WEBVTT - Raul Castro Indicted and the Fight for Accountability 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.120 Oh, I believe that was the insufferable AOC whose voice 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:13.400 you were hearing, you know, anti black administration, picking continence 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:19.440 of I mean, please, she is nothing if not predictable 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.079 and a nutball. But that's just my opinion. I'm Greg 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.680 Jared filling in for Sean Hannity in this final hour 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.040 of The Sean Hannity Show. We'll be getting to a 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.920 lot of your phone calls. If you haven't called already, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.680 please do. I'd love to hear your comments or questions. Anything. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.840 Is game one eight hundred ninety four one seventy three 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.800 twenty six. Again, that's one eight hundred and nine four 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:51.840 one Sean, which is seventy three twenty six spelled out digitally. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.600 We do have some callers standing by. I'll ask you 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.200 guys to hang on because I'll get to you shortly. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.600 But I want to talk with my next guest, John 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.759 Solomon about what happened yesterday because he broke the story. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:15.920 Former Cuban president Raoul Castro indicted for murder in connection 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.800 to his alleged role in the nineteen ninety six downing 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.600 of two planes operated by the Miami based exile group 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.240 Brothers to the Rescue. Now The indictment, which a Florida 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:32.920 grand jury issued in April, was just unsealed yesterday. It 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:38.080 charges Castro with all kinds of crimes, conspiracy to kill 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.000 US nationals, four separate counts of murder, destruction of an 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.080 aircraft that goes on and on. Now, keep in mind 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:50.960 this happened thirty years ago in nineteen ninety six. Four 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.400 people were flying a civilian aircraft, two of them actually, 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.880 when Cuban militaries shot down their planes in international waters 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:05.640 kill them. The acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and i'll 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:10.200 quote him here, said this, they were unarmed civilians flying 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.680 humanitarian missions for the rescue and protection of people flaming 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:21.079 oppression across the Florida Straits end of quote. And of course, 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.880 Raoul Castro, the brother of the infamous Fidel Castro, head 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:30.600 of the communist regime, was Defense Minister at the time 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:37.600 and allegedly ordered the attacks personally. But this indictment comes 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.240 as President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.800 aggressively pursuing regime change in Cuba, where the Communist Party 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:51.160 has maintained this one state rule since nineteen fifty nine. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.799 They suppressed descent in prison and torture the opposition. They 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.840 forced the island population to live in third world in 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:07.040 poverished conditions. The Trump administration has recently instituted an embargo 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:12.279 on fuel, crippling Cuba's energy grid, resulting in ruling blackouts, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:17.000 fuel shortages, price increases. And the goal, of course is 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.639 to remove the communists and bring about political reform, freedom 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:27.480 for Cubans which they so desperately yearn for, and eventually 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:35.080 economic prosperity and America will help. You know, Cuba, keep 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.440 in mind, has historically posed a threat to US national security, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:45.000 their ties to hostile actors like Russia, and of course 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.480 I remember it well as a kid perilous apex in 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:53.360 October of nineteen sixty two during the Cuban Missile crisis 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.280 that is the closest the Cold War ever came to 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:02.120 a full scale nuclear war with the Soviets. So Cuba 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.960 is not just some you know, future holiday, you know, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:13.160 vacation spot. Now, it's strategically important. Joining me now to 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.200 talk about it, it's my friend John Solomon, editor in 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.279 chief of Just the News. He penned an exclusive story 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.880 on this. John, thanks so much for being with us. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.600 As you point out, in your excellent reporting. Cuban exiles 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:31.480 in America had been waiting thirty years for justice. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:38.240 So what changed, Well, first the administration changed, and then 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.239 a certain thing happened. We began enforcing our border laws again. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.680 We cracked down on the legal immigration. And this Trump 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.560 administration discovered that when Joe Biden was president, one of 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.240 the Cuban Communist Air Force pilots who had been involved 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.719 in this operation, involved in the flights that shot down 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.760 those innocent American humanitarian flights thirty years ago, was in 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.280 the country. Joe Biden led him into the country and 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.599 he felt so confident. After Joe Biden leed in the country, 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.000 he applied for permanent residency here, and the Trump administation said, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.000 not so fast, buddy, you killed some Americans or you 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.880 were involved in an operation that killed some Americans. They 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.120 arrested him. That led to a neutrons of evidence and 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.000 this Justice Department treated like a cold case. The US 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:28.120 attorney in Miami, Jason Canonez, who also is working on 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.200 the weaponization case out of Fort Pierce, they brought up indictment, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.520 and a very strong indictment with a lot of detail 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.000 that you understand why they could make these charges against 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.520 Rold Castro. You're going to charge the former leader of 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.919 a country. You're going to be pretty specific, lot of 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.800 evidence of why they can prove that Roe Castro and 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.440 the pilots and others were involved in this heinous crime. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.320 I was a young reporter at the AP when this happened, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.440 and I remember the anger of the Cuban American community, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.560 particularly in Miami, but all around the country. In the 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.559 feckless response that built Clinton and Janet Reno and others 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.120 gave to this. They simply couldn't react. They were afraid 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.279 to go after the Castros, even though all the evidence 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.479 made clear that Fidel and Raoul Castro were involved in this. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.880 But this Jrump administration, acting different than all the presidents 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.279 since that time, got the break in the case, followed 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.000 it and brought an indictment Esta and you saw the 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.920 joy in Cuban when the prosecutors came out to announce 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.240 the indictment. There were like hundreds, maybe a few thousand people, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.880 most of them of Cuban descent, outside the courthouse where 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.719 the announcement was made. This is justice, long delayed, but 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:35.960 finally served. Yeah. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.600 Absolutely, And in fact, if I recall correctly, and I 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:44.080 think one of your Just the News stories described as 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.839 Fidel Castro in an interview, and of course he did. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.880 He's dead. He admitted they shot it down, shot the 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:50.520 planes down. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.800 He did, he absolutely did. I think he implicated his 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:54.320 brother too. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:55.120 Yeah. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.720 Yeah, this has been a case that could have been 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.400 brought there just was no courage to be brought been 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.040 during the Clinton years and every successive administration it fell 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.159 colder and colder into the cold case files. But Donald 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.920 Trump never forgot. Tadd Blanche never forgot Jason conona Is, who, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.640 by the way, has several prosecutors on the staff who 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.800 are Cuban expats. They fled Cuba or their parents or 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.400 families fled Cuba, so they know the ruthless regime that 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.640 the Castros have been. They worked this case. They started 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.560 a task force in February. They're going to be other 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.120 cases brought against the Cuban government in the next few 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.360 months based on this task force. We had Jason Canonas 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.520 on the show last night and he talked about the 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.480 work of the task force and what is coming ahead. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.000 He's also the guy just to give you some fun 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.120 history here, he's the guy yesterday that also announced that 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.920 the longtime money launderer for the Maduro regime in Venezuela, who, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.720 by the way, Joe Biden partons. So think about this. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.720 Joe Biden pardons a money launderer for Nicholas Maduro, the 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.400 drug trafficker, the qube drug trafficker. He lets into the 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.080 country a Cuban Communi Air Force pilot involved in the shootdown. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.400 Well after the pardon, Jason Canonas and his team built 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.440 a criminal case back finding that that money launder had 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.120 continued moundy laundering since he got his pardon. They recharged him, 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.240 they arrested him. They're not going to let him do 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.960 any more drug morney laundering around the world. And then 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:24.160 also yesterday that same prosecutor, Jason Canona's secured an indictment 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.080 against one of his former prosecutors, yeah coecutor in Fort Pierce, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.040 because she tried to steal the secret Jack Smith report 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.280 trying to make accusations against President Trump. Judge said that 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.600 was sealed, can never be released. She was trying to 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.199 steal it. What does Jason Canonas do. He uses the 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.480 law and he punishes her. The charges against her carried 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:44.760 twenty years in prison. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.680 Yeah, I was happy to see Conona's take action. Carmen 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.280 Weinberger is the defendant in that case. She was the 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:59.520 managing assistant US attorney down there. Yeah, I mean it's unbelievable, 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.560 but underscores the depth and breadth of the deep state 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.240 that have embedded themselves in all of this. Look, I'm 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:13.520 itching to address what you alluded to, and that is, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.840 you know, the Grandeur in South Florida. They are looking 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:23.559 into potential criminal charges against those who waged the long 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.440 running law fier crusade against Trump and others. Bring us 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.000 up to date on now what's the latest. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.480 Well, the latest is they are ramping up with some 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.240 pretty impressive staff. Joe Degeneva, former US Attorney, former Special Council, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.360 former Independent Council. One of the few people I know 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.960 they ever had all three titles in his career, Very 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.560 experienced season prosecutor, a guy who took down Mayor Marion 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.040 Barry and his administration back in the eighties under Ronald Reagan, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.440 took down Jonathan Pollard. Is ra at least five. He's 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.560 building a quick right a strike force, rapid force team 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.760 to get to all the documents, get all the CIA 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.600 evidence and to build big cases. I think one of 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.320 the you know, before Jeordia Jennova got there, I think 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.760 they were the team that was down there was content 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.760 and maybe bring small cases. Maybe we'll just charge John 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.680 Brennan with making false statements to Congress in his twenty 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.120 twenty three testimony, which is one of the things that 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.960 Congress preferred John Brennan for, alleging that he made false statements. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:24.080 The Jennifa has stopped that small game prosecution plan, and 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.600 he's now looking at hey, if John Brennan did lie 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.400 in twenty twenty three because he was trying to hide 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.880 what he did back when he was a CIA director 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.360 and he was corrupting the intelligence can be putting out 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.480 a false intelligence assessment, letting the FBI bring a false 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.040 investigation against Donald Trump that they knew was false because 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.880 they had intercepted Hillary Clinton planning the false allegation. Maybe 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.000 we should just bring the big conspiracy case. So he 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.320 has gone back to the concept that Cash Bettel, the 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.640 FBI director, wrote, this is a grand conspiracy. Let's charge 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.320 it as a racketeering and conspiracy case. He's not going 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.080 to bring little tiny charges here and there. He's going 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.680 to charge big conspiracy cases tell a story and have 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.760 overwhelming evidence for a grand jury and maybe a jury 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.520 one day to consider, and I think that will take 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.040 a few extra weeks or months, but I wouldn't be 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.280 surprised by the middle of summer that we start to 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.600 see more of these indictments. Meanwhile, prosecutors who are trying 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.360 to weaponize the law right now, they're getting caught and 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.440 they're getting prosecuted, which by the way, didn't happen during 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:24.680 the Joe Biden years. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.120 Yeah, I mean, if anybody can do a joke, can 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.600 I've known him for thirty years as you have, you know, 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.000 top lawyer, and he I mean, he was a wealth 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.320 of knowledge about the Russia hoax and I interviewed him 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.640 for my book, the first one, The Russia Hoax, that 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.760 came out in two thousand and eighteen. He's a serious 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.280 guy and a fine lawyer, and he knows about things 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:57.400 like conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy against rights, racketeering, obstruction, perjury, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.959 deprivation of rights under color of law. Those are the 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:06.240 things that you know, Those are the charges that I 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.480 think could be brought against defenders. The question is what defindant? 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.559 So what are we looking at you mentioned John Brennan, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.680 what about James Comy. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.480 Sure those are all people who've either been referred for 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.559 prosecution by Congress, who are clearly on the radar based 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.480 on the evidence. Now in the public realm, I think 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.200 there are agents and lawyers up and down the stream 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.160 that we're carrying out the FBI seventh floor, the CIA 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.000 headquarters plots. They would all be looked at analysts if 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.480 they tried to corrupt an analysis and make it say 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.160 something that the evidence and intelligence didn't because they had 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.160 a political motive. That would be there if intelligence handles 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.280 and this is I think an active area right now 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.600 just from looking at the witnesses that are being called 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.839 and the documents that are being discussed in the defense bar, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.200 you know, one of the easiest ways to cover grandeates 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.960 find ut what the defense bar is, you know, getting 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.880 what's going on, nervous about There seems to be two 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.719 areas of interest. One is was Brennan really running a 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:07.000 false intelligence operation? When President Obama said, I don't like 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.640 the intelligence community's factual conclusion that Vladimir Putin didn't didn't 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.840 try to help Donald Trump. I want a different conclusion, 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:15.679 and they went back and gave him that even though 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.920 that's not what the career people thought. Is that a conspiracy, 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.760 Is that a fraud against the government. And that is 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.840 a very active area, and that would be why three 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.960 or four years later John Brennan would make a denial 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.400 about something true. He might be trying to cover it up. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.199 So tie those two events together. The other active area 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.880 was James Comey and the FBI and other people around 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.320 him in the deep Justice Department. State, were they trying 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.760 to lure the President Donald Trump into and trap him 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.199 into an obstruction case, which is they do right away 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.160 This Russia stuff was never true. It's bogus. But man, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.880 if we make him think it's true, maybe he'll do 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.520 something and we'll charge him with obstruction. And I think 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.720 beginning to look at certain events, the briefing that the 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.080 president got, defensive briefing he got just before it became president, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.079 the leaking of memos, the leaking of information has possibly 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.680 an effort to entrap someone and violate President Trump's civil liberties. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.520 We know they were trying to do that to Mike 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.600 Flynn based on the FBI records we have a few 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.080 years ago. I think that's a very active aarya the 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.040 investigation right now, according to defense layers. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.280 Yeah, I mean, you know I talked about a couple 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.920 of hours ago when I was tackling this subject. It 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.800 was classic and trapman and it didn't work. And James 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.600 Comey's dirty fingerprints were all over at John Solomon. Many 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.560 many thanks, talk to. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.760 You soon to be true with you, my friend. Thanks. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:36.000 Greg. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.960 All right, we're going to be back with your phone 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.240 calls in just a moment. The number is one eight 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.280 hundred and ninety four one seven, three, two six, Give 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:44.920 us a call. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.680 Thanks for listening to Sean Hannity. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.640 Welcome back to the Sean Hennedy Show. I'm Greg Jerry. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.320 We've been talking about the Department of Justice, lawyers and 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.560 US attorneys taking action down in Florida with a grand 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.080 jury that's been unpaneled. They are looking at potential charges 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.720 against a variety of people who waged an unprecedented and 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:43.080 corrupt lawfair crusade against Donald Trump and others. You know, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.000 there are a lot of bad actors here, and not 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.960 just the more recent Special Counsel Jack Smith and his 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.440 partisan team of prosecutors, but going all the way back 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.960 to the Russia hoax. I wrote two books about it. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:01.480 Joe Degeneva is now taking charge of that investigation, and 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.320 it looks to me like charges will be brought your 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:11.320 thoughts one eight hundred nine four one seventy three twenty six. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.000 Love to hear your comments or questions. One eight hundred 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:19.560 nine one seventy three twenty six year calls on the 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.840 other side, Stick. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:56.280 Around information, download Sean Hannity and the breaking news you 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:02.440 might have missed today. It's Shawn's insider information. Kennedy is 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.000 on right. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.720 Now, well he's sort of on right now. I'm Greg 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.480 Jared filling in for Sean Hannity. He's taking a few 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.000 days off, and this is the last half hour of 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.040 the program, So we'll be taking your phone calls. If 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.199 you haven't called yet, please do so. I'd love to 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:24.200 hear from you. One eight hundred nine four one seventy 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:29.359 three twenty six nine four one seventy three twenty six. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.800 Let's go right to the phone lines. Calling from Nebraska 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.960 is ed ed. Thanks for taking the time to give 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.320 us a call. How are you. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:44.240 Doing well? Honor to speak to you, Greg, simple question, Uh, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.960 with all these indictments that you're talking about, does a 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:53.399 man of your credibility demand results. Are Are you going 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.240 to be satisfied with just putting call in the boys 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:58.399 through the walk of shame. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.080 Well, it's tempting to say walk of shame is sufficient, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.560 but for me, it's not. No accountability in a court 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.119 of law justice. You know, if you break the law, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.960 you know you you should be held to the same 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:20.439 standard as anybody else who breaks the law. And it 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.000 doesn't matter if your name is James Commy or James Smith. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.880 And you know, let's take the second indictment against him 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:35.520 taking place in North Carolina, the whole Seashells alleged threat 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.960 on the life of President Trump. You know, there were 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.840 a lot of legal analysts, lawyers who were quick to 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:50.360 say the moment the indictment was read and rendered that oh, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:55.040 this is this is absurd, it's ludicrous, it's a specious case. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:01.400 I'm not so sure, and I'll tell you why, because 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.399 the acting Attorney General, whose fingerprints were all over the indictment, 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.760 is a very smart man and a talented lawyer. He's 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.360 the acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche. And Blanche said something 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.320 that caught my attention. He said, we have witnesses and 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:26.320 documents to prove our case against Comy, So that tells 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.800 me something. You know, they spent a year investigating the case. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.360 They were able to successfully subpoena records, and I think 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:39.520 interview people and they may have the goods on Comy. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.280 And there's something else that I saw in there. It 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.399 was notable that people seem to skip over and the 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:52.840 count at the end is for forfeiture and what does 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.560 that mean? Forfeiture of assets? What are they looking at? 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.760 I think they're looking at Comy's book sales, because it 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:04.000 is no coincidence that he posted his infamous Seashell social 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:11.439 media photograph eighty six forty seven, five days before his 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:16.120 latest book was to come out, you know, a book 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:21.240 of fiction, and Comey wasn't gaining any traction or attention. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:29.600 So was it his design, his intent to issue what 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.879 would be perceived as a threat on the president's life 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:37.200 to gain attention for his book sales? Because immediately after 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:41.320 he did that, suddenly everybody wants him on his program, 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:47.560 on their program, CNN, ANDSNBC and elsewhere to talk about 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.919 the photograph. But Comy saws an opportunity to gin up 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:55.719 his sales and it worked. And so it looks to 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:00.640 me like Blanche wants to seize those assets, and if 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:07.320 that was the intent all along, then trust me, prosecutors 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:11.159 have a lot more evidence against Comy than Comy and 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:16.000 his attorneys may even know, and the legal analysts who 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:20.159 have condemned the indictment. So we'll wait and see. Ed, 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.399 thanks for your question. Let's go to Jeff and Saint Louis. Jeff, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:25.960 how are you? 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:27.119 Oh great? Greg? How are you? 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:27.600 Thank good? 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.800 So my question is about the filibuster, and my question 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.760 is if they were able to get you know, the 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:40.960 never trumpers along to kill the filibuster, pass the Save Act, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.760 pass any other legislation that they want to at the time, 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.320 why couldn't they simply reinstate the filibuster when they were done. 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.959 Well, they could, but you know, he's sort of letting 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.400 the toothpaste out of the tube. You know, it's tough 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:58.280 to get it back in because once you undertake a 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:03.240 broad rejection of the film and get rid of it, yeah, 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.800 you can reinstitute it. But it sets the precedence that 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:13.280 if Democrats achieve their desired result of retaking the United 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.720 States Senate, and I don't think they will, by the way, 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:20.800 but if they do. Then they'll say, well, you guys 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:25.040 killed the filibuster first, so now we're entitled to do it. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:30.120 So it's a question of precedent more than anything else. Well, look, 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:33.199 you know, I blame John Thune, and I said this, 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.560 what in the last hour or the hour before that, 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:38.400 I placed blame on him. I think he has been 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:44.560 a feckless majority leader in the United States Senate, a 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:49.480 poor replacement for Mitch McConnell before him. He has been 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:54.879 utterly ineffective on many fronts, but notably you know the 0:22:54.960 --> 0:23:01.480 Save America Act, and you know, requiring Commons sense voter 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:06.240 ID when you cast a ballot to make sure that 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:10.399 the person you say you are is indeed you. I 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.720 mean you got to have ID for anything and everything. 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:16.400 If you want to cash a check, if you want 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.480 to buy liquor, if you mean, if you want to fly, 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:21.680 I mean you got to have an idea, and everybody 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:27.160 has an ID. And you know, the brainless Chuck Schumer 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:34.240 when asked, well, seventy eight percent of Democrats want voter ideas, 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:37.080 Oh it's Jim Crow two point zero. That's all he 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:39.640 has to say. I mean he didn't know what else 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.560 to say. Oh, is Jim Crow two point. Now, it's 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:48.159 not it's common sense. And most Americans and a great 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:54.840 majority of Democrats want what Chuck Schumer rejects. And John 0:23:54.960 --> 0:24:00.560 Thune is Schumer's enabler and frankly out to get of them. 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:04.320 But that's not going to happen in the near future 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:07.639 at least. Jeff, good question. Jeff from Saint Louis. Thanks 0:24:07.720 --> 0:24:11.160 very much. Let's go to Tennessee. James is standing by 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.160 with a question or comment. Hi James, how are you fine? 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:17.639 Thank you. It's pleasure to speak to you, mister Jared. 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:20.080 Thank you. Opinion is. 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:21.800 Okay? 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:27.240 Greg that my opinion was in an opposition to earlier 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:31.920 color that taking out parts of the infrastructure of Iran 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:35.600 part of the time until they buckle would only harm 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:39.360 the civilian population. It wouldn't do anything for the negotiations. 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:45.280 The real power in Iran is the IRGC, and until 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:50.920 the IRGC is rendered, you know, ineffective, that no negotiation 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:53.320 is going to be effective. The theocracy is going to 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:58.440 keep endless diplomatic treaty negotiations that they're not going to 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:03.360 adhere to anyway. Right downgrade the higher GC where they're 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:06.280 no longer a threat to their neighbors or most especially 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:07.639 their servine population. 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:12.160 Well, listen, James, I think it's a great point as 0:25:12.240 --> 0:25:18.520 to the first part, bombing infrastructure. As long as there 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:26.520 is a dual purpose or a dual result, and one 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:30.560 component of that is harming and deterring the military, then 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:33.359 it's not a war crime. It's absolutely proper in a 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:38.840 war conflict. You know, as I pointed out earlier, the 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:41.000 Allies did in World War Two. Did it hurt the 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:44.960 civilian population in Germany? Of course it did, but mostly 0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:49.600 it hurt the military and it helped win the war, 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:52.240 and it was key to that. It was not then 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:54.800 a war crime, and it's not now. So the people 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:59.280 who howled, oh war crime, Yeah, don't listen to those people. 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:02.120 They don't know what they're talking about. As far as 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:05.720 the IRGC, I agree with you. The Revolutionary Guard they 0:26:05.920 --> 0:26:11.480 are the true villains in Iran. Why because they have 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:17.040 the guns. They control the missiles, they control the launchers, 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:23.560