WEBVTT - Iran, Deterrence, and the Fight Ahead 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:03.080 Our two Sean Hannity show Told Free is eight hundred 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.240 and nine point one Sean if you want to be 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.240 a part of the program. There's now a new investigative 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.960 report our friend John Solomon, Founder, editor in chief, chief 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:16.680 investigative reporter of justinews dot com, and it's breaking on 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:22.080 the twenty twenty election and interference from nefarious foreign actress 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:26.400 top geopolitical foes and for example, the US Intel hid 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.400 you know, election meddling in the twenty twenty election from 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.840 Trump because they opposed his policies. You know, I don't 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.559 want my intelligence going to the White House where it 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.400 will be used with that vulgarian in the Oval Office 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.680 to support policies against China with which I personally disagree. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.440 That is not up to them. They're not elected to anything. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.120 Donald Trump is the commander in chief. The idea that 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.240 anybody in the intel community could ever think if they 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.640 can't pass this information on anyway, We'll get more details 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.040 of this from John Solomon. It's not the only piece 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.640 of evidence pointing to the Chinese government and their election 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.720 influence efforts in this country. Although much of China's activities 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.399 remains classified. Justinews dot Com was able to conduct a 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:19.440 thorough review of publicly available intelligence assessments. In other words, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.720 there's more info, they just they have it under wraps 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:27.800 right now. And federal indictment's foreign government warning cybersecurity from 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.840 analysis that's out there, incredible evidence that the Chinese government 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.880 also wanted to get a look at all of the 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.840 you know, the voter roles in this country anyway, John Solomon, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.880 Editor in chief, founder, chief investigative reporter justinnews dot com. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.680 This runs deep and wide, and it has a lot 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:49.920 of different aspects to this. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.600 Yeah, you're exactly right, Sean, It's pretty remarkable. So what 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.840 do we know? First, I want to take people back 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.760 in history. Just two years in twenty twenty four, one 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.760 of our allies, Great Britain, learned that China had access 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.320 and hacked into the voter registration database of Great Britain. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.799 It created an enormous moment of national alarm. There were firings, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.840 there were election security measures, there were hearings and independent commissions, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:21.120 and Great Britain treated this as something of grave concern 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.919 to the future election integrity of their system. And not 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.840 only that the Biden administration reacted with anger, they actually 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.240 punished China on behalf of Great Britain. But when they 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.200 took those actions, and when Great Britain was in alarm our, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.520 own intelligence community harbored its own deep dark secrets. It 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:47.040 has known. The CIA, the DNI, the Homeland Security Department 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.880 in the FBI has known since early twenty twenty spring 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.840 of twenty twenty that China had also gained access to 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.520 US voter registration data in America, the very data that 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.679 right now Democrats say they don't even want that to 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.680 be shared with the Trump Justice Department. There are several 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.160 Blue states trying to block Trump's Justice Department from reviewing 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.440 that data to make sure we don't have legal aliens 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.600 or non citizens on the motor roll. So it's so 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.919 sensitive we don't trust our own government. But it turns 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.400 out China penetrated it in America, and for the last 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.080 six years we've all been kept in the dark. The 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.160 way we know this is true, we were able to 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.400 get a declassified document, ironically, a document declassified by the 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.680 Biden administration before it left office. It lays out the 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.320 fact that China had gained access to this. We then 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.240 talked to some of the intelligence analysts on the record 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.680 who did this work in twenty twenty, and they confirmed that, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:43.160 in fact, China did gain access to multiple states of databases. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.760 Then we learned that the FBI had evidence that China 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.160 sent a bunch of driver's licenses into the United States 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.520 a months later. So in early twenty twenty, China acts 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.400 the databases or gains access to the databases. In the 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.600 summer of twenty twenty, they were sending fake driver's licenses 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.920 to shoo Ago Airport with the intention, according to the 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:07.560 FBI documents, of creating fake ballot registration and ballot ballots 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.440 that would help Joe Biden when the election. That's what 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.320 the FBI's intelligence source told them, is. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.839 This Joe Biden's FBI that first determined. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.080 This, No, this was the Trump one because it's still 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.039 twenty twenty when it occurred. So Trump won FBI, So 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.600 Chris Ray is doing this, and so all of that's 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.080 been kept a secret from us, and then today we 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.640 just put out the last piece of it, and you 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.640 mentioned it so brilliantly in your opening statement there Sewan, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.800 the CIA and intelligence community decided they weren't going to 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.760 tell President Trump, they weren't going to tell the Congress. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.120 They weren't going to tell the American public, contrary to 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.120 how Great Britain reacted, solely because the analysts who handled 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.880 China believed that this would help President Trump's policies. They 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.480 disagreed with President Trump. They considered him make quote unquote bulgarian, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.680 so they put their political beliefs, their political party ahead 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.440 of the national interest. It is such a remarkable story. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.040 Now we know that part because there's a little known 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.359 office called the Ombudsman for Analytics. That Ombudsman's job is 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.320 to watch the CIA and THEDIA and all the intelligence 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.359 community to make sure that their analytics are honest. And 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.480 in this case, the ombudsmen said they were not. That 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.560 while the community was very aggressive intelligence community in saying 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.279 China was involved in the election, they ignored, underplayed, hid, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.920 and suffocated evidence of China doing the same thing. And 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.560 then he concludes, quoting from the emails of the CIA analysts, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.520 that the reason China's meddling in the election was suppressed 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.800 was because the analyst in the Intelligence Committee did not 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.960 like Donald Trumper's policies and they decided to thwart them 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.120 by not telling our president, our commander in chief, our Congress, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.680 or the American people of these intrusions by China. It 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.000 is such a remarkable story. We spent a decade you 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.799 and I talking about the deep state. Here is perhaps 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.479 one of the most coajinig examples of how dangerous the 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.360 deep state can be. It can keep actionable intelligence, intelligence 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.359 that made Great Britain go to deat Con five on 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.840 election integrity from a president, from a Congress and American 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.200 people purely because of their political beliefs. That has got 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.240 to be very concerning to everyone listening today. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.880 I'm trying to understand who knew what and when. In 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.560 other words, this is this is one intelligence official comes 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.600 up with the assessment. We only have one commander in 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.880 chief at a time, we only have one president at 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.320 a time. You don't get to pick and choose what information, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.080 and especially when it deals with national security that you're 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.120 going to pass on to the president. And this one 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.359 individual did this. How many other people likely knew? 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.440 Oh, we know for certain from the reporting we've done 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:51.160 that Chinese sorry, China experts in the FBI, the Homeland 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.919 Security Department, and the CIA had concluded with certainty that 0:06:56.080 --> 0:07:00.760 China had penetrated the voter registration databases of the United 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.440 States American voters by April of twenty twenty. It is irrefutable. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.720 It is in a document that has shared community wide. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.840 Now what's remarkable about that is the president is briefed 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.840 twice on external elections threts, once in February, once in May. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.840 It does not appear that he gets that level of detail. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.440 It's kept from him, at least that's what the ombudsman 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.760 is suggesting in his work. So it is well known 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.760 across multiple agencies, across scores of analysts, and there's consensus. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.960 They agree, they assess that this happened. They just simply 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:34.640 don't want to tell them. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.600 Well, why would they be stupid enough to put this 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.880 in writing? I mean, I find that kind of spectacularly stupid. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.440 It is remarkable, it is quite remarkable, and so they 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.680 create these products. Now, in fairness, there were analysts who 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.840 were very concerned that this was being buried. One of 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.520 them is a guy named Christopher Porter. I interviewed him 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.360 on the record in my story. Chris Porter believed that 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.080 there was a cover up going on. He went to 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.240 the Inspector General, went to the ombudsman in clearly was 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.800 trying to get this out. But despite his efforts. It 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.440 remained a secret until just a few short weeks ago 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:11.080 or just until recently. The intelligence analysts will write their 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.520 products knowing that they're going to be highly classified, never 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.680 read by Joe Sixpack, you and I or the president 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.120 unless someone briefed the president. The president enough time to 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.200 go through the HIA library and read things. And so 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.120 even though you write it down because it's important to 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.800 collect what you put in, it's legally required that you 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.600 collect the information to write it. You can control who 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.719 knows what by just determining who gets it. And they 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.000 kept these things off the books, They kept them from 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.680 the getting to the President, the Congress. I've talked to 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.240 dozens of senators excuse me, more than a dozen centators 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.800 in the last week, people who are currently debating the 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.240 same America actor like jod we never heard this, Like 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.360 we looked at the document. We're disbelief. We weren't told. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.120 But that's how powerful a bureaucracy can be. It can 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.000 find things, write them, and then keep them from being 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.319 discovered by people because of the they bury documents. Is 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.680 what cash Bettel keeps talking about with all of these 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.280 skiffs and secret documents and code named investigations. The deep 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.560 state is very powerful, and sometimes it may come at 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.000 the expense of the American public. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.480 We know how high up it goes or is this 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.880 just a work of one or a few analysts to 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:20.720 be determined. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.439 There is a large body of evidence that we are 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:29.600 asking Director Ratcliffe, Director Gabbert to declassify that would allow 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.400 us to see how high up and who knew what when. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.600 It is highly likely that the CIA director at the time, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.160 Gena Haspell, would have to have known, given that this 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:45.160 was a National Intelligence Council assessment. Usually the CIA director 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.000 is brought to that and I have photos I may 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.760 share these some of your staff of Gena Haspal sitting 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.360 in a meeting with President Trump in February of twenty 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.000 nineteen and again in May. I was sorry February of 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.840 twenty twenty and May of twenty twenty, where these two 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.960 election briefings were given. We need to find out whether 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.200 they kept it from her, but most likely to see 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.079 IA director almost certainly would have been told of this assessment, 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.520 given the fact that there's an official product. We don't 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.520 know about Christopher Ray. We do know that when the 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.560 FBI discovered the driver's licenses and the alleged plot by 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.640 China to maybe fake some to fake some ballots that 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.440 would be voted for Joe Biden to try to help 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.680 Joe Biden win the election. That they knew that this 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.000 evidence ran contrary to what Chris Ray told timas he 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.240 had said no foreign intrusions by China. They actually say 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:36.720 it in an email. They write it, Hey, this is 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.439 going to contradict Chris Ray, the director's testimony. Let's pull 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.960 it back. And they pulled the intelligence report back so 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.520 that people can't talk about it. We do know at 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.000 least the people below Chris Ray knew it. Now, whether 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.760 Chris Ray knew it or whether they kept him in 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.480 the dark to be determined, but it is pretty a 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.880 widespread I've interviewed many intelligence experts in people who were 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.920 in the community at that time. They're like, oh, yeah, 0:10:59.920 --> 0:11:01.440 we all knew it. We just kept quiet about it. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.920 And I've interviewed some bying there are people and they're like, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.120 we were kind of amused that President Trump's own team 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.880 kept us from him while he was in office, given 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.760 his concerns about China. So the Biden people knew it, 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.720 they kept quiet. Lots of career people knew it, because 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.000 I've interviewed those people. It is remarkable that it stayed 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.160 a secret for six years. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:26.920 Unbelievable, unbelievable. I mean, I just I cannot believe that 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.640 we have what we call the deep state, and these 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.320 are people that are supposed to be patriotic, They shouldn't 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.520 be serving a political agenda. And it's time and time 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.160 and time and time again. And I know what frustrates 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.640 my audience because I'm in tune with what they're saying, 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.520 and I feel their frustration because you have come on 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.880 this program time after time, You've broken story after story. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:53.520 You show evidence upon evidence upon evidence, and then nothing 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.480 usually happens to the people involved, or we find out 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.240 in the case of like James Comey stature limitations of 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.080 long since past, and then they go for, you know, 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.760 whatever remaining low hanging fruit unless they can somehow eventually 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:10.280 put together a grand conspiracy case. Right that frustrates people 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.840 at you know, at an incredible level. The last time 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.240 you were on this program, you were telling that it 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.920 wasn't just arctic frost, that there were how many separate 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:25.840 work but five separate investigations with various code names that 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:31.320 are in fact, you know, looking into the people that 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.000 are opponents of a particular political agenda or those that 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.160 support Donald Trump. What's the status on that. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.400 Well, we hope soon the most interesting of them, the 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.320 one that's really the most murky and dark and west 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.960 well kept secret, is soon to be declassified. Round River 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.920 Cash Betel, the FBI director, a little busy today's up 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.840 on the hill testifying alongside of Telsey Gabbert and John 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.520 Rakoff to see I, INDI and I directors. But if 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.920 those get to classify, that I think will be one 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.560 of the most shocking investigations because that investigation was driven 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:07.360 by speech deliminers, meaning what you said, what you spoke 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.120 with your words in the country that's supposed to have 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.240 a First Amendment determined whether the FBI considered you a 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.360 threat in subjected you potentially and. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.920 In other words, if you want to after zero experience 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.480 Hunter and Barisma and no experience in oil gas energy, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.959 but got paid millions in the quid pro quo, you're 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.880 not getting the billion unless you unless you fired the prosecutor. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.240 I have we talked about that. Were we targeted? Was 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.720 I targeted? Were you targeted? 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.000 Oh, we don't know the names who were targeted yet, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:36.760 but we do know that the some of the speech 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.800 diliminters involved Hunter Biden, the Biden family in Ukraine. Hopefully 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.000 soon will know that. Now I know personally that I 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.800 was subjected to a criminal investigation because in twenty twenty two, 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:47.920 my lawyer has had a. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.760 Criminal investigation for what is no more honest human being 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:52.240 on earth? 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.000 Yeah, for reporting on Hunter Biden. And they believed I 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:02.240 was getting my information from Russian sources longer to Brete 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.200 Giuliani and the lawyers around President Trump. They they got 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.200 a little lesson. They got a schooling that day because 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.360 they realized I got my stuff from the FBI's files. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.080 And the second they realized I got myself from very 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.720 concrete sources government documents, they close that down and thanks. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.400 Maybe they were going to bring me before the grand jury, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.400 said out, you don't to before a grand jury. You're done, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.360 and I walked away. But you know, I had to 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.840 hire a lawyer to defend what turned out to be 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:27.600 very accurate, honest reporting. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.240 Tell you what, well, when you get this information, we're 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.320 just on the clock here, but we'll bring you back 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.920 and we'll give a full accounting of it. Why do 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.160 I suspect your names at the top of the list, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.920 and I'm probably down by like number twelve. I don't know, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.920 well your name's been I mean maybe a what's that. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.520 Department was monitoring you? So we know that's true. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.040 As people only knew half of what we have to 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.120 deal with that we don't talk of a lot about. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.960 But anyway, John Solomon, justinnews dot com great reporting. As always, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.680 will continue to follow the story in any updates you have, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.320 I clickbreak, I pack will continue straight ahead. Eight hundred 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.960 and nine four one Shawn is a number. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.560 The Dens want to stand on the step singing terrible 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.640 songs and cursing out Trump. You know you have one 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.600 guy over this shout and ever wonder if these people 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.880 ever go to work me too? Throughout This is the 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.720 Sean Hannity Show. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.320 Now, Linda, we've been spending a lot of time California. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.400 You know, they're they're insane taxes, the mass exodus, this 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:45.520 referendum that's coming up in California that would be retroactive 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.520 to January, and all these billionaires are making a mass exodus. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.200 I mean, the top six alone are going to cost 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.680 that state billion tens and tens of billions of dollars. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.760 We have talked at length about the state of New 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:06.080 York and this latest proposal fifty death tax for the 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.360 City of New York only, I mean New York City, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.960 non New York State. New York City has a higher 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:19.160 proposed budget under Marxist Kami Mamdani than the entire state 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.800 of Florida. And it's they don't have They have lousy schools, 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.040 they have lousy infrastructure, they don't have law and order. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.840 He's all part of the defund dismantled no bail law madness. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:35.560 Of course, I don't like his views or his wife's 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.840 views when it comes to Israel and the Jewish community, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.400 and how his wife in particular saw October the seventh 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:47.120 pretty repulsive to me. But with all that said, you 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.920 know New York and I'm going to play for you 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.000 in a minute. Kathy Hokl, the governor, Now all of 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.200 a sudden, she's like, well, we'd like the people to 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.440 come back to New York and they all go down 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.320 to Palm Beach. But this is her thing, Lee Seldon 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.119 go down to Florida and all these other conservative trump 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.440 go down to Florida where you belong. She tells them listen. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.640 And we're here to say that the era of Trump 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.640 and Zelden and mon Ro. Just jump on a bus 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.520 and head down to Florida, where you belong. Okay, get 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.040 out of town. Get out of town because you don't read, 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.320 you don't represent our values. You are not New Yorkers. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.960 And then, of course, famously, then Governor Andrew Cuomo made 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.440 the statement, you were not in New Yorker if you're 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.479 pro gone and pro wife and anti gate nobody, I'm 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.440 no conservative and knows anti gay. Okay, put that aside. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.320 You know you're not in New Yorker. There's no place 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.840 for you in the state in New York. Here's what 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:49.320 he said. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.600 Their problem is not me and the Democrats. Their problem 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:59.560 is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:07.200 who are right to life, a pro assault weapon, anti gay? 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.399 Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.280 and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.239 place in the state of New York since that's not 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:19.600 who New Yorkers are. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.840 Then he said, tax, the Ridge tax, the Ridge tax 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.440 the rich. We did and the rich start leaving, God forbid, 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:27.679 here's that cut. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.159 We have one of the most progressive tax codes in 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.760 the United States, which is a good thing, which means 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:41.840 the richer you are, the more you pay. However, that 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:48.800 presents a very fragile economy because then you are relying 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:53.120 on a very small number of people for the vast 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:59.879 amount of your tax dollars. One percent of the tax 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:06.720 pay nearly half of all the taxes. One percent pay 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.879 nearly half of all those taxes. Those one percent are 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.520 the richest people in the state. They're the richest people 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.520 in the country, and they are the most mobile people 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.360 in the country. And you see the chart on the bottom, 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.600 top one percent, about forty six percent, top five percent, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.360 sixty three percent of all the revenue, top ten percent, 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.600 seventy four percent of all the revenue. Tax the rich tax, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.800 the rich tax the rich. We did now, God forbid 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:39.560 the rich leave. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.880 Now, this is what's fascinating. They chase everybody out, They 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.240 beg you to go. People leave, you know when you 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.760 have you know, JP Morgan chase more employees in Texas 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.680 than you do in New York. And it's so identified 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.359 with New York. It tells you everything. Now, this guy's 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.720 proposing dropping the estate threshold from se seven point five 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.160 million seven hundred and fifty thousand. You can't even own 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.080 a closet to live in in New York City for 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.840 that amount of money. And he wants fifty percent of 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.040 all the money you've been taxed on, and he wants 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.800 to confiscate it when you die. It's a death tax 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.320 on top of a forty percent federal death tax, on 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:21.080 top of her ten percent state tax. And you know, 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:25.200 Kathy Hogel, our tax bases are eroding. Businesses are leaving 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.480 because of the tax rate. I'm like, oh, you're just 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:33.680 figuring that out now. Because Wall Street South, every big business, 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:39.640 every private equity firm, every investment firm, every big bank 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:44.920 has a massive presence in South Florida. And all these 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.600 companies are escaping and they're taking with them mass a 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.119 massive amount of money. And these states are going to 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.240 be going bankrupt. The City of New York, I'm telling you, 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.399 is it going to be headed towards bankruptcy. It as 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.600 a matter of when not if. Is Kathy Hogl you know, 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:05.199 now finally identifying the problem, but she was begging, you know, 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:06.400 conservators to leave. 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.159 What I want to make sure we are smart about 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.439 is having a system in place where it's not just 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.840 taxing for the sake of taxing, and being conscious of 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.400 the facts that I need people who are high net 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.840 worth to support the generous social programs that we want 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.240 to have in our state. Right now, there are some 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.360 patriotic millionaires who've stepped up. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:33.479 Okay, cut me the checks. 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.199 I mean, just if you want to be supportive, But 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.360 maybe the first step should be go down to Palm 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.200 Beach and see what you can bring back home. Because 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.720 our tax base has been eroded. So I philosophically don't 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.400 have a problem. It is like I have to look 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:48.400 at the fact that we are in competition with other 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:52.400 states who have less of a tax burden on their 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.840 corporations and their individuals, and I would say remote work 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.800 changed everything. There are people who could only work in 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.120 an office in manhatt and work in New York State, 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.160 and they were captives to our state. They were within 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.000 a state. We saw that that's not the case. I mean, 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.919 you know Wall Street businesses looking at Texas. They're not 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:12.760 going there because they have a nicer governor. I know 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.439 that for sure, But they're going there because of the 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:15.960 tax rate. 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:18.480 No, they're going because they like the governor too, Like 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:20.720 they like my Governor. Governor de Santa's two of the 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.960 best governors in the country. He still doesn't get it. 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.000 I'm just asking high network people to please support our 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:31.280 social safety net and go down to Palm Beach and 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:33.520 ask all your friends to come up here so we 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:38.480 can take more of their money. There comes a tipping point, Governor, 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.840