1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: Hey, it's Linda from the Hannity Show here. And as 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: you know, Sean and I never promote the stock market. 3 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: We're investing in it. But now we've discovered doctor Richard 4 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: Smith and his incredible financial software tools. It's trusted by 5 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: thousands to track over twenty billion dollars of investments. So 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: if you're planning for your retirement and have any money 7 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: at all invested in the stock market, go to Hannity 8 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: dot com forward slash retirements. All right, Happy Friday. We're 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: glad you are with us. Glad you made it tough 10 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: work every by the way all of us have been 11 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: saying all day, every work week is a tough work week. 12 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: We don't like turn it off. Maybe we'll turn it 13 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: off when we do our Friday concert series later a 14 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: little bit. Although you know obviously we got TV tonight. 15 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: Glad you're with us eight hundred and nine four one 16 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: sewn toll free telephone number. You want to be a 17 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: part of the program. Glad you are with us. As always, 18 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: we're going to get into a lot of serious stuff today. 19 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: We've got why Democrats desperately want to destroy the Attorney 20 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: General barr and all he's done is his job. That's it. 21 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: They cannot handle at all. It's sort of like twenty 22 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: sixteen all over again. They can't handle They lost. They 23 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: can never face the truth about their lies, the conspiracy 24 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: theories they peddled, the hoax. I don't even I don't 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: even believe it was a hoax that they felt for. 26 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: It was their deepest hope, it was their deepest desire, 27 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: it was, and it literally their rage of Donald Trump, 28 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: which is now a psychosis, a mass psychosis, you know, 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: overrode any other systems in their in their liberal brains 30 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: that would have caused them to pause or stop, and 31 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: that now it prevents any possible introspection or reflection. You know, 32 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: Denial is a big human condition for everybody. You know, 33 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: all egos must protect themselves at all costs, and whatever 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: way you need to deny, bury, detach from reality to 35 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: get there. That's what you're gonna do. And it's fairly 36 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: a fairly common human condition. We'll get into that. I'm 37 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: gonna give you great details now that we're getting more 38 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: information on the spine. Do you remember when Donald Trump 39 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: said that his campaign was being spied on and the 40 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:23,119 Speaker 1: reaction of the media. They went absolutely apoplectic. Turns out 41 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: he was true in more ways than we know. I'm 42 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: going to describe the Papadopolis incident, and then later Papadopoulos 43 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: and his wife Simona will check in with us. We're 44 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: gonna get an update on the Great Economy with Larry 45 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: Cudlow coming up at the bottom of this hour. And 46 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: one of the funnier stories today is Bernie sat Andrews. 47 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: Did you see the picture of him. There's actually a 48 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: video I guess now of he kind of looks naked 49 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: to me, you know, letting his hair down in his 50 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight honeymoon trip to the Soviet Union. This 51 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: is not okay. It's not okay. And until now, the 52 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: headline was on the trip was that Bernie to visit 53 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: Russia after he got married to his wife, and they 54 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: made that their honeymoon, and we learned that Bernie was 55 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: so enthralled with the Soviet surroundings. He was partying naked 56 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: and drinking vodka with those Russian comrades. He had an 57 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: official tend This is the strangest visit ever. I mean, 58 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: doesn't he seem like, what is it about these people 59 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: that are part of these you know naked communities. What 60 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: do you call those people? You know they'd lived together 61 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: what nudists? Yeah, they live in these naked isn't and 62 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: the and the Every time I see pictures of the 63 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: people that are there, they're the least attractive people. They 64 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: just walk around free and happy. And I'm like, put 65 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: some clothes on, just put some put anything on. Go 66 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: get you know, go get a bunch of leaves and 67 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: cover yourself. It's just like, people are so weird and 68 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: even beings are the oddest things on earth. Why what 69 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: did they think that this looks great? I don't know 70 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: what they're thinking. They just think they'll and they'll passionately 71 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: defended nor I feel free. I feel free. I'm like, okay, 72 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: go feel free. You want to live in your commune naked? 73 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: Who am I to say that's a bad idea. But 74 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to even visit because I don't want 75 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: to see it. That's my that's my response back. But 76 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: you know what, you're free to do what you want. 77 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: You live in a free as greatest country God gave 78 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: man um we now know in this updated book that um, 79 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting. It was written by Peter Baker 80 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: of the New York Times White House correspondent about Obama 81 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: the Call of History. Apparently after the election, we're getting 82 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: some insight into these updates that Obama was livid, an apoplectic, 83 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: and viewed his loss as a personal insult. And Hillary 84 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: Clinton he described as a failed, soulless campaigner, and he 85 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: could not believe that Donald Trump won in spite of 86 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: all of his efforts to spy all over the campaign. 87 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, you you know, Mark Penn is trying 88 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: to call out the sound for the Democrats. They're not 89 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: going to listen. You know, he's saying Trump's not a dictator, 90 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: but Nadler is. Our political system is being weaponized against itself. 91 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: You know, good for bar because not in two hundred 92 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: and six years has that committee ever allowed anyone else 93 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: to ask questions during an investigative hearing. Never, And they're 94 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,799 Speaker 1: so insecure, and I guess in terms of their ability 95 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: to have the Attorney General answer question, they can't do it. 96 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: They can't handle it. And Kimberly Strassell is great today 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal and her piece why Democrats 98 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: want to do this, because the media is pretending Democrats 99 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: are genuinely upset over the way that Barr has handled 100 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: the Mueller Report. When Barr testified number one, his letter 101 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: of March twenty fourth, well, he offered Robert Mueller the 102 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: opportunity to make changes in corrections and wanted to make 103 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: sure that he was characterizing it in the right way, 104 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: and Mueller declined, Mueller didn't want to do it. That 105 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: was his opportunity. Mueller works for Barr in the end, 106 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: and so he decided not to and he was And 107 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: when Barr called him about it and says, there anything 108 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: you disagree it, No, nothing at all, anything I miss characters, 109 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 1: no miss characterize characterizing of it at all. He was 110 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: just upset at the media coverage of it and the 111 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: fact that well, it wasn't given out in its full context. 112 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,559 Speaker 1: Barr couldn't release it in its full with its full 113 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 1: content because of the legal need for redactions to protect 114 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: sources and methods. You can't legally release grand jury testimony 115 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: that apparently was in there somehow. And as of you know, 116 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: the beginning of this show, I still think only three 117 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: people have dare to take the time to look at 118 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: the unredacted version. Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Congressman Doug Collins. 119 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: So now Democrats and of course their their extension, their 120 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: media propaganda, lying wing, the media mob. You know, they're 121 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: in this full blown state of denial and cold sweat panic. 122 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: Not over anything Barr has done. What's What's why they're 123 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: wetting their pants now collectively, all due respect, is what 124 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: Bar is about to do. The big story. I can't 125 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: say it enough. What's amazing to me is nobody gets it. 126 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: It's like you're not listening. All you need to do 127 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: is listen and Bob Barr. Bill Barr answered all the 128 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: pertinent questions. Are you happy with the Muller, have the resources? 129 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: Do you have the Mueller's report complete, vizor warrant process? Yes? 130 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: Do you share my concerns about the counterintelligence investigation, how 131 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: it was opened, and why it was opened. Yes, you 132 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: share my concerns that the professional lack of professionalism and 133 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: the Clinton email investigation something we should all look at. Yes. 134 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: Do you expect to change your mind about the bottom 135 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: line conclusions of the Mueller report? No? Do you think 136 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: the president's campaign in twenty sixteen was thoroughly looked at 137 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: in terms of whether or not they colluded with the Russians. Yes, 138 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: and the answer is no. According to Bob Muller. That's right. 139 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: He couldn't decide about obstruction. You did, is that correct? 140 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: That's right. You feel good about your decision. Absolutely, there 141 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: is the full answer. Mueller is over anything you hear 142 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: about Muller. The Mueller Russian collusion obstruction is now officially 143 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: just a temper tantrum of noise. It is not reality. 144 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: The reality though, was just laid out as where the 145 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: Attorney General that the act too is now the curtain 146 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: is going up, and that is everything we have been 147 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: explaining for two years. Now all of the corroboration will 148 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: be coming out in detail. Catherine Herridge did a great 149 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: interview last night with the President as it relates to 150 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: the declassification FISA applications three zero two's Gang of eight. 151 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: And on top of that, the Inspector General report back 152 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: to Kim Strassell in the Wall Street Journal, the real 153 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: news in the Senate and the press didn't notice. The 154 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: Attorney General said he'd already assigned people at the Justice 155 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: Department to assist his investigation into the origins of the 156 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: Trump Russia probe. He's also going to investigate, Yes, the 157 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: Hillary rigged investigation. Yes, he's going to investigate FISA abuse. 158 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: He's getting into everything, and he's got the abuse of 159 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: power where this all began, how this became Operation Crossfire Hurricane, 160 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: And he said his review will be far reaching. He 161 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: is obtaining details from congressional investigations, the ongoing probe by 162 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: the Inspector General Muller's work himself. Barr said the investigation 163 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: wouldn't focus only on the Fall twenty sixteen justifications for 164 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: secret surveillance warrants against the Trump team members that would 165 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,599 Speaker 1: go back for months. He said he'd focus on the dossier, 166 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: the research firm Fusion GPS. What the New York Times 167 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: now trying to desperately cover themselves. It might have been 168 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: Russian disinformation, because that's probably what it was, and Hillary 169 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: sold it and used it real collusion, bought and paid 170 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: for Russian disinformation. He also revealed that he had multiple 171 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 1: criminals leak investigations underway. We're going to get classified details 172 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: about the investigation. One thing that I am getting worried 173 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: about is the amount of surveillance from people like yours 174 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: truly that may have taken place, and on maskings that 175 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: may have taken place for the few of us that 176 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: were involved in exposing all of this. I have been 177 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: told to expect information possibly fifty fifty. Let's leave it 178 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: there on that coming out one day. Wouldn't that be interesting? 179 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: They don't like the people that actually exposed them, you know, 180 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: former current leaders of law enforcement, the intelligence communities, the 181 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. You know that they're in a meltdown because 182 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: at some point they've not understand how severe this is, 183 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: because they didn't hear it yet. This week, they're still 184 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: making noise. They're still clinging to their conspiracy theories and 185 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: the hoax. They're still clinging to the false narrative that 186 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 1: somehow Jerry Nadler's going to savor the day. No, he's not. 187 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: There's nothing left to talk about. It's over, doesn't matter 188 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: what they say. And Muller's reportedly negotiating the terms of 189 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. I will tell 190 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,839 Speaker 1: you right now, I don't even expect Mueller to want 191 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: to ever show up. You think he wants to answer 192 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: when did you know when that collusion never happened, what date, 193 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: at what point? And why did you continue from there? 194 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 1: Why didn't you investigate Faiza? Why didn't you investigate Hillary's 195 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: dirty Russian dossier? You aren't limited in the scope because 196 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: you know, he ended up sending out indictments on taxi 197 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: medallions and taxes, and you know FARA violations and loan 198 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: application errors, etc. And also we have news that John 199 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: Solomon that Andrew McCabe opened the Russia gay probe the 200 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: day after he was brief by Hillary funded anti Trump 201 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: researcher Nelly or Nellie Or has now been referred to 202 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: referred for a criminal investigation. We'll get to all of 203 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: that too. There's a lot of ground we've got to cover. 204 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: We're also going to go over in a few minutes. 205 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: We're gonna give a couple of minutes to Larry Cudlow 206 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour how great the economy 207 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: is doing, and then we'll pick up from there. I'm 208 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: going to tell you about how deep they were spying 209 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: on Papadopplos. This is you can't write this in a 210 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: James Bond movie. What's up, everybody? Linda executive producer from 211 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show here to talk to you about 212 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: your money, your retirement. 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How many 230 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: of those strawberries are you going to eat today? It's 231 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: actually seven? All right. They're the biggest, best juiciest, handpicked 232 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: and they got this special pink shimmer sugar for Mother's Day. Right, 233 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: they're they're literally the most beautiful, better than their usual 234 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: Sherries berries dipped in white milk and dark chocolatey goodness. 235 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: Is there a preference on your point? I mean from 236 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: an aesthetic position, of course, I like pink showers choice. 237 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: You're like, okay, this isn't the problem. Every time we 238 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: have the as an advertiser, you get, well, I need 239 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: to see them so Sean can see them. That's what 240 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: you say that. I've heard you say it to the boxes, 241 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: you know, and they always get the ten dollar more box, 242 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: which is double the berries. I got it, and you 243 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: just the all you do is devour them. And I 244 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: noticed one of the girls from outside came in to 245 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: get one, and you wouldn't give a tour. I'm very 246 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: hard hoarding them, incredibly hungry. I'm a mother. How many 247 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: boxes of Sherry's berries did you get? I intend to 248 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: eat as many as possible before Mother's Day. Yeah, it's 249 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: only nineteen ninety nine, beautiful gift box. Yes, Mom's gonna 250 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: love it. All the moms in your life. H ten 251 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: bucks more you double the berries. Go to berries dot com, 252 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: b r R I ees dot com and devour them 253 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: like Linda. Use the promo code Hannity, click on the 254 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: microphone Berries dot Com promo code Hannity. UM, I'm gonna 255 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: do something when we get back because this is important. Um, 256 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: we have the best economic numbers we have had in decades. 257 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend a lot of time about 258 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: it because I want to. I want to tell you 259 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: we now have new developments on the depths of spying 260 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: on Papadopolis, even using a blond bombshell right out of 261 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: a James Bond book or novel or movie. And as 262 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: the details become available, we now have identified three separate 263 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: ways that the Trump campaign was spied on illegally. And yeah, 264 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: the when the Attorney General said spying, he was right. 265 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: We'll continue, all right, twenty five until the top of 266 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: the hour, all right, before I get to the details 267 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: of the Papadopolis, the depths of which they set this 268 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: guy up. Even it's it's like a James Bond movie, 269 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: you know, blond bombshell, secret location, bar coming on to him. 270 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: Everything is in it. We'll get back to that in 271 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: a second. Look, I've nobody else in the media will 272 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: do this as as news. You won't hear anywhere else. 273 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: It is great news for the American people. I've always 274 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: said the twenty sixteen election was about the forgotten man 275 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: and the forgotten woman. Remember eight years of Obama. You know, 276 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: we ended with thirteen million more Americans on food stamps, 277 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: eight million more in poverty. We had the lowest labor 278 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: participation rate since the seventies, the worst recovery since the forties, 279 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: and the lowest home ownership rate in fifty one year. 280 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: Is the only president never to reach three percent GDP 281 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: for any one year of his presidency, and Obama Biden 282 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: accumulated more debt than all forty three presidents and vice 283 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: presidents before them combine. This is the headline on Drudge 284 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: right now. American flag envy of the world. Unemployment, forty 285 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: nine year low wage hits twenty seven point seven seven 286 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:05,959 Speaker 1: cents an hour, stock market endless rally. Now there's more 287 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: Hispanic unemployment in America. Hispanic Americans the lowest ever, the 288 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: lowest unemployment for women since nineteen fifty three, record jobs 289 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: even for high school dropouts. It's all there now. I 290 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: told you another story this week, and that is, for 291 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: the first time in seventy five years, America is energy 292 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 1: independent and we are now a net exporter of energy. 293 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: And how we because of the President's trade deals, we 294 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:45,479 Speaker 1: are now using these vast resources more than the entire world. 295 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: We've got it all, more natural gas and oil than 296 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: any country or of the Midias combined. That's how rich 297 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: in these resources we are now. If we use those 298 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: resources gas, gas and oil, that is the lifeblood of 299 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: every single economy in the world. You want to bring 300 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: Putin to his knees, the hostile actor that he is, 301 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: and Russia to its knees. Yeah, produce more oil and 302 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: gas and outbid him in Western Europe. It's better for 303 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: everybody's national security. Russia will be on its knees. We 304 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: will win the Cold War again in a sense. Now 305 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: between that potential, you know, look at the gallipole and 306 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: financial optimism is now at an eighteen year high. Fifty 307 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: six percent of Americans now rate their current financial situation 308 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: as excellent or good, the highest polling data since two 309 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: thousand and one, sixty nine percent Gallup saying they expect 310 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: to be better off financially in a year. Well, that's 311 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: the highest finding in sixteen years. I told you about Europe. 312 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: The last two quarters their growth, their GDP growth zero 313 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: point four percent the quarter before zero point two even 314 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 1: with a government shutdown. Yeah, our first quarter growth in 315 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: America GDP grow three point two percent, and they noted 316 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: and gallop. The strong economy typically a huge benefit to everybody, 317 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: and everyone has been predicting. ADP had the Jobs report 318 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five thousand jobs created by US 319 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: private employers anecdotally. You know, Biden couldn't get a thousand 320 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: people in Iowa yesterday, but when he goes to Pennsylvania, 321 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: I've got to win Pennsylvania. Okay. Pennsylvania is now so 322 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: in need of jobs to be filled that you literally 323 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: having jobs seminars in prison and they have all these 324 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: companies going to prisons and what they're doing when do 325 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: you get out, We want to hire you and they're 326 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: talking to the prisoners. That's how good this economy is. 327 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: Record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americas. 328 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: I told you about women in the workforce, youth unemployment, 329 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: every statistic shattered. Larry Cudlow is the President's top economic advisor, 330 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: head of the National Economic Council. Yeah, you and I 331 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: have both been preaching. Yeah, it worked for JFK, it 332 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: worked for Reagan. It's working now, and that is lowering 333 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: the tax cuts. Well, I guess he's not coming then. 334 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: He's not here, all right. He's not here yet, bous, 335 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: But he'll be here all right. And anyway, an unemployment 336 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: hits half a century low as the Trump boom continues. 337 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: In forty nine years, the economy added two hundred and 338 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: sixty three jobs in April jobless this now, the unemployment 339 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: rate is three point six percent. We now have a 340 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 1: million more jobs than we have people on unemployment. The 341 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:55,360 Speaker 1: private sector, we're seeing solid wage gains, hourly earnings up 342 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: three point two percent. Now, the President's on the verge 343 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: of announcing a trade deal with China is going to 344 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: be massive, and that's intellectual property protection, also fairness as 345 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: it relates to China receiving American goods and cars and 346 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: produce and meat and dairy and everything else. I mean, 347 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: this is this is it is spectacular, you know, And 348 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: the people that are benefiting the most are the people 349 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: that got it the worst in the Obama bidened years. 350 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: Cudler's even saying the US trade Japanese trade deal is 351 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: now possible. Also in a month. You know, on top 352 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: of the biggest tax cuts in American history, the President 353 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: has eliminated more regulations than the last fifteen to twenty 354 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: presidents combined, and he's done it in record time. He 355 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: promised trade deals with Canada and Mexico done, He wants 356 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: more of wants NATO to pay more of its fair 357 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: share done. Better trade deals with our Western European partners done. 358 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 1: China now is being negotiated, seem close to a deal 359 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: that should get done. Same with Japan that should get done. 360 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: They can't be putting barriers up for American cars and 361 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: American products that we don't put on them. And the 362 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: way the President has been able to negotiate it, he's 363 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: willing to pull out of any trade deal. And once 364 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: they believe it, then we get deals that nobody even 365 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: thought to negotiate before. And in every single case we 366 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: end up benefiting, and then the American workers are protected. 367 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 1: You know, it's a joke that these these union leaders, 368 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: not rank and file, you know, supporting Biden. What did 369 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 1: Biden give you guys nothing? You know, the energy sector alone, 370 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: you know, when we get these two pipelines online, the 371 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: keystone XL pipeline, the Dakota Pipeline, when we really begin 372 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: natural gas production, when we when these oil companies can 373 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: get to an noar in Alaska, one of the great 374 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: untapped reserves. It's a vast wilderness. I've actually sent planes 375 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 1: to film it and there's nothing there. And you know, 376 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 1: it's only been environmental extremists that have prevented us from 377 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 1: tapping this resource and making us dependent on the lifeblood 378 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: of our economy from people that hate our guts. This 379 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 1: is now we're on the verge of the potential that 380 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: the standard of living for every American, especially you know, 381 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: those that have been left behind lower middle class, is 382 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: more profound than ever because of the vast gas and 383 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,199 Speaker 1: oil reserves we're now beginning to tap into. All Right, 384 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: Larry Cudlow is apparently with us. Now, where were you before? 385 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: You're late for you? Sorry, I couldn't get back from meeting. 386 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: I'm fine, Sean, thank you for having me. As always, 387 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: I went through all those statistics. I've focused a lot 388 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: on energy, and I mean, look at Europe. You know 389 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 1: their last two quarters zero point four zero point two 390 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: percent GDP growth. Well, look, Europe's been on the CUSP 391 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: of procession. I guess the last eighteen months they ought 392 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: to borrow a couple of pages from President's President Trump's 393 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: plan to rebuild the American economy, which is succeeding very 394 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: nicely as we've entered this tremendous prosperity era. And you 395 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 1: look at these numbers, two hundred and sixty three thousand 396 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: jobs reported today for April, way above what people have thought. 397 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: Three point six percent unemployment. Sean, the last time unemployment 398 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 1: was three point six percent was when I graduated college 399 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine. That's a long time ago, nine 400 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: fifty nine or sixty sixty nine. Just let your rascal. 401 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 1: Now sixty nine, we put a man on the moon 402 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: and three point six percent unemployment. And here's the thing. 403 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: And you had three point two percent GDP about ten 404 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: days ago. So look, I just want to make this 405 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 1: key point. Hey, we are in this tremendous prosperity cycle 406 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: because of the potus has change in policies. But Sean 407 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: b there is no inflation. So that old ships that 408 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: more people working and earning and higher wages than faster 409 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: growth is inflationary is being disproven. The inflation rate in 410 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 1: the first quarter was zero point nine, and so I 411 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: hope those Is the FED going to continue to raise 412 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 1: interest rates which they never did to Obama? Well, that 413 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: is true my view. They won't raise rates with the 414 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: low inflation, and I think they're looking at this. With 415 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: the low inflation, I think the Fed's next move will 416 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: be a lower rate. Wow, I don't know. I don't 417 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 1: want to predict it. They're good for business, I mean, 418 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,479 Speaker 1: just like the regulation good for business. Listen, if we 419 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: would tap the vast energy reserves, and I know that 420 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: the new Green Deal wants to eliminate oil and gas. 421 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: You want to bring Putin, who is a hostile actor 422 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: on the world stage, to his knees. You tell me 423 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. America outproduces Putin in the energy sector, 424 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 1: and we find ways to get it to our European partners, 425 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: Western European partners. And number one, it's great for international security. 426 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,959 Speaker 1: It's great for their security not having to deal with Russia. 427 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: And we don't need the Middle East oil ever again, 428 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: thank god. Well, we need to wait. That's the advice 429 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: I've given on a radiant ending any waivers on Iran. No, 430 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: don't worry about the oil price. In fact, this is 431 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: very cool. We're producing so much oil and gas. Now 432 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: let's focus on oil that the traders are put up 433 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: their own capital to short right to oil. So the 434 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: oil price has come down. I mean, it's a simple 435 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: supply and demand issue. You produce more, you have greater 436 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: supply demand. Let's say remains constant. Uh, that'll dictate the price, 437 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: which then means it will be reduced. And they've now, look, 438 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: you got to give some of these companies a lot 439 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: of credit. They have figured out cheaper and cheaper ways 440 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: to extract metal um sorry, oil and gas. And as 441 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: they do, when are we going to anwar? Because now 442 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,679 Speaker 1: that the presidents opened that up for exploration, well and 443 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: not even exploration, they opened it up to extract because 444 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: we know it's there, and a judge stopped it. A crazy, 445 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,479 Speaker 1: it's insane, insane. But I want to add, you know, 446 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: the President Unail two weeks ago in Texas, I was 447 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: with him the executive Order which will open up permitting 448 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: for pipelines and various terminals and so forth everywhere. So locals, 449 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: locals will not be allowed to prevent pipelines. And here's why. 450 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: That's key. I mean, you were just talking about it 451 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: a moment ago about Russia. You're absolutely right. So this 452 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: is a this is a low cost energy plate. So 453 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: maybe lower the price in New York and New England, 454 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: but it will allow us these pipelines to get gas 455 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: LNG to Europe and substitute for Russia. That's the key. 456 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: And every European leader, we just had the people from Slovakia, 457 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: we're here at the Prime Ministers group. They all want 458 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: our LNG to bypass Russia, which is a pretty bad actor, 459 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: as you know. So this is great for cheaper fuel. 460 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: It's also great for our frackers. Sixty dollars a bowl 461 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: is a good number. It's good for consumers, low inflation, 462 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: and it will help us against our our foes in Europe, 463 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: against Russian. So I think it's a great story. But 464 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: we're doing it. We're committed to it, absolutely committed to it. 465 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: What is the biggest danger on the horizon that you 466 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: see in terms of what could um well, you know, 467 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: come up the works of you will. You know, I 468 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: didn't know about the Animar court ruling. I should have known, 469 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: but that we should win that in court because that 470 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: Annmar was actually purchased for energy production or designated for 471 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: energy production. It was done by Jimmy Carter. Well, yeah, 472 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: I'm with you, but I don't know how that's going 473 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: to work. But I think the biggest issue, Look, we 474 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: need but you know why, you know why, energy is 475 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: the key because they're going to train Americans. They were training, 476 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: they're training truck drivers and then paying them eight grand 477 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: ninety grand a year and then they pay them all 478 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: the overtime that they can take. That that we now 479 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: then raise the standard of living for every single person 480 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: in this country. And that means a nicer home, better schools, 481 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,959 Speaker 1: a brand new truck, Disney vacations, restaurants, uh, college funds, 482 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: that's whatever American can have. We can be Saudi Arabian Venezuela, 483 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: except the people benefit, not the government. You know. You 484 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: know these including some of the independence I mean, they'll 485 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: turn this spigot on and they'll turn it off really fast. 486 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,719 Speaker 1: Let me tell you, these guys are great. Yeah, all right, 487 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: I gotta roll by. Larry Cutlow. Please send our thanks 488 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: to the President for his successful policies. We need this 489 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 1: and that's what we need to do. Were you in there? 490 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 1: You were you talking to the president? Is that why 491 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: you were late? Yes, I'm afraid I was. There's a 492 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: lot of things cooking here, and I apologize, I really 493 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: do apologize. You don't have to apologize if you're talking. 494 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: You're talking to the President. I don't think you're allowed 495 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: to leave the room until he gets until he's until 496 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: he's finished. Anyway, great news today for the American people, 497 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: for they've forgotten men and women in this country. Thank God. 498 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: Isn't that great? You know? Imagine we could benefit so 499 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: we could all be rich in that sense, everybody's standard 500 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: of living would go up. How awesome would that be? Hey, guys, 501 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: this is Linda, executive producer for the Sean Hannity Show. 502 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: He might also know me as Shawn's daily sparring partner 503 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: now that he's a ninja, of course. Well, today I'm 504 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: here to tell you about how to fight for your retirement. 505 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: And that's right. Fight. There's a huge crisis in America. 506 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 1: Millions of people are retiring without enough money and don't 507 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: make that you. We have one of the brightest financial 508 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: minds that help you make sure your investments for your 509 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: future retirement are on the right track. 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Register right now for Doctor Smith's special online 519 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: but the Great Retirement Reset go to Hannity dot com 520 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: forward slash retirement. That's Hannity dot com forward slash retirement. 521 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: Eliminate the stress and worry of investing in the stock market. 522 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: Register now at Hannity dot com forward slash retirement. On 523 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 1: Thursday morning, I received I received it probably was received 524 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: at the department Wednesday night or evening. But on Thursday 525 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: morning I received a letter from Bob, the letter that's 526 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: just been put into the record. And I called Bob 527 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: and said, you know what's the issue? Here are you? 528 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: And I asked him if he was suggesting that the 529 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: March twenty fourth letter was inaccurate, and he said no, 530 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: but that the press reporting had been inaccurate and that 531 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,959 Speaker 1: the press was reading too much into it. And I 532 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: asked him, you know, specifically, what his concern was, and 533 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: he said that his concern focused on his explanation of 534 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: why he did not reach a conclusion on obstruction and 535 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: he wanted more put out on that issue. He's burned 536 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: through any credibility he had in that role, and he 537 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,360 Speaker 1: should resign. He's supposed to be Americ's attorney, not Donald 538 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: Trump's personal lawyer, and I really hope that he gets 539 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: that otherwise he should resign. If a lawyer engaged in 540 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,879 Speaker 1: this kind of dishonesty, they would be disbarred. Bill Barr 541 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: needs to resign. I think the bar should resign, and 542 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: if he does not resign, he should be facing impeachment proceedings. Also, 543 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 1: now you know he's I think, in the interests of 544 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: the department should step down, but I have no expectation 545 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 1: that he will. This Attorney General has lost any remaining 546 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: trust he may have had with the American people, and 547 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: the American people need to be able to trust the 548 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: Attorney General to be the people's lawyer and not the 549 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: president spokes person. So he does need to resign. And 550 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: because Attorney General Barr wants to represent Donald Trump. I 551 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,319 Speaker 1: think he should resign. A Barr resign, should resign. I 552 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: think he's lost a compers American people. I think he should. Well, 553 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: I've had him testifying already for thirty hours, so answer really, 554 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: So I don't think I can let him and then 555 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: tell everybody else you can, because especially him, because he 556 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,239 Speaker 1: was a counsel. So they've testified for many hours, all 557 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 1: of them, many many As far as you're concerned, it's 558 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: really one can and the others can. I would say 559 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 1: it's done. We've overdrew this. Nobody has ever done what 560 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: I've done. I've given total transparency. It's never happened before, 561 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 1: like this conversation shouldn't be looking anymore. This is all 562 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: it's done, all right? That of course, the President, in 563 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 1: his interview with Katherine Herridge of the Fox News Channel 564 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,919 Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one sewn Tolfree telephone number. 565 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: You see, if an attorney general actually follows the law 566 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: and you don't like the law as it is written, 567 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: and does his job, and and even said he gave 568 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: Muller an opportunity to look over his March twenty fourth letter, 569 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 1: and Mueller punted Muller said no. That was the time 570 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,320 Speaker 1: that Muller could have added or subtracted anything he wanted. 571 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: But even after the case, Muller was very clear nothing 572 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: in the bar letter did he disagree with. And then 573 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: on top of it, the American people now got to 574 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: see within the law pretty much, you know, of what 575 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 1: was in the Muller report, and whether they like it 576 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: or not, they lost. There's the issue of Muller is 577 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,280 Speaker 1: now officially over and that was confirmed in the Senate 578 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:37,279 Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee hearings this week when Senator Lindsey Graham said, 579 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: are you happy with your decision? Did Muller have the resources, 580 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 1: do you think he's competent, did he do a good job? 581 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: And the answer is clear. But on the issues of okay, 582 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:54,280 Speaker 1: the investigation into Hillary and the abuse of power and 583 00:36:54,600 --> 00:37:01,360 Speaker 1: the the you know, Crossfire hurricane investigation and FISA abuse 584 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,239 Speaker 1: and abuse of other types of powers, well now we 585 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 1: know where we are. Andy McCarthy has been phenomenal on 586 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,760 Speaker 1: this and you know, as he said, the Democrats recent 587 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: criticisms of the Attorney general has gone beyond Washington, DC's 588 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:23,040 Speaker 1: usual theater of the absurd. And he also wrote a 589 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 1: piece about Mueller's letter to Bar a great trick by 590 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 1: the Washington Post before the hearings began, and Andy McCarthy 591 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,240 Speaker 1: joins us. He's a Fox News contributor, columnist for National Review, 592 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:39,640 Speaker 1: and former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District 593 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,279 Speaker 1: of New York, the ever so prestigious Southern District, and 594 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 1: by the way, was involved in high profile cases like 595 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,480 Speaker 1: the Blind Shake and others. How are you, Sean, How 596 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: you doing I'm doing great, okay, So you know, the 597 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: Attorney General did everything right from what I can see. 598 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,919 Speaker 1: He gave Robert Mueller an opportunity to see the March 599 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,719 Speaker 1: twenty fourth letter and make any changes he wanted. When 600 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 1: they dropped this the night before the hearing before the 601 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 1: Senate Judiciary Committee, this letter of Muller's is leaked. I'm 602 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: not even sure Muller wrote the letter, to be honest, 603 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,920 Speaker 1: and I wonder if it's Andrew Weissman, but that speculation 604 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: on my part. And then when subsequent phone calls happened 605 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 1: Muller complaining about the initial report, Bar got on the 606 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: phone and said, well, no, there's nothing substitutively that he 607 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 1: disagreed with at all. He didn't mischaracterize what was in 608 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 1: the report, and he was just unhappy with the media 609 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,880 Speaker 1: coverage of it, and of course Barr had already agreed 610 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 1: to release the entire thing publicly. Well, that's right, Sean. 611 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,880 Speaker 1: I think what happened here is the report of Barr's 612 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: letter outlining Muller's conclusions went out on March twenty fourth, 613 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,600 Speaker 1: and what people were very surprised by, as Bar testified 614 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 1: that he had been surprised by when he first talked 615 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 1: to Muller, was that Muller didn't do the one thing 616 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 1: he was arguably needed to do, which was to resolve 617 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,799 Speaker 1: the obstruction question. So after two years of fawning publicity, 618 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,359 Speaker 1: he finally, for the first time, was catching a lot 619 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: of heat, and he was catching a lot of darts, 620 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 1: and he was getting a lot of criticism. And I 621 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 1: think the people on his staff, who are probably still 622 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,720 Speaker 1: angry that he would not charge obstruction on the basis 623 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,319 Speaker 1: of this I think untenable legal theory that they were 624 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 1: investigating under for two years, got very angry at the 625 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: negative press coverage. And I think Muller himself got irked 626 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,840 Speaker 1: enough about the negative press coverage that he was willing 627 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,399 Speaker 1: to sign a letter that I like you. I think 628 00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:00,120 Speaker 1: the staff wrote and this was all a reaction to 629 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: the negative press coverage. But I would want to just 630 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,760 Speaker 1: add one thing about this, Sean. As the Attorney General 631 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:11,719 Speaker 1: Barr said in his testimony, what happens under the regulations 632 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,720 Speaker 1: is a special counsel does a report which is supposed 633 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,400 Speaker 1: to be a confidential report, that gets turned into the 634 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,680 Speaker 1: Attorney General, and then the special counsel is finished, and 635 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: it's up to the Attorney General to decide how much 636 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: and what parts of the report go out. So what 637 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 1: I don't understand is if Muller didn't do the one 638 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,879 Speaker 1: job that he was brought in to do, namely make 639 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,240 Speaker 1: the result this case, who is he to be telling 640 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,799 Speaker 1: anybody else how to do their job. It was up 641 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 1: to the Attorney General to decide how this went out 642 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: and if it went out at all. Because no one 643 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,200 Speaker 1: was entitled to get this report. We can't put enough 644 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,480 Speaker 1: emphasis on this. There was no legal obligation at all 645 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 1: for the Attorney General to give any of the Muller 646 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:03,160 Speaker 1: report out. I understand what I understand after we got 647 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,320 Speaker 1: rid of the Independent Council Act after the Clinton impeachment. 648 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,080 Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, people like Jerry Nadler did 649 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,759 Speaker 1: not want the Star report out that had eleven specific 650 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,719 Speaker 1: felonies committed by Bill Clinton at the time, and they 651 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,799 Speaker 1: were labeled and they were listed for everybody to see, 652 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:24,040 Speaker 1: great big distinction indifference. They decided they'd move forward with 653 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,240 Speaker 1: the Special Council and put the powers in the hands 654 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,719 Speaker 1: of the Attorney General, and the Attorney General had an 655 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:35,240 Speaker 1: obligation to make a decision here based on the findings 656 00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 1: of Mueller. But you know, even the so called Big 657 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,719 Speaker 1: ten findings, I'm saying, okay, So Donald Trump, he was 658 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:46,080 Speaker 1: very outspoken about his innocence regarding Russia collusion. Muller ended 659 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,480 Speaker 1: up agreeing with him. That's the fourth investigation that corroborated 660 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,160 Speaker 1: such you have the FBI nine month investigation, you have 661 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 1: the House Intel Committee investigation, you have the bipartisan Senate 662 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: Committee investigation, and now the Muller report itself says no 663 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,480 Speaker 1: coordination between the Trump campaign in Russia as it relates 664 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,440 Speaker 1: to attempts by Russia to disrupt or influence or create 665 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: chaos in our twenty sixteen election. So the underlying crime 666 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,440 Speaker 1: is dead. And as it relates to him saying publicly, 667 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,600 Speaker 1: maybe I should fire this one or that one, and 668 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 1: not doing it when he had the power, even under 669 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:26,239 Speaker 1: Article two to do it legally. I don't see any 670 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: possibility you can ever get to obstruction. I don't think 671 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 1: so either, Sean, and I've never thought so. The only 672 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,560 Speaker 1: way that they were able to sustain this investigation is 673 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,919 Speaker 1: by a very novel theory of obstruction, which is that 674 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,319 Speaker 1: if a prosecutor decides after the fact that any act 675 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:51,719 Speaker 1: of the president, including the exercise of his article to discretion, 676 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,640 Speaker 1: such as firing subordinate executive officials or weighing in on 677 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,080 Speaker 1: whether somebody should be prosecuted or issuing a pardon, all 678 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,640 Speaker 1: the things the president has the power to do, if 679 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:08,440 Speaker 1: a prosecutor an inferior executive officer later on decides the 680 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,960 Speaker 1: second guest, the chief executive, and decides that the action 681 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,560 Speaker 1: was improperly motivated, that that can be reached by a 682 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 1: federal prosecutor through an indictment. And I just think that's 683 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:24,399 Speaker 1: always been an absurd legal theory. And that doesn't mean 684 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,799 Speaker 1: I always get this. When I say this, Sean, I'm 685 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,200 Speaker 1: not saying the president's above the law. I don't think 686 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,800 Speaker 1: anybody's saying that. What I'm saying is in this system, 687 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,960 Speaker 1: as it was designed by the Framers, the main check 688 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:43,160 Speaker 1: on alleged presidential abuse of power is Congress and the 689 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,799 Speaker 1: ability to impeach. So if Congress thinks the president has 690 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,400 Speaker 1: abused as powers, then yes, Congress can impeach the president. 691 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 1: But it's not for a federal prosecutor who was an 692 00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 1: inferior executive officer to second guest the president's legitimate exercise 693 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,439 Speaker 1: of his constitutional authority. Which is why Attorney General Barr 694 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,439 Speaker 1: has said it from the beginning. No one is saying 695 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,080 Speaker 1: that a president can never be cited for obstruction of justice, 696 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,880 Speaker 1: but if you're going to do it, it's got to 697 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:20,200 Speaker 1: be traditional obstruction of justice, things like destroying evidence in 698 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 1: a criminal investigation. You can't get the president on obstruction 699 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:29,440 Speaker 1: of justice for firing the FBI director. You know you can't. 700 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,400 Speaker 1: And number one, if you believe, if you don't believe 701 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:37,160 Speaker 1: Andy McCarthy, who knows the law as well as anybody, 702 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 1: and you know, just listen to James Comey himself. He 703 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,839 Speaker 1: could be fired for any reason at all or no 704 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,400 Speaker 1: reason whatsoever. It's he knows, and then you knew he 705 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,840 Speaker 1: served at the pleasure of the president. How much trouble. 706 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:54,279 Speaker 1: Do you think Jim Comey is starting with him leaking information, 707 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,719 Speaker 1: as we now know, to create the atmosphere or a 708 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,279 Speaker 1: special counsel would be created. That was his goal, But 709 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,640 Speaker 1: that was government information he was leaking out. Number two, 710 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,480 Speaker 1: the fact that he signed the first FISA warrant and 711 00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:12,520 Speaker 1: we now know it's an unverifiable dossier, which was the 712 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:16,279 Speaker 1: bulk of information for that. It also excluded, I think 713 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:21,239 Speaker 1: the very important information to the FISA court judge in 714 00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,680 Speaker 1: that first FISA warrant, which is that Hillary Clinton bought 715 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,160 Speaker 1: and paid for it, and they didn't tell the judge, 716 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,880 Speaker 1: the FISA judge and the application everything they needed to 717 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,760 Speaker 1: tell them, and they clearly committed a fraud on the court. 718 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,080 Speaker 1: What would the penalty be for that? What would the 719 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,759 Speaker 1: charge be for that? Well, I don't think there'd be 720 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,080 Speaker 1: a criminal charge against the director of the FBI coming 721 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,799 Speaker 1: out of the FISA warrant. I think, if you know, 722 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,440 Speaker 1: I actually don't anticipate criminal charges in a lot of ways, Sean. 723 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,160 Speaker 1: I think that if criminal charges of the price tag 724 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:52,799 Speaker 1: to getting to the bottom of this, then we're never 725 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,279 Speaker 1: going to get to the bottom of this. I think 726 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,640 Speaker 1: the most important thing is that we find out what 727 00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,239 Speaker 1: happened here, and if it turns out people violated the law, 728 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,960 Speaker 1: then you know, then that's on them and they got over. 729 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,040 Speaker 1: Do you have any doubt? Let me run through the 730 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,960 Speaker 1: list that Hillary Clinton had a rigged investigation into her 731 00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:14,120 Speaker 1: email server scandal. If she had top secret classified information 732 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,400 Speaker 1: on that server, isn't that a violation of eighteen USC. 733 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:21,040 Speaker 1: Seven ninety three, a clear violation? Yeah? Sean, I spent 734 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,600 Speaker 1: three years saying that. Yes. Do you believe that if 735 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,080 Speaker 1: that when she deleted subpoenat emails, had people do it 736 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:33,160 Speaker 1: for her, use bleach bit to acid wash the hard drive, 737 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,720 Speaker 1: beat up devices with hammers, remove simcards, do you believe 738 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:42,560 Speaker 1: that the intent was to destroy evidence for the underlying 739 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,120 Speaker 1: crime and obstruct justice. I do believe that her intent 740 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,480 Speaker 1: was corrupt. Yes. Do you believe a prosecutor or a 741 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,319 Speaker 1: normal prosecutor would find that as something that is a 742 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:59,439 Speaker 1: chargeable offense? Yeah. The reason I hesitated on your last 743 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 1: question on his I've always thought that missus Clinton's motive 744 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,960 Speaker 1: was to conceal the degree to which the State Department 745 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,000 Speaker 1: was put in the service of the Clinton Foundation when 746 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,560 Speaker 1: she was at the State Department. But there was an 747 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:17,799 Speaker 1: intent to avoid to destroy evidence. Yeah, I think there 748 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,360 Speaker 1: was an intent to destroy government records, which you're not 749 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,399 Speaker 1: allowed to do. And besides obstruction of justice, it's it's 750 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,320 Speaker 1: a crime in and of itself standing alone, to destroy 751 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,400 Speaker 1: government records, whether you know, regardless of whether they're connected 752 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:36,360 Speaker 1: to a judicial proceeding. All right. And you also believe 753 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:42,160 Speaker 1: that FAISA that was likely a fraud committed on the court. Yes, 754 00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,120 Speaker 1: I do believe there was a fraud committed on the 755 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,640 Speaker 1: court with the FISA. All right, Andy McCarthy, National Review Online. 756 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,040 Speaker 1: Always great to hear from me, Andy, Thanks for being 757 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,440 Speaker 1: with us. Thanks Sean. As he was discharging the rounds, 758 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,000 Speaker 1: I ran up to him and I yelled at him, 759 00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,960 Speaker 1: and he dropped his weapon and he ran out, and 760 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,360 Speaker 1: I chased him out of the the sanctuary already I 761 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,319 Speaker 1: had already chased him to his vehicle. At this point, 762 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,160 Speaker 1: the border patrole to came out said clear back, I 763 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,319 Speaker 1: have a gun, and then I moved back behind the 764 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,400 Speaker 1: vehicle and he discharged into the vehicle. Yes, he was 765 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:14,960 Speaker 1: trying to shoot. He was trying to shoot at the 766 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,120 Speaker 1: park car at and he was shooting low. I don't 767 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:18,320 Speaker 1: think he was he was. I don't think he was 768 00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,160 Speaker 1: aiming at the at the assailant. He was aiming at 769 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,960 Speaker 1: the vehicle to disabled the vehicle so we could get 770 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:24,719 Speaker 1: him out of there. I was going to get him 771 00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:26,640 Speaker 1: out of there we needed. I wanted to. I wanted 772 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,279 Speaker 1: to make sure this guy was caught right. That was 773 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:35,240 Speaker 1: Oscar Stewart describing how he stopped this synagogue shooter last weekend. 774 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,799 Speaker 1: Really a hero in in what happened here, the fact 775 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,960 Speaker 1: that so many shots did go off and there was 776 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,000 Speaker 1: only one person killed. That woman's name is Lori Kay. 777 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,120 Speaker 1: That woman saw that her rabbi, Rabbi Goldstein, was about 778 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,600 Speaker 1: to get shot, and she jumped in front and took 779 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,799 Speaker 1: the bullet literally for the rabbi. I guess no greater love, 780 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,400 Speaker 1: how anybody, than to laid down their live for another 781 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:08,320 Speaker 1: human being. And where these people of enormous courage come from. 782 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,520 Speaker 1: Unexpectedly in the moments that matter. It happens again and again, 783 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,480 Speaker 1: you know, But of course you get the predictable gun 784 00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,560 Speaker 1: arguments at almost within seconds by a predictable news media 785 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,719 Speaker 1: that has an agenda as it relates to the right 786 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,840 Speaker 1: and rights of law abiding citizens to protect themselves. And 787 00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,840 Speaker 1: you know, from two thousand and eight to twenty eighteen. 788 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,240 Speaker 1: You know, with teachers now carrying guns in twenty states, 789 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,719 Speaker 1: there have been no school shootings at schools that let 790 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:41,840 Speaker 1: teachers protect their students in themselves. And for all the 791 00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,640 Speaker 1: times I have said there is an answer, we want 792 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,120 Speaker 1: to protect schools and municipal buildings, well there's one answer. 793 00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:53,160 Speaker 1: I would hire retired police, retired military guys, and maybe 794 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,560 Speaker 1: even in the case of surrounding schools, if you donate 795 00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,160 Speaker 1: X number hours a week with your professional background, maybe 796 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,319 Speaker 1: paying no state and federal income taxes, that would be 797 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:08,160 Speaker 1: a huge benefit to retired police officers and retired military personnel. 798 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,440 Speaker 1: But all these gun controlled debates are the same. They 799 00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,800 Speaker 1: all go down the same arguments. And it's interesting because 800 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,160 Speaker 1: the people that are usually making them, or people themselves 801 00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:24,280 Speaker 1: that often have armed guards, like Hollywood liberals or these politicians. 802 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,239 Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't think that's a bad thing. 803 00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,240 Speaker 1: We've got to protect every politician. We've got to protect 804 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,840 Speaker 1: any human being that might be in a public figure 805 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,240 Speaker 1: of some time, or subject to some type of attack 806 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,520 Speaker 1: or had threats to themselves or their families. But what 807 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,960 Speaker 1: about the rest of us, What about the rest of America. 808 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,000 Speaker 1: What happens when there is a home invasion? What happens 809 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,399 Speaker 1: if somebody does break into your house? What happens if 810 00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,440 Speaker 1: you do have young children? Yeah, you can call the police, 811 00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,759 Speaker 1: but by that time, the incident, whatever it may be, 812 00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,720 Speaker 1: is over. John Lott joins us and John of course 813 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,840 Speaker 1: as many incarnations of his best selling book More Guns, 814 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,920 Speaker 1: Less Crimes, and here to discuss it. How are you, sir? 815 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,200 Speaker 1: Doing great? Good to talk to you again, Sean. You 816 00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,560 Speaker 1: know you'd take a lot of crap every single time 817 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,759 Speaker 1: you point out and you do this your profession, you're 818 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,120 Speaker 1: a professor or correct. I've been a professor to a 819 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,279 Speaker 1: lot of different schools. Right now, I'm president of the 820 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,840 Speaker 1: Crime Prevention Research Center, but I've been at Yale, University 821 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:28,200 Speaker 1: of Chicago, Stanford, the Wharton Business School. Yeah. Serious, you're 822 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:34,239 Speaker 1: a serious educator. And so your research, your background, your 823 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,520 Speaker 1: work is based on an empirical data. In other words, 824 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,040 Speaker 1: you look at those states that have the most restrictive, 825 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,520 Speaker 1: for example, carry permits or restrictive gun laws, and you 826 00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:49,400 Speaker 1: compare them to states that don't have such restrictions, and 827 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,319 Speaker 1: the data tells you what well, the data tells you 828 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,520 Speaker 1: is as you see a greater percentage of the populations 829 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,640 Speaker 1: able to carry a permit concealed him gun. You see 830 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,280 Speaker 1: greater drops in violent prime rates. And it's particularly people 831 00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:06,320 Speaker 1: are relatively weaker physically, women and the elderly, and people 832 00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,200 Speaker 1: who are most likely be victims of violent crime. Overwhelming 833 00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,760 Speaker 1: we poor blacks who live in high prime urban areas 834 00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,279 Speaker 1: who benefit the most from being able to get a 835 00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,960 Speaker 1: concealed carry permit. And now last year we end up 836 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,799 Speaker 1: seeing over seventeen and a half million Americans have a 837 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,960 Speaker 1: concealed carry permit. And we also now have sixteen states 838 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,080 Speaker 1: where it's not even necessary to have a permit to 839 00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,440 Speaker 1: be able to carry, so it's even a larger number 840 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,359 Speaker 1: than seventeen and a half million actually do carry. You know, 841 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:38,040 Speaker 1: I've had a concealed carry permit in Rhode Island, California, Alabama, Georgia, 842 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,520 Speaker 1: and New York City for most of my adult life. 843 00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:47,520 Speaker 1: I don't even like to carry a weapon. I've been trained. 844 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:51,280 Speaker 1: I've been a pistol marksman since I'm eleven years old. 845 00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:56,560 Speaker 1: It is a great, huge responsibility. I always tell people's 846 00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,480 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes people will call in they know on 847 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,719 Speaker 1: pro Second Amendment, they know I believe in the right 848 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,480 Speaker 1: to carry. They know that I agree with your analysis 849 00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,040 Speaker 1: and your book because it's factual based. And they'll say, well, 850 00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:09,600 Speaker 1: what kind of gun you think I should get? And 851 00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,239 Speaker 1: I said, well, whatever you decide to get trained in 852 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,000 Speaker 1: the use of Is that a good answer, right, Well, 853 00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,080 Speaker 1: I mean different people of different size hands, and you 854 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,480 Speaker 1: know they should go out and test the guns to 855 00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,840 Speaker 1: see which one they feel most comfortable with. But sure, 856 00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,520 Speaker 1: people need to get training. And but what you find 857 00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:30,200 Speaker 1: is that even when the government doesn't require that people 858 00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,520 Speaker 1: get training, the type of person who's going to get 859 00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:36,240 Speaker 1: a permit, a law biding individual, knows exactly what you're saying, 860 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,600 Speaker 1: how much is at stake if they go and use 861 00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,640 Speaker 1: a gun improperly. And you see, even when there's no 862 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,960 Speaker 1: legal requirement to get training, people do on their own 863 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,000 Speaker 1: because they know so much is at risk. And what 864 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:52,000 Speaker 1: you find is that concealed carry permit holders are incredibly 865 00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,439 Speaker 1: law biding. These people lose their permits for any type 866 00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:59,480 Speaker 1: of firearms related violation at thousands or tens of thousands 867 00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:03,200 Speaker 1: of one sentence point even lower, much lower rates than police. 868 00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:08,040 Speaker 1: Police rarely get convicted of firearms related violations lessen one 869 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,880 Speaker 1: you know what we've You know, these stand your ground laws, 870 00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 1: like in Florida allows you to be able to stand 871 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,239 Speaker 1: in your house and protect yourself. And do you know 872 00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,920 Speaker 1: New York has a you must retreat provision right Well, 873 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:26,839 Speaker 1: about thirty states have standard ground type provisions. And the 874 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,080 Speaker 1: reason why they do is that there's a lot of 875 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,680 Speaker 1: uncertainty when they say retreat as far as possible. And 876 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,240 Speaker 1: you have a number of cases where prosecutors have gone 877 00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:42,040 Speaker 1: after people and legislators have said, you know, the person 878 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,360 Speaker 1: made the right decision here and you shouldn't be harassing them, 879 00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,680 Speaker 1: and so they've passed these standard ground laws or courts 880 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,720 Speaker 1: have imposed them in a number of states. How many times? 881 00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,759 Speaker 1: How many stories can you think of off the top 882 00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,600 Speaker 1: of your head where if it was not for a 883 00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,920 Speaker 1: person that was carrying being a firearm, it would have 884 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,719 Speaker 1: been a catastrophe. And you remember years ago there was 885 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,080 Speaker 1: the one school shooting and there was a state law 886 00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:13,000 Speaker 1: that you couldn't have any weapon on school property. And 887 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,080 Speaker 1: the shooting began and one of the teachers ran out 888 00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,279 Speaker 1: to a parking lot that was off campus and brought 889 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,200 Speaker 1: the gun back. Remember that story, Yeah, it's Pearl, Mississippi. 890 00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:25,280 Speaker 1: It was an assistant principal there at the school basically 891 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,640 Speaker 1: had to run about a half mile total to go 892 00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,840 Speaker 1: and get his gun and bring it back, and he 893 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,200 Speaker 1: was able to stop the shooter who was leaving the 894 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,400 Speaker 1: high school there to go to the middle school across 895 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,520 Speaker 1: the street in order to continue his attack, and Portland 896 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,279 Speaker 1: was able to stop him at that point. But on 897 00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,000 Speaker 1: our website at Crime Research Study or we have literally 898 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:48,919 Speaker 1: dozens of cases in just recent years where police have 899 00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,920 Speaker 1: said that mass public shootings would have been stopped if 900 00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,319 Speaker 1: it wasn't or we're stopped because of the presence of 901 00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,799 Speaker 1: a concealed carry permit holder. And the amazing thing is 902 00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,120 Speaker 1: these get maybe a few stories in local meet the 903 00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:04,240 Speaker 1: attend and local media, but they almost never get national 904 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,080 Speaker 1: news coverage, and a few times they get national news coverage, 905 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,640 Speaker 1: the media gets it wrong. I mean, I can give 906 00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,960 Speaker 1: you cases from this year a denist's office where the 907 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,960 Speaker 1: police has said that one person was killed and the 908 00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,400 Speaker 1: killer was starting to point his gun at other people 909 00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,319 Speaker 1: in the office when a permit holder who is a 910 00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:24,759 Speaker 1: patient stopped them. You have cases last fall at a 911 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:30,560 Speaker 1: school event in Florida that would stop by a vendor 912 00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,640 Speaker 1: who just happened to be on the premises there and 913 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,720 Speaker 1: was able to use his permit concealed handgun to stop 914 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,399 Speaker 1: somebody who is shooting at hundreds of students that were there. 915 00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:44,239 Speaker 1: If if these permit holders weren't there and people have 916 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,680 Speaker 1: been killed, these would have gotten massive international news attentions. 917 00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:50,920 Speaker 1: Let me, let me, let me give you, But what 918 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:52,600 Speaker 1: do you think of I want to go back to 919 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,239 Speaker 1: New York's law for just a second. And New York 920 00:56:56,520 --> 00:57:01,120 Speaker 1: their self defense law is based on the castle doctrine, 921 00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,440 Speaker 1: but it's considered so much weaker than similar castle doctrine 922 00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:09,160 Speaker 1: laws enacted in other states. For example, in New York, 923 00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,520 Speaker 1: if you want to say, compare it to Florida, a 924 00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:17,400 Speaker 1: citizen has a duty to retreat from attackers if they 925 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:21,120 Speaker 1: feel they can safely do so. And you know other 926 00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:25,720 Speaker 1: states that have castle doctrines only with the duty to retreat. 927 00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:31,600 Speaker 1: That's Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, 928 00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:36,000 Speaker 1: New Jersey, Rhode Island. And you know, I'm reading all this, 929 00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:40,080 Speaker 1: I'm thinking this is absolutely crazy because you know, at 930 00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:44,200 Speaker 1: that point, you know, if that happens, you know, look 931 00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,200 Speaker 1: at all the people I've interviewed over the years. Usually 932 00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:51,440 Speaker 1: whatever is going to unfold in a horrible situation, if 933 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:55,920 Speaker 1: there's a break in, it's not that. Oh, let me 934 00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,160 Speaker 1: let me back up first. The law requires I back up. 935 00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,160 Speaker 1: It is a to me. It's such an unrealistic expectation, 936 00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:07,400 Speaker 1: especially if somebody breaks into your own home and has 937 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,240 Speaker 1: a weapon and I guess, and then you have to 938 00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:14,320 Speaker 1: explain to the police that you while I tried to retreat, right, well, 939 00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I can give you cases where people tried 940 00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,400 Speaker 1: to retreat and the prosecutors said, well, I thought maybe 941 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,120 Speaker 1: you could have retreated even further, and they'll bring cases 942 00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,480 Speaker 1: against there. Before Oklahoma changed their law, there was a 943 00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,880 Speaker 1: case where a man had pulled into the parking lot 944 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,080 Speaker 1: of a grocery store. Robber had attacked him, knocked him 945 00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:36,240 Speaker 1: to the ground. The sixty seven year old man got up, 946 00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,680 Speaker 1: tried to run away. The robber knocked him down a 947 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,480 Speaker 1: second time. The older man got up, tried to run 948 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,200 Speaker 1: away again. The robber knocked him down a third time, 949 00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:48,160 Speaker 1: and at that point the man pulled out his permit 950 00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:52,560 Speaker 1: concealed handgun and shot the robber. The prosecutors brought a 951 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,960 Speaker 1: case against him, saying that it was possible for him 952 00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:58,200 Speaker 1: to stole retreat further. But you know, the thing is, 953 00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,960 Speaker 1: this kind of uncertainty about exactly how far it's possible 954 00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,880 Speaker 1: for you to retreat creates uncertainty in people's minds and 955 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:09,040 Speaker 1: can endanger their lives. And the thing is, it's not 956 00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:10,520 Speaker 1: like you have a lights and just to go and 957 00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:14,280 Speaker 1: shoot somebody. There's a reasonable person tests that exists in 958 00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:18,400 Speaker 1: these standard ground states, where a reasonable person would have 959 00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:22,480 Speaker 1: to believe under those circumstances that the individual was in 960 00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:26,600 Speaker 1: serious risk of death or serious injury when they use 961 00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,800 Speaker 1: their gun, and the force has to be commensurate to 962 00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,320 Speaker 1: the risk. So if somebody's yelling at you, you just 963 00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,480 Speaker 1: can't pull out your gun and shoot them, and you 964 00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:38,320 Speaker 1: can't threaten them first. If you threaten them first, then 965 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,280 Speaker 1: you lose any protection that you have under those types 966 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,000 Speaker 1: of laws. The other person has to initiate the attack, 967 00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:48,120 Speaker 1: and there's serious rules that you have to meet in 968 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,640 Speaker 1: terms of whether or not you're legally able to protect 969 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,960 Speaker 1: yourself under those circumstances. I hear we play the tape 970 00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,000 Speaker 1: earlier of Oscar Stewart, and you always hear these examples 971 00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,600 Speaker 1: of these people that you know in the midst of 972 01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:06,360 Speaker 1: evil and horror, they just step up and because their arm, 973 01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:10,320 Speaker 1: they have the ability that empowers them to protect other people. Now, 974 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Laurie Kay is a different story. She just took a 975 01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,560 Speaker 1: bullet for her rabbi in that case out of pure 976 01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:21,080 Speaker 1: human love, which is, you know, unbelievable. But this guy 977 01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:25,320 Speaker 1: had the confidence because he was thankfully armed. Yeah, I 978 01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:27,960 Speaker 1: mean I just cried when I heard the story of 979 01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:30,880 Speaker 1: the woman who threw herself in front of the rabbi 980 01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,000 Speaker 1: that was there in order to save his life. I mean, 981 01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:37,880 Speaker 1: it's so horrible that such wonderful people die. I mean, 982 01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,280 Speaker 1: somebody who has this courage and is willing to save 983 01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:42,880 Speaker 1: another person's life. Those are the types of people that 984 01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,439 Speaker 1: we want to have more in this country, not less. 985 01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:49,640 Speaker 1: And the thing is, though, you know, I wouldn't recommend 986 01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:52,240 Speaker 1: almost anybody to go after one of these people without 987 01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:56,240 Speaker 1: having a weapon. To go and cross open space is 988 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,520 Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous. I mean, it's very heroic if somebody does 989 01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:02,400 Speaker 1: something like that, but it's extremely risky. And the the thing 990 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:05,200 Speaker 1: is the reason why we did this study looking at 991 01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,640 Speaker 1: all the public schools in the United or all the 992 01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,600 Speaker 1: schools in the United States from the beginning of two 993 01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,800 Speaker 1: thousand through twenty eighteen, was just to check what happens 994 01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,479 Speaker 1: when teachers are able to carry and staff are able 995 01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:20,760 Speaker 1: to carry. Are there risks? Are there things that might 996 01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,720 Speaker 1: go wrong? Because there's so much in this debate about 997 01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:28,200 Speaker 1: gun control debate generally about things that might possibly go wrong. Well, 998 01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:30,240 Speaker 1: we don't need to guess. We have over a thousand 999 01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:34,200 Speaker 1: school districts in the United States that have teachers and 1000 01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:38,720 Speaker 1: staff that carry guns now, and also can it be 1001 01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:42,520 Speaker 1: a deterrence? Might it stop some people from attacking these schools? 1002 01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:45,560 Speaker 1: And what we found is that all the things yep, 1003 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,440 Speaker 1: I'm just out of time, but John Lott I urge 1004 01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:52,520 Speaker 1: everybody to get a hold of his books bookstores everywhere, 1005 01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:56,800 Speaker 1: Amazon dot com. And you know, facts are dangerous things 1006 01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,320 Speaker 1: for people that just have a political agenda. John Lott, 1007 01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,800 Speaker 1: thanks for being with us, Thank you very much. All Right, 1008 01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:05,880 Speaker 1: when we come back, George Popodoppolis, Yeah, the Feds turned Yeah, 1009 01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,000 Speaker 1: they set up George Popodoppolis. What does this mean for 1010 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,560 Speaker 1: him going forward? We'll take a quick break on this 1011 01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:15,480 Speaker 1: Friday news round up. Information Overload coming up next. Also 1012 01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,960 Speaker 1: Hannity Tonight nine Eastern on the Fox News channel. We 1013 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,640 Speaker 1: got a great show. Tell you about that in just seconds. 1014 01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,600 Speaker 1: Going up next our final news round up and Information 1015 01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,200 Speaker 1: Overload Hour. Ask your question, President rum if you take 1016 01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:32,440 Speaker 1: Director Comy out of the equation and his actions in 1017 01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:36,720 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and seventeen, would the country be where it 1018 01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:40,600 Speaker 1: is today. I think that he did a terrible job. 1019 01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:43,360 Speaker 1: I would say he probably led some kind of an effort. 1020 01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:47,160 Speaker 1: The words spying has been used. He probably was one 1021 01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,960 Speaker 1: of the people leading the effort on spying. So it's 1022 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,240 Speaker 1: a very serious chart to me, I know, And we'll 1023 01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,240 Speaker 1: find out whether or not it was true, and I 1024 01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,840 Speaker 1: think it could very well be true. I thought we're 1025 01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:02,960 Speaker 1: gonna find out pretty soon. How is this not spying? Well, 1026 01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,120 Speaker 1: I guess it depends on your definition of spying. The 1027 01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,800 Speaker 1: Attorney General sort of saying the other day that he 1028 01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:13,680 Speaker 1: has an expansive view of spying, including legal spying, in 1029 01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,439 Speaker 1: the way that if the government actually has the right 1030 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:20,120 Speaker 1: to be doing it, that spying is not illegal. Others 1031 01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:24,000 Speaker 1: have a different connotation of it and see it more nefariously. 1032 01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,000 Speaker 1: What this was was the FBI felt that it needed 1033 01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,280 Speaker 1: to have eyes and ears on the ground as it 1034 01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:36,960 Speaker 1: used a confidential informant to speak to two Trump campaign officials. 1035 01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,280 Speaker 1: And what they did was is they install a woman 1036 01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:45,200 Speaker 1: with this professor in England who made these attempts to 1037 01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:49,080 Speaker 1: talk to these individuals, and the woman herself spoke to 1038 01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,880 Speaker 1: at least one of them. What this showed to us 1039 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,560 Speaker 1: was sort of how seriously the FBI was taking the problem, 1040 01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,560 Speaker 1: how the lengths they were willing to go to to 1041 01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,760 Speaker 1: put a trained in estigator, someone that knew how to 1042 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:06,760 Speaker 1: collect information, knew how to collect evidence, could testify at 1043 01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:11,080 Speaker 1: a trial, putting them on the ground to bear to 1044 01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,320 Speaker 1: make sure that this informant didn't go off the rails. Now, 1045 01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:17,520 Speaker 1: if you're a Trump supporter, or if you're Trump himself, 1046 01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:20,600 Speaker 1: you look at this and you say, aha, see this 1047 01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:24,280 Speaker 1: shows that the bureau was out to get the campaign. 1048 01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:27,439 Speaker 1: But if you're the FBI, you would say, look, this 1049 01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,640 Speaker 1: is a good thing. This prevented the operation from going 1050 01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:33,560 Speaker 1: awry and from going too far. And what did they 1051 01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:37,200 Speaker 1: suspect of George Papadoppolos, A guy Michael obviously, who's you know, 1052 01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,080 Speaker 1: better than anyone, has been in the center of all 1053 01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:42,120 Speaker 1: this Russia talk over the last couple of years. Why 1054 01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:44,400 Speaker 1: did they zero in on him, but he had learned 1055 01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:49,160 Speaker 1: from the Australians that Papadopolis had had conversations with an 1056 01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:55,200 Speaker 1: intermediary about the Russians having dirt, having hacked emails on 1057 01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,600 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. And there was a lot of concern at 1058 01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:01,760 Speaker 1: the time about what the Russians were doing in general 1059 01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:05,480 Speaker 1: during the election. What was their hacking about? Was their 1060 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:10,040 Speaker 1: election interference? And then they learn about this that this 1061 01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:14,520 Speaker 1: campaign official may know something about what the Russians have 1062 01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:18,400 Speaker 1: against the Democrats, and they're trying to figure out how 1063 01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,240 Speaker 1: their connections here, are their ties here? And it was 1064 01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:24,240 Speaker 1: in that environment that they took the steps that they 1065 01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:28,320 Speaker 1: did to try and find out, using these confidential informants, 1066 01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:32,400 Speaker 1: using a super secret operation here to try and find 1067 01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,040 Speaker 1: out more about what was really going on. Was the 1068 01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:39,160 Speaker 1: Trump campaign coordinating with the Russians? Now we know today 1069 01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:44,000 Speaker 1: after Bob Muller's investigation, that there was not direct coordination 1070 01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:48,280 Speaker 1: between the campaign and Russia, But in the summer of 1071 01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,640 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, the FBI did not know that. They just 1072 01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:53,760 Speaker 1: knew that there was a lot of smoke and that 1073 01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:55,800 Speaker 1: they needed to dive in and try and figure out 1074 01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:58,440 Speaker 1: what was going on, all right. That was Mike Schmidt, 1075 01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:01,080 Speaker 1: he works for the New York Times. Let me let 1076 01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,760 Speaker 1: me just back up and tell you what's going on there. 1077 01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,040 Speaker 1: And that was first the president. Yeah, of course they 1078 01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:10,360 Speaker 1: were spying on his campaign. That that is not even 1079 01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:13,960 Speaker 1: in doubt at this particular point. They did it numerous ways. 1080 01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,960 Speaker 1: And then you got this New York Times reporter Michael 1081 01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:21,360 Speaker 1: Schmidt literally spinning that the FBI was spying on the 1082 01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:25,080 Speaker 1: Trump campaign to learn about Russian interference. Did they have 1083 01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:31,080 Speaker 1: warrants for these spies when they sent Stephan Helper to 1084 01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:35,800 Speaker 1: go after Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis. 1085 01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,520 Speaker 1: Where their warrants involved in any of this? Now, there 1086 01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,240 Speaker 1: were different ways that we now know they were spying 1087 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:46,920 Speaker 1: on the campaign. Of course, there's the the phony FISA 1088 01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:52,520 Speaker 1: application that got into Carter Paige's personal life and all 1089 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:56,720 Speaker 1: things in terms of his relation to the campaign at 1090 01:06:56,720 --> 01:07:00,040 Speaker 1: the time. And we now know that they committed a 1091 01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:02,520 Speaker 1: fraud on the FISA court. They never told the court 1092 01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:06,200 Speaker 1: that Hillary Clinton paid for what The New York Times 1093 01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,960 Speaker 1: is now suspecting his Russian disinformation in the Dirty Russian 1094 01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:13,800 Speaker 1: Dossier Part one. They didn't tell the court that he 1095 01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:17,720 Speaker 1: paid for it. Part two and when they got the 1096 01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:22,920 Speaker 1: FIS approval, it was all based on a fraud. And 1097 01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:26,240 Speaker 1: if anyone else, if anybody listening to this program lies 1098 01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:30,400 Speaker 1: before a court, I promise you there will be real, 1099 01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:34,600 Speaker 1: significant consequences. That's not something that has ever taken lightly. 1100 01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,800 Speaker 1: So those people that signed off on it, and remember too, 1101 01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:41,360 Speaker 1: they didn't verify it, and they didn't corroborate it, and 1102 01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:45,040 Speaker 1: we now know it's unverifia bowl in large part because 1103 01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:50,080 Speaker 1: oh that's right. Even the author of the dirty Russian 1104 01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,680 Speaker 1: dossier Hillary paid for, Christopher Steele, he doesn't stand by 1105 01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:56,640 Speaker 1: his own document. All right. Now, take it a step 1106 01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,360 Speaker 1: further because the New York Times and Michael Schmidt, who 1107 01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,760 Speaker 1: you heard there trying to get ahead of this whole story, 1108 01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:06,080 Speaker 1: you know, and a Red State pointed out today he's 1109 01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:09,280 Speaker 1: been the lead author of eleven stories that seem to 1110 01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:13,160 Speaker 1: have come directly, as Red State says, from James Coomey, 1111 01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,719 Speaker 1: as it relates to an amazing trail of Comey leaks 1112 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,599 Speaker 1: to be cited. But anyway, they team up to write 1113 01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:23,719 Speaker 1: this report, and you know, they're saying that one member 1114 01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:27,720 Speaker 1: of the Trump campaign, George Popanopolis, targeted for spying. Yet 1115 01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:31,160 Speaker 1: in another way, but in a similar way and maybe 1116 01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:36,280 Speaker 1: not duplicated. But the conversation taking place at that London 1117 01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:40,120 Speaker 1: bar in September twenty sixteen, you know here it is 1118 01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:43,439 Speaker 1: George Popanopolis is just sitting across the table from somebody, 1119 01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:47,080 Speaker 1: has no idea he's being set up some blonde woman 1120 01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:53,519 Speaker 1: and is somebody saying a former Trump campaign advisor came on, 1121 01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:58,200 Speaker 1: came in there, into the bar, and the FBI was 1122 01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:01,840 Speaker 1: there to literally set him up. And the woman who 1123 01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:05,919 Speaker 1: used the name Azra Turk was working for the FEDS 1124 01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:09,000 Speaker 1: when she posed as a research assistant wanting to discuss 1125 01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:13,839 Speaker 1: foreign policy with Papadopoulos, and Turk, whose real name is unknown, 1126 01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:18,960 Speaker 1: travel to London to work with the Cambridge professor Stefan Helper, 1127 01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:23,000 Speaker 1: who we've talked a lot about, longtime FBI informant, who 1128 01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,200 Speaker 1: the FEDS had told to set up a meeting with Papadopoulos, 1129 01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:30,240 Speaker 1: but the FEDS learned nothing of value when Papadopoulus and 1130 01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:34,679 Speaker 1: Turk had drinks, or when Papadopoulus later met with Helper 1131 01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:38,439 Speaker 1: at a hotel in London and Turk returned to the US. 1132 01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:43,240 Speaker 1: George Papadopoulos joins US now I remember he's the author 1133 01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:45,640 Speaker 1: of the brand new book Deep State Target, How I 1134 01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:47,880 Speaker 1: got caught up in the crosshairs of the plot to 1135 01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:51,559 Speaker 1: bring down President Trump. He's also here with his wife Simona. 1136 01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,080 Speaker 1: Remember he spent two weeks in jail. Over all of 1137 01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:58,880 Speaker 1: this nonsense. Welcome back, both of you. Boy gets deeper 1138 01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:02,599 Speaker 1: and deeper, doesn't it. Oh, thanks a lot for having us, Sean, 1139 01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:07,360 Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, but you know how much of this 1140 01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:10,320 Speaker 1: did you know? As it relates to this, this blonde 1141 01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:15,040 Speaker 1: spy that they sent to set you up, Sean. This 1142 01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:17,920 Speaker 1: whole thing, my entire case, from beginning and to end, 1143 01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:22,760 Speaker 1: was not was pre planned and orchestrated by the Western intelligence, 1144 01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:27,120 Speaker 1: the CIA and FBI. Even the guy who told me 1145 01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:30,400 Speaker 1: that about this nonsense that the Russians had Hillary Clinton's emails, 1146 01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:34,360 Speaker 1: Joseph Mipsod, he's currently he's the professor in London. Just 1147 01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:37,680 Speaker 1: to keep the okay, yes, the professor in London. So 1148 01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,760 Speaker 1: people keep forgetting who told me this information. They act 1149 01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:44,200 Speaker 1: as if some Russian agent told me this information in London. 1150 01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:48,320 Speaker 1: This man, Joseph Mipsud, has been outed just two weeks ago, 1151 01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,240 Speaker 1: living next to the usmbassy in Rome and He's on 1152 01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:54,639 Speaker 1: the payroll of a CIA school in Rome called Lenk Campus. 1153 01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:58,120 Speaker 1: So whoever this person was, he was an operative. But 1154 01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:00,719 Speaker 1: I guarantee you he was not working for the Russians. 1155 01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:03,840 Speaker 1: And that's why Lindsay Graham and Devin Nunez have gone 1156 01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:08,040 Speaker 1: public now and are suggesting that this professor was some 1157 01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:11,120 Speaker 1: sort of FBI asset that was used to dirty me up. Now, 1158 01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,720 Speaker 1: then we go to this bizarre meeting I had with 1159 01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:18,160 Speaker 1: this Australian diplomat that you reference. Between the day that 1160 01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,800 Speaker 1: he told me this information, the overseas professor told me 1161 01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:25,640 Speaker 1: that the Russians had her emails. I was contacted by 1162 01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:30,519 Speaker 1: US intelligence, British intelligence, and Australian intelligence even before the 1163 01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:34,439 Speaker 1: Alexander Downer meeting, which apparently triggered this whole thing. So 1164 01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,439 Speaker 1: when I met with Alexander Downer, I thought he was 1165 01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:40,920 Speaker 1: spying on me, and I thought he was recording my conversation, 1166 01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:45,439 Speaker 1: and I even reported him to the FBI and Bob Mueller, 1167 01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:47,760 Speaker 1: and I testified in front of Mark Meadows and John 1168 01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:52,000 Speaker 1: Rassliffe saying the same exact thing that this guy, Alexander 1169 01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,840 Speaker 1: down or the Australian was no random diplomat and he 1170 01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,240 Speaker 1: was sent to make contact with me. Now that was 1171 01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:00,400 Speaker 1: in May twenty sixteen. Fast forward to the step On 1172 01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:04,599 Speaker 1: Helper and Azra Turk meeting in September of twenty sixteen 1173 01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:09,600 Speaker 1: in London. Stuff On Helper sends me an email, unsolicited 1174 01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:11,599 Speaker 1: out of the blue. I have no idea who this 1175 01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:14,080 Speaker 1: person is. He wants to pay me three thousand dollars 1176 01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,280 Speaker 1: to hear about my thoughts on the Israeli on the 1177 01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:18,600 Speaker 1: energy business in Israel, which I was an expert on 1178 01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,000 Speaker 1: at the time, and fly me out to London and 1179 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,639 Speaker 1: talk about foreign policy. I go there to London and 1180 01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:27,640 Speaker 1: before I even meet with him, he says, before I 1181 01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:29,600 Speaker 1: meet with you, you need to meet with my assistant. 1182 01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:33,800 Speaker 1: This girl, Azra Turk. She meets with me at a 1183 01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,840 Speaker 1: bar in London. She's very flirtatious. She didn't even speak 1184 01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,680 Speaker 1: English properly, so right away I understood that this was 1185 01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:42,519 Speaker 1: no Cambridge for assistant, and she wasn't even American. She 1186 01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,880 Speaker 1: was Turkish. So I don't buy the story that she 1187 01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,720 Speaker 1: was actually FBI. I think she was CIA and might 1188 01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,559 Speaker 1: have actually been involved with some foreign intelligence. She's the 1189 01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:53,760 Speaker 1: one that set up this quote meeting. This date at 1190 01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:57,840 Speaker 1: the restaurant she had picked out for you, and she's 1191 01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:00,960 Speaker 1: telling you the text, and you said, from the get 1192 01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:05,200 Speaker 1: go even the text was somewhat suggestive flirtations. Let's put 1193 01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,720 Speaker 1: it that way. You know, a woman at basically at 1194 01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:10,680 Speaker 1: a central casting for a spy movie, but you know, 1195 01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:17,839 Speaker 1: young blonde thirties, not shy about showing how she looks, 1196 01:13:18,479 --> 01:13:22,360 Speaker 1: and within five minutes she's suggesting to you that she's 1197 01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:27,479 Speaker 1: available basically yes. And that's why the whole thing was 1198 01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:32,680 Speaker 1: really bizarre. It made no sense to me, and I 1199 01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:36,400 Speaker 1: was laughing it off until the next day when she 1200 01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:40,880 Speaker 1: goes from this kind of flirty, you know, bubbly person 1201 01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:45,280 Speaker 1: to then more of a cold, calculated person with Helper. 1202 01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:49,120 Speaker 1: And I meet Helper and her at this private member's 1203 01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,640 Speaker 1: lounge in London called the Travelers Lounge. It's like some 1204 01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:56,080 Speaker 1: private diplomat club that you know, he was a member of. 1205 01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:01,280 Speaker 1: And she's basically pouring us coffee and Helper and then 1206 01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:03,679 Speaker 1: just looking at me and just I think, taking notes 1207 01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:07,280 Speaker 1: of some nature and smiling and I look at Helper 1208 01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:08,639 Speaker 1: and you want me to tell you what I really 1209 01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:10,880 Speaker 1: thought initially, this is it's going to be a funny story. 1210 01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:12,680 Speaker 1: I thought they were dating. I don't know what was 1211 01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:16,800 Speaker 1: going on, but right away I knew she wasn't an assistant, 1212 01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:22,719 Speaker 1: a proper assistant and Helper then he's basically belligerent, he's sweating, 1213 01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:26,880 Speaker 1: his body language is very off. He's castigating me for 1214 01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:30,360 Speaker 1: my policy positions on Turkey, which I was very hostile to. 1215 01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:33,439 Speaker 1: And then it made it was very weird how that 1216 01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,960 Speaker 1: was a Turkish assistant with him. I want this operation 1217 01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,160 Speaker 1: to not simply be viewed as a as a simple 1218 01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:42,719 Speaker 1: operation against me. But when Donald Trump tweeted last week 1219 01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:45,080 Speaker 1: that the British were involved in spying, let me explain 1220 01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:48,080 Speaker 1: to you exact evidence of how the British were spying 1221 01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:52,200 Speaker 1: during this operation in London where I'm meeting, stuff on 1222 01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:55,160 Speaker 1: Helper and Azra Turk which have now been outed as 1223 01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:58,920 Speaker 1: at least some sort of US intel people. By the 1224 01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:00,400 Speaker 1: way you said, I just want to be clear you 1225 01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:04,599 Speaker 1: agreed with everything in a Mike Schmidt article, except that 1226 01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:06,680 Speaker 1: you don't think it was the FBI. You'd think it 1227 01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:11,200 Speaker 1: was the CIA and Turkish intelligence, right, Yes, yes, I 1228 01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:13,639 Speaker 1: think I think CIA was working with on my six. 1229 01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:18,280 Speaker 1: I'm listening to all of this and it's you can't 1230 01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:21,320 Speaker 1: you guys should literally write a movie script as it 1231 01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:26,360 Speaker 1: relates to this entire story. And you know, I guess 1232 01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,400 Speaker 1: one of the questions I have is now that it 1233 01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,920 Speaker 1: keeps coming out, what are your what remedies do you have? 1234 01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:35,920 Speaker 1: Like for example, before you went to prison, and look, 1235 01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:38,439 Speaker 1: I'll be frank and honest with people, I know you 1236 01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:40,880 Speaker 1: were considering challenging the two weeks you were going to 1237 01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:43,160 Speaker 1: go to prison, and I told you both I didn't 1238 01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:47,640 Speaker 1: think it was a good idea because you might end 1239 01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:50,120 Speaker 1: up with five years and it might ruin your whole life, 1240 01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:52,200 Speaker 1: and I didn't want to see that happen to either 1241 01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:55,479 Speaker 1: one of you. But that doesn't mean that this case 1242 01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:58,000 Speaker 1: cannot be overturned, and it does not mean you don't 1243 01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:01,040 Speaker 1: have some remedy in the courts for being spine on illegally. 1244 01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:06,680 Speaker 1: That's absolutely right and that and that's why I've I've 1245 01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:10,200 Speaker 1: actually hired new counsel and there their top they're Tiller 1246 01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:14,080 Speaker 1: lawyers basically in New York, and they basically told me 1247 01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,200 Speaker 1: that you were crazy for even pleading guilty to the 1248 01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:18,160 Speaker 1: nonsense charge they had against you. But that's all Well, 1249 01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,960 Speaker 1: when I gave you the advice that that would all transpired. 1250 01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,120 Speaker 1: I gave it to you whether you would pull back 1251 01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:27,680 Speaker 1: on that and then risk potentially greater or legal jeopardy. 1252 01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,360 Speaker 1: That's that's what they said. They said, because you pled guilty. 1253 01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:34,320 Speaker 1: Now you're in deep trouble because if you're trying to withdraw, 1254 01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,160 Speaker 1: you're going to probably get five years like you told 1255 01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:37,720 Speaker 1: me as well. So that's why we never got out 1256 01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:40,479 Speaker 1: of the plea agreement. But what they suggest now is 1257 01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:43,479 Speaker 1: and this is something that we're looking at real quick. 1258 01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:48,479 Speaker 1: It's actually waiting to see what happens when the President 1259 01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:52,240 Speaker 1: declassifies the FIST and materials and to see actually if 1260 01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:54,920 Speaker 1: they're how we elicit the surveillance abuse was on me, 1261 01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:58,280 Speaker 1: and if there was any illegal behavior done and committed 1262 01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:00,360 Speaker 1: on me and in my case and there we're going 1263 01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,760 Speaker 1: to probably try and within I gotta let you go. 1264 01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:05,160 Speaker 1: But the good news is you both are gonna be 1265 01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:08,160 Speaker 1: on Hannity tonight and tell your story tonight in further detail. 1266 01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:11,080 Speaker 1: It really is, you know, we were all right. I'm 1267 01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:13,240 Speaker 1: in a better mood. I love music. Everyone knows I 1268 01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:16,240 Speaker 1: love music. Um, you know, it's so funny because I 1269 01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:19,080 Speaker 1: talked to like Scott Shannon and all my DJ Buddies, 1270 01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:21,799 Speaker 1: all my music friends. They always listen to talk radio. 1271 01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:23,200 Speaker 1: When I'm in the car. I don't want to hear 1272 01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:26,200 Speaker 1: talk radio. I want to listen to country music because 1273 01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,160 Speaker 1: which is not much. I mean, because I'm always usually 1274 01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:32,960 Speaker 1: studying in the car while you're laughing. Because it's true. 1275 01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:34,800 Speaker 1: I've been next to you where I'm getting papers thrown 1276 01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,679 Speaker 1: at me. You're like, no, I don't need this swipe swipe. 1277 01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,679 Speaker 1: I don't need this swipe. The pers make a well 1278 01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:42,559 Speaker 1: the pile, I mean, when sweet Baby James comes over 1279 01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:47,000 Speaker 1: every day, it is like an encyclopedia of information. For 1280 01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:50,400 Speaker 1: the first job of my day every day is literally 1281 01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:53,800 Speaker 1: sorting through the pile. Keep it, don't keep it, keep it, 1282 01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:55,599 Speaker 1: don't get in other words, those things that I really 1283 01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:57,839 Speaker 1: but I need to know what's going on in everything. 1284 01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:02,080 Speaker 1: And then I do the deep I'm reading preparation, and 1285 01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:05,160 Speaker 1: then I start preparing notes for the show. And in 1286 01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,400 Speaker 1: the interim, I'm making phone calls and making contacts. We 1287 01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:11,320 Speaker 1: actually have sources that we talk to on a regular basis, 1288 01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:16,280 Speaker 1: what they're working on, what information they may have. And 1289 01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,400 Speaker 1: then as I'm gleaning information, I might have to make 1290 01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:21,479 Speaker 1: some more calls and then I'm saying to Linda and 1291 01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:23,760 Speaker 1: television at the same time, Okay, I want this for tonight, 1292 01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:25,360 Speaker 1: I want this for today, I want that, I want this, 1293 01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:28,360 Speaker 1: I want that. And that's pretty much how our day goes, 1294 01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:30,479 Speaker 1: isn't it every day? I always know when you're in 1295 01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:33,160 Speaker 1: the car because the emails confess you always well, you 1296 01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:36,240 Speaker 1: always know when I'm at home because I'm sending out 1297 01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:38,160 Speaker 1: the mass email, you know, I think it's just for 1298 01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:41,840 Speaker 1: the next day stream personally, Yeah, and all right, what 1299 01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,920 Speaker 1: is the oddest hour you've gotten the text or the 1300 01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:49,080 Speaker 1: email from me about what I need? Is there is 1301 01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:51,600 Speaker 1: there an hour in the twenty four hour day that 1302 01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,719 Speaker 1: you haven't received something? There's a better question. I've received 1303 01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:57,519 Speaker 1: emails and texts from between all of our staff members 1304 01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,200 Speaker 1: between all hours of the day. I think that it 1305 01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:02,360 Speaker 1: is time I ever got something from you. Is probably 1306 01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,080 Speaker 1: like five in the morning, because I kind of feel 1307 01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:06,719 Speaker 1: like you've been up all night. You should be asleep 1308 01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:09,720 Speaker 1: at least from like three to six. Why is he 1309 01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:14,880 Speaker 1: up at five? How common is it with you? Yeah? Yeah, 1310 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:17,280 Speaker 1: you're up all the time. I know, But you know 1311 01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:20,040 Speaker 1: that's when I get the best work done. Yeah, because 1312 01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:23,479 Speaker 1: it's quiet no one could bother. No. I just it 1313 01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:26,160 Speaker 1: may sound weird, but I like, don't you like being alone? 1314 01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:29,439 Speaker 1: I like being alone alone. I'm never alone. I like it. Well, 1315 01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:31,639 Speaker 1: you're never alone when you have a three year old. 1316 01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:34,439 Speaker 1: That's impossible. This is very true. You know, when you 1317 01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:38,280 Speaker 1: have teenagers, stay sleep. They actually like sleeping. Well, supposedly 1318 01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:40,800 Speaker 1: it's better for their brains. No, no, no no, listen, one 1319 01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:43,559 Speaker 1: thing I learned. Listen. I'm not parent of the year, 1320 01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,720 Speaker 1: but I definitely have learned the more you gotta let 1321 01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:48,080 Speaker 1: your kids sleep, and you gotta insist on it. You know, 1322 01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:50,759 Speaker 1: what's so interesting is that kids never want to sleep. 1323 01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:53,400 Speaker 1: They just you know, it's like they want to stay up. 1324 01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,960 Speaker 1: I want to stay up. And this is like insane 1325 01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:01,639 Speaker 1: because how many times do I So I shouldn't even 1326 01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,160 Speaker 1: say this. Last night I was doing reading, is at 1327 01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:08,920 Speaker 1: the kitchen table and I'm doing reading, doing reading, doing reading, 1328 01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:13,320 Speaker 1: and I literally fell asleep sitting on the chair about 1329 01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:15,240 Speaker 1: three in the morning, and I woke up and it 1330 01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:17,320 Speaker 1: was light out. So does that mean you slept the 1331 01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:19,800 Speaker 1: whole night sitting in a chair? Well, I mean I 1332 01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:22,880 Speaker 1: tried to go into bed after it didn't work, But yeah, 1333 01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:25,120 Speaker 1: pretty much that was my sleep in a chair. Well, 1334 01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:27,639 Speaker 1: I mean I fell asleep in a Singaporean An airport, 1335 01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:31,200 Speaker 1: so you know, I mean, yeah, wait a minute, that's 1336 01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:34,599 Speaker 1: your fault. That is I don't want to talk about 1337 01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:38,000 Speaker 1: who's fault. That is your fault because I told you 1338 01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:42,439 Speaker 1: to take the itinerary I laid out, because you're willing 1339 01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:46,920 Speaker 1: to transfer planes here and there and somewhere else, and 1340 01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,760 Speaker 1: you just you don't listen. You know, I got to 1341 01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:54,479 Speaker 1: listen to my plan. You left thirty six hours ahead 1342 01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:56,720 Speaker 1: of me and arrived an hour before me. It's not 1343 01:20:57,080 --> 01:21:00,640 Speaker 1: my fault, Yes, it is your faults. I told you 1344 01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:05,280 Speaker 1: not to do it. No, you be stubborn and dumb. No, 1345 01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:08,040 Speaker 1: it's not it's neither of those things. First, no, no, no, 1346 01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:11,160 Speaker 1: it was all of those things. You were stubborn. Finally 1347 01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:13,800 Speaker 1: I said, fine, do it your way. You and Blair 1348 01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:16,439 Speaker 1: had you go do it your way and I'll meet 1349 01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:19,320 Speaker 1: you in Singapore or Vietnam or wherever the hell we 1350 01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,360 Speaker 1: were going. Yeah, Blair says I made him suffer. Oh, 1351 01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:24,800 Speaker 1: because Blair knew I was right. He's like behind your back, 1352 01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:30,280 Speaker 1: eller teller. But that doesn't work that way. We don't 1353 01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:34,559 Speaker 1: let we don't the team travel alone period, Blair, did 1354 01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:38,479 Speaker 1: you talk behind me back to Sean? Yes, yes, every 1355 01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:42,080 Speaker 1: day every day. And he's like, but he got you 1356 01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:45,479 Speaker 1: back good in Vietnam because he kept paying. Oh yeah, 1357 01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:48,640 Speaker 1: we know what happened in Vietnam. Yeah. Now, one of 1358 01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,400 Speaker 1: the things we learned in Vietnam was and it actually 1359 01:21:51,479 --> 01:21:53,680 Speaker 1: made me feel really good on the one hand, but 1360 01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:56,200 Speaker 1: then really bad on the other hand. And I met 1361 01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,519 Speaker 1: a bunch of of you know, service guys, Marines and 1362 01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,080 Speaker 1: tell you people are the best people on earth. And 1363 01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:06,120 Speaker 1: by the way, when when you inner hotel restaurant in 1364 01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:09,639 Speaker 1: Vietnam and you see a bunch of guys that are 1365 01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:13,599 Speaker 1: jacked and tough and have short haircuts, you can pretty 1366 01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:17,920 Speaker 1: much figure out that they're on our you know, they're Americans, 1367 01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:20,639 Speaker 1: and they're there for whatever we were there for, obviously 1368 01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:23,439 Speaker 1: the summit. And at some point we I just said 1369 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:26,639 Speaker 1: hi and thank you to the for them for their service. 1370 01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:31,479 Speaker 1: Then they saw me eating alone because everybody else was 1371 01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:34,519 Speaker 1: missing in action. I think I ordered a terrible pizza 1372 01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:37,519 Speaker 1: or something, because I don't I'm very picky with what 1373 01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:39,880 Speaker 1: I eat. And they invited me over and I started 1374 01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:42,439 Speaker 1: buying beers and we were all having a then table 1375 01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:45,320 Speaker 1: just grew. Remember we went from one table to two 1376 01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:49,200 Speaker 1: tables to three tables and it was like five tables. Anyway, 1377 01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:51,559 Speaker 1: I left and I gave the guy, you know, a 1378 01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:56,240 Speaker 1: really good tip, and I didn't hear till afterwards when 1379 01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:58,640 Speaker 1: he came back and he was literally on tears in 1380 01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:02,280 Speaker 1: his eyes, and that when we realized, you know, whatever, 1381 01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:05,320 Speaker 1: two hundred bucks whatever I gave the guy was really 1382 01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:09,519 Speaker 1: that that's like six months of money for them. And 1383 01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:12,320 Speaker 1: then so we're like throwing out twenty dollars bills to everybody, 1384 01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:15,160 Speaker 1: and everybody's like, well, just are you sure? Are you sure? 1385 01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:17,479 Speaker 1: And that kind of did make us feel good, but 1386 01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:21,200 Speaker 1: it just shows you how blessed we are on the 1387 01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,479 Speaker 1: one hand, but also how other people around the world 1388 01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:27,840 Speaker 1: struggle and how much twenty dollars means to them. It's 1389 01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:31,519 Speaker 1: kind of harsh their life. What you're supposed to answer 1390 01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:33,160 Speaker 1: to that? No, I'm just you know, I was just 1391 01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:35,240 Speaker 1: thinking about all the things that I saw when I 1392 01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:38,400 Speaker 1: was there, and you know, it really was very sad. 1393 01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:40,519 Speaker 1: Me me on a scooter because I couldn't get to work. 1394 01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:43,880 Speaker 1: That wasn't said. That was actually incredibly funny, and I 1395 01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:46,680 Speaker 1: loved tweeting out that picture and letting America see what 1396 01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:48,479 Speaker 1: you were doing. The funny thing is is they offered 1397 01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:50,760 Speaker 1: me a helmet and I said, nope, of course not, 1398 01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:54,680 Speaker 1: who would wear a helmet? And Vietnamese traffic it was 1399 01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:58,479 Speaker 1: that was scary traffic, so I would not have made it. 1400 01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:03,880 Speaker 1: It was morning rush hour because TV's nine am in Vietnam, 1401 01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:08,599 Speaker 1: and so literally we're in we're in a van. It's 1402 01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:11,720 Speaker 1: not moving, I mean not moving for like, no, it 1403 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:14,880 Speaker 1: doesn't that's the problem. The traffic does not move. Yeah, 1404 01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:19,400 Speaker 1: so um, we had a fox, had hired a guide. 1405 01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:23,320 Speaker 1: The woman gets out of the truck and un what's 1406 01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:27,439 Speaker 1: her name, Vaughan. She's so nice and she calls me 1407 01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:30,240 Speaker 1: out and she says, get you know here, and I 1408 01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:31,920 Speaker 1: paid the guy one hundred bucks and I got on. 1409 01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:34,880 Speaker 1: He couldn't believe it either. He's like, I'll take you 1410 01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:38,679 Speaker 1: wherever you want to go. It was really funny, she said, 1411 01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:42,280 Speaker 1: she said. He said to Vaughan, is this for me? 1412 01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:45,439 Speaker 1: Like he knew what that was? And she goes, yep, 1413 01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:48,200 Speaker 1: and she goes get him to wherever I had to 1414 01:24:48,240 --> 01:24:49,640 Speaker 1: go and I get on the back of it and 1415 01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:52,439 Speaker 1: then Vaughan got on one and then she's video taping 1416 01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:54,519 Speaker 1: me on the back of the scooter. It really was 1417 01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:56,680 Speaker 1: a sight to see. I mean, I honestly, I just 1418 01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,400 Speaker 1: got the biggest kick out of it. It was kind 1419 01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:02,679 Speaker 1: of cool. I mean, it was great and people were 1420 01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:07,000 Speaker 1: staring at me. Another sad thing is everybody's wearing masks 1421 01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:10,439 Speaker 1: because the air quality is so atrocious there now it 1422 01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:14,639 Speaker 1: really is. It's really bad. Oh, it's just it was all. 1423 01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,080 Speaker 1: We're very blessed in this country. We really are. Yeah, 1424 01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:19,160 Speaker 1: we forget that. I mean, you know, we talk about 1425 01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:22,160 Speaker 1: how you know, Americans work hard and they play hard. 1426 01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:24,840 Speaker 1: That's gonna wrap things up for tonight. We have a 1427 01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:29,439 Speaker 1: unbelievable program, The Latest. They're trying to attack bar They 1428 01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:34,200 Speaker 1: can't recognize truth Muller's done, nor can they realize the 1429 01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:38,600 Speaker 1: avalanche that is coming. We have Alan Dershowitz, Greg Jarrett, 1430 01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:42,960 Speaker 1: Kimberly Strassel, Devid Newness. We now have what is like 1431 01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:47,679 Speaker 1: a Bond movie. George Papadopoulos. He and his wife Semona 1432 01:25:47,720 --> 01:25:51,840 Speaker 1: will join us and Ari Fleischer and Pam BONDI Great 1433 01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:55,759 Speaker 1: Show nine Eastern Hannity Fox, Hope you have a great, 1434 01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:58,479 Speaker 1: great weekend and we'll see you back here on Monday.