1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Coming up next our final News Roundup and Information Overload Hour. 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 2: All Right, News Roundup, Information Overload Hour, Toll free. Our 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 2: number is eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn if 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: you want to be a part of the program. So, 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 2: Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee had their hearings today with whistleblowers. 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 2: We're going to introduce you to one of them in 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: a minute. Stephen prend is his name. He's also a 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: Senior Fellow for the Center for Renewing America and he 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: joined Jim Jordan and House Republicans as a whistleblower testifying 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 2: on the issue of retaliation from the FBI and others 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: for simply telling the truth about what is happening in 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 2: the agency and GOP. Members of the Weaponization Committee of 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 2: the Judiciary Select Committee heard the testimony from Steven and 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,599 Speaker 2: three other whistleblowers. It was eye opening, it was shocking. 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: It should shock the conscience. This should not happen in 16 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: this country, but it did place. Some of the testimony 17 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 2: as Steve Friend as he talks about the FBI's campaign 18 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 2: of intimidation after he became a whistleblower and how the 19 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 2: FBI is working against the American people and how it 20 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 2: is in need of drastic reform. All we've been telling 21 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: you listen. 22 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,279 Speaker 3: At each level of my chain of command leadership caution 23 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 3: that despite my exemplary work performance, whistleblowing placed my otherwise 24 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 3: bright future with the FBI at risk. Special agents take 25 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 3: an oath to protect the US Constitution. The dangers of 26 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 3: federal law enforcement overreach were hammered home to me when 27 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 3: I was required to attend trainings at the Holocaust Memorial 28 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 3: Museum and MLK Memorial. I cited my oath and training 29 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 3: in my conversations with my FBI supervisors. Nevertheless, the FBI 30 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 3: weaponized the security clearance processes to facilitate my removal from 31 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 3: active duty within one month of my disclosures. In addition 32 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: to an indefinite unpaid suspension, the FBI initiated a campaign 33 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 3: of humiliation and intimidation to punish and pressure me to resign, 34 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 3: in violation of hip hop in the US that the 35 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 3: FBI leaked my private medical information to a reporter at 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 3: The New York Times. The FBI denied my request to 37 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 3: seek out side employment in an obvious attempt to deprive 38 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 3: me of the ability to support my family. Finally, the 39 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 3: FBI Inspection Division imposed in a legal gag order in 40 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 3: an attempt to prevent me from communicating with my family 41 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 3: and attorneys. The FBI is incentivized to work against the 42 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 3: American people and in dire need of drastic reform, Particularly 43 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 3: in these areas. 44 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 2: The integrated program. 45 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 3: Management system incentivizes the use of inappropriate investigatory processes and 46 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 3: tools to achieve arbitrary statistical accomplishments. Mission creep within the 47 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 3: National Security Branch has refocused counter terrorism from legitimate foreign 48 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: actors to political opponents within our borders. The FBI weaponizes 49 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 3: process crimes and reinterprets laws to initiate pretextual prosecutions and 50 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 3: persecute its political enemies. Euerintelligence analysis capability increasingly dictates operations, 51 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 3: turning the FBI into an intelligence agency with a law 52 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 3: enforcement capability. FBI collusion with big tech to gather intelligence 53 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 3: on Americans, censor political speech, and target citizens for malicious prosecution. 54 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 3: A dysfunctional promotion process fosters a revolving door of inexperienced, 55 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 3: ambitious FBI supervisors ascending the management ladder within the agency. 56 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 3: FBI informant protocols that are broken and abusive. The FBI 57 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 3: skirts the Whistleblower Protection Act and exploits the security clearance 58 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: revocation process to expel employees who make legally protected disclosures. 59 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 2: Now after that, Linda Sanchez, a Democrat, then tries to 60 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: smear one of the other whistleblowers, in this case, Marcus Allen, 61 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: for using tweets from a quote bot account. 62 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Allen. Have you ever used Twitter? 63 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: Yes? Or no? 64 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 2: I have utilized Twitter? 65 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: Yes? 66 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 4: Day? 67 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: Okay? 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 4: And is your account at marcus A nine seven zero 69 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 4: five zero six four five? 70 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: That is absolutely not my account. 71 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 4: Okay, that's not your account. 72 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: Well. 73 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 4: On December fifth, twenty twenty two, on account under the 74 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 4: Marcus Allen retweeted a tweet that. 75 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: Said, that is not my account. Ma'am. 76 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 4: You haven't let me finished the question, sir football player, 77 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 4: you haven't let me finished the question. On decend the 78 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 4: time is mine. On December fifth, two, an account under 79 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 4: the name of Marcus Allen retweeted a tweet that said, 80 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 4: quote Nancy Pelosi stage January sixth, retweet if you agree 81 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 4: end quote? 82 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 2: Do you agree with that statement? 83 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: Yes? Or no? That is I don't know, ma'am. 84 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 2: That's not my account at all. All right joining us now. 85 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: Stephen Friend, he testified earlier today, a whistleblower in his 86 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: own right, and he joined Jim Jordan. He was before 87 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:47,679 Speaker 2: the Judiciary Committee. He's blockbuster hearings from earlier today and anyway, 88 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,679 Speaker 2: we appreciate you being with us, Stephen Friend. 89 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 5: Thank you, oh, thank you very much for having me. 90 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: Sell. 91 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about your background. Tell me 92 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 2: about your law enforcement background. 93 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was a police officer in Georgia for of 94 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 5: years and joined the FBI in twenty fourteen. And one 95 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 5: of the things about being a cop and joining the 96 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 5: bureau is they are more inclined to send you to 97 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 5: more locations and deal with some more obscure crimes. So 98 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 5: I spent my first seven years in the FBI working 99 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 5: in northeastern Nebraska on the Indian reservations there and dealing 100 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 5: with violent crimes. And that was really impactful to me 101 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 5: because I had the opportunity to forrest about one hundred 102 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 5: and fifty violent criminals and over about two hundred cases 103 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 5: in my time there. And then in twenty twenty one, 104 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 5: elected to relocate my family to Daytona, Bechlorida, with the 105 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 5: understanding I was going to be working child pornography investigations. 106 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 5: But after a few months there the new fiscal year 107 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 5: old around, I was told that those were now going 108 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 5: to be deemed a local matter and I was going 109 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 5: to be focusing on domestic terrorism here on out. And 110 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 5: at that point was when I got my first access 111 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 5: to the January six cases, which I eventually became a 112 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 5: whistle rower about. 113 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: You know, it's amazing and I understand that people thought 114 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,119 Speaker 2: that Donald Trump did something wrong on January sixth, that 115 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 2: that should be investigated. But what the sad part is 116 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 2: what they did not investigate. At the top of the 117 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: last hour, we had the former Capitol police chief sunned 118 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 2: on this. He's one of only ten Capitol police chiefs 119 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 2: in the history of the country, and he was devastated. 120 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 2: In the days leading up to January sixth, they had 121 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: actionable intelligence and they ignored that intelligence. He saw what 122 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 2: was coming and he begged for National Guard troops. Then also, 123 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 2: the media would have you think that Donald Trump didn't 124 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: think this could be problematic. But we have four people 125 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 2: on January third, in a meeting in the Oval Office, 126 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 2: actually there were five people in the meeting President Trump, 127 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 2: Mark Meadows as Chief of Staff, Chris Miller, the Defense Secretary, 128 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 2: his chief of Staff, Cash Betel, and the Chairman of 129 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: the Joint Chiefs, General milly I have on tape and 130 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: I played it earlier in the show for the five 131 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 2: of them, saying that Donald Trump asked if they needed 132 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 2: troops on January sixth, then would they be available? And 133 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: General milly in according to who the Inspector General report, 134 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 2: said something similar that it was definitely discussed. So that's 135 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 2: five out of five people in the days leading up 136 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 2: to now. If somebody wanted an insurrection, I'm not sure 137 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 2: they would be looking for guard troops. 138 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: Then. 139 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: Of course, we learned from Lester Holt in January of 140 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 2: this year they finally caught up to us that federal 141 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 2: law enforcement had in their possession actionable intelligence that they 142 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 2: could have shared with law enforcement, and in fact they 143 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 2: did not, and otherwise all of this would have been prevented. 144 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 2: And that's sad too. I mean, what is your reaction 145 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 2: when you hear that, and what were you hearing inside 146 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: the Bureau at the time when you tried to point 147 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: things out. 148 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 5: Well, I think the unfortunate part of what January sixth 149 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 5: has become such a political football that those issues are 150 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 5: being disputed in the verscy of everything is as the 151 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 5: question on the matter who you talked to. But from 152 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 5: my perspective, my concern was not even about the fact 153 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 5: that day. It was how the Bureau is now after 154 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 5: the fact, manipulating statistics concerning January sixth in order to 155 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 5: boost its domestic terrorism numbers and further a narrative that 156 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 5: domestic terrorism was on the rise around the country. And 157 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 5: I was also very concerned about our use of SWAT 158 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 5: teams and large scale arrest operations to arrest January six subjects. 159 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 5: Regardless of whether or not those charges were righteous or 160 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 5: completely farcical, it didn't matter to me. I thought that 161 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 5: that those decisions were put in the public safety at risk. 162 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 5: And I said that as somebody who was almost watching 163 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 5: for five years. But these were people who are charged 164 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 5: with misdemeanor crimes in many situations, and even for those 165 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 5: who were charged with felonies, they had agreed to cooperate 166 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 5: with law enforcement. And that's just not in keeping with 167 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 5: the use of the lowest possible force mountain and needed 168 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 5: to put somebody in the custody if there are a 169 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 5: law enforcement So. 170 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 2: You were a whistleblower, you were you were trying to. 171 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 2: The FBI retaliated against you. They suspended you, and all 172 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 2: you were doing was pointing out that the bureau was 173 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 2: working the numbers on the plastic violent extremism cases. What 174 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 2: exactly did you see and do you maybe have evidence 175 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 2: to back up everything you saw? 176 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 5: Well, I can tell you from my experience of having 177 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 5: opened up a couple of hundred cases, that the FBI 178 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 5: is not following the rules that are spelled out for 179 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 5: it in order to manage its cases. So January sixth 180 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 5: righteously should be one case that's run from Washington, DC. 181 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 5: But instead the decision was made to open up a 182 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 5: separate case for every single person, and instead of on 183 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 5: paper running those from Washington, d C. Wherever the person lives, 184 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 5: that office around the country was the on paper office 185 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 5: of origin. Meanwhile, a task force was stood up in Washington, 186 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,359 Speaker 5: d C. That was actually calling the shots and giving directives, 187 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 5: and that was giving me impression to the nation that 188 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 5: genetic rorism is on the rise. In Daytona Beach, Florida, 189 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 5: where I was, or that Sacramento, California, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 190 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 5: wherever the case was opened, and the President and the 191 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,719 Speaker 5: Attorney General and the FBI director were able to go 192 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 5: up and say the the stats back us up on 193 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 5: domestic charism being on the rise and secure funding. We've 194 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 5: seen the FBI get a huge surge. And I think 195 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 5: the most disgusting part that I was I related to 196 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 5: the committee and we got into a little today, is 197 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 5: senior executives at the FBI get compensation. They get bonuses 198 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 5: because they've been able to hit the metrics that they 199 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 5: predetermined for themselves to hit these domestic terrorism numbers. 200 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 2: Oh so if the numbers are right, they get to 201 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 2: they get a nice bonus for themselves. So there's a 202 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 2: financial incentive. Uh, maybe to fix the books. That's that's 203 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 2: not the system you need. A law enforcement in my view, 204 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 2: let me ask you. Tell me about the day that 205 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 2: you were suspended. Tell me about what was said to 206 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 2: you and how this all came into being. 207 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 5: Well, the day that I was actually suspended in September 208 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 5: was pretty uneventful other than just arriving and then being 209 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 5: squared out. With the actual lead up to that where 210 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 5: I made my protected disclosures, where at three separate occasions 211 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 5: I was cautioned against becoming a whistleblower. I was told 212 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 5: that this was going to jeopardize my career. And in 213 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 5: my meeting with two of my assistants special Agents in charge, 214 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 5: I was told that my duty was to the FBI, 215 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 5: not to the Constitution, and they alleged that I was 216 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 5: insubordinate and refusing me to my job. My contention to 217 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 5: them was look notes to the Constitution, and I believe 218 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 5: that what we're doing could be risk to the public safety, 219 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 5: it could be illegal. And I received training when I 220 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,719 Speaker 5: was in the FBI academy about abuse of power. We 221 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 5: went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, we went to the 222 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 5: Mlcame Memorial, and we were taught that only the civil 223 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 5: rights atrocities can occur and GENNSI can occur when people 224 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 5: with members of law enforcement don't step up and ring 225 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 5: the alarm bell, so when they could be the bad 226 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 5: guys in fact. And the other response to that was 227 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 5: that I really need to do some soul searching and 228 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 5: decide if I wanted to be a member of the 229 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 5: FBI going forward. 230 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 2: And then they just took their own liberties to suspend you. 231 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 2: I thought we had whistleblower protection laws in this country. 232 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 2: Did not. Did I misread that we do have them? 233 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 5: But the FBI has found the hack, and that is 234 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 5: the security clearance. So you can't work as an FBI 235 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 5: agent without a security clearance. So the FBI contrived ways 236 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 5: to suspend security clearance is because that is the years 237 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 5: and years long process in order to investigate, and it 238 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 5: has to be just based on an allegation of wrongdoing. 239 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 5: In my situation, the FBI said that I improperly access 240 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 5: the employee handbook and that was grounds to suspend my 241 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 5: security clearance and keep me in an unpaid status. Meanwhile, 242 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 5: I'm still an employee and I need the fgi's permission 243 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 5: to work outside and provide for my family, and I'm 244 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 5: limited with outside employment earning seventy five hundred dollars a year. 245 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 2: Quick break more with Stephen Friend, a now suspended FBI whistleblower, 246 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 2: testifying earlier today before the House Judiciary Committee. All right, 247 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: I want to remind you, so it's springtime. You want 248 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: to be spring ready? Did you put up your hammock yet? Hopefully? 249 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 2: Check you have your Arizona iced tea Arnold palmer, which 250 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: is delicious. Check what about motorized solar shades? 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You know 259 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 2: my background, my family, and you've heard me say this before. 260 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 2: I know in my life that I stand on the 261 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 2: shoulders of my parents. Both of them grew up very poor. 262 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 2: My dad grew up in bedste in Brooklyn. My mom 263 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 2: grew up in the South Bronx. They were the children 264 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: of immigrants from Ireland. All four of my grandparents, all 265 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 2: four of them came from Ireland, and they had no 266 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 2: money in their pocket when they got here, and they 267 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 2: they had hard lives. Anytime I like to complain and 268 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 2: whine and bitch and moan and grown, you know, I 269 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 2: think about their lives and I'm like, I have nothing 270 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 2: to complain about here. It's not it's simply just wrong. 271 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 2: But they worked hard in the hopes that future generations 272 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 2: would be able to do have better lives than they had, 273 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 2: and they sacrificed their lives for that way. And by 274 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 2: the way, so many of you have similar stories to tell. 275 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 2: Mine is not that unique anyway. So my grandfather on 276 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: my mother's side came from Ireland and his brother also 277 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 2: came and I will tell you that. So as I 278 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: was growing up, I mean when my mom became a 279 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 2: prison guard. You know, law enforcement was huge in my family. 280 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 2: So many cousins, relatives, you know, outside my immediate family. 281 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 2: You know, we're on the NYPD. My mom was a 282 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 2: prison guard. She worked double shifts pretty much all the 283 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: life till she died young. I think from over work 284 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 2: in my opinion, and U I spent you know, twenty 285 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 2: five years of a life in a jail. I think 286 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 2: that would kind of suck. Sixteen hours a day. And 287 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 2: my dad was a family corp probation guy, waited tables 288 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 2: on the weekend, and they didn't take vacations. They didn't 289 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: buy new cars till much later in life because they 290 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 2: couldn't afford them, and they spent all their money on 291 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 2: a Catholic education because they believed that that was the 292 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 2: latter to success. Now, growing up in my family, if 293 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 2: you were in law enforcement, you know what you were 294 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 2: looked at it as Wow, you're the American dream. You 295 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 2: made it. You're on the NYPD. This is awesome. Now. 296 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 2: My grandfather on my mother's side had a brother who 297 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: had two sons that made it to the FBI, and 298 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 2: in my family growing up, they were deity. They were it. 299 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 2: They were a pinnacle of success that they made it 300 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 2: to the premier law enforcement agency in the entire world. 301 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 2: One of my cousins has since passed away, but another 302 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 2: is alive and he's actually on our Newsmaker line right now. 303 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 2: My mother's maiden name was Flynn, and Billy Flynn is 304 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 2: on the line. Bill. Great to have you, my friend, 305 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: God bless you. I'm sorry we missed your brother. And 306 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 2: by the way, your other brother became Jack became what 307 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: a Christian brother, if I'm not mistaken. And how many 308 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 2: years did you serve in the FBI? 309 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: Twenty eight years, Sean. You know it's funny you say that. Well, 310 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: I didn't call in with this in mind, but what 311 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: you just described I call the Irish American privilege. You know, 312 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: we had the loving parents, work ethic gave us a 313 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: marral Coude and turned us loose. No checks, no nothing. 314 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 2: That's true. I was on my own, you know, since 315 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 2: I had my first payper out. I paid for every 316 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 2: meal I ever had. I just you know, we didn't 317 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 2: have meals at six o'clock like a regular family. 318 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: You know what, You know, short, I'm in a sweet sput. 319 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: I'm too years older than Trump and two years younger 320 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 1: than Biden. Let me tell you something. Trump is a 321 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: freaking wonder kid. He's unbelievable. I couldn't begin to compete 322 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: with his stamina. And the other guy he is on 323 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: his way to dementia city. This is from my observations 324 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: from this age I am. I'm from what we call 325 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: my friend's cause we call ourselves twentieth century feds. Our 326 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: careers were in the last quarter of the twentieth century. 327 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,959 Speaker 1: But the thing I'm describing there, that silver spooner thing. 328 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: I didn't call him with this in mind. But you 329 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: know what, maybe that's the problem with this Ray guy, 330 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: because that's what he is, a silver spooner. As I 331 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: recall his background, I think he was born in Manhattan 332 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: to a well to do lawyer father. He went to 333 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: prep school in Manhattan and then Yale law. He gets out, 334 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: he gets himself a job in a preferred law firm. 335 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: No problem there. He gets out of that, he does 336 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: a couple of years in justice, has no FBI experience, 337 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, he's the director of 338 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: the FBI. I mean to me, I just think this 339 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: guy was mosfully inadequate for the position he was put in. 340 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: He had an opportunity to clean house after all the 341 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 2: Shenanigans of James Comy. You know, we know James Comy 342 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 2: went three separate times with PISA applications, and Andrew McCabe 343 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 2: said without Hillary's dirty dossier, those applications never would have 344 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 2: been improved. And he lied to a court and said 345 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: that it was verified. It says at the top of 346 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 2: a visa court application verified. And he submitted to them 347 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 2: every time. And then we learned this week from the 348 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 2: Durham report that they had no predicate at all to 349 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 2: even open this investigation and that they will Warner repeatedly. 350 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 2: Early October, before he signed that first application, we know 351 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 2: that the FBI had agents fly over the Pond to 352 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 2: London and meet with Christopher Steele. They offered him a 353 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 2: million dollars if he could corroborate his dossier. He could not, 354 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,719 Speaker 2: but yet they included it as the bulk of him 355 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 2: for me to get that pizor application to destroy Carter 356 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 2: Page's life and backdoor into all things Trump world. How 357 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 2: did he never get held accountable for that? 358 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's extraordinary, isn't it. This guy put 359 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: his thumb, put his put his cinder blocks on the 360 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: scale of the last election. If anything, Hopefully the Republicans 361 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: will have somebody in there in twenty four to turn 362 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: it over. You will never get them to go back 363 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: after Cally and the rest of those dirt bags. But 364 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,120 Speaker 1: this guy should be made an example of. He absolutely 365 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: affected the election in twenty twenty by putting by you know, 366 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: hooking up with the social networks, telling him his Russian 367 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: pranks coming, and then he then, of course the laptop 368 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: shows up and then they sit on it. Two weeks 369 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: before the election. Some independent surveys said that could have 370 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: affected the outcome of the election had they known that, 371 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: had the post not been squashed. You know, So I 372 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: would like to see him cross That's my goal. Sorry, 373 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: this is what I really called in for. So I'm 374 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: just off the top of my head here but the 375 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: idea I called in for was to do with the 376 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: border showing. I know that the governors of Texas and 377 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: Florida have been shipping the buses up. It's well known 378 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,159 Speaker 1: what happened in New York. We got Mayor Adams in 379 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: their Springing University. We're not a sanctuary city anymore, et cetera. Well, 380 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of universities in this country, 381 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: a lot of wolf politically correct universities that have empty 382 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: dorms during the summer, you know, and a lot of 383 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: them rent them out. I would love to see, maybe, 384 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: in particular, let's go after these Catholic and name only universities. 385 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: Let's drop off a couple of loads of these illegal 386 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: immigrants in their dorms for the summer. Maybe they could 387 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,679 Speaker 1: take some of that they're well endowed monies that they have, 388 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 1: they must be hugely profitable with their exorbitant tuitions, and 389 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: let them take care of these people for us, and 390 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: maybe during that summer they could figure out a more 391 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: permanent lodging for them in the communities in which they live. 392 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, why don't we enforce the law if 393 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 2: you enter this country illegally, you don't respect our laws, 394 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 2: borders of sovereignty. You should be sent home, by the way. 395 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. I want to go back to 396 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 2: our own family, if you don't mind. I bet you 397 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: and your brothers had no idea that everybody else in 398 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 2: the family looked up to you the way we did. 399 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: Did you no idea at all? Seuck, I got it. 400 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 2: You know. 401 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: I was in college. I was in Manhattan College. It 402 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: was in night school, paying my own way, I would say, 403 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: at the same time as Rudy Giuliani and Jane Statterson. 404 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 2: Wow, you know, it's pretty amazing. You know. The sad 405 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 2: part is, and you and I had private conversations when 406 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 2: we were dealing with this whole you know, Mueller witch 407 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 2: hunt and everything else that went on for three long years, 408 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 2: Russia hoax, and I remember telling you it was painful 409 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 2: for me. It kind of it went against my own 410 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 2: ingrained DNA, because I was brought up to revere people 411 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 2: like yourself and people in law enforcement and look up 412 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,360 Speaker 2: to them and believe in them and trust them, and 413 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 2: the idea that they were abusing power to this level. 414 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 2: Now again, I make an exception for the good people 415 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 2: in the FBI that risk their lives the good people 416 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 2: in law enforcement. And I always make that caveat because 417 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 2: it's not fair to sweep a broad general brush and 418 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 2: people like yourself and people like your brother. And yet 419 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 2: look what has happened here. I mean, I don't know 420 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 2: if you've had a chance to look at this Durham report, 421 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 2: but it is devastating. If anyone has eyes to read 422 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 2: and ears to hear and a heart that's open, you 423 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 2: see that this was all a hoax from the beginning, 424 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 2: with no evidence to even begin an investigation. And I'm like, 425 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 2: how is this happening in this country? That to me 426 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,479 Speaker 2: is abuse of power, That is corruption. But if our 427 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 2: institutions are corupt I'll give you another example. Twenty twenty, 428 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 2: here's the FBI again. They had Hunter Biden's laptop in 429 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: December and twenty nineteen, they verified that John Solomon says 430 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 2: in spring of twenty twenty, and yet they had FBI 431 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: agents meeting with big tech companies on a weekly basis, 432 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,479 Speaker 2: even giving three and a half million dollars to Twitter 433 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 2: and pre bunking. Well, you might be a victim of 434 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 2: disinformation from a foreign entity, and it may be about 435 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: Joe or Hunter Biden. So that story that they knew 436 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 2: was coming out because Rudy Giuliani had a copy of 437 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: that laptop. They debunk it, and then it gets censored 438 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 2: and the American people are denied a very important truth 439 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 2: about a candidate and his family prior to an election. Now, 440 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: that to me is wow. I can't imagine what would 441 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 2: happen to me if I ever tried to medal in 442 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 2: an election like that. 443 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 1: You know, I was told by someone who was in 444 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: a position to know the sad laptop shat that whole 445 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: time in a unit down at Quantico, you know, And 446 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: I call it the Dorg and Pony show Land. They're 447 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: really good at putting on lots of shows down there. 448 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: The congressman that was on ahead of me, I agree 449 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 1: with them one hundred percent. Do not fund any new 450 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 1: facility for the FBI, because that'll be the next little 451 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: bubble that they dangle out in front of you. They 452 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: should be confirmed to the concrete tomb that they are 453 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: in right now, because they hate being there, and I 454 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: really feel they shouldn't be rewarded for the way that 455 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: they've conducted themselves throughout this whole thing. Well, I'm disgusted 456 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 1: and I don't know anybody, for the most part, the 457 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: retirees that I know that have anything but lack of 458 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: respect for these people. 459 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 2: Every single person that I know, either currently serving or 460 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 2: recently retired, tells me the same thing. It is not 461 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 2: the agency they signed up for everything that they're looking 462 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 2: into now, and the Judiciary Committee about weaponization and in 463 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 2: how it's been politicized the FBI, it is all true. 464 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 2: And that to me tells us that we don't have 465 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 2: equal justice or application of our laws. They're not following 466 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 2: standard procedures or following through on constitutional rights. Pretty scary times, 467 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 2: by the way. And here it is, you guys had 468 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 2: had created this great reputation for our family and were 469 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 2: you know, looked up to his deity and then it 470 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 2: along comes me and I ruined the whole family reputation. 471 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? 472 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: What patters can be? I bragged anybody who listened to 473 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: me that you're my cousin, and I said, don't hold 474 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: it against him. 475 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 2: And by the way, by the way, the funny thing 476 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 2: is probably half of them want to kill you after that. 477 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,479 Speaker 2: You know, well, listen, it's great to hear from you. 478 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,719 Speaker 2: And then you know, twenty eight years you served our 479 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 2: great country. Your brother was a hero as well. Well. 480 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 2: Both your brothers were here have your whole family's heroes. 481 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 2: I'll never forget your dad. I remember your dad. I 482 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 2: think I called him Uncle Dave at the time, I'm 483 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 2: not sure, but he would smoke a cigarette and he 484 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 2: he'd pop with every drag. He used to do that pop, 485 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 2: remember that. And I remember your your mom, Bridy loving 486 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 2: a Gin and tonic. And I remember I was a 487 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 2: bartender at the time and I'd make. 488 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: Him for yeap real quick. My father would. He'd be 489 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: sitting there with a pipe, doing that pop thing with 490 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: the pipe, and he said, sure, Billy, I'm so happy 491 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: to tell you I gave up smoking. 492 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: As he popped away on a pipe instead of a cigarette. 493 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 2: I remember him smoking cigarettes. I don't remember the pipe 494 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 2: well anyway, Bill, Thank you, my friend. God bless you 495 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 2: and our entire family. And I know you agree with 496 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 2: me that they had much tougher lives than we did, 497 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 2: and they sacrificed a lot for us, and I never 498 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 2: forget that we stand on their shoulders. 499 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 1: Thanks Sean, you are the work worse and the conservative body. 500 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 2: Well. But trying, my friend, I'm just trying to follow 501 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 2: in your footsteps. Yep, all right, eight nine one sean 502 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 2: our number if you want to be part of the program. 503 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 2: I used to call him and say, it's killing me, 504 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 2: it's killing me. I don't want to cover the story. 505 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 2: I don't want to be a point on exposing you 506 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 2: know what I had come grown up to Revere, you know, 507 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 2: law enforcement, the FBI, and I was I was brought 508 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 2: up to. You know, I looked at him and his 509 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 2: brother and we were like, you know, we didn't see 510 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 2: them often, and then sometimes you'd see them and they 511 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 2: like had long hippie hair. You know, they were a 512 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 2: dressed you know, they were obviously clearly infiltrating something. Obviously 513 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 2: at my age, I had no clue what they were doing. 514 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 2: And you know, it just was, you know, we looked 515 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 2: at them as the pinnacle of success as an immigrant family, 516 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 2: and they made it when they made it to the FBI. 517 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: And that was that was the dream of their parents 518 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 2: risking everything, coming to this country with no money. And 519 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 2: that's all for my grandparents. I only knew one of 520 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 2: my grandparents. I did not know the other three, and 521 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 2: I didn't know his dad, which was my grandfather's brother. Anyway, 522 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 2: Great people. I'll say, all right, that's going to wrap 523 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 2: things up at today. All right, the hearings of the 524 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 2: whistle blowers. Today we got full and complete coverage, including 525 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 2: one of the whistleblowers, Jeanine Piro. Kelly Ann joins us tonight. 526 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham's of New York tonight, he'll check in with 527 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 2: us in studio, Tommy Laren in studio. Dagan is in studios. 528 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 2: So we have a lot of fun. Ronnie Jackson and 529 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: so much more. Nine Eastern Hannity, Fox News, see you tonight. 530 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 2: Back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this show possible. 531 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 2: This is the best of the best. This is the 532 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 2: Sean Hannity Show.