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Speaker 1: ambassador during that reception. I do not remember it. After

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Speaker 1: into Russian interference in the sixteen campaign. Let me state

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Speaker 1: Senator Sessions just taking to the his testimony before the

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Speaker 1: detestable lie. I have served my country for thirty five

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Speaker 1: so many different things. All right, hang on one side,

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Speaker 1: Americans you know, are out of the labor force. It's unbelievable, unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna tell you something. Somebody's lying here.

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Speaker 1: And my viewing of this is it seems to be

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Speaker 1: comey and the angry, disgruntled employee was comey. Now here's

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Speaker 1: where I know. And this is what we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: into in our final hour of the program. You don't

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Speaker 1: want to miss Sarah Carter today. So, Sarah Carter, John Solomon,

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Speaker 1: I think have the biggest blockbuster story that you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna hear about from the mainstream media because they're so

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Speaker 1: corrupt and and this is important. In his testimony, Colly

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Speaker 1: said Uh, well, you know nothing. You know, Sessions, you

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Speaker 1: know he never said to not leave the room and

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Speaker 1: leave him alone with the president. And he told the committee,

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Speaker 1: the Senate Intel Committee, that you know, he didn't say

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Speaker 1: a word back. Session just testified two seconds ago that

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Speaker 1: he answered come with a long answer, agreeing that everything

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Speaker 1: should always be done properly. So Comey's lying or Sessions

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Speaker 1: is lying, and I'm betting it's Comey. Look at this

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Speaker 1: whole thing now where he wanted a special counsel and

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Speaker 1: he got it and it turns out to be his

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Speaker 1: best friend. All right, Now, let's take another look at comy.

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Speaker 1: We know Hillary Clinton committed multiple felonies. You know, the

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Speaker 1: legal standard is is very clear gross negligence. He used

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Speaker 1: the words extreme carelessness. There's no difference mom and pop

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Speaker 1: shop bathroom. You know, an email server, top secret classified

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Speaker 1: Special Access program information on it. That is the mismanager.

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Speaker 1: That is gross negligence of intelligence. That is a felony

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Speaker 1: destroying top secret classified special Access program information. These are

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Speaker 1: felonies committed by Hillary Clinton. Now we already know about

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Speaker 1: the inappropriate contact as it relates to Bill Clinton and

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Speaker 1: Loretta Lynch. Now listen to this. Now, the FBI director

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Speaker 1: or x fired, disgruntled, angry j Edgar Comy privately told

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Speaker 1: members of Congress that he had a frosty exchange with

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Speaker 1: Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year when he confronted

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Speaker 1: her about possible political interference in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Now,

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Speaker 1: pay attention, Larette. What he was told is Laretta Lynch

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Speaker 1: put the kobosh on any indictment for Hillary Clinton. So

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Speaker 1: pay attention. This is important. And during his testimony last

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Speaker 1: Thursday before the Senate Intel Committee, Comey alludes to the

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Speaker 1: exchange between him and Lynch after publicly discussing an encounter

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Speaker 1: with Lynch where she ordered him to refer to the

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Speaker 1: criminal probe of Clinton and the handling of classified emails

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Speaker 1: is well, don't say it's an investigation, just call it

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Speaker 1: a matter, which was right along the talking points of

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Speaker 1: the Clinton campaign, and even suggested it smacked a political

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Speaker 1: spin rather than the professional way that law enforcement officers talk. Now,

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Speaker 1: if he's so concerned about obstruction, pay close attention here.

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Speaker 1: That concerned me, Comey said, because that language tracked the

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Speaker 1: way the campaign was talking about the FBI's work. And

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Speaker 1: that's concerning. Well, it's more than concerning Mr Comey, And

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Speaker 1: then Comey said the conversation occurred well before the email

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Speaker 1: probe was shut down and shortly before both Comey and

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Speaker 1: Lynch were expected to testify and congress about and possibly

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Speaker 1: feel questions about the candidates email they she wanted him

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Speaker 1: on the same page before that testimony, he said her

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Speaker 1: request gave him a queasy feeling. Now Democratic Senator Feinstein said,

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Speaker 1: I would have a queasy feeling too, though, to be

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Speaker 1: candid with you, you know, I think we need to

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Speaker 1: know more and that's the only way to know about

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Speaker 1: this is to have the Judiciary Committee take a look.

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Speaker 1: God bless fine Stone. She's saying, really that sounds like

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Speaker 1: obstruction without her saying it. And a multiple private conversations

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Speaker 1: and private sessions over the last few months, Comey has

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Speaker 1: told lawmakers about a second later confrontation with Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Lynch shortly before the email probe was shut down by him,

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Speaker 1: and he told lawmakers and closed door sessions that he

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Speaker 1: raised his concern and by the way this happened in

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Speaker 1: the close session last week, I'm told that he raised

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Speaker 1: concerns with the Attorney General that she had created a

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Speaker 1: conflict of interest by meeting Bill Clinton on an airport

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Speaker 1: tarmac while investigating wrongdoing of his wife. And let's get this.

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Speaker 1: During the conversation, call Me tells lawmakers he can front

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Speaker 1: and Lynch with a highly sensitive piece of evidence, a

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Speaker 1: communication between two political figures that suggested, get this, Lynch

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Speaker 1: had agreed to put the kabash on any prosecution of Clinton. That,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is called a smoking gun. That is

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Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. And by the way, we're not even

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Speaker 1: talking about the Russian connection with uranium one that she

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Speaker 1: signed off on having money funneled back millions to the

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Speaker 1: Clinton Foundation, Comey said. The Attorney General looked at the

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Speaker 1: document again, communication between two political figures suggesting Lynch stuff

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Speaker 1: that we have this in the bag. This is what

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Speaker 1: it said, that Lynch had already said she put the

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Speaker 1: kabash on any prosecution. The fix was in no wonder

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Speaker 1: she wasn't indicted, and then called me said. The Attorney

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Speaker 1: General looked at the document, looked up with a quote

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Speaker 1: steely silence that lasted quote for some time, and then

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Speaker 1: asked him do you have any other business with her?

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Speaker 1: If not, he should leave her office. Comy then took

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Speaker 1: the interaction and the fact that is astruction. She needs

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Speaker 1: to be prosecuted as well as Hillary Clinton. They're doing

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Speaker 1: all the wrong investigations here, they're interviewing all the wrong people,

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Speaker 1: and they've got this ask backwards the whole thing. If

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Speaker 1: you care about truth, justice, the constitution, equal application of

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Speaker 1: the law between the Clintons and then the rest of America,

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Speaker 1: this is a this is a disgrace. What's gone on

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Speaker 1: here a national disgrace. Al Right, top story today when

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Speaker 1: we got two of them. We've got, of course, the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his testimony that's going ongoing now.

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Speaker 1: We're dipping in and out at the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Speaker 1: And our other top story is, oh my goodness, it

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Speaker 1: looks like Attorney General Lynch under Obama, Apparently James Comey

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Speaker 1: confronted her with a piece of evidence, a communication between

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Speaker 1: political figures that suggested Lynch had put the cabosh on

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Speaker 1: any indictment or prosecution of Hillary Clinton. Sarah Carter, who

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Speaker 1: broke that story, will join us. New king Ridge will

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Speaker 1: join us next. We'll get his take on all that's happening.

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Speaker 1: We'll also get your calls in here, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: dipping in and out of this this hearing throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: Quick break right back will continue. I recuse myself from

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Speaker 1: any investigation into the campaign for president, but I did

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Speaker 1: not recuse myself from defending my honor against schirless and

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Speaker 1: false allegations at all times throughout the course of the campaign,

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Speaker 1: the confirmation process, and since becoming Attorney General, I have

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Speaker 1: dedicated myself to the highest standards. Question is Mr Comey

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Speaker 1: said that there were matters with respect to the recusal

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Speaker 1: that were problematic and he couldn't talk about them. What

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Speaker 1: are they that? Why don't you tell me they are none?

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Speaker 1: Senator Widen, There are none. I can tell you that

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Speaker 1: for absolute certainty, we can you tell. This is a

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Speaker 1: sacred innuendow being leaked out there about me, and I

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Speaker 1: don't appreciate it. Wow, that was the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions,

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Speaker 1: fiery before the Senate Intelligence Committee. And what is really

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Speaker 1: backfiring on the Democrats and they just keep going back

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Speaker 1: to the same questions again and again and again and again.

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Speaker 1: Um joining us now former Speaker of the House, he's

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Speaker 1: got a brand new book out today. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: understanding Trump, he is going to be in Ridgewood, New

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Speaker 1: Jersey tonight at seven pm. And Mr Speaker, we also

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Speaker 1: look forward to having you on TV, which is always

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Speaker 1: fun to have a rare and studio appearance. And uh,

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Speaker 1: congratulations on the book. And we'll get to that in

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Speaker 1: a second. But Ridgewood, New Jersey, of book ends, which

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Speaker 1: is a great place to have a book signing. Um,

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Speaker 1: you said, you know, can you think of one thing

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Speaker 1: Trump can do worse than you know, the whole issue

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Speaker 1: that this is a witch hunt with Robert Mieller. No, Look,

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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing. And by the way, I thought

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Speaker 1: that Jeff Sessions was just magnificent, and the way he

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Speaker 1: stood up pointed out both the difference between recusal over

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Speaker 1: a specific issue and failure to run the FBI, which

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Speaker 1: was his duty, pointed out that his personal integrity was

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Speaker 1: being impugned. And I thought it was a tremendously compelling

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Speaker 1: opening statement by the Attorney General. I was very very

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Speaker 1: proud of him, very compelling. But also his answer that

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Speaker 1: we just played a Ron Wyden was particularly amazing too.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, this is now character assassination.

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Speaker 1: You know, the whole thing here seems to hinge on

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Speaker 1: a very basic fundamental question that we now had answered

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Speaker 1: last week. We know the president wasn't being investigated. We

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Speaker 1: know that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign

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Speaker 1: and Russia. And I can play all the Democrats saying

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Speaker 1: with no evidence of collusion, which I've done many many times,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, one has to ask itself why

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Speaker 1: are we having the investigation at this point because we

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Speaker 1: already know the answer. According to James Comey, Well, the

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Speaker 1: whole thing is astonishing. You know, it hit me because

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Speaker 1: I've been digging deeply into uh Comey's background and in

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Speaker 1: our experience of Comy in the past, and then how

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Speaker 1: he um manipulated the entire system to get Mueller to

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Speaker 1: be the UH Special Council, and then Mueller hairing four

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Speaker 1: Democratic lawyers, one of whom had worked for the Clinton Foundation,

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Speaker 1: one of whom had a track record of concealing evidence

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Speaker 1: from the defense UH in a way that it is illegal. UM.

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Speaker 1: And it hit me as I dug into all this

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Speaker 1: stuff that the real Remember this is coming in a

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Speaker 1: period where Kathy Griffin is holding up UH an image

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's head bleeding. UH. It's coming at a

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Speaker 1: time when a New York public theater is showing the

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Speaker 1: assassination of the prey. By the way. We we found out,

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Speaker 1: by the way, just a little while ago that this

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Speaker 1: assassination theater group did in fact collect millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: in taxpayer grants after days of reports claiming taxpayer dollars

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Speaker 1: weren't used to fund Shakespeare in the Park, which you know,

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Speaker 1: the depiction of President Trump as as Julius Caesar suffering

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Speaker 1: a bloody assassination. Well, and my point is you have

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Speaker 1: to see everything that's going on in the context. I

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Speaker 1: was reminded of Arthur Miller's extraordinary play The Crucible about

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Speaker 1: the Salem Witchcraft trial. Because what you've got now on

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Speaker 1: the left is the equivalent of the Salem Witchcraft Trial.

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Speaker 1: These people know that Trump and and that the Attorney

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Speaker 1: General and that others are guilty. They don't know what

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Speaker 1: they're guilty of. But it's literally the same kind of

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Speaker 1: psychological emotion that Miller portrayed so vividly in his play

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Speaker 1: about the witchcraft trials in Salem back in the seventeen century.

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Speaker 1: And so you get this this wave of weird stuff. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And and it doesn't matter what you say. I mean,

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Speaker 1: for example, Uh, the solid evidence that the Russian ambassador

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Speaker 1: visited the White House twenty two times. Well, he's the

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Speaker 1: Russian ambassador, He's supposed to go visit the White House.

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Speaker 1: But whether or not in a large group meeting, the

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Speaker 1: Russian ambassador in passing actually saw Sessions. And then it's

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Speaker 1: the Remember this whole report by Comy, and I think

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Speaker 1: Comey is a maliciously destructive person. This the whole way

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Speaker 1: Comey framed it was based on what apparently is an

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Speaker 1: intercept of the Russian ambassador sending a message back to

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Speaker 1: Moscow exaggerating his ability to have a conversation with Sessions.

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Speaker 1: There are everybody who was at the reception, who has

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Speaker 1: who has showed up he said no, this is simply

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Speaker 1: totally untrue. And you get this again and again and

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Speaker 1: every time one of them gets knocked down. There to

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Speaker 1: news stories. And I'll be fascinating to see what comes

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Speaker 1: out of today, because I think Jeff Sessions is a

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Speaker 1: very smart and very very honorable person is going to

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Speaker 1: do more than enough to handle his former colleagues. And

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Speaker 1: at that point the Left is gonna have to find

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Speaker 1: a whole new excuse for the hysteria that they're in

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Speaker 1: the middle of You've raised a couple of points. One

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Speaker 1: is that Robert Mueller is stocked his staff with Democratic donors.

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Speaker 1: And I think even more breathtaking than this is that

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Speaker 1: Mueller hired the Clinton foundation lawyer for this particular Russian probe. Now,

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Speaker 1: this particular woman was somebody that her name is Genie Ray,

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Speaker 1: and according to Politico, she performed work for the Clinton

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Speaker 1: Foundation defending it from Freedom of Information Act requests related

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Speaker 1: to hill HER's private email server. Now, if that, if

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Speaker 1: that's not a conflict of interest, I I don't know

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Speaker 1: what is. I really don't look. I mean, I said

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Speaker 1: today on one of the shows as we were launching,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there is no other show by my show. Well,

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Speaker 1: when you're a struggling author, do the best you can

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Speaker 1: to get off the ground. You gotta go where you

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Speaker 1: can do. You know, by the way, the book is phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: If you can stay longer, by the way, tell me again,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to because I'm thrilled by understanding Trump. But

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Speaker 1: I said to I said to one of the audiences

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Speaker 1: one of the earlier days. You know, if if if

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Speaker 1: MOA wants to prove that we should genuinely respect his neutrality,

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Speaker 1: what if he established a rule he has to hire

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Speaker 1: one pro Trump lawyer for every pro Clinton lawyer. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe that nobody besides me seems to have picked

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Speaker 1: up on this. You know, you know Sarah Carter from

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Speaker 1: circanoose Sarah Carter. This is probably the most unbelievable story

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Speaker 1: describes the situation of a confrontation beyond Bill Clinton on

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Speaker 1: the tarmac with with Loretta Lynch. Apparently that the FBI

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Speaker 1: director call me, got information from two politicos that actually

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Speaker 1: suggested that Loretta Lynch had already put the kabash on

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Speaker 1: any possibility of any Clinton indictment, that she was in

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Speaker 1: the tank for Hillary. He confronts her, She says nothing,

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Speaker 1: but looks at him with steely silence. According to the

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Speaker 1: testimony that apparently took place in closed session, and is

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Speaker 1: that not obstruction of justice? Does that not warrant an

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Speaker 1: investigation in of it of itself? Well, by the way,

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Speaker 1: to her credit, Senator Feinstein, the senior Democrat and the

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Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee, has said publicly that she believes clearly that

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Lynch has to be investigated and that this

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Speaker 1: whole thing really is so bad that she wants to

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Speaker 1: see something done to dig much deeper. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a commentary on the Republicans just not being adequately aggressive

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Speaker 1: and thinking in terms of of having energy and following

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Speaker 1: up that nobody on the Republican side has said. You know,

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Speaker 1: Senator Feinstein is exactly right, and we should do on

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Speaker 1: a bipartisan basis. What Senator Feinstein has recommended. I mean

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Speaker 1: is this can't be that hard to do that. It

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Speaker 1: really shouldn't be that hard to do that. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've got to you suggested Congress put an then to

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Speaker 1: all of this. I think that the president has five

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Speaker 1: enemies now that he's dealing with it, all want his destruction.

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Speaker 1: Number One, the deep state, as his attorney said, the

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Speaker 1: the selective leaking on this president of of top secret

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Speaker 1: intelligence information is unprecedented. Number Two Democrats, as you point out,

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Speaker 1: wake up every day they kill still can't believe they

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Speaker 1: lost the election, and they wake up with the thought,

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Speaker 1: how do we destroy the president? Number Three a deeply

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Speaker 1: lying in corrupt news media that not only colluded with

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Speaker 1: Hillary in the campaign, they've been out to destroy him

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Speaker 1: from day one. Then you've got weak Republicans who won't

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Speaker 1: take your suggestion and fight back because Frankly, this whole

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Speaker 1: Special Council needs to be shut down now. And then

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Speaker 1: you've got the never Trump for people, the five groups,

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Speaker 1: and they want relevance and they want to be able

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Speaker 1: to say to the world, see told you so. I

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Speaker 1: don't know at this point in time, where are his allies. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've I've been recently ever since that we aren't speaking.

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Speaker 1: I played last week about this whole the sickness of

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Speaker 1: Comey and Mueller in this whole thing. I've gotten a

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Speaker 1: surprising number of Republican Congress when the Senators contacting me

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Speaker 1: and asking me to get more involved in talking about

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Speaker 1: what we should do to get back on offense. And

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Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot bigger hunger for having

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Speaker 1: a positive approach that reaches beyond the current cycle than

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Speaker 1: than people might have thought. I think I think we

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Speaker 1: may be surprised to find out how many people are

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Speaker 1: eager to have a chance to get involved and to

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Speaker 1: do something positive. Yeah. Well, listen, I'll tell you the

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Speaker 1: people that have been most defensive of the president, that

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Speaker 1: see this the way we see it, the Freedom Caucus

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Speaker 1: members and none of the very people that it wasn't

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Speaker 1: Paul Ryan that got the healthcare bill passed in the House.

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Speaker 1: It was the Freedom Caucus. And I think it's beyond frustrating,

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Speaker 1: Mr Speaker that we, you know, we find ourselves in

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Speaker 1: a position where we now have a special counsel that

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Speaker 1: got appointed because you had a selective leak by an

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Speaker 1: FBI director in and of itself, maybe a felony committed

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Speaker 1: by him. He might have violated the Records Act. He

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Speaker 1: might have also violated a teen US Code four in

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Speaker 1: terms of you know, he had a legal obligation if

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Speaker 1: he thought somebody was trying to obstruct justice and he

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Speaker 1: stood there shocked, and perhaps if he was stronger, he

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Speaker 1: would have left. Uh, if he thought something was inappropriate

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Speaker 1: and he didn't leave, he selectively leaks government information and

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Speaker 1: then gets the his mentor and his cohort, Robert Mueller,

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Speaker 1: to be the special counsel, which he set out to

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Speaker 1: do well. And and let me make a point here

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Speaker 1: for all of our listeners, because I think this is

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Speaker 1: one of the things that confuses Washington. UM, Comey has

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Speaker 1: Comey is part of the deep state, but Comey is

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Speaker 1: part of the sickness. UH. Nobody should be confused about this.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to give you two examples. Comey was

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Speaker 1: deeply worried that when President Trump said something to him

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Speaker 1: about whether or not General Flynn might be innocent, that

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Speaker 1: it would have a chilling effect on his unf agents.

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Speaker 1: You go back and read these activets. Well, Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: said publicly that he thought Hillary Clinton was innocent. Now

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Speaker 1: why is it if Barack Obama said the president, then

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Speaker 1: President States says publicly he thinks somebody under investigation is innocent.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't have a chilling effect. By the way, can

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Speaker 1: I can I just be a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: wise ass like I think you've known me all these years? No,

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Speaker 1: I gotta do this, you know, if we're all upset

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Speaker 1: about you know, government's influencing elections, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we've had testimony the Russians did it before this election,

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Speaker 1: they'll do it after this election. And yeah, of course

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Speaker 1: they try to break in, but no votes were changed

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Speaker 1: at all. But does it matter that that Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: use State Department funds to try and unseat and used

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Speaker 1: his political team to unseat an ally in Israel by

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Speaker 1: the name of Prime Minister Yah? Who I mean? Did

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Speaker 1: he not to the very thing that everyone thinks that

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Speaker 1: they're so aghast and shocked by well, and of course

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Speaker 1: that's part of that's that's part of the whole problem

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Speaker 1: of the modern world. But look, I don't think I

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Speaker 1: don't want to in any way defend the Russians. No,

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Speaker 1: not either. I'm just saying, but this whole gigantic double

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Speaker 1: standard is more than astonishing. All right, stay right there now,

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Speaker 1: the brand new book. He's gonna be at Bookends in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ridgewood tonight at seven o'clock New king Ridge

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Speaker 1: is gonna give a talk and then I'll be signing

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Speaker 1: books and hopefully make it back to Hannity, which may

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Speaker 1: not happen because I'm to keep promoting the living daylights

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Speaker 1: out of this, and the crowd is gonna be so

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Speaker 1: long you're gonna call me say the hell with your show.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on the show, all right, So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have the speaker tonight, uh Tenny Eastern. His book

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Speaker 1: is called Understanding Trump. I think the definitive, the definitive

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Speaker 1: book now written about the President and how he was

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Speaker 1: able to outperform all expectations and win the presidency. Quick

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Speaker 1: break more with Speaker king Rich. His book is up

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Speaker 1: on Hannity dot Com and it's called Understanding Trump. Straight

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Speaker 1: ahead right, former Speaker of the House, no King Rich.

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Speaker 1: He's written a brand new book. And if you don't understand,

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Speaker 1: or if I honestly, if you don't want to be

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Speaker 1: spun by the media, and you want to understand this

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Speaker 1: Trump phenomena. Everybody was laughing. No, but he thought he

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Speaker 1: could win and the attacks against him by the swamp.

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Speaker 1: This is the definitive book, and it's called Understanding Trump.

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Speaker 1: Is gonna be at book ends in Ridgewood, New Jersey

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Speaker 1: for all our w R listeners in New York at

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock tonight. He'll be speaking and signing books. Tell

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Speaker 1: us what you know, give us some headlines about the book. Well,

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Speaker 1: look the books an effort to say, first of all,

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Speaker 1: this guy, you know, Trump, is really different. And one

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Speaker 1: of the problems with the elite media, other than the

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Speaker 1: ideological hatred, is they keep trying to place him as

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Speaker 1: though he were a normal politician. This is a pure entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: a guy who believes in action, the guy who believes

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Speaker 1: in dreaming big, a guy who takes huge risks. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and he plays by the rules that fit. If you're

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, the kind of guy who builds Trump Tower,

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Speaker 1: or builds his eighteen golf courses, or creates, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the number one rated TV show. Uh. And you go

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Speaker 1: down the list of what Trump has achieved, and I

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Speaker 1: think people need to understand you can't measure him as

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Speaker 1: though he's Barack Obama or George W. Bush or even

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Speaker 1: a Ronald Reagan. He's one of the most unique people.

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Speaker 1: I write rank him frankly with people like Andrew Jackson

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Speaker 1: and Abraham Lincoln as as people who are really outside

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Speaker 1: the norm. He's in the news media cannot relax and

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Speaker 1: just try to say themselves, if this guy is so smart,

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Speaker 1: he not only had to be a billionaire, he then

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Speaker 1: pivoted and beat sixteen Republicans for the nomination. He then

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Speaker 1: pivoted and beat the news media and a billion dollars

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Speaker 1: in Hillary Clinton for the presidency. Maybe there's something he

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Speaker 1: understands and they just kind of bring themselves to do that.

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Speaker 1: And so I decided, as close to I doing him

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Speaker 1: a good while, that I would write a book that

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Speaker 1: really tried. That's not called predicting Trump. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: you can predict Trump. I don't think Trump can predict Trump,

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Speaker 1: but I believe. But it's called Understanding Him because I

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Speaker 1: do think they are underlying patterns. I'll give you one

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Speaker 1: that you know well, because New Yorker you've known him

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Speaker 1: for years. Trump will always CounterPunch. If you hit him,

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Speaker 1: he will instinctively immediately CounterPunch. By the way. You know

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Speaker 1: what I am, what a counterpuncher? Exactly? Do you two

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Speaker 1: get along? Well, yeah, we really do. We've seen some

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Speaker 1: of my own fights and He's like, man, you fight

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Speaker 1: as hard as I do. Alright. The book is called

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Speaker 1: Understanding Trump. Bridgewood, New Jersey, Tonight, seven o'clock Speaker Gang,

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Speaker 1: which will be speaking signing books when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Wide open telephone. Sarah Carter blows open this, Loretta Lynch, comey,

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Speaker 1: connection of obstruction. I am on the side of the dice.

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Speaker 1: So very simple question that should be asked is did

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump or any of his associates in the campaign

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Speaker 1: colude with Russia and hacking those emails and releasing them

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Speaker 1: through the public. That's where we started six months ago.

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Speaker 1: We have now heard from six of the eight Democrats

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Speaker 1: and this committee, and to my knowledge, I don't think

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Speaker 1: a single one of them asked that question. They've gone

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Speaker 1: down lots of other rabbit trails, but not that question.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that is because Jim Comey said last week, as

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Speaker 1: he said to Donald trum that on three times he

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Speaker 1: assured him he was not under investigation. Maybe it's because

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Speaker 1: multiple Democrats on this committee have stated they have seen

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Speaker 1: no evidence thus far after six months of our investigation

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Speaker 1: and ten or eleven months of an FBI investigation of

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Speaker 1: any such collusion. I just suggest, what do we think

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Speaker 1: happened at the Mayflower? Mr? Sessions are Are you familiar

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Speaker 1: with what spies called tradecraft? A little bit that involves

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Speaker 1: things like covert communications and dead drops and brush passes, right,

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Speaker 1: that is part of it. Do you like spy fiction?

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Speaker 1: John Lcker, Ray, Daniel Silva, Jason Matthews, Alan First, David.

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Speaker 1: Do you like Jason Bourne or James Bond movies? No? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever in any of these fantastical situations heard

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Speaker 1: of a plotline so ridiculous that a sitting United States

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Speaker 1: Senator and an ambassador of a foreign government colluded at

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Speaker 1: an open setting with hundreds of other people to pull

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Speaker 1: off the greatest caper in the history of escuator. Thank

853
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Speaker 1: you for saying that Uh. Senator Cotton, It's just like

854
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: through the looking glass. I mean, what is this? I

855
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 1: explained how in good faith I said I had not

856
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: met with Russians because they were suggesting I, as a surrogate,

857
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 1: had been meeting continuously with the Russians. I said I

858
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: didn't meet with them. And now the next thing, you know,

859
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: I'm accused of some reception uh ap plotting some sort

860
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: of influence campaign for the American election. It's just beyond

861
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 1: my capability to understand. And I really appreciate Mr. Chairman,

862
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: the opportunity at least to be able to say publicly

863
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: I didn't participate in that and know nothing about it.

864
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: And I gather that's one reason why you want to

865
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: testify today in public. Last week, Mr Comey, and characteristic,

866
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: dramatic and theatrical fashion, alluded ominously to what you call

867
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 1: innu window that there was some kind of classified intelligence

868
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: uh that suggested you might have colluded with Russia or

869
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: that you might have otherwise acted improperly. You've addressed those

870
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 1: allegations here today. Do you understand why he made that allusion? Actually?

871
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: I do not, um that's happen. I know nobody has

872
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 1: provided me any information. Thank you bout limited to have

873
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: a lot of questions. UM. Mr Blunt asked you if

874
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: you had spoken in response to Mr Commy's statement to

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00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,280
Speaker 1: you after his private meeting with the President on February

876
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: fourteenth or February Uh, you said that you did respond

877
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: to Mr Comy. Mr Commy's testimony said that you did not.

878
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: Do you know why Mr Comey would have said that

879
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: you did not respond him on that conversation with you

880
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: on February fourteenth, I do not. Um. It was a

881
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: little conversation, not very long, um, but there was a

882
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: converse station and I did or respond to him, perhaps

883
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: not to everything he asked, but uh he I did

884
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: respond to him, I think in appropriate way. Do you

885
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: know why Mr Comey mistrusted President Trump from their first

886
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: meeting on January six He stated last week that he did,

887
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: but didn't state anything from that meeting that caused him

888
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 1: to have such mistrust. To believe, I'm not able to

889
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 1: speculate on that. Let's turned to the potential crimes that

890
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: we know have happened leaks of certain information. Here's a

891
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: shortlist of what I have uh, the contents of alleged

892
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: transcripts of alleged conversations between Mr Flann and Mr kisel Yak,

893
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: the contents of President Trump's phone calls with Australian and

894
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: Mexican leaders, the content of Mr Trump's meetings with the

895
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: Russian Foreign Minister and the ambassador, the leak of Manchester bombing,

896
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: the Manchester bombing suspects identity and crime scene photos, and

897
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: last week, within twenty minutes of this committee meeting in

898
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: a classified setting with Jim Comey, the leak of what

899
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 1: Mr the basis of Mr Comey's in the window was,

900
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 1: are these leaks serious UH threats to our national security?

901
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: And as the Department of Justice taking them with the

902
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: appropriate degree of seriousness and investigating and ultimately going to

903
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: prosecute them the full suctence of the law. Thank you,

904
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: Senator Cotton. UH. We have had one successful case very

905
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: recently in Georgia. That person has been denied bail, I believe,

906
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: and is being held in custody. But some of these leaks,

907
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: as you well know, are extraordinarily DAN damaging to the

908
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: United States security and we have got to restore a

909
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: regular order principle. We cannot have UH persons in our

910
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: intelligence agencies are investigative agencies are in Congress leaking sensitive

911
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 1: matters on staff. So this is uh, I'm afraid will

912
00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: result in is already resulting in investigations, and I'm fear

913
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,439
Speaker 1: that some people may find that they we say hadn't leaked.

914
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: Thanks you, My time is expired. Before the record, it

915
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: was stated earlier that the Republican platform was weakened on

916
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: the point of arms for Ukraine. That is incorrect. The

917
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: platform was actually strengthened, and I would note that it

918
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: was the Democratic car I'm gonna I'm gonna jump in here.

919
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: That is Senator Cotton of Arkansas. I mean he has

920
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: submerged as the total hero. Uh today you just heard it. Well,

921
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: you know the president wasn't under investigation eleven freaking months.

922
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: Is there any evidence of collusion, because there are people

923
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: on this committee that have said there's no evidence of

924
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: collusion eleven months and six months into their specific investigation,

925
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: eleven months of black helicopter conspiracies and tinfoil had conspiracies

926
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: never ending in the destroy Trump media anyway, I thought

927
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: that was an amazing day to day on top of

928
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions, very forceful, just opening remarks, just blew it

929
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: out of the water. Jay Seculo was with US Chief

930
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: Council for the America in Center for Law and Justice

931
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: and is now apparently working with the President. UM. Welcome

932
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: back to the program, Jay, how are you. Thanks great, John.

933
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: I think Jeff Sessions has done just an incredible job

934
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,240
Speaker 1: today testifying. Yeah. I mean, this is what really amazes

935
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 1: me is I'm watching this eleven months, Jack, right, no

936
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: evidence and people on that committee have said, no evidence.

937
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: Why are we still here? Well, this is for this

938
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: of the politics of it, because there's no case. I mean,

939
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: James Comy laid out that there was no case. So

940
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Speaker 1: if we look at what James Comy's already said, both

941
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: in his written testimony and his oral statements, he acknowledged

942
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: that the president was you know, it's not just he's

943
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:40,919
Speaker 1: not under investigation. He was never under investigation. That's number one.

944
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: Number two, James called me acknowledged that there was no

945
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: obstruction of justice as it relates to this Russia probe.

946
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Speaker 1: And number three, as I've I've said, James Comey is

947
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: the leaker. Jeff Sessions today forcefully, directly and properly said

948
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Speaker 1: that while he appreciated the opportunity to appear before the Committee.

949
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: He said he's gonna follow longstanding Justice Department of practice

950
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,280
Speaker 1: and cannot and will not violate my duty to protect

951
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:10,959
Speaker 1: the confidential communications I've had with the president. Unlike James,

952
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: call me, let me ask your juxtaposition. Yeah, I mean,

953
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: this is the most amazing thing there. You have a guy,

954
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: James Comey, who purposefully leaks, which, by the way, I

955
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: think and I think you agree with me, as a

956
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: violation of the Records Act. On top of the fact

957
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: that he had an obligation. I was stunned. Had I

958
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: been stronger, I would have left. And and I'm not

959
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: sure if if there was obstruction, that's up for Muletor decide.

960
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, okay, then if you thought that, then

961
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: you're violating also eighteen USC UH sixty one and eighteen

962
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: USC four. Okay, you're the lawyer, not me, then no, no,

963
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldna say. Here's the irony of this.

964
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: He said, he's not the one to make that determination

965
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: except what the case involvement. Hillary Clintony did, he was

966
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: the one. So he likes to play judge and jury

967
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: when it suits his agenda, and he doesn't want to

968
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: play judge and jury when he can leave something hanging

969
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: and Sean, you said something critical that people are forgetting,

970
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: and we got to remind people this. This has been

971
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: This investigation didn't start on May seventeenth when a special

972
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: council was appointed. This investigation has been going on for

973
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: nine months. Well, how is it, then, the Jay, how

974
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: is it that I'm reading a report of the report

975
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: of the report today Mueller is stocking his staff with

976
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: Democratic donor lawyers and and literally hiring the swamp, including

977
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: a Clinton Foundation lawyer that was hired by Hillary to

978
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: fight back against Freedom of Information Act requests against their

979
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: email server. Well, look, I mean, here's what you've got,

980
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: and this is just the situation as it exists. The

981
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: special counsel has been appointed, and the special counsel has

982
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: a mandate. Now, the thing that always makes me concerned

983
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: when I look at these cases and I've been involved

984
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: in Kate. Look, I was in the middle of the

985
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: lead lawyer in the I R S targeting scandal that

986
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: was involving the I R S and the subsequent investigation

987
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: by the Department of Justice. People try and tend to

988
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: want to forget that. I'm that's my case. So I

989
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: know what these deplointma who justice investigations are like or

990
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: not like in depending on the circumstances. And here's what

991
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: you've got that mandate at the end, and matters related

992
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: there too. But I'm gonna go back to a fundamental

993
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: issue here, and that fundamental issue, whether it's Bob Mueller

994
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: and the entire staff that he's got as a special counsel,

995
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 1: the issue is going to be was their criminal culpability

996
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: aimed at or targeting the President the United States? And

997
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: the answer to that is there's nothing, and they've all

998
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: acknowledged there's nothing. I mean, you have said. This is

999
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: what I don't understand seen any of it, ince of

1000
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: any of this speaking is nonsense. It reminds me of

1001
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: of Patrick Fitzgerald, and he knew on day one that

1002
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: Richard Armitage was the leaker and the investigation should have

1003
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: been shut down then and there. And even unless I

1004
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm saying this, Alan Dershowitz has been dead

1005
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: on accurate about all of this in a different ways,

1006
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: about civil liberties and equal application under the law. Find

1007
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: me a person, I'll make up a crime for them,

1008
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: you know, and think you know, after three years and

1009
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: all the money spent. You know, the only thing he

1010
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: could get was what Scooter Libby on a perjury charge,

1011
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: which is by the way, a perjury trap. So I'm

1012
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: asking you this, if you know, if you look at

1013
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: the congressional and D O G, d O J investigations. Okay,

1014
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: now you have Now you have called me that sets

1015
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: it up to get a special counsel hired. Now you

1016
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: have they have his, his mentor that's in charge of it.

1017
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: And now you have his mentor hiring all these Democrats,

1018
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: including people that obviously have a conflict of interest having

1019
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: been on Hillary Clinton's team regarding emails. Now you have done.

1020
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:37,919
Speaker 1: You know, you have handled a lot of these things

1021
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: issues as a lawyer, and you know, and you've done

1022
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: criminal cases, a lot of criminal cases. And you want

1023
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: to Supreme Court decision at the Georgia Supreme Court last year,

1024
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: I recall the biggest, biggest uh seven seri case in

1025
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: the country representing the State of Georgia in a major

1026
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: criminal case. So you're you're gonna ask me the criminal question.

1027
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: I know where you're going, all right, I'm asking the

1028
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: criminal question. Yeah, so that there's no there there and

1029
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 1: what's going to happen Sean. And this is where what

1030
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 1: happens in these You've got multiple three parties basically Congress,

1031
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: the House and Senate and the Special Counsel trying to

1032
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: investigate this at the same time, which is a collision course.

1033
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what happens on these. It's a collision course.

1034
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: And I think what Rod Rosenstein said today is, you know,

1035
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: you look at the situation. He's the Attorney General acting

1036
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: basically for this investigation. And the fact is it comes

1037
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: down to and and this is the pot can't get

1038
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: past this point. You cannot legally get past this point

1039
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 1: that James Comy and has written submissions said never under investigation,

1040
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: not under investigation, no obstruction with reguard to the Russian probe.

1041
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: And then he's the leaker. And that argument he's made,

1042
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: which is is ridiculous that this was his personal document

1043
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: instead of the document of the Department of Justice. We

1044
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: let's see what he's done. He writes a memo about

1045
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: a conversation he had with who the President of the

1046
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: United States in his role as the By the way,

1047
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: he writes it in a government car and a government computer.

1048
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: Whose property is it? According to the Records Act, it's

1049
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: our property United States of America. Then he puts it

1050
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: in his government desk, where he holds it in his

1051
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: government desk until he decides after he gets fired to

1052
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: take it out of that desk or to remove it

1053
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 1: before he got fired and send it to a law

1054
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: professor who leaked it to the New York Times for

1055
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: the sole purpose of obtaining a special counsel, which he did. Now,

1056
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: this committee that's doing the questions today, as far as

1057
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 1: I know, have not received that memo. You're kidding me.

1058
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: That's my understanding is right now that memo is has

1059
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: only been established right now with the special counsel. These

1060
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: committees haven't seen this matter. What about the conflict I

1061
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: mean if he I mean, did did Jeff Sessions coordinate

1062
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Speaker 1: his testimony today with with the special counsel? Well, what

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Speaker 1: about how does Comey get away with doing that? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it raises an interesting the issue,

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Speaker 1: and that is under the conflict section. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: idea that James Colemy is a witness if there was,

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Speaker 1: but again, there's nothing there. But if there, if they

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Speaker 1: were to proceed down some you know, rabbit trail path

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Speaker 1: of of saying there's some type of trying to show

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Speaker 1: established an obstruction, which I again impossible in my view.

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Speaker 1: Why would you let your witness, if it was James Comey,

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Speaker 1: get on a stand, so to speak, or appear before

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Speaker 1: the United States Congress. I mean this raises a whole

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Speaker 1: host of issues. Now, those issues that Rod Rosenstein said

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Speaker 1: today in his testimony, those issues will be addressed at

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Speaker 1: the time that they're addressed, and that's how you do those.

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Speaker 1: You don't. You don't speculate to what IF's and what

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Speaker 1: might we know? What the law is, the laws the law,

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Speaker 1: and Rod Rosenstein would have to make a determination if

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Speaker 1: there was a conflict for some lawyer had to not

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Speaker 1: be involved in one part of the case, or whether

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Speaker 1: if there was an investigation of James Comey, which I

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Speaker 1: think there should be, whether that's done by the special Counsel,

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Speaker 1: whether that's done by d J. Those will come up

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Speaker 1: in due course, and as lawyers will handle those in

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Speaker 1: due course, as the lawyers for the president, you handle

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Speaker 1: those in due course. You don't. You don't speculate on

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Speaker 1: the what ifs, what maybe here, what I gotta, I

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Speaker 1: gotta what do you take a Sarah Carter's discovery and

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Speaker 1: and their blockbuster piece. She's going to join us next.

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Speaker 1: That in fact, that James Comey confronted Loretta Lynch about

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Speaker 1: the fix being in and her putting the kabash on

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Speaker 1: any indictment of Hillary Clinton. I mean, that is breathtaking

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Speaker 1: to me. That is breath taking. I will not be

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Speaker 1: shocked if that ends up being the actual conclusion. Remember

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Speaker 1: this is an attorney general. According to if he was

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Speaker 1: telling the truth, James Comey said that calling the matter,

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Speaker 1: don't call it an investigation involved in Clinton campaign. And

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Speaker 1: then of course then the tarmac. Uh, and I know

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Speaker 1: Senate Judiciary Committee members are demanding Lynch now testify. All right,

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Speaker 1: Jay Sekula, always a pleasure. Thank you. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: tonight on Hannity Tenney Eastern on the Fox News Channel

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Speaker 1: along with new king Ridge. We got a great line

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Speaker 1: up tonight. Sarah Carter will join us tonight. She joins

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Speaker 1: us at the top of the next hour. All right,

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Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll get to your call. Sarah

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Speaker 1: Carter is up next. What a blockbuster report she has

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Speaker 1: about Comey confronting Loretta Lynch about the fix being in

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Speaker 1: on the Hillary Clinton email server matter. But Mr Clapper

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Speaker 1: then went on to say that, to his knowledge, there

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Speaker 1: was no evidence of collusion between members of the Trump

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Speaker 1: campaign and the Russians. We did not conclude any evidence

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Speaker 1: in our report. And when I say our report, that

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Speaker 1: is the n s, A, FBI, and CIA with my office,

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Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything any reflection

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Speaker 1: of collusion between the members of Trump campaign and the Russians.

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Speaker 1: There was no evidence of that in our report. Was

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Speaker 1: Mr Clapper wrong when he said that, I think he's

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Speaker 1: right about characterizing the report which you all have read.

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Speaker 1: We did not include any evidence in our report. And

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Speaker 1: I say our that's n s, A, FBI, and CIA

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Speaker 1: with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had

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Speaker 1: anything that had any reflection of collusion between members of

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Speaker 1: the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence

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Speaker 1: of that included in our report. Did evidence exist of collusion, coordination,

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Speaker 1: conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian state actors at

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Speaker 1: the time you learned of twenty sixteen efforts? I don't

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Speaker 1: know whether or not such collusion, that's your term, such

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Speaker 1: collusion existed. I don't know. The big questions, of course,

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Speaker 1: is is there any evidence of collusion you have seen yet?

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Speaker 1: Is there there is a lot of smoke. We hadn't

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Speaker 1: smoking gun at this point, but there is a lot

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Speaker 1: of smoke. Do you agree with this conclusion that the

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Speaker 1: president has reached there was no evidence of collusion? You know,

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen any of that whatsoever, George. We've been

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Speaker 1: looking and showing everything that they possibly have that has

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Speaker 1: not led to that. Uh. We have ultimate to all

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Speaker 1: of us have the utmost respect for Bob Mueller, both

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Speaker 1: on the Democrat and Republican side. I believe he's going

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Speaker 1: to do his job thoroughly. We will accept his recommendation

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Speaker 1: and path pathway forward. And I think that's extremely important

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Speaker 1: that we all agree this is the right person, to

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Speaker 1: right time to do this type of work. So if

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General or senior officials at the Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that FBI investigation?

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Speaker 1: In theory? Yes, Has it happened not in my experience,

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Speaker 1: because it would be a big deal to tell the

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Speaker 1: FBI to stop doing something that without an appropriate purpose.

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Speaker 1: We're oftentimes they give us opinions that we don't see

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Speaker 1: a case there, and so you ought to stop investing

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Speaker 1: resources in it. But I'm talking about a situation where

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Speaker 1: we were told to stop something for a political reason.

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Speaker 1: That would be a very big deal. It's not happened

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Speaker 1: in my experience. At one point, the Attorney General had

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Speaker 1: directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead

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Speaker 1: to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me.

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Speaker 1: But that was one of the bricks in the load

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Speaker 1: that led me to conclude I have to step away

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Speaker 1: from the department if we're to close this case credibly well.

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Speaker 1: It concerned me because we were at the point where

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Speaker 1: we had refused to confirm the existence as we typically

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Speaker 1: do of an investigation for months, and it was getting

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Speaker 1: to a place where that looks silly because the campaigns

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Speaker 1: were talking about interacting with the FBI in the course

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Speaker 1: of our work. The Clinton campaign at the time was

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Speaker 1: using all kinds of euphemisms, security review matters, things like

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Speaker 1: that for what was going on. We were getting to

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Speaker 1: a place where the Atturnent and I were both gonna

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Speaker 1: have to testify and talk publicly about it. And I

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Speaker 1: want to know what she's going to authorize us to

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Speaker 1: confirm we had an investigation, and she said, yes, but

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Speaker 1: don't call it that, call it a matter, And I said,

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Speaker 1: why would I do that, and she said, just call

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Speaker 1: it a matter. And again, you look back in hindsight,

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Speaker 1: you think, should I have resisted harder? I just said,

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Speaker 1: all right, isn't worth This isn't a hill worth dian on.

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Speaker 1: And so I just said, okay, I mean as the

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Speaker 1: President United States with me alone saying I hope this.

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Speaker 1: I took it as this is what he wants me

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Speaker 1: to do. No, I didn't obey that, but that's the

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Speaker 1: way I took it. The Attorney General, previous Attorney General

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Speaker 1: asking you about the investigation on the Clinton emails, saying

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Speaker 1: that you've been asked not to call it an investigation anymore,

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Speaker 1: but to call it a matter, and you had said

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Speaker 1: that con used to you. Can you give us additional

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Speaker 1: details on that? Well, it concerned me because we were

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Speaker 1: at the point where we had refused to confirm the

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Speaker 1: existence as we typically do of an investigation for months,

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Speaker 1: and it was getting to a place where that looks

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Speaker 1: silly because the campaigns were talking about interacting with the

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Speaker 1: FBI in the course of our work. The Clinton campaign

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Speaker 1: at the time was using all kinds of euphemisms, security

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Speaker 1: review matters, things like that. For what was going on.

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Speaker 1: We were getting to a place where the turn Gil

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Speaker 1: and I were both gonna have to testify and talk

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Speaker 1: publicly about it. And I want to know what she's

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Speaker 1: going to authorize us to confirm we had an investigation.

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Speaker 1: And she said, yes, but don't call it that. Call

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Speaker 1: it a matter. And I said, why would I do that?

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Speaker 1: And she said, just call it a matter. And again,

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Speaker 1: you look back in hindsight, you think should I have

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Speaker 1: resisted harder? I just said, all right, isn't worth This

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Speaker 1: isn't a hill worth dian on. And so I just said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the press is going to completely ignore it. And that's

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Speaker 1: what happened. When I said we have opened a matter,

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Speaker 1: they all reported the FBI has an investigation open. And

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Speaker 1: so that concerned me because that language track the way

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Speaker 1: the campaign was talking about the FBI's work, and that

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Speaker 1: that's concerning It gave the impression that the campaign was

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Speaker 1: somehow using the same language the FBI, because you were

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Speaker 1: handed the campaign language and told to be able to

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Speaker 1: use the campaign. And again I don't know whether it

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Speaker 1: was intentional or not, but it gave the impression that

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General was looking to align the way we

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Speaker 1: talked about our work with the way political campaign was

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Speaker 1: describing the same activity, which was inaccurate. We had a

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Speaker 1: criminal investigation open, as I've said before, the Federal Geer

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Speaker 1: of Investigation. We had an investigation open at the time,

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Speaker 1: and so that gave me a queasy feeling. You know,

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Speaker 1: those tapes are amazing. I mean, Comey never pressured. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was pressured by Comey. I was pressured by by

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Speaker 1: the President. I was pressured by Loretta Lynch. Okay, if

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Speaker 1: you can't get that straight and you're under oath, any

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Speaker 1: Republican would themselves be looking at a perjury charge, maybe

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Speaker 1: an obstruction charge. It's unbelievable the double standard that exists. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, the list keeps getting longer. How is it

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Speaker 1: that nobody else in the media is playing for you

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Speaker 1: what we play and that is really simple. That is

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Speaker 1: no evidence of collusion, all right, joining us now. We

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Speaker 1: talked about it earlier, Sarah Carter would Circle dot com

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Speaker 1: and her block bost story today about this interaction between

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Speaker 1: Lynch and Comy. Thanks Sean. Yet, John and I were

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Speaker 1: able to kind of track down that second meeting, that

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Speaker 1: meeting that former FBI Director Comey had with Loretta Lynch

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Speaker 1: and what was so fascinating to me, and I think

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Speaker 1: this is this is the area of the story that's

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Speaker 1: most interesting is that when Director Comy approached her with

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Speaker 1: this like sensitive document, it was a communication between two

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Speaker 1: political figures. Um, this document is classified, but it was

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Speaker 1: a communication that basically said Lynch was going to put

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Speaker 1: the kabash on any kind of indictment, on any kind

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Speaker 1: of probe into Hillary Clinton. And when he confronted Lynch,

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Speaker 1: this is according to lawMy Chris who were directly briefed

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Speaker 1: on this, But I want to slow down here, she

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Speaker 1: had put in writing that she is going to block

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Speaker 1: any any investigation into the Clinton's any lawbreaking. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: it was two political figures connected to Lynch that were

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Speaker 1: one was reassuring the other that don't worry, Lynch has

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Speaker 1: already made a promise that she's gonna put the kabash

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Speaker 1: on any kind of indictment or prosecution of of Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 1: And when he approached her with this piece of evidence

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Speaker 1: in at the d o J. He went to the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice to meet with her, she stared at him.

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Speaker 1: This is according to lawmakers that were briefed by Comey.

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Speaker 1: She stared at him for what seemed a steely silence.

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Speaker 1: He described it that lasted a long period of time,

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Speaker 1: was very uncomfortable. And then she asked him if there

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Speaker 1: were any more questions, and he said no, and then

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Speaker 1: she asked him to leave the office and did not

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Speaker 1: answer him at all. Isn't that all the obstruction of

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Speaker 1: justice where you come from, Sarah, it's the evidence. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if the evidence proves to be true, if that piece

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Speaker 1: of evidence which he briefed, Now this is not just

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Speaker 1: our sources on Sunday. What was really interesting with Lindsey

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Speaker 1: Graham actually brought this up and he talked about this

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Speaker 1: on one of the Sunday shows and he said, you

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Speaker 1: know this piece of evidence that is out there that

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Speaker 1: you know right now, Congress is trying to verify whether

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Speaker 1: this is with whether this is actually true or not.

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Speaker 1: But Comey had a piece of evidence that he presented

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Speaker 1: to Lauretta Lynch that basically said between two political figures

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Speaker 1: that she would put the kabash on this. So I

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Speaker 1: think there definitely lawmakers want answers to this. They want

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Speaker 1: to know what that was. And I'm sure this is

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Speaker 1: something that he briefed uh the lawmakers in close session about.

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Speaker 1: That was why he couldn't talk about it in the

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Speaker 1: public hearing. It was basically because of how that evidence

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Speaker 1: was collected, how it was obtained, and what evidence it was,

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Speaker 1: where it came from. This is, to me, is the

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Speaker 1: most unbelievable thing. Why was this done in the closed

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Speaker 1: session after we watched the public session. Why wasn't this

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Speaker 1: brought out in public? Why did call me what possible

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Speaker 1: justification could call me have for not moving forward with

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Speaker 1: an investigation into obstruction, especially when you add to that

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Speaker 1: the meeting on the tarmac with Bill Clinton. Well, apparently

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Speaker 1: the way that this evidence was obtained and how it

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Speaker 1: was obtained and where it was obtained from was the

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Speaker 1: reason behind its classified nature, according to lawmakers that we

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Speaker 1: spoke with. So that was the area that they were

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Speaker 1: most concerned about. And UM, they didn't want to talk

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Speaker 1: about that in the public setting because obviously there's there's

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Speaker 1: reasons for intelligence collection that they don't want to discuss publicly. Now,

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Speaker 1: remember there was a Washington Post story and I just

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Speaker 1: want to bring you back to that, UM, a Washington

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Speaker 1: Post story that stated that b Wasserman Schultz there was

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Speaker 1: the stubious email from Debbie Wasserman Schultz UM and I

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Speaker 1: believe it was Podesta. I'm not one percentage sure on that,

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Speaker 1: but there was an email between Debbie Wasserman Schultz and

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Speaker 1: someone else who said that Lynch would basically not go

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Speaker 1: forward with any um and it was it was actually

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Speaker 1: given to the FBI by the Russians, that this evidence

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Speaker 1: was actually given to the FBI by the Russians. And

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Speaker 1: what happened was the Washington Post, so that said that

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Speaker 1: the story was dubious, that he based all of his

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Speaker 1: investigation into Hillary on this faulty email. And what some

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Speaker 1: people are saying is no, there really is an email.

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Speaker 1: There really is a communication out there that's sensitive that

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Speaker 1: has been verified as fact. And right there, Sorry, I

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Speaker 1: gotta I gotta do this real quick, all right, So

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Speaker 1: we continue with Sarah Carter hard new Blockbuster along with

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Speaker 1: John Solomon at Circuit dot Com. Is James Comey in

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Speaker 1: a fascinating story, met privately with members of Congress. This

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Speaker 1: is after his testimony last week and explained a frosty

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Speaker 1: exchange with Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General at the time,

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Speaker 1: when he confronted her about possible political interference and a

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Speaker 1: in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. After showing Lynch a

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Speaker 1: sensitive document that she was quote unaware that the FPI possessed,

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Speaker 1: and during his testimony last Thursday, call Me alluded to

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Speaker 1: the exchange with Lynch where she ordered him not to

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Speaker 1: refer to a criminal probe of clinton handling of classified

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Speaker 1: emails as an investigation, but rather as a matter, and

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Speaker 1: he suggested it smacked a political spin. But then he

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Speaker 1: ended up doing it anyway, because I guess he's not

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Speaker 1: strong and everything, and then he found this other I

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Speaker 1: want to go back now. So to other lawmakers, everything's fine,

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Speaker 1: no worries here, right, don't worry. She's got it covered.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna put the kabash on any indictment of Hillary

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Speaker 1: because the Loretta Lynch is in our pocket. Isn't that

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Speaker 1: pretty much what they said? Well, apparently that's what was

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Speaker 1: That was what was being discussed. I mean apparently between

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Speaker 1: the people that these emails. Now, we don't know this

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Speaker 1: specific classified email other than what we know from what

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post reported, which Comy later said was nonsense.

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Speaker 1: On the Hill, he said, those those stories are not true.

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Speaker 1: And that's interesting because there was another lawMy because I

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Speaker 1: spoke with us, that said, you know, Comey's account to Congress.

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Speaker 1: What he was saying to Congress behind closed doors doesn't

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Speaker 1: sink with those media reports, which means it isn't it

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Speaker 1: isn't in line with what the Washington Post was reporting

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Speaker 1: on that story. Could there be two separate emails? Could

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Speaker 1: there be information that was coming from the Russians and

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Speaker 1: then there was this other piece of evidence. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we don't know that. What we do know is that

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Speaker 1: there's a highly sensitive communication that Comey had his hands

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Speaker 1: on that made him very concerned. And according to the

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Speaker 1: lawmakers who were briefed on this, that was not a

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Speaker 1: dubious piece of communication. It was actually something that the

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Speaker 1: FBI felt was very valid, and that's why he presented

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Speaker 1: it to Lynch. It was interesting because a it into

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Speaker 1: the lawmakers who were briefed by him. You know, he

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Speaker 1: asked her the question about Bill Clinton meeting Bill Clinton

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Speaker 1: on the tarmac in Phoenix last year, but then he

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Speaker 1: followed it with would you please take a look at

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Speaker 1: this and handed her that communication. And it was at

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Speaker 1: that point when she looked at the communication that everything

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Speaker 1: went silent and she no longer wanted to talk to

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Speaker 1: him and asked him to leave. How does he take that,

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Speaker 1: not follow up on that, not to get an investigation

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Speaker 1: on that, and not conclude, Oh my god, the attorney

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Speaker 1: general is now running interference for Clinton and has conspired

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Speaker 1: to stop any investigation or any possible indictment when we

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Speaker 1: know she committed felonies. And do you know what the

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Speaker 1: timeline is on all of this, you know, Sean, I

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Speaker 1: think that's the great mystery here, right. I mean, when

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Speaker 1: we hear his testimony, he he lets more out this

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Speaker 1: last testimony that Comey gave. He talks about the way

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Speaker 1: Lynch had asked him to call it a matter and

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Speaker 1: not an investigation. Then he talks about this um other

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Speaker 1: incident that he can only talk about behind closed doors

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Speaker 1: because of its classified nature. But then he also goes

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Speaker 1: through you know Trump and alludes to the fact that, well,

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Speaker 1: the reason I didn't I didn't go um to anyone

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01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: is because well I really couldn't. I wasn't sure what

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Speaker 1: was going on over at the d o J. There

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Speaker 1: were the right people in place there. I felt kind

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Speaker 1: of cowardly. I didn't want to tell the president, you know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want to uh face the president

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Speaker 1: and tell him these things. If I would, if I

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Speaker 1: could look back now, I would have done it differently.

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Speaker 1: This is all kind of strange coming from a man

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Speaker 1: who had the FBI. He you know, personally, I think

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Speaker 1: that the talk of being cowardly and all of that,

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Speaker 1: it seems it's I would like to question him on that. Basically,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it isn't true. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: his own feelings. But he's a strong man, and he's

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Speaker 1: very smart, and he's very calculating, and so it's for me,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting is that he laid everything out on the

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Speaker 1: table at this hearing. He kind of spilled it all

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Speaker 1: out there, and you have to wonder if there's some

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Speaker 1: other kind of motivation behind that. Is there a reason

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Speaker 1: for him to do this. Is he trying to get

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Speaker 1: information out there? And why? Unbelievable story, credible reporting as always,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Carter Circuit dot Com. We're gonna stay on this,

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Speaker 1: I promise you, and you'll be joining us on TV

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Speaker 1: tonight UH TENNY Eastern on the Box News Channel. You've

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Speaker 1: been doing an amazing job and and thank you for

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Speaker 1: your hard work. We really appreciate it. Eight hundred nine

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Speaker 1: Poll one Shawn. At the bottom of the hour, we'll

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Speaker 1: get to your calls. Will recap the day Attorney General Sessions,

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Speaker 1: you know, outraged today at any thought that he may

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Speaker 1: have colluded with anybody, was piste off today as the

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Speaker 1: hearings began. Will recap that and more straight ahead now

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Speaker 1: till the top of the hour. Toll free telephone number

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01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: on those busy breaking news days eight nine four one,

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01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 1: Shawn if you want to be a part of the program. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: top story today the Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his

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01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:01,519
Speaker 1: testimony before the Senate and Intelligence Committee, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: as I pointed out earlier, he did voluntarily. As I

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Speaker 1: pointed out earlier, in the rest of the media just

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01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:11,599
Speaker 1: seems to not really care about the truth and maybe

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the best decision. And are they now going

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Speaker 1: to expect every single solitary you know, member the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration to talk about their contacts with Russia. Well, he

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01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 1: agreed to meet in public with these people, He agreed

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Speaker 1: and allied their fears. If that's what it even is

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Speaker 1: at this particular point in time. You know, as a senator,

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Speaker 1: it is part of your job, and every senator, all

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Speaker 1: one senators meet with foreign dignitaries. That's that's kind of

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01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:46,680
Speaker 1: standard operating procedure protocol, you know, ambassadors and dignitaries, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's part of what their duties are. And

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Speaker 1: in this case of the Russian ambassador and other Russian officials,

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Speaker 1: they also simultaneously met with dozens of Democrats Pelosi and

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Speaker 1: Schumer and and Casey and McCaw ascal and can't well,

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Speaker 1: and it just goes on. It's almost everybody. And the

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Speaker 1: meetings that Sessions had, you know, despite all these efforts

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Speaker 1: to turn them into the biggest scandal in the history

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Speaker 1: of man, kind of guy's doing his job. And the

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Speaker 1: d o J has consistently denied the existence of a

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Speaker 1: third meeting at the Mayflower Hotel with the Russian ambassador.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, God forbid, I meet with so

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Speaker 1: many people on a regular basis, talk to so many

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Speaker 1: people on a regular basis to four hours on air day.

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Speaker 1: If anyone ever asked me what I did on the

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Speaker 1: show yesterday, I'm gonna be like, um, I could not

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Speaker 1: tell you the lineup of last night show. Let's put

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Speaker 1: it that way. I know, Linda, can you tell me

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Speaker 1: the lineup of last night's TV show? Because what happens

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Speaker 1: is that show is finished, and then I'm focused on

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Speaker 1: the next show. I mean, I can, but that's because

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Speaker 1: I watched DV. Are you like all good citizens should? No?

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Speaker 1: I agree, but and of course, but I honestly would

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Speaker 1: have trouble. I'd have to really go back in my

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Speaker 1: mind's eye and think, like, I know, we started the

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Speaker 1: show with my opening monologue, and then well, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: going on. I mean, there's just nothing going on. You know,

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Speaker 1: you just have plenty of free time, lots of times

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Speaker 1: to think about all of the different story reason a length,

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Speaker 1: because you know, it's just it's quiet. Well. The funny

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Speaker 1: thing is is my friends talk about the Hannity brain

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01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 1: and say, oh, ask Kennedy, what Reagan's you know statistics

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Speaker 1: for after eight years in office? I got one better

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01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: than that. You're you do have a ridiculous memory. I

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01:23:14,600 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: think one of your best and weirdest qualities is your

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01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 1: ability to remember all over five affiliates we have. You

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01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: know their call letters, you know what the station logo is,

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Speaker 1: you know who the people are that work at the station.

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Speaker 1: You know that's a good point. Probably people think you

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Speaker 1: put it up on the screen. You never have to

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Speaker 1: look it up. You know it by heart. All right.

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Speaker 1: But here's the other thing. Now, that's my businesses and

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Speaker 1: my work. Now, if I meet somebody out someplace and

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Speaker 1: I see them the next night, I'll forget their name,

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Speaker 1: which is so embarrassing to me. I will forget. And

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Speaker 1: it's not that I've tried the you know, the Carnegie

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Speaker 1: you know what is it? Yeah, it just doesn't work

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Speaker 1: for me. And then I'll give you another example, like

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Speaker 1: right now I have to I have I could not

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Speaker 1: tell you what was on Monday night's TV show. I

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Speaker 1: can't tell you. I can't tell you who the guests

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Speaker 1: were on the show Monday. So I'm like the worst

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Speaker 1: person I ever put under oath because they're gonna think

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Speaker 1: you're lying. And then they'll go to me in the

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll remember Reagan statistics and I'll rattle them

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Speaker 1: all off. And then they'll say, we'll tell us your affiliates,

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Speaker 1: you know which are talking Kansas, and I'll be able

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Speaker 1: to rattle it off. And that's frustrating. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: would not be good for me. I think you'd be

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Speaker 1: bringing me a cake. I think I think the brain

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Speaker 1: does a wonderful thing, and that is that it retains

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01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: that which is important and get rid of the rest

1481
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: of it. So that means that the people I meet

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01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 1: whose names I forget are not important. That's a horrible

1483
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: don't remember what they look like. You'll look, Oh, I

1484
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:36,840
Speaker 1: know that person over there answered, I'm like, what's wrong

1485
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 1: with listen? I've even I've even been at dinners with

1486
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 1: people that I have known for years, and I'll be

1487
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 1: whispering to either a friend or my wife or whoever.

1488
01:24:45,400 --> 01:24:47,200
Speaker 1: You if you're there, you know, if it's an event,

1489
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:51,840
Speaker 1: and I'll be who who? What's your name? Okay? It's embarrassing.

1490
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:53,640
Speaker 1: And it's not that I don't love the people I do.

1491
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. It's like there's only so

1492
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: much capacity in terms of the actual I don't think

1493
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 1: name for the first four or five. Shut up, Come on,

1494
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:07,640
Speaker 1: you know it's true that she's too slow. What's her

1495
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 1: name again? Remember her? Sunshine? You know me? That's what

1496
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 1: used to say about me. Now, that was to get

1497
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:17,439
Speaker 1: under your skin because I was testing you, and you,

1498
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: by the way, you absolutely hid who you are for years.

1499
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: You just were like quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet,

1500
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden boom, look what appens? Sneak

1501
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 1: attack I'm like, all right, Well, it reminds me a

1502
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 1: little bit of my daughter, because if you meet my daughter, Hi,

1503
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:39,360
Speaker 1: how are you? Your daughter's ridiculously no, no, no, no,

1504
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 1: until you get to know where. Then she is off

1505
01:25:41,320 --> 01:25:45,040
Speaker 1: the hook, out of control, in charge, the funniest, most

1506
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 1: entertaining person you'll ever meet. But not if you just

1507
01:25:47,360 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: meet her like she just meet her, you'll think she

1508
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: doesn't talk. No, that's true. She's very shy at the outset,

1509
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: at the outset, sort of like my dog Gracie. You

1510
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:56,880
Speaker 1: meet Gracie, she's insane for the first five minutes, and

1511
01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm just like, all right, you gotta ignore it for

1512
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,560
Speaker 1: five minutes and then act like you care she's in

1513
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:02,639
Speaker 1: the room, and then she'll be all over you with love.

1514
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:05,800
Speaker 1: That dog is the best. Well, Marley is the best.

1515
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:09,760
Speaker 1: Marley's great because Marley played catch with me. I love

1516
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,720
Speaker 1: that part. Are you play catch with her? Oh? She

1517
01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:14,160
Speaker 1: just she brings me the toy constantly and I have

1518
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:16,280
Speaker 1: to throw at least five times. If it's less than five,

1519
01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: she gets annoyed. And also, all right, let me get

1520
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:21,800
Speaker 1: to the phones here. Let's say hi to Victor Is

1521
01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:24,759
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, Florida. Victor, Hi, how are you probably pretty

1522
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 1: hot down there like it is in New York today?

1523
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: What's going on, sir? I'm good. I have a comment

1524
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:34,519
Speaker 1: about the the Comy testimony when he was asked his

1525
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: interpretation of Trump's uh telling him, I hope you can

1526
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:43,280
Speaker 1: let this go, and he interpreted it, in his words,

1527
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: as an order. Correct. Correct, It wasn't what you got

1528
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: from even even though he said that I hope, he

1529
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: interpreted I hope as an order. Okay, So my question

1530
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:56,560
Speaker 1: is how often do you ignore or not listen to

1531
01:26:56,640 --> 01:26:59,240
Speaker 1: the president's order if you take it as an order?

1532
01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 1: I mean, as you of the movie A few good

1533
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:06,639
Speaker 1: men when Nicholson is understanding can handle the truth? Well? Well,

1534
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 1: when he said, sir, when you've given order, is it

1535
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: possible that order was ignored? No, it was not. Order

1536
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: was forgot? No it was not. But here's the difference. Now.

1537
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:19,600
Speaker 1: You gotta remember, because Comey also had a legal obligation.

1538
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: If he thought that was an order, that what he's

1539
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:25,920
Speaker 1: saying is the president was ordering him to in fact

1540
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:30,840
Speaker 1: do something that he felt was unethical, inappropriate, and even

1541
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 1: bordering on obstruction, which is how the liberals and the

1542
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: left are interpreting it. Well, then eighteen USC four kicks in,

1543
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:39,920
Speaker 1: and that means that he had a legal responsibility to

1544
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:43,120
Speaker 1: report it, you know. And I was so stunned I

1545
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,840
Speaker 1: couldn't leave the chair. I was, you know, to be

1546
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:50,599
Speaker 1: if I had been stronger, I was nauseous. I mean,

1547
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: all the emotionality. So go ahead and finish your point though, well, well,

1548
01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 1: the point is again, how often does does anybody who

1549
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 1: works under the president ignore the order? If you're not

1550
01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:06,479
Speaker 1: going to report it as you you said, is obligation, okay,

1551
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:09,760
Speaker 1: then why who In the past, I would, as I see,

1552
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: I would have followed up with different questions than than

1553
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 1: some of these senators congressmen, because I believe they missed

1554
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,000
Speaker 1: the mark a lot of times. I don't know if

1555
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 1: it's on purpose or not, but I would have said,

1556
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:24,040
Speaker 1: how often, Director, comey, have you when your experience ever

1557
01:28:24,439 --> 01:28:28,679
Speaker 1: ignored or not followed a direct order from the President

1558
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 1: of the United States? And he would have probably answered, well, never,

1559
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 1: it's it's never been done. I can't recall the time

1560
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: when anybody's ignored an order. So then why did you

1561
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: ignore it? Why did you not follow it? Let alone

1562
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:44,240
Speaker 1: report it? Okay? So it doesn't. It just contradicts his

1563
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,760
Speaker 1: whole testimony. It just exposes him more as the liar

1564
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:49,800
Speaker 1: that he is. Well, i'd look, you know how I

1565
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 1: feel about Comey, and I'll be honest. You know, some

1566
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:55,599
Speaker 1: people are saying what I what I've concluded about him

1567
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:59,880
Speaker 1: is is unfair. Um, I honestly, you know, I've no

1568
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:02,160
Speaker 1: so many law enforcement officials in my life, but I

1569
01:29:02,240 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 1: can tell you this. I know guys in the FBI.

1570
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:06,840
Speaker 1: I love these guys in the FBI. Some of them

1571
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:09,800
Speaker 1: are my friends in the FBI. And they were so

1572
01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: devastated in July of last year when he laid out

1573
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:18,120
Speaker 1: a case for obstruction of justice and then said never mind.

1574
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: You know, extreme carelessness does meet the legal standard of

1575
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: gross negligence. They were shocked. They were One guy told

1576
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 1: me he was embarrassed, and everybody he worked with was embarrassed. Now,

1577
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are some people that like James Comey,

1578
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 1: but I think others like me see that he was

1579
01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:40,320
Speaker 1: fully and completely politicized sadly for his part. And I

1580
01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:42,680
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. He Um, he just

1581
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:46,280
Speaker 1: lost it in the end there and contorted and just

1582
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:48,760
Speaker 1: into you know, the only decision he made was to

1583
01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 1: protect Hillary. The only decision is we just had Sarah

1584
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:54,799
Speaker 1: Carter on is to protect Lauretta Lynch. The only decisions

1585
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:58,599
Speaker 1: he's making here we're self serving for Democrats. Victor, good call,

1586
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:01,960
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Back to our phone. Madeline is in Illinois,

1587
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:03,800
Speaker 1: Madeline High, how are you glad you called the Sean

1588
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:07,160
Speaker 1: Hannity Show. Hey, thanks great listening to you guys every afternoon.

1589
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 1: Thank you. My my complaint is that Comey has deep

1590
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:15,080
Speaker 1: ties with the Clintons. Why this has never been investigated?

1591
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 1: I went back on an article from Washington Standard dated

1592
01:30:19,560 --> 01:30:23,680
Speaker 1: September twenty nine. Both he and his brother Peter have

1593
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:26,920
Speaker 1: profited millions from the Clinton Foundation, and I want to

1594
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:30,360
Speaker 1: know why that is not brought up. Listen, there were

1595
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:32,240
Speaker 1: two articles that I brought up today, and that was

1596
01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 1: one of them. I do not know. One was the

1597
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: bright Bar piece, and that is Mueller high as Clinton

1598
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:41,080
Speaker 1: Foundation lawyer for Russia probe that that was the one

1599
01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: you're talking about here. The second is Robert Mueller stocks

1600
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:46,920
Speaker 1: his staff with Democratic donors. I am you know, I

1601
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 1: tweeted out Alan Dershwitz today. Nine years ago, Alan and

1602
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:52,200
Speaker 1: I had a stupid fight on radio, and they'd be

1603
01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 1: perfectly blunt. I regretted. At this point in my life,

1604
01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:57,240
Speaker 1: I'm a little more mature. I don't always agree with him.

1605
01:30:57,280 --> 01:31:01,040
Speaker 1: He's he's political, but the guys smart Harvard professor um,

1606
01:31:01,439 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 1: I think we we we agree on so much, especially

1607
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:08,240
Speaker 1: as it relates to Israel and you know, the battle

1608
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 1: against anti Semitism and radical Islam. I mean, I've read

1609
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:13,960
Speaker 1: his stuff over the years, and but he's tweeting out

1610
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 1: something that is very profound about the law. And he's

1611
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:22,320
Speaker 1: tweeting out that these special counsels have this investigation creep

1612
01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 1: mode that they get into, and he is pointing out

1613
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,840
Speaker 1: there's no obstruction, no way, shape, matter of form. And

1614
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:30,760
Speaker 1: he's like, all these Democrats know it, and they're doing

1615
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:34,639
Speaker 1: it anyway because they're playing politics. And he's saying, does

1616
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 1: anybody here care about civil liberties, our constitution, the rule

1617
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:43,960
Speaker 1: of law? And he's onto something here, Any honest attorney,

1618
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:48,679
Speaker 1: constitutional lover, Well, someone that believes in equal justice under

1619
01:31:48,720 --> 01:31:52,439
Speaker 1: the law is going to conclude exactly what Dershowitz has

1620
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:55,599
Speaker 1: concluded here. And so I've been retweeting him. I don't

1621
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:57,320
Speaker 1: think he knows me for a whole In the Wall

1622
01:31:57,360 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: although I didn't meet him once at a Pat Robertson

1623
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:01,840
Speaker 1: event and interestingly years ago, and we actually had a

1624
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,160
Speaker 1: nice exchange then and we kind of we're letting bygones

1625
01:32:04,200 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 1: be bygones. But it became one of the classic cannedate

1626
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: fights and during the impeachment time. But that's what's at

1627
01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:14,080
Speaker 1: stake here. This is now, you know, Patrick Fitzgerald all

1628
01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:18,080
Speaker 1: over again. On day one, Patrick Fitzgerald knew Richard Armitage

1629
01:32:18,160 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: was the leaker. He should have shut down the investigation.

1630
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: But he goes on and on and on for years,

1631
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: and what does it end up with. It ends up

1632
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:31,880
Speaker 1: with a perjury trap for for Scooter Libby. It's so ridiculous.

1633
01:32:32,240 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I'm looking at who they're hiring here.

1634
01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:38,600
Speaker 1: They're hiring the swamp Clinton Foundation lawyers. No conflict of

1635
01:32:38,680 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: interest here, especially if you want the real Russian conspiracy.

1636
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:44,679
Speaker 1: You know, then we got you know, stocking his staff

1637
01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:47,360
Speaker 1: with Democratic donors. You know, New Gingrich is right. He

1638
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:51,519
Speaker 1: sparked a media meltdown with his tweet challenging the fairness

1639
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:54,479
Speaker 1: of this investigation. And I'm standing by my position that

1640
01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:56,840
Speaker 1: Mueller needs to shut it down because we know now

1641
01:32:56,920 --> 01:32:59,639
Speaker 1: there's no obstruction of justice. Congress should shut it down.

1642
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:02,439
Speaker 1: They're too stupid, and they're too pathetic, and they're too weak.

1643
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: And you know, of my list of five people that

1644
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:08,280
Speaker 1: are trying to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump, Republicans

1645
01:33:08,320 --> 01:33:11,599
Speaker 1: are on it. Weak Republicans, never Trumpers there on the list.

1646
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:14,599
Speaker 1: Deep State that's on the list, Democrats on the list,

1647
01:33:15,080 --> 01:33:18,479
Speaker 1: destroy Trump media on the list. I mean, it's it

1648
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:21,879
Speaker 1: is an obstacle that is so monumental for this president

1649
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:23,800
Speaker 1: to get, you know, I mean, you know, I'm so

1650
01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:27,080
Speaker 1: happy to see that the mining industry, oh, their first

1651
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:29,920
Speaker 1: profitable quarter in a couple of years. Well, that's good.

1652
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:32,880
Speaker 1: And you know, Mad dog Man is slamming Congress for

1653
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:37,439
Speaker 1: inhibiting military readiness. And you know, then we've got decision

1654
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:39,760
Speaker 1: time at the Supreme Court. Imagine if Hillary had picked

1655
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:42,200
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court justice. Oh, by the way, a Trump

1656
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:45,880
Speaker 1: apprenticeship plan is aimed at filling six million job vacancies.

1657
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:49,639
Speaker 1: Well that's pretty good. Just getting people back to work,

1658
01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 1: getting them out of poverty, getting them off of food stamps,

1659
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:54,840
Speaker 1: you know, getting them to participate in the labor force

1660
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:58,880
Speaker 1: once again. One more quick called here, as we say,

1661
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:01,960
Speaker 1: hide to Patty is in Ventura, California. I lived a

1662
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,799
Speaker 1: little south of you for five years in Santa Barbara.

1663
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: All right, well that's a little north actually, but that's cool.

1664
01:34:08,040 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry North, You're right North. I apologize as

1665
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:13,760
Speaker 1: south is Los Angeles beautiful place up there too. Yeah. Great,

1666
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:18,120
Speaker 1: Just so all sick of the extreme left. There's such

1667
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:21,120
Speaker 1: store losers and the destroy Trump media and they're just

1668
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:25,840
Speaker 1: so sick of obstructing Trump and his administration from doing

1669
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 1: their jobs for like six months now, and I'm just

1670
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 1: I'm sick of their filing lawsuit and creating so much

1671
01:34:33,120 --> 01:34:36,000
Speaker 1: smoke and there's no fire. So here's the thought. I'm

1672
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 1: just wondering, can someone like Trade Goudy or Jay Secular,

1673
01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:44,280
Speaker 1: anybody because they please maybe file a lawsuit for obstruction

1674
01:34:44,360 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 1: of justice against the establishment Democrats and liberal media on

1675
01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 1: behalf of all of us. The only way is there's

1676
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 1: a couple of reforms we need. Number One, we've got

1677
01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:00,680
Speaker 1: to change the libel laws in the tree and if

1678
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:02,880
Speaker 1: you liabel somebody, the press needs to start paying for

1679
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 1: their lives. Number Two, um, and that is, if it's approvable,

1680
01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:09,760
Speaker 1: outright scandalous lie, you've got to have some recourse. Um,

1681
01:35:10,040 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: as it relates if the president doesn't clean out the

1682
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:15,040
Speaker 1: deep state. Now, it's at some point you're gonna have

1683
01:35:15,120 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 1: to blame him and the Obama holdovers. And when it

1684
01:35:18,200 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 1: comes to the media, I guess it's my job. I'm

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Speaker 1: taking on my shoulders to do everything I can do

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Speaker 1: to expose them as the liars they are. But it's

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Speaker 1: as bad as I've ever seen it. Hannity Tonight, ten

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Speaker 1: Eastern on the Fox News Channel, New king Ridge will

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Speaker 1: join us. Of course, we'll talk about Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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Speaker 1: More importantly, Loretta Lynch confronted by James Comey over the

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Speaker 1: fact that she may have put the kabosh on any

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Speaker 1: possibility of a Clinton indictment over the email server scandal. Well,

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Speaker 1: if that's not obstruction of justice, I don't know what is.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Carter's blockbuster report all of this covered in ways

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Speaker 1: the media will not tend. Eastern Live. Hannity tonight, Foxy.

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Speaker 1: Back here tomorrow. Thanks for being with us. M