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And that means once those pillows arrive, you start getting the kind of peace, full and RESTful and comfortable and deep, pealing and recuperative sleep that you've been and you certainly deserve my pillow dot com promo called Hannity you will love this pillow. Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bishare all of a sudden launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, ASSAD choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror. Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that s will used burned chemical weapons, violated obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the UN Security counts. Years of previous attempts at changing the slad's behavior have all failed, and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight, I call on all civilized nations to join us and seeking to end the slurter and bloodshed in Syria, and also to end carold of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed, and we hope that as long as America stands for justice, then peace and harmony will in the end prevail. Good Night, and God bless America and the entire world. Thank you all right, glad you're with us. Happy Friday. That was the President making a statement last night after, in fact, fifty nine, some fifty nine Tomahawk missiles were fired at the very launch pad of where these chemical weapons were used by Syria against men, women, and children earlier this week. You can hear a very affected, very different President Trump there, just like we heard when he was meeting with the King of Jordan Abdullah earlier this week, and that issue came up, and the issue of a red line came up over and over again. You know, I've got to say it's pretty powerful statement here. No child of God should suffer such horror. And the President said that, and I'm following the comments and the commentary, and everybody said, well, the President tweeted out that Obama shouldn't do what is he doing. Okay, that's a fair thing, but that's a fair criticism. He changed his mind after seeing dead children that had been gassed. But if we're going to be fair and talk about changing minds and listening to things that are said to us by politician, why don't we start the program. And I want you to think about this in the context especially of the Iranian nuclear deal, which allows the Iranians to continue to spin their centerfuges twenty five days before we give them inspections and they get heads up on it. We don't even get to have American inspectors, nor do we get to inspect everything we want to inspect. And the billions of taxpayer of dollars that he forked over to this radical Islamic regime that has declared over and over again that they want to destroy America, destroy Israel, and they want a worldwide caliphate that has been their goal from the beginning. How right is Obama and his assurances that, well, the Iranians now they're limited in getting nuclear weapons. Well, if we're going to talk about Donald Trump changed his mind on the issue of whether or not there should be retaliation in the case of the use of chemical weapons against men, women, and children. You know, I'm having a hard time understanding the opposition to this. He did everything that Trump said he would do in terms of he didn't telegraph the move. There's no desire clearly to occupy, but it's a message stop using chemical weapons against innocent men, women, and children. That there is a line that the world cannot tolgrate, which is it's bad enough. This ridiculous civil war has gone on for seven years with no resolution at all, being fomented by the way by Putin. Oh for all the talk of the conspiracy Trump and the Russians, he went dead set against Vladimir Putin last night and what the Russians wanted because they have been propping up the Assad regime, that this entire time for their own political benefit. But if we're going to take the words of politicians, which this is all that CNN and NBC has fixated on I flipped. I can't believe this is it. Okay, let's listen to both. Well, let's listen to President Obama, and then we'll listen to John Kerry, and then we'll listen to Susan Rice, and we'll listen to their words assuring you the American people that Obama's line in the sand got Syria and Assad to give up their chemical weapons, which clearly isn't true because he used them again this week. Listen. I think it was important for me, as President of the United States to send a message that, in fact, there is something different about chemical weapons. And regardless of how it ended up playing, I think in the Beltway, what is true is Assad got rid of his chemical weapons, and the reason he got rid of them was, well, look, if ninety percent or ninety five percent of those chemical stockpiles were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of Isle or Nusra, or for that matter, of the regime. The President made his decision to strike, he announced his decision to strike publicly, and the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose. We achieved a deal with the Russians that didn't wind up in two days of strikes that would have sent a quote message but would not have removed the weapons. We struck a deal to get all of the declared weapons out of Syria. Never before in a conflict has that ever happened, that during a conflict, weapons and mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict. And thank god we did that because if we hadn't done that, today ISIL would have those chemical weapons in large parts of the country. Because in the meantime we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. Oh, the use They just they're wrong. Now, let's assume there is wrong about Iran and the Iranian deal, as they are about what happened in Syria. Now, I understand the argument that Rampaul I, like Rampaul Rampaul is a constitutionalist, and if there's going to be further escalation, you know, I understand the War Parisact, but you know, using military forces not a declaration of war. I think the hope of the president is this message gets sent, gets sent loud and clear. I think the first thing that you've got to recognize what happened last night is the President sent a message to the entire world and Pyongyang in North Korea, and certainly the Iranians and certainly the Russians you know outside of them, and the Syrians meaning asad you know who is really upset about what happened last night? Is the world going to sit back and watch a modern day holocaust where children are gassed before our eyes, with the images being shown to the world, And I guess it's we're just going to sit back and not let and just let that continue to happen and not try to stop it. I don't want America to be the world's policemen either. I don't think we have nobility as a country anymore to fight wars because they always become politicized. But we certainly have the military technology and the ability and the strength and hopefully the moral commitment that if we see dead kids from chemical weapons, maybe we have to do a little something to stop it, especially considering we were promised, oh, there's no such thing as chemical weapons inside Assyria, that of course by Obama and rice and carry. They lied. Now let's assume they're just as wrong on Iran. Oh great, Now we've got a squared B squared equals C squared because you got radical Islamic terrorists that believe in a worldwide caliphate now having nuclear weapons in their arsenal and a promise of pledge in a commitment to destroy Israel in the United States. That's not going to work. And by the way, you know, with all the talk about Russia, you know, the biggest question coming out of last night's missile attack was, well, why did Russian forces on the ground failed to deploy this state of the art missile defense system that they had at that base, at that very airbase. They could have at least tried to blunt the attack. And I suspect when Trump, you know, we had an agreement where a military to military agreement that if we're about to hit something, we give them a heads up so their soldiers don't die. That we were committed by treaty and agreement to do that. Last night, people say, wow, they gave him a heads up. No, that's not what happened. But I think when Trump, when our military talked to their military and Putin got that heads up that a launch was imminent, that the attack was taking place, wasn't aimed at Russian personnel, wasn't aimed at Russian assets on the ground. Well, Putin didn't want a confrontation in spite of all the rhetoric coming out of Russia today, and I think for obvious reasons. Now, you know, Kim Jong un congratulates as sad just hours before Trump's missile strike. I wonder if he's congratulating him now. He sent a letter of congratulations to Syrian president Bashar al Assad on the seventie anniversary of the country's ruling Bath Party, according to Pyongyang's news agency. Well that was sent just hours before President Trump order the air strikes. You know, the world sees a different America here. This is not America leading from behind. This is not America seeking the UN approval. This is America acting. This is America taking a moral stand. Nobody wants a long term conflict. Why because it'll be politicized anyway, and we don't have the stature or the stamina. Were not stature. We don't have the stamina, you know, the stomach in Washington to see through in any military conflict of victory. Prime Minister net and Yahoo praised Trump back Trump on the strike as he always is a loyal and fierce ally of the United States. I don't think it's by accident that the President recently met and very very little attention was paid to his meetings with the King of Jordan Abdullah, and the and the President and General Alcisi of Egypt and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and of course Prime Minister net Yahoo and I've been saying that maybe the one good thing that ever came out of the Obama years and this ridiculous Iranian deal was the fact that a new alliance was created, Sunni Arab nations now aligning with the Israelis and partnering to stand up against possible Iranian hegemony in the region, which of course is their goal. And you know, Vladimir Putin wants his stew just Sad to stay alive. He probably needs to get him out of Damascus and get him. As my buddy Ali North wrote me last night, make him Eddie Snowdon's roommate in Moscow. Andy, We'll have the latest on this look on this Friday. We've got a lot of news. We have Judge Gorsich praised to Republicans, not something I do often on this program, but they actually did the right thing. And indeed he will be on the Supreme Court. He'll be sworn in on Monday. We'll have an update on that today. Also, we are following the latest discussion, debate and negotiations going on. They continue as it relates to healthcare in Washington. We had an attack in Sweden, five dead now and a terror attack. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen in Sweden. We'll get to that today and all the other news of the day, and of course the latest on Susan Rice. So we've got a busy news Friday here today, bite sized version of the show that you can take with you. To sign up today for Hannity headlines, go to Hannity dot com. We'll take a lot of calls today. In the next half hour, we'll get to some phone calls to some of the other news. There are ongoing negotiations as it relates to healthcare. If we get any developments on that, we'll let you know. I gotta give praise where praises due. I have been very critical of Republicans in Washington. I'm still pissed off that they're going away on a two week vacation, although that might change. And they still haven't got a healthcare build done after eight years, which annoys the living daylights out of me. But they did in Senate, and I've been critical of Mitch McConnell at times, but he did hold strong as it relates to not giving a vote on Merrick Garland the number two you know, today's Senate confirmation vote, Neil Gorst's. The final vote was fifty four forty five. It wouldn't have happened had Mitch McConnell not invoked the constitutional option. Now he had no other choice from there was no choice, but you know, he could have caved, I guess, but the rules don't apply equally and there's no reciprocity from Democrats, so he really didn't have a choice anyway. The Republican Senate votes gave every Obama Supreme Court nominee the upper down vote everyone every time Sonia saw to my R sixty eight thirty one, Elena Kagan sixty three thirty seven, Gorsts fifty four forty five. But for the first time in a couple of hundred years for partisan reasons, they filibustered Neil Gorstz. Neil Gorstz will be on the Court as of Monday, so I got to give credit where it is due. I did take a little shot on Twitter today against the never Trumper people, because you know, there was so adamant that Donald Trump is a liberal. Well, I don't think the wall is liberal. I don't think his economic plan is liberal. I don't think vetting refugees is a liberal. I don't think Neil Gorsich is a liberal based on his background in his history, and Washington Post even said in an article they put out that they think his track record shows he's more conservative than Scalia. I can only hope and pray. Sometimes you don't know. David Suit was probably the biggest disappointment in our lifetime, and probably you know, my favorite justice on the Supreme Court now is Clarence Thomas by far, and I hope that Neil Gorsich gets into that category. And Clarence Thomas and Justice Kalia. I mean, what they did for this country is just an enormous service that is immeasurable in terms of the damage that other wise would have been done by people that don't have the originalist philosophy, that actually believe in separation of powers and coequal branches of government and not citing foreign constitutions and legislating from the bench, or you know, coming up with crazy ideas to justify insane decisions. All right, we'll continue your calls on the other side when we come back more of the best of the Sean Hannity Show. Stay tuned. We know you never want to miss the Sean Show, and now you never have to. Just sign up for Hannity Headlines, a bite sized version of the show that you can take with you on your laptop, your mobile phone everywhere you go, even to your liberal in law's place in Vermont. So yeah, and after a few hours of that, you'll be glad you've brought Sean along. To sign up today for Hannity Headlines. Go to Hannity dot com. Yeah, they're lazy and they're going on vacation soon. Everyone in there thinks they're funny because they all put their feet up on their desk and they're acting like their drinking beer and relaxing and not doing their job. I don't listen play any game you want, but you don't do your job around here. You don't last. I'm just thirsty. I don't know what you're talking about. You know, what have I always said about firing people? I don't fire people. No, I always say, people fire themselves. I don't fire people. People really end up always in my universe firing themselves. Those people that get fired, and there's very few, because I'm not stupid in the people that I hire. And I just want people that want that care about their job as much as I do. And I wish the Congress cared about their job as much as all of you and this audience care about yours. And the differences is they're not likely to get fired. And you know, ninety percent because the jerrymandering, these people get reelected. And it's it's sad that there's no sense of urgency, real life urgency that let's say you're an emergency room doctor. What do you get to go away for Easter? No, you gotta work Easterday. You know, if you work in the restaurant business, you're working Easter Sunday or Palm Sunday or Christmas Day or Thanksgiving Day. And all those waiters and waitresses and everybody in between by the way that didn't come through the way you wanted came through gibber Josh, you know, gibberish. And I'm just like, I'm so frustrated that they can't get this healthcare buil done beyond words, and you know, and then they're gonna go away. You know, stay and do the Stay and do your work till you get it done. Stay, Stay and do your job. And if that means working this Saturday and this palm Sunday, like average people, like real people, like all of us in the real world that care about our jobs. I can't imagine not caring about work. I mean, I think back to every job I've had in my life. I mean, when I was washing dishes, they piled up unless I moved, and they weren't going away until I cleaned them. That was my job. You know. When I was a cook, those you know sheets that line up in front of the boiler, they need to get fulfilled, and they get they line up fast. You gotta move. I used to run inside these kitchens I worked in. I'd be running back and forth like and I loved it, sweating and loving it. When I was a kid, I was making money, I loved it. Nice samet poly girl at the end of the night was perfect for a thirteen year old kid. That was heaven. Sometimes they give us two and that was really heaven. Two same poly girls. I know when I was a bus boy, I remember I worked at this place in Flora Park. To Mary Peddler, I would run being a bus boy run. I remember when the bar got busy, I was running across the bar. Had to make every pina colada, banana, strawberry dacirie by hand at the time, every margaritta by hand and blend it. What a pain in the unit. What thank god they've streamlined the making of pina coladas and daciries and can't down. How about a shot in a beer? It's good grief. I was like, oh great, yeah, that's on the house. Take the shot in the Budweiser. Just for not making me work that hard. You used to have to make every single one by hand, and now you got a full restaurant, a full bar five deep. Did nobody wants to wait for their drink? Move? Can I have a pina colada, a banana dachrie and I'll take a regular dachiri and I'll take a strawberry Dachirie. I made the best strawberry dacries. Take real strawberries. You fill it up halfway in the blender. Then you put in a little bit of heavy cream just so it goes from a dark red color to a little lightish pink color. It really makes a big difference. And then you put in a ton of sugar to sweeten it out. And then you put in your rum and your strawberry liqueur, pile it on with ice and mix it and it comes out. You put an umbrella and then you're done. That's simple. Maybe that's missing from the healthcare meetings. Maybe they need some booths. Maybe I'll send over a case of Jamieson. See if they can't get these guys moving. Maybe I'll lock them in the room with pizza, Jamieson's, bud, Cora's light, whatever they want, and they can't leave the room until I'll keep sending in food until they can't take being around each other anymore and they get the healthcare bill done. That's what I've been saying. Bring in all the different think tanks, because these guys are smart. The health the Heritage Foundation is full of smart people. Club for Growth, smart people Bring in the Tea Party, patriot people, bring in the Cato Institute. Let them advise them on the best bill that's going to lower premiums and give but better care, more choices, and more options. Let's see what's so hard about this. They had eight years to prepare for this moment. Eight years, all right, I want to move on. The President said to The New York Times today that former National Security advisor Susan Rice may have committed a crime by asking for the names of people who were mentioned in these intercepted communications. In other words, the unmasking. He says, I think it's going to be the biggest story. I agree with the President is this is watergate on steroids and human growth hormone at massively high doses and levels huge anyway, that's what he said. He declined requests for evidence. It's not the president's job. Media Research points out. Brent Bozell points out, the liberal media there's nothing to see here. That's their approach to Susan Rice's politically motivated unmasking of Trump and his associates as both the canad Date and as a president elect. Oh that's nothing. Do you not understand where weaponizing and politicizing intelligence gathering in the country. We're absolutely wiping and stomping on the Constitution and our Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure, our First Amendment rights for freedom of expression. This is the beginning of a police state if this takes hold. That's how dangerous this is. But you notice we never get to the bottom of anything, And that's Congress's fault again. Why has Hillary Clinton gotten away with her email server and a mom and pop shop bathroom in a bathroom closet and all the lies that she told? How did she get away with giving twenty percent of America's uranium by signing off as Secretary State at the exact same time and leading up to the time where she signed off on it, when all this money is being funneled through surrogates of these companies into the Clinton Foundation, and her husband's getting double as speaking rate and mosque out. And that we've had eight months of no evidence conspiracy theory advancement by the mainstream media. You know, remember when Donald Trump put out that he had been wire tapped, He was right, Donald Trump told the truth. I'm going to do this in my opening monologue on Hannity tonight. So what did they do? They ridiculed, they mocked, they bashed Donald Trump. Now that Donald Trump has been proven right, where's their apology and corrections? You know, Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election. It is a totally debunked, baseless claim that the mainstream media has now been focused on without a shred of evidence for eight months. Remember when Devin Nuness announced that he'd seen in credible evidence that Trump and members of his transition team had been caught up in this incidental surveillance where the names were amassed. Well, they didn't practice minimization, they didn't practice protecting the names of Americans, which is standard operating procedure. Newness also revealed that intel was shared among high level Obama administration officials. So instead of the media is seeing the weaponization for political purposes of intelligence and politicizing intelligence. No, the way that they want to go after Devin Newness, What did he do wrong except report the truth and these shocking revelations. So they react by besmirching him, and then the destroyed Trump propaganda media is out there smearing anybody and everybody who doesn't echo their biased agenda. But we do have some real reporters and investigative reporters like Sarah Carter and some people at Fox and others, but not a lot of them. And then you got new so called news networks and they won't even cover the story. Susan Rice contradicts herself from what she said two weeks ago. You know, you've got the mister Obama gasm thrill up his leg, Chris Matthews and others taking the low road accusing Republicans of being racist and sexist for pointing out Susan Rice as a liar. Oh my god, this is pathetic. These are insane times. We're living in. Up is down, Down is up. White as black, black as white. And if a liberal tells you there's a donut in the sky, you'll say, oh, there's a donut in the sky, and you'll get these stupid cable hosts that will repeat it and we'regurgitated. They're beyond dumb, and they're feeding conspiracy after conspiracy. So I guess an audience of knitwitz because if you had any common sense, you'd be able to see through all of this. Earlier today, when I asked about the New York Times asked by the New York Times, Trump said, what's true. It's such an important story for our country and for the world. It's one of the big stories of our time. Trump is right. So you got a partisan press ignoring something that's much bigger than Watergate. They won't give it any attention, ignoring the weaponization of intelligence, the politicizing of intelligence. Are they ever going to get to the bottom of who leaked the intel and committed a felony as it relates to General Flynn? Well, the media ever apologize for ridiculing the President over his surveillance claims now that they've been proven he was right, They ever gonna make a correction. They're gonna offer an apology. You know, all these networks, all of them, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MS, they're all and all their friends in the print media, The Washington Post, New York Times, they're all corrupt. They all lied, and they never own up to it. Then they claim to be fair, and then they don't like people like me. I'm bad for America. I did their job in vetting Obama. They didn't do it. I did their job, you know, pointing out that Obama was a rigid radical ideologue, that was indoctrinated, and he never broke his indoctrination. I predicted his presidency would fail. It failed spectacularly. But they never told you the truth about that either. All throughout the election, I mean, he got one revelation after another about from wiki leaks about collusion between the press and Hillary Clinton's campaign, and nobody seems to care or pay attention to it. What we did their job there too. Now you've got probably the biggest scandal in modern history unfolding before your eyes, and they're ignoring that. Also that now proven wrong that Donald Trump was right about. Okay, maybe he could have used the word surveillance instead of wire tapping. If we're going to get into a word parsing, smantics and superfluous arguments, okay, we can argue he should have used a different word. Oh God forbid, he used the wrong word. He didn't say navy corpseman twenty times like Obama did. Nobody in the media cared to pick up on that, but us. It's so frustrating. You know, this country, and this is why I'm ad at Republicans. It's like we've got all this work to do, and it's like nobody wants to do their job. The swamp just wants to stay stay on vacation all the time. Think about when you say, roll your window down, dial the phone, what do you what is that just it's an expression, like you don't actually roll your window down, you hit a button. You know, you don't wire tap phones anymore. It's surveillance. It's there's no wire attachment to your phone. But the concept is what you're They were surveilling the conversations exactly, okay, and that's technically it's wire tapping. It's surveillance, but wire tapping, surveillance, it's all the same thing. It's just an expression. It's so ridiculous, it's just absurd. When is the media? Why can't they just listen? I gotta admit, in my life, I've made so many stupid mistakes. I really have. I've been a dope probably half my life. Is it just an idiot and I make mistakes? We know what the most under utilized world word in the English languages. I'm sorry those words. I'm sorry. I apologize. I was wrong. I was You know, why can't they do that? I mean, they're fixated on taking down the Fox News channel. Now, it's like twenty four seven, beat up on Fox all over the place, just outright deceptive, lying in headlines. I mean I personally, I don't care when it's about. I just don't care. I got better things to do with my time than give a flying rip about what these other people in the media is. Now, do you understand why I've never been to a correspondence dinner? You understand why I would never go? People said, well, you're gonna go this year. Trump's gonna be there. Well, Trump's not gonna be there, nor is anybody in its cabinet. But I wouldn't go anyway because I don't like these people, because I know they're honest to you, and I know they don't like me either. So why are we going to put on a pretense? All right? Eight hundred nine for one shown, We're gonna dig deeper. We're doing a deep dive into all of this surveillance, all of this unmasking, all of this leaking of intelligence, because it happens to be the biggest story of our time and the biggest scandal you'll probably ever see in your life, weaponizing intelligence, politicizing raw intelligence. All Right, our two Sean Hannity Show told free. Our telephone numbers eight hundred nine four one Sean if you want to be a part of the program. A top story remains, although we're watching now the constitutional option being used where by Republicans. Finally we're getting some work out of these guys. It's good to see a little bit of backbone, a little bit of strength. We're watching monitoring all of that unfolding. But our good friend Sarah Carter over at Circa News and John Solomon over at Circa News are now advancing this surveillance unmasking, intelligence leaking story and their headline today as US spy agencies intercept unmasked congressional figures as often as once a month. Add to that comments by Congressman Peter King about the intelligence reports that center around Susan Rice and the umasking controversy, and he's describing it as almost resembling a private investigator's file. Quote. This is information about their everyday lives. He's a member of the House Intel Committe's sort of like in a divorce case where lawyers are hired and investigators are hired just to find out what the other person is doing from morning until night, and then you try and piece it together later on, and of course Devin Nunia stepped aside, recused himself only from the Russia side of the investigation, and Trey Goudie and others will be stepping in to take his place. Not a smart move by the Democrats, of my opinion, and it raises questions about whether Adam Chiff, who's already jumped to conclusions and is defending Susan Rice, whether he should also step aside. Sarah Carter a lot to get to today. How are you? I'm doing great, Sean? Thank you. All right, let's get into this new column and layer of the onion you've been able to unpeel here. Oh yes, I think that this is very significant, to the point where not only were we concerned when it was revealed to us that the unmasking really of congressional representatives on the Hill, but the fact that many of them don't even know they're being unmasked. So we went back and talked to people who were in charge. Chairman Pete Hustra spoke with me last night and I wanted to know does this happen regularly? I mean, was this something that he was familiar with? And he said, this absolutely did not happen on a regular basis. At the only time they were aware of unmasking of a congressional representatives telephone conversation or intercept with persons overseas. If, for example, the congressional representative was approached by somebody, let's say, from Russia or the Ukraine or China, and that person was posing as somebody else and they were trying to talk to our congressman or about a particular issue. So if the intelligence community knew that the person that was in communication or reaching out to somebody in Congress was a spy, was working with the FSB in Russia or something else, then they may take that to the Gang of Eight or to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and say, look, you know, we know that Congressman so and so was approached by this person. Would you please, you know, inform them or should we inform them that they have been approached by a spy? And that was the only time, And he said that was extraordinarily rare, but that this is happening once a month, and that other congressional members have no idea that they have been unmasked is deeply concerning, not just to him, but also Senator Grassley, who we spoke with the House Judiciary Committee and others as well on background. Let's talk about what Peter King said, What do you know about that? Well, this is very interesting. Remember this was what our sources had originally told us that the concern wasn't just about that they were requesting the unmasking, but it appeared to be a type of weaponization of intelligence or political espionagests. They were gathering too much information that it exceeded far beyond Russia. And so I think there is a point there that if they're building up these types of dossiers on people, if they're looking at everything that they're doing, if this turns out to be true, then I think that certainly elevates this to a whole new level shine because what we're saying is the Fourth Amendments the foundation to our right for privacy, which is really what America is based on. It's based on this republic where we're guaranteed certain rights, where we're hearing to the right not to be listen to or followed to, I mean without warrant, without warrant. This raises it to a whole new level. When people in power have this capability and are able to access private information. We have to be very very concerned. It sounds to me like this has nothing to do with Russia at all in any way, shape, matter, or form. And can you go a little bit deeper into what you have discovered as it leads as it relates to, for example, the so called Gates notifications, and you know, named after Robert Gates, which goes to the Gang of Eight in Congress, and you have now top members and congressional figures now being intercepted and unmasked as often as once a month. I mean, this to me sounds so intrusive. Well, and to others. It's not just to you. I mean this is intrusive on many different levels. And this is going to be another part of this investigation, right. I mean we're looking at the Gang of Eight. So what that includes is the House Speaker, the Minority lead, the Democratic leaders, Senate Republicans, and bipartisan heads of the chambers of the intelligence committees. So now you're thinking that they're delivering this information and it's going and unredacted to the Executive Branch intelligence report. So this is going all the way up to the top dogs in the White House, right, So they're going to have access to these intercepts and they're going to be able to see them. And now the congressional representatives if they weren't told, right, if it wasn't involving, for example, maybe being approached by a spy from another country, which happened. I mean, intercepting these calls is not rare. And that's something that Pete Hochster made very clear. He said, you know, the fact that they intercept calls like this is not unreasonable because there's five hundred and thirty five members and their assistant. Yeah, but you also say in your article it was rare during his tenure to be alerted that a lawmaker congressional stafford had been on masks unless there was a serious threat. That's where he says a concern comes in. The concern comes in when they are actually unmasked, and then they are not notified that they've been unmasked, and then this information then reaches you know, gets put in adothier up to the highest levels of the executive branch, and they're able to see it, but the congressional representative can't see it or their aids. They don't know that they've been unmasked, so they're they're left out in the dark, right, and then we have to ask ourselves what was the information, what was the request for unmasking this, Why were they unmasked? And I think those are the answers that well the Executive Branch and the Intelligence community need to answer, because those are sure sure enough being questioned right now as violation of their Fourth Amendment and First Amendment rights. Yeah, you talk about three years ago the Charles Grassley was alerted to that a government whistleblowers communication with his staff was obtained by the intelligence community. I mean that to me is so outrageous. Well, yeah, and then the fact that he didn't even and really talk about that publicly, and then when he heard about this, he's like, look, we really need we really need to take a good look at what's going on here. I mean, we have whistleblowers going to Charles Grassley. I mean I have people you know now coming out of the woodwork because they realize that this has been happening all the time and they want to share this information. I mean, remember when the CIA was it was forced to admit that some of its employees spied into the computers of Democratic staffers, and we talk about that in our story too, and Senator Diane Einstein. So I mean grassly acknowledged that this is a very serious problem. And remember this comes up for review this year in the Judiciary Committee, this expansion of the FISA, these expansions that I actually allowed people to request these unmaskings with such little information. So we've said this before, and I've said this on your show before, where they can just basically write down Susan Rice could request the unmasking of a certain phone intercept, and all she would have to say is for national security purpose. Well that can mean anything, and just putting that down would allow her to unmask. So it wasn't like she had to give a lot of justification for unmasking people. And now we see it was happening. Well, that goes to the rules that Obama got approved by the Fiser Review Court in twenty eleven, which was your earlier breakthrough report. Now we're seeing the magnitude of that rule change. And I guess you know, to me, what where this seems to be headed? And I don't see any other justification. I can't think of any other possible reason in my own mind. It seems to be going to where I believe it is, and that is, we have weaponized and we have politicized our intelligence community more and more. My suspicion goes to the higher echelon of government and government spy agencies, meaning like ie CIA Director Brennan. Well, certainly a lot of there's going to be a lot of questions, especially when it when it comes to the CIA. By the way, whenever, whenever you start saying, like when you slow down, I know you're being very careful with your words. Let's go back to my original question. What I see happening here is the weaponization of intelligence, politicizing intelligence, and it all the only logical place this goes as to those in the upper echelon, people like CIA Director Brennan. Now you start talking slowly and carefully. Go ahead, You're gonna make me talk slow. We have to be very careful. That's why I'm talking slowly. That's why I'm asking. All of this has to be based on evidence, right, we have to agree, prove it public. That's why I'm asking a question. But it does, it does. I am an awful human being. I don't even know why you come on my show, but I'm but but I need we need a serious answer to that, because to me, that's you. Yes, we do, and I what I can say is this, you know, when we looked at these documents, and the scope didn't just focus on the Congress, it focused also as well. And if you look at some of the documents that we have posted we've attached to Circa dot com inside our stories, you'll see a very interesting, interesting point that you're trying to make. There were journalists, clergy, doctors, lawyers that are also included in these rules on FISA intercepts. Okay, so it's very interesting how the FBI intercepts people and unmasks them. In twenty fifteen, it became very specific. And this is very important, Shine, because this was something that you had asked me about, you know, just yesterday, and when we were talking about this, you know, we're journalists swept up in this, all right. No, I got to ask you when we get back, is if you found any information? I mean, do you know how many people are writing me telling me I have been surveiled and unmasked. I have not been able to confirm that, but unless Sarah Carter from Circuit News, when we get back in National Security Correspondent, Senior national security correspondent. Our new pieces up on Hannity dot com from today if you need to get a link to it. Eight hundred nine for one Sean is our number. You want to be a part of the program. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll continue with Sarah and at the bottom of the hour and Culter joins us to weigh in on this and Neil Gorsuch and the constitutional options. So right when we come back, and Coulter joins us on Neil Gorsuch and the constitutional option, and of course the latest on what is now becoming I guess you can call it, I guess the politicization of the intel community and the weaponizing of the intelligence community. All right, that's up next with Culter and then your calls in the final hour, bite sized version of the show that you can take with you to sign up today for Hannity Headlines Kennedy dot com. All Right, as we continue, Sarah Carter now, who has been doing incredible investigative work on this whole issue of surveillance and unmasking and leaking of intelligence. She is a senior national correspondent for Circa dot com, and she along with John Solomon, have their latest piece out today about how US by agencies intercept and unmasked congressional figures as often as once a month. And we have Peter King on record saying that, well, the information that was being gleaned by Susan Rice's unmasking, etc. Contained personal dirt on people associated with Donald Trump. He described it as news and information about their everyday lives. Like a divorce case. We have attorneys and investigators looking into what a spouse is doing to the other spouse. All right, So I know you probably because you're all over the story. Maybe people have asked you about me in this case. But I mean I'm getting asked by everybody every single minute of every day, and I don't have an answer, and I'm just reading what everybody else is reading, and I haven't gotten any word back as of yet. I mean, what is all of this about me? And this whole thing? Yeah, well, I think that you know, people obviously see you. I mean you've been very outspoken, You've had a very close relationship with President Trump, and of course you're swept up into this whirlwind of controversy, and I think you have a right to be concerned and wonder if you know there was any unmasking of your phone conversations. Now, remember it would be conversations that you would have had from the United States to somebody foreign, or they could have rerouted it foreign to foreign back over to somebody else that was talking about you. So there's very interesting ways and different kinds of loopholes that would allow people to unmask and find out more information about you. Like I said, you've interviewed Julianna Sange many times. If you had conversations with him on your cell phone, very easily your name could have been unmask Shaun. The thing is, we don't know, right because they are such highly classified document and unless somebody's willing to leak that information, unless someone's willing to share that information. So I need, if I need, a friend inside the intelligence community that knows about it that would give me that information. Wouldn't that look I don't. I'm being very clear about this. I cannot confirm or corroborate this in any way, and I'm only reading what other people are reading. But wouldn't that open up for me a right for civil litigation and civil action against those people? That surveiled and unmasked me. You know, I'm not a lawyer, but I believe it would. I believe it would because there are certain Amendment rights, and you know, we think of certain protections, especially when it comes to and I don't know, especially when it comes to our civil liberties, and you know, be able to speak privately to someone on a phone, especially when you're not conducting and you're not doing anything criminal, when there's no warrant for you, when you're just a regular citizen with a right to believe the way you want to believe, and everybody has those right as long as you don't harm anyone else or you're not committing a criminal act, you should have the right to privacy. But one of the interesting things that we discovered in our reporting, both John and I, was that, you know, when the FBI wrote the ruled in twenty fifteen, it actually came up with this idea like of circumstances in which you know, by the intercepts could be enmassed and shared in other sensitive professions like we think, I think of myself as a journalist as having you know, extra care. They're going to take extra caution, right because the FBI is really not going to want to get involved in investigating me per se because I'm trying to report stories. We have sources. I mean, what happens as long as I'm not violating any laws, you should not be exactly. I've got to go, but I've got to praise you and John. I mean, you guys are like the Woodward and Bernstein of our time, and the work you've done has been phenomenal, and you're so generous and sharing this information with our audience. And thank you Sarah Carter CIRCA News when we come back in Culture straight Ahead. 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The President of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, wire tapping Trump Tower during the campaign. Nothing of the sort occurred. Did you seek the names of people involved in to unmask the names that people involved in the Trump transition, of the Trump campaign, people surrounding the President elect, let me be ordered to spy on them, and absolutely, absolutely not for any political purposes to spy expose anything. I really don't know to what Chaman Nunez was referring, but he said that whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens. And I think it's important for people to understand what incidental means. That means that the target was either a foreign entity, or somebody under criminal investigation. But the fact is that in the President did request back in December the intelligence community compile all of the information that it had on what it transpired during the campaign with respect to the Russians involving them selves in the presidential campaign, and that report was provided to the American people and unclassified for him into Congress, in classified for him in early January. Did the pace accelerate during the transition, perhaps in early December, perhaps when the President ordered investigation into the hacking, the Russian hacking? Did the pace of unmasking requests, if you're unmasking requests accelerate towards the end of the White House a tenure? And I can't say the pace of unmasking requests would accelerate, but if you're asking where they're more reports provided to senior US officials after the President requested the compilation of the intelligence which was ultimately provided in January. Yes, what happened was, as the IC went about the business the intelligence community religencesiness of following up on the Presidence order fulfilling the Presidence requests for such a report, they went back and scrubbed more reports. They began to provide more such reports to American officials, including myself. This is not anything politicals has been alleged. The allegation is that somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. That's absolutely false. So it goes from knowing nothing to knowing everything and admitting unmasking, and that means acknowledging surveillance of a candidate and then a president elect and his transition team. And all the reports now from Sarah Carter goal a step further that they were looking not into anything connected to Russia, but into the personal lives of individuals, which then raises a lot of questions about how we have weaponized and politicized intelligence gathering in the country. And Coulter, author of the best selling book in Trump We Trust Eat Pluribus, awesome as you have to talk about this and obviously the constitutional option that is being used today. How are you, thanks? How are you? I'm good. It's always great to talk to you. By the way, I love reading rumors about you on the internet. I'm not even going to mention them, but it was very entertaining from my perspective considering our history together. Um, well, for people who don't know basically any well Gotha columns are always sent in by the agents. It was on the AOL Private Life, but basically anyone that I am alleged to be dating. You know that in the universe possible, I am not dating those people. It was very It actually made the wheel on AOL, which I thought was, Wow, this must be huge, and uh we are This one has been going around forever. Jimmy Walker and I are friends, no romance. And he's a great guy too. I like him a lot and a Republican. It's correct, all right, Let's start with the lies and the Papaha Benghazi lies and then contradicting and then admitting surveillance on masking and Sarah Carter and now saying it's about personal lives. Well, it's hilarious that this has gone. I mean, everything Trump says is hysterically denounced, and usually within two days as it's proved true from the hysteria over at the very beginning, Um, Mexico isn't sending their best And then you know what, a week later we get Kate Steinley, Um, we had the um, look at what's happening in Sweden? What are you talking about? Sweden is the safest place in the World's huge riot Muslim rides blow up, and now we've gone to I mean, this is one of the most stunning turnabouts I've seen from Trump. Means to apologize to Obama for accusing him of committing a felony and spying on the Trump campaign to well, yeah, we were spying, but it wasn't political and it wasn't too love. We do it everybody. It's the craziest turnabout, and now you know, we at least understand m. It seems like kind of overkill to be so upset about Hillary losing, um, for Democrats and the media to obsess on this nothing burger Russia story um, which is completely collapsed um. And I wrote a little about that this week. But now we see why they were doing it. This was going to be their excuse when they get exposed for spying on private citizens, unmasking them from the White House itself. I mean, it's getting to the point where we're going to find that Obama was actually crawling around, you know, wiring Trump power. The way things are going with their story unraveling, but now this is going to be their defense. Well, we had to because of this fear of Russian collusion with the Trump team, And if I could just mention one thing that hasn't been hasn't been talked about because there's no evidence for Russia trying to influence the election. What I wrote about this week because I hadn't seen anyone else say this. The basic story, apart from the absence of evidence, the basic story is is cockamami. Their claim is Russia wanted Trump to win point one point two, that their dastardly planned for accomplishing making from the President of the United States was to get in and release emails from the DNC showing that the DNC was being horrible to Bernie Sanders. It's just a crazy theory on every level. This is that Russia is a nation trained in spycraft. Um, we didn't even know. We American experts, in politicans didn't know how this election was going to turn out. I remember the Democrats were praying, Oh, we want to run against Trump. Pah, this is disaster for Republicans. M The day of the election, New York Times had Hillary with a ninety one percent chance of winning. But oh and plus the idea that Russia would not want to deal with the corrupt, biable president Hillary Clinton, but rather a loose cannon who wants to drill Donald Trump. But how are releasing these emails with the DNC and W Washington going after Bernie Sanders? How does that help Trump? It could have been the worst thing that happened to Trump. The Democrats might have gotten their act together and said, oh my gosh, taking us down to defeat. We've got to have a come to Jesus moment with with Hillary and tell her she's got to drop out. We're running Joe Biden. You just never know how these things are going to affect an election, and the idea that this was Russia's idea. Add to that the fact that Julian Assange, I mean, quite obviously the logical leaker here is someone within the DNC who thought Hillary's taking us down to defeat. We've had it with the David Brox and the de Wie Wasserman. Schulza's um leaking this stuff. And that's what Julian Assange says, as well as one of his associates. That's where they say it came from a DNC whistleblower, which is the only story that makes sense. Well, it was actually one of his associates. He's never confirmed. I did ask him when I had a chance to interview him. You know, it's funny how he comes under fire. But the New York Times printed everything he printed. Well, he did clearly say it's not roche. He'd say, he said that the guy who collected it um allegedly he describes where it was a DNC whistle blow were past him, the emails. It was a park near American University. And whatever you think of it, Julian Assaji, maybe you know a reckless zealot. Nobody says he's a liar. He's very nearly the opposite. He's, you know, maybe a little too self righteous, but he's not the kind of person who lives. He says, not Russia. It's a d NC whistleblower. And again, the whole story. It only makes sense of the DNC whistleblower. But now we see lives. They're so obsessed with these weird connections and really crazy conspiracy theories, which is always a specialty of the left. They need to pretend there's some sort of collusion between Trump and Russia to explain why they were using the apparatus of the federal government, national security, deep state intelligence to spy on political opponents. Well, and it gets deeper, and this goes to the heart of Sarah Carter's big breakthrough article today, and that is that not only were they surveiling and unmasking and in the case of general fun leaking, which is a felony, but we now find out that almost it resembled almost a private investigator's file, and the information is about people's everyday lives. And that's confirmed by Peter King of New York, the congressman. He said, it's sort of like in a divorce case where the lawyers are hired, investigators are hired just to find out what the other person is doing morning until night, until you try and piece it together, right, right, And that's a police state. And this is now I know, well, the police state is now in the control of Donald Trump, and I think they got to start declassifying and releasing all this stuff. I mean, I suspect what they're doing is allowing the Democrats to go out more and more and more on a limb before revealing the truth. But this is now in the control of President Trump, and it may be I doubt it'll be particularly embarrassing. It might be a little embarrassing for some people who are being secretly surveiled, but I think it's worth it. This is a pretty shocking I may have to hire you as my lawyer too, because I got Jay Seculo and Joe Degeneva and maybe I'll get you in Levine and part of my team. If I was surveiled in a mass what do you think, Oh, you're just gonna be talking about the Penny plan. It'll be fine. See thanks a lot, and you know, just at least let's create an image that it might be a little more interesting than that. You know, you can demand that your tapes be released because I'm want to see them all. I mean, if they were going after you, I have no problem. I have no problem if they were. I mean that he only does show how crazy and how political. No, that's just it's tied in with the whole there's obsession with Bill O'Reilly right now. And if we could just have a little footnote on that. What Fox News compared to other cable networks. Good grief at one prominent cable networks. And I know it's unbelievable. You and I know more stories and by the way, also the heads and networks, if you know what I'm talking about. Stay right there. All right, we'll take a break more within culture, all right, Sean Hannity Show News Round Up, Information Overload Hour coming up at the top of the next hour. Our buddy Rick Unger is here to get beaten up again today. I don't know why it comes back for more punishment. He's going to join us in studio in a minute. We continue with Ann Coulter. All right. So, I don't know if I like the term nuclear option, I would call it the Harry Read precedent, or I'd call it the constitutional option. And that is this is the first time in a couple of hundred years that, for purely partisan reasons, you have a political party that won't allow an up or down vote. So Republicans finally are showing a little bit of backbone. I've got to give him credit on this. Yes, I'm so glad you asked about this because I know other people have jobs, they don't sit around reading all day like I do. And I think conservatives should know the truth about this. And the truth is the supermajority requirements are absolutely unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly expected majority votes for basically everything in the Senate, and when it is not those cases are expressly identified. There are five cases where you need a two thirds vote to pass something in the US Senate. One impeachment, two expulsions, three to override a presidential veto, four treaties, and five to pass a constitutional amendment. Now, what sense does it make for the Constitution to expressly say, after Congress passes a law sends it to the president, the president vetos that you can override that Vito with a two thirds vote. But wait, now, suddenly we need a two thirds vote to even pass the law in the first place. It makes no sense. This is an unconstitutional rule that's been invented by the Senate. I don't know if anyone's ever challenged or if the courts would feel like they had a right to rule on a political rule of the Senate. But all we're doing with the so called nuclear option is getting back to a constitutional method of voting. And by the way, sometimes this will go against us. I'm not saying this with passion because Republicans have a majority right now. They wouldn't have needed Al Franken's vote to pass that monstrosity obanare, But it is the way the constitution is written. And I think our constitutional framers are smarter than we are. Yeah, I think so too, and I've been proven right again and again over time. What do you think about expanding it or broadening these rules changes beyond just judiciary appointments. Absolutely, as I was just saying, to pass a law, it shouldn't be a majority vote. Now, look, that doesn't mean the Senate can have rules. They keep defending this two thirds vote is saying, well, we have to the minority have be able to chit chat. Okay, you can listen to their views. There are other things you can do. We can say we'll give you an hour. We can say you can filibuster. Go ahead, but you got to stand on the floor and filibuster. But but no, that in fact, I mean, as many constitutional scholars have written about, that was part of the reason the Articles of Confederation were dumb time we moved to a constitution, and also the whole mood of the country after the revolution was we're sick of being ruled by a tiny minority of elite. We don't want to be bossed around. Yes, we don't have a pure democracy, but when it comes to our representatives in Congress, it is supposed to be majority wins, not some special two thirds law. No again, that's for our train. I gotta I'm up on a clock here. But m E plurib is awesome. And Caulter's new book and we could talk forever as always. We love having you on. Thank you, Anne. And these are interesting times, aren't they? In Trump We truck, Yes, ma'am. Flora is awesome. All right, Thank you, Ann Caulter. When we come back, News Roundup, Information Overload, right, News Roundup, Information Overload hour here on the Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, Oh, we got little Chucky Schumer, of course, crybaby Schumer, and he's out there attacking the president, trying to sounds like a tough guy. Mister, mister filibuster himself, mister obstructionists himselves. Listen to this. When Donald Trump campaigned, one of the main issues he campaigned on was that China takes us out to lunch, stealing millions of American jobs, trillions of American dollars in wealth through unfair trade practices. And yet since Donald Trump has become president, when it comes to trade. His policies make America look like a ninety eight pound weekling. He has done virtually nothing. Isn't this the same cry baby Schumer we've known about forever. I named my daughter her middle name is Emma, named for Emma Lazarus, the great poet who wrote those lines on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Give me you're tired, you're poor, You're huddled masses yearning to breathe. Three free what we cost? So this executive order, it was mean spirited American who was implemented in a way that created chaos and confusion across the country, and it will only serve to embolden and inspire those around the globe who will do us harm. I noticed that Chuck show me yesterday with fake tears. I'm going to ask him who was his acting coach, because I know very well I don't see him as a crier. If he is, he's a different man. It was about a five percent chance that it was real, but I think there were fake tears. I say, where was the outrage of the Democrats when all of our companies were fleeing to Mexico and to other places far away and leaving your jobs behind. Now they're all coming back. Uh, Johnny Us now, Rick Hunger and Jonathan Gillham. We're going over all the news of the day, which is veried. Top story obviously remains surveillance. Now we've discovered that they're literally looking into the private lives like divorce hearings of Trump associates and of course the Republicans. Who's in the constitutional option? Uh, mister Unger, you want to weigh in on your your buddy Chucky. You love Chucky, don't you chuck e cheese? Actually I got a bigger kick out of hearing Kray there. That was pretty good. Uh. You know, listen, I don't know why Chucky is so upset because that executive order he was crying about it's still stuck in the courts. You mean you're judge shopping little technique worked? Is that what your suggestion? Shopping? Oh? Come on, they want judge shopping based on the states. Yeah, I guess that's probably too. You pick states that are gonna exactly except that it doesn't entirely work out because the states end up coming together. Uh. And I'll tell you what, Well, then they know they're going to the ninth. Ninth Circuit's gonna surprise you, now, I don't. I think the Ninth Circuit's gonna come down in a different way. But well, the Ninth Circuit is embarrassed because about over eighty percent of the time they are overturned. They I thought the Ninth Circuit was right the first time around. I think it's hard to make the case this time around. What do you think, Jonathan, I think Chuck Schumer when he talks, it's like this, that's not Chuck humor at all. That is so bad. That is not a good Chuck Schumer. It's it's a little bit off. He has a little more rasp in his voice. But I'm I'm really scary. I'm really worried now because I'm afraid that Muslim I call him fundamentalist, everybody else calls him extremists are going to attack us now because somebody is well, first of all, he misquoted what the Statue of Liberty says. But I don't think that. Uh, I don't think you have to worry. Yeah, yeah, right, you know what, Listen, I know we're joking about this, but this is the perfect example of why we're in the mess. That we're in in this country because we of these political games. He's talking about Trump as though he's been in office for years and years. He's been in off us three months. He hasn't done There's nothing that has been able to be done where we see lasting effects. So I don't know what this guy saw to do this, but I'm going to agree with you on that. Look, I have seen. I have seen the memo that got leaked with respect to what Trump's plans are with renegotiating on NAFTA, and I will tell you I was a little surprised that it was as soft as as it was, and we'll see if that holds up. But no, I mean, after three months, I'm not sure you can say that he's done nothing on trade because I don't think you could expect him to do something yet on trade there's been no negotiation to take place. So yeah, I've you know, I actually when I heard that, I wonder why is Senator Schumer stretching to that degree. There's enough if he wants to go after the president, there's lots there he can pick on it. It's a little premature to do it on trade. But I tell you what I think you I think, Sean, you're going to be disappointed when you see what he has in mind. I'm not his anti trade, so I was not particularly disappointed with what he has in mind. You guys, I know a stronger point of view on that. The other way, I think. I think, I think it's gonna be a negotiation tactic, and I think these these countries that don't practice fair trade with US are are gonna get one or two of them will get slapped in the head, and then everybody and then everybody else will fall in line because they need this work with the United States. That's possible, all right, So we have the read option, and for the first time in a couple of hundred years, we've got a partisan filibuster where Democrats won't allow an up or down vote, and you have two former majority leaders in the Senate, Bob Dole from Kansas and Trent Lott from Mississippi, saying it's time to let it go. And the rules have changed because the Senate has changed, and the Senate has become a bittest bitter partisan become the House pretty much. Yeah, I mean, I actually, but here's the thing. Republicans are stupid. Republicans played by different rules. If it's Alana kay Game, we know a left winger. Right. If it's Ruth bad Againsburg, we know a left winger. Sonia Sodom Noah, left winger. Republicans, they go along, they allow the vote. Okay, they don't have to. They play along, And there's no reciprocity here. You can't tell me there's one thing wrong with Neil Gorsuch's background, credentials to sit on the Supreme Court. No, No, I mean I may disagree with some of his rulings, but that's not you know what, when you elect a president that's the Republican you know what you're going to get. You're going to get a conservative Supreme Court, just right, whether you like it or not. The time to fight that battle is not now. The time, to a thought, that battle was before the election. So I think for the Republicans, the best thing is what they're doing. They're using the constitutional option. I get rid of culture on every vote. Actually, I think you'd be disappointed if you did. I think it's a shame when the House or Senate and it now means something. I thought it was a shame when Harry redid it. I was against that right because to me, and I mean I understood his reasoning, just like I understand McConnell's reasoning. Now, But you take those kinds of issues to the people, you don't destroy the one thing that makes the Senate a more deliberative body than the House of Representatives. If this continues, it happened today, it is what it is. If they continue down this road and they do away with the legislative filibuster, well what an awful, awful shame. I just think, you know, I'm gonna go a little philosophical here, and that we have no individual thinkers in politics anymore. You have the Senate, you have the House of Representatives, you have the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and the only way that they make decisions is based on party lines. That's I mean, there's no individual thinkers in the Republican Party that say what you just said, Sean, that say, hey, listen, we gotta stand up and we gotta go forward on this. There, you don't see with the what's going on with this spygate stuff, the Republicans should be going nuts about this brand new congressman that just stepped in to this field of a career. Should be going bullets stick saying I will not work under an environment where we may be spied on it. Because you're not. You're not hearing that from anybody. And that's because we don't yet, I mean, but it's because their allegiance is to two political private organizations and not to the American people, and not to this this whole thing, this whole thing that's happening today, the nuclear option. But I find so astounding. You don't have to be a political science genius to know that this is not a good strategy on the part of the Democrats. I've been squawking about this on my show for weeks. This is not an intelligent strategy. You know what. There is what at least a seventy five or twenty five percent chance that we're going to get to the last year of this president's term, and that's going to be when he needs to pick a justice. Right. I would have loved to have heard the Republicans explain why it's okay to do it in that year when it wasn't okay when it was another president. Now because you chose to fight over a nominee who is getting approved, it was he's clear he's going on the Supreme Court. All they're doing is playing to the base. They aren't doing their job. Aren't you worried at the admission of unmasking the contradiction of of of of what's her name? M farcas? No price still on that. By the way, did you did you ever get it? A lawyer up, I'm not going to answer the question, did you ever get it? To come on? Did you? I mean her talking? I mean I'm trying. Did she know that I was actually trying to help her? I like, she's gonna She's in trouble, dude, She's in big trouble. She is being very capably represented. So you got Susan Rice out there, and she's out there. You know now we've learned from Sarah Carter today that in fact, they're looking into the personal lines of people. There has nothing to do with except you guys. Are you're getting as ahead of the story as the other side. Let me tell you why you are. You know, as far as anything that we know, it isn't hirely possible that there's nothing to the Susan Rice story, and there's nothing illegal. It's illegal when you leak it. If she leaks something, but she's leaked. It's also illegal if you are read into a program and then you take that information and then you give it to somebody else in the government. Yeah, that we don't know that she did. Why did Why did Farcas need to know this? See? I don't think she had an idea. Well hold on a second, you say, I'm sure talking about Rice, but here, Well, you can't talk about Rice without talking about her and everybody else because the information that Rice unmasked is the same information that Farcas is talking about. So in that case, it got disseminated. No. I mean, you're you're making you're making a very big leap there that there's no may you may get there at some point, but we're not there yet. There's me to me. We went from two weeks ago, does she's no, I know enough thing? Remember Starr right, remember? And then then we got to oh yeah, surveillance took place, and oh yeah, I did a masking of Trump. And now, by the way, Sarah Carter has gotten everything right to this point. Now she's saying they're going after the personal lives of individuals, which means and proves it was weaponizing the intelligence communities. Oh you guys, we'll wrap things up get to your calls in the next half hour. News Round Up, Information Overload, Rick Hunger and Jonathan Gillhim straight ahead, bite sized version of the show that you can take with you. To sign up today for Hannity headlines, go to Hannity dot com. A right as we continue, Rick Hunger and Jonathan Gillhim staying with us, News Round Up, Information Overload Our all. Right, So what I'm trying to understand is why you aren't more upset that we now know your friend Evelyn Farkas sent it. She admitted that there was surveillance on masking She's talking about, let's get it to our friends, our colleagues on the Capitol on Capitol Hill. Well, that would sound to me, and I'm not an attorney, but that sounds to me like leaking intel. That's my problem. I am an attorney, and that's why you haven't heard me screaming about President Trump and his people collaborating with with somebody from overseas, because I haven't seen any evidence to prove that yet. And I haven't seen any evidence to prove that Susan Rice did anything wrong. When I see evidence on either both or none. What about? What? What about what she's admitting to and how she contradicted what she said two weeks ago because she didn't. You know, that's not fair. What she said two weeks ago was not in response to the stay at the beginning of her two weeks ago when she says she knows nothing. I was surprised to see reports from chairman unis I know nothing about this. It's not very useful without the question that she's answering. Then all right, but she's talking about the very specific issue. Wa sit there and I go, I know that. But then she goes on and be saying she admit she knew everything about it. But she didn't say she knew nothing to this stuff, the very thing she saying she knew nothing about. You know the question. Let's look in the context of how And I hate to say these initials, but CNN has covered this, and like John Lemmont for instance, if you know, sometimes when the cops roll up on a scene and there's a dead body there, there's no evidence and so they have to do an investigation. They don't just assume that nothing has happened here and that the person just died in Okay, Well, according to the mainstream media and a lot of these people on the left, we should just let this go. And there's no evidence. That's why. That's why when you say the things that you say, you have to be very careful with that, because there is more circumstantial evidence here. When we look at farcas, when we look at Susan Rice, you do see that they were moving around information that was unmasked by Susan. Wait, let's let's just set a few things straight there. Number one, I'm not CNN. I'm telling you what I see. I have always been mistrustful of circumstantial evidence, and I apply the same to mister Trump's situation. Right, show me evidence. I have no objection whatsoever to an investigation of that, none whatsoever. You got a question, it should be investigated. And if the investigation ms turns up evidence that she or anybody in the in the previous administration did anything wrong, go get him. The problem is the problem is the people who are going to be doing the investigations. One don't want to. It's half of them are establishment from the GOP and they don't like Trump. The other half for Democrats who hate Trump. So see, this is why we need body responsible for that, and I'm all for an independent investigation. That's why I think I think James coming. It's the Republicans that won't let that happen. I think James Comen should be fired, and I think, a how do you how do you fire him? Term you ask him to resign? You have you ask me to resign, but you also can look and see if he's done malpractice of his job, and then you can you can ask Listen, my take is very clear, and I think the what we see unfolding before our eyes is gonna be much deeper than Watergate ever was, and that is we are now weaponized and politicized intelligence gathering in the country. That is the beginning of a police state. As a liberal, you should be on my side about this. I'm on your side once I know that it happened, but I just you're presuming it happened. I'm not making I am. I'm citing Fox News as report from yesterday that says they literally look Peter King said, this information is about people's everyday live We gotta let you both go by the way. I love having you both in studio. Good to see you both. Thanks for being one of eight quick Break quick Pack will continue. We know you never want to miss the Sean Hannity Show, and now you never have to. 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There's a group called that has put a petition together called Stand United calling for the superintendent Jack Smith to reverse the sanctuary policies there. And I wanted to get an update on this and a senior campaign organizer for Stand United as Angela morbidos with US Angela. How are you gist on him doing well? Well, explain to me obviously, did you see that the lawyers for these two illegal immigrants are claiming that this was consensual sex with the fourteen year old girl? What are the laws in Maryland as it relates to statutory rape? What are the age consent laws? Well, you know, I'm definitely not an expert on those, but I can tell you that, you know, there is no none of that's supposed to be happening inside a school, let alone during school hours, where you have two people who are perpetrating this, who dragged her in your bathroom stall. They're seventeen and eighteen, she's fourteen. There are so many layers here of how this is illegal. Okay, So now what is your petition calling for that they stopped being a sanctuary city or so. Our petition asks the school superintendent to come up with a policy that at least looks into the background of new students who are enrolling in the school of Montgomery County Public School right now has a policy where anyone can show up and be allowed into their public schools, no questions asked about their background. In fact that by these two suspects were considered freshmen, they had come across the border in twenty sixteen, they had no educational records, and instead of asking why not, the schools just said, Okay, great, I guess you're a freshman. That's pretty unbelievable to me that, you know. I just I don't understand the thinking in the mindset that you know. You know. This is one of my biggest arguments. It's been nobody realizes that we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars a year on education, on healthcare, the criminal justice system, and that is not even the most devastating impact of illegal immigration. Then you have people that are competing for jobs at lower wages, so that puts Americans out of work. Then you've got those people that commit crimes. I've given the statistics when I sat through a briefing down, a security briefing down in Texas with then Governor Rick Perry six hundred and forty two thousand crimes, including murders and rapes against Texans, just in a seven year period of time. I was stunned and shocked. And you know, here we have an incident where you have people in the country illegally, and you have a sanctuary city policy, and then you have the eighteen and seventeen year old kids in with thirteen fourteen year old kids in school and a rape happens, and then they claim it's consensual. It just doesn't make any sense to me. This whole story is just so sad and so tragic that now you have a fourteen year old girl whose life has been changed forever because nobody, none of the adults who were supposed to be educating her and at least keeping her safe while she's in school every day, because none of them thought to ask questions of men who were One of the men was an adult, the other one seventeen, so just shy at the age of majority. No one asks them any questions. And when you think about how something like this happened and the bureaucracy in place failed this goal at every level, unbelievable. All right, well, thank you for the update, and if people want to sign your petition. Where do they go to it? You can check us out at stand united dot org or on Facebook at stand United Petitions. We hope that you will sign this petition. It's going to go to the school superintendent and we're looking forward to getting a policy in place to make sure this never happens again. All Right, Thanks Angela for all you're doing. We really appreciate it. Thanks for the update eight hundred nine for one Sean toll free telephone number you want to be a part of the program. Kimberly is in Idaho. Kimberly, Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Glad you are with us. Hi, how are you doing, Sean? I'm good? How are you today? I am in shock? What's the matter? I mean, well, the thing that I also just realized and was that you were part of You were partly survailable along with I can't remember the gentleman's first name, but yeah, last name was Prince. Yeah, Eric, Prince. Listen. I've read the stories I've got. I've been very clear on Twitter. I have not been able to confirm, although I have my sources looking into it, I have not been able to confirm or corroborate that I was surveiled or unmasked. As you know all these stories, I mean, I've seen a number of them now all over the place. I've not been able to independently confirm that, but I am making it very clear that if in fact, that did happen to me, and I consider it such a violation because look, there's no way that I was picked up in any incidental legal incidental surveillance, because I don't know. But this is a thing that concerns me as an American. We did not sign up for this. We did not sign up for a police state. No, we didn't. And we've had one liar after another in the Oval office. Parted with Clinton, then I went to George Bush getting us into Iraq under false pretenses. Then it went to then I went to Obama, and it's ridiculous, it's out of hand. And I read this article that m Hillary's plan for you and Barack Obama's plan for you too was that if Hillary won that they were going to try to get you fired from Fox. I didn't say where did you see that? I did not see that. Um, it was an article, it was on it was on Facebook about how how Obama did not like you, because you're you didn't paint him in a flattering light. Listen all of that truth. Look, nobody vetted him harder and got to the truth of Look, I think I've been proven through the prism of history that I was dead on accurate, even beyond my imagination. As it relates to Obama, I know he hated it. I mean he mentioned me, you know, a dozen times, and then was told by somebody to stop because as I kept using every time, he did it as a promo. And so you know, my only answer to him is listen, nothing surprises me. You know, you got to remember, remember the secret police stories that Dick Morris used to tell about the Clintons, and then you've got the irs being used. Now we've got confirmation they've weaponized the intelligence community. I mean this blockbuster discovery that they were more interested in getting into the private lives of individuals and any more than anything else. I'm not afraid of whatever they might have done to me, but I listen, I will not stop, and I'm I would do this just for the principle that no American and if it happened, if it ever turned out it was me that no American because of their political point of view, should be surveiled and unmasked. And so if it if I ever get to confirm it, and I have people looking, people that like me within the intelligence community are looking into it for me. If my sources ever, it's ridiculous. And the thing is is I wish that Trump wouldn't have signed signed over. Our search histories too are to be released. You know, Listen, all of that is the beginning of a police state. Everything you're talking about is this is it now? If they want to embarrass me, intimidate me, silence me, that's not going to happen. And I'm willing the time was so glad. I love watching your show and I love how how hard hitting you are towards these Listen, I make a lot of enemies. I'm I'm not surprised, I mean nothing. I have for years assumed that my tax returns are gone over with a fine tooth comb and percentage wise. Even my own accountant says to me, what are you doing? You know you really should be taking these deductions. Um, and I'm My next question is is it going to likely trigger an audit? Yes? Okay, leave it in, just don't don't take it because it's not worth it to me to be the target. And even with those part actions that I've put in place, I still get attacked by them. I started dealing with the case right now with the irs, and it's ridiculous, and it's absolutely ridiculous what they're what they're trying to look at here. But you know, this is my this this goes with the territory. A lot of good things. I get to meet nice people like you. I get to talk to great Americans like you, and I am not shy about expressing my political views. I just don't know the answer. I can't give a I don't know, I can't confirm. I have my sources looking and if I get an answer, I promise I will be forthcoming. But I have not been able to confirm it. And I keep reading the same things that you're reading, and I'm not surprised at all to see it to be perfectly blunt. Brian is in New York City the All New AM seven ten w R The Talk of New York, New Jersey, Long Island. How are you, sir, Sean. You're doing a great job. I gotta tell you, I love your show. Thank you, sir, and Mark Levin are than It's great stuff. God bless us. My question is Jevin Nunez knew about the unmasking back in January. I understand, Why is it that James Comy came before Congress and he didn't really suggest that they were investigating this these intelligence leagues? Now where is he all this is coming out? And Susan Rice, where is James Comy in this whole charade? It's a really good question. I mean, it bothers me that he acknowledges one type of investigation is going on, the Russia investigation. When asked about the felony committed with the intelligence leaking, he just has nothing to say about it. And his answer is the standard, Well, we don't talk about potential or ongoing investigations, And why did you just five minutes ago start talking about the quote Russia investigation, even though we all know there's no evidence uptil this point. So I fear actually that Comy may have been politicized. Now, I'm I don't know the guy, and the way he's acting is kind of bizarre, unpredictable. I'm not sure. I'm not sure why he's doing the things he's doing, and it's troublesome to me, especially in light of the seriousness in what we know about surveillance of a presidential candidate, a president elect is transition team, and now the new discovery that they're looking into the personal lives of all these people nothing to do with any real national security investigation. That means we have weaponized our intelligence community, and that's a very, very dangerous position for the United States of America to be in. Anyway, Brian, good call, sir, Thank you, appreciate it. Let's say hi to Shannon in Florida. Shannon, Hi, how are you? And we're glad you called hi? How are you? Thank you so much. I've been listening to you for a while and I'm telling you, Sean, you have a real chance. I'm so telling you. You keep screaming and telling us, and I believe you, and I want to believe you, but you keep saying how you want to keep it everybody accountable and hold everybody, And you have a chance. I have to prove you guilty. They you don't have to prove it. Nail them to the wall, Shawn. You have a chance. If they're surveilling you, make them prove that they're not. Well, I listen, I'm going to be very judicious, very cautious, but also very thorough cautious. Well, but the thing is you But I well, because I believe in the rule of law. I mean, in other words, just because just because I read something doesn't mean I necessarily believe it. Now, somebody somewhere in the intelligence community clearly, in my opinion, leaked that this happened. That's my take on it. But I've not been able to independently corroborate or confirm this, So I'm all I'm doing is due diligence. I'm using every insider source I have trying to get to the answer, and as of now, I can confirm or corroborate anything at all has happened that is inappropriate. Can't confirm I've been surveiled. I can't confirm I've been unmasked. I don't know. Am I worried about a lot of people? Look, I really appreciate a lot of people are writing me worried for me because they see it as such an invasion of privacy. Yeah, I mean, I'm not. I'm I'm I'm telling all my friends I'm not worried. I don't care. You know there's nothing they can do to hurt me, and then there's not Look at you. You will discover that I curse a lot more than you think I do. Oh no, I believe you. But here, think about this. You have a team. They make phone calls for you all the time. I know they do because you're a very busy person. So how do you know your team wasn't surveiled. It's not fair to them that you aren't taking up the staff and saying, okay, if you're going to do this to me, if somebody leaked, by the way, if they ever surveilled Linda, I mean it would be it would be every word would have to be bleeped. It would never get to begin every phone call with hello, the NSA and then I continue and then you continue. By the way, I do that a lot too. I've been doing them for years. But that's okay. You got to think about I'm challenging you to put your money where your mouth is. You want to hold them accountable. Listen, I could promise you this if I ever do confirm and I don't know where this is going. I really and and to be honest, I'm so focused on my job. It's not been top of mind for me. I'm very honest here. I've got friends. I've got friends, some of the you know them, Joe Degeneva, Uh, Jay Sekulo, I have. These guys have already agreed to represent me because that would be cause for civil action, and that means I'd be able to depose every single person involved in any surveillance of me or any unmasking of me. And by the way, I promise one thing if it happened, if it turns out it's true, I will not stop. Every one of them will be deposed under oath, and I will I will chase this down to the to the I'll squeeze every bit of truth I could get out of these people.