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Speaker 1: eight hundred nine four one sean, that's one eight hundred

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Speaker 1: here's a novel concept. I am all for shutting down

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Speaker 1: So pay no attention to the media and liberal hysteria.

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Speaker 1: is one of the classic Washington canards that people love

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Speaker 1: very merry Christmas. Sure, some parks across America might close

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. And here's an idea for you. Let's permanently

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Speaker 1: the wall. Perfectly legal. And after all members of Congress

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Speaker 1: So President Trump should simply fund the wall by just

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Speaker 1: spending a fraction of the one trillion indiscretionary funds. He

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Speaker 1: A mere five years ago, the entire Senate Democratic Caucus

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Speaker 1: So why are they flip flopping on it? You know

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Speaker 1: back even further. Two thousand and six, Democrats in the

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Speaker 1: But for now, it looks like the Senate will not

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Speaker 1: How can that be inasmuch as Republicans control the US Senate,

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Speaker 1: and the answer is one word, filibuster. A year and

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Speaker 1: It's nowhere in the Constitution. It is a rule contrived

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Speaker 1: have retired from a sign, but I haven't confirmed that yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm putting a number of issues together, which it does

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Speaker 1: make sense because they are a southern flank on NATO.

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Speaker 1: They're important to us. Although Riduan in all honesty is

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Speaker 1: an Islamist Who've got to be very careful. He wants

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Speaker 1: to reinstitute the Ottoman Empire. He's got a great fight

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Speaker 1: going against Saudi Arabia because of he wants to be

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Speaker 1: the caliphate and be the leader, and he doesn't want

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, even though they're the protector of the Holy Cities.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want them to be the dominant force. So

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Speaker 1: those are the complexities. But if he did it to

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Speaker 1: keep Turkey in the US orbit, well then that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a justifiable reason. So to general just to button

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Speaker 1: this up, where with General Tom McInerney retired US Air

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Speaker 1: Force Lieutenant general, to button this up. As you pointed out,

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Speaker 1: we have air power in the region. We can on

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Speaker 1: a moment's notice undertake a you know, a strategic tactical

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Speaker 1: strike if necessary. We also have General five thousand, two

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Speaker 1: hundred troops nearby in Iraq, so you know those troops

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Speaker 1: could could be mobilized as well in the event something

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Speaker 1: takes place in Syria that merits are presents there. But

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Speaker 1: you know, the president deserves to have people, as General

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Speaker 1: Maddis pointed out in his resignation letter, whose views are

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Speaker 1: better aligned with the presidents, and Maddis's views just weren't.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we don't elect presidents to have their

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Speaker 1: subordinates stop them from implementing their policies, especially policies of

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Speaker 1: the president ran on and so you know, this thing

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Speaker 1: has taken its course. Mattis served with its distinction for

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Speaker 1: two years, and I suppose it's it's time to get

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Speaker 1: somebody else in. I've got about uh forty seconds left.

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Speaker 1: General who might be good to replace matdis Well? There

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Speaker 1: are a number of people, and I think there's some

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Speaker 1: people in the in the in the Senate, there's some people,

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Speaker 1: uh that were previous. Uh. I did like the idea

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Speaker 1: that he that he had the way he brought in

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Speaker 1: both Kelly and uh General Maddis. Uh. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to throw out a name, but but the fact is

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Speaker 1: they're there and they're ones that will support this president completely.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well that's General Maddis did. But but the

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Speaker 1: fact is, as he elected, he wanted to go. All right,

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Speaker 1: General Tom McInerney always great talking to you, sir, Thank

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Speaker 1: you very very much for being with us. I'm Greg

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Speaker 1: Jareded filling in for Sean Hannity. Will pause and take

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Speaker 1: a quick break. More on the other side, and welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Sean Hannity Show the second hour. I'm

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Speaker 1: Greg Jareded filling in for Sean. I wrote a book

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

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Speaker 1: Clinton and framed Donald Trump. By the way, it might

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Speaker 1: make a nice little Christmas gift, all wrapped up under

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Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. You can still get it in your

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Speaker 1: bookstore nearby or ordered on Amazon dot com or Barnes

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Speaker 1: and Noble dot com. But it lays out, as the

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Speaker 1: subtitle indicates, that to corrupt people at the FBI, including

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Speaker 1: James Comey and his confederates, ignored compelling evidence that Hillary

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Speaker 1: Clinton violated the law and committed crimes in her email scandal.

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Speaker 1: They contorted the law and twisted the facts to clear her.

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Speaker 1: And on the very same day that Comey stood in

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Speaker 1: front of television cameras July fifth, twenty and sixteen, absolving

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, his FBI was meeting secretly with the author

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Speaker 1: of the phony, fabricated dossier in London at a building,

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Speaker 1: a secret meeting, and that was the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: Russia hoax. Armed with a completely unverified, uncorroborated, fabricated document

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Speaker 1: which the FBI knew was phony, they launched an investigation

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump to destroy his candidacy. When that didn't work,

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Speaker 1: they doubled down and tried to remove him from office

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Speaker 1: by using that particular document. In the process, of course,

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Speaker 1: they lied to Afiicuccord to obtain a warrant a spy

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Speaker 1: on the Trump campaign. It's all in the book, but

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Speaker 1: more keeps happening. I recommended long ago the Jeff Sessions

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Speaker 1: be fired, the most useless Attorney General in modern American history,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough he was fired. The nominee to replace

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Speaker 1: him as William Barr, who has impeccable credentials, highly regarded lawyer,

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Speaker 1: who has already served as Attorney General from nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: one to nineteen ninety three, and there's no question but

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Speaker 1: that he'll be confirmed. But that didn't stop Chuck Schumer.

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Speaker 1: Chuck I'd walk a mile for a camera, Schumer from

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Speaker 1: standing on the Senate floor yesterday and holding up a

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Speaker 1: nineteen page document that was penned by Bar saying this

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Speaker 1: disqualifies William Barr from being Attorney General. The nineteen pages,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is a meticulously correct analysis of the

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Speaker 1: law and obstruction of justice. Let's talk about it now

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Speaker 1: with David Shones, civil Liberty's attorney and one of the

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Speaker 1: finest lawyers in America that I know. David, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: being with us. I would argue that, far from being

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Speaker 1: a reason to disqualify Bar, those nineteen pages, which are

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Speaker 1: brilliantly written and well researched and well reasoned are a

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Speaker 1: reason to confirm William Barr, What do you think I

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Speaker 1: think you're I think everything you've just said is one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent right. I don't think you need me to

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Speaker 1: say anything. Frankly, and I happen to have your book

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Speaker 1: in my hand right now and I'm waiting for the sequel,

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Speaker 1: so you better get that written, thank you. But my

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Speaker 1: answer directly what you said is, of course, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Mister Barr wrote a scholarly piece, a piece that is correct.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as I've said before, we don't want

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Speaker 1: an attorney general who has been disengaged from the serious

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Speaker 1: issues of the day. We want someone who has given

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Speaker 1: thought to these issues. We want someone who has a view,

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Speaker 1: a reasoned, well thought out of you, and in his

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Speaker 1: memo that you refer to her erectly makes the argument

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Speaker 1: that we don't consider or interrogate or threaten the President

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Speaker 1: of the United States for exercising and properly exercising those

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Speaker 1: duties which are given to his discretion, like firing a

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Speaker 1: Jim Comey, which is the appropriate thing to do. Of course,

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Speaker 1: those kinds of regular course of the day Executive Branch

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Speaker 1: article to issue issues that are delegated to the President

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Speaker 1: under the Constitution, and so it's inappropriate, as mister Barr wrote,

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Speaker 1: to threaten or interrogate the President for obstruction of justice

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Speaker 1: for exercising those duties in the way the Constitution gives

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Speaker 1: them to the President to exercise. So he's right. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, the very idea that writing a memo

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Speaker 1: on one issue related possibly to the Muther investigation, could

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Speaker 1: be a disqualifying factor, It's not a matter of principle

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Speaker 1: at all for these folks. It happens that mister Barr's

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Speaker 1: position to something inconvenient for Chuck Schumer or Jerry Nadler,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and these kind of folks, But that's not

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Speaker 1: a principal position. They disagree with it, therefore he should

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Speaker 1: be disqualified. It's absurd as offensive. If you read the

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Speaker 1: recusal regulations and the Code of Federal Regulations, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: say that you're disqualified or you must recuse yourself because

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Speaker 1: you happen to have commented on a case either publicly

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Speaker 1: or privately. My goodness, if that were the legal standard,

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00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: nobody would be able to hold any position because we

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00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: all comment about prevailing issues in cases of the day,

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00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: sometimes privately, sometimes publicly. This was a private memo he

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Speaker 1: thought would be useful, so he sent it over to

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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice for their consideration. The recusal statute

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00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: is very specific. It says, if the official has a

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Speaker 1: personal or political relationship with anybody involved in the case,

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Speaker 1: he or she must recuse themselves. Commenting on a case

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Speaker 1: is not David grounds for recusal, that's right. Their fallback

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Speaker 1: position is this provides the presents the appearance of partiality

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Speaker 1: or the appearance of a lack of impartiality and a bias.

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00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: They're just dead wrong. And if he hadn't written the

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Speaker 1: memo and it came out later that this was his

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Speaker 1: view on the executive branch, they would have said, oh,

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Speaker 1: he concealed his true views, and that was wrong. Listen,

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Speaker 1: this is exactly the kind of thing that will come

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Speaker 1: under his baiiwick. And it's good that we know how

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Speaker 1: he stands. In the Senate can vote one way or

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Speaker 1: the other based on that. But I'll say this very specifically.

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Speaker 1: Under the Special Council Regulation Section six hundred point seven,

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General has the obligation to demand that the

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Speaker 1: special counsel provide an explanation for any investigative or prosecutorial

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Speaker 1: step that the Attorney General thinks as questionable or possibly wrong,

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Speaker 1: and so he will have the obligation, as mister Whittaker

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Speaker 1: has it now, to call in Muller and demand an

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Speaker 1: explanation if they're pursuing obstruction of justice charges, or if

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Speaker 1: they're interrogating people without Council press, and we're doing any

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Speaker 1: sort of sordid things that this team with an agenda

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Speaker 1: has done, It's time for the Attorney General to take control.

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Speaker 1: Sure the Council regulations don't provide for day to day control,

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Speaker 1: they do provide that ultimately the buck stops at the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General and that he has this supervisory obligation. You know,

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Speaker 1: the guy who has been presiding over the case speaking

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Speaker 1: of disqualification and recusal is Rod Rosenstein, who's the Deputy

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Speaker 1: Attorney General acting Attorney General for the Trump Russia collusion

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Speaker 1: and the Mueller probe. Talk about it a conflict of interest.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who is a key witness in

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Speaker 1: the case, who's been interviewed by Mueller, and yet Rosenstein

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Speaker 1: presides over the case and is Mueller's boss. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a textbook example of a mandatory recusal, and

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Speaker 1: yet Rosenstein refuses to do so. Greg You've said this

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Speaker 1: from day one. You've said it as eloquently on day

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Speaker 1: one as you have now, and it applies with just

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Speaker 1: as much force. It's absurd, but it just points out

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Speaker 1: the hypocrisy of a Schumer or Nadler Pelosi and fill

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Speaker 1: in the blanks to focus on something like the Bar

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Speaker 1: factor the Bar memo as a recusal basis, and overlook

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Speaker 1: the direct direct involvement as a fact witness of Rod Rosenstein.

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Speaker 1: This is really the fox guarding the henhouse. It's a clear,

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Speaker 1: clear conflict. Let me switch over, if I may, to

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Speaker 1: the other event of the week, and that was the

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Speaker 1: sentencing hearing of Michael Flynn, who was briefly the National

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Speaker 1: Security advisor to President Trump. He was fired from the

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Speaker 1: job for deceiving the Vice President about a telephone call

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Speaker 1: he had with the Russian ambassador, which by the way,

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Speaker 1: was perfectly legal and normal and permissible. So at the hearing,

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Speaker 1: the federal judge presiding Emmett Sullivan, who frankly, you know,

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Speaker 1: I thought highly of by virtue of his handling of

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Speaker 1: the Ted Stevens case, and in which he called out

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Speaker 1: prosecutors for falsifying evidence and concealing exculpatory evidence. So I

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Speaker 1: thought that this was a judge who would look closely

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Speaker 1: at the conduct of the FBI and the conduct of

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Speaker 1: Robert Muller. Instead. Um, after begging Flynn to withdraw his

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Speaker 1: guilty plea for making a fault to misleading statement, suddenly

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Speaker 1: the judge turns and accuses Flynn of treason. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: which is confounding because we're not at war with Turkey,

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Speaker 1: and the judge was talking about Flynn's lobbying efforts with Turkey.

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Speaker 1: Were you were you bewildered by that? Sure? I would

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Speaker 1: be willing. I think I think it plays out something

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Speaker 1: like this. I do think Emmett Sullivan is a great

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Speaker 1: judge generally. I think, however, that he has made pretty

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Speaker 1: clear his anti Trump sentiments. He wrote very very strong,

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Speaker 1: scathing decisions in two immigration cases, requiring radical relief returning

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00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: immigrants have been deported and stopping a plane. He feels

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Speaker 1: very strongly about these issues. However, he also, I believe,

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Speaker 1: genuinely felt strongly about the strong arm and inappropriate tactics

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Speaker 1: the FBI used in this case. But I think that frankly,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, mister Flynn's lawyers made

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Speaker 1: a sort of an amateurish mistake. I hate to say

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Speaker 1: that past judgment and other lawyers used, but it's impossible

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Speaker 1: to understand their agenda. A lawyer, criminal defense lawyer always

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Speaker 1: approaches every setting in the process with a theory of

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Speaker 1: the case. The theory of the case that Flynn had

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Speaker 1: resolved to in this case because of the pressure brought

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Speaker 1: to Bear and his family and so on, was to

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Speaker 1: capitulate he joined the government's team. And once you joined

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Speaker 1: that team, you're all in. And so I don't understand

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Speaker 1: what the endgame was for the lawyers to write this

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Speaker 1: sentencing them about how great his cooperation has been, begging

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Speaker 1: for the mercy of the court and asking the court

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Speaker 1: to agree with the government he should get no incarceration,

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Speaker 1: and at the end talking about the government's misconduct as

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Speaker 1: if that should be a factor. Well, it can be

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Speaker 1: a factor in sentencing, but in this case, when you

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Speaker 1: already have a recommendation for non incarceration, what's the point

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Speaker 1: in throwing this on in mudding the waters there? If

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Speaker 1: you want to come clean about the government's strong arm tactics,

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Speaker 1: get your sentence in place for us, get that non

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Speaker 1: incarceration sentence, and then move on. But he put the

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Speaker 1: judge in a very awkward and difficult position. And then

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Speaker 1: the natural consequence of what happened with the interrogation tactics

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Speaker 1: would be to withdraw his guilty plea. But when the

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Speaker 1: judge offered that opportunity, he said no, he's not interested

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Speaker 1: in that, and again he reaffirmed his supposed guilt in

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Speaker 1: the case, again under pressure. So that's where I think

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Speaker 1: things went wrong here, and the judge was in a

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Speaker 1: very difficult position. David, can you stick around for Judicu's second.

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Speaker 1: We're going to squeeze in a quick break. I got

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Speaker 1: a couple of more questions coming up about the conduct

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Speaker 1: of the FBI. They had no legal basis to even

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Speaker 1: speak with Michael Flynn. Instead, they set him up, they

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Speaker 1: trapped him, they ambushed him. We'll get David Shon's comments

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Speaker 1: on the other side. I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity on the Sean Hannity Show. Welcome back to

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

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Speaker 1: I want to give you our number because over the

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Speaker 1: next half hour I'll take your calls. Want to get

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the Muller investigation, the sentencene of Michael

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Speaker 1: Flynn and James Coomy. Our number is one eight hundred

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

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Speaker 1: one seven three two six. Still with us is David Shones,

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Speaker 1: civil liberties attorney. David Comey and his FBI never had

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Speaker 1: an i legal basis to even interview Michael Flynn. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty clear to me they were setting him up to

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Speaker 1: damage Trump. They used the Logan Act as a which

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Speaker 1: is dead letter law, as a pretext to trap Flynn.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Oh, I think that's a hundred

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Speaker 1: percent right now. But I'm most worried, I suppose about

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Speaker 1: the methodology they used. I thought it was one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest and most disgraceful moments when Comy testified before

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Speaker 1: Congress in essence that he got away with slimely cheating

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Speaker 1: everybody the American public in tricking General Flynn into an

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Speaker 1: interview without counsel President, and during the course of his testimony,

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Speaker 1: he said that he believed that mister McCabe had told Flynn.

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Speaker 1: General Flynn that he could have White House counsel there

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Speaker 1: if he wanted, But the McCabe member says nothing of

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Speaker 1: the kind. In fact, it says that something like if

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Speaker 1: they if he had counsel president, then they'd have to

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Speaker 1: involve the Justice Department. It would get a lot more complicated.

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Speaker 1: And so clearly their purpose was encouraging Flynn to meet

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Speaker 1: with them without lawyer's prep, without a lawyer present for Flynn,

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Speaker 1: and to use that setting to ask Flynn questions The

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Speaker 1: FBI knew the answers to already and then tried to

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Speaker 1: trick him into some variance from what they knew the

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Speaker 1: answer the correct answer to be, and then he's charged

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Speaker 1: with crimes. It's it's just outrageous. It's not a way

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Speaker 1: to treat certainly a war hero and a veteran, but

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Speaker 1: any any member of the American public. That's not the

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Speaker 1: way we do things in this country. Here, comey say

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Speaker 1: he got away with it. It's disgusting. Oh, it is

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Speaker 1: discussing and Commy doesn't care, you know, I mean he

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Speaker 1: you know, he is so self righteous, and you know

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Speaker 1: he views himself as this noble and heroic figure. He

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Speaker 1: is filled with self righteousness and a sense of inflated rectitude.

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Speaker 1: You know, it really is quite nauseating to listen to him.

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Speaker 1: But when you read the court documents, Andrew McCabe, who

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Speaker 1: is Comy's top deputy, lied to Flynn about the reason

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Speaker 1: for the interview. As you say pointed out, he encouraged

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Speaker 1: ed Flynn not to have a lawyer. President conspired with

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Speaker 1: the Bureau agents to deceive Flynn by not telling him

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Speaker 1: they actually had a transcript of his perfectly legal conversation

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Speaker 1: with Ambassador kiss Leak. And then of course kellmey braggs

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Speaker 1: that he broke FBI protocols. It's unconscionable and wrong behavior,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely right. And you know, Comey, by the way his

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Speaker 1: testimony for Congress, with I think many people commented on,

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Speaker 1: including you other experts, is the number of times that

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Speaker 1: he said, I don't know, I don't recall. The man

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Speaker 1: was the director of the FBI, and he doesn't know

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Speaker 1: some of the most fundamental procedures and substantive information going

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Speaker 1: on at the FBI under his watch. And I think

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Speaker 1: that to cover his bets in a sense on this

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Speaker 1: recollection issue, I noticed on page seventy six of the transcript.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, you know, something like he may recollect

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Speaker 1: things better in the future. I wouldn't be surprised to

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Speaker 1: hear Comy testify before a friendly crowd and remember details

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Speaker 1: all remember them, not necessarily the way they actually happened.

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Speaker 1: He is the master of deception and evasion and prevarication.

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Speaker 1: David Sean, Civil Liberty's Attorney, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: being with us. We'll be right back with more of

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show on Greg Jarrett

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Speaker 1: filling in today for Sean Hannity. You know, only an

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Speaker 1: audacious and arrogant man will accuse others of lyne when

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Speaker 1: he is guilty of the same. I'm talking, of course,

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Speaker 1: about fired FBI director James Komy, who this week stood

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Speaker 1: in front of television cameras and accused President Trump of

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Speaker 1: ruining the reputation of the FBI. You know, the temerity

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Speaker 1: of Comy is really quite breathtaking. This is from the

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Speaker 1: man who was fired for abusing his authority, usurping the

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Speaker 1: power of the Attorney general in the infamous Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: email scandal, and I wrote about it in great detail

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Speaker 1: in my book The Russia Hoax, and I'll quote from that.

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Speaker 1: Coomy's lack of integrity and defiance of rules and principles

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Speaker 1: of law were his downfall. His unchecked ambition and desire

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Speaker 1: to thrust himself into the public limelight only exacerbated his

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Speaker 1: mistakes of judgment and deed. But you know, folks, don't

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Speaker 1: take my word for it. Read the five hundred page

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Speaker 1: plus report by the Department of Justice Inspector General who

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Speaker 1: called Komy biased, guilty of insubordination and unprofessionalism. Or in fact,

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Speaker 1: read the Department of Justice scathing critique of Komy that

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Speaker 1: was endorsed by six for attorneys general and Deputies attorney

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Speaker 1: general from both political parties. It is a damning indictment

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Speaker 1: of how Coomey committed multiple acts of misconduct and refused

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Speaker 1: to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was wrong,

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Speaker 1: that he was mistaken, that he engaged in constant acts

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Speaker 1: of malfeasance. And you know what, to this very day,

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Speaker 1: Comey refuses to accept responsibility for his misdeeds. Instead, he

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Speaker 1: sort of shifts blame to others, or he just tries

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Speaker 1: to cover it up. When confronted with evidence of his

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Speaker 1: own wrongdoing, he pretends, as he did on December seventh

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Speaker 1: before his congressional testimony, I don't know, I don't remember

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Speaker 1: he said that two hundred and forty five times. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I've said that. And you know, in the

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Speaker 1: course of ten years, two hundred and forty five times,

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Speaker 1: Komy's amnesia is quite literally unbelievable. And here he is

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Speaker 1: gleefully bragging on television about his misconduct. And you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a guy who's out there hawk in his book,

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Speaker 1: you know, making millions of dollars off of his own wrongdoing.

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Speaker 1: Let's get some of your thoughts about Komey, Flynn, Muller,

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Speaker 1: the Russia hoax. Let's turn to Jay now, who joins

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Speaker 1: us from Arizona. Hey, j Hey, I appreciate you taking

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Speaker 1: my call. Sure, it's got a question. You know, I

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Speaker 1: play attorney in my mind. Sometimes I maybe wish I was,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not as dangerous. Don't do it. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've got to thinking about this whole thing, and this

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Speaker 1: whole investigation has been predicated first of all on a

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Speaker 1: false dossier lies. Uh. Second of all, the appointment of

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Speaker 1: Mueller was was done by an illegal act I guess

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Speaker 1: by James come leaking classified information. And then you've got

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department itself not following its own guidelines with

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Speaker 1: regards to conflicts of interests and with regards to appointing

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Speaker 1: a special counsel without a definite crime. My question is this,

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Speaker 1: Why doesn't the president's counsel just simply tell the public

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Speaker 1: and Muller himself, we will in no way cooperate with you.

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Speaker 1: You are you are an unethical and an illegal special counsel. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know there's a part of me, as a lawyer

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Speaker 1: that says, you know, I'd be tempted to do that.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that the President has tried to

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Speaker 1: be cooperative, you know, answered written questions that were composed

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Speaker 1: by Muller and his team of partisans. And now Muller

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Speaker 1: apparently is reported wants to question the president personally. He

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Speaker 1: has no authority to do that. He can go to

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Speaker 1: a grand jury and try to force it. But if

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Speaker 1: I were the president, and I'd take it to the courts.

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Speaker 1: But you're right about I just see him playing along

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Speaker 1: with the president, playing along, and his council playing along

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Speaker 1: with the narrative that the Special Counsel is trying to set,

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Speaker 1: and that's what bothers me in answering questions and trying

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Speaker 1: to cooperate. Right, Well, you're right. One could take the

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Speaker 1: position if I were defending the president, the appointment of

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Speaker 1: the Special Council was illegitimate, and in fact, I devote

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Speaker 1: an entire chapter of my book, The Russia Hoax to

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Speaker 1: that very premise. That's the title of the chapter. The

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Speaker 1: appointment of the Special Council was illegitimate because the special

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Speaker 1: counsel regulations are very specific. You may only appoint a

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Speaker 1: special counsel if you have evidence of a crime. But

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Speaker 1: they never had that. And how do we know that

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Speaker 1: because Lisa Paige, the top lawyer on the case for

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Speaker 1: the FBI, two months ago, testified in deposition that the

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Speaker 1: entire time the FBI had the case, they never found

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Speaker 1: a scintilla of evidence of a crime called collusion or

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Speaker 1: any conspiracy between Trump and Russia. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: this was always an investigation in search of a crime,

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Speaker 1: which is in violation of the regulations. So Mueller should

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Speaker 1: never have been appointed, but he was appointed due to

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Speaker 1: the theft of government documents by James Comey, which is

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Speaker 1: a crime for which he should be prosecuted. And interestingly,

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Speaker 1: he's really refusing to answer the question as to whether

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Speaker 1: or not he also leaked classified information. I can tell

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Speaker 1: you this much. He gave documents to two, if not three,

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Speaker 1: of his friend's slash council, and the FBI had to

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Speaker 1: raid their offices in what's known as a spillage raid

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Speaker 1: to clean up any classified documents that Komy gave them.

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Speaker 1: And yet Coomy really dodges and weaves when asked the

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Speaker 1: question did you leak classified information? Chuck Grassley, the outgoing

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Speaker 1: chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, believes that four of

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Speaker 1: the seven dot well, we know four of the seven

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Speaker 1: documents that Komy stole were classified, and at least one

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Speaker 1: of them was leaked by Komy. And so I hope

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Speaker 1: that the new Judiciary Chairman, Lindsey Graham, we'll get to

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Speaker 1: the bottom of this, because it seems to me that

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Speaker 1: if that's true, Comey should be the subject of a

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Speaker 1: grand jury investigation, and if it's true, it would seem

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Speaker 1: inevitable that he would be indicted for leaking classified information.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to our next caller, Don Joins, us. Don,

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Speaker 1: you're in Texas. I love Texas. My wife's from Texas.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about all of this? Well, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to say that Sean really Sean handed to get

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Speaker 1: some fantastic guests. So so you've been one of my

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Speaker 1: favorites for years. James Comley has already admitted that he leaked,

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Speaker 1: and what you're saying is perfectly spot on. When are

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Speaker 1: they going to start investigating him? He's already with this amnesia.

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Speaker 1: He wrote a book about it. I mean, he's I

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Speaker 1: just don't understand why he's not been indicted yet. This

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Speaker 1: is m Yeah. I mean I'm not an attorney. You are,

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Speaker 1: and you give great insight. I'm going to hang up

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Speaker 1: and listen to your response, all right, thank you, Don. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Comey's amnesia is either a clever faint ie

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Speaker 1: a lie, or he is the most clueless and incompetent

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Speaker 1: director in the history of the FBI. Or he's corrupt.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm betting that he's he's lying and corrupt.

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Speaker 1: Comy has become the master of deception and prevarication. I mean,

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Speaker 1: who can actually forget his admission of lying while he

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Speaker 1: was hawking his book on the television show The View.

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00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: He said, quote good people lie, I lay out I

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Speaker 1: think I'm a good person where I have lied. So

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00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: here he is admitting that he's a liar, and in truth,

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Speaker 1: his book only scratches the surface of the many lies

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Speaker 1: that he's been peddling. Assuming you can, you know, wade

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Speaker 1: through the self adoration the vainglorious book, as I've called it,

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Speaker 1: where Comy loves to sermonize about lies and lying people,

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Speaker 1: he should be looking in the mirror. It's perversely ironic

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Speaker 1: coming from a man who, more than anybody else, is

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Speaker 1: responsible for the most notorious hoax in modern American history.

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Speaker 1: There was there was no credible evidence and no legal

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Speaker 1: basis to justify the Trump Russia investigation, but Comy opened

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Speaker 1: it anyway in July of twenty sixteen. And you know,

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Speaker 1: he didn't have evidence of a crime, but that didn't

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Speaker 1: stop him from stealing presidential memos and delivering them to

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Speaker 1: a friend who leaked them to the media for the

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Speaker 1: sole purpose of triggering the appointment of a special counsel

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Speaker 1: who just happened to be ladies and gentlemen. His longtime friend,

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Speaker 1: partner and ally, Robert Muller, and then Comy had the

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Speaker 1: audacity to say in an interview with Bret baron Fox News, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that isn't a leak. Seriously, he said that quote not

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00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: a leak, really, James, and what the hell was it?

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Speaker 1: And in the same interview he insisted he never told

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Speaker 1: Congress that the FBI agents who interviewed former National Security

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Speaker 1: Advisor Michael Flynn determined that Flynn was not lying. Well,

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Speaker 1: guess what documents show that Comy did tell lawmakers that

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Speaker 1: agents concluded Flynn was telling the truth and did not lie.

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00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: So Comy's all over the place. And this is the

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00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: problem with liars. They can't get their stories straight. They

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00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: tell so many different lies and stories that you know,

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00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: it's really hard for them to keep track of it.

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00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: And you know that's James Comy. And to be sure,

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Speaker 1: Congress has been investigating the numerous statements made by Komy

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Speaker 1: that are beyond credulity. He was asked under oath, for example,

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Speaker 1: by the House Judiciary Committee, if he decided to clear

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01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton before or after she was interviewed by the FBI,

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Speaker 1: and he testified after Well, documents uncovered by the Senate

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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee utterly belie that testimony a full two months

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Speaker 1: before the FBI ever interviewed Clinton, Comey began drafting her

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Speaker 1: exoneration statement. And you know, as I recount in the book,

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Speaker 1: I have yet to run across a former top official

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Speaker 1: at the FBI or a prosecutor who has ever penned

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Speaker 1: an exoneration statement of a potential defendant before that defendant

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Speaker 1: has been interviewed, much less sixteen other key witnesses to

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Speaker 1: the case. But that's what Comey did. And what's interesting

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Speaker 1: in the Inspector General report is the IG confronts Comey

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Speaker 1: with that exoneration statement because in it, Comy originally found

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Speaker 1: that Clinton committed crimes. He wrote down not once but

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Speaker 1: twice that she was grossly negligent, but then he had

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Speaker 1: struck sanitized that language. So the IG says, well, what

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Speaker 1: about this language? And Comey said, oh, yeah, I wrote

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Speaker 1: this statement, but I don't remember using the words gross negligent. Right,

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Speaker 1: So we're supposed to believe that the director of the FBI,

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Speaker 1: and one of the most important decisions of his life,

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Speaker 1: determines that the leading candidate to be the next president

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Speaker 1: of the United States is a criminal. But she, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't really recall that unbelievable. But that is the

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Speaker 1: corrupt James Comy. We're gonna pause, take a quick break.

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Speaker 1: I'm Greg Jared filling in for Sean Hannity. More calls

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Speaker 1: on the other side. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.

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Speaker 1: On Greg jar we're talking about the Russia Hoax, which

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Speaker 1: just happens to be the title of my book. Let's

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Speaker 1: get right to the next caller. Bob joins us from

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Hi Bob, Hi Greg. It's a pleasure and

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Speaker 1: taught to you. Really enjoyed the Russia Hoax. I must

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Speaker 1: read for anybody one's chapter and verse on the legal

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Speaker 1: issues that happened in the attacks against Donald Trump. Here's

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Speaker 1: my point. You go over in great detail the specifics

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Speaker 1: what was done to Donald Trump. I think there's a

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Speaker 1: general purpose to these attacks as well. It's not just

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Speaker 1: to take down Trump, and everybody who supports them is

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Speaker 1: to discourage the next Donald Trump and anybody wants to

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Speaker 1: support him. The sports dress policy is all you can

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Speaker 1: expect if you come here and you're not a swamp dweller.

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Speaker 1: I'll take your answer over the air. Thanks Greg, and

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Speaker 1: it's a real pleasure. Well talk to you. Thank you, Bob,

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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. I mean, even before the president was

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Speaker 1: sworn into office, the James Comey and his confederates at

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Speaker 1: the FBI, together with James Clapper, the director of National

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Speaker 1: Intelligence under Obama, John Brennan, the CIA director, these were

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Speaker 1: the instigators than the propagators of the Russia hoax, and

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Speaker 1: they were going to buy hell or high water, depose

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Speaker 1: President Trump, and undo the election results. There's no question

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Speaker 1: about it. And Robert Muller and his team of partisans

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Speaker 1: have taken up the baton and they're running with it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the phone calls. On the other side,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking with John Solomon of The Hill

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Speaker 1: and his latest article about the most recent developments and

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Speaker 1: former FBI director James Comey in just a moment, and

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

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Speaker 1: filling in for Sean Hannity. My Twitter handle is at

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Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett. That's gr Egg. J A. R. R. Ett.

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Speaker 1: I wrote a book called The Russia Hoax, The Illicit

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

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Speaker 1: hope you'll get it, and more importantly, even if you

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Speaker 1: don't get it, or you borrow somebody's copy. I hope

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Speaker 1: you read it, because it is soup to nuts, the

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Speaker 1: story of how the FBI corrupt as it was under

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Speaker 1: the leadership of James Comey, cleared Hillary Clinton of crime

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Speaker 1: she obviously committed, and then launched an investigation of Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump to frame him for things he didn't do. And

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Speaker 1: I lay it all out beginning to end. And one

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Speaker 1: of the principal players, of course, in all of this

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Speaker 1: was James Comey, who testified this week for the second time.

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Speaker 1: He did it first on December seventh, and then Monday

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Speaker 1: of this week. And I've read the transcript of Monday's

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Speaker 1: Comy deposition, and he is snarky and sarcastic, or as

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Speaker 1: my grandmother used to say, a smart alec so when

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Speaker 1: he isn't giving those kinds of responses in a holier

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Speaker 1: than now tone, he is evasive. I don't recall, I

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Speaker 1: don't remember, I don't know. I can't answer that, I

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Speaker 1: won't answer that. It is classic evasion and prevarication, or

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Speaker 1: if you will, line by James Coomey, who's an admitted liar,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned in the last hour, So John Solomon

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Speaker 1: of the Hill, who has broken a lot of stories

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Speaker 1: on the Russia hoax and is in the book. Has

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Speaker 1: come out with another column talking about James Comey's testimony

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Speaker 1: of this week. It's entitled Komi's who Cares reply recalls

969
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: what difference retort? What difference of course is? You know? Classically?

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, when she was questioned by Congress about the

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Speaker 1: Benghazi attack, said what difference at this point does it make?

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Speaker 1: She was being asked whether you know it was a

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Speaker 1: spontaneous protest over an anti Muslim video? Respect the fact

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Speaker 1: is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of

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Speaker 1: a protest or was it because of guys out for

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Speaker 1: a walk when nither decided they go kill some Americans?

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Speaker 1: What difference at this point does it make? It is

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Speaker 1: our job to figure out what happened and do everything

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Speaker 1: we can to prevent it from ever happening again. Senator,

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Speaker 1: it made a difference, Hillary, because you were lying about it,

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Speaker 1: and you were incompetent as Secretary of State. You had

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Speaker 1: been warned that there might be a terrorist attack on

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Speaker 1: the Benghazi compound, and you took nothing, no steps whatsoever,

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Speaker 1: You did nothing to prevent it, and Americans lost their lives.

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Speaker 1: And then you tried to pretend, oh, it was just

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Speaker 1: a spontaneous demonstration over an anti Muslim video, when in

987
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:18,440
Speaker 1: fact you knew that it was a planned terrorist attack.

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Speaker 1: And so let's turn out to John Solomon of The Hill.

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Speaker 1: John another great column, and it is reminiscent, isn't it

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Speaker 1: of James Comi's statement this week. Yeah, there's no doubt

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01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 1: I talked to Republicans and Democrats alike who had the

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01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: same impression, which is Comy misstapped or certainly said something

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01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,439
Speaker 1: that didn't that no lawmaker really appreciate it, and sort

994
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:47,160
Speaker 1: of showed a larger disdain for congressional oversight. But it's

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Speaker 1: because of that congressional oversight that we now know that

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Speaker 1: the Steel dossier was used, unverified, as Comy himself testified

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Speaker 1: ten days ago, to support an extraordinary face of warrant

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Speaker 1: to spy on the campaign in the final weeks of

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen election. It's because of that oversight we

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01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 1: know that the FBI deputy director lied about leaking to

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Speaker 1: the media. It's because of that oversight we know that

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Speaker 1: Pete Stroke and Lisa Page are having an affair and

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Speaker 1: we're expressing bias in their investigation of Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: even contemplated using their official powers to quote unquote stop

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump from being president. I think the thing that

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Speaker 1: most lawmakers walked away from that session was James Coomey

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01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to take any responsibility for the failures on

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Speaker 1: his watch at the FBI. And these failures are no

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Speaker 1: longer in dispute, their irrefutable failures. The IG has found them,

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Speaker 1: Congress has found them. And I think his who cares

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01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: comment came off as rather flipped to lawmakers. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean flips an understatement. And you know, I think it

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Speaker 1: was Mark Meadows who tried to explain to him how

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Speaker 1: it matters, didn't he Yeah, he did. No. Mark Meadows

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Speaker 1: was the one that asked the question that elicited, and

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Speaker 1: he challenged Comey coming out out of that, and you know,

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Speaker 1: let's think about something that's amazing. He says, who kers? Right,

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Speaker 1: But then a few minutes later he immediately acknowledges in

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Speaker 1: the cross examination from Mark Meadows that there was potential

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Speaker 1: bias in using the Steele dossier. So I don't care

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Speaker 1: about the Steel DOSSI but I knew it was biased

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Speaker 1: and I used it even though it was unverified. And

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Speaker 1: the rules say you shouldn't use unverified evidence for a

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Speaker 1: FISA warrant. I mean, it's an extraordinary two or three

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Speaker 1: minute exchange that I think really highlights what was wrong

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Speaker 1: with the James Comey era at the FBI. People who

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Speaker 1: talked there are senior officials who worked for him, senior

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Speaker 1: officials that left during his tenure, senior officials who stayed

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Speaker 1: there after his tenier have all said this to me.

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Speaker 1: He was so haughty, so in love with his own

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Speaker 1: opinion of himself, that he was oblivious to some of

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Speaker 1: the bad things that were going on, some of the

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Speaker 1: preventible self inflicted errors that were going on in the FBI.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of good people in the FBI. There

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Speaker 1: was a lot about the Russia case that is important, right.

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Speaker 1: The Russians hacked into accounts they did so, and things

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Speaker 1: that didn't do it in collusion with Trump. They did

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Speaker 1: it on their own as part of a foreign policy

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Speaker 1: objective for their country. Those are the things we should

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Speaker 1: have focused on, and instead James Comby allowed us to

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Speaker 1: be focusing on an investigation that's gone two years and

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Speaker 1: gone nowhere except where we started, which was there was

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Speaker 1: no collusion. I think the FBI is better off without

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Speaker 1: him today. There's a lot about it. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: has done more damage to the FBI than anyone since

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Speaker 1: Jed gre Hoover. And that's just not my opinion. That

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Speaker 1: is the opinion of top former FBI officials that I

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Speaker 1: interviewed for my book. Yeah, and they all persons. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they said it will take decades to restore the credibility

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Speaker 1: and integrity to the FBI. That's how much damage James

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Speaker 1: come he did. Yeah. And I think another thing is

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Speaker 1: how partisan he's become since he left the office. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I've always I interviewed many former FBI directors,

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Speaker 1: Louis Free, William Webster, I interviewed Bob Muller when he

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Speaker 1: was FBI director. I never have heard a current or

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Speaker 1: former FBI director talk the way that James Comby has

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Speaker 1: has talked, particularly since he left. The overt politicalization, the

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Speaker 1: almost disdain for oversight, the sort of nonsensical excuses for

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Speaker 1: what went on on his watch. It's very unusual. And

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Speaker 1: I think that people who work in the bureau and

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Speaker 1: are proud of it and all the good work it

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Speaker 1: does do every day, they're a little bit of shade

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Speaker 1: by his performance, not only when he was in leadership,

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01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: but since he left, I think he many people feel

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Speaker 1: he's dishonored the reputation of the FBI by his overt

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Speaker 1: politicalization since he left the office. And another aspect of

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Speaker 1: your colum and again people should read it. It's on

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Speaker 1: the Hill, John Solomon. It's a great, great column. But

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Speaker 1: you know, after he finishes testifying, he stands in front

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Speaker 1: of television cameras and he's asked if he shares some

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01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: responsibility yeah, for the FBI's diminished, and he says no,

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Speaker 1: and he blames the president and his acolytes for the

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Speaker 1: bad petal the FI. I mean, Daddy's astonishing. You know,

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Speaker 1: there used to be a time in Washington where people

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Speaker 1: took ownership and the buck stopped at the top of

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Speaker 1: a hill. But it appears today that we don't have

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Speaker 1: that culture in our government anymore. The IG, the Inspector General,

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01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 1: doesn't have a political bone in their body. A nonpartisan

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Speaker 1: watchdog interview has concluded the following The dossier was politically motivated.

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Speaker 1: It was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC,

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Speaker 1: and the judges were kept in the dark about it.

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Speaker 1: It was not verified before it was submitted to the

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Speaker 1: FISU court. That's Komy's own testimony. In addition, we know

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Speaker 1: that there was leaking going on, We knew there was

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01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 1: politicalization going on. All of these things are corroborated. Now,

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01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:42,720
Speaker 1: there are facts that sit in an IG report, in

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01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 1: a House intelligence report, and he doesn't seem to take

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Speaker 1: ownership of any of him. It's almost like he wasn't

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Speaker 1: in charge when all this happened. And I think that

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01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: really frustrates people because the first road to recovery for

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01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: an agency like the FBI is acknowledging what's what's wrong,

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01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 1: and then you fix it. We did it after nine

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01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: to eleven, right, they failed to connect the dots even

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01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: though they knew so much, the Phoenix Memo, all those things,

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Speaker 1: And the way the FBI fixed itself and became a

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01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: great counter terrorism organization is by acknowledging what went wrong

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01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: and then fixing it. But we have a current informer,

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01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: or at least he certainly a former leader who doesn't

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01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: want to acknowledge what was wrong there, and I think

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Speaker 1: that hurts the bureau's ability to recover from the mistakes

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Speaker 1: it made. You know, for a while, Comy was trying

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Speaker 1: to pretend that that he thought, well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: on December seven, he you know, sort of said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't know much about who had

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Speaker 1: paid for the dossier, and right, you know, I don't.

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Speaker 1: And then he at one point in time he was saying, well,

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Speaker 1: I think Republicans paid for it. Yes, that's that's not

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Speaker 1: quite accurate. No, I mean it's completely ridiculous. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: hired the firm that did the work, but it wasn't

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Speaker 1: Russian dossier work. It was other political opposition research. The

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Speaker 1: Russian dossier was a clear and compelling product of the

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Speaker 1: Clinton campaign. And then see, even though it was disguised

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Speaker 1: on campaign finance reports as legal bills, it was a

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01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: political opposition research report done and then turned into the FBI.

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01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, I don't know if I

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01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: talked about this on air much, but Greg one time,

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01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: shortly after I started working on these stories with Sarah,

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01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 1: a couple of people showed up in my house about

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Speaker 1: eleven o'clock and night. They had just got an off

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Speaker 1: Hannity's TV show, and they showed up. They were sitting

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Speaker 1: at my mailbox when they pulled into my driveway, they

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01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 1: came out. They've never identified themselves to this day, I

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01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 1: don't know who they are, but this is what they

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Speaker 1: told me. We've watched some of your early reporting on

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Speaker 1: FAISO abuses and unmasking. We want to tell you something.

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Speaker 1: And this is way before we knew anything. This is

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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,479
Speaker 1: long before we even heard Christopher Steele's name. The US

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Speaker 1: intelligence community was used for political opposition research. And you

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Speaker 1: need to get to the bottom of it. That's all

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Speaker 1: they told me. And just keep digging and you'll find out.

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Speaker 1: And I look back at that moment now and how

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Speaker 1: much we've learned because of people like Devin Junias and

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01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:57,640
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows and Chuck Grassley and Jim Jordan. There was

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Speaker 1: a major corruption of our career intelligence apparatus for political purposes,

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01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: and it's only because of oversight, the same oversight that

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01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 1: Komyn Wrinkles has knows that now that we learn at

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01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: least some of the truth, I feel like there's a

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,760
Speaker 1: lot more truth that we don't know yet. And I

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01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: think your book has laid out the best roadmap of

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01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 1: anyone to looking at what else we might learn in

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01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 1: the future about what went wrong in this investigation. Thank you,

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01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate it. Well. You're quoted quite often

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01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 1: in the book because you uncovered a lot of it.

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01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:34,000
Speaker 1: Sarah Carter did as well. And actually Kimberly Strassel of

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01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:37,880
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal is a great, great reporter, is

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01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 1: quoted at the other times in the book. She's unremarkable worker.

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01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:45,639
Speaker 1: Oh she has a column out that's entitled What's next

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01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 1: in FBI Oversight. Let me just read one line because

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01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 1: it dovetails with something that you just said about the

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01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:56,600
Speaker 1: House and Senate investigators. She says, House and Senate investigators

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01:15:56,640 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: get pride of place for unraveling one of the greatest

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01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:05,600
Speaker 1: dirty tricks of our political times, in which a Democratic administration,

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01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:10,519
Speaker 1: party and presidential campaign either co opted or fool the

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01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: FBI into investigating the Republican campaign. You know, in one

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01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 1: sentence she has put it quite nice now that yeah, no,

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01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: she did. She's obviously a great writer and a great reporter,

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01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: and she's right. This was a dirty trick, and it

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01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:30,599
Speaker 1: was and unlike past dirty tricks were outsiders and third

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01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: parties were used, the FBI and the intelligence community was

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01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,800
Speaker 1: used to carry it out. And I feel like that's

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01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: the part that most Americans are still learning about. And

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01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,200
Speaker 1: I think if the president gets to that point and

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Speaker 1: I think he will, because he said so in my

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01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 1: interview with him, where he declassifies the Gang of Eight

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01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: documents to classify the rest of the FISA warrant to

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01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: classify some stuff about Mike Flynn that I've talked about

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01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,639
Speaker 1: a little bit. We're going to see that the dirty

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01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:57,439
Speaker 1: trick might have even been more extensive and even uglier

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01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 1: than we know today. And I think that's a moment

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Speaker 1: of transparency that we need in our country. Absolutely, And

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Speaker 1: in fact, you know, Kimberly Strassell also talks about the

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Speaker 1: importance of declassifying these if you were just sitting around

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01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: shooting the bull. What do you think we will find

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Speaker 1: out from these documents if and when they're declassified? Yeah,

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01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things. One thing that

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Speaker 1: I've been working on the last few weeks and I

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Speaker 1: think is becoming more and more clear when General Flynn,

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Speaker 1: Mike Flynn went to Russia for the r Team meeting

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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. Remember that's an event that people have

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01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:38,400
Speaker 1: called treason us right on the democratic sided in journalism.

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01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: He most likely was doing so in concert with the

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Speaker 1: DIA as part of a Clantistine program. And I think

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01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: that there are documents that show he briefed Thedia when

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Speaker 1: he came back. Think about how much that changes the

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01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:51,519
Speaker 1: whole narrative about Mike Flynn and Russia. If you find

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01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 1: out that the first interaction with the Russians was actually

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01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: to help our country, not to harm our country. I

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01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: think that's one of the things we're definitely going to

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Speaker 1: find out. Yeah, I wrote all him more than a

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01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 1: year ago that said that's what he did. He came

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Speaker 1: home and he briefed the DA and I think he

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01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: went there with tasking orders. I think it's highly pop

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01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 1: probably given what I've learned that before and after there

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01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: was coordination. I want what was going on, I think,

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Speaker 1: and as your book has pointed out so well, and

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01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:20,839
Speaker 1: I think also the things you've done on television really

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01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:24,679
Speaker 1: laid the roadmap out. There's going to be exculpatory evidence

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Speaker 1: that we still don't know about transcripts of conversations that

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Speaker 1: show very early on the FBI and the intelligence community

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Speaker 1: had every reason to doubt collusion. You know, we've heard

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01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 1: a couple of lawmakers, Mark Meadows among them, occasionally referring

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Speaker 1: to transcripts. I want to know what's in those transcripts.

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Speaker 1: One of the great mysteries is we started the investigation

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01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: on Papadopolis and then a few weeks later we immediately

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01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 1: flipped to the dossier, right, like the papadopplus didn't exist.

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Speaker 1: The more there has to be a reason. I bet

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Speaker 1: you the original evidence that came in on Papadopolis was

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01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 1: contradicted by intercepts or other things that came on afterwards,

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01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: and rather than shut down the investigation call it a

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01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: false start, we just pivoted to the next best thing

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01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 1: the FBI had, which was a dirty tricks document produced

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Speaker 1: and paid for by the DNC in the Hillary Clinton campaign.

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01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be other errors and omissions

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01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: that the FISA Court had no idea, and had they

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01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: known about it, they might have ruled differently in renewing

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Speaker 1: the third or fourth ward. Yeah, all right, just the

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Speaker 1: other day saying that that's going to be a big issue. Okay,

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Speaker 1: John the Great John Solomon, terrific reporter. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for being with us. Quick break, we'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. On Greg Jarrett

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Speaker 1: filling in for Sean Hannity. We've been talking about James

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Speaker 1: COMI because he was front and center this week when

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01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 1: he testified yet again before Congress behind closed doors. But

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Speaker 1: a transcript was released the next day, and I guarantee

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01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 1: you it is worth reading because it speaks volumes about

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01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: the lack of integrity and credibility of Comy. James Comey

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01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:10,560
Speaker 1: is not the heroic and noble figure that he imagines.

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01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:14,759
Speaker 1: He twisted the facts and contorted the law to clear

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01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. He launched an investigation of Donald Trump without

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01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: legally sufficient evidence. He deceived the face accord by withholding

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01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:28,760
Speaker 1: evidence in order to wire tap a Trump campaign associate

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01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 1: whose life he ruined. He then misappropriated government documents. In

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Speaker 1: other words, he stole them and leaked them to the

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01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:44,280
Speaker 1: media to precipitate an illegitimate special counsel investigation. And he

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Speaker 1: has repeatedly given false, misleading statements to both Congress and

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Speaker 1: the media. James Comey, as FBI director betrayed the public's trust.

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Speaker 1: And I'm reminded of what Thomas Jefferson once wrote, He

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01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 1: who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it

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01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 1: much easier to do it a second and a third time,

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01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 1: until at length it becomes habitual. Jefferson had a guy

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01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: like Comy in mind and James Coomy still out there

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01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 1: peddling his book, and you would walk a mile for

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01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:26,879
Speaker 1: a camera, maybe the only one in America who truly

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01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: believes the stories that he is selling. I write about

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01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: Comy in my book The Russia Hoax because he is

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01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 1: the central figure in it all. He, more than anyone else,

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01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:47,759
Speaker 1: engineered the greatest hoax in modern American history, the Russia Hoax.

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Speaker 1: Let's turn out to some of our listeners who've been

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01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:54,680
Speaker 1: calling in. Let's go to Jim in Jacksonville. Jim, how

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01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 1: are you doing well? To think? Greg? Hey? Love the book.

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Speaker 1: I've read it twice already him. It really irritates me

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Speaker 1: about Coomy is that he's currently teaching of the College

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Speaker 1: William and Mary, among other things, as an ethical leadership professor.

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Speaker 1: I'm also a grad from there, and I've been emailing

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Speaker 1: with the current president about what he's still doing there,

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Speaker 1: and I'm withholding my contributions from the school. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't make this up. James Coomey, who has shot

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Speaker 1: holes through the word ethics, is teaching a class on ethics.

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Speaker 1: And we double checked a few moments ago. He taught

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Speaker 1: a class this year on ethics at William and Mary.

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Speaker 1: He scheduled to teach another class on ethics at William

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Speaker 1: and Mary this next year. I mean, that's like O. J.

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01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: Simpson teaching a class on cutlery, right, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's absurd, unless, of course Coomy confesses to his

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Speaker 1: students here's how I was unethical, and here is how

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Speaker 1: you should not be like me. I mean, that would

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Speaker 1: be the only value if James Comey is your professor

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Speaker 1: teaching ethics. Jim, thanks for the comment. It's a great one.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for pointing it out. Dennis joins this from Orlando, Florida. Hey, Dennis,

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Speaker 1: great Guy's an office of the court which holds information

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Speaker 1: as they done with the Steel dossier. Isn't that considered

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Speaker 1: fraud on the court? And if they fraud on the court,

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Speaker 1: then why hasn't the judge or any of the defendant's

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Speaker 1: lawyers brought those charges? Well, you're absolutely right, it's a

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Speaker 1: fraud on the court. And in fact, the federal regulations

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Speaker 1: that govern what you can and cannot submit to a

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Speaker 1: five support specifically state that you may never submit anything

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Speaker 1: that has not first been verified. And Coomey admitted again

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Speaker 1: this week that the dossier, which was used exclusively to

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Speaker 1: spy on the Trump campaign, was unverified. And so it's

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Speaker 1: not just it's not just a fraud on the court.

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Speaker 1: That is a fault to misleading statement by coming because

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Speaker 1: he affixed his signature to it. But he did so

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Speaker 1: under penalty of perjury. So it's perjury, it's obstruction of justice.

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Speaker 1: And it's also a statute that's known as abuse of

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Speaker 1: power deprivation of rights under color of law. He was

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Speaker 1: interfering in the constitutional rights not only of Carter Page,

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Speaker 1: but of Donald Trump. So the problem is that the

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Speaker 1: fi SI Coort is a secret star chamber, which I

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Speaker 1: am vigorously opposed to. I mean, this was you know,

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Speaker 1: the old English star chambers in which judges could do

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Speaker 1: anything to you and understand because it was secret. And

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Speaker 1: that's what we've got with the Fisichord. It's secret. One

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Speaker 1: last question, if a if a judge, knowing that he

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Speaker 1: has been presented false information, does not respond to that,

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Speaker 1: doesn't that basically negate the due process clause of the Constitution.

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Speaker 1: Oh it totally don't. They violated the due process rights

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Speaker 1: with Carter Page. There's no question about it. And Carter

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Speaker 1: Page should sue the government and the FBI and James

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Speaker 1: Comey and saliates An, Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein who

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Speaker 1: all signed off on this unverified documentum for all their worth,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh, and the government should pay Carter Page.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Carter Page can't really make a living anymore.

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Speaker 1: His life has been ruined, his reputation destroyed. H And

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Speaker 1: it's it's a tragedy. And James Comey and all of

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Speaker 1: the others that I just mentioned don't have an ounce

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Speaker 1: of remorse about it. They don't care because they're the

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Speaker 1: all powerful law enforcement arm of the US government and

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Speaker 1: they can do anything they want to do because they can.

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Speaker 1: And Americans should be frightened of our government, the FBI

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Speaker 1: and people like Robert Muller and his team of partisans.

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Speaker 1: Want to thank you for your call, Dennis. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to our next caller, Denise in Chicago. Hi Denise, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Hi Greg, thanks for taking my call. Sure, I often

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Speaker 1: wondered why James Comey reopened the investigation Hillary Clinton right

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Speaker 1: before the election, and I guess I got my answer

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Speaker 1: this week with his interview on MSNBC when he was

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Speaker 1: touting how you know if it was more of an

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Speaker 1: organized administration, he probably wouldn't have been able to get

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Speaker 1: away with it. And there's our answer right there, is

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Speaker 1: that I think he got wind of the fact that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump might win and he was so methodical he

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Speaker 1: went in and open reopened that because he wanted to

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Speaker 1: make it look like he was on Donald Trump's side

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Speaker 1: and he wanted to and he wanted to be able

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Speaker 1: to stay there because he wanted to be able to

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Speaker 1: do what he did, which his first casualty was Michael Flynn,

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Speaker 1: and that is how he started picking the people off.

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Speaker 1: And you know, because it wasn't he wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: he wasn't there to open up the investigation again to

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Speaker 1: maintain the integrity of his investigation. I actually think it

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Speaker 1: probably hurt her a little with early voters, But I

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Speaker 1: really think that he did that to stay in the

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Speaker 1: administration so he was able to infiltrate his well plan.

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Speaker 1: That that's one possibility. I think the more likely scenario

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Speaker 1: is what is laid out by the Inspector General Michael

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Speaker 1: Horowitz's report, And to put it in a nutshell, it's

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Speaker 1: like this comy McCabe and Struck did not want to

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Speaker 1: reopen the Hillary Clinton case on the eve of the election.

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Speaker 1: But they were forced to do it because prosecutors in

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Speaker 1: New York, we're going to wrap them out. So they

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Speaker 1: were forced to do it. Prosecutors in New York who

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Speaker 1: were handling the Anthony Weiner laptop fiasco discovered all of

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Speaker 1: these classified documents on Iluma Abboton and Anthony Winner's laptop

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Speaker 1: involving Hillary Clinton. They notify headquarters in Washington and James

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Speaker 1: Comey and Andrew mcaban Peter Struck and say, you got

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Speaker 1: to look at this. So they so the Washington Office

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Speaker 1: headquarters says, oh yeah, okay, we'll take a look at this.

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Speaker 1: And a week goes by. Nothing happens. Two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: buy nothing happens. New York calls up Washington, so what

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Speaker 1: are you doing it? Oh yeah, we're all over it,

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Speaker 1: and they say, no, you're not. You haven't even received

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Speaker 1: the documents. We keep waiting for you to ask for

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Speaker 1: their delivery. Oh yeah, deliver them to us. Another week

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01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: goes by, what are you doing about it? Nothing? And

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Speaker 1: finally in the fourth week, you know, there must have

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Speaker 1: been a meeting with Comy mccabin struck in which they say,

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Speaker 1: these guys in New York are going to write us

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Speaker 1: out for doing nothing and sitting on this, and so

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Speaker 1: they had to reopen the case. But when they did

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Speaker 1: reopen the case, under pressure, they immediately closed it, claiming

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Speaker 1: that they had reviewed all of the emails that was

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Speaker 1: Commy's testimony, when in fact they reviewed just a fraction

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Speaker 1: of them, so it was nothing more than window dressing,

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Speaker 1: and they shut down the case. So let's go to

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Speaker 1: our next caller. Jim joins us in New York. Hey, Jim, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how's it going. Yeah. I think everything you're saying about

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Speaker 1: Comy is correct. But the thing we have to remember

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Speaker 1: is the dirtiest cop in America is Robert Mueller. He

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Speaker 1: is the cop who sat there when it came to

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Speaker 1: Uranium one. He quots the inside informant, He spots the

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Speaker 1: entire investor and the whole reason he's there. If Trump

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Speaker 1: wins in twenty twenty, he'll be there for four more years.

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Speaker 1: If Pence wins in twenty twenty four, he'll be there

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Speaker 1: for four more years. He's going to be there because

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Speaker 1: he's protecting two presidents, he's protecting two attorney generals, he's

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Speaker 1: protecting two FBI directors. One Secretary of State, possibly two,

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Speaker 1: and a plethora of others from those nine other departments

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Speaker 1: that all approved uranium one. But we know there was

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Speaker 1: robbery and quid pro quo definitely done. Well, you're right,

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Speaker 1: that's why it's a total service. Muller was involved in

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Speaker 1: the uranium one investigation and what became of that og nothing.

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Speaker 1: Komey was involved, Andrew Weissman was involved, his name and

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Speaker 1: signature are on some of the documents. And Rod Rosenstein

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Speaker 1: was also involved. So you know, the you know, the

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Speaker 1: coincidence is lost on nobody there. The fact of the

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Speaker 1: matter is that that investigation of Hillary Clinton and pay

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Speaker 1: to play corruption quietly vanished under the Obama administration and

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Speaker 1: Hillary and Bill's longtime friend and a political ally, Lauretta

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Speaker 1: Lynch who was the Attorney General. But you're you know,

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Speaker 1: you're right about it. That was another whitewash, and Muller

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Speaker 1: is at the helm. Let's go to our next caller.

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Speaker 1: Chris joins us from Cleveland. Hey, Chris, hi, Greg, how

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Speaker 1: are you today? Good? Good? I want to tell you

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Speaker 1: a great job you would Thank you, Derek Carter for

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Speaker 1: all that you've done. Thank you. I work as an

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Speaker 1: auditor for a government agency. I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: who's not at the federal level, but I've been auditing

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Speaker 1: a long time and anytime that fraud is involved, there's irregularities, omissions,

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Speaker 1: reckless disregard for the truth. I mean, they've hit on

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Speaker 1: every one of these. My question is, if these are

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Speaker 1: criminal acts that have been committed, why can't anything be

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Speaker 1: done about it? And what are we going to do

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Speaker 1: about the FBI, because if they've been compromised, it bleeps

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Speaker 1: through the entire agency. Well, I agree with you completely,

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Speaker 1: and frankly, I'm hoping that the new Attorney General, William Barr,

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Speaker 1: will launch a full fledge, legitimate, sincere investigation of the

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Speaker 1: misconduct by the FBI and some members of the Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice. And that would mean not just giving it

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Speaker 1: to a guy named John Hoover that nobody has ever

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Speaker 1: heard of or heard from since, which I suspect is

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Speaker 1: just window dressing. But you know, put in, put a

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Speaker 1: team of legitimate investigators together, prosecutors presented to a grand jury.

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Speaker 1: Let the grand jury decide whether there's sufficient evidence that

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Speaker 1: crimes were committed. Absent that, let's appoint a special counsel.

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Speaker 1: The law enforcers became the law breakers and they should

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Speaker 1: beheld accountable. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be

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Speaker 1: right back with more. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity

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Speaker 1: Show on Greg Jarrett, author of the book The Russia Hoax,

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

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Speaker 1: So here we are two and a half years into

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Speaker 1: all of this. The FBI, the US Intelligence Apparatus, the

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Speaker 1: mainstream media, Democrats, and who can forget Special Counsel Robert

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Speaker 1: Muller and his team of partisans have been searching every

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Speaker 1: obscure corner and crevice for some proof that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: colluded with Russia to steal the two thousand and sixteen

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Speaker 1: presidential election. They seemed to believe that Trump could not

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Speaker 1: possibly have won absence some treasonous conspiracy that was hatched

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Speaker 1: by him in the bowels of the Kremlin. They were

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Speaker 1: convinced he was an illegitimate president. And besides, Comey and

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Speaker 1: his minions just didn't like Trump. He threatened to drain

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Speaker 1: the swamp. They were the swamp. They didn't want to

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Speaker 1: be drained, and so they went after in with a vengeance.

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Speaker 1: And here we are two and a half years later.

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Speaker 1: Is there any evidence of collusion with Russia to win

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Speaker 1: the election. The answer is no, but the investigation by

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Speaker 1: Robert Muller will continue. You can bet on that. I

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Speaker 1: hope you'll buy my book and read it, The Russia Hoax,

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

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Speaker 1: My Twitter handle is at Greg Jarrett. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. I'm Greg Jarrett in for Sean Hannity

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Speaker 1: on The Sean Hannity Show. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Bye

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Speaker 1: bye