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Speaker 1: an impeachment inquirer that the Speaker of the House says

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Speaker 1: ever have any evidence of quid pro quel? Miss Marson

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Speaker 1: the presidential election. Coming to New Sean behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: information on breaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America.

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Speaker 1: President Trump never told me directly that the aid was

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Speaker 1: again on your analogy, two plus two equals four. So

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Speaker 1: you didn't talk to President Trump when Ambassador Taylor says

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Speaker 1: My testimony is I never heard from President Trump that

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election interference with Ukraine actually happened. Well, I

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Speaker 1: that is not true. Originally under the Espionage Act passed

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Speaker 1: criminality involving grossly negligent handling of classified documents. And Komy

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Speaker 1: that by the inspector, generally said, well, I think there's

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Speaker 1: still some measure of intent required. He just made that up.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't exist. The whole purpose was to eliminate intent

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Speaker 1: gross negligence. And so Komy is simply misstating and contorting

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Speaker 1: the law when he cleared Hillary Clinton. And that's why

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Speaker 1: law is here. And he may decide that, look, it's

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Speaker 1: water under the bridge. I thunds like that would be

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Speaker 1: an acceptable answer, but he can't be. He can't let

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Speaker 1: it slide because otherwise you have four and a half

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Speaker 1: million people with security clearances who don't have proper guidance

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Speaker 1: and even if that were the standard there was plenty

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Speaker 1: coming out from our own independent discovery we've been granted

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Speaker 1: by a federal court that showed that Hillary Clinton was

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Speaker 1: warn a half a dozen times either through her staff

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Speaker 1: And then someone else said they warned her twice directly

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Speaker 1: plenty of early warning to Hillary Clinton about what she

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Speaker 1: was doing. So she has no excuses even if it

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Speaker 1: is an intent standard. They more than met the threshold

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Speaker 1: to get an end. Absolutely good. There should have been

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Speaker 1: a hundred and ten felony counts. Again Hillary Clinton representing

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Speaker 1: the hundred and ten classified documents that she placed in

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Speaker 1: I want to say thanks to Tom Fitten for being

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Speaker 1: with US President and CEO of Judicial Watch. I'm Greg Jarrett.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Sean Hannity Show. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about Hillary Clinton's corrupt

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Speaker 1: felonious acts, read my book, which Hunt the story of

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Speaker 1: the greatest mass delusion in American political history. Buy it

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Speaker 1: for the holidays. Put it under the Christmas tree. I'll

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Speaker 1: be right back with the Sean Hannity Show. Back with

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Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jared. Let's go right

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Speaker 1: to our phone lines. Don is standing by from Lake Ronkonkoma. Hey, Don,

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Speaker 1: how are you? Hey? Greg's great to talk to you

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Speaker 1: and happy Thanksgiving to you. Thanks enjoyed. They always welcome

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Speaker 1: your business to Kennedy's radio and television show and Fox

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Speaker 1: News and General. I have a question for you, Greg,

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Speaker 1: as you've researched your first book, the Russian Hoax and

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Speaker 1: witch Hunt, were you overwhelmed by the amount of felomy

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Speaker 1: violations at the highest levels against elect I was. Donna's

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Speaker 1: a great question, and which is why my latest book,

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Speaker 1: witch Hunt, which everybody should pick up, is about five

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Speaker 1: hundred pages, but each of the chapters are self sustainings,

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Speaker 1: so you can pick it up and just read what

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Speaker 1: you want. We're gonna pause and take a quick break.

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Speaker 1: My thanks to Ron will be our Don. Excuse me.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of the Sean Hannity Shown.

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Speaker 1: Greg Jared, welcome back to the Sean Hannity Shawn, Greg Jarrett,

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Speaker 1: you know Americans have suffered through two agonizing weeks of

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Speaker 1: the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Shift's misbegotten impeachment obsession,

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Speaker 1: and the hearings in truth have revealed a common consistent thread.

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Speaker 1: None of the witnesses provided any direct evidence that President

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Speaker 1: Trump committed an impeachable act. Instead, they offered an endless

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Speaker 1: stream of hearsay, an opinion, and speculation. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: accusation that Trump pressured the Ukrainian President Zolensky into a

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Speaker 1: quid pro quo in which the US military aid was

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Speaker 1: contingent on an investigation of the former Vice President Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden and his son Hunter Biden is utterly unsupported by

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Speaker 1: the evidence presented. It is found nowhere in the transcript

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Speaker 1: of the July twenty fifth telephone conversation between Trump and Zelensky,

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Speaker 1: nor was it presented by any of the witnesses called

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Speaker 1: by the chief clown himself, Adam Schiff. But the circus,

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Speaker 1: the carnival continues, and it's all all about quid pro quol,

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Speaker 1: which leads me to my next guest, David Shan, who's

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Speaker 1: a civil rights attorney and one of the best lawyers

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Speaker 1: I know, who has penned a column which will be

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Speaker 1: out shortly on Hannity dot Com entitled The Fallacy of

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Speaker 1: Quid pro quol And David, it's great to have you

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Speaker 1: one of the things that you point out is that

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Speaker 1: based on quid pro quo. I mean that is true, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's right, and most commentators would argue that it

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Speaker 1: we do give that money to serve American interests, but specifically,

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Speaker 1: you know, as we say in the piece, American aid

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Speaker 1: must be conditioned on corruption reform, and so sort of

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Speaker 1: the theme of this discussion is even if they had

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Speaker 1: proven a quid pro quo, and as you said, they didn't,

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Speaker 1: that's completely beside the point. There should be a quid

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Speaker 1: pro quo. And I go so far as to say

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Speaker 1: this Greg quite frankly, and I mean it. I believe

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Speaker 1: pedaling and that sort of thing. It was, the President

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Speaker 1: was obligated to demand a corruption investigation and effort to

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Speaker 1: fight corruption, and specifically an investigation into this thing, to

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Speaker 1: clear the air one way or another. In fact, as

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Speaker 1: they say in the piece, I believe that Vice President

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Speaker 1: Biden should have demanded an investigation because he's got a

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Speaker 1: writing his piece. The Wall Street Journal reported five years

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Speaker 1: ago how terrible this relationship appeared to be by Hunter Biden.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't just Hunter Biden, by the way. Hunter

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Speaker 1: Biden was joined by fellow named Devin Archer on the board.

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Speaker 1: Devin Archer was the founding business partner of Chris Hines,

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Speaker 1: John Carey's stepson. Now John Carey's stepson. Chris Hines, according

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Speaker 1: to media reports, thought that this set up with Biden

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Speaker 1: that Hines then wrote a couple of emails to the

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Speaker 1: State Department about the situation. But the point here is

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Speaker 1: what the president knew about an example of corruption in

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Speaker 1: the Ukraine was this Biden relationship. All he demanded, if

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Speaker 1: he demanded anything, and what he should have demanded, in

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Speaker 1: my view, was an investigation, not a prejudgment, not an

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Speaker 1: accusation against Vice President Biden, A full and fair investigation,

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Speaker 1: not even a mother like partisan agenda driven investigation. A

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Speaker 1: full and fair investigation. That's what every American voter should want.

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Speaker 1: You want to find out the facts, clear the cloud

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Speaker 1: from mister Biden before the election, not find out some

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Speaker 1: bad facts after the election. You know, immediately when the

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Speaker 1: story broke, I wrote a couple of columns. The first

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Speaker 1: and the second column I wrote was that the president

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Speaker 1: to request Ukraine to investigate in handover information if the

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Speaker 1: might have committed a corrupt act. Isn't that what Americans

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Speaker 1: want their government to do? Absolutely, gree I would say

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Speaker 1: to you, I think it's congress members have called this

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Speaker 1: an impeachable offense. Have an obligation to explain to the

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Speaker 1: that stinks. Why is it that there shouldn't be an

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Speaker 1: investigation of mister Biden, simply an investigation. Why shouldn't there

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Speaker 1: be an investigation about this to clear up this cloud

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Speaker 1: that's been hanging for years because as reports show, foreign

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Speaker 1: country's interests are harmed, our American interests are harmed in

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Speaker 1: the Ukraine and every other country to which we give

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Speaker 1: aid if they think that we abide corruption. There's not

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Speaker 1: very little question that Hunter Biden was put on the

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Speaker 1: to influence and get access to the Obama administration. That

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Speaker 1: happens all the time with companies. But you know, have

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Speaker 1: an investigation here. Again, Congress should explain why not? Why

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Speaker 1: not they've offered so far? Is well, Joe Biden could

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Speaker 1: asked for an investigation. The President could have said, hey, listen, guys,

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Speaker 1: he had some corrupt purpose, and he wouldn't have had

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Speaker 1: other people listening in on the telephone, if he had

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Speaker 1: a corrupt purpose. But the only answer here is, well,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna, you know, all of a sudden, there can

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Speaker 1: be no investigation because Joe Biden's running for president. Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden wouldn't wouldn't suggest that that's appropriate. And by the way, ironically,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden boasts, you know, on a video widely circulated

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Speaker 1: as you well know, Greg and have reported on on

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Speaker 1: this show and elsewhere. There's a question about that prosecutor

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Speaker 1: a question that the company Hunter Biden joined. There's a

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Speaker 1: Barisma or not. But again, this is why we have

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Speaker 1: an investigation. Yeah, now, you're totally right, and to play

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Speaker 1: devil's advocate. The reason that the media and Democrats would

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Speaker 1: and we hear this constant refrain. It is a pervasive canard. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's no evidence of any wrongdoing that that would ignore

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Speaker 1: the public statements of Victor choking the fire to Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and his role at Barisma. That alone should

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Speaker 1: be reason to investigate. Yeah, your record, I would say,

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Speaker 1: what alone he also should be reason investigated is simply

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Speaker 1: the appearance of impropriety. Why was the vice president who

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Speaker 1: Why was his son and his crony placed on the

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Speaker 1: whatsoever and paid a salary apparently? So why did that happen?

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Speaker 1: That's all a simple investigation. It's certainly I hate to

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Speaker 1: say it, but it's certainly. There certainly is much evidence

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Speaker 1: they're demanding a corrupt investigation, as there was for the

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Speaker 1: appointment of mister Muller as special counsel and in it's

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Speaker 1: the exorbitant amount of money that also merits an investigation.

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Speaker 1: There was a study by the Watchdog Research Group that

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Speaker 1: paid roughly fifty five thousand to eighty three thousand for

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Speaker 1: an entire year. Hunter Biden was getting eighty three thousand

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Speaker 1: a month. So that is a huge red flag that

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Speaker 1: would merit an investigation. And you know, I think the

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Speaker 1: central point here, Greg also is this is all information

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Speaker 1: the president was given. He got it from media reports.

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Speaker 1: He was briefed on these things. That's the example. He

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Speaker 1: knew about in the Ukraine. And again, what he asked

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Speaker 1: for was an investigation period. He could have asked for

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Speaker 1: a lot more than that if he had a corrupt purpose.

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Speaker 1: He wanted this thing investigated. And President Vice President Biden

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Speaker 1: should have joined him in that call, as should every

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Speaker 1: Democratic member of Congress. If this is a viable candidate

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Speaker 1: for president for president in this coming election, then they

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Speaker 1: should want every cloud cleared. Right now, he's damaged goods

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Speaker 1: and it's going to get worse because if they impeach,

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Speaker 1: there will be a full Senate trial. They will have

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Speaker 1: to call the Bidens. Their conduct is directly the issue

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Speaker 1: because there's an allegation the president acted against national interests.

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Speaker 1: Let's show what the evidence was that required an investigation

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Speaker 1: in the American interests in this case. I think you're

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Speaker 1: going to see John Kerry as a witness. I think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see Chris Hines, his stepson, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people if a lawyer handles this thing properly, you know.

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Speaker 1: And which brings me to the next point that we

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Speaker 1: can explore here, and that is that I don't think

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Speaker 1: Democrats have put into their calculations over impeachment that the

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Speaker 1: roles will be completely reversed in a Senate trial. The

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Speaker 1: authority will be completely reversed. No longer will it be

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Speaker 1: you know, Adam Schiff who is shutting down cross examination

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Speaker 1: or preventing Republicans from calling witnesses. No, it'll be Republicans

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Speaker 1: who will be in the catbird seat here, calling the

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Speaker 1: witnesses and dictating the rules of evidence. And this will

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Speaker 1: not be so much a trial of Donald Trump as

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Speaker 1: it will be a trial of Joe and Hunter Biden,

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Speaker 1: of the fake whistleblower who is not entitled to anonymity

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Speaker 1: and put on the top of your witness list, Adam Schiff,

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Speaker 1: who lied about his conduct. You make a vitally important point.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. It was a miscalculation. I think

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Speaker 1: part of it is Pelosi and others were really pushed

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Speaker 1: into this by what we call what I call at

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Speaker 1: least they hate squad. Others call the squad who kind

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Speaker 1: of got them momentum going. And then you know, Schiff

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Speaker 1: and nother lost all semblance of objectivity a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: They're just filled with hatred and ego, etc. So I

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Speaker 1: think they badly miscalculated. Why on earth would they look

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Speaker 1: I used to represent the Democrat Party. I represented them

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Speaker 1: at trial when they were sued before. Why on earth

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Speaker 1: would any reasonable Democrat want to see the presidential candidate,

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Speaker 1: um possitively president the leading presidential candidate pulled through this.

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Speaker 1: Now you know how much baggage there is out there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's all got to come out, because if

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Speaker 1: I would representing the president, I would demand the full

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Speaker 1: panoply of due process, including the right to call witnesses fully,

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Speaker 1: the right to confrontation. You should hand a lawyer should

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Speaker 1: handle this as a real trial, right you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know you're talking like a thoughtful, reasonable, intelligent person,

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Speaker 1: which you are. That is not what democrats are now.

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Speaker 1: They are blinded by their hatred of Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: it has obliterated their judgment. David Sewn, thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us. We're gonna pause, take a quick break on

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Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett sitting in for Sean Hannity on the Sean

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Speaker 1: Hannity Show. A couple of year calls on the other side,

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Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Sean Hannity Shaw on Greg Jarrett.

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Speaker 1: While we are just hours away from Thanksgiving, and it's

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Speaker 1: really an important moment in America for all of us

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Speaker 1: to gather together and to express in our own ways

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Speaker 1: the many thanks that we have for our blessings, our

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Speaker 1: good fortunes, and we gather with our friends and our

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Speaker 1: families to celebrate those blessings. And I want to give

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Speaker 1: a shout out to my wife, Kate Jarrett, who has

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Speaker 1: sacrificed a great deal over the last two years as

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Speaker 1: I've written two books, and my two daughters, who have

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Speaker 1: also been so encouraging and supportive. You know, they've they've

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Speaker 1: given up a lot over two years so that I

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Speaker 1: could write these two books. No vacations with Dad, no weekends,

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Speaker 1: with Dad. They held down the homestead as I labored

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Speaker 1: over these two books, and I just want to say

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Speaker 1: thanks for all of what they have done for me.

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Speaker 1: And I know that you feel that way out there

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Speaker 1: towards your family members as well. Let's pause on Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: and think of how fortunate we are to be in

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Speaker 1: this great country of ours, in America. And yes we

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Speaker 1: have disagreements, we certainly have seen that over the course

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Speaker 1: of this last year. But on this moment of Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's pause and take a moment and say

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Speaker 1: thank you to those around us, to our families and

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Speaker 1: our friends. And if you have the crazy Uncle Fester

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Speaker 1: sitting at the dinner table over Thanksgiving and he is

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Speaker 1: telling you all kinds of things that you know just

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Speaker 1: are not true about the Russia hoax and the witch hunt,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you can think about giving Uncle Faster

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Speaker 1: the book, my book witch Hunt, the story of the

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Speaker 1: greatest mass delusion in American political history. Maybe you could

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Speaker 1: buy it, wrap it up, put it under the Christmas

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Speaker 1: tree with a bow on top, and be sure to

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Speaker 1: have your camera out. Here's what I want you to

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Speaker 1: do when when Uncle Faster, crazy liberal Uncle Faster opens

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Speaker 1: the book snap a picture of it and send it

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Speaker 1: to me, Tweet it to me. My Twitter handle is

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Speaker 1: at greg Jarrett. Also, while you're at it, shot down

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Speaker 1: my website, the Greg Jarrett dot Com. So thanks everybody.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you letting me fill in for Sean Hannity

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Speaker 1: today on The Sean Hannity Show. I hope you have

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Speaker 1: a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving. Now back to the best

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Speaker 1: of Sean Hannity. Now that we made some money for

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Speaker 1: our sponsors, let's go back to making the liberals crazy.

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Speaker 1: The handman is back on the radio right now. After

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Speaker 1: you testified, Chairman Shift ran out and given press conference

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Speaker 1: and said he gets to impeach the president nite States

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Speaker 1: because of your testimony. And if you pull up CNN

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Speaker 1: today right now, their banner says Solon ties Trump to

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Speaker 1: withholding aid. Is that your testimony today, Master Solon, that

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Speaker 1: you have evidence that Donald Trump tied the investigations the

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Speaker 1: AD Because I don't think you're saying that. I've said repeatedly, Congressman,

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Speaker 1: I was presuming I also said that President Trump. So no, Joe,

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Speaker 1: not just the President. Giuliani didn't tell you, well, Vaney

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Speaker 1: didn't tell you. Nobody Pompeo didn't tell you. Nobody else

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Speaker 1: on this planet told you that Donald Trump was tying

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Speaker 1: aid to these investigations. Is that correct? I think I

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Speaker 1: already testify. No answer the question, is it correct? No

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Speaker 1: one on this planet told you that Donald Trump was

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Speaker 1: tying this aid to the investigations. Because if your answers yes,

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Speaker 1: then the chairman's wrong and the headline on CNN is wrong.

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Speaker 1: No one on this planet told you that President Trump

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Speaker 1: was tying aid to investigations. Yes or no? Yes? So

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Speaker 1: you really have no testimony today that ties President Trump

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Speaker 1: to a scheme to withhold aid from Ukraine in exchange

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Speaker 1: for these investigations, other than my own presumption, which is nothing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I've under said. So you know

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Speaker 1: what hearsay evidence is, Ambassador. Hearsay is when I testify

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Speaker 1: what someone else told me. Do you know what made

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Speaker 1: up testimony is? Made up testimony is when I just

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Speaker 1: presume it. I mean, you're just assuming all of these things,

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Speaker 1: and then you're giving them the evidence that they're running

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Speaker 1: out and doing press conferences. And CNN's headline is saying

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Speaker 1: that you're saying that President Nited States should be impeached.

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Speaker 1: Because tied aid to investigations. And you don't know that, correct.

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Speaker 1: I never said the President United States should be impeached. Nope,

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Speaker 1: but you did. You have left people with the confusing

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Speaker 1: impression that you were giving testimony that you did not.

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Speaker 1: You do not have any evidence that the President United

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Speaker 1: States was tied to withholding aid from Ukraine and exchange

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Speaker 1: for investigations. I yield back an amazing moment that was

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Speaker 1: Congressman Michael Turner today. Wow, that just blew that out

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Speaker 1: of the water. And it shows you how corrupt the

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Speaker 1: well compromised congenital liar is, how corrupt fake news C

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Speaker 1: and then is NBC and every other news organization is.

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Speaker 1: You can't be any more clear than that, can you.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get any more clear than what the witness

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Speaker 1: that they're using is. Wow, Blockbuster has said today. This

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00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: is madness, this is insanity. They will ignore anything that

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Speaker 1: is exculpatory towards this president, and they'll run with conjecture,

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Speaker 1: and they'll run with hearsay, and they'll run with I

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Speaker 1: don't know. You got a bunch of bureaucrat ambassadors. No

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Speaker 1: offense to them. I guess they're serving their country. Well, boy,

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Speaker 1: they think an awful lot of themselves when they're not

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Speaker 1: the commander in chief either. And on the substance of everything,

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Speaker 1: this president was right to say, hey, are you surrounding

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Speaker 1: yourself with the same bad people that the prior president

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Speaker 1: of Ukraine was surrounding himself with, Because if you are,

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Speaker 1: that's not good and can you help us do me

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Speaker 1: a favor get to the bottom of your country's role

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Speaker 1: and election interference and any other corruption that was going

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Speaker 1: on there. And by the way, simultaneously ignoring the real evidence,

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Speaker 1: the real quid, the real quo, the real pro with

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Speaker 1: Joe and Hunter zero experience, Hunter, millions of dollars. You're

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Speaker 1: not getting the billion, fire the prosecutor, you get the billion,

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Speaker 1: you got six hours. It doesn't get any more clear

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Speaker 1: cut than this. But they try to, you know, muddy

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Speaker 1: those waters and cherry pick that which they think, oh,

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Speaker 1: I can use this to bludgeon Trump again after two

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Speaker 1: and a half years of this with Russia that ends

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Speaker 1: in nothing anyway, joining us on top of John Solomon

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Speaker 1: who remains with us. Greg Jarrett, of course, he has

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Speaker 1: his best seller out along with Jordan Secular. We put

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Speaker 1: it up on Hannity dot Com. Both of them. Greg,

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Speaker 1: that was to me one of the defining moments today. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it truly was. You know, at first I thought Solon

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Speaker 1: would say, well, my presumption was based on what other

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Speaker 1: people told me. It's worse than that, as Turner pointed out,

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Speaker 1: it's a presumption that he conjured up out of thin air.

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Speaker 1: He didn't even get it from anybody else. You know,

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Speaker 1: there are two main points today, and you certainly heard

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Speaker 1: one of them. But the other is that you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna underscored that the President said to him repeatedly,

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Speaker 1: I want nothing, I want no quid pro quo. But

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Speaker 1: he also then made a rather stunning admission when he said,

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Speaker 1: I never heard the President say that aid was conditioned

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Speaker 1: on an announcement of investigations. Why then is it continue here?

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Speaker 1: Why is this even an issue even at this point?

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Speaker 1: That shouldn't be. But as you know, as my friend

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Speaker 1: and colleague, you know, John Solomon pointed out, this is

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Speaker 1: the weapon of mass distraction. They know what's coming down

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Speaker 1: the pike, the IG report, and this serves as their subterfuge.

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Speaker 1: Jordan's secular your thoughts, Yeah, our takeaway is this, I

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Speaker 1: mean to just biloc, Greg was saying, and then Solomon

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Speaker 1: gets asked again, did you hear from anyone in the world,

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Speaker 1: anyone on the planet that this was and he says no,

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Speaker 1: And to us this was This was the most key

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Speaker 1: moment because it contradicted the entire narrative from the beginning

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Speaker 1: of his whole testimony. I mean, I saw Ken start

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Speaker 1: talking about you know, Kim Starr was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: his warning those warning labels, and then he heard that

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Speaker 1: state he said, I can't even believe an ambassador of

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Speaker 1: the United States would leave that clear cut of a

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Speaker 1: statement out of his opening statement because it is literally

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Speaker 1: what everyone has been talking about now. I think it

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Speaker 1: gets to the point also that the attorney from Minority

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Speaker 1: made that this is this is again someone who takes

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Speaker 1: no notes, He doesn't remember anything, and he can't know.

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Speaker 1: When he says he can't get other people's documents, I

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Speaker 1: want everybody to understand this. It's other people's documents. It's

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Speaker 1: not he can't get access to his email from text

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Speaker 1: messages and his staff. It's he can't get access to

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Speaker 1: whatever he wanted the State Department. And you know, he

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Speaker 1: decided to not use executive privilege to put himself through

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Speaker 1: this I think, as the President said, from what he

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Speaker 1: knows from from his dealings with him, he's been a

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Speaker 1: pretty good guy. But you know, as he kind of,

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Speaker 1: this is the only witness who's had the direct interplay

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Speaker 1: with the President United States. He's admittedly said, he kind of.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they really overplayed that interplay, and they kind

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Speaker 1: of acknowledge that day it wasn't as much as it

855
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: sounded like or he ever they tried to imply it

856
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 1: wasn't then when it was, but also when he spoke

857
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 1: to anyone else, no one ever said this. He's just

858
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: presuming it. Now. I can understand why maybe at this

859
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: point lots of people would would presume that, because if

860
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: you read news crawlers and things like that, you can

861
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: start presuming it. So I think it's very clear that

862
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 1: we make that point for everybody to understand that people

863
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: are making this up. This is made up, This is

864
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,919
Speaker 1: this is just taking it off thin air, not even

865
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: basing it. His great said, it's not even basic of

866
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: what someone else told him. He didn't even it was

867
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: one of the most stunning moments I think in this

868
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: whole charade, I really do. I mean, I'm sitting there

869
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: and and he's right. I mean, that's what the fake

870
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 1: dues media was doing. And I read the opening statement

871
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: and I said, Okay, this doesn't seem right, this doesn't

872
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: gel with what he said in his prior testimony. And

873
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: then to get to the rationale and the reasoning behind it, well,

874
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,439
Speaker 1: I just was listening to other people, so I put

875
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: two and two together. But yeah, the President did say

876
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 1: I don't want to quit pro quo. The President at

877
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: no time ever said there's any linkage. He actually said

878
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: the opposite. John Solomon, and you know, the White House

879
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: very cleverly, I thought, releasing the actual letter invitation to

880
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: Zelinsky with zero no ties to anything to meet with

881
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: the President in the Oval office. Yeah, listen, that's the

882
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: most important part. When you get to cases like this,

883
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: and we're going to get to a trial perhaps someday

884
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: in the Senate. Facts matter, statements matter, Witness testimony matters.

885
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: Contemporaneous events and evidence matter. The contemporaneous evidence and the

886
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: primary testimony clearly indicate the President wanted no quid pro

887
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: quo tie between the AID and the investigations. He wanted

888
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: investigations for the reasons he cited, but at the end

889
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:58,919
Speaker 1: of the day, there was no qui pro quo, which

890
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: is what he's being charged with in this allegation of

891
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: bribery or extortion or whichever term the Democrats have poll

892
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: tested today. But at the end of the day, those

893
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: facts are going to be very relevant to any trial

894
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 1: attorney or any jury looking at it, because prior to

895
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: this point, Greg Jared, all we had were people's interpretations

896
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: of what they thought of the of the transcript, which

897
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: frankly is meaningless. It's all hearsay. None of it would

898
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,919
Speaker 1: be admissible in the Senate, and I can't imagine that

899
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: the Chief Justice presiding over this circus if it gets

900
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: over there, and I'm assuming it probably will, because that's

901
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: how unhanged the Democrats are. Whatever deny the President and

902
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: his attorneys his Sixth Amendment rights, which is the right

903
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: to confront his accuser. You know, if the federal rules

904
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 1: of evidence are invoked by the Senate, if that's what

905
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 1: the majority wants to do, and they should, you know,

906
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: none of these witnesses are going to be able to testify.

907
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: The Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is bereft of facts,

908
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 1: so he's determined to remove the President from office based

909
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: purely upon the opinions of others who surmised or imagined

910
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: this quid pro quo that doesn't exist anywhere in the

911
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: transcript of the telephone call. And now we learn from

912
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: Ambassador Somolin that the President told him directly, not once,

913
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: but twice there's no quid pro quo and that AID

914
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: is not tied to anything. And so none of these

915
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: people could ever testify. They might, you know, Solon might

916
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,959
Speaker 1: be able to say, this is what the President told

917
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: me in that telephone conversation, but beyond that, all of

918
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: these witnesses are nothing but rank speculation, conjecture and hearsay.

919
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: You know, this is impeachment by rumor and innuendo. It's unbelievable. Now,

920
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: there was an interesting story that came out today Jordan's

921
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: Kilo from zero Hedge, and it's the headline says a

922
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: lot to Ukrainian. Ukrainian indictment claims seven point four billion

923
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: Obama linked laundering puts Biden group take at sixteen point

924
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: five million dollars for quote their services. You know, one

925
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: of the things I'm really having a hard time here

926
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: that you know, and I say it off and probably

927
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: repeated too much, is that fire the prosecutor, you get

928
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: the billion. Don't fire him, you don't get the billion.

929
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: He knew as some was being investigated and his son

930
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: paid millions for zero experience. That gets under my skin,

931
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: Well it doesn't. This is why trying to base the

932
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: impeachment off of Ukrainian foreign policy, which you know, that's

933
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: what we've ultimately gotten to is disputing over policy. And

934
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: when you get to Stilen's point, it's not even that.

935
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: It's like just presumptions over what you think, which almost

936
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: sounds like he was setting up the president. I mean,

937
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: I just based off kind of how he said, why

938
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: was he calling all these times? Been kind of asking

939
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: it this way? It's like he was asking it this way.

940
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 1: The presidents screaming back. I don't want them doing anything

941
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: like what are you like maybe even picking up on this.

942
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: But but at the same time, the recklessness here because

943
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: they've also as we get every time that these hearings

944
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: and every day and anybody's watching it, and the media can't.

945
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: They can try to cut around it when they do

946
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: their their clips later in the day, but they can't

947
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: do it while people watching that every day. It's coming

948
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: up to this Biden and these questions about why are

949
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: they even getting involved when you're when your dad's vice president,

950
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: why get involved with any of these companies in Ukraine

951
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: with the mess that Ukraine was um and and that

952
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: if you're going to base things off, Ukraine is on

953
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: either side. I mean it's like listen, they've going after

954
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: reporting and John knows this very well now going out

955
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,439
Speaker 1: to report it because he talked to one Ukrainian. Another

956
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: Ukrainian says this Ukrainians wrong and that krainis why it's

957
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: it's we're also dealing with their you know, you can

958
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: talk to whever you want to it politics too, but

959
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: also at level which is very different from you know,

960
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: being a reporter to deciding I'm gonna actually be on

961
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: their board but oh, we're not going to talk about

962
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: this now. I think that that's the recklessness of Democrat.

963
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,479
Speaker 1: That's how bad they want to go after Presidents Frum

964
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: and a lot of these government officials from both sides

965
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: of the Aisle who work in the bureaucracy, who may

966
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: have you initially worked for a Republican then they worked

967
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: for a Democrat, but you know, one of them just

968
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:18,919
Speaker 1: reading their talking points for them, and if you don't

969
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: read this. They're talking points. They try to take you down,

970
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: and they don't like this. They don't. I mean, you

971
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: could see they're just they are so upset that they

972
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: prepare talking points and this president decide to govern independently.

973
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: All right, we'll wrap things up. Amazing developments today. Uh,

974
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you your mom and the

975
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: media they are so corrupt, they're such liars. They won't

976
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: even they won't even tell you about Sonlan's beat down today.

977
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: They're not even gonna tell you that. They're not gonna

978
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: tell you about the IG preliminary report about Peter Struck

979
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: and his misconduct and his poor judgment, and or will

980
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: they tell you about how the FBI vetting of informants

981
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: slam by Michael Horowitz, or what Attorney General Barr had

982
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: to say. I'm gonna tell you any of this. So sick, corrupt,

983
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. I wrap the things up. We only have

984
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 1: to about twenty seconds each. Final thoughts John Solomon, twenty seconds.

985
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: Ukraine is Russia. Redo, it's a hearsay case that's going

986
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: to turn out not to be true. Wow, unbelievable. Greg Jared, Well,

987
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: this is an example of how desperate Adam Schiff and

988
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Nadler are and Democrats at large

989
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives to call nothing but hearsay

990
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: witnesses and witnesses who presume things that's not evidence, that's garbage,

991
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: And that's essentially the only argument that Democrats have against

992
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: the president. It's based on junk. Last word Jordan's Seculo.

993
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: Last word, Jordan Seculo. All right, we lost Jordan Seculo.

994
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to end it there. John, thank you, Greg,

995
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: thank you. We have a massive Hannity tonight on the

996
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: Fox News Channel. This just blew up. Is worse than

997
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: as like an Adam bomb to the Star witness. They

998
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: thought they had it all got blown out of the water.

999
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 1: When we come back, I know a lot of you

1000
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: want to weigh in eight hundred and nine four one Sean,

1001
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program, Quick

1002
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: break right back Hannity at nine tonight. This is an

1003
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: amazing day in more ways than I can even tell you.

1004
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: Straight ahead this morning to dedicated public servants speaking truth

1005
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: to power in the face of withering public criticism from

1006
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 1: President Trump and his allies. It's absolutely an impressive morning

1007
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: for these witnesses, who, as everyone has pointed out, are

1008
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: so clearly fact witnesses. These are career professionals, and Vinman

1009
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: struck me as the most devastating we've seen in the

1010
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: public hearing today. This is someone who obviously looks the

1011
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: part is the part. Look at him. He's in the

1012
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 1: uniform of the United States Army, and he almost was

1013
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 1: emotional at the end of its opening statement. Clearly, these

1014
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:14,920
Speaker 1: ludicrous accusations don't reflect committee members who are honestly searching

1015
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: for the truth. They are the actions of partisan extremists

1016
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 1: who hijacked the Intelligence Committee, transformed it into the impeachment Committee,

1017
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: abandoned its core oversight functions, and turned it into a

1018
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 1: beachhead for austin an elected president from office. You have

1019
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: to keep that history in mind as you consider the Democrats'

1020
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: latest catalog of supposed Trump outrageous. Granted, a friendly call

1021
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: with the Ukrainian president wouldn't seem to rise to the

1022
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: same level as being a Russian agent, but the Democrats

1023
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: were running out of time. If they waited any longer,

1024
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: their impeachment circus would intervene with their own candidates. Twenty

1025
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: twenty campaigns, so you have to give them points for

1026
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 1: creativity in selling this absurdity as an impeachable offense. All

1027
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: this explains why the Democrats have gathered zero Republicans support

1028
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives for their impeachment crusade. In fact,

1029
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: the vote we held was a bipartisan vote against this

1030
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:21,439
Speaker 1: impeachment inquiry. Speaker Pelosi, Chairmanship and Chairman Nadler, the key

1031
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: figures behind this impeachment crusade, all proclaimed that impeachment is

1032
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 1: so damaging to the country that it can only proceed

1033
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: with bipartisan support. Are those declarations suddenly no longer true?

1034
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 1: Did impeachment become less divisive? Of course not. They know

1035
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: exactly what kind of damage they're inflicting on this nation

1036
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: that they've passed the point of no return. The Democrats

1037
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: have zeroed in on an anonymous whistleblower complaint there was

1038
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: cooked up in cooperation with the Democrats on this very committee.

1039
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 1: They lied to the American people about that cooperation and

1040
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: refuse to let us question the whistleblower to discover the truth. Meanwhile,

1041
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: the Democrats lash out against anyone who questions or cast

1042
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: doubt on this spectacle. When Ukrainian President Zelenski denies anything

1043
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: and proper happened on the phone call. The Democrats say

1044
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: that he's a liar. When journalists report on Ukraine election

1045
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: meddling and Hunter Biden's position on the board of corrupt

1046
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: Ukrainian companies, the Democrats label them conspiracy theorists. When the

1047
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:39,919
Speaker 1: Democrats can't get any traction for their allegations of quit

1048
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: pro quo, they move the goalposts and accused the president

1049
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: of extortion, then bribery, and at last resort obstruction of justice.

1050
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 1: The American people sent us to Washington to solve problems,

1051
01:05:55,120 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 1: not to wage scorched earth political warfare against the other party.

1052
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: Impeachment is not helping the American people. It's not a

1053
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: legitimate use of taxpayer dollars, and it's definitely not improving

1054
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 1: our national security. All right. That was Devin Nounez the

1055
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 1: hearings earlier today. No matter what the mob and the

1056
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 1: media says, this is what we know, Sonlon said. He

1057
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: outlined the epidemic of corruption that is the country of

1058
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: Ukraine in great detail. He repeated again and again, nobody

1059
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: ever told me that AID was tied to anything. His

1060
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: opening statement even made clear that President Trump never once

1061
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: discussed a quid pro quo, and he couldn't be more

1062
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: clear when asked about this very issue. Yeah, no, I

1063
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: just presumed this. No, I did not hear from the president.

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Speaker 1: You know, when he was asked, he said in his

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Speaker 1: and he said, I want nothing the president. When he

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Speaker 1: talked to the President, I want no quid, no pro

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Speaker 1: and no quo. He had no knowledge to recknowledge of

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Speaker 1: why AID was withheld. And yet we're still back at

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Speaker 1: the same point. You know, he comments, well about why

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Speaker 1: AID was withheld, I'm just guessing. Well, guessing isn't real evidence.

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Speaker 1: As we've been pointing out here, it is amazing that

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Speaker 1: this is where they have now taken us. Nor do

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Speaker 1: they care about the security and safety of the American people.

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Speaker 1: No evidence of a link between security AID and the

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Speaker 1: public statement, none whatsoever. Now there's three separate times that

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Speaker 1: President Trump offered an unconditional White House visit to President Zelenski.

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Speaker 1: Three times. Sonlon couldn't be any more clear. The President

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Speaker 1: was not involved in any of this. He discussed it

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Speaker 1: over and over again today, Voker, the same thing all

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Speaker 1: these other people testing the same thing. They didn't know

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Speaker 1: why there was any holds, but the President was clear

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Speaker 1: in his discussion with Zelinsky that the reason is is

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Speaker 1: because ya, you better not be involved with the same

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Speaker 1: people the last president, because that's gonna be really bad

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Speaker 1: for you. Anyway, Bill O'Reilly is with us. Get his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on this. Bill O'Reilly dot com is best selling book,

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Speaker 1: me more than that. You know, I'm a simple man.

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Speaker 1: I've always been a simple man. But no, no, you're

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Speaker 1: anything but a simple man. You're a simple man club.

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Speaker 1: So you're a complicated guy. I don't know why I

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Speaker 1: have to watch thirty six hours of this. I don't

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Speaker 1: I much Rayther, watch Doctor Phil or Judge Judy knocking

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Speaker 1: off all my favorite shows. So I wrote in the

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Speaker 1: to understand that Donald Trump feels that he is a

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Speaker 1: victim of people who wanted to destroy him and his campaign,

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Speaker 1: and those people were harbored by the Obama administration. We'll

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Speaker 1: see because his Justice Department is investigating that as we speak.

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Speaker 1: So he feels he's a victim, and he's obsessed with

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Speaker 1: writing the wrong he believes was delivered to him. That's

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Speaker 1: what this is all about. Nothing more so in the

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Speaker 1: pursuit of exposing the wrong he believes happened to him.

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Speaker 1: He makes a call to the president of Ukraine's Lynsky,

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Speaker 1: and he says, do me a favor. All right, you're

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Speaker 1: the new guy, the new sheriff. Investigate all of his

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Speaker 1: stuff that I'm hearing is really bad about how Ukraine

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Speaker 1: tried to interfere in the election and how Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: and his son conducted themselve in your country. Let me

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Speaker 1: know what happened. He did it, There's no question. It's

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Speaker 1: in the transcript. He did it. But if you look

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Speaker 1: at the context that his thought process is, I have

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Speaker 1: to expose all of this corruption that happened in the

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election, it makes perfect sense. And he's entitled

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Speaker 1: to do it because he's the chief law enforcement officer

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Speaker 1: of America. He's in charge of the Justice Department. He's

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Speaker 1: entitled and under the law, and I've just looked it up.

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Speaker 1: He can't allow foreign aid to flow to a country

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Speaker 1: that he believes or his administration believes is corrupt. He can't,

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Speaker 1: by law do that. So here's what I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: And maybe you can explain this to me, because you're

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Speaker 1: much smarter than I am. By the way, has been

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Speaker 1: such a wise ass right now, you are I'm a

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Speaker 1: simple man. You're not simple, Hannity. You're much smarter than

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Speaker 1: I am. You're so full of crap radio stations. I

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Speaker 1: only have two hundred. I got six and twenty five,

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Speaker 1: all right, six. Well look that means you're three times

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Speaker 1: smarter than me. Okay, all right, So why doesn't he

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Speaker 1: and we talked about this last week, and you tell

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Speaker 1: me why doesn't do it? Just go out and say

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Speaker 1: what I just said. Just listen to the Hannity O'Reilly

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Speaker 1: discourse and say just what I just said, because it's

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Speaker 1: absolutely true. He told me this for the book to

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Speaker 1: the United States and Trump. It's in the book that

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Speaker 1: was way before any of this dog and pony show. Me.

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Speaker 1: Let me read something to you. What So if we

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Speaker 1: go back to the transcript, and by the way, there

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Speaker 1: are two transcripts, and now we have three separate invitations

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Speaker 1: with no conditions of the President inviting Zelenska to the

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Speaker 1: White House. But if you go back to the original transcript,

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Speaker 1: which you know all these people are commenting on President Trump,

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Speaker 1: in the very paragraph where he said, you know, I'd

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Speaker 1: like you to do us a favor, you know, because

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Speaker 1: our country has been through a lot. Ukraine knows a

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Speaker 1: lot about it, and they we now know they were

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Speaker 1: involved up to their eyeballs. But and then he says,

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Speaker 1: I think you're surrounding yourself with some of the same people.

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Speaker 1: I was right, and so that is that is the

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Speaker 1: reason enough to hold up aid to see what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. So why not explain all this? Why do

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Speaker 1: I have to look at the lieutenant colonel up there

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Speaker 1: and I have to look at some woman who knew

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Speaker 1: somebody had heard an overcall? Why do I have to

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Speaker 1: listen to this? Just go out, you're the president, look

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Speaker 1: into the camera and explain what happened. And that's it.

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Speaker 1: You know, if he did that, that would undercut all

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Speaker 1: of this bull It would make it. It wouldn't make

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Speaker 1: it go away, because Shift and Pelos, you're never going

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Speaker 1: to stop until the Senate says, no, we're not going

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Speaker 1: to remove a president because it's your opinion. He tried

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Speaker 1: to do this for self gain, But there's enough evidence

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Speaker 1: that says this was perfectly legitimate line. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm not little bo peep think and that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: didn't want to get dirt on Joe Biden. He did.

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Speaker 1: But did he use the power of his office to

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Speaker 1: do something corrupt thing to get that. No, he asked

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Speaker 1: for a favor, a favor, and the favor was in

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Speaker 1: context of an investigation that is going on now in

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department. If he would just do this, I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, this whole thing would evaporate. Let me point

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Speaker 1: out two things that I've been telling the audience all day.

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Speaker 1: There was a court decision bill in Ukraine. Actually, even

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Speaker 1: the New York Times wrote about it that their headline

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Speaker 1: was Ukraine court rules manafort disclosure caused quote meddling in

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Speaker 1: US election. The court in Ukraine in a statement that

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Speaker 1: they issued at the time, they had the head of

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Speaker 1: the National Anti Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and they released

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Speaker 1: the information and they said that the violation resulted in

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Speaker 1: meddling in the electoral process of the United States in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and damaged the national interests of Ukraine. Stay

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Speaker 1: with me one second, Politico January eleven, twenty seventeen, headline,

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire. Heev officials scrambling to

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Speaker 1: make amends with the President elect after quietly working to

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Speaker 1: boost Clinton. Donald Trump was not the only presidential candidate

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Speaker 1: whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet

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Speaker 1: Bloc country. Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: and undermine Donald Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office.

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Speaker 1: They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in

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Speaker 1: corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to

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Speaker 1: back away after the election. Then it goes on to

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Speaker 1: talk about Alexander Chloopa, Ukrainian American who met with top

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Speaker 1: officials at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in quote an

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Speaker 1: effort to expose ties between Trump and a top campaign

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Speaker 1: a aide, Paul Manafort, and Russia. The Ukrainian efforts had

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Speaker 1: So the president is saying, because I thought Democrats cared

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Speaker 1: Bill about foreign election interference a Ukrainian court and Politico

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Speaker 1: admitted it all happened, and we know what happened. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it happened. Look, this is so complicated that no American

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Speaker 1: outside of the people like you and me who are

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Speaker 1: paid to do this can follow it. Nobody can follow it.

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Speaker 1: I just want to break it down. There's no doubt

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Speaker 1: Ukraine tried to help Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump angry about that.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants that exposed. And if Joe Biden was

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Speaker 1: a part of that, which he could have been, he

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Speaker 1: wants that exposed. He has a right to withhold any

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Speaker 1: foreign aid if he believes the country is corrupt. He

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Speaker 1: asked the Lynsky to please investigate what happened, all right,

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Speaker 1: and then tell the world's right, that's the right thing

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Speaker 1: to do. But stay there, all very irrational Trump maker.

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Speaker 1: This is what he does, all right? Hang on one second, Bill,

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break. When we come back. Where does

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly think this is all going to end up?

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Speaker 1: And we have a little announcement. Bill has this big speech,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be there and I get to introduce him.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Eight hundred ninety four one Sean

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Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program.

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly dot com his bestseller United States of Trump,

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Speaker 1: How Trump Really sees America. All right, our final moment

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Speaker 1: was Bill O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly dot com is book is everywhere,

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Speaker 1: the United States of Trump, Amazon dot com, bookstores everywhere.

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Speaker 1: All right, one, we're going to appear together. I have

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Speaker 1: agreed to introduce you in Huntington, Long Island. Um, it's

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Speaker 1: in December, number one and number two. Where do you

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Speaker 1: think this is going to go? All right, I'll get

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Speaker 1: to the speech. At the end, CHEV is gonna file

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Speaker 1: articles of in teaching given the Nadler, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a bribery charge, abuse of power. Then it goes to

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Speaker 1: the Senate, the Senate quit. I don't know how long

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Speaker 1: it'll take. The turtle, as you call him, Senator McConnell

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Speaker 1: as as already knows what he's gonna do, but he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna tip his hand go oh yeah, yeah. We'll

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Speaker 1: give it an airing, but it's not going to lead

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Speaker 1: to the removal of the president. As for you introducing me,

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Speaker 1: I am setting myself up to the biggest fall of

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Speaker 1: my career. Seriously, on December fifteenth. Hannity unchained, can say

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Speaker 1: whatever he wants about me. I'm staying out there. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna probably I'm gonna end up talking for an hour.

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Speaker 1: You know me. I'm not gonna shut up. But what

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Speaker 1: do you think? Do you think I'm actually gonna say

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Speaker 1: something bad about you? You invited me to your event. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm coming. The place is sold out, all right, Bill,

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Speaker 1: O'Reilly Bill, O'Reilly dot com. Uh, it's December fifteenth. I'd

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Speaker 1: offer your tickets, but it's sold out. I'm gonna introduce Bill,

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Speaker 1: but I'm also gonna do a little song and dance

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Speaker 1: before I introduce him. Uh, and Bill, great to have you,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. Thank you, Sean. All right,

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Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four on Sean, you want to

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Speaker 1: be a part of the program. I knew many of

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Speaker 1: you want to weigh in on all of this madness

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Speaker 1: that is next. As we continue, you are listening to

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Speaker 1: the best of the Sean Hannity Show. You can't always

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Speaker 1: believe what the other side claims. That's why there's the

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show. All right. As we continue with Senator

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Senator, Let's let's go to

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Speaker 1: what you broke last night on the show. And I've

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Speaker 1: got to be honest. I think I speak for a

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Speaker 1: lot of people being frustrated in terms of, Okay, when

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Speaker 1: is the IG report on Buy's abuse coming? You said

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Speaker 1: definitively December ninth, and that Michael Horowitz will be testifying

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Speaker 1: before your committee December eleventh. Right, that's what's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: is that locked in Now? This is not another I've

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Speaker 1: been talking to Horowitz about where he's at with there's

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Speaker 1: report there, trying to get as much of it declassified.

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Speaker 1: You have to go to the CIA, to Department of Justice.

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Speaker 1: Anybody mentioned in the report, they get a chance to comment,

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Speaker 1: to make sure that you know they're being mentioned. They

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Speaker 1: could to tell their side. The store has been a

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Speaker 1: pretty long process. The problem is that he found so

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Speaker 1: many new things. Every time they'd pick up a rock,

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01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 1: they'd find something under it. So I told Horowitz, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is important for the country for you to get right.

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Speaker 1: Timely is better, and he told me that he felt

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Speaker 1: like he could have it done December the eleventh in

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01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:37,519
Speaker 1: a professional way and that it would be ready for

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Speaker 1: distribution to the public. December the ninth. He also indicated

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Speaker 1: that almost everything he wanted declassified has been declassified because

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Speaker 1: he wants you to read it for yourself and not

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Speaker 1: have a lot of black spots on a page. So

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening. And we'll know December the ninth what

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Speaker 1: he found, and we'll hear from him directly December the eleventh.

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Speaker 1: All right, twenty five now before the top of the hour,

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Speaker 1: we continue. Senator Lindsey Graham announcing December ninth is the

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Speaker 1: date the Fiser report of Inspector General Harrowitz is released.

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Speaker 1: Senator Graham announcing December eleventh, the Inspector General Harrowitz will

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Speaker 1: appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator, there's something called

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Speaker 1: the Grassley Graham memo, and in that memo it said

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Speaker 1: that the bulk of information in the FISA applications is

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01:20:27,040 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 1: it about FISA abuse, that that came from an unverifiabull

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01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: we know now dirty Russian docier on Donald J. Trump,

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01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:39,360
Speaker 1: then candidate, that Hillary Clinton paid for with funneled money

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Speaker 1: through a law firm, hiring an up research firm, hiring

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Speaker 1: a foreign agent by the name of a Christopher Steele.

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Speaker 1: Here's my question. We know that the DOJ and the

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Speaker 1: FBI were warned by Kathleen Cavalac Bruce or as many

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01:20:55,240 --> 01:20:59,640
Speaker 1: as five separate warnings that it's unverified that Steele had

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01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 1: a political agenda and Hillary paid for it. Steele, in

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01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:05,640
Speaker 1: an interrogatory said he has no idea if any of

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01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:07,720
Speaker 1: this is true in Great Britain. That means it's an

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01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,800
Speaker 1: unverifiable document. When the FBI finally got around to doing

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01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:15,600
Speaker 1: a deep dive investigation, they disproved over ninety percent of

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01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: that document. My question to you is is there any

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01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: other possible conclusion? Then premeditated fraud against the FISA court

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01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: which denied one American citizen, Carter Page, his constitutional rights,

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01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: but also provided a backdoor and to all things candidate

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01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 1: Trump World, transition Trump World, and then President trump World,

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01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:43,639
Speaker 1: because there were three subsequent renewal applications, all approved. Well.

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Speaker 1: The Grassy Graham memo was myself and Chuck going to

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Speaker 1: the available documents we had with our staff to paint

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01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:58,759
Speaker 1: a picture that the dossier was paid for political party,

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01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: that the person who wrote the dossier had a well

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01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:06,600
Speaker 1: known bias against the president, and the substance of it

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01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:09,840
Speaker 1: is a bunch of garbage unverified to this day, Why

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Speaker 1: do we have Harwitz coming forward? Does he agree with

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01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:15,439
Speaker 1: what we found? Does he if he agrees with what

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Speaker 1: we found, that would be stunning. What would it mean?

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01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 1: It would mean that the FISA court was defrauded. Rather

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01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: than me speaking for him, you're going to hear from

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01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:26,680
Speaker 1: him December the eleventh, and I would be curious as

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01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: to whether or not he agrees with our research in

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Speaker 1: our analysis, and if he doesn't, I'd like to know why.

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Speaker 1: And that's why he's coming forward. I've heard it's over

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01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty pages. Now if to this day,

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01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: anything in the Fiser report, I've learned a lot about

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01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:46,519
Speaker 1: FISA applications. On the top of a FISA application, Senator,

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01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: is something the word verified. So if the information in

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Speaker 1: the application is unverifiable, and they were warned it was unverifiable,

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Speaker 1: to me, that would be a pretty slam dunk case.

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Speaker 1: And we do have the infamous words of the deputy

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Speaker 1: FBI director that would be Andrew McCabe when he said

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Speaker 1: he had no dossier, no Fiser warrant. So let's just

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01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 1: unpack that all right, Without the dossier, McCabe says, or

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Speaker 1: it'd be no warrant issues against quarter Page. If in

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Speaker 1: fact that's true, and the dossier is aunt dossier's unverified

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01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: to this day, then the Fizer Court should steel betrayed.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the question, when did they try to verify

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Speaker 1: the dossier. It's my belief that they made no serious

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Speaker 1: effort to verify it until after they had gotten to

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01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: warrant multiple times. Well, Senator, let me ask you. If

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Speaker 1: I presented information to any court, even if it was

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Speaker 1: for a traffic ticket, and I was the information I

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01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 1: was presenting to the court, I swore and verified was true,

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01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:51,680
Speaker 1: and I had no idea if it was true, or

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Speaker 1: if I was warned that it's not true and it

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01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 1: wasn't verifiable and it's not true in the end, Why

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Speaker 1: do I think that somebody like Sean Hannity would probably

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01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:02,639
Speaker 1: and everybody listening to this show would probably find themselves

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01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:05,720
Speaker 1: arrested and likely facing a prison term. Well, if you're

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01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:07,600
Speaker 1: a cop and you go get a warrant for a

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01:24:07,760 --> 01:24:09,960
Speaker 1: judge and you give him a bunch of garbage, you're

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01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: in trouble. So there's two outcomes here. If it's clear

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01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,839
Speaker 1: that these people knew that the information they were providing

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01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: to the files a court or should have known was

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01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:23,599
Speaker 1: unreliable in false, and they could be charge with basically

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01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:26,600
Speaker 1: violating the oasts to the court. The other outcome is

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Speaker 1: they made no effort at all. They were sloppy, they

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01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:32,800
Speaker 1: were negligent, they were indifferent, they were careless. That should

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01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: at least invoke a reprimand so what we will hear

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01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: from Harwoods is that the information provided to the court

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01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 1: was it such that you can prove that they intentionally

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01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:45,960
Speaker 1: misled the court, which would be a crime at a minimum.

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to find that they did a

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01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 1: terrible job, a lousy job, And I hope this never

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01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 1: happens again, and I hope the fives a court will

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01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 1: discipline to people who basically misled it. Did you, Senator,

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01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to hear the Attorney General of the

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Speaker 1: United States, Bill Barr in a speech that he gave

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Would you like me to play a

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01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,600
Speaker 1: portion of it? Because I thought I thought this was

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01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:16,640
Speaker 1: a powerful speech that would never be given unless the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General had good reason to give it. I'll play

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01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:22,599
Speaker 1: something for you. Unfortunately, just in the past few years,

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01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:27,879
Speaker 1: we have seen these conflicts take on an entirely new character.

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01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 1: Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they

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01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:39,600
Speaker 1: called the resistance, and they rallied around an explicit strategy

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Speaker 1: of using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the functioning

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01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:50,680
Speaker 1: of the executive branch and his administration. Now, resistance is

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01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: the language used to describe insurgency against rule imposed by

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Speaker 1: an occupying military power. This is a very dangerous and

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01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: indeed incendiary notion to import into the politics of a

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Speaker 1: democratic republic. The fact of the matter is that in

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01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:15,400
Speaker 1: waging a scorched earth, no holds barred war of resistance

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01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:20,959
Speaker 1: against this administration, it is the left that is engaged

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01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 1: in the systematic shredding of norms and undermining the rule

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Speaker 1: of law. Senator, That to me means that the Attorney General,

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Speaker 1: I believe everything he said is true and accurate, and

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Speaker 1: we have proven Look at the Russia witch hunt, now

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Speaker 1: look at the Ukraine impeachment, coup attempt, witch hunt. I

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01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: believe all of that is accurate, and I believe for

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01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 1: an Attorney general to say that means he knows a

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01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: lot more than little old talk show host Sean Hannity. Well,

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01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 1: it was a bowl statement and I think the fact

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01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 1: patterns justified that statement real quickly. Muller was allowed to

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Speaker 1: do his job without political interference. Twenty five million dollars

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Speaker 1: sixty FBI agency issued a very hundreds of pages, and

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Speaker 1: he decided not to recommend any action against the president.

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01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:10,519
Speaker 1: I thought it would be over. Now you've got an

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01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:15,200
Speaker 1: impeachment inquiry led by Adam Schiff, the most partisan guy

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01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 1: in the House, who's been wanting to get Trump since

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01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: day one, making up an allegation that doesn't hold water.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time a president's ever been peached

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01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 1: by a partisan rather than outside council. So it just

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01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 1: explains to me that they will never accept Trump being

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01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 1: the legitimate president. Did the institutions of the Department of

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01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 1: Justice and FBI at the top engage in similar conduct

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01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: by trying to get a warrant improperly, maybe illegally against

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Speaker 1: the Trump campaign? Did they open up a counterintelligence operation

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01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:52,759
Speaker 1: against a Trump campaign, violating every norm of the intelligence community.

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Speaker 1: By the way, this together its resistence. You can't have

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Speaker 1: a counterintelligence investigation senator without the sign off of the

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Speaker 1: Oval Office. That would be President Barack Obam don't believe

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01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 1: this possible for the our government to investigate the nominee

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01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:10,760
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party without it going all the way

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01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 1: to the top. And you should have some rules about

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01:28:13,360 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: how our government can investigate the nominee of any major party.

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01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:20,680
Speaker 1: There are no rules. And look what happened after he won.

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01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:25,880
Speaker 1: They surveiled his transition team. They surveiled Michael Flynn. You

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01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:28,720
Speaker 1: know this is the president to be. What are they

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01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:33,680
Speaker 1: doing surveiling his team. You had an alleged effort to

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01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:38,519
Speaker 1: wire somebody to invote the twenty fifth Amendment. If this

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01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: doesn't scare you, then you've lost all sense of what

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01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 1: it's like to be an American because you hate Trump

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01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:48,320
Speaker 1: so much. Listen, I know I'm keeping you much longer

1428
01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: than your plan. If you have to go, I understand.

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01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: I just have a lot of questions for you. You know, Senator,

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01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:56,800
Speaker 1: I don't think we've lived in a time like this

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Speaker 1: that we're supposed to care about foreign Russian foreign interference

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01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 1: on our elections. But you have a medium mob and

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01:29:05,840 --> 01:29:09,240
Speaker 1: one party that will ignore a dirty, bought and paid

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01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:13,680
Speaker 1: for Russian dossier. If you're a Democrat, you have to

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01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:17,640
Speaker 1: be an eye believer, but you won't. Nobody I believed

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01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:22,320
Speaker 1: when the significant serious charges of rape and violence sexual

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01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:26,440
Speaker 1: assault were made against the Lieutenant Governor the Commonwealth of Virginia. Noe,

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01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:28,720
Speaker 1: not a peep out of the eye believers to be

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01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, you have to ignore a Ukrainian court that

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01:29:32,520 --> 01:29:35,680
Speaker 1: said they did interfere in the twenty sixteen elections. You

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01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:39,720
Speaker 1: have to ignore that a DNC operative by the name Shaloopa,

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01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:46,639
Speaker 1: as chronicled in Politico on January eleven, twenty seventeen, literally

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01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: coordinated with Ukrainians to get dirt on Trump and Manafort

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01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 1: and other Trump campaign associates to help Hillary Clinton win

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01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:57,240
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. And you have to be against a

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01:29:57,320 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 1: quid pro quo. But ignore Joe who says, fire the

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01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 1: prosecutor who's paying my son's millions with zero experience, and

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01:30:06,360 --> 01:30:08,320
Speaker 1: you get a billion. But if you don't fire him,

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01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 1: you don't get the billion. And you've got six hours

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01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 1: to decide. You have to That's how you have to

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01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:16,280
Speaker 1: bifurcate your brain. Senator, Well, what you're doing is trying

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01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 1: to get an outcome. You won't President Trump to be

1453
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 1: removed from office or be damaged to the point that

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01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,599
Speaker 1: he can't get reelected. You want to keep the seat

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01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:28,759
Speaker 1: open so that a Democrat can feel Kavanaugh's seat not Kavanaugh.

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01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:31,200
Speaker 1: No rules are going to get in your way in

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01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:34,080
Speaker 1: terms of an outcome. The presumption inventsent doesn't apply to

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01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:37,240
Speaker 1: kavanautcose it gets in the way. So the bottom line

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01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:40,000
Speaker 1: heres are seeking an outcome and the rules be damned.

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01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:43,200
Speaker 1: Here's what would be interesting for me. I supported Mueller

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01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:46,720
Speaker 1: being able to do his job without interference because you're

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01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:49,519
Speaker 1: very outspoke. Well, you know, I thought somebody needed to

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01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:51,840
Speaker 1: look at all these allegations. It could not be done

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01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:55,559
Speaker 1: through the political process because everybody's so in their camps,

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01:30:55,600 --> 01:30:58,120
Speaker 1: and I trusted Mueller to be fair. Now, whether you

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01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:01,240
Speaker 1: believe he was fair or not, it's now history. He

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01:31:01,400 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 1: found nothing to charge the president with and his report

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01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 1: found no collusion and no actual instruction of justice. Here's

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01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:13,320
Speaker 1: what I wonder about democrats if Harrowitz comes out and

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01:31:13,479 --> 01:31:16,960
Speaker 1: says the fiz A Court was defrauded, the FISI court

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Speaker 1: was misled, the counter intelligence investigation was a sham. Will

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01:31:22,720 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: they care or if they used if they outsource spying

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01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:30,160
Speaker 1: to allied countries fill in the blanks? Ye, will they care?

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01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:33,240
Speaker 1: And I just asked them to do what I was

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01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 1: willing to do. Senator, we already know the answer. They

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01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 1: won't care. It's never been as bad, has it. Well,

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01:31:39,520 --> 01:31:42,839
Speaker 1: if they won't care about this, that means getting Trump

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Speaker 1: is the goal, and it's okay as long as you're

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Speaker 1: out to get Trump. There's no rules when it comes

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Speaker 1: to getting Trump. The ends justify the means. And if

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Speaker 1: that becomes the way we look at everything done to

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Speaker 1: President Trump is okay as long as they're wanted to

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Speaker 1: get him, then this is really scary. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to tell my Democratic colleagues, look what they're doing

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Speaker 1: to the president. In the House. They're having the hind

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Speaker 1: closed doors depositions, are selective leaking information. The President's council

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01:32:11,560 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 1: is excluded from cross examining witnesses the president. The Republicans

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01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 1: couldn't call a witness until the third day of the hearings.

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Speaker 1: How would you like this to be done to a

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Speaker 1: Democratic president. You're putting the entire presidency at risk. I

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01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:27,920
Speaker 1: know you don't like Trump, but let's don't destroy everything

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01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:30,800
Speaker 1: that makes America rule of all nation just because you

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01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 1: don't like Trump. Senator, you have been and have emerged

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Speaker 1: as a real leader in the Senate, you and I

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01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:40,160
Speaker 1: have had our disagreements over the years, they're long forgotten.

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Speaker 1: Amen to and thank you for the important work you're

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Speaker 1: doing for the country. Your voice, your strength, your you

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01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 1: know what you're doing is important here. Well, you know

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Speaker 1: what you're doing. You're not talking about, you know, my

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Speaker 1: ideological difference with Democrats. You're actually exploring the fact patterns.

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Speaker 1: And of all the researchers on able television, I watch

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Speaker 1: your show because usually I learned something I wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: known otherwise. And John Solomon should be getting prizes for

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01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:12,519
Speaker 1: his reporting. He's being condemned. Yeah, Senator, thank you. You've

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Speaker 1: been very generous with your time today. We'll look forward

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Speaker 1: to December ninth and December eleventh. All right, Happy Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving as well. Eight hundred ninety four one Sean

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Speaker 1: Tolfree telephone number. You want to be a part of

1509
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Speaker 1: this extravaganza, all the breaking news, for the analysis to

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Speaker 1: help you make sense of it all. This is the

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show. The best of Sean Hannity is on now.

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Speaker 1: We have coming y'all sitting seeing you well all be

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Speaker 1: desire and if you want a little banging union, come along.

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Speaker 1: In the history of our country, there has never been

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Speaker 1: a disgrace like what's going on right now. Republicans, they

1516
01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:22,840
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to ask questions. It's a very sad thing,

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Speaker 1: mister chairman. I have a point of order. Mister chairman,

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Speaker 1: I have a point of order. Is not recognized, so

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Speaker 1: we know clearly you A woman interrupt us throughout this year,

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Speaker 1: A woman is not recognized. Let's chairman, ap today, ask

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Speaker 1: for sent request today, chams not requit, not recognized. Only

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Speaker 1: three hundred and forty days left until the presidential election,

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01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 1: where I'm coming to your city and saying you a

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01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:07,320
Speaker 1: con the scenes information on breaking news and more bold

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01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:13,000
Speaker 1: inspired solutions for America. I finally called the president. I

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01:35:13,200 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 1: believe it was on the ninth of September. I can't

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01:35:16,640 --> 01:35:19,120
Speaker 1: find the records and they won't provide them to me,

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01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:22,599
Speaker 1: but I believe I just asked him an open ended question,

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01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 1: mister chairman, what do you want from Ukraine? I keep

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01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:28,479
Speaker 1: hearing all these different ideas and theories and this and that,

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01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:31,679
Speaker 1: what do you want? And he just said, I want nothing.

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01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:34,599
Speaker 1: I want nothing, I want no quid pro quo. Tell

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Speaker 1: them Lensky to do the right thing. Something to that effect,

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01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:43,120
Speaker 1: what agency was this individual from. If I could interject here,

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01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:46,760
Speaker 1: we don't want to use these proceedings. It's our time.

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01:35:47,400 --> 01:35:52,040
Speaker 1: We need to protect the whistle blower. If please stop.

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01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:55,400
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that there's no effort to

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01:35:55,520 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 1: out the whistle blower through the use of these proceedings.

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01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:02,840
Speaker 1: If the witness as a good faith belief that this

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Speaker 1: may reveal the identity of the whistle blower, that is

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01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:08,760
Speaker 1: not the purpose that we are here for. And I

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01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:12,760
Speaker 1: want to advise the witness accordingly. I mean, you can,

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01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:16,040
Speaker 1: really you can plead the fifth, but you're here to

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01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:20,240
Speaker 1: answer questions, and you're here under subpoena, so you can

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01:36:20,320 --> 01:36:22,679
Speaker 1: either answer the question or you can plead the fifth.

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01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:29,320
Speaker 1: Excuse me on behalf of my client. We are following

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Speaker 1: the rule of the committee, the rule of the Chair

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01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 1: with regard to this issue, and this does not call

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Speaker 1: for an answer that is invoking the fifth or any

1550
01:36:40,360 --> 01:36:44,679
Speaker 1: theoretical issue like that, or following the ruling of the chair.

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Speaker 1: What counselor what ruling is that I could interject, Counsel

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Speaker 1: is correct. Whistle blower has the right statutory right to anonymity.

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Speaker 1: These proceedings will not be used out the whistle blower,

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Speaker 1: and I've advised my client accordingly, and he's going to

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Speaker 1: follow the ruling of the chair. If there's an alternative

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01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:07,200
Speaker 1: or you want to work something out with the Chair,

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01:37:07,640 --> 01:37:10,920
Speaker 1: that's up to you. Interns. Thanks, gentlemen. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: address a few brief words to the American people watching

1559
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:18,000
Speaker 1: at home. If you watch the impeachment hearings last week,

1560
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:20,479
Speaker 1: you may have noticed a disconnect between what you actually

1561
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:24,400
Speaker 1: saw and the mainstream media accounts describing it. When you

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01:37:24,479 --> 01:37:30,280
Speaker 1: saw three diplomats who dislike President Trump's Ukraine policy discussing

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01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 1: second hand and third hand conversations about their objections with

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Speaker 1: the Trump policy. Meanwhile, they admitted they had not talked

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01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:41,639
Speaker 1: to the President about these matters and they were unable

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01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:45,599
Speaker 1: to identify any crime or impeachable offense the President committed.

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01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:48,920
Speaker 1: What you read in the press were accounts of shocking, damning,

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01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 1: and explosive testimony that fully supports the Democrats accusations. If

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01:37:54,040 --> 01:37:56,720
Speaker 1: these accounts have a familiar ring, it's because this is

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01:37:56,760 --> 01:38:01,280
Speaker 1: the same preposterous reporting the media for three years on

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Speaker 1: the Russian host on a nearly daily basis. The top

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Speaker 1: news outlets in America reported breathlessly on the newest bombshell

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01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:13,120
Speaker 1: revelations showing that President Trump and everyone surrounding him were

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Speaker 1: Russian agents. It really wasn't long ago that we were

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Speaker 1: reading these headlines from CNN. Congress investigating Russian investment fund

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Speaker 1: with ties to Trump officials. This was false. New York Times.

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01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:32,280
Speaker 1: Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence. Also false.

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01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:37,800
Speaker 1: Slate was a Trump server communicating with Russia? This was false.

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Speaker 1: New York Magazine. Will Trump be meeting with his counterpart

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Speaker 1: or his handler? This was false. The Guardian Manafart held

1581
01:38:46,880 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: secret talks with Assage and Ecuadorian embassy, also false. BuzzFeed.

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01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:55,880
Speaker 1: President Trump directed his attorney to lie to Congress about

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Speaker 1: the Moscow tower project. All of these were falling. That

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Speaker 1: was the most powerful opening statement. That was Devin Newness,

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Speaker 1: the ranking member on the committee earlier today. And it

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01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 1: pretty much sums up where you know, where this whole

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01:39:12,400 --> 01:39:14,880
Speaker 1: thing has been, where it goes. You know, you know

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Speaker 1: what the top takeaway of today is another dud. I mean,

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Speaker 1: both witnesses made very clear aid was withheld to ensure

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Speaker 1: consistency with the administration policy. I mean, you can't get

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Speaker 1: any more clear than that. Yoursel or Vinman confirming that

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01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:34,080
Speaker 1: the call is accurate, Because if the call is accurate,

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01:39:34,560 --> 01:39:37,639
Speaker 1: then guess what Nothing bad happened on that phone call.

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01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: Nothing you know. Also, the media won't cover this part.

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01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:44,400
Speaker 1: You got quid pro quo, Joe. You know, well, if

1596
01:39:44,640 --> 01:39:47,280
Speaker 1: you fire that prosecutor or, hell soon, I getting a

1597
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:50,680
Speaker 1: billion dollars. Fire him, you get a billion. Don't fire him,

1598
01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:52,840
Speaker 1: you don't get the billion you got six hours and

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Speaker 1: he knew was warned repeatedly that his son was being

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Speaker 1: investigated by the prosecutor. He's now using taxpayer money to

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01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:04,720
Speaker 1: get hired. Unbelievable, a real quid pro quot. Vinman acknowledging

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01:40:04,880 --> 01:40:07,599
Speaker 1: that the need to root out corruption in Ukraine. Yeah,

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01:40:07,800 --> 01:40:11,200
Speaker 1: In other words, the President's demand is smart. It is

1604
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 1: We're not going to throw good money after bad. Then

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01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: you got this woman Morrison disputing Vinman's recollection of the call.

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01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean they can't even agree with each other, which

1607
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:24,599
Speaker 1: is how corrupt this whole thing gets. As you move,

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01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:28,960
Speaker 1: The President of Ukraine stated clearly no quid, no pro

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01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:33,000
Speaker 1: no quo of any type. There's never any mention of

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01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:37,479
Speaker 1: any aid on that phone call, none whatsoever. When the AID.

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01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:40,080
Speaker 1: Remember they didn't know that the AID was held up.

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01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:43,559
Speaker 1: And when they got the aid, guess what they got

1613
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 1: nothing in exchange for the aid. No wonder why the

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01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:49,920
Speaker 1: president the Foreign minister said, we thought it was a

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01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:52,040
Speaker 1: great call. No, we didn't even know the AID was

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01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:54,640
Speaker 1: held up, and no they asked for nothing. And then

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01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:57,400
Speaker 1: of course the open ended question Sonderman will be on

1618
01:40:57,479 --> 01:41:01,080
Speaker 1: I guess or whatever Solderman is this week him saying, yeah,

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01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:04,360
Speaker 1: the President said, there's no quid pro quo withholding aid.

1620
01:41:04,479 --> 01:41:09,160
Speaker 1: By the way, happens to be very common place. Obama

1621
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:12,720
Speaker 1: did it, Bush did it, Carter did it. They all

1622
01:41:12,840 --> 01:41:16,440
Speaker 1: did it, you know. So the witch hunt just continues,

1623
01:41:16,760 --> 01:41:18,479
Speaker 1: and you're not going to get the mob in the media.

1624
01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 1: They're not going to ask the questions that matter, like, oh,

1625
01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:24,879
Speaker 1: who are these two people that you know Kerry Pickett's

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01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:27,000
Speaker 1: story today and she'll join us later in the program,

1627
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 1: are telling us about that actually now work for Adam Schiff,

1628
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:34,519
Speaker 1: that they knew the non whistle blower heresay whistle blower

1629
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:37,240
Speaker 1: and we're friends with them. Oh, how convenient, you know.

1630
01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:38,960
Speaker 1: And then you got the mob in the media. They'll

1631
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:43,400
Speaker 1: just regurgitate every opinion that's all this is is opinions

1632
01:41:43,479 --> 01:41:47,080
Speaker 1: of people. When you have the actual transcript, you don't

1633
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 1: need their opinions because opinions, Okay, everybody clearly now has

1634
01:41:52,479 --> 01:41:55,720
Speaker 1: a different opinion about it. So the only real evidence

1635
01:41:55,920 --> 01:41:59,320
Speaker 1: that would actually be admissible in a real courtroom would

1636
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:02,439
Speaker 1: not be here, say, evidence about what people think about

1637
01:42:02,520 --> 01:42:05,679
Speaker 1: what they thought about some of these grandmother's father's nephews,

1638
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 1: third cousin's wife thought thinks of the call. And they

1639
01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: just do this because what they have a policy disagreement.

1640
01:42:11,439 --> 01:42:13,600
Speaker 1: But more importantly, they hate the president. They hate the

1641
01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 1: fact that we the people voted for him that was

1642
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:19,280
Speaker 1: not their chosen candidate, and so that they know they

1643
01:42:19,320 --> 01:42:21,680
Speaker 1: can beat him. Well, let's just impeach him. You know,

1644
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:25,559
Speaker 1: we have policy disagreements. Oh, when they asked the question,

1645
01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 1: Ratcliffe anyway, any of you ever mentioned bribery. No, because

1646
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:33,320
Speaker 1: we now have the corrupt media, we'll stop saying quid

1647
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:36,000
Speaker 1: pro quell. Let's change the name after we focus group

1648
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:39,360
Speaker 1: into bribery, and of course again you know, not going

1649
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:42,639
Speaker 1: into the whole real scandal, which is Joe Biden. Anyway.

1650
01:42:42,680 --> 01:42:45,640
Speaker 1: Sean Davis, co founder of the Federalist, Greg Jarrett with

1651
01:42:45,760 --> 01:42:47,880
Speaker 1: US Fox news legal analysts, author of the New York

1652
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:52,760
Speaker 1: Times bestseller witch Hunt. I honestly find this to be

1653
01:42:53,360 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 1: the biggest, most colossal waste of time. And I watched

1654
01:42:57,840 --> 01:43:02,400
Speaker 1: the media breathlessly acting like it's something when I see nothing. Greg,

1655
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:06,920
Speaker 1: there's nothing here. Read the transcript. None of this testimony

1656
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:10,800
Speaker 1: matters in the least. If Vinman testified he was concerned

1657
01:43:11,040 --> 01:43:15,880
Speaker 1: about the president's conversation with Zolensky, that's nothing more than opinion,

1658
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:19,439
Speaker 1: an impression, or a feeling. We all have them. They

1659
01:43:19,520 --> 01:43:23,400
Speaker 1: are a poor substitute for facts. The unvarnished truth is

1660
01:43:23,439 --> 01:43:26,000
Speaker 1: that Vinman just didn't like what Trump said of a

1661
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 1: phone call because the President did not strictly follow Vinman's

1662
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:33,920
Speaker 1: notes that he'd prepared for the discussion, and in fact

1663
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:36,920
Speaker 1: and describing the calls, Vinman said, well, this was not

1664
01:43:37,120 --> 01:43:40,599
Speaker 1: in the preparation material I had offered, as if to say,

1665
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:44,679
Speaker 1: how dare Trump deviate from my planned script? So Vinman

1666
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:48,600
Speaker 1: then complains, instead of going to his direct supervisor, he

1667
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:53,040
Speaker 1: conveys his feelings to an individual in the intel community

1668
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:56,680
Speaker 1: that he won't identify, who's likely the source for the

1669
01:43:56,800 --> 01:44:00,800
Speaker 1: faux whistleblower, who then file a complaint and qualify on

1670
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:05,839
Speaker 1: the whistleblower Statute as a valid complaint. So Vinman, it appears,

1671
01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:11,760
Speaker 1: was instrumental in initiating the impeachment insanity. It really is,

1672
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:15,439
Speaker 1: Sean Davis. There is an insanity here because if you

1673
01:44:15,560 --> 01:44:17,560
Speaker 1: want to quid and you want to pro and you

1674
01:44:17,640 --> 01:44:21,600
Speaker 1: want to quo, you gotta look at Joe Fire the prosecutor,

1675
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:24,559
Speaker 1: you get a billion. If not, I'm you're not getting

1676
01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 1: the billion. Paul Obama, You're not gonna get it. I'm

1677
01:44:26,960 --> 01:44:29,559
Speaker 1: leaving in six hours. There's your quid pro quo, right,

1678
01:44:29,680 --> 01:44:32,240
Speaker 1: And it was I'll take issue just very briefly with

1679
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:34,080
Speaker 1: one thing he said earlier. He said this hearing was

1680
01:44:34,120 --> 01:44:37,720
Speaker 1: a dutch for the for impeachment. I think I would

1681
01:44:37,720 --> 01:44:39,800
Speaker 1: disagree with that. I think it was a bombshell, but

1682
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:42,519
Speaker 1: one that blew up in the hands of Democrats. They

1683
01:44:42,640 --> 01:44:45,639
Speaker 1: hit planned today to be a display of a uniform

1684
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:50,000
Speaker 1: military officer lowering the hammer, lowering the boom on Trump,

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Speaker 1: and instead what we learned was that Alex Finman was

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01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:57,400
Speaker 1: actually patient zero and the anti Trump bureaucracy's coop epidemic

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01:44:58,080 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: throughout the government. This was a guy who was clearly

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01:45:01,200 --> 01:45:05,120
Speaker 1: starting the entire whistleblower effort against Trump. He said that

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Speaker 1: before he went to his superior before he even went

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Speaker 1: to the NSC lawyer, that he spread around his so

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01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:14,439
Speaker 1: called concerns about this call to more than half a

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Speaker 1: dozen officials who he called his coordination partners, and also

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01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:20,920
Speaker 1: an individual who worked in the intelligence community, whom he

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Speaker 1: refused to name. Now, remember this guy. He said he

1695
01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: didn't know who the whistleblower was. And yet when he

1696
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:29,800
Speaker 1: was asked that question, who you talked to in the

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01:45:29,840 --> 01:45:32,280
Speaker 1: intel community, his lawyer said, well, he can't answer that

1698
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:36,160
Speaker 1: because it might identify the whistleblower. This entire sham blew

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01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:38,439
Speaker 1: up in the Democrat's face today, and it did so

1700
01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 1: because their number one plotter here, Vinman, was revealed to

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01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:45,320
Speaker 1: have been instrumental in starting this entire thing, and his

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01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,920
Speaker 1: testimony showed him to be completely untrustworthy. Here's the other thing,

1703
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:51,439
Speaker 1: and you tweeted this out today, Sean, and I hadn't

1704
01:45:51,479 --> 01:45:55,920
Speaker 1: thought about this, but it's profound is that Vinman admitted

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01:45:56,320 --> 01:46:00,040
Speaker 1: to going behind the president's back before the president and

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01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:04,439
Speaker 1: spoke with Zalinsky, giving Zalinsky instructions on what policies he

1707
01:46:04,520 --> 01:46:07,759
Speaker 1: should pursue and what his posture should be towards the US,

1708
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:10,920
Speaker 1: and having already admitted in previous testimony that he was

1709
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 1: told that he told Ukraine to ignore Trump. There's your bombshelly.

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01:46:15,320 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: He had really contradictory testimony, you know, both today and

1711
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:21,439
Speaker 1: compared to his previous deposition where he claimed, you know,

1712
01:46:21,560 --> 01:46:24,280
Speaker 1: I never went outside the chain of command. The president's

1713
01:46:24,280 --> 01:46:26,920
Speaker 1: always in charge. And yet we have him admitting, yeah,

1714
01:46:26,920 --> 01:46:29,040
Speaker 1: I went around his back. I told the Ukrainians not

1715
01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 1: to get involved in this, or that I told him that,

1716
01:46:31,400 --> 01:46:33,280
Speaker 1: you know, they need to do this policy, not this

1717
01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:37,760
Speaker 1: other policy that the president wanted. This is unconscionable behavior.

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01:46:37,880 --> 01:46:39,479
Speaker 1: This is the kind of thing that if you did

1719
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:42,160
Speaker 1: in the military and combat and you went around a

1720
01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:46,920
Speaker 1: commander's back, you would have serious legal implications for you.

1721
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:50,720
Speaker 1: And yet you have this guy just out there openly admitting, yeah, yeah,

1722
01:46:50,760 --> 01:46:52,680
Speaker 1: I went behind his back. I did this stuff. And

1723
01:46:52,800 --> 01:46:55,040
Speaker 1: it was clear in questions today when he was asked

1724
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:57,560
Speaker 1: you worked, Does the Secretary State work for you, do

1725
01:46:57,680 --> 01:46:59,880
Speaker 1: these ambassadors work for you? Does the president work for you?

1726
01:47:00,439 --> 01:47:03,719
Speaker 1: This man bristled whenever he was reminded of his actual

1727
01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 1: place in the hierarchy in our government, and the reality

1728
01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:09,000
Speaker 1: is he's a mid level of bureaucrat. He's not a principal,

1729
01:47:09,080 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 1: he's not a decision maker. And he was clearly riled

1730
01:47:12,280 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 1: at being reminded of that that it's the president, not

1731
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 1: a mid level of bureaucrat, who makes American policy when

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01:47:17,920 --> 01:47:19,840
Speaker 1: it comes to foreign nations. By the way, what guy

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01:47:19,880 --> 01:47:23,400
Speaker 1: would ever think, Greg Jarrett, that he has the ability

1734
01:47:23,520 --> 01:47:26,280
Speaker 1: to go behind the President's back the way he did

1735
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:29,360
Speaker 1: in your right. He was obviously insulted that his prepared

1736
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:32,200
Speaker 1: talking points weren't used by the president. I don't think

1737
01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:36,120
Speaker 1: President Trump is a talking point kind of guy. And

1738
01:47:36,240 --> 01:47:38,840
Speaker 1: this was not the conversation for anything deep anyway, was

1739
01:47:38,880 --> 01:47:41,240
Speaker 1: more of a congratulatory call. And by the way, don't

1740
01:47:41,280 --> 01:47:44,639
Speaker 1: surround yourself with the corrupt people that your predecessors surrounding

1741
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:47,479
Speaker 1: himself with. I'm worried about that. And then said, hey,

1742
01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: your country was involved in our election interference with the

1743
01:47:51,200 --> 01:47:54,320
Speaker 1: Ukrainian court had determined and political wrote about in January

1744
01:47:54,360 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen. So I think that the president was

1745
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:02,720
Speaker 1: faithfully executing the pause. But apparently mister Vinman bought his

1746
01:48:02,880 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 1: policies and advice to Zalinsky was more important than in

1747
01:48:08,280 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 1: anything else. It sounds like he was trying to set

1748
01:48:10,439 --> 01:48:14,519
Speaker 1: up a meeting like a Ukraine first policy right. Vinman

1749
01:48:14,760 --> 01:48:18,240
Speaker 1: thought that he's above the Secretary of State about the President.

1750
01:48:18,320 --> 01:48:22,400
Speaker 1: He's some super special expert to which all including Trump,

1751
01:48:22,479 --> 01:48:27,280
Speaker 1: should prefer. And the interesting moment occurred when the witness

1752
01:48:27,520 --> 01:48:32,240
Speaker 1: was reminded about how he counted, or more likely exaggerated

1753
01:48:32,400 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 1: his unparallel credentials and authorities during his deposition. And I'll

1754
01:48:37,240 --> 01:48:41,320
Speaker 1: quote him, I'm the director for Ukraine, I'm responsible for Ukraine.

1755
01:48:41,600 --> 01:48:44,840
Speaker 1: I'm the most knowledgeable, I'm the authority for Ukraine, for

1756
01:48:44,920 --> 01:48:48,639
Speaker 1: the National Security Council and the White House my word,

1757
01:48:48,880 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 1: I mean, the self puffery was unbecoming, but it really

1758
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:56,479
Speaker 1: spoke volumes about what motivated Vindon. When you know the

1759
01:48:56,600 --> 01:49:00,880
Speaker 1: President had the audacity to conduct for policy in a

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01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:06,200
Speaker 1: way that this mid level bureaucrat NFC Stafford did not preapprove.

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01:49:06,920 --> 01:49:10,479
Speaker 1: How important was thenman in the White House? You never

1762
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:16,040
Speaker 1: so much has met the president. So that explains his testimony.

1763
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:20,519
Speaker 1: It's all hearsay. None of it would be admissible anyway,

1764
01:49:20,560 --> 01:49:22,920
Speaker 1: Stay right there. Eight hundred and nine four one Shawn,

1765
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:24,280
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program

1766
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: on America and Americans first, Now there's a novel idea.

1767
01:49:36,360 --> 01:49:52,080
Speaker 1: You're on the Sean right, rapid things up right, summary, Sean,

1768
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Speaker 1: I'll ask you first, Davis from the Federalist thirty seconds,

1769
01:49:57,040 --> 01:50:00,280
Speaker 1: how does this now end? I think this ends with

1770
01:50:00,360 --> 01:50:02,880
Speaker 1: a vote in the House that is completely partisan, with

1771
01:50:03,040 --> 01:50:07,599
Speaker 1: all Democrats and no Republicans voting to impeach. I think

1772
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:10,000
Speaker 1: that gets to the Senate and it goes nowhere in

1773
01:50:10,040 --> 01:50:12,000
Speaker 1: the Senate, and they may have a trial, but there's

1774
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:14,680
Speaker 1: no an or Trun's getting condicted. The whole thing is

1775
01:50:14,800 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 1: a show meant to damage him ahead of the twenty

1776
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:19,920
Speaker 1: twenty election. Greg Jarrett, how does it end? Same way

1777
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:23,679
Speaker 1: Sean said it would. This is a carnival, and frankly

1778
01:50:23,720 --> 01:50:26,040
Speaker 1: I wrote a call him that said Trump should hope

1779
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 1: that shifts. Carnival never stops because it only extends to

1780
01:50:31,080 --> 01:50:35,759
Speaker 1: his benefit. It ensures his continued residence at sixteen hundred

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01:50:35,800 --> 01:50:40,919
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Avenue. The backlash against Democrats here will be severe,

1782
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:43,639
Speaker 1: all right when we come back. Thank you both, Davis.

1783
01:50:44,120 --> 01:50:46,320
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett eight hundred and nine four one. Sean will

1784
01:50:46,360 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: get to some of your calls. You're actually going to

1785
01:50:48,439 --> 01:50:53,200
Speaker 1: talk to a real whistleblower and what are the real protections.

1786
01:50:53,640 --> 01:50:55,479
Speaker 1: Kerry Pickett is going to break some news at the

1787
01:50:55,560 --> 01:50:58,439
Speaker 1: top of the five o'clock hour about now we know

1788
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:01,800
Speaker 1: that the hearsay was blow Ward now was friends with

1789
01:51:01,960 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: two people in Chiff's office and served with two people

1790
01:51:05,040 --> 01:51:07,640
Speaker 1: at the same time in the early days of the

1791
01:51:07,720 --> 01:51:10,559
Speaker 1: Trump White House. That's coming up a lot of your calls.

1792
01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:13,160
Speaker 1: We have an amazing Hannity tonight nine Eastern Fox News

1793
01:51:13,200 --> 01:51:17,439
Speaker 1: will continue. This is the best of the best. This

1794
01:51:17,920 --> 01:51:36,120
Speaker 1: is the Sean Hannity Show. More of the best of

1795
01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:41,360
Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show coming up, the radio show, the

1796
01:51:41,600 --> 01:51:48,720
Speaker 1: mainstream media, Love State. This is the Sean Hannity showgiving

1797
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:50,800
Speaker 1: If the President is watching, what do you want to

1798
01:51:50,840 --> 01:51:55,000
Speaker 1: say to him? I love you, sir, You're awesome you

1799
01:51:55,160 --> 01:51:58,439
Speaker 1: and you're you know. I'll say this, mister President, I

1800
01:51:58,520 --> 01:52:01,880
Speaker 1: wish you had a better team around you. You You

1801
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:06,960
Speaker 1: need more people watching your back and I think you

1802
01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:09,440
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of that, and that is absolutely

1803
01:52:09,680 --> 01:52:13,120
Speaker 1: unfortunate and that, uh, that infuriates me to no end.

1804
01:52:13,320 --> 01:52:14,800
Speaker 1: I've got to get your comment on this. As someone

1805
01:52:14,840 --> 01:52:16,839
Speaker 1: who wants to be the next commander in chief tweeted

1806
01:52:17,120 --> 01:52:19,320
Speaker 1: about your case, in Matt's case, in Eddie's case, it

1807
01:52:19,360 --> 01:52:21,720
Speaker 1: was Joe Biden. He tweeted this. He said, Trump's intervention

1808
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:24,960
Speaker 1: in the American military justice system to pardon service members

1809
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:27,679
Speaker 1: accused or convicted of war crimes betrays the rule of law,

1810
01:52:28,000 --> 01:52:29,880
Speaker 1: the values that make our country exceptional, and in the

1811
01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:32,240
Speaker 1: men and women who wear the uniform honorably. He is

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01:52:32,320 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 1: not fit to command our troops. What would you say

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01:52:35,040 --> 01:52:37,040
Speaker 1: to that, well, I would say, with all due respect

1814
01:52:37,080 --> 01:52:41,920
Speaker 1: to the former Vice president, UM, you know, that seems

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01:52:41,920 --> 01:52:47,360
Speaker 1: to be a partisan um answer. That seems to be

1816
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:51,000
Speaker 1: something that he's just told the party line on UM.

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01:52:51,080 --> 01:52:54,200
Speaker 1: I highly doubt the vice president, being the patriotic man

1818
01:52:54,280 --> 01:52:57,360
Speaker 1: with a with a son in the military like he had, UM,

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01:52:58,120 --> 01:53:00,600
Speaker 1: I highly doubt that he really believes that. And I

1820
01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:02,719
Speaker 1: think that what he's doing is he's told the party

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01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:06,600
Speaker 1: line and he's doing what he thinks his donors and

1822
01:53:07,520 --> 01:53:11,880
Speaker 1: the people that are signing his paycheck are expecting him

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01:53:11,880 --> 01:53:14,400
Speaker 1: to do. And I think if you were to sit

1824
01:53:14,520 --> 01:53:16,720
Speaker 1: down with him face to face, I think you'd have

1825
01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:20,000
Speaker 1: an issue saying that right face to face all right,

1826
01:53:20,040 --> 01:53:23,439
Speaker 1: that was Clint Lorance with our buddy Pete Hegseth. We

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01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:27,519
Speaker 1: have followed Clint Lorentz's case now for six years. We

1828
01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:31,120
Speaker 1: have now followed this case of this grave injustice, and

1829
01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:35,920
Speaker 1: thanks to the President we now have He has granted

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01:53:36,120 --> 01:53:41,120
Speaker 1: pardons and restored the rank to Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.

1831
01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:45,000
Speaker 1: But he signed full pardons for Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorentz,

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Speaker 1: an Army Major Matthew Goldstein, and directed promotion a special

1833
01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:52,679
Speaker 1: Warfare Operator first class Eddie Gallagher, which we interviewed Eddie before,

1834
01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:54,840
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you this is a case

1835
01:53:54,920 --> 01:53:58,320
Speaker 1: I cannot believe we have gotten to this point. We are.

1836
01:53:58,520 --> 01:54:02,719
Speaker 1: We have people in air condition offices now second guessing

1837
01:54:02,760 --> 01:54:05,040
Speaker 1: what are brave men and women when they have to

1838
01:54:05,120 --> 01:54:07,519
Speaker 1: make a life and death decision for themselves and their

1839
01:54:07,600 --> 01:54:11,040
Speaker 1: platoon members. And if they make the wrong decision, well

1840
01:54:11,280 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 1: they're in trouble and we end up putting them in jail.

1841
01:54:14,280 --> 01:54:17,519
Speaker 1: And that's basically what happened to Clint Lorentz. This goes

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01:54:17,560 --> 01:54:20,400
Speaker 1: back to July at twenty twelve. He's leading men on

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01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:26,200
Speaker 1: combat through a heavily planted Afghan mine fields, risking his

1844
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:29,600
Speaker 1: life for his country. Anyway, they're moving single file to

1845
01:54:29,720 --> 01:54:32,920
Speaker 1: avoid the IEDs which are planted all over the place.

1846
01:54:33,640 --> 01:54:38,200
Speaker 1: And then three Afghan men start charging Lorentz's men on

1847
01:54:38,280 --> 01:54:41,520
Speaker 1: a motorcycle on a road that's controlled by the Taliban,

1848
01:54:42,080 --> 01:54:44,840
Speaker 1: ignoring signs that they were supposed to stay off the road.

1849
01:54:45,600 --> 01:54:48,680
Speaker 1: And he asked to as platoon leader, maybe he has

1850
01:54:48,760 --> 01:54:52,880
Speaker 1: five seconds to make the decision. What do I do here?

1851
01:54:53,080 --> 01:54:55,480
Speaker 1: Do I save my guys? Now here's an interesting side

1852
01:54:55,520 --> 01:54:59,160
Speaker 1: note to all of this is that that very platoon

1853
01:54:59,720 --> 01:55:03,920
Speaker 1: had been ambushed by these motorcycle ieed guys. What was

1854
01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:07,200
Speaker 1: it two weeks prior? Yep, And they lost the platoon leader,

1855
01:55:07,240 --> 01:55:10,680
Speaker 1: didn't they not? And others were injured right correct? So

1856
01:55:11,760 --> 01:55:15,720
Speaker 1: these guys are coming right at him anyway, So he

1857
01:55:15,880 --> 01:55:18,440
Speaker 1: goes on trial. And how many and by the way,

1858
01:55:18,440 --> 01:55:22,320
Speaker 1: Clint Lorans is with US Army Lieutenant Clint Lawrance and

1859
01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:25,960
Speaker 1: also as his attorney, Don Brown, how many years you've

1860
01:55:25,960 --> 01:55:27,520
Speaker 1: been working on this now down going on a couple

1861
01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:29,640
Speaker 1: of years now, and the legal team has been involved

1862
01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:31,560
Speaker 1: this for five years, John Marster, or of the team,

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Speaker 1: We're so grateful for today's Sean. We really are a

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01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:37,120
Speaker 1: big day today. It's great to finally meet you too.

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Speaker 1: You too, shot. Have you heard we've been talking about

1866
01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:42,080
Speaker 1: you a little bit when your ears burning? Absolutely? Absolutely?

1867
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Speaker 1: And at first, you know, if I can, you know,

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01:55:44,280 --> 01:55:47,560
Speaker 1: I try to. When anybody asked me anything about the

1869
01:55:47,680 --> 01:55:49,400
Speaker 1: last couple of days, the first thing I say is

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01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:52,880
Speaker 1: thank you to President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

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01:55:53,200 --> 01:55:55,120
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that I'll probably do for

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Speaker 1: the rest of my life. They they just saved my

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01:55:58,640 --> 01:56:01,680
Speaker 1: life and I owe him my life. And the men

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Speaker 1: and women of the United States military. Uh, they have

1875
01:56:04,760 --> 01:56:08,960
Speaker 1: a real good man in the White House. Well, certainly

1876
01:56:09,200 --> 01:56:12,680
Speaker 1: he's supporting his military. Well, it was very interesting and

1877
01:56:13,320 --> 01:56:15,720
Speaker 1: and you could maybe why don't you walk us through

1878
01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:18,720
Speaker 1: that day because I want people to hear what happened

1879
01:56:18,800 --> 01:56:22,960
Speaker 1: from you. Okay, so I'll walk you through it. But

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Speaker 1: I'd like you to consider that it's been about seven

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01:56:26,280 --> 01:56:29,760
Speaker 1: years now, um, so my memory is kind of fading.

1882
01:56:29,800 --> 01:56:32,800
Speaker 1: I've I've sort of you know, I think some things

1883
01:56:32,840 --> 01:56:35,040
Speaker 1: have kind of melded together over the years. But essentially

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01:56:35,960 --> 01:56:39,400
Speaker 1: we were on a dismounted foot patrol. Uh. And the

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01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: reason we were using dismounts, which is you know, for

1886
01:56:42,720 --> 01:56:46,120
Speaker 1: your non military listeners, you're walking. Um, so we're we're

1887
01:56:46,200 --> 01:56:49,080
Speaker 1: foot patrolling, and you're the new platoon leader. I'm the

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01:56:49,120 --> 01:56:51,520
Speaker 1: new YEP, I'm the new guy. I've been there right

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01:56:51,640 --> 01:56:54,000
Speaker 1: single file. I'm the new guy. I've been there about

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01:56:54,240 --> 01:56:56,720
Speaker 1: seventy two hours by now. So I don't know any

1891
01:56:56,720 --> 01:56:59,040
Speaker 1: of these guys. None of them know me, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I still to be on with you. I can't even

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Speaker 1: remember most of their names. And you know, there's still

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Speaker 1: some people like in the Stars documentary that came out that, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, who is that? Like, I don't know who

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Speaker 1: that is? How long prior to you getting there was

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Speaker 1: a platoon leader killed in a very similar situation about

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Speaker 1: to describe, well, the platoon the previous platoon leader was

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Speaker 1: not killed, but there were soldiers that were unfortunately killed

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Speaker 1: by those uh animals that were fighting over there. Um

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Speaker 1: cowards really uh but uh, the previous platoon leader that

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Speaker 1: I replaced, he was wounded an action. Unfortunately he's doing

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Speaker 1: well these days. Um, but uh, I can't remember exactly

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Speaker 1: how long it was. It was a few weeks um

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Speaker 1: that the platoon was out, So was out there without

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Speaker 1: a platoon leader and then so motorcycles are coming at

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Speaker 1: your platoon. Yep. So so what happened was uh in

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Speaker 1: an overall you know, helicopter view. Um So essentially we

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Speaker 1: had um a group of Taliban who were are amassing

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Speaker 1: on our position, and so they had collected in a

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Speaker 1: large area up to the north of our position, and

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Speaker 1: they split up from that area. And then I ordered

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Speaker 1: uh and and mind you, Uh, I'm giving these orders

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Speaker 1: to my soldiers who are telling me what they're seeing.

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Speaker 1: I can't see everything, right because it's just the nature

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Speaker 1: of where we're at, and so I can't see anything.

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Speaker 1: I'm hearing all these reports coming out. I'm hearing reports

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Speaker 1: coming in from the the the army attack helicopters that

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Speaker 1: are up up above the the the area. Um and um,

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Speaker 1: so I've got all these reports coming in. And UM,

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Speaker 1: I know that, you know, the commander's instinct is very important.

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Speaker 1: The commander on the ground is very important. And there's

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Speaker 1: a reason why one guy wears lieutenant bars. There's a

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Speaker 1: reason why one guy is our gal is in charge

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Speaker 1: because they have to make that very difficult decision that

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Speaker 1: nobody else has to make. You legally have to make

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Speaker 1: that decision. The problem is with you know, when when

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Speaker 1: when when we have when we don't have President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump in the White House, we have people who will

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Speaker 1: not stand up for our soldiers and will not let

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Speaker 1: our leaders those I want to make sure we get

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Speaker 1: this in those So these motorcycle guys are coming at you.

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Speaker 1: This is a known tactic that they blow themselves up,

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Speaker 1: and they they literally are coming to kill you. Right

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Speaker 1: all right, You're getting all the reports coming and you

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Speaker 1: got to make it. How long did you have to

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Speaker 1: make a decision? And what did you say to your troops? Oh? Wow,

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Speaker 1: it was a few seconds. Everything was happening and just

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Speaker 1: I mean rapid lightning fast, And you know, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: of myself. I'm thinking, my god, I just took over

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Speaker 1: these guys that are all young. I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: write letters and talk to their mom and dad. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I got your son killed because I made

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Speaker 1: a bad decision. There's just so many things going through

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Speaker 1: your head and you're sitting there thinking, my god. With

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Speaker 1: the United States Army, you know, we can't lose. We

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Speaker 1: won't lose, but I don't want to lose my men.

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Speaker 1: I love them, They're they're Americans, are eighteen years old,

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Speaker 1: and so you're thinking, you're thinking, all of those things

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Speaker 1: are going through your head, and that's a lot to

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Speaker 1: go through your head. And at the same time as

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Speaker 1: what tactical decision do I make in terms of how

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Speaker 1: do I respond to the Taliban that's attacking my position?

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Speaker 1: And so I made the best decision that I could

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Speaker 1: make given the the conditions on the ground. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you this, Sean, I would make the same exact

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Speaker 1: decision again today if I was faced that decision, because

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Speaker 1: if I had come home with my soldiers, any of

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Speaker 1: my soldiers having been killed on my watch, then you

1960
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Speaker 1: know that that would have been far worse than living

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Speaker 1: in Fort Leavenworth for six years. So you make the decision,

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Speaker 1: you take these two guys out. When did you know

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Speaker 1: you might be in trouble over this? Well, to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, I uh, I had never given any

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Speaker 1: thought to the military justice system. You know, it's known

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Speaker 1: as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or as we

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Speaker 1: soldiers call it, kangaroo court. And so essentially I never

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Speaker 1: thought about it. I never thought, you know that my

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Speaker 1: chain of command would second guess decision I made. When

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Speaker 1: when did you first find out that they were second guessing.

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Speaker 1: Um they had Uh, My brigade commander actually made a

1972
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Speaker 1: it was almost like a predetermined decision, made a decision.

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Speaker 1: He basically decided I was guilty before even talking to me.

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Speaker 1: And in the military, in the army, especially in the

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Speaker 1: combat arms are of the army, when a brigade commander,

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Speaker 1: when a senior officer makes a decision about something, he

1977
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Speaker 1: doesn't even have to say anything. He can have a

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Speaker 1: frown on his face when he's talking about it, and

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Speaker 1: all the rest of the butt kissing officers that are

1980
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Speaker 1: underneath him are going to follow his lead. That's the

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Speaker 1: way it is. How many days after this did you

1982
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Speaker 1: realize Holy that I'm now being I'm being put on

1983
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Speaker 1: trial for making a split second decision. Well, uh, I'd

1984
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Speaker 1: say maybe a couple of months started a build up, Yeah,

1985
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Speaker 1: And then it was interesting about your case because then

1986
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Speaker 1: you got sentence. How many years in jail? Twenty? Initially

1987
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Speaker 1: it was twenty then the and sort of a joke,

1988
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Speaker 1: the convening authority reduced it by one year to nineteen years.

1989
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Speaker 1: And so how many years in eleven worth did you spend?

1990
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Speaker 1: Six years? And about a couple of months and we

1991
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Speaker 1: then found out later because they were trying to say cars.

1992
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Speaker 1: I guess under the Obama administration they were trying to

1993
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Speaker 1: say that you had killed innocent farmers. That was what

1994
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Speaker 1: they had said at the time. Yeah, But then when

1995
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Speaker 1: new information came back that they had biometric evidence that

1996
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Speaker 1: they apparently withheld this evidence, which is exculpatory for you,

1997
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Speaker 1: that in fact tied the guys that you did kill

1998
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Speaker 1: to planting ieeds. Didn't they find their DNA on IEDs

1999
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Speaker 1: and they were able to definitively say that's the DNA

2000
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Speaker 1: of these guys on these ieeds. Well, that should have

2001
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Speaker 1: freed you immediately. Why didn't that happen? Let me ask

2002
02:02:40,880 --> 02:02:43,440
Speaker 1: you a lawyer on this, Sean, thanks for the question.

2003
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Speaker 1: The army dug in deeper. They dug in deeper to

2004
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Speaker 1: protect the system. They dug in deeper at multiple levels.

2005
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Speaker 1: United States government has never denied that these were Talibam

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Speaker 1: bomb makers. They their position was well Clinton had no

2007
02:02:55,400 --> 02:02:57,360
Speaker 1: way of knowing it. Well, nobody has any way of

2008
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Speaker 1: knowing what a farmer is with a weapon over there.

2009
02:03:00,360 --> 02:03:03,920
Speaker 1: They dug themselves in to protect a corrupted system, and

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Speaker 1: to this day had not apologized for it. As soon

2011
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Speaker 1: as this evidence came for they should have let Clim

2012
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Speaker 1: out of prison. They hit it initially from the initial

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Speaker 1: defense team, which is why we got a corruption of

2014
02:03:13,080 --> 02:03:16,960
Speaker 1: holding exculpatory evidence. Six years of this guy's life now

2015
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Speaker 1: that have been wasted in jail, not not wasted, but

2016
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that he had to live

2017
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Speaker 1: in prison. US Supreme Court Brady versus Maryland, they got

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Speaker 1: to turn that over initially. Fifth Amendment, right, that's the

2019
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Speaker 1: Brady law that our friend Sydney Powell often speaks of

2020
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Speaker 1: on the shows representing General Flynt. So does he have

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Speaker 1: any legal recourse here? At this point, we still haven't

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02:03:36,960 --> 02:03:40,960
Speaker 1: gotten an official notification. The defense team is not from

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Speaker 1: the Department of the Army. Is to the status as discharge.

2024
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Speaker 1: He's been legally pardoned. There's no crime at all. We're

2025
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Speaker 1: still looking into the issue. I'm looking about who you

2026
02:03:49,160 --> 02:03:52,440
Speaker 1: can sue. I want to know, you know what legal

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Speaker 1: recourse he has to get recovery for the six years

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Speaker 1: of his life that was stolen from him when they

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Speaker 1: withheld the exculpatory evidence. I hear if I can I

2030
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Speaker 1: interject something there? Uh don yeah, yeah, just yeah, go ahead,

2031
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Speaker 1: I know, you know I get, uh, these these looks

2032
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Speaker 1: from my lawyers all the time. First of all, I

2033
02:04:10,480 --> 02:04:13,280
Speaker 1: have an amazing legal team. There's there's there's just there's

2034
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Speaker 1: so many of them. Mister Brown. Here is a lead

2035
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Speaker 1: with Colonel Maher. They're they're amazing. But I'll say this,

2036
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Speaker 1: if if given you ask, you know who you could sue. Um.

2037
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Speaker 1: I don't want to sue anybody, and I'm no, no, no, no,

2038
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Speaker 1: I don't ever say those words. No. Well, let me

2039
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Speaker 1: just say this, Sean. Let me explain myself. I'm not

2040
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Speaker 1: gonna sue the United States government as long as President

2041
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is in charge of it. But I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: You're not what I'm gonna doing, Donald Trump. Let me

2043
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Speaker 1: tell you, you're suing the people that stole six years

2044
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Speaker 1: of your life by withholding exculpatory evidence. That's who deserve.

2045
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Speaker 1: They need to be held accountable, right, I absolutely agree,

2046
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna hold them, hold them accountable by reforming

2047
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Speaker 1: the military justice system so it doesn't ever happen to

2048
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Speaker 1: anybody else. We cannot let this happen to anybody else.

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Speaker 1: What does his legal recourse counsel? Don't let him say

2050
02:04:58,200 --> 02:05:00,840
Speaker 1: the words. I'm not gonna sue was legal recourses. As

2051
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:03,560
Speaker 1: legal team's gonna have to discuss that. But you know

2052
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Speaker 1: you're correct. Somebody made decisions up the chanting Command to

2053
02:05:06,960 --> 02:05:09,600
Speaker 1: deny Clinton not only his constitution rights, but take away

2054
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Speaker 1: six years of his life. This prosecution should have never

2055
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Speaker 1: taken place to begin with. There are some things that

2056
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Speaker 1: active duty can and cannot do because of the fairest doctors.

2057
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Speaker 1: How did they get to this conclusion? Though you know

2058
02:05:21,840 --> 02:05:26,080
Speaker 1: he's got three seconds to decide, he knows the situation

2059
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Speaker 1: that he just immersed himself in seventy two hours. How

2060
02:05:29,920 --> 02:05:32,040
Speaker 1: did they get the second guess that? Anyway, they were

2061
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Speaker 1: hacked off because they wanted to get him for violating

2062
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Speaker 1: Obama's rules of engagement under what I call the battlefield

2063
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Speaker 1: lawyer rule. In other words, he has to wait until

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Speaker 1: his men get blowing up his shot before he can

2065
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Speaker 1: fight back. You know you have to. They're the hot sincenity, right,

2066
02:05:45,200 --> 02:05:47,520
Speaker 1: so they wouldn't make an example of him, and by

2067
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Speaker 1: the way, they lost on That's how Americans die in war.

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Speaker 1: What I'm prepared to send our brave, We're gonna ask

2069
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Speaker 1: him to go fight. Don't put handcuffs on them and

2070
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Speaker 1: let them fight and win three times as many Americans

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Speaker 1: died under President Obama them President Trump and Afghanistan. And

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Speaker 1: the reason is because of suicidal rules of engagement to

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Speaker 1: put the lives of the Tabbian over the Americans. Well

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Speaker 1: they if we have to wait to get shot at

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Speaker 1: first in that environment, then we don't. We don't belong

2076
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Speaker 1: sending our sons and daughters there period. Uh, welcome home, sir.

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you back. Thank you, sir. You've

2078
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Speaker 1: got a great team of lawyers here. I know you

2079
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Speaker 1: got to meet Lynda and Lauren and the whole team

2080
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Speaker 1: down there in Leavenworth. H Thank god your home, and

2081
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Speaker 1: I wish only the best for your life. Thank you, Sean.

2082
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Speaker 1: And I would sue. I would sue the living crap

2083
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Speaker 1: out of all of them. They'll find us off to

2084
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Speaker 1: We thank you for what you've done, Sean. We've appreciated

2085
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Speaker 1: you've talked about this case for six years. Yeah, but

2086
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Speaker 1: you're we couldn't do it without you. Should never have happened.

2087
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Speaker 1: And there are other people too. We're gonna fix it, Sean.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna fix it all right. God bless you. Thank

2089
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Speaker 1: you for joining us. And uh, we're so glad you're free,

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Speaker 1: Yes sir, quick break right back, ENTNYY, keeping an eye

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Speaker 1: on breaking news and bringing it to you first. Sean Hannity,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna wrap things up with today. All Right,

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Speaker 1: more on the media, the Democrat extremist radicals in Congress,

2094
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Speaker 1: and where this all goes. Hannity nine, Eastern Fox News.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tonight back here tomorrow. Thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Hey, there's still a lot more ahead on

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Speaker 1: the best of The Sean Hannity Show. Stay tuned for

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Speaker 1: more right afternoons on this station.