1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott Shannon, thanks to all of 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: you for being with us. Right down our toll free 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: telephone number this Friday, it's eight hundred nine to four one, Sean. 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: If you would like to join us, we would love 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: to hear from you. A lot of news to get 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: to today. I don't know why everybody I know, we'll 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: get into this later, is talking about this big concert 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: jumbo tron kiss that took place. It was just a 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: weird moment. It was at a Coldplay concert. And I 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: guess you don't like to have if you go to 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: a ball game or you go to like for example, 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: where I I love the Florida Panthers two time now 13 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: back to back Stanley Cup champions, just saying, and I 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: think they have a good shot at a third one. 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: But anyway, so they have these moments where there are 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: people that put audience members up on the big screen, 17 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: the jumbo screen, and anyway, so they showed this couple 18 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: that are up there. Linda, you've seen this right, we'll 19 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: talk more later. And anyway, the band's front man is 20 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: Chris Martin. This guy was once married to what Gwyneth Poultraw, Paltraw, 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: whatever name is. I just I care less. Whatever company 22 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: she runs, what is it called goop? Goop? 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, cop, Yeah, she's a raging liberal. It doesn't matter. 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't matter. And they did a conscious decoupling 25 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: or something. See, my memory is pretty good for a 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: little weird. 27 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 2: How much you know about this? I'm starting to get concerned. 28 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: Well, you're getting concerned anyway. 29 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: So are you listening to the sad cold Play songs 30 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 2: like when You're alone? Like what's going on? 31 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: I couldn't name one Coldplay song, not one, can you? 32 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 3: Yeah? 33 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: I have a bunch of their albums. Actually, I think 34 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: they're they're pretty good. Sky Full Stars is probably my favorite. 35 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: All Right, So the front man's I'm not gonna be look, 36 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna make an inference, but I mean 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: they're getting hammered. I mean anyway, So the camera pans 38 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: towards this couple, and the guy's got his arms around 39 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: kind of like the upper chest area what looks like 40 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: to me? And I'm looking at the picture right here 41 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: in front of me in the New York Post and 42 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: their hands at another point are intertwined. And then the 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 1: moment where they realize they're up on the jumbo trum 44 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: actually happens, and they see that, and immediately, you know, 45 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: she flings her hands over her face, turns around, he 46 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: ducks down out of view. Martin, you know, thought the 47 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: camera had captured a sweet moment. Oh look at these two, 48 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: but their reaction kind of initially leaves him confused. He goes, 49 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: uh oh, and then he could be heard saying on stage, well, 50 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: either they're having an affair or they're just very shy. 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: And anyway, I don't know much about mixed up what 52 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: has been written about him. And apparently the wife of 53 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: the guy saw this and deleted her married name from 54 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: her Facebook page. Did you see that? 55 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 2: I did? 56 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: I don't know. That was pretty quick. I was done, 57 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: like and it's. 58 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 2: Probably probably a little something something going on already. I 59 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: would think, you know, women are not stupid. I'm sure 60 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 2: she knew. 61 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: I don't know. Some people get away with this stuff. 62 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: I mean there's a part of me that's like, you know, 63 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: what if if you will that brazen and you want 64 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: to go out there and and by the way, we 65 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: have members on our staff saying, oh no, if you're cheating, 66 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: you should go to an obscure restaurant. I'm like, why 67 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: would you know that? Why would you think that way? 68 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: It's not about it, it's just listen, nor what person 69 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: supposed to be common it's supposed to be common knowledge. 70 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: Where to go to cheat? 71 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 2: The whole idea of cheating is that you're doing something 72 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: nefarious that you're not supposed to be doing. Like any 73 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: other crime, whether it's a crime of passion, crime against community, taking, robbing, whatever, 74 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: it's something you're not supposed to be doing. So it 75 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 2: should be done on the down low. It shouldn't be 76 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: done on the jumbo tron. Now, obviously that wasn't their choice, 77 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: but they shouldn't have even been standing the way they 78 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 2: were standing. What they should do is. 79 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: They were in Jellette Stadium for crying out loud. I 80 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: mean the I know. 81 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: That's my point. So, like you know, I don't know, 82 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: go to like your local sushi restaurant in a town 83 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,559 Speaker 2: you don't live in. Just the thought, if you're gonna 84 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: do it, at least do it where you're not hurting people. 85 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 2: You know, you're already committing a sense. 86 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: No, there's no such thing as doing it and not 87 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: hurting people. By doing it, you're hurting people. I don't know. 88 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 2: Sean I think doing it on the jumbo tron or 89 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: your entire family finding out, your little kids, finding out 90 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 2: that's really hurting people. They could hurt a lot. 91 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: Last I hate it, you know. I'd go to events 92 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: in New York and they'd put my face up there, 93 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: and half the time I get booed. 94 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: In New York. New Yorkers get. 95 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: I get triggered. No, I'm not triggered at all. Just 96 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: Thenews dot Com and John Solomon will join us later. 97 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: That's the biggest story of the day. We're going to 98 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: get to. We have new declassified emails showing key spies 99 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: were shocked to learn that the Steel dossier was used 100 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: in the Russian medaling. In other words, I'll give you 101 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: a quick summary of it. So you have rank and 102 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: file people that are in the intelligence community, in other words, 103 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: career people that are dedicated to their craft, good at 104 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: their jobs, loyal that are straight arrows, and then all 105 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: of a sudden that information that they determine there is 106 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: nothing nefarious in terms of any collusion or any efforts 107 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: by Vladimir Putin to influence the election. They write about 108 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: it repeatedly and extensively, and then it ends up in 109 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: the hands of the big people, and they start polluting 110 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: it and destroying it and contaminating it and using it 111 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: to harm Donald Trump. And apparently now because of a 112 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: Foyer request by John Solomon, who will join us later, 113 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: we now know that it was a conscious effort to 114 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: destroy Trump. The whole thing was a hoax from the 115 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: very beginning. We spent three years on this program going 116 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 1: over this, So we're going to get to that. Now 117 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: we have the demise. I've been predicting this forever. How 118 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: long have I been saying that these late night comedy 119 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: shows are all on cancelation Watch Linda, how many times 120 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: have you heard me say that they're officially on cancelation watch? 121 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 1: All right, Well, the first one is down, and that 122 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: would be Stephen Colbert, who I actually think is the 123 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: least likable of all of them. As much as I 124 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: hate Kimmel and I don't like Kimmel, Kimmel's a jackass, 125 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: and you know, goes after Oh Malania Trump's accent, and 126 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: he's tried to have fights with me. Every time he does, 127 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: I just bury him, I mean on X and social media. 128 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: Maybe when he maybe, when he's not held under a 129 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: ABC Disney contract, which is probably coming pretty soon for him. 130 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: Maybe we can, maybe we can reignite that battle. I'd 131 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: look forward to it. That's one that I like anyway. 132 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: So Colbert got canceled. Here's what he said last night. 133 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: Before we start. 134 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 4: The show, I want to let you know something that 135 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 4: I found out just last night. Next year will be 136 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 4: our last season. The network will be ending the Late 137 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 4: Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings. It's 138 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 4: not just the end of our show, but it's the 139 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 4: end of the Late Show on CBS. 140 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: I'm not being replaced. 141 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 4: This is all just going away. And I do want 142 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 4: to say I do want to say that the folks 143 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 4: at CBS have been great partners. I'm so grateful to 144 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 4: the Tiffany Network for giving me this chair and this 145 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 4: beautiful theater to call home. 146 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: Oh it's not home anymore. Look. The reason that I've 147 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: been able to make this prediction, it is very, very simple, 148 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: is it is a ratings driven business. They stop being 149 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: funny a long time ago. They became hyperpartisan, political, left 150 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: wing radical hacks a long time ago. And when you 151 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: stop being funny and it's supposed to be a comedy show, 152 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: then guess what. And your audience goes away in mass 153 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: There was never any course correction by any of these three. 154 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: And that's Kimmel, Fallen, Colbert, none of them. The one 155 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: guy in Late Night that's funny is Greg Guttfeld and 156 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: he's crushing it, absolutely crushing it. President Trump took a 157 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: victory lap on Friday after learning THAT'SBS had canceled the 158 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: lay show. I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His 159 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: talent was even less than his ratings. Is that I 160 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. I'll put the odds at 161 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: eighty twenty ninety ten somewhere in there that Kimmel is 162 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: definitely next. He has even less talent than Colbert. Greg 163 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: gutfelds much better than all of them combined, including the 164 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 1: moron on NBC who ruined the ones Great Tonight Show. 165 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: Who's talking about Jimmy Fallon? And Trump has ripped Colbert 166 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: in the past, calling him very boring and a total loser. 167 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: He's not funny. Look, I can acknowledge, even if I 168 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: am the butt of the joke, when people are funny. 169 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: How many times, Linda have we acknowledged on this program 170 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: when people do bits about me or attack me? But 171 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: it's done in a really funny way. We even play them. 172 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: I don't mind being I like a good sense of humor, 173 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: even if it's about me. Great, I love it. You know, 174 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: John Stewart. Why they picked Stephen Colbert over Stewart in 175 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: the first place was a dumb decision. Now, Stewart does 176 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: have this little sided to his personality, as does Bill Maher, 177 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: but at times they can be funny and they're far 178 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: more intellectually honest and curious than are all these three 179 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: late night guys combined. Now, So I think that I 180 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: think it's it's pretty obvious to say that it's probably over. 181 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel is probably going to be next Fallons. Already 182 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: they all been cut to four days a week instead 183 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: of five, and it's only a matter of time. But 184 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: the media is in for a root awakening now. Earlier 185 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,679 Speaker 1: today too, the House gave final approval to President Trump's 186 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: request to claw back about nine billion dollars for public broadcasting, 187 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: and that means they passed legislation a defund MPR and PBS. 188 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: Why should there are more cable channels available that are 189 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: are for sale at bottom basement prices now because they've 190 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: been running to the ground, mismanaged, not funny, and and 191 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: they've gotten lazy, and their programming is is nothing but 192 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: fifteen year old show reruns. Then nobody watches them and 193 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: they don't make any money. If you wanted to buy 194 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: a cable channel and run you know, bar In Tones, 195 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: you'd probably get better ratings than some of these places. 196 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: But why should we be paying one red cent on 197 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: top of that? With all the political bias that they have. 198 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: And I'm going to make some other predictions here you 199 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: ready for predictions? Here's my predictions. 200 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 2: He lost predictions. 201 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: Well, first of all, Kimo Rush, who have the back 202 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: of his buddy Colbert, love you, Steve and if you 203 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: and all your your Sheldon CBS. 204 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 2: He does cry a lot, if we're being. 205 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: Honest, Okay, he's a big baby. I don't get it. 206 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 1: I don't get the crying thing. I really I do 207 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: not get the crying thing at all. So now we're 208 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: defunding this, But the landscape and media is changing. What 209 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: do you think is factored into this? Maybe the fact 210 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: that they have gotten so overtly political, is that factored 211 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: into the fact, you know, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and 212 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: early in Letterman's career, he was not as political. In 213 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: his later years, he was becoming more and more political, 214 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: and as he did, his ratings began to sink as 215 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: he was more political. Now he's just a weirdo, looks 216 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: like a homeless guy with a beard in a show 217 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: on Netflix that isn't particularly interesting. His guests occasionally are interesting, 218 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: and it's just a shame that all this is happening 219 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: now on the one hand. On the other hand, it's 220 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: just an opportunity for other people to emerge, and that's 221 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: why you see podcasts that are interesting emerging and doing 222 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: well and thriving. I think these people are just out 223 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: of touch with the rank and file of in the 224 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: American landscape and the American people. It's but there. But 225 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: here's the next thing that's going to happen. I think 226 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: there are probably fifty to fifty odds that CNN as 227 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: we know may not exist in the next couple of years. 228 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: I'm not sure MSDNC survives over the next couple of years. 229 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: I'm not sure that these newspapers New York Times, Washington Post, 230 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: LA Well LA Times has gotten a lot better. To 231 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: be honest, it's under new ownership. But I'm not sure 232 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: if these these companies can survive anymore. And I think 233 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: that the media landscape now does it have anything to 234 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 1: do with the fact that they are constantly twenty four 235 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: to seven three sixty five Hay Trump, Yes, it does, 236 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,599 Speaker 1: because you're alienating more than half the country. Does it 237 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: Does it impact them at all that they they go along, 238 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: They don't call out lies like the border's secure and 239 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: Joe's not a cognitive mess and inflation is transitory. Yeah, 240 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: lying to your audience is a bad idea. If you 241 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: want a one on one, one on one on how 242 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: to be a little successful and broadcasting, don't lie to 243 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: your audience and tell them and give them news and 244 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 1: information that they're not going to get elsewhere where, and 245 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: try and talk about it in a very New York style, 246 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 1: fun talk radio way, and drink some coffee while you're 247 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: doing it. You know what I'm talking about. Indeed, you 248 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: add a lot of humor to the show. We'll get 249 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: into that later too, all right, So this is a 250 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: huge story, and it started with a foyer request by 251 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: our friend John Solomon just thenews dot com. He'll join 252 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: us at the top of the next hour, But we 253 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: have new details about the Steele dossier's impact on the 254 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: intel community in the twenty and their assessment of Russia meddling, 255 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: and with the release of these declassified documents and apparently 256 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: they would deeply in other words, they were deep classified documents. 257 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: And Tulsa Gabbert has declassified bombshell emails showing the shocked 258 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: reaction of a top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly 259 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: informed in twenty nineteen at the discredited anti Trump Steel 260 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: dossier had been used to develop the Obama administration's intelligent 261 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: assessment on Russia meddling in twenty sixty. Well, I was 262 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: just as surprised and shocked as well. When we get 263 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: to the bottom line of this and I tell you 264 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: this story, and John tells you this story, it will 265 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: blow your mind. That's coming up. We'll get to that 266 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: much more straight ahead. 267 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 5: In the IRS scandal and the NSA atrocities. 268 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 3: Convince you need a watch dog on Washington with insider sources. 269 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: You need Hannity every day h twenty five till the 270 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: top of the hour, eight hundred and nine point one, 271 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: Shawn our number. If you want to be a part 272 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: of the program. Listen. The threats to your identity are real. 273 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: You have scammers everywhere. They want to destroy your good name, 274 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: your reputation, rob you blind, and destroy your finances, and 275 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: they don't care. And they're more sophisticated than ever before. 276 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: You know, for example, there's a lot of student loan 277 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: borrowers out there, and there's a lot of corruption involved 278 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: in this, and they're looking for your social security number, 279 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: your account log in data, and they'll tell you, oh, 280 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: we are calling to give you debt relief. They will 281 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: sound very professional. 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And right now, if you join LifeLock by 298 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 1: calling one eight hundred LifeLock or going to LifeLock dot 299 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: com use the promo code Hannity, you will get forty 300 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: percent off your first year. That's one eight hundred lifelocklifelock 301 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: dot com promo code Hannity Today, so we had Riley 302 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: Gaines on the show. I like Riley Gines. You like 303 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines is swimming to Alcatraz. Now there's 304 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 1: been all this my all these myths that you can't 305 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: escape Alcatraz, and Attorney General Bondi went out there with 306 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: Doug Bergram yesterday and they were looking around and maybe 307 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: they're going to turn this thing back into a prison. 308 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: But the issue, you know, all the lore surrounding this 309 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: and whether or not people can escape Alcatraz. And you've 310 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: ever been to the wharf in San Francisco, and you 311 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: look out there, you can you can see it, and 312 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: I think it's a good idea. Anyway, Riley Gaines, did 313 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: you know that she made the swim last year? I 314 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. Now last night, What's Up? 315 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 2: Said, it's insane. 316 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: Oh, she's such a she's such a great athlete. He 317 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: really is. So I brought it up last night and 318 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: she's now and she made this public. I would never 319 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: make a public I never want to give out people's 320 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: personal information. So she is making the swim today. I 321 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: don't know if she finished it. He's not so worried 322 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: about the sharks, she said about he said, the water's freezing. 323 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 1: And she's gonna make this. 324 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 2: She tweeted out an hour ago. She said, and I 325 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 2: escaped Alcatraz at nearly thirty one weeks pregnant. I'm basically 326 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 2: just a human submarine for a baby girl. I just 327 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: texted it to you. 328 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: That is pretty awesome. I mean, that's pretty badass. And 329 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: then she was talking about Clay Travis that he might 330 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: try to do it. I'm like, Clay Travis couldn't do 331 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: this in a million years. And I said, I'm betting 332 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: on you and I'm betting against him. Well, apparently he 333 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: was talking about it on his radio show today. Let's 334 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: hear what he said. 335 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,239 Speaker 3: Riley actually texted me and told me, hey, I just 336 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 3: obliterated you on Hannity, and I was like, send me 337 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 3: the link. And I hadn't seen it and I had 338 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 3: totally forgotten about it. I mean, I think that I would. 339 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to swim it. I'm gonna have to 340 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 3: swim it. And maybe Sean needs to be in the boat, 341 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 3: like watching reporting a minute by minute. 342 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 5: Oh, I would get in the launch boat alongside. It 343 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 5: would be the safety boat to make sure when you 344 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 5: start to drown, we'll pull you out. And Sean could 345 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 5: just be there with the bullhorn trying to motivate you. 346 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 5: It is right, and I've had some bad bets with Sean. 347 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 5: I think I owe Sean like a thousand dollars on 348 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 5: sports bets over the year. He hasn't tried to collect yet, 349 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 5: and so I've been trying to avoid him because I 350 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 5: don't have a lot of cash on me all the time. 351 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 3: I hate you, Sean Hannity. I also hate you Riley Gaines. 352 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 3: You're off the Christmas card list. 353 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't even know it was on the Christmas 354 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: card list. You know, I'm finding out from friends of 355 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: my life that Christmas cards are like a really big 356 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: deal to people. Do you send out Christmas cards? 357 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: It's so funny you're saying this. I do not, and 358 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:32,400 Speaker 2: I get yelled at every year. 359 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: Okay, I've never sent out a Christmas card in my life. 360 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 1: Now I'm inundated with them, and there's been a very 361 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: big shift generational. 362 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 2: If the word that you meant to say was I'm 363 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 2: blessed with them, blessed, buy them, blessed to receive them 364 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 2: inundated sounds a little ungrateful. 365 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: Okay, people send of these cards and on it. It's 366 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: like everybody the posts on social media is the same 367 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: thing they want. They want to portray the picture of 368 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: the most wonderful, perfect, beautiful life, perfect family, et cetera, 369 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: et cetera. Nobody has a perfect anything. We could all 370 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: pretend that we have perfect stuff when nobody has a 371 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 1: perfect anything. And I look at the pictures and you 372 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: see the little doggie in the walks on the beach 373 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: and the sunset behind them, and so many of them. 374 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what the obsession is with dressing all 375 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: in white, but they dress in white. I'm like, I 376 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: hope to I pray to God. I never ever have 377 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: to send out a Christmas card with my face on it. 378 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: Does that sound a little anti Christmas? 379 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 3: No? 380 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 2: I I kind of agree with you. I love the 381 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 2: cards where people send me pictures of their kiddos, especially 382 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 2: when they're younger. It's just super cute. But when you 383 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,479 Speaker 2: start putting pictures of yourself on your cards and your 384 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 2: I don't know, I think it's weird. I'd rather see 385 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 2: a picture that was more about religion, more about God, 386 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 2: more about what the day is for. 387 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: Well, that's the generational thing, because it used to be, 388 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: you know, a picture of the baby Jesus used to 389 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: be you know, Mary and Joseph. 390 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: And yeah, the two those those sorts of things. It's 391 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 2: now it's like ho, ho ho, here's Santa, where's your gift? 392 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: That's like, come on, have you watched season five of 393 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 1: The Chosen yet? 394 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 2: I haven't watched season one of the Chosen yet, so I'm. 395 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: A little behind. I have told you a million times, 396 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: why don't you ever listen to me? You never listen. 397 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 2: I have to mand me you that's why. 398 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, annoying me, and instead of annoying me, 399 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: you could be bringing Jesus into your life. I am 400 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: telling Jesus is. 401 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 2: In my life. I don't need Chosen to put Jesus. 402 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,919 Speaker 2: I'm actually the Bible in a year just so. 403 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: I've been doing that too, but I'm planning on doing 404 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: it in three years because I just I'm just a 405 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: little bit slower. It's hard. It definitely is very hard. 406 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: I have I've been doing it. But I love the 407 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: series The Chosen. Do you realize I've watched it in 408 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: full three times already, three times I have when I 409 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: watched it late at night. That's the last. Yeah, I 410 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: either play chess, look at real estate, or watch The Chosen. 411 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: Those that's my late night pattern. Goodness's why I never 412 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: get any sleep. And then I'm looking also for articles 413 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: while I'm watching it, and then Jesus will enlighten me 414 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: whether or not I should I should, whether or not 415 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: I should be talking about this issue. By the way, 416 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: we want to give a shout out today special shout out. 417 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: We got a request from Calvin Wimbish. He's a colonel 418 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: US Army Special Forces and it's a very cool story 419 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 1: that his dad and his mom. They live in Baltimore. 420 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: They've been married over eighty years this past April thirteenth, 421 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: nineteen forty five, and still alive and well together. Mom 422 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 1: is now ninety eight and told Dad he's got to 423 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: hang around until she gets over too. Wow, And they 424 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: have pictures of him. Very cool anyway, God bless them all. 425 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: Married over eighty years. You could barely spend three hours 426 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 1: a day with me without like losing it. 427 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 2: So I guess his dad's birthday is today. He's one 428 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 2: hundred and one and the incredible. But their pictures are incredible. 429 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 2: So shout out to Calvin for being a good son. 430 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 2: I think that's really cool. 431 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: I haven't really started the show yet today. I'm just 432 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: sort of one of those moves. 433 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 2: We've been talking for the past forty minutes. 434 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just kind of I don't know, not 435 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: the I'm going to get dialed in with John Solomon 436 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: in a minute. Because John Solomon is awesome. I love 437 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: him as a person. He's such a great investigative reporter. 438 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: He's a good friend. He's always working. I mean the 439 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 1: conversations we have late at night, always we're talking about stuff. 440 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,199 Speaker 1: He has great storks. He works, It works hard. The 441 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: criminal referral that was filed by the director of the 442 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: US Federal Housing Finance Agency provides more details about the 443 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: mortgage and tax scandal plaguing the congenital liar Adam Schiff 444 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: and identifies the array of federal laws that he may 445 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: have violated by improperly claiming two primary residences. Refer was 446 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Director William Palti says 447 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: that Shiff may have violated several statutes, including government wire fraud, 448 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: mail fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution 449 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: by claiming two homes, one of Maryland, the other in 450 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: California as primary residences and based on media reports, Adam 451 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 1: Schiff has in multiple instances falsified bank documents property records 452 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from two 453 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: thousand and three to twenty nineteen from a Potomac, Maryland 454 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: based property. And he leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, 455 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: which oversees Fanny May, Freddie Mac and the Federal home 456 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 1: loan bank system as a regulator. Fannie May, Freddie Mack 457 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: and the Federal Home loan Banks we take very seriously 458 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: allegations of mortgage fraud and other criminal activity. Remember they 459 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 1: tried to make a big deal. I was involved in 460 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: an investment property and they said, oh, Hannity apparently got 461 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: one of these government back loans, which by the way, 462 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: almost everybody in business does if you invest in some 463 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 1: real estate projects. And I was only one member of it. 464 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: And the funny thing is the loan was guaranted that 465 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: that loan took place during Obama's presidency, and they wanted 466 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: to tie it to Trump. WHOOPSI Daisy, Sorry about that, guys. 467 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 1: So this runs very deep, the story that we're going 468 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on with John Solomon, 469 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,479 Speaker 1: and what we have are new details about the Hillary 470 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: Clinton out and paid for Steele dossier and their impact 471 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: on the intelligence community in twenty sixteen and their assessment 472 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: of Russian meddaling as it continues now to emerge. We 473 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: have now new declassified documents thanks to John Solomon's Foyer 474 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:19,239 Speaker 1: request and the Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard, and 475 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: she classified bombshell emails that show shocked reaction of a 476 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly informed in twenty 477 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 1: nineteen that the discredited and remember they were warned not 478 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: to use the Steele dossier before it became the bulk 479 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: of information for the four PISA applications to spy and 480 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: ruined Carter Page's life and then's backdoor spy on Trump 481 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: and developed the Obama administration's intelligent assessment on Russian medaling 482 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: and Steele if you're a call former MI six agent 483 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: have been hired in twenty sixteen by an op research 484 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: firm which then was being paid by Hillary Clinton a 485 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: turn Ernie Mark Elias, and the dossier by the discredited 486 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: Steal was used by the FBI to obtain PAISA warrants 487 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: against the Trump campaign official and evidence continues to emerge 488 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: about how it was included in the intelligence community assessment 489 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: what's called an ICA on Russia and the twenty sixteen election. Quote, 490 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: we have a problem. This is a very key phrase, 491 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: the intelligence officer on the US National Intelligence Council wrote 492 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: when he learned by accident about the dossier's influence in 493 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: the December twenty sixteen Intel Community assessment, seemingly by accident 494 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: from an email sent by another top intelligence officer who 495 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: had asked him to search for material and response to 496 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: a Freedom of Information Act request that, by the way, 497 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: is John Solomon, and the revelation so disturbed this Deputy 498 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: National Intelligence Officer for cybersecurity that he blew the whistle, 499 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: first to the US intelligence community's watchdog, then to Gabbard personally, 500 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: and then, by the way, sources relate all this to 501 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: justinnews dot com. At no time in my IC career 502 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: has dossier material ever been represented to me in a 503 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: work setting as something the NIC viewed as credible or 504 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: that was influential in crafting these products. Now, the CIA's 505 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,719 Speaker 1: recent eight page Lessons Learned review, released earlier in June, 506 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: focused on the twenty sixteen assessment about Russia and November 507 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, which was made public in twenty seventeen. Now, 508 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: the review concluded, at the direction of John Ratcliff's CIA director, concluded, 509 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: the decision by the agency heads to include the Steel 510 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: dossier in the assessment ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles 511 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: and ultimately undermine the credibility of a key judgment. And 512 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: according to these newly declassified, partially unredacted September twenty nineteen 513 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: emails obtained by just Thenews dot com One surprising assertion 514 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,959 Speaker 1: was the Steele dossier had played a role in the assessment. 515 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: Seemed to originate with a top ic election security official 516 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: who had been appointed by the Election Threats Executive and 517 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: within the Director of National Intelligence by then DNI Dan Coates, 518 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: just a couple of months prior, and the Office of 519 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence that in July twenty nineteen, 520 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: now an email from a redacted all of this, you know, 521 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: you just get into this. Let me see if I 522 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: can sum this up for you. The Obama administration, with 523 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,959 Speaker 1: Obama's knowledge, apparently, according to this new information and Clapper's 524 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: knowledge and Brennan's knowledge, manufactured and politicized intelligence that was 525 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: put together by career, rank and file people that had integrity. 526 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 1: And what they did is, and I was talking to 527 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: John earlier, they polluted it, they hijacked it, They absolutely 528 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: purposely distorted it. And by the way, I was backed 529 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: up by the Durham report as well. And anyway, and 530 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: they even went on early on in December twenty sixteen, 531 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: weeks after the election. You know, even James Clapper's talking 532 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: points said foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on 533 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: the election infrastructure like in other words, so then it 534 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: gets in the hands of these political deep state operatives, 535 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: and that would be the people like Clapper and Brennan 536 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: and other high ranking administration officials, and they weaponized it 537 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: all to go after Trump in spite of the brief 538 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: saying it was highly unlikely that any of this had 539 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: any impact on the election, and we now know they 540 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: knew in December twenty sixteen that the Steel dossier had 541 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: been debunked. 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