Speaker 1: Well, we are coming. See y'all sitting well, and if
Speaker 1: you want a little banging, come along as we defend
Speaker 1: our people in interests. Let me reiterate that the United
Speaker 1: States is not seeking a war with Iran, but we
Speaker 1: are prepared to finish one. I salute the incredible skill
Speaker 1: and courage of America's men and women in uniform. For
Speaker 1: far too long, all the way back to nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: to be exact, nations have tolerated Rand's destructive and stabilizing
Speaker 1: behavior in the Middle East and beyond. Those days are over,
Speaker 1: Team minus two hundred and ninety eight days left till
Speaker 1: the presidential election. Be aware of coming to your st
Speaker 1: Gotta play our guests and saying you a conscious song.
Speaker 1: From coast to coast, from border to border, from sea
Speaker 1: to shining sea. Sean Kennedy is born. Thank you, Scott Shannon,
Speaker 1: and happy Friday, two hundred and ninety eight days to
Speaker 1: go to the moment that you we the American people,
Speaker 1: You got a shot at shocking the world again. And
Speaker 1: just imagine, just let your mind wander for a second
Speaker 1: into a happy place, and all of a sudden, all
Speaker 1: these news organizations so vested in their rage, their psychotic
Speaker 1: hate Trump every second, minute, hour of any twenty four
Speaker 1: hour day, every week, every month, every day of the year,
Speaker 1: even leading up to Christmas. The urgency. We gotta do
Speaker 1: it urgently. It's gotta be urgent, urgent, urgent in beach
Speaker 1: and beach and beach. Well, not so fast, um, and
Speaker 1: you hear the words, we can now project. Let's go
Speaker 1: through CNN. Fake news can now project that Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump has been re elected the forty fifth president of
Speaker 1: the United States. Who's gonna get that duty over at
Speaker 1: fake news CNN? Or could you imagine it was so
Speaker 1: bad the last time? It's almost entertaining over an area
Speaker 1: fifty one Roswell, Rachel Maddow, The Conspiracy Theory Channel, all
Speaker 1: things nutty, all things loopy, all things wrong. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just well, we can now project Donald J. Trump has
Speaker 1: been elected reelected forty FN president. I'd say, look, I'm
Speaker 1: I don't know just the way I've brought up. I'm
Speaker 1: always waiting for the next bomb to be dropped on
Speaker 1: my head. Maybe it's an Irish American thing. What do
Speaker 1: you think, Linda, You're Irish, right, It's kind of hits
Speaker 1: in a potato never failed anybody? What's that six packet
Speaker 1: of potato? Never failed? Now, these are things you can
Speaker 1: only say because you're Irish. What is the Irish seven
Speaker 1: chorus meal? A six packet of potato? Unless you're Howard Stern,
Speaker 1: you can say anything you want. He's the only one
Speaker 1: that has He's like grandfathered in with freedom that nobody
Speaker 1: else off at the knees anymore. Forget about it. Nah,
Speaker 1: you know he's still Howard. It's fine. Now, let me
Speaker 1: just start with good news here today, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of heavy stuff, looks like impeachment madness. The trial
Speaker 1: will begin Wednesday. And I want to reiterate something that
Speaker 1: I said on television last night because I am I
Speaker 1: am serious about this, and I want all of these
Speaker 1: Republicans they better, they better pay very close attention. I
Speaker 1: am not. American people are not going to tolerate senators
Speaker 1: in Republican senators trying to do the job of the
Speaker 1: House over this yesterday. Constitution very clearly empowers the House
Speaker 1: and the House of Representatives. Only they get to do
Speaker 1: the impeachment. Then the trial is in the US Senate.
Speaker 1: Then we have the Supreme Court justice in this case,
Speaker 1: Chief Justice John Roberts preside. Now they did their impeachment.
Speaker 1: It's pathetic. We first had the closed door auditions to
Speaker 1: see if we can get hearsay or fact witnesses to
Speaker 1: be more than what they really are, and that didn't work.
Speaker 1: But they took then they hid the information. But they
Speaker 1: were really auditioning. This is all part of the shift show.
Speaker 1: First they took it out of the judiciary, which constitutionally
Speaker 1: is where it should have been in the beginning. But
Speaker 1: somehow Nancy Pelosi favors the compromised, corrupt, congenital liar, and
Speaker 1: he is a liar. Adam Schiff love to have him
Speaker 1: come on this program, give him three straight hours. The
Speaker 1: only guy I know colluding with Russians to get dirt
Speaker 1: on Donald Trump, which one of the funniest tapes we've
Speaker 1: ever played. We're not gonna play it now, but it's
Speaker 1: their constitutional role to do. It's all right. They've they've
Speaker 1: now gone down. They jumped out of the airplane a
Speaker 1: long time ago. They've been wanting to do this. They
Speaker 1: thought Muller was the Holy Growl that failed. Four investigations failed.
Speaker 1: Trump Russia lie, lie, conspiracy theories, hoax, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it. It's you know, for three since Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has been elected, two days after, they begin their
Speaker 1: quest for impeachment, impeachment and peach because we impeach them
Speaker 1: in Peacham. I've played all of these tapes with all
Speaker 1: of the dates, all through the end of twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, all through twenty nineteen, and peach
Speaker 1: and peach and peach. It's to the point it's like
Speaker 1: everybody's nonplus by all of this, nor should you be
Speaker 1: with the medium mob and the Democrats have not figured
Speaker 1: out yet is the American people they knew they were
Speaker 1: electing a disruptor. They knew it was different. They knew
Speaker 1: he was not going to be any establishment like figure
Speaker 1: that was not the presidency of the American people voted for.
Speaker 1: They knew Donald Trump wasn't perfect. They knew that he
Speaker 1: was a businessman. They knew he probably had a learning curve.
Speaker 1: But whether they want to in the mob as they
Speaker 1: feigned their outrage every second every day. I mean, even
Speaker 1: though the mob in the media when they attacked me,
Speaker 1: it is so old it's laughable. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: sent the email to Linda yesterday. One of these By
Speaker 1: the way, the one publication that was called out as
Speaker 1: liars stare asking me a bunch of ridiculous questions because
Speaker 1: the special counsel they mentioned had in his name, Oh wow,
Speaker 1: all the you know, text messages and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I do my job. The one thing I can
Speaker 1: say after three years, we got it right. We've been
Speaker 1: proven right. We've been vindicated. Everything we told you by
Speaker 1: abuse about Hillary, about the corruption, about the emails, spying
Speaker 1: on the president a campaign and president transitioning, all happen,
Speaker 1: all proven and now we have a criminal investigation. Now,
Speaker 1: now it's gonna start getting real for everybody. Nobody else
Speaker 1: in the media did that. We are proud of the
Speaker 1: work we have done both on this radio show and
Speaker 1: on Hannity the television show on Fox News. We got
Speaker 1: it right before everybody else. We had a great team
Speaker 1: of investigative journalists busting their hump every day, and we
Speaker 1: dug deep, and we found our sources, and we confirmed,
Speaker 1: and we double confirmed, and we triple confirmed. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: even held back confirmed information to quadruple confirm it to
Speaker 1: make sure we were getting it all right. They were
Speaker 1: getting it wrong. When are they ever gonna apologize? You
Speaker 1: would think and maybe change their ways and maybe have
Speaker 1: a little introspection of self reflection. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: a bad thing every once in a while to look
Speaker 1: inside and say, you know what, we messed up, we
Speaker 1: got it wrong, we didn't get this right. We should
Speaker 1: have done this differently. Maybe we are Maybe we do
Speaker 1: have an agenda. Maybe there's a reason that they're chanting
Speaker 1: ce and and sucks at us. Maybe maybe we should listen.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can focus group and talk to people. Ask him, well,
Speaker 1: what don't you like about our coverage? It's biased? Abusively biased?
Speaker 1: You know. That's why I get such a chuckle out
Speaker 1: of you know, all of the he got these uh
Speaker 1: Jeff zucker stenographers over there led by Humpty Dumpty. I
Speaker 1: don't have anything wrong with Humpty dumpty. You know, Linda,
Speaker 1: I saw Humpty at the media I party. I heard
Speaker 1: did you address him as such? Of course I did.
Speaker 1: I his name, I call 'm Humpty, and he apparently
Speaker 1: I didn't know he actually takes it personally. I'm so,
Speaker 1: I don't know why he would. Yeah, and he's got
Speaker 1: this I guess assistant. I don't know this guy. I
Speaker 1: don't know who he is. Anybody comes up to me, No,
Speaker 1: who No, that's anyway. His name's Oliver. I don't know
Speaker 1: Oliver is somebody Oliver whoever Oliver is? And he goes, hey,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm like, Hi, it's me. I'm like,
Speaker 1: have we met? Who are you? I don't know who
Speaker 1: you are? But I get such a kick out of
Speaker 1: It's like, maybe maybe Jason get that that audio racked up?
Speaker 1: It's like and it's like, you're being stalked by these
Speaker 1: people and it's an obsession about. All they care about
Speaker 1: is to trash Fox. And all we do is keep
Speaker 1: setting record ratings one after another. Thanks to all of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for making us another year number
Speaker 1: one in all of cable news. The Hannity Program. I
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough. And we're gonna double down and
Speaker 1: work harder this year to do a better job and
Speaker 1: to dig deeper and harder and give you the best
Speaker 1: election coverage on radio and TV. That's what we do.
Speaker 1: I live, eat, breathe, sleep this all week long. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try and shut down on the weekend completely and
Speaker 1: recharge the battery. That's it, and we are committed doing this.
Speaker 1: We love that you give us this microphone and that
Speaker 1: camera every night. Thank you for that. So if you
Speaker 1: got ratings that are like we've got three or four
Speaker 1: times their ratings, sometimes even higher, you would think maybe
Speaker 1: they'd be a little self reflective here, but no, they
Speaker 1: just you know that noise, Jason. It's like, you got
Speaker 1: these stalkers over there. They're so obsessed with us, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, am I supposed to know who you are?
Speaker 1: That's how irrelevant they are to me. Um, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: fake news. Acosta comes out with a book, he mentions
Speaker 1: me so that he'll get attention. Linda remembered that he
Speaker 1: was on a bust with us. I never saw the guy.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember what what country, what were we I
Speaker 1: don't even remember, right, And we're with all our crew
Speaker 1: guys and we're carrying all these cameras and so fake
Speaker 1: news Acosta Sean Hannity didn't have the courage to say
Speaker 1: I'm fake news to my face. Well, I said it
Speaker 1: to Humpty this Oliver guy, assistant of Humpty guy. I
Speaker 1: don't know who he is, and that's them, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: so he tries to use my name and he's like
Speaker 1: begging to be on the show. I'm like, go sell
Speaker 1: your stupid fake news book on your network, but they
Speaker 1: try to. Why would I have him on this show?
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to insult the audiences intelligence
Speaker 1: by putting these people on. And at the same time
Speaker 1: period the great one, Mark Levin's book comes out, he
Speaker 1: sells a half a million copies. In the same period,
Speaker 1: the guy sold fourteen thousand. And I'm like, okay, you
Speaker 1: of course you want to be on our show. Mark
Speaker 1: doesn't need our help. We love Marks books. Marks a
Speaker 1: great author, and you know he exposed the media mob
Speaker 1: who who they are? But it's just funny to me. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back to the Senate, I want to say this to
Speaker 1: the Senators as we now get up and rolling on
Speaker 1: all this Republican Senators do not land credibility to this despicable,
Speaker 1: frankly unconstitutional, corrupt shift show where there was no due process,
Speaker 1: no presumption of innocence. Of course, it's all political. Now
Speaker 1: the Constitution allows for the House only to have an impeachment.
Speaker 1: They've done it, okay, Now they will pick their house managers,
Speaker 1: probably begins next Wednesday. They will then present their case.
Speaker 1: The trial that is now in the hands of the
Speaker 1: United States Senate. That's what the constitution calls for. They impeach.
Speaker 1: They have the sole power to impeach. They've done it
Speaker 1: for no reason. They did nothing that we've done in
Speaker 1: the past. They offered nothing that New king Ridge offered.
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, I mean, and his lawyers. They did everything
Speaker 1: in the worst way imaginable. So now they're saying, well,
Speaker 1: we want you to retry it. You will want you
Speaker 1: to do the impeaching of it because ours is pathetic. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not the constitutional role of the Senate. That's the
Speaker 1: House's job. They say they have the evidence that they've
Speaker 1: impeached the president for high crimes misdemeanors, bribery, high crimes misdemeanors. Okay.
Speaker 1: The constitutional role in this trial of the Senate is
Speaker 1: to see if in fact they present that case, not
Speaker 1: to go and do the work for them. They only
Speaker 1: had one fact witness, Ambassadors Somlin. Now they're saying to
Speaker 1: the Senate, you got to bring in other witnesses. No,
Speaker 1: you could have waited for the court to dec how
Speaker 1: you chose not to. Now, their constitutional role in the
Speaker 1: Senates is the trial Chief Justice Presiding John Roberts. The
Speaker 1: only one fact witness, but pretty clear exculpatory for the president.
Speaker 1: So to Republican senators, what I am saying to you,
Speaker 1: make them show you why they impeached a president of
Speaker 1: the United States, because they can't do it with any
Speaker 1: evidence or any facts except opinions and hearsay witnesses, none
Speaker 1: of which is admissible due to the federal rules of evidence.
Speaker 1: For example, it is not the US Senate's role to
Speaker 1: redo what was a corrupt political investigation hit job from
Speaker 1: the beginning. Let the House managers, hopefully the cowardly, congenital, compromised,
Speaker 1: congenital liar, shift and let them present it. Let them
Speaker 1: bring in their one fact witness to repeat what he said,
Speaker 1: or just read back the testimony. And your Republican senators,
Speaker 1: all your job is to do is look at their case,
Speaker 1: look at their evidence. Now, I don't want these Republican
Speaker 1: senators getting weak and timid. You ought not constitutionally, if
Speaker 1: you revere our constitutional system and coequal branches and specific
Speaker 1: roles of the House and the Senate, then you ought
Speaker 1: not give any credibility to what is a repulsive, corrupt
Speaker 1: abuse of power political stunt, or you're as guilty as
Speaker 1: the House is That's what this is about. They impeached.
Speaker 1: Let them show you why when they fail, and they
Speaker 1: will spectacularly then call the role and end the madness
Speaker 1: for the sake of the country. That's their job, nothing more,
Speaker 1: nothing less. It's not your job to go over. Well,
Speaker 1: you didn't give us enough reasons to impeach. Let me
Speaker 1: see if we can find some for you. They have
Speaker 1: the power solely to do the impeachment. That's my message
Speaker 1: to Republicans because a lot of them are weak, but
Speaker 1: I am as serious as I can be. All Right,
Speaker 1: they now get to present their case to all of
Speaker 1: your Republican senators. Don't make me start giving out the
Speaker 1: phone number, because you need to understand here their sole
Speaker 1: constitutional role as they get to impeach. They have decided
Speaker 1: in their in their insanity and psychosis and rage, to
Speaker 1: abuse that power and to bring up what is a
Speaker 1: non case and just politicize this because they just obsessed
Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosi needed to appease the radicalism rising within
Speaker 1: her base. That is not what your role is in
Speaker 1: the US Senate. Your role is also very very clear.
Speaker 1: You are to run the trial. That's it. That's what
Speaker 1: your job is. It is not your job at all
Speaker 1: to redo their corrupt investigation. They only first they had
Speaker 1: the well I guess, the audition of their big star guests,
Speaker 1: and they had the guests. We don't had one fact
Speaker 1: witness as rules of evidence, federals of evidence don't allow
Speaker 1: here say our opinions. So they got one fact witness
Speaker 1: as exculpatory things to say about Trump. Not your job.
Speaker 1: They present their case, but let them bring in their
Speaker 1: one relevant witness, Ambassador songoon Or read back his testimony,
Speaker 1: and do not do let them fail spectacularly as they will.
Speaker 1: That's your role starts Wednesday. Do your job, show fidelity
Speaker 1: to the Constitution, and let's get this country growing and
Speaker 1: moving forward again. All right, glad you with us twenty
Speaker 1: five till the top of the hour. Thank you, Scott Shannon.
Speaker 1: Two hundred ninety eight days until you we the people
Speaker 1: get to shock the world again. We've launched on Hannity
Speaker 1: dot Com. We're starting slow. We don't want to inundate
Speaker 1: people with that much information yet. Whether I'm not being
Speaker 1: condescending here, I'm just want to put out one specific thing.
Speaker 1: We want to give you all the information you need
Speaker 1: to be a good citizen. And if you don't know
Speaker 1: when you need to register by, which is the first
Speaker 1: step if you want to vote in the election. A
Speaker 1: lot of states, it's March. We put it up on
Speaker 1: Hannity dot com. Then we're gonna make the map quite interactive.
Speaker 1: Your state, your district, early voting dates and early vote
Speaker 1: ending and absentee voting, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. I think it's,
Speaker 1: you know, just to make for a better electorate out there.
Speaker 1: All right, let me go to the president last night.
Speaker 1: I mean he was rocking. I mean he really was. First,
Speaker 1: I want to play him because this ought to be
Speaker 1: something he's not gonna The Trump doctrine is clear that
Speaker 1: the president, he'll talk to anybody. He got beaten up
Speaker 1: by the left in the media. They're even even trying
Speaker 1: to taunt them today. Well, they still shot at our
Speaker 1: troops and you're not gonna do anything trying to taunt
Speaker 1: him into I got, you know, firing missiles back at
Speaker 1: our end so that then they can criticize them for that.
Speaker 1: It just can't win. No, he drew a line in
Speaker 1: the sand. Trump doctrine. I'll talk to anybody. You want
Speaker 1: to talk. Kim Jong un, Thanks, let's talk I will
Speaker 1: give you my time. It's worth it. I got let's
Speaker 1: see the remains of American soldiers back. You stop firing
Speaker 1: missiles every other day over Japan and threatening the entire region,
Speaker 1: and we also got some hostages back. Ended up being
Speaker 1: a pretty good deal. President gave up time and he
Speaker 1: talked to Kim Jong un. He's not gonna bribe him,
Speaker 1: not gonna make a bad deal. President talked to him.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing, he said. He talked to Putin
Speaker 1: oh putin Russia again. Okay, why not? Said he talked
Speaker 1: to the Taliban. I didn't know if I liked that one,
Speaker 1: not much. But you know what, I don't see a
Speaker 1: harm in talking to anybody. What's the big deal if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna bribe them, which you can't because that
Speaker 1: incurs aggression, and you draw the line as the president,
Speaker 1: he didn't even take there. He did not take the
Speaker 1: shot after they took the drones out. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I would have had that restraint. That's hard. You're
Speaker 1: take an American drone out of the It's an actor
Speaker 1: war in my head. But he showed restraint. Now, in
Speaker 1: other words, it wasn't the caricature that the media tried
Speaker 1: to paint. And then when they took the tanker's hostage,
Speaker 1: you know, I might have been thinking about retribution then too.
Speaker 1: He didn't do it. And then he had another opportunity
Speaker 1: when it took the Saudi oil fields out for no reason,
Speaker 1: unprovoked attack to impact the world economy, the free flow
Speaker 1: of oil at market prices. They didn't shoot back. Then
Speaker 1: you killed an American. Okay, it's over. And the President
Speaker 1: made it clear last night. If you dare to threaten
Speaker 1: our citizens, you're gonna get hit. You do so a
Speaker 1: great peril. Here's what he said. It's great power, not
Speaker 1: to pursue conflict, but to really preserve and I mean
Speaker 1: in the true sense of the word preserved peace. We
Speaker 1: have this tremendous military and you know what that is.
Speaker 1: That's really a great fighting force. But I hope we
Speaker 1: never have to use it. I really do. You saw
Speaker 1: an example. You saw an example of that a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago. So we seek friends, not a race.
Speaker 1: But if you dare to threaten our citizens, you do
Speaker 1: so at your own grave para. And then the President
Speaker 1: dealt with and by the way, this whole non bidening
Speaker 1: stupid war powers effort. It's it's symbolic, it has no
Speaker 1: teeth to it. It's meaningless. And by the way, you
Speaker 1: have eight House Democrats defying Pelosi. The one I guess
Speaker 1: I was most surprised at as Matt Gates on this.
Speaker 1: I told him he was wrong on it, but he
Speaker 1: didn't want to hear it from me. And then the
Speaker 1: President says, well, you know he was elected. We can't
Speaker 1: have five hundred and thirty five commanders in chief. We
Speaker 1: only have one. We'll get to the war Paris back
Speaker 1: in a second. And he's probably right. I don't trust
Speaker 1: any of these Democrats. Would they have leaked the attack plans.
Speaker 1: Here's what the President said. Here's a guy who slaughtered
Speaker 1: and butchered civilians all over and and military whoever was
Speaker 1: in his way. And we have Bernie and Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: we have them all. They're all trying to say, how
Speaker 1: dare you take them out that way? You should get
Speaker 1: permission from Congress. You should come in and tell us
Speaker 1: what you want to do. You should come in and
Speaker 1: tell us so that we can call up the fake
Speaker 1: news that's back there and we can leak it. It's
Speaker 1: the not only like, for example, we got new employment
Speaker 1: numbers out today. Our USE six employment number is at
Speaker 1: the lowest rate of all time. Our friend Jamie Dupre
Speaker 1: pointed that out, and writing on a Cox News service,
Speaker 1: he points out that the economy ended two nineteen on
Speaker 1: a solid note. Labor Department reported one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: five thousand jobs added in December. The nation's unemployment late
Speaker 1: rate stays historically low three point five percent, and we
Speaker 1: have another record. USE six unemployment rate, considered to be
Speaker 1: the broadest measure of joblessness, went down to just six
Speaker 1: point seven percent in December. That is the lowest point
Speaker 1: ever in history, an all time low. When President Trump
Speaker 1: took office, it was nine point three percent. It's been
Speaker 1: kept by the labor departments in ninety four. And if
Speaker 1: you look at the U six number, the U six
Speaker 1: rate is the unemployment rate that includes discouraged workers who
Speaker 1: have quit looking for jobs, part time workers who want
Speaker 1: full time employment, and U six that rate is considered
Speaker 1: by many economists, and I'm reporting now from a Vestapedia
Speaker 1: is considered by economists to be the most revealing measure
Speaker 1: of a country's unemployment situation, since it covers the percentage
Speaker 1: of the labor force that is unemployed, underemployed, and discouraged employed.
Speaker 1: So we've got the regular unemployment rate holding at a
Speaker 1: fifty year low, the US sixth rate, considered by many
Speaker 1: economists to be the most revealing measure of our unemployment,
Speaker 1: plunging to brand new all time low. Oh well, Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders is out there saying, well, it's not true the
Speaker 1: economy is bad. No, it's the president. Also, a federal
Speaker 1: appeals court ruled the Trump administration can use the Defense
Speaker 1: Department funds. Remember we had that big debate and I said, no,
Speaker 1: he's not giving up. A lot of conservatives out there said, oh,
Speaker 1: he gave in on the wall. No. I just said,
Speaker 1: he just regrouped, and he realized he's not going to
Speaker 1: get the money the way he wanted from Congress. Although
Speaker 1: he got more money also for that recently, and he
Speaker 1: reappropriated funds from the Defense Department and now got a
Speaker 1: federal appeals court ruling that says, yes, he can do it.
Speaker 1: Two to one ruling Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted
Speaker 1: a stay of the Texas judge's order, which the administration
Speaker 1: at appealed. That's good because that's another three point six
Speaker 1: billion in construction. That means the four hundred miles that
Speaker 1: they have as a goal by the election this year
Speaker 1: should be accomplished. By the way, only twenty four percent
Speaker 1: of Americans now want to identify themselves as a liberal.
Speaker 1: Can you blame them? Do you want to be a
Speaker 1: part of that lunatic crowd? Only twenty four percent? That's
Speaker 1: pretty interesting now. Gallup today said conservatives lead at thirty
Speaker 1: seven percent, moderates thirty four percent or more. Still identifies
Speaker 1: Democrats over republic I'm not a Republican. I'm not even
Speaker 1: a registered Republican. I am a conservative, and I remember
Speaker 1: I had to There are a lot of I can
Speaker 1: name them on the way do I start all of
Speaker 1: a lot of the National Review online guys. They've never
Speaker 1: adjusted to the fact that they got it wrong on Trump.
Speaker 1: They all said he's never going to be governed as
Speaker 1: a conservative, He's never going to keep his promises on judges,
Speaker 1: well he kept them. Or cutting taxes kept that. Or
Speaker 1: deregulation biggest in history. Or fighting to get the money
Speaker 1: and building the wall. He's doing it. Or better trade deals,
Speaker 1: freer and fairer. That's done. Check Japan, Mexico, Canada, European
Speaker 1: Allies mini deal with China, hopefully after he gets reelected
Speaker 1: another one. But the economy now, food stamps rolls declined
Speaker 1: seven million, seven million fewer people on food stamps thanks
Speaker 1: to this administration. Seven million more Americans now working. Wow,
Speaker 1: the opposite of Biden Obama real success. You got literally
Speaker 1: the unemployment number remember Department of Labor statistic numbers is
Speaker 1: now almost at one hundred and sixty million Americans employee.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred and it's a million eighty five year
Speaker 1: to the year increase. That's the highest ever member lowest
Speaker 1: labor participation rate will now a second record labor participation rate.
Speaker 1: By the way, Wall Street Journal rank and file workers
Speaker 1: they've got bigger raises. Oh why because they're in a
Speaker 1: better position with the economy to fight for better wages
Speaker 1: and better benefits and they're getting them. And it's now
Speaker 1: the fourth week in a row that US joblo's claims
Speaker 1: have fallen. That's a good thing. By the way, that
Speaker 1: is a near post recession law. But again, stocks that's
Speaker 1: never been my big barometer or load impacts. Everybody's you know,
Speaker 1: flour one K plan that matters. It is historically low unemployment.
Speaker 1: Then demographically, all Americans are being lifted up. Thank god,
Speaker 1: our whole American family. Wage growth for workers now outpaced
Speaker 1: wage growth for managers. That's awesome. Wage growth for those
Speaker 1: without a four year degree now outpacing wage growth for
Speaker 1: those with a four year college degree. Want everybody to prosper.
Speaker 1: All the jobs in the energy sector, they're going to
Speaker 1: be massive. We've got record low unemployment for African Americans.
Speaker 1: Their wage growth now outpaces wage growth for any other
Speaker 1: demographic Hispanic Americans. And don't think that these numbers are
Speaker 1: an anomaly. Where you see the support for the president
Speaker 1: thirty four and a half percent among African Americans thirty
Speaker 1: four percent, thirty three percent, twenty eight percent, twenty two percent.
Speaker 1: The lowest poll of eight was sixteen percent. That's twice
Speaker 1: what the president had just in twenty sixteen alone. That
Speaker 1: is a massive development. In other words, what I always said,
Speaker 1: the Forgotten Men and Women told you, I bought that
Speaker 1: John McNaughton painting. I'm not big into art, but I
Speaker 1: like his stuff. Now, on the War Powers Act, just
Speaker 1: a quick primer on this. We have our constitution. They
Speaker 1: divide the war powers of the government between the executive,
Speaker 1: legislative branches, President, commander in chief Armed Forces. Article two,
Speaker 1: Section two. Congress has the power to make the declaration
Speaker 1: of war race support for the armed forces. Anyway, this
Speaker 1: has been a conflict. Go back to eighteen twelve. For
Speaker 1: the next one hundred years, presidents asked for received congressional
Speaker 1: declarations for war against England, Mexico, Spaining, Japan, European powers. Okay,
Speaker 1: what evolved out of that is questions to the extent
Speaker 1: of the president's authority to respond quickly, especially in this
Speaker 1: day and age. In the Cold War, Harry Truman sent
Speaker 1: troops to Korea part of the UN Force. He didn't
Speaker 1: get a declaration of war. Kennedy sent troops to South Vietnam.
Speaker 1: Congress ever, declared war. Years later, they passed the Tonkin
Speaker 1: Resolution what it was called, authorizing then President Johnson to
Speaker 1: use force in Vietnam. Seventy three. You get the War
Speaker 1: Powers Act, which is nothing but an attempt to kind
Speaker 1: of by Congress to reign in a president's ability to
Speaker 1: be the commander in chief. I've always believed and believed
Speaker 1: today it's unconstitutional, and a lot of it the outcrop
Speaker 1: of the Vietnam War, and you know this president doesn't
Speaker 1: want endless wars. That's the good thing. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that was Congress was able to override a veto by
Speaker 1: Nixon and when they enacted the War Powers Resolution. It's
Speaker 1: sort of always this power struggle with the legislative and
Speaker 1: executive branch. That's where you can seek remedy, like the
Speaker 1: President did on the issue of executive privilege when it
Speaker 1: relates to other issues. But Congress has declared war. Understand
Speaker 1: under this resolution that they have that I believe the
Speaker 1: war powers back to be unconstitutional. They declare war. Congress
Speaker 1: has provided authority anyway. It also has in there a
Speaker 1: provision that a president, once military action is taken, must
Speaker 1: in writing within forty eight hours, report to the House
Speaker 1: Speaker and the Senate pro tem and the president's reports
Speaker 1: got to describe the circumstances necessitating military action, etc. Also
Speaker 1: allows an additional thirty days of a president certifies in
Speaker 1: writing such time in need of safely removing us from hostilities.
Speaker 1: And that's all gone away. Now here is my point
Speaker 1: on this because and I know we got the impeachment insanity,
Speaker 1: and I know that that's all probably going to start
Speaker 1: next Wednesday, and that it's going to be madness, But
Speaker 1: this is important stuff for the country moving forward, because
Speaker 1: we need a president to be a commander in chief.
Speaker 1: You can't ask Nancy Pelosi and even some of the
Speaker 1: Democrats recognize that as well in all of this, and
Speaker 1: I just think if you look at it objective and
Speaker 1: you understand the history of this, the president especially doesn't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with this. Where were all the
Speaker 1: war powered Democrats when Obama ordered hundreds of lethal drone strikes?
Speaker 1: Now even the New York Times points out some of
Speaker 1: this information because it was pretty disgraceful to watch the
Speaker 1: medium mob going after Pompeo like his war criminal. When
Speaker 1: he took out a guy that has killed hundreds of
Speaker 1: Americans and been the leader of state sponsor terror around
Speaker 1: the world, that was a good thing for the world.
Speaker 1: And we had the shot he was there in Baghdad
Speaker 1: to hurt Americans. We saw what was happening in our embassy.
Speaker 1: We didn't want Benghazi to happen all over again. Where
Speaker 1: was the imminent threat when Obama took out Bin Laden,
Speaker 1: for example, unlike Solomani actively plotting against US troops at
Speaker 1: the moment, and Laden was hiding the reason he had
Speaker 1: the intelligence. You can thank George W. Bush and Dick
Speaker 1: Cheney and enhanced interrogations. But the bottom line is when
Speaker 1: Obama ordered the Navy's heels to invade a foreign country
Speaker 1: and kill bin Laden, and thankfully he didn't make that call.
Speaker 1: Thankfully we got the intelligence from KSM through enhanced interrogation.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Gina Haspell, Jose Rodriguez. Meanwhile, both before and
Speaker 1: after bin Laden's death, Obama had been ordering hundreds of
Speaker 1: drone strikes. Let those targets pose no imminent threat whatsoever.
Speaker 1: March nineteen. March twenty nineteen New York Times, the Obama
Speaker 1: administration estimated over the two terms, drone strikes had killed
Speaker 1: between sixty four and one hundred and sixteen civilians five
Speaker 1: hundred forty two AF strikes outside major war zones. We'll
Speaker 1: hang on a second. Well, what about the Aliwaukee case?
Speaker 1: Because he used a drone strike to take that American
Speaker 1: citizen out Amar Aliwaukee. Remember him came the first US
Speaker 1: citizen targeted killed by US drone without quote due process, right,
Speaker 1: so he's an enemy combatant. Obama did the right thing.
Speaker 1: Here you go. I said it because it's true. So
Speaker 1: he got the day the US forces killed Solomani. This
Speaker 1: is where the Democrats head is an impeachment and this
Speaker 1: they're all nuts. I do expect that the Judiciary Committee
Speaker 1: is prepared to move very quickly. The President, based on
Speaker 1: his past performance, will do everything he can to make
Speaker 1: it not a fair election, and that is part of
Speaker 1: what gives us the urgency to proceed with his impeachment.
Speaker 1: The timing is really driven by the urgency and that
Speaker 1: is national security issue. Yes, a national security issue, an
Speaker 1: issue of our election integrity. This is not a rust
Speaker 1: to judgment, it's a rust to justice. It is a
Speaker 1: matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat
Speaker 1: to our national security and the integrity of our elections.
Speaker 1: President Trump's wrongdoing and the urgent threat that his actions
Speaker 1: present to our next election and our democracy. We have
Speaker 1: overwhelming evidence that this president poses an urgent threat to
Speaker 1: our elects, to our national security. Nothing could be more urgent.
Speaker 1: When we talk about the speed of it is that
Speaker 1: this is a continuing criminal enterprise that's going on. If
Speaker 1: the urgency, it's a clear and present danger I think
Speaker 1: to our democracy and urgency of the issue like we
Speaker 1: have to act now, like it's now well, is that
Speaker 1: part of the time to screw around is a clear
Speaker 1: and present danger to our free and fair elections. Is
Speaker 1: about urgency, all right? Our two Sean Hannity Show eight
Speaker 1: hundred and nine for one, Shawn oh the urgency, the
Speaker 1: urgency for impeachment Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, I guess we now
Speaker 1: know that that's a lie, like the Democrats citing urgency
Speaker 1: all along, and now only because Democrats have finally said
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. It never was urgent. Why are we
Speaker 1: even here. I've got to give props to our next
Speaker 1: guest because when he came out with the new Nest report,
Speaker 1: there were Democrats, led by the we now know confirmed
Speaker 1: compromise congenital liar Adam Schiff, that said that Congressman Devin
Speaker 1: Newness was lying. He came out with his own report.
Speaker 1: Now we know, based on the Inspector General's release, that
Speaker 1: in fact, it was Adam Shift doing what he always does,
Speaker 1: and that's lie because he was saying, oh, no, we
Speaker 1: have all the evidence about Trump pressure collusion. It's all there,
Speaker 1: We've got it all, it's all locked down, and we
Speaker 1: didn't use the dossier Harley at all. And yet it
Speaker 1: was as we reported, for a long time, the bulk
Speaker 1: of information that was used for the FIES warrants. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Congressman Devin Uness is with us. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of other things to talk about. Congressman, props to you.
Speaker 1: You took a lot of heat. You told the American
Speaker 1: people the truth. You've now been vindicated. You were out
Speaker 1: there alone at many times during this process, and you
Speaker 1: know what, you held your ground and I applaud you
Speaker 1: for it. Well, thanks Sean. On this very urgent Friday,
Speaker 1: it's very urgent urgent Friday, is that what we're calling
Speaker 1: gets Yeah, you know, it's two days until election Day,
Speaker 1: that's it. I have urgency on that, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: It's it's just incredible that we're sitting here with If
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen couldn't be more, you know, you just couldn't
Speaker 1: think it could be more ridiculous. But twenty and twenty
Speaker 1: has started out more ridiculous for the for the Democrats,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of time it's just using what
Speaker 1: they actually said in the past. And of course, you know,
Speaker 1: they love to take any little thing that we may
Speaker 1: have said just slightly wrong, and they'll blow it up
Speaker 1: forever and the media will cover it, and they'll build
Speaker 1: narratives on it. But because there's just no media in
Speaker 1: this country, it's just become such just such a it's
Speaker 1: just a joke. But I will say, you know, all
Speaker 1: those times that I was standing alone, I really wasn't
Speaker 1: because I had guys like you, well than Limbaugh, all
Speaker 1: of your audience, Bongino. There's just so many great people
Speaker 1: out there in the in the podcast and talk radio
Speaker 1: world that we're standing right there with me. So I
Speaker 1: want to I want to thank you for that. And
Speaker 1: we're continuing to keep our head down and continuing to
Speaker 1: work plow ahead because there's still a lot of shenanigans
Speaker 1: going on, and we're in the process right now. She's
Speaker 1: going to eventually, I guess we're going to vote on
Speaker 1: this next week, send it over to the Senate so
Speaker 1: they can begin the trial. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we haven't forgot about things like the ICIG he thought
Speaker 1: that we went. I want to get into this. I
Speaker 1: want you to explain this. I'd rather you do it
Speaker 1: in your words. You said a lot of profound things
Speaker 1: on with Laura Ingram earlier this week, and we haven't
Speaker 1: had time to do the deep dive that you've done,
Speaker 1: and THEE and the deep dives really just beginning. So
Speaker 1: so remember there were all the questions about the form
Speaker 1: that the whistleblower had filled out, whether or not he
Speaker 1: had talked to Congress or not. There is also testimony
Speaker 1: that the the ICIG Atkinson gave to the House Intelligence Committee. Surprisingly,
Speaker 1: that's the only interview that hasn't been released publicly. So
Speaker 1: clearly we've asked for it, they're not giving it. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a reason why now we didn't kind of maybe
Speaker 1: you can't tell us. Do you know the reason why?
Speaker 1: I assume you do. I mean, look, I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty simple. The stories don't add up. The story that
Speaker 1: the IG told us, the story that Adam shiff and
Speaker 1: his staff have told us, they don't jive. And of
Speaker 1: course the whistleblowers the whistleblower complaint doesn't jive with the
Speaker 1: source we assume was, you know, Lieutenant Colonel Vinman, if
Speaker 1: you remember him. So people forget about this, and the
Speaker 1: mainstream media probably thought that we forgot about this, and
Speaker 1: I think even a lot of our conservative friends that
Speaker 1: we forgot, meaning the House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee.
Speaker 1: But we said at the time the ICI situation didn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. The change in the forms didn't make
Speaker 1: any sense, and we were going to come back to that.
Speaker 1: We sent him a very detailed letter asking him. It
Speaker 1: was really a preservation letter, so meaning that you know,
Speaker 1: we have every intent to turn this over to the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice if we see wrong. We want the evidence.
Speaker 1: He wrote us a letter back on October eighth, didn't
Speaker 1: really answer the questions other than to tell us, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just made some mistakes. But you know what, you
Speaker 1: have to provide evidence. If you're a fool and you're
Speaker 1: claiming stupidity, then you have to prove it. You have
Speaker 1: to prove it with emails. We need to know, well,
Speaker 1: this is important or changed. So if if, if Michael
Speaker 1: Atkinson has this information, why doesn't he provide all the documentation,
Speaker 1: Because as you said in your interview, you essentially have
Speaker 1: to either believe he's in on it or he's incompetent.
Speaker 1: Because the bottom line is that this focus is on
Speaker 1: the changing whistleblower forms to remove the requirement of firsthand
Speaker 1: knowledge as a condition of urging concern. When did that
Speaker 1: actually happen and do we know exactly why it happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing Sean about. So your audience understand,
Speaker 1: he's either in on it, like I said, or he's incompetent.
Speaker 1: And if he's incompetent, that's fine. It happens in government.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: areas of incompetence within the bureaucracy. I think we're well
Speaker 1: aware of that, but there would be evidence of the incompetence, right.
Speaker 1: So essentially, what he has told us in his letter
Speaker 1: to us on October eight is that what was on
Speaker 1: the form that you needed to have firsthand knowledge was
Speaker 1: in fact not the policy. That the form was wrong.
Speaker 1: So you know, we are going to be asking and
Speaker 1: over the weekend we're finishing draft seen the letter today,
Speaker 1: We'll finish touching it up over the weekend and likely
Speaker 1: release it Sunday or Monday, and it's going to have
Speaker 1: it's going to basically read like a subpoena of all
Speaker 1: of the information that we need to support and his
Speaker 1: agencies incompetent, if they indeed were incompetent. Well, I think
Speaker 1: I think you pretty much have nailed it, which is
Speaker 1: why this hasn't been released. I mean, that is the
Speaker 1: stunning part of all of this, and you know, we
Speaker 1: have to get to the bottom because we've now lived
Speaker 1: through what I think is three of the most difficult
Speaker 1: years in the country's history, and that of course being
Speaker 1: this whole Russia collusion madness and what turned out to
Speaker 1: be a hoax and a fraud, an abuse of power,
Speaker 1: and everything you said in your memo and what February
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, everything you said about the FISA application
Speaker 1: being the bulk of information used in the FISA warrants
Speaker 1: unverifiable Steele was. They warned everybody that Steele had an
Speaker 1: agenda and that Hillary paid for it, and they hit
Speaker 1: it all from the FISA Court. I'm still am amazed
Speaker 1: the FISA Court isn't up in arms and demanding more faster. Well,
Speaker 1: you saw that the judge who was in charge during
Speaker 1: all of this stepped aside. So you know, that's a
Speaker 1: whole other problem that we still are investigating, is that,
Speaker 1: you know, we had notified the FISA Court of these
Speaker 1: problems and then when on her way out late last month,
Speaker 1: and we're glad that they acknowledge that there's problems now,
Speaker 1: but in fact that's just another lie. I mean that
Speaker 1: the court has to answer for why they ignored what
Speaker 1: we had told them they were Remember, it wasn't like
Speaker 1: they didn't have the evidence. They had the full fizes.
Speaker 1: They actually had more information and more details than we
Speaker 1: than we had at the House Intelligence Committee because we
Speaker 1: remember we had all the redacted FISA information. They had
Speaker 1: all the information in front of them. So they were
Speaker 1: told by us. They were warned by us. How is
Speaker 1: it possible that they just now had an epiphany after
Speaker 1: the IG came out? You know, they would have been
Speaker 1: better off just to stay back in the day, you know,
Speaker 1: a year ago or year and alf ago and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're we have concerns about this, We're going to work
Speaker 1: with the IG. They could have said something that to
Speaker 1: come out at the end of the year like I said,
Speaker 1: and pretend that now something's wrong. Just doesn't that it
Speaker 1: just doesn't pass the smell test, just like the ICIG
Speaker 1: changing the forms only after the media and the House
Speaker 1: Republicans confronted him with the problem with the forms on
Speaker 1: the whistle blower. It really is amazing stuff. Where do
Speaker 1: you think bar and Dorham are now going? Because look,
Speaker 1: I think Michael Horrowitz I didn't agree with his conclusion
Speaker 1: about it not being political, but he said he was
Speaker 1: basing it only off the data that in the bubble,
Speaker 1: that he was confined he only could work within the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice and do the investigation only within that arena.
Speaker 1: We now know that the investigation of Durham, the prosecutor,
Speaker 1: and the Attorney General Barr has gone worldwide. It is
Speaker 1: now officially a criminal investigation. Grand juries can be convened,
Speaker 1: indictments could be issued, I would imagine they are. Where
Speaker 1: do you see that going? Well, the big, the big
Speaker 1: issue for people to remember is that Horowitz and we
Speaker 1: said this, remember all the time, Remember everybody was like
Speaker 1: awaiting the Horrowitz report, and I think I went on
Speaker 1: your show many times and I said, look, I would
Speaker 1: just want to caution everyone the IG has very limited power.
Speaker 1: And what we see with the report is indeed they
Speaker 1: do have very limited power, and that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and with the latest that's happened, there's just there's just
Speaker 1: a problem, you know, as you as as you know,
Speaker 1: getting evidence because Horwitz didn't have the subpoena power. So
Speaker 1: this investigation, Horwitz really only was able to evaluate what
Speaker 1: happened after July thirty first and with the opening of
Speaker 1: Crossfire Hurricane. He had no window into what happened before that.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly why he had no window at all.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was the parameters that Rod
Speaker 1: Rosenstein at the time gave him. But you know, clearly
Speaker 1: it makes no sense that the same what I like
Speaker 1: to call the spy ring, the same spy ring that
Speaker 1: was actively involved and used in the FISA against Carter
Speaker 1: Page that we're going up against Popatoplus and Page and others.
Speaker 1: It's the same people that were involved in the spring
Speaker 1: and early summer way before the opening a Crossfire Hurricane.
Speaker 1: And that really is what we want Durham to get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of, is when and how did this start?
Speaker 1: And also be able to interview the other people that
Speaker 1: were outside of the Department of Justice and the FBI
Speaker 1: that were involved in this, most importantly the Clinton campaign operatives, well,
Speaker 1: I mean the Hoober report. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: Hoober has done. Um, I want to get to that.
Speaker 1: But are you confident are you confident that those that
Speaker 1: were worn but and went ahead with premeditated fraud on
Speaker 1: a court that they will be held accountable Because James
Speaker 1: Colemey signed three of those buys. The applications that, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're not. I mean, I know your your audience.
Speaker 1: I want to I just want to get everybody ready
Speaker 1: for what I think we can expect for sure and
Speaker 1: what we need to happen. The most important thing. We'll
Speaker 1: pick it up there, stay right. That's a good tease.
Speaker 1: By the way, what should happen and will it happen?
Speaker 1: Devin Nuness is with US ranking member House Intel Committee.
Speaker 1: Quick break will come back on the other side, Greg Jarrett,
Speaker 1: Jeff Lord coming up, and at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: half hour, we have an update on Solomany and you
Speaker 1: know they did shoot down that jet and who did it,
Speaker 1: why did they do it? Was in an accident? That's
Speaker 1: all straight ahead right as we continue. Congressman Devin Nunas
Speaker 1: is with US California's twenty second district. All right, so
Speaker 1: we know what they did. It's now been detailed. We're
Speaker 1: going to learn a lot more. I want to know
Speaker 1: whether there was the outsourcing of intelligence gathering to circumvent laws,
Speaker 1: which would implicate guys like perhaps Brennan and Clapper. But
Speaker 1: do you think, well, what should happen to those that
Speaker 1: committed premeditated fraud on the court and other things, and
Speaker 1: the illegal spying and what will happen well one minute,
Speaker 1: by the way, oh one minute. Wow. So the bottom
Speaker 1: line is we need Durham to get to get to
Speaker 1: get the full story like how this started. There's so
Speaker 1: many players out there that we don't know who or
Speaker 1: what they are. Like, let's just start with Joseph Mifson.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that knew about Hillary Clinton's emails writers
Speaker 1: supposedly did it, talked to Popadopolis about it. You know,
Speaker 1: why on earth did you know? Mohler and the FBI
Speaker 1: never track down you know, we can, we can, we
Speaker 1: can track down and kill Solomony, we can kill Ben Laden,
Speaker 1: but we can't find like a multisee diplomat name mips
Speaker 1: It that supposedly had all these emails that we were
Speaker 1: investigating the President of the United States over. Nobody ever
Speaker 1: finds the guy. It's just unexplainable. And so that's where
Speaker 1: I think the difference between why you saw bar and
Speaker 1: Durham both come out at the outset of the release
Speaker 1: of the Horrowitz report and said, look, there's more information
Speaker 1: that we need here, and that's what they're talking about
Speaker 1: how did this investigation begin. Well, I'll stop this and
Speaker 1: end this interview where we started, which is we owe
Speaker 1: you a debt of gratitude. Congressman, you dug deep. You
Speaker 1: found the truth. You told the American people the truth.
Speaker 1: You've now been vindicated, and the congenital liar, who we
Speaker 1: know is compromised. You're pursuing that truth and we applaud
Speaker 1: you for it. Thank you. Congressman Devin Nunez eight hundred
Speaker 1: nine for one. Seawan told free telephone number there as
Speaker 1: a mistake by the Iranians. Do you think they assumed
Speaker 1: this was some sort of US military plane. Well, I
Speaker 1: have been briefed on at Wolf and the Intelligence Committee,
Speaker 1: so I'm not really at liberty to say. But if
Speaker 1: what is being projected is true, this is yet another
Speaker 1: example of collateral damage from the actions that have been
Speaker 1: taken in a provocative way by the President of the
Speaker 1: United States. Well, there's this type of miscalculation, let's say,
Speaker 1: on the part of the Iranians, more likely now to
Speaker 1: result it even heightened tensions. I would say that the
Speaker 1: continued saburbs excuse me, the continued saber rattling by the
Speaker 1: President doesn't help us. I also feel strongly that by
Speaker 1: taking out General Slamani that that did not somehow outmd
Speaker 1: US of any of the planning that the Iranians would
Speaker 1: be doing, or that the Shia militia that is throughout
Speaker 1: the region is also engaged in doing. And we also
Speaker 1: have the leader of the Shia militia who was assassinated
Speaker 1: as well, that maybe the subject of some efforts to
Speaker 1: seek revenge. Sector Pompeo, do you believe that the Iranians
Speaker 1: shot down the Ukrainian International Airways plane? And if the
Speaker 1: Iranians shot that plane down, will there be consequences. We
Speaker 1: do believe that it's likely that that plane was shot
Speaker 1: down by an Iranian missile. We're going to let the
Speaker 1: investigation play out before we make a final determination. It's
Speaker 1: important that we get to the bottom of it. I've
Speaker 1: been on the phone. I was on the phone with
Speaker 1: President Zelenski just before I came here. I was on
Speaker 1: the phone with my Canadian counterpart. They were working to
Speaker 1: get their resources on the ground to conduct that thorough investigation.
Speaker 1: We'll learn more about what happened to that aircraft, and
Speaker 1: when we get the results of that investigation, I am
Speaker 1: confident we and the world will take appropriate actions in response.
Speaker 1: All right. That was Secretary of Stake Mike Pompeo. This
Speaker 1: whole issue of the plane ought to be something that
Speaker 1: we pay attention to because you know, you've got the Iranians.
Speaker 1: How are the spreading lies about the jet liner crash? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they didn't want to give over the black box
Speaker 1: in the Boeing seven thirty seven. I know the seven
Speaker 1: thirty seven has had problems this Ukrainian flight. We know
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy six people died as a result
Speaker 1: of this. It didn't make sense to any one person
Speaker 1: I know that knows aviation that this plane just drops
Speaker 1: out of the sky. That's not the way it would happen.
Speaker 1: It's also Canada, their Prime Minister Trudeau saying their country
Speaker 1: has intelligence from their own agencies. Yeah, the Iranians did this.
Speaker 1: Even the mainstream media now reporting what our pentagona Secretary
Speaker 1: of State, and everybody else has said. Apparently the Ukrainian
Speaker 1: Foreign Minister is saying at a press conference that Iran
Speaker 1: is fully cooperating or is now beginning to fully cooperate,
Speaker 1: and will give them access to the black box. Pompeo says, yeah,
Speaker 1: likely Iranian missile. Anyway, here with us as doctor Tom Stalkup.
Speaker 1: He is a science advisor. It's also co producer of
Speaker 1: TWA Flight eight hundred, it's an Epics Channel original documentary.
Speaker 1: He's also a private pilot, and he's here to discuss this. Sir,
Speaker 1: thank you, doctor stal Cup, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by aviation. I have a lot of friends
Speaker 1: that are so into planes. You have no idea, and
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know why anyone would get in
Speaker 1: these little trainer planes and ever fly with them, because
Speaker 1: they scare the daylights out of me. I prefer a
Speaker 1: bigger airplane, but they have a passion for it. And
Speaker 1: I talked to these people a lot. I've learned over
Speaker 1: the years about spatial disorientation, instrument training. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have a fundamental knowledge of avionics and how sophisticated they are.
Speaker 1: But everybody that I know that knows anything about aviation
Speaker 1: saw this in the beginning as no way this was
Speaker 1: an accident. Well, I sure it seemed suspicious. Those early
Speaker 1: videos of a plane on fire still gliding forward and
Speaker 1: certainly seemed odd to me. And I guess now the
Speaker 1: new York Times is reporting that they actually have a
Speaker 1: video of the missile hitting in So that's pretty you know, pretty,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of confirmation. And I also they might
Speaker 1: have some satellite data that's interesting, and so it all
Speaker 1: seems to point too. Yeah, a missile, probably not the
Speaker 1: same type of missile that they shot at in the
Speaker 1: Iraqi basis because those were land to land missiles. It
Speaker 1: was a most likely and air defense system that was
Speaker 1: probably on high state of alert after they started launching
Speaker 1: that attack against the rock. Okay, so let's talk about
Speaker 1: the if a plane, let's say both engines blow out.
Speaker 1: And we've had some problems with the seven thirty seven.
Speaker 1: You can discuss if you want, but if both engines
Speaker 1: go at eight thousand feet, a plane just doesn't drop
Speaker 1: out of the sky. Explain that, Oh no, sure, you
Speaker 1: still have momentum, you still have your kinetic energy, that's
Speaker 1: the speed you're going, and you can use gravity. You
Speaker 1: can turn your plane into a glider. I think it
Speaker 1: was Captain Sully that did a wonderful job when that
Speaker 1: just happened and birds put out both engines, he had
Speaker 1: no power at all. He used his plane as a glider,
Speaker 1: landed perfectly in the Hudson. It was amazing. So that's
Speaker 1: what can happen. If your landing gear still works, you
Speaker 1: got an airport insight, you go there. If there's a
Speaker 1: golf course, you go wherever you can. This plane had,
Speaker 1: you know, it's definitely something more significant. There was a
Speaker 1: there was a flames you know, seen on the videos,
Speaker 1: and so this was more than just an engine failure.
Speaker 1: This was a fire. And from what I've seen, I
Speaker 1: don't know if that video is the same one that
Speaker 1: the New York Times it obtained, but a video I
Speaker 1: saw last night seemed to show a bright flash and
Speaker 1: then a fire. Um, you know, a trajectory of something
Speaker 1: that consistent with with with an aircraft, you know, heading
Speaker 1: horizontal orientation, and so that that that whatever that was,
Speaker 1: that fire that was on the engine, the engine failure,
Speaker 1: it looks like it was preceded by a high velocity
Speaker 1: of detonation of some sort. Could that have happened by accident?
Speaker 1: I don't think so, because it's not it's not part
Speaker 1: of the same missile battery that was used to take
Speaker 1: to no to fire into right, you know, just taking
Speaker 1: about it from from what I'm talking about, like service
Speaker 1: to air missiles right right, exactly, this is this is
Speaker 1: an air defense's enough. If you're launching missiles, you start
Speaker 1: this conflict, well you better start turning on your air
Speaker 1: defenses at the same time because you might get hit back.
Speaker 1: And so this is probably a misidentification, and unfortunately it's
Speaker 1: just terrible to see these over one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: lives lost like that. But yeah, it appears, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it would have been the same type
Speaker 1: of missile as I said earlier, Probably some air defense
Speaker 1: system that just locked onto what they you know. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: it was misidentified as either that or just some kind
Speaker 1: of glitch just just caused the launch of things that
Speaker 1: should not have launched, And it might not have been
Speaker 1: misidentification at all, might have been just somebody just messed up.
Speaker 1: If I was in the defense department, or if I
Speaker 1: had any saying things and I was asked to assess
Speaker 1: any future potential terrorist threats, one of the things I
Speaker 1: think I'd worry most about are these service to air missiles,
Speaker 1: because if I'm wrong, tell me I am. That seems
Speaker 1: like something that might be able to be muggled in
Speaker 1: maybe across the southern border. That we now know as
Speaker 1: being fixed finally or even manufactured in some way in
Speaker 1: the United States, and their heat seeking missiles, and god
Speaker 1: forbid they you know, one day we wake up and
Speaker 1: somebody decides they're going to be in five separate big
Speaker 1: airport locations and they're going to try and take out
Speaker 1: commercial airliners. Would that be something that we should fear,
Speaker 1: because I think it is. Well, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that when we went into Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: some of our Stinger missiles went missing, and there was
Speaker 1: a fear at the time that some of those heat
Speaker 1: seeking surface here missiles. A minute, The Stinger missiles is
Speaker 1: how they Afghanis beat the Soviets back in the eighties.
Speaker 1: They were provided by us, that's right, and some of
Speaker 1: them I guess got misplaced and in the wrong hands,
Speaker 1: and we feared that they may use those against us.
Speaker 1: In the fact, that was one of the theories that
Speaker 1: was a prophet early on in the twa flighted hundred investigation,
Speaker 1: and it might have been a terrorist type missile. Now
Speaker 1: I don't particularly subscribe to that. It seems to me
Speaker 1: that this aircraft that I study was was a bit
Speaker 1: out of the range and way off shore, if you
Speaker 1: launched it from shore when they're even reached the plane. So,
Speaker 1: but we want to talk about that crash. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just it's things that happened. I mean, you can think
Speaker 1: back to M A seventeen over Ukraine. Um, that was
Speaker 1: that was a mistake, you know, a misidentification the Iranian
Speaker 1: airbus over the Persian Gulf. Um, And in fact there
Speaker 1: was an Africa. They did shoot some stingers I believe,
Speaker 1: at an Israeli jet and they that was a terrorist
Speaker 1: attack and that was foiled luckily. I'm not exactly sure how,
Speaker 1: but either the missiles missed or the Israeli had some
Speaker 1: kind of classified defense system on their jet. But that
Speaker 1: that actually happened, I believe that was in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands. But yeah, they there have been there is
Speaker 1: precedence for a Stinger missiles being used, but I do
Speaker 1: not believe that this was a stinger or a heat
Speaker 1: seeker that hit this plane. Although it did hit the engine,
Speaker 1: so it and that is consistent with a heat seeker.
Speaker 1: But we just don't know this point. I can't speculate
Speaker 1: what type of missile is at this time. Well, we
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm just talking about the fear of it.
Speaker 1: For example, if I just maybe there's an opportunity to
Speaker 1: sort of educate people to understand explain how, for example,
Speaker 1: the redundancy in the cockpit. You know, we've all had
Speaker 1: the experience. Yeah we're gonna be delayed and you're sitting
Speaker 1: on the tarmac. Oh, because there is some redundant whatever
Speaker 1: that light that went on and now we've got to
Speaker 1: check the whole system and maybe we have to replace
Speaker 1: a part or whatever. That's all good because you have
Speaker 1: all these jets, commercial and otherwise taken off every single day,
Speaker 1: and we's been proven over and over again air travel
Speaker 1: is safer than getting in a car. So my question is,
Speaker 1: you know, these planes in terms of avionics, safety, redundancy,
Speaker 1: how safe are these planes really there? Because every pilot
Speaker 1: I know tells me these things can pretty much almost
Speaker 1: take off and land themselves and the need for pilot.
Speaker 1: It's as like with Sully landing in the Hudson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're moving towards that. Um, it's it's it
Speaker 1: is amazing that self driving car is self driving planes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's safety. It's safer than driving air car. Now,
Speaker 1: the planes that I fly are smaller and they're not
Speaker 1: as safe what do you fly statistically, But the ones
Speaker 1: you get in at the airport, they're very safe. And
Speaker 1: in fact, they have, you know, like you said, a redundancy.
Speaker 1: They have you know, more than one altimeter, you know,
Speaker 1: more than one air speed indicator. You know, if one fails,
Speaker 1: you still got another one. There is hit in front
Speaker 1: of you. And that's the thing. Now. For example, once
Speaker 1: you put in where you want a land, how long
Speaker 1: after a pilot takes off, assuming he's doing it all manually,
Speaker 1: gets up in the air, how far? How what is
Speaker 1: the altitude necessary before you can turn on the autopilot
Speaker 1: and explain how far you would be able to fly
Speaker 1: that to the location that you determined and would the
Speaker 1: plane almost land itself? I bet I hear that they
Speaker 1: can do that. Now listen, I that's what I've heard that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. I am not a commercial pilot. I'm a
Speaker 1: private pilot, so that's not something I have ever done. However,
Speaker 1: I have heard that that can be done. And you know,
Speaker 1: even if the engines fail, like you said before, once
Speaker 1: you're at altitude. That's why when you take off of
Speaker 1: the airport, you want to go as high as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible to as highhouse dude as possible, because you know,
Speaker 1: that's the safest place to be because you can all.
Speaker 1: You know, the higher you are, the more airports you
Speaker 1: could glide to if there was a failure. Have they
Speaker 1: made good strides in terms of the fuel efficiency of
Speaker 1: these newer jets that are coming out. What do you
Speaker 1: think of the Airbus three eighty versus bowings? What's bows seven?
Speaker 1: What eighty seven? I don't even know what the they're
Speaker 1: compatible plane is. Yeah, I'm not certain about that. I
Speaker 1: think what they started getting away from was the seven
Speaker 1: forty seven of those wide body planes. The wider the body,
Speaker 1: the more resistance you have, and so you're fighting against
Speaker 1: air resistance. So I believe switched philosophies. They're going with
Speaker 1: a longer range, narrower body jets, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the way of the future, more jets and narrow bodies
Speaker 1: and more efficient jets that that definitely do go much
Speaker 1: further than the seven forty seven were capable of, basically
Speaker 1: due to physics, just because of the you know, the
Speaker 1: wider you are, the more forces you're you're fighting against,
Speaker 1: and so you have a nikuld have in a very
Speaker 1: very narrow jet, in a very long jet, and you
Speaker 1: know that that would be the most efficient way to fly,
Speaker 1: and I believe that's what they're moving towards. He listen,
Speaker 1: this is so informative. I'm just fascinated by it because
Speaker 1: it is so safe and we have the redundancy, and
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for that and grateful to the great engineers
Speaker 1: Boeing and elsewhere that can keep commercial airlines safe the
Speaker 1: way they do. Anyway, thank you, doctor Stalcup. We appreciate
Speaker 1: you being with us, very informative eight hundred and nine
Speaker 1: four one sewn. You want to be a part of
Speaker 1: the program. Top of the hour. Back to our top story.
Speaker 1: The president yesterday speaking and looks like impeachment trial begins Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We'll check in with Jeff Lord, Greg Jarrett, Daniel Okbari,
Speaker 1: the author of Honor Killing. Remember he was imprisoned by
Speaker 1: Iranian officials and tortured. He'll tell us his story. Let's
Speaker 1: get a quick call in here. We'll final half hour
Speaker 1: of the show. We'll get some more calls in as
Speaker 1: well as we say hi to Nicole. She is in Philly.
Speaker 1: That is Linda's old stomping grounds. How are you, Nicole,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year. I'm hanging in there, regardless of my
Speaker 1: area of affiliation. How are you today, I'm good, Thank you,
Speaker 1: very very much good. So my main question is rewinding
Speaker 1: back till last week. I was wondering were there events
Speaker 1: leading up to the embassy attack, because it just kind
Speaker 1: of seemed like it came out of nowhere. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know if you had any insight or you know,
Speaker 1: explanation as to what, if anything occurred prior to that happening,
Speaker 1: because we were, you know, listening to all these articles
Speaker 1: of impeachment floating around over and over and then so
Speaker 1: much just seemed like, out of nowhere, our embassy is
Speaker 1: being attacked over in Iraq. So if you could well listen,
Speaker 1: the reason is because they've been getting away with everything else. Look,
Speaker 1: the sanctions the President has put in place for Iran
Speaker 1: are very simple. It has impacted the Iranian economy, and
Speaker 1: our production of oil has also impacted the lifeblood of
Speaker 1: the world economy and the price of energy worldwide. We
Speaker 1: now have we now determine our destiny more than they do.
Speaker 1: The straights horror moves are less geopolitically strategically important to
Speaker 1: the United States, because we're now the biggest producer of
Speaker 1: oil in the world and now a net exporter of energy.
Speaker 1: So the good news is is that they're doing this
Speaker 1: to get the world's attention. We put up with a
Speaker 1: certain amount that we said we're done, You're done, and
Speaker 1: that was it. All right, News round Up, Information Overload.
Speaker 1: On a Friday Hannity nineties, we got an awesome show
Speaker 1: straight ahead bread power. Not to pursue conflict, but to
Speaker 1: really preserve and I mean in the true sense of
Speaker 1: the word preserved peace. We have this tremendous military and
Speaker 1: you know what that is. That's really a great fighting force.
Speaker 1: But I hope we never have to use it. I
Speaker 1: really do. You saw an example. You saw an example
Speaker 1: of that a couple of days ago. So we seek
Speaker 1: friends not on race, but if you dare to threaten
Speaker 1: our citizens, you do so at your own grave peril.
Speaker 1: So they want me so you know, these are split
Speaker 1: second decisions. You have to make a decision. So they
Speaker 1: don't want me to make that decision. They want me
Speaker 1: to call up maybe go over there, let me go
Speaker 1: over to conquer. So come on over to the White House,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. When can you make it. Well,
Speaker 1: I won't be able to make it today, sir, how
Speaker 1: about let's say a couple of days. Oh sure, come
Speaker 1: on over. Now we gotta call. We heard where he was,
Speaker 1: we knew the way he was getting there, and we
Speaker 1: had to make a decision. We didn't have time to
Speaker 1: call up nan see who is not operating with a
Speaker 1: full deck. Now they want us to call. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine calling crooked Adam Chiff? He's so crooked, he's so shifty. Chief,
Speaker 1: Say gee, Adam, how you doing. Listen, we have the
Speaker 1: world's number one terrorists killed thousands and thousands of people.
Speaker 1: We'd like to set up a meeting so we can
Speaker 1: discuss his execution. Would would you be willing to me? Well,
Speaker 1: I won't be able to make it this week. Well,
Speaker 1: you know he's traveling fast. We got him lined up
Speaker 1: at him, you little pencil neck. All right, news, round up,
Speaker 1: information overload the president last night Toledo, Ohio. Maybe my
Speaker 1: favorite line of the night, Um great watching the pencil
Speaker 1: neck in genital liar compromised Adam Schiff be the house manager.
Speaker 1: You can't pick a better person, Nancy. You go for
Speaker 1: that anyway? The President laying it all out and you
Speaker 1: see the reaction. Now, this is a phenomenal thing because
Speaker 1: we're two hundred and eighty nine days away from this
Speaker 1: is the choice selection of your lifetime. I know you
Speaker 1: hear that every election, this is it America hangs in
Speaker 1: the balance. The only problem is this time it's true.
Speaker 1: Every Democrat has the worst foreign policy ideas I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: You know, the idea that you know we have quid
Speaker 1: pro quote Joe and he believes in bribing maniacal mullahs
Speaker 1: and Iran with one hundred and fifty billion in cash.
Speaker 1: Should frighten you. There's not one Democratic presidential candidate that
Speaker 1: understood the need to take out Solomani in spite of
Speaker 1: all the Americans that he tortured and brutally murdered, on
Speaker 1: top of all the terror that he has been funding
Speaker 1: and orchestrating around the world, Iran being the number one
Speaker 1: state sponsor of terror. He is the guy that was
Speaker 1: the second most powerful person in Iran. He led the effort.
Speaker 1: Now what was he doing in Baghdad? We had now
Speaker 1: the president put up with a lot. President put up
Speaker 1: with tankers being taken hostage, impacting the lifeblood of the
Speaker 1: world's economy. He put up with two drones being taken
Speaker 1: out of the air, unmanned drones. He put up with
Speaker 1: the attack on Saudi oil fields unprovoked, why designed to
Speaker 1: impact the free flow of oil at market prices, But
Speaker 1: then they killed an American contractor and hurt American soldiers,
Speaker 1: followed by an attack on our embassy. He was not
Speaker 1: going to have is not going to be the president
Speaker 1: of Benghazi two as MSDNC, the Conspiracy Channel had their
Speaker 1: some of their hosts saying, oh Benghazi two, Trump's Benghazi's
Speaker 1: breaking out, and so the President let all these other
Speaker 1: incidents go. The Iranians, whether they tried to say face
Speaker 1: or they're incompetent, it's I don't know. I can't I
Speaker 1: don't know the minds of evil Mullah's. But the President's
Speaker 1: clear they're not going to get nuclear weapons. And if
Speaker 1: they kill Americans, there's my line in the sand. But
Speaker 1: here's your off ramp. You want it, take it. If not,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bomb the living hell out of you. And
Speaker 1: know when I'm putting boots on the ground, and that
Speaker 1: is called piece through strength. I'm guessing the Iranians are
Speaker 1: scared to death of what Donald Trump would do next.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they got a loud, clear message that this
Speaker 1: can't happen here to help sort through all of this,
Speaker 1: and it looks like impeachment starting next Wednesday. Jeff Lord,
Speaker 1: Associate political director in the administration of Ronald Reagan. Greg
Speaker 1: Jarrett also with us all through the bestseller witch Hunt. Guys,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Glad you with us. Jeff, you worked with Reagan,
Speaker 1: you worked under Reagan. Piece through strength, trust by trust,
Speaker 1: and verify. Mister Gorbachev, We'll tear down this wall and
Speaker 1: all of the above, and it worked. Building up our
Speaker 1: military worked, I think as great as the accomplishment will
Speaker 1: go down as strategic defense. And I've said that since
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, absolutely, Sean that the thing that
Speaker 1: I find so remarkably similar between Ronald Reagan and Donald
Speaker 1: Trump they both came from outside the establishment. I mean, one,
Speaker 1: as we all know, was a television actor and movie
Speaker 1: actor for decades before being elected governor of California. The
Speaker 1: other was a you know, successful businessman who then becomes
Speaker 1: a television star himself. Neither of them had a seriously
Speaker 1: political background in the way that so many people in
Speaker 1: Washington do, and the town just went crazy about Reagan's election.
Speaker 1: They could not abide him. They were they were, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it was the same thing you hear with Trump,
Speaker 1: the rise of fascism, the dark Knights are coming. They
Speaker 1: compared him to Hitler, the ku klux Klan was going
Speaker 1: to be let loose. I mean, some of these things,
Speaker 1: and I've gone back and looked to write about it today.
Speaker 1: Remarkable that they are the same. But Reagan persisted. He
Speaker 1: had this vision, and he turned out to be right,
Speaker 1: and he won the Cold War. My favorite line was
Speaker 1: he said somebody asked him, one of the staff asked
Speaker 1: him what his view of the Cold War was, and
Speaker 1: he says, we win, they lose that which I mean
Speaker 1: that is and he did make a little mistake. It
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a joke. Bombing begins in five
Speaker 1: minutes before a radio address. Greg Jarrett to me, if
Speaker 1: you if you don't see that everything that the Democrats
Speaker 1: have tried to say about Donald Trump is inaccurate. The
Speaker 1: caricature that they've been painting all of this time has
Speaker 1: been false, because I think he showed way more restraint
Speaker 1: than I could have ever shown. As it relates to
Speaker 1: the Mullahs in Iran, and we know, you know what,
Speaker 1: he's not going to give him one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: billion in cash and other currencies. And one other thing.
Speaker 1: Greg This president took a lot of heat because he said, sure,
Speaker 1: I'll meet with Kim Jong un, I'll talk to anybody.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to Putin, I'll talk to the Melis, I'll
Speaker 1: talk to that Laban, but I'm not giving them anything.
Speaker 1: He gave nothing but time to the North Korean dictator,
Speaker 1: and we got a lot of benefits out of that right,
Speaker 1: and he didn't hand over to around one point five
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Jeff Lord's great piece
Speaker 1: today that everybody should redraws a brilliant comparison between Trump
Speaker 1: and Reagan, and Reagan is actually the template for Trump,
Speaker 1: and it's very simple. We will seek peace through strength,
Speaker 1: and we will exercise that Milo's terry strength only when
Speaker 1: absolutely necessary. And it was Trump who said to around,
Speaker 1: if you kill an American, you're crossing a red line.
Speaker 1: You will pay for it. And that's what happened. They
Speaker 1: killed an American contractor on a base and Trumpet shown
Speaker 1: remarkable restraint. They're downing the the US drone, the attack
Speaker 1: on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, firing rockets
Speaker 1: into installations housing American personnel. But when they cross that
Speaker 1: red line, Trump took action, and I think the Mullahs
Speaker 1: are now trembling, and the hypocrisy of all of this
Speaker 1: is really striking. You know, Barack Obama used drones of
Speaker 1: five hundred and seventy one times to take out terrorists,
Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosian Democrats never once complained he initiated strikes
Speaker 1: on Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Libya, Pakistan. Pelosian Democrats never complain.
Speaker 1: Trump takes out a notorious terrorist who killed six hundred
Speaker 1: and eight Americans, and there's mass hysteria and just like Trump,
Speaker 1: just like Reagan back in nineteen eighty and I was
Speaker 1: a young lawyer back down living and working in Samford, Cisco.
Speaker 1: I remember everyone said, oh my god, the election of
Speaker 1: Reagan will mean World War three. And of course we
Speaker 1: heard several days ago that Trump strike against Solomony will
Speaker 1: initiate World War three. That's nothing but irrational hysteria, all true.
Speaker 1: All you know, I'm trying to try and get into
Speaker 1: the minds of those people that would allow the Iranians
Speaker 1: and I'll ask both of you the same question. Jeff,
Speaker 1: you can answer first, to shoot down our drones, to
Speaker 1: take in the very narrow straits of Hormos, We're about
Speaker 1: a third of the world's oil passes through every day,
Speaker 1: take tankers, hostage bomb Saudi oil field's totally unprovoked. Then
Speaker 1: attack our embassy and also kill American contractors and all
Speaker 1: the Americans that Solomony directly killed in Iraq, and that
Speaker 1: we're not going to take the shot when he's on
Speaker 1: the tarmac in Baghdad. I'm trying to understand why you
Speaker 1: would think it's a bad thing to do that. Jeff,
Speaker 1: I don't understand the mindset like I can't. It's inexplicable
Speaker 1: that anyone would give one hundred and fifty billion dollars
Speaker 1: in cash another currency to Molo's in Iran Sean. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about this myself, and here the only
Speaker 1: conclusion I can come to is that in our lifetime
Speaker 1: we have seen the Democratic Party go to the far left.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have any any thoughts about why
Speaker 1: they would sound like they're the Iran Iranian propaganda minister
Speaker 1: or something, think back to Jane Fonda sitting there in
Speaker 1: North Vietnam behind a machine gun of the North Vietnamese.
Speaker 1: It was being used to take American pilots out of
Speaker 1: the sky. This business of siding with America's enemies has
Speaker 1: been going on for most of my and your adult lifetime.
Speaker 1: This time it's the Iranians, and it's pathetic. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's truly disgraceful. But you can begin to realize here
Speaker 1: that no matter what the situation, these people are going
Speaker 1: to take the other side of the argument and carry
Speaker 1: it out in ways that lots of people think are
Speaker 1: just seriously unpatriotic. They did this when Ronald Reagan sent
Speaker 1: troops to Grenada to save those American kids in the
Speaker 1: medical school down there after a communist coup. They were
Speaker 1: crazed about this kind of thing. This happens with them reflexively,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that there's any way that it's
Speaker 1: going to stop. Tend to agree. We'll get to Greg's
Speaker 1: Andrew on the other side, Greg Jarrett, Jeff Lord eight
Speaker 1: hundred and nine for one sean. You want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the program. And as we continue, Jeff Lord,
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett, I wanted to ask you, Jeff can't explain it.
Speaker 1: It's inexplicable to me, Greg Jarrett, how is it possible
Speaker 1: If you can explain, how is it possible to think
Speaker 1: bribing mullah's that chant death to America and want to
Speaker 1: wipe Israel off the map giving the money is a
Speaker 1: good idea. Well, two things, it's the easy way out.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just easier to pay cash than to
Speaker 1: take strong, aggressive action to stop terrorists. And second of all,
Speaker 1: it is a part of the Trump derangement syndrome. If
Speaker 1: Obama does it, it's great. If Trump does it, it's horrible.
Speaker 1: And that's just stupid. Well, yeah, it is. You know,
Speaker 1: I think we now have the emergence of it's Trump doctrine.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to anybody. A lot of people said that's outrageous.
Speaker 1: Why would you talk to anybody? And I'll also, I
Speaker 1: want peace. I'll even take a little bit of your crap,
Speaker 1: you know, the drones and the ship's taken hostage, etc.
Speaker 1: But you're not going to kill Americans. That's our line
Speaker 1: in the sand. And if you do, you're gonna pay
Speaker 1: a big price. Simple, right, Jeff. I like that because
Speaker 1: I don't want boots on the ground. We can't send
Speaker 1: kids to war anymore because they always politicize it in
Speaker 1: the swamp and then we say, never mind, so we
Speaker 1: might as well not go there and just bomb the
Speaker 1: daylights out of them like we did with ISIS. Now
Speaker 1: we have new technology. Right, You've been making this point
Speaker 1: repeatedly and you're absolutely dead on correct. Once they get
Speaker 1: us into a war, then all hell breaks loose and
Speaker 1: they protest and they're in the streets and all this
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's just it's just simply not worth
Speaker 1: an American kid's life to do this. And notably the
Speaker 1: irony here. I don't know how much attention this has gotten.
Speaker 1: The lone American contractor that would kill was killed was
Speaker 1: a legal Muslim American immigrant m And what's your reaction,
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett? Yeah, I mean it's it's a great point.
Speaker 1: You know, your argument is really Trump's argument, and that
Speaker 1: is that this is very simple. If you attack our people,
Speaker 1: if you jeopardize our national security, I have a right
Speaker 1: as president under the Constitution to take aggressive action. It
Speaker 1: has always been that way. Presidents have been doing it
Speaker 1: for decades in my lifetime. And Democrats, you know, when
Speaker 1: Trump does it, Democrats seemed to gloss over into this
Speaker 1: mindless hysteria. It's this reflexive Pavlovian response that whatever Trump
Speaker 1: does must be wrong, we must condemn it, regardless of
Speaker 1: whether it makes absolute common sense to do it. Guys,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you both, Jeff Lord and Greg Jarrett.
Speaker 1: Gotta take a break here we are. When we come back,
Speaker 1: of course, it's Friday. Our best sound of the week
Speaker 1: coming up. Your calls and much more. Eight hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety four one Sean. You want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program. Also, Daniel luck Barry's going to join
Speaker 1: us with more intel information about what life in Iran
Speaker 1: is like. He knows because he was tortured and tried
Speaker 1: and imprisoned in Bulgaria, because he converted to Christianity, and
Speaker 1: he knows what the meaning, the real meaning of the
Speaker 1: killing of Solomoni is and what it should mean to
Speaker 1: the people of Iran. That's straight ahead. In the initial
Speaker 1: hours after the missile attacks on Aliside and Air Bill,
Speaker 1: it was believed that Iran may have taken steps to
Speaker 1: avoid US casualties. But then the chairman of George Chiefs,
Speaker 1: Mark Miller, came out, Secretary of Defense came out, other
Speaker 1: officials came out to say no, these missiles were intended
Speaker 1: to kill Americans. If it was Iran's intent to kill Americans,
Speaker 1: does that not deserve some sort of response. I mean,
Speaker 1: if somebody who takes a shot at you and they
Speaker 1: don't hate you simply because you duck, does that mean
Speaker 1: that they weren't trying to kill you. So I'll look
Speaker 1: all the photo the Department of Defense on the details,
Speaker 1: but there's no doubt in my judgment, as I observed
Speaker 1: the Iranian activity in the region that night, they had
Speaker 1: the full intention of killing US forces, whether that was
Speaker 1: our military folks or diplomatic folks who were in the region.
Speaker 1: And I am confident that the response to the President
Speaker 1: taken as appropriate. President said, we don't want war. We
Speaker 1: want Iran to behave like a normal nation. The reason
Speaker 1: that the Secretary of Treasure are here this morning is
Speaker 1: to continue this campaign, our strategic effort to get to
Speaker 1: Ran to behave in a way that doesn't continue They're
Speaker 1: forty year long effort to terrorize the world. The respecretary
Speaker 1: of the administration said this strike was done based on
Speaker 1: an imminent threat. But this morning you said, we didn't
Speaker 1: know precisely when, and we didn't know precisely where that's
Speaker 1: not the definition of imminent. The President has also suggested
Speaker 1: that there was some sort of attacking plant against an embassy,
Speaker 1: perhaps several embassies. Can you clarify, did you have specific
Speaker 1: information about an imminent threat and didn't have anything to
Speaker 1: do with our embassies. We had specific emanation information on
Speaker 1: an imminent threat, and that was threat stream included attacks
Speaker 1: on US embassies, period, full stop. You were mistaken when
Speaker 1: you said you didn't know precisely when and you didn't
Speaker 1: know precisely completely true. Those are completely consistent thoughts. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly which minute, we don't know exactly which
Speaker 1: day it would have been executed, but it was very
Speaker 1: clear Costum Suleimani himself was plotting a broad, large scale
Speaker 1: attack against American interests, and those attacks were imminent against
Speaker 1: American facilities, including American embassies, military basis, American facilities throughout
Speaker 1: the region. Sadly, the previous administration had opened up revenue
Speaker 1: streams for Iran, but under our administration, revenue oil revenues
Speaker 1: are down by eighty percent and Iran cannot access roughly
Speaker 1: ninety percent of its foreign currency reserves, and not even
Speaker 1: two weeks ago President Rohani of AROUND admitted that our
Speaker 1: sanctions have cost around over two hundred billion dollars in
Speaker 1: loss for an income and investment. As long as Iran's
Speaker 1: outlaws ways continue, we will continue to impose sanctions. Finally,
Speaker 1: I want to reiterate President Trump's concern for Americans and
Speaker 1: dual national citizens detained insight of Iran. AROUND knows that
Speaker 1: these individuals have committed no crime. They know the charges
Speaker 1: against them are fake, and we will do all that
Speaker 1: we can to get each of them returned home safely
Speaker 1: to their families. Twenty five to the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo describing, Yeah, days away. Why
Speaker 1: is that so complicated for people to understand? Why do
Speaker 1: you think Solomoni was on the tarmac at Baghdad International
Speaker 1: Airport not that complicated to figure out because before he
Speaker 1: even arrived, when our embassy was under attack, what do
Speaker 1: we see written on the wall? Solomoni is our leader.
Speaker 1: It's hard for the good people to understand evil, and
Speaker 1: when you talk about it in this sense, over one
Speaker 1: hundred million human souls destroyed in the last century. We
Speaker 1: discussed Hitler and Stalin and fascism and Nazism and Imperial
Speaker 1: Japan and Mao and Cambodi and the killing fields. That's
Speaker 1: one hundred million plus human souls. We don't have an
Speaker 1: exact figure, but that's a lot of people killed because
Speaker 1: of evil. And every case that I just meant, that's evil.
Speaker 1: Radical Islamic terrorists that attacked New York City and the
Speaker 1: United States on nine to eleven, two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: that was evil. What happened in the Benghazi in September eleven,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, it was evil, you know, the attempt killing
Speaker 1: Americans with the these incendiary devices of Solomon and I
Speaker 1: was evil. Funding Hezbollah, state sponsored terror, evil, the radical
Speaker 1: Malah's in Iran. They don't deserve bribes. They deserve they
Speaker 1: will behave and they can't get nuclear weapons or we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to use our military might and hurt you.
Speaker 1: Don't make us hurt you a lot because we can.
Speaker 1: But how evil, Well, our next guest would know. Daniel
Speaker 1: loch Bari authored the book, we'll put it on our website,
Speaker 1: Honor Killing. Imprisoned by Iranian officials, tried, tortured, imprisoned in Bulgaria.
Speaker 1: His crime he dared to convert to Christianity. Daniel loch Bari,
Speaker 1: welcome back. How are you, sir? Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me answer now this you're imprisoned in Bulgaria,
Speaker 1: but it was first you were imprisoned by Iranian officials,
Speaker 1: tried and tortured. Explain that. Yeah, I was imprisoned in
Speaker 1: Bulgaria for about thirty days. Then I was deported in
Speaker 1: Irana and tortured in the hands of the intelligence service
Speaker 1: in the ron brookenhoot this locating my left shoulder. What
Speaker 1: did so and how long will you held prisoner there?
Speaker 1: I was in prison for about thirty days, okay, And
Speaker 1: what did they do to you? Actually when they just
Speaker 1: cooperated with the Irgnian counselor and the deported me to
Speaker 1: run in handcoff and in the Iran I was tortured
Speaker 1: and my left they put me in handcoff and dislocated
Speaker 1: my left shoulder. So I can tell a lot about
Speaker 1: how ruthless they they can be. How did you get out?
Speaker 1: Actually I was under bond. My father put a bond
Speaker 1: for me so I could get out under that bond.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure they have appropriated the whole property. My
Speaker 1: father put us a bond Okay. Next thing I guess
Speaker 1: we have to ask is so you've heard of Solo
Speaker 1: Money long before we took him out, correct, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: you've heard of the Kud's Forces, which is the Irgnian
Speaker 1: elite military wing of the radical Mullah's military arm in Iran. Correct,
Speaker 1: Yeah to me, Solemney asked himself as he himsel describe
Speaker 1: his road as the foot soldier for the for the
Speaker 1: Ayatulla Harmony. He was just a person to try to
Speaker 1: actualize Harmony's dream of dominating the whole region first and
Speaker 1: second the whole worlds. The Harmony wants to be the
Speaker 1: caliph and run the whole world and in the region.
Speaker 1: Soleimani was his puppet and his coordinator to to make
Speaker 1: sure that hesball law and Hashtra shaping Iraq and Syria
Speaker 1: all are on the same page. Attack in Israel and
Speaker 1: US interest. So we're talking about ruthless murderers and killers,
Speaker 1: and there's no freedom for the people of Iran unless
Speaker 1: there is well regime change if you will, and I
Speaker 1: don't say that thinking that the United States we can't
Speaker 1: be involved in regime change in Iran. That's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be up to the people of Iran correct, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is we don't have to like them,
Speaker 1: we don't have to get along with them, but they're
Speaker 1: not going to hold the world's the lifeblood of the
Speaker 1: world's economy, oil hostage in the straits of horrible. They
Speaker 1: don't get to shoot down drones, kill Americans, you know,
Speaker 1: just bomb their their oil competitors in the case of
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia for no good reason except they want to
Speaker 1: make more money. Where do you see this all ending?
Speaker 1: Because I agreed with about the President said when he
Speaker 1: made his statement the morning after they shot these ballistic missiles,
Speaker 1: and he said, thank god, nobody was hurt, no real
Speaker 1: damage was done, they all missed the target pretty much.
Speaker 1: But they can't be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: So to me, the only way we're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to defeat them, You know them. You think you can
Speaker 1: reason sit down at a table with people that think
Speaker 1: that it's okay to teach your own kids to kill
Speaker 1: Israelis and Americans and you're doing the will of God
Speaker 1: when you do it, or allah, You think you can
Speaker 1: reason with people that have that mindset, I do not
Speaker 1: believe you can. Yeah, as you mentioned, you know Summut
Speaker 1: regime is suffering economically for sure, and Iranians are uprising.
Speaker 1: Iranians are sick and tire of this regime. They have
Speaker 1: been captivated by this regime for over forty years. I
Speaker 1: have to say, I mean for Iranians, nothing is I
Speaker 1: have to say unclear about how crazy and how demonic
Speaker 1: this regime is. But the problem I see is from
Speaker 1: the liberals side in the United States, how they take
Speaker 1: side with those I say, evil people, with those leaders
Speaker 1: of the Stamic regime. I personally feel very disappointed to
Speaker 1: witness the liberals, I mean restless efforts to portray Costum
Speaker 1: Solei Money an army general hero who has been assassinated
Speaker 1: by the most evil person on their planet. You know,
Speaker 1: they portrayed Trump to be the most evil person on
Speaker 1: the planet who killed a saint, Costum Sali Money they
Speaker 1: port as a saint. That It's crazy how liberals dare
Speaker 1: to go to that point. It's unbelievable, how their hatred,
Speaker 1: the excessive hatred for the president made them so shameless
Speaker 1: to take side with the most infamous terrorists whose sole
Speaker 1: mission was to kill as many Americans as could as
Speaker 1: he could to actualize comedy's dream of coming. Khalif you
Speaker 1: know so the money describe himself as a Harmony's foot soldier.
Speaker 1: I'm beyond curious to learn how liberals, I mean have
Speaker 1: found what they have found in this notorious terrorists that
Speaker 1: made them characterize the US preemptive defensive strike against him
Speaker 1: as a terti a great point, I mean, how is
Speaker 1: it possible? But I guess I don't know. I'll never
Speaker 1: understand why you give Mala's one hundred and fifty billion.
Speaker 1: We're glad you're out. We're glad you're safe. We're glad
Speaker 1: you can identify for this audience exactly what it is
Speaker 1: we're dealing with. Danielle Abari, thank you for being Willis.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, sir. Have a go on eight
Speaker 1: hundred and nine four one, Sean, you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the program, Let's go to the great
Speaker 1: state of Texas. Ben standing by next Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1: What's up, Ben? How are you good? Afternoon? Mister Hannity.
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking my call. I'd been wanting to
Speaker 1: call you for the past a few days to share
Speaker 1: my opinion about what has going on. I'm an Iranian
Speaker 1: who left Yvonne at age sixteen, right after the Ivanne
Speaker 1: I Rock was over, and decided that this country is
Speaker 1: not for us anymore, and walked all the way to
Speaker 1: active Greece, going through Iraq. What year is this you're
Speaker 1: talking about? By the way, this is late nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1: Um and uh right before, right after the Gulf War.
Speaker 1: Saandam was saying when he's like kwait right after that fiasco.
Speaker 1: And I got on foot and made my journey all
Speaker 1: the ways. Agree. It took me six months. I became men.
Speaker 1: I become a man overnight with horrible things that I
Speaker 1: experienced during their journey, and turned myself to US embassy
Speaker 1: and applied for refuge asylum. Waited two years, and I
Speaker 1: was privileged to be granted a green card. And I've
Speaker 1: been living the States since. What an amazing story. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at London. We're just sitting here on our mouths open,
Speaker 1: listening to your journey. Wow, that's incredible. Thank you, Thank
Speaker 1: God for you know. By the way, what would life
Speaker 1: be like if you were there? I'm sorry, what would
Speaker 1: life be like for you if you were there? Do
Speaker 1: you many communications with people there anymore? Well? I speak
Speaker 1: to I talk to my cousins and my relatives, but
Speaker 1: it is very dangerous for them to be in contact
Speaker 1: with us, and we have to talk in codes or
Speaker 1: in Instagram because the Internet is not free there is
Speaker 1: it is filtered, so they have to pay hackers to
Speaker 1: given filter whatever it's called, to get on internet and
Speaker 1: so we can communicate. The life is horrible there and
Speaker 1: when you hear my story, you would think I would
Speaker 1: be the perfect poster child for their left and Nancy
Speaker 1: Close his gang. But the fact is one hundred percent
Speaker 1: the opposite. What they are doing for the past three
Speaker 1: years to Donald Trump is the shame and it's an
Speaker 1: American is pure communism. And what they have been doing
Speaker 1: since we have killed the most evil monster person that
Speaker 1: could walk earth, after Hitler, it was solely money. What
Speaker 1: they have been doing since is just appalling and disgusting.
Speaker 1: They are not speaking on behalf of Iranians, and they
Speaker 1: are not speaking on behalf of anyone calls himself a
Speaker 1: freedom lover human beings. I kind of just let your
Speaker 1: guests said earlier, I just I'm just appalled. I'm puzzled.
Speaker 1: Why would you sympathize and send controle condolences for such
Speaker 1: a person that he has been killing innocent people for
Speaker 1: over forty years. Okay, so they answer your own question.
Speaker 1: Why would they not understand you can't bribe these radical regimes,
Speaker 1: these dictators, these mulas. Why do you think there is
Speaker 1: even a resist? Oh my gosh, we killed Solomoney. You
Speaker 1: should have given him one hundred and fifty billion. They
Speaker 1: may get mad at us. That's that's what it seems
Speaker 1: like to me. That's absolutely. I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You know, my wife and I trying to figure out
Speaker 1: why you are doing this because our PTSD has kicked
Speaker 1: in and remembering what these people they have done to us.
Speaker 1: I was as a child walking through this Google could
Speaker 1: see people hanging on a street. But what's forced because
Speaker 1: this this spoke out about what they want, you know,
Speaker 1: and they were part of the opposition. The child, I
Speaker 1: would see people hanging on the street in public by
Speaker 1: this guy we just killed. And then we have Americans
Speaker 1: trying to uh say that they are sorry for what
Speaker 1: we have done to this person and send condoleces to
Speaker 1: Ivanni and Ayatolla. What a shame? What a shame. You
Speaker 1: can't be disagreeable. You don't have to like Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Sean Okay, you don't have to have it is called demofras.
Speaker 1: You don't like the man, wait four years, go to
Speaker 1: the polls, vote vote him out of the office. But
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Not not not only its anti American,
Speaker 1: it's just what is the humanity in that part with
Speaker 1: a killer that's been killing people around the world, not
Speaker 1: just van And we keep seeing orts military force in America.
Speaker 1: Military is not involved in our country because it's on
Speaker 1: constitutional And I gotta run. I want to get a
Speaker 1: contact for you, um never. You're of Alexandro souldanets and
Speaker 1: gave a famous speech at Harvard once. You almost remind
Speaker 1: me of him a little bit. Wow, very powerful testimony.
Speaker 1: We will have you back. What an incredible life story.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you sharing it with us. We're gonna put
Speaker 1: you on hold there Ben in Texas and we want
Speaker 1: to get some information on you. That is a powerful story.
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