's all

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Speaker 1: he is. He's a grandstanding punk, and I'd like to

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Speaker 1: know why he's ashamed of his Latino heritage. A Jim

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Speaker 1: is not Jim. Jim was born Abillio Acosta, and that's

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Speaker 1: why I call him a Billio when I tweet about

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Speaker 1: him on social media. Why is he ashamed of his

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Speaker 1: Latin American heritage. That's so strange, so strange. I just

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Speaker 1: don't know how the President and my former colleague Sarah

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Speaker 1: Huckey bisand is how they stood up with this person

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Speaker 1: for so long. I would have stripped him of his

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Speaker 1: hard path six months ago. And I do think that

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Speaker 1: the decision in the nineteen nineties to televise all the

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Speaker 1: press briefings or is a bad mistake, because that's how

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Speaker 1: you get people like Jim Acosta. Yeah. Absolutely. And you

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Speaker 1: know some people have said, oh, Sam Donaldson did the

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Speaker 1: same thing. No, yes, Sam Donalds and would pose loud, direct,

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Speaker 1: challenging questions, sometimes with a bit of a caustic edge

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Speaker 1: on them. But he always posed question. Sam Donaldson when

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Speaker 1: he was at ABC and he was a White House correspondent,

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Speaker 1: would ask tough, challenging question. But that's not what a

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Speaker 1: Costa does. A Costa imposes his opinions on every He

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Speaker 1: is not a reporter. He's a pundent in in disguise

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Speaker 1: as a White House correspondent. Now you know, go ahead, seb. No,

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Speaker 1: he thinks it's the Jim Accosta Show. He doesn't think

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Speaker 1: it's the White House Press breethink. He really thinks that's

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Speaker 1: the Jim Acosta show. You know, it's important to note

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Speaker 1: that the federal judge who issued a ruling, you know,

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Speaker 1: saying Acosta has to have his press credentials back, did

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Speaker 1: not determine that Acosta's First Amendment rights, the free speech,

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Speaker 1: free press, or deny. Simmothy Kelly was the judge. He

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Speaker 1: issued a temporary restraining order based on due process grounds.

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Speaker 1: And here's the problem. Due process has now been so

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Speaker 1: irrationally unreasonably expanded and stretched into a gum belike figure

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Speaker 1: that it bears no resemblance to the intent of due

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Speaker 1: process by the framers who wrote that in the Fifth

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Speaker 1: Amendment and then later the Fourteenth Amendment. I mean, in

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Speaker 1: this day and age, if you're denied bathroom privileges, it's

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Speaker 1: now somehow a due process violation. It's been stretched all

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Speaker 1: out of shape and reason. And seb Gorka, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is the end result, isn't it. Look you are

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Speaker 1: the legal expert. You are Fox News is number one

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01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: legal guy. I'll leave that to you. But as an

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Speaker 1: American citizen, as a layman, I always thought due process

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01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: was about your standing in a judicial process. You're standing

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01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 1: in a court of law. What had judicial process got

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01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 1: to do with your government? Pause to access if you're right? Right? Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean, all you have to do is read the

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Speaker 1: Fifth Amendment. It is talking about a criminal proceeding, a

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Speaker 1: judicial proceeding. But you know, judges over the decades have

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Speaker 1: expanded it so that you know, somebody looks into the

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01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: wrong way in the workplace, you know you're violating my

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Speaker 1: du broses. Right, you know there, But let me move on,

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Speaker 1: because said there's always been this accepted set of rules

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Speaker 1: of decency and decorum in the White House Press briefing room.

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Speaker 1: They were never put in writing because reporters understood the rules.

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Speaker 1: You get to ask one question, that's right. They were

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Speaker 1: grown up. That's right. You get to ask one question,

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01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 1: but only when you're called on. If you're lucky, the

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Speaker 1: president or the White House Press Secretary will allow you

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01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: to ask a follow up question. But you can't commandeer

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Speaker 1: the news conference and argue incessantly with a president. You

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01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 1: can't be like Jim Acost and hog the microphone. I mean,

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01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:20,040
Speaker 1: if you let a Costa continue on, you know two

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Speaker 1: hours later, is still Jim Acosta arguing with the President

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Speaker 1: of United States. I mean, what about the other sixty

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Speaker 1: reporters in the room. So well, all I know is

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Speaker 1: for the Thanksgiving parties and the Christmas parties. A Billio

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Speaker 1: Jim Acosta will not be popular with his fellow White

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Speaker 1: House Press Wall colleagues. The idea that we went from

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Speaker 1: a set of unwritten rules gentlemen's agreements to having this

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Speaker 1: black on white regulations put in place because of a Billio.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be Jim Acosta right now. I

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Speaker 1: know that the shore. Yeah, I mean, now it's gotten

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Speaker 1: to the point where the White House House has to

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Speaker 1: set rules as if you know, the White House Press

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Speaker 1: Corps a bunch of children in third grade. Here are

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Speaker 1: the rules. They're written out on the chalkboard. If you

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Speaker 1: want to ask a question, raise your hand. You may

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Speaker 1: only talk when called upon. I mean, it's just it's

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Speaker 1: gotten that silly. Thanks to Jim Accost and others. Now

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Speaker 1: NBC host Chuck Todd today he's criticizing these new common sense,

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Speaker 1: reasonable rules. He says they're absurd. And he said, and

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Speaker 1: I'm quoting here, I assume there isn't a single serious

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Speaker 1: journalist in the White House press corps who would abide

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Speaker 1: by these absurd rules? This is censorship? He wrote, Really,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think of that? Again, you're

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Speaker 1: the legal expert, but as first, my understanding goes First

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Speaker 1: Amendment rights applied to whether a government is trying to

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Speaker 1: stop you from expressing your opinion. It has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with journalists and how they behave or whether they

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Speaker 1: whether they behave in accordance with the decorum that is required. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think that you're exactly right in Chuck Todd, as

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Speaker 1: he is prone to demonstrate every day, knows absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 1: Zero damas a bucket of hair, John's a bag of hammers.

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Speaker 1: Can I just just say one thing because my friend

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Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper hates it when I remind them on a

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Speaker 1: Good Night CNN get six hundred thousand viewers. When you

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Speaker 1: or I go on Sean Hannity, it is five million.

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01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:46,200
Speaker 1: CNN is an irrelevance. And you know, sooner or later

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Speaker 1: the market forces will determine their faith. But less than

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Speaker 1: half a percent of Americans watch these jokers, and sooner

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Speaker 1: or later nobody will watch these jokers. You know what

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01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:00,800
Speaker 1: I would do if I were press secretary, I would

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Speaker 1: walk in there and I the first person I would

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Speaker 1: call upon would be Jim Acosta. And if Jim Acosta

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Speaker 1: pulled something similar and tried to take over the news

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Speaker 1: conference and wouldn't give up the microphone, after I've said

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Speaker 1: that's enough, I would say, here endeth the news conference,

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Speaker 1: bye bye, And by the way, there will be no

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Speaker 1: more news conferences for the rest of the week. I

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Speaker 1: guarantee you, said, Gorka, that Acosta would be immediately surrounded

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Speaker 1: by his colleagues, who then were deprived of asking any

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Speaker 1: questions at all, and A turned Featherham and sent him

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Speaker 1: out of Washington on a rail. Can I can? I

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01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 1: just you know, let's be honest, A press conference is

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Speaker 1: held for lazy reporters. You're not breaking news because the

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Speaker 1: government is making a statement which then you type up

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Speaker 1: for your news company. The press conference is a crutch

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01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:02,920
Speaker 1: a lady journalists. But you know what, I would love

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Speaker 1: to see what you just heard. And I think I

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01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:08,360
Speaker 1: think I can send that idea to a few people

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Speaker 1: in the building. I wish you would, because you know

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01:33:13,439 --> 01:33:18,559
Speaker 1: you abuse the rules. That's it. Press conference over seb Gorka,

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Speaker 1: I hope you have a great thanksgiving author of the

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Speaker 1: book why we fight. Everybody should read it or a

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Speaker 1: White House adviser. Thanks for being with us. I'm Greg Jarrett.

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Speaker 1: When we come back more of The Sean Hannity Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett.

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Speaker 1: I've been filling in for the last three hours and

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01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:42,040
Speaker 1: you can follow me on Twitter at Greg Jarrett. It's

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Speaker 1: been a great time here. We've had terrific guests, a

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Speaker 1: lot of important subjects that we've addressed. I want to

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Speaker 1: wish everybody a very happy and safe and joyous Thanksgiving.

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01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:56,040
Speaker 1: And you know when you go out shopping the day

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Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving and you're thinking about, you know, maybe Aunt

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01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:06,560
Speaker 1: Mary or cousin Francis would like a book for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Might I suggest The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to

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Speaker 1: clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. It was on

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Speaker 1: the New York Time Best selling list. It was number

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Speaker 1: one for several weeks and number two for several weeks.

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Speaker 1: It still holds up every chapter, all the facts, the evidence,

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Speaker 1: and the law about how corrupt people at the FBI

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01:34:33,120 --> 01:34:36,840
Speaker 1: and the Department of Justice subverted the rules of law

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Speaker 1: and tried to undo the election results and undermine democracy

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Speaker 1: and This is a book I believe in, and all

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Speaker 1: of the evidence that's come out since the book was

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Speaker 1: published only corroborate the thesis. You can pick it up

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Speaker 1: at your local bookstore. The Russia Hoax. I'm Greg Jared.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining here on the Sean Hannah Do Show.

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Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving, m