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Just go to my pillow dot com or call eight hundred zero nine zero promo code Hannity take advantage of Mike special two for one offer my pillow dot Com promo code Hannity. I want to focus on to want to focus on I ran, I want to focus on other things. I don't want to focus on fixing somebody's back or their knee or something. Let the states do that. The states should do. So the block grant concept is a very good concept. And if you have good management, good governors, good politicians in the state, it'll be phenomenal. If you don't, it's like everything else. So we are I could almost say we are just about there in terms of the vote. So I expect to be getting healthcare approved. But I'm disappointed. I thought that when I Randy, and I've been hearing like you for seven years repeal and replaced the repair. For seven years, I was as of Indian. I wasn't even thinking about doing this. I was doing my nice buildings all over and I was leading a very nice life, believe me. And then I decided to do the And so for two years I've been saying, we're going to repeal the replace. That's what's gonna happen. We will repeal the replace. But I thought that when I got to the Oval office, I would have a bill sitting on my desk, repeal and replace, a beautiful healthcare bill. And it didn't happen. But remember, it didn't happen because of a lot of Republicans. It didn't have it, you know that happened. That horrible thing happened because of a few people, really a few people. And the problem we have is we have fifty two senators and they have to get rid of the just absolutely crazy voting where you need sixty. It's called the filibustero. It's a disaster. Okay, it's a disaster for the Republicans. They have to get rid of it. If they don't get rid of it, it's just a death sentence. And we should go back to a majority and we'll get the votes. One after another quick final question in the tax package, is it possible rather than wrap it all into one great big bill that gives everyone an excuse to not vote for it, saying oh, I'm for ninety, will it possibly be done ala carte where each piece of it and force these guys to say yes or no to each element of the tax point. We could do that, For instance, it would be easier, believe it or not. You know, the Democrats want to raise taxis because they want programs that many people don't want. They want a big increase in taxes, and we want a big cut in taxes. So for business, we could do it much easier. We're separate. But I don't like that because I think it looks unfair to people in the country. You know, the business now, even though it's going to create jobs, they're not looking it that way. So I want to do it this way. Could we do it that way? Absolutely, some people prefer doing it that way. I think you would agree if we can get it. Doing it the way we're doing it is better because I want to give the middle income people in this country, and this is not a tax for the rich. Now, everybody's going to benefit, but this is what we're focused on more than anything, and even more so, we're actually adding things in as we speak, because you know, the plans being aston et cetera. But this is for the middle class. So the answer is, yes, it would be easier if I cut it down into the the middle income people, or the working people as I call them, because they are they're working people. If I do that and business would be easier. But I'd like to do it as one, all right, so maybe we'll actually get some progress. Hour to Sean Hannity show told free telephone numbers eight one, Sean, you want to be a part of the program. So it is a rare in studio appearance. Um My Fox News colleague of ten years now will debut The ingram Angle immediately following Hannity on Fox, debuting October the thirtieth, because she needed a few weeks to get her active. You know something, I am. She needed a few weeks to go on. You have such a fancy studio. I have a very down home studio like you have. You got like fifteen screens. What is this, Norad? Look at this one to six. You got fifteen In the other road over there, you got they got, you got the ode to Hannity all over the play. This is amazing. What is the Conservative Solutions Caucus? I got? I got your head? You have your head on George Washington's body? Are you lying? You were? You were at Valley Forge. That's a good move. Why anyway? So that's the forgotten man sitting on the bench, and there's Donald Trump helping the forgotten man? And uh, I try to remember what this election was about, because for a big part of my life I was the forgotten man. Had two hundred dollars in my bank account. Came from it came from the forgotten man. And that's where we came from. That's why we're hungry. You know. I'm glad you wrote this book. It's called Billionaire at the Barricades. The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump. I was really who was it that wrote this? Oh? Like, well, you go from William F. Buckley to the likes of Hannity and Ingroom and talk radio? Is that what this is? Is this the movement? I'm thinking I happened to Revere Buckley. I mean, he's a brilliant, brilliant man and god and man. Uh you know, but you know, are they going to talk about his ear reverence? I remember a few debates with Gore if you ever said that was Buckley? We really liked taking on Videl. Yeah. Well, the the Party has been in this family feud mode, uh for since about two thousand seven, when they tried to push the Bush amnesty down everyone's throats. They tried to put Harriet Myers the ultimate act of chrony ism on the Supreme Court, and that was talk radio. They basically stopped both things, the the immigration amnesty that was being pushed back then by John McCain and a lot of Democrats and George W. Bush and the Meyers nomination. Thank goodness, we defeated both. Because now we have Sam Melito on the Supreme Court and we have Donald Trump. So I think the the Reagan Revolution brought everyone together because Reagan came in Shawn at a time when we had to defeat the Soviet Union, when Jimmy Carter had taken our country uh down a ravine, we had the Iranian hostage crisis. And Reagan came along after almost winning the nomination seventy six and with a conservative popular zeal. He revolutionized politics in the country. You and I wouldn't be doing what we're doing without Reagan. So he is the reason we're we have a meeting. He's Without Reagan, there would have been no Fox News. It would have been my question. Though I look at Trump's agenda and I don't care if it's his economic plan. Seven bragets, the three repatriation, energy independence, corporate taxes, lowering the rates across the board for the most part. We can get to the details later. Uh, Immigration, secure the borders, be identifying evil in our time, something Obama wouldn't do. What part of his agenda is not conservative because I mean, we throw on these terms populist, nationalist, But I look at Trump's agenda as conservative. I've always been a Reagan conservative. I've not changed. Well. Reagan used to make America great again. That was his That was one of his first commercials, as everyone remembers, and his point from seventy six on, really from sixty four on, was without a strong vibrant American economy, we're no good to the rest of the world. Because if America sees that the system at home is rigged against them and it's not really work king for the everyman, is just working for a very small veneer of elites, then they're not gonna They're not gonna have any desire to do anything in any other countries, any foreign countries. So Reagan understood that. He when he went to blue collar America and said, you don't have to vote Democrat anymore. There's a new way forward. Trump actually did a similar thing. They're different people. Obviously, Trump is not a politician. He doesn't speak with the the same you know, poetic h you know that were the same poetry of Reagan. But remember the same Democrats who despies Reagan in the same old style Republican Party that hated Reagan and seventy six called him a force of disruption, actually called him Republicans would the one that called him an amiable dunce. Yeah, and and he was Ronnie Reagan. He was gonna blow us all up. He was going to get us into World War three. What are they saying about Trump, Corker yesterday? We was gonna get us into World War three. It's exactly what they said about Reagan. Because Reagan didn't want to do the dayton To anymore. He wanted peace for strength. He thought we could bring the Soviet Union down by a stronger U. S economy and a bigger military. And he was laughed at for that. You know what's amazing. I watched the Corkers can go back and forth, and I don't think I Corker doesn't get it. The Senate doesn't get it. Do you realize they've been there there now in their ten months since Trump has been president, what have they accomplished. They didn't. They've maybe approved a third of the President's all right, the thing was a big deal. And and no doubt, of course it's on the Supreme Court. Give credit where credit is due. Um, If it wasn't for the President stepping out today with Ram Paul and using his statutory authority on the issues involving healthcare, we wouldn't get anything done. Every problem. Everything the President could do himself, he's done exactly. And yeah, we heard, we heard yesterday and today on some of the other cable channels. We heard, Well, the president just doesn't want to pass legislation. The president just wants to to bully people into to appeal to his thirty pent talk radio audience. And I said to that, how many pieces of legislation has have arrived at his door on his desk that he hasn't signed. He even signed the Russian sanctions bill, which frankly was a stupid bill. He signed it reluctantly, but he wanted to play along and play nice with the establishment there, and he did that. But I'm telling you, the the establishment Republicans, the McConnell's, the Corkers, the McCain's, the Lindsay Grahams of the world. We can work with them on certain issues, but on some issues there's just a break in the family and that's not coming back. That's not coming back. So they're not reaking conservatives. So you know, the one that is the bigger reaking conservative would be Trump. I think Donald Trump. And it's so it's so odd to think about it, but a guy who comes from Manhattan, who grew up as a son of privilege, has a closer connection to the heartbeat of the American working class than any of these Republicans on Capitol and I mean any of them. If he is stunning, it's his stunning thing. If his plan was implemented. Those people in those pictures, and I'm not in them, thank you very much. But John McNaughton, I actually have the original. That's a that's a copy. I bought the original. That guy sitting on the bench. And you've got one side liberals, the other side conservative presidents and Obama stomping on the constitution. But if we would implement those economic plans, Reagan created twenty million new jobs revenues to the government. It was up to that time, the longest period of peacetime economic growth in history. It can be duplicated, it can be But why would they resist, Well, because if Trump is successful, think of what that does to their brand of Republicanism, which has been really riding on the coat tails of Reagan without a lot of accomplishments. They are, at their heart, they're very hard. They're not working class conservatives. They're not. Most of them aren't from the people that we're from. I'm sorry they're not. They're most of them are. They're a different which is okay because you can be privileged and actually get it. But they are when push comes to shove, keeping wages low for corporate America by streaming people into the country and there for these global trade deals that if d industrialized the Middlewest. That's why all these states turned out for Trump. They've they've seen their livelihood destroyed, their families oftentimes broken up. They got all these people addicted to opioids. We have we had a hopelessness in America, Sean that was so uh, it was so transparent, and I felt it the night of October I mean, excuse me, November six, in Leesburg, Virginia, two days before the election. It was a Sunday night, and it was cold. It was maybe, I don't know, forty five degrees. At midnight, there were twelve thousand people waiting for Donald Trape to make it Triinal Trump to make his final trip on the campaign. I was there, Stay right there. I want to know. You were sort of in the forefront of of leading the effort against Erik Cantor, and you were successful. And Dave Bratt took his place, and then we saw Roy Moore in Alabama, and just this weekend, Steve Bannon says, oh, this is just we're just starting, all right, we'll take a break. Laura Ingram as with us a brand new book out. We put it up on hannity dot Com. It's called Billionaire at the Barricades The Populace Revolution from Reagan to Trump. By the way, I'm gonna be in Philadelphia area on Thursday night, and then we put that up on all the all the tour stops on Laura ingram dot Combat Philly. I want to see a big Philly turnout on Thursday night. More with Laura ingram on the other side. She will be one of our many guests tonight on Hannity's Steve Bannon is stopping by in studio tonight and much more nineties And you know how I love hearing great American success stories and sharing them all with you. Well, our favorite T shirt, underwear sock company, Tommy John, Well that's one of them now. Tom Patterson grew up in a small town in South Dakota. After college, he had a successful career. He was selling medical devices on the West Coast, but he quickly became fed up with the ways undershirt kept coming untucked. 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You were in the forefront of going up against Derrick Canner and as a result, I think we got a far better Congressman David Bratt and Steve Bannon is basically saying this is just the beginning, because if the Senate is not going to do their job and they're not going to get things accomplished, and they're gonna stop the agenda, then let's replace them. I agree with him. I think he's totally right. And I'm gonna be with Bannon with Kelly Ward in Phoenix next week. Now. I'm supporting Kelly Ward. Yeah, So we're doing a huge event for her. So it's Bannon and I and some other friends. I guess by the way, she's gonna beat Jeff Flake. Oh. Jeff Lake is one of the most unpopular, untethered to reality senators He's a globalist. Open borders, complete, open markets, doesn't matter if China is getting stronger, and he is a constant thorn in the side of this administration. He did not understand what the election was all about, and the people have had enough. I mean, just like, just like on your show, Sean min, listeners in Phoenix go crazy, They like, how did we get this guy? They always campaign is one thing and then they govern or something totally. I think Corko would have lost in Tennessee. Absolutely, That's why he was getting out, that he was on his way out. He you know, barely won by the skin of his teeth last time around. He was scared last time around, and he managed to win. But this time, forget about it. The populace winds are blowing so far early in Tennessee. Well, Marcia Blackburn's running. I like Marcia, but I want to see what the real field is because I'm not sure she's nationalists from enough for me, frankly. I mean, she's she's been there for a while. I like her a lot, but we'll see. I'm waiting to she's actually come up with her own version of the Penny Plan that actually goes further than the version I've out of all these years. Yeah, well I'm happy. I'm not making I'm not making decisions and told the time no, no, we have plenty of time on that um and I guess they're even going after or in Hatch now in Utah Orange Hatch. God bless him. He's a nice man. He could not be a nicer person. Lamar Alexander fed Corprane Cochrane. I mean these people are like it should be on the set of Cocoon. I mean, this is this We've got to go. I mean, this is is that pool real? I want to find that pool? This is I mean, we do know, Oh my god, we just it's time to say goodbye there in their late seventies, do they have no interests other than shuffling over to the Capitol every now and then to go to these black tie dinners raising money? I mean, seventy seven years old, seventy nine years old, eighty two years old. I mean, they've just got it. It's not a lifetime job security act running for the Senate. I'm tired of all of them, all right. So I'm looking at your book. I've been reading it this weekend. Thanks for getting an early copy. It's just out today in bookstores everywhere. It's on Hannity dot com. Also, you're gonna be doing a bunch of book events speeches, I guess, along with the book signing in Philly, Emmertle Beach in d C. You headed Oklahoma City, Scottsdale, Arizona, West. Yeah. Oh, you had to put West Palm Beach down, the chut the breakers. I had to go check out your property down. I don't have any property down in West Palm the landed gentry you went from the construction site. I don't have me. I don't have property in West Palm Beach. Okay, sorry, it's the one county in Palmita County. You don't have problems on the other coach in the Panhandle? Are you kidding me? I don't have any property in the Naples? So I do have wa condo in Naples, all right. I always struggled with like, okay, so what's my story? And it suddenly dawned on me that I was the beneficiary of these radical changes in you know, women's rights and opportunities that began in the sixties and continue, and that I could have and maybe should have tried harder to tell that story. But I quickly add, as you point out, I never thought there would be that receptive an audience, and I think that what's happened since this election may have cracked that open. I hope it has. I hope you know. I'm seeing tens of thousands of people on my book tour, and I've now shaken you know, about seven eight thousand hands and book signings and spoken to you know, ten thousand more, and I've got much still to do. There seems now to be a willingness by more and more women and girls to claim uh their rights in a very explicit way, not an apologetic way, not like, oh, you know, excuse me, let me express my opinion, but no, I have an opinion. I want to tell you what that opinion is. You can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is and always will be pedophilia. I was twelve years old and my publicist, he Um, basically talked me into doing things that I didn't really want to do. I was having had sex before, and he kind of convinced me that this was the right thing to do and kind of told me like, don't tell your parents. He seduced me and he started adding eleven years old to twelve. We have to make people realize that children need to be safe on these sets, and they're not safe. Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein. Do you have any advice for a young girl? I'm looking to Hollywood, Uma, Harvey to hear of your own free will as someone course you endo being here? Do you count Harvey Weinstein is? Of course, I'm not afraid of anyone in show business. I turned down intercourse with Harvey Weinstein. I'm no less than three occasions. So the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues here, and uh, it's getting worse by the day. And here's the most fascinating aspect of all of this is how come you never hear all of these people in Hollywood that supported the Clinton over the years. Will I interviewed one it to Broderick and she accused Bill Clinton of rape. I interviewed Kathleen will You said she was groped and grabbed and fondled and touched and kissed against her will I interviewed Paula Jones, who says that then Governor Clinton dropped his pants and said, kiss it. How come the media never plays this? And why did they? Were they so supportive of Bill Clinton? Let's hit it. He described the scene where he was biting on your lip, and then when it was all over he was leaving, Peru said you'd better put some ice on that, and casually put on his sunglasses and walked out the door. It was a terrible ordeal for me and I no woman should be subjected to it. It was an assault. He assaulted you. He and he touched, grabbed, flottled and kissed you against your wits. And it's an allegation that is not made by one woman, It's made by multiy of us. Will um, I need to be go anders thing. And next thing you know, he pulled down his He's sitting and pulled pulled down his pants. He's how everything and he was exposed and I said, I'm not that kind of girl, and I need to be getting back to my to my desk. So beyond despicable, beyond hipocritical. Ainsley Earhart, the co host of Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel each weekday morning six to nine, is with us. She's got a brand new book out Uh, this is number two in a series. It's called Through your Eyes, My Child's Gift to me. You know, it's fact. I'm gonna ask this question through this prison when you have a daughter and I have a young daughter, and I saw your daughter on TV with your dad. Is in your Mr Earharts, Sir? I know, I'm I know with the South it's sir, yes, sir, No, sir yes, ma'am no, ma'am am. I doing all right? Like we put his mic on. Uh, you gotta get you got dad, You gotta get closer to the mic. Yeah, you gotta talk a little loud to me. No, no, no, I'm glad. But it makes a difference. I mean, it literally makes such a big difference in life. Um, what are your thoughts. You've been covering the Weinstein thing. You know, when you play all those sound bites of the girls who were accusing Bill Clinton of this, it sounds exactly like the stories about Weinstein. And I don't think any of us have ever thought about it because that happened so long ago until you've brought it up, Sean. You know, could you imagine if the she were on the other foot, if this were President Trump? Oh, the mainstream media would be playing it over and over and over. Yeah, they're not really thing, not not for you know, and you know now we're seeing that it was a lot of these stars are coming out of the world where I think it's a tip of the iceberg. I had two women on last night. Tracy uh mcure was on an actress that there's been in movies and on soap operas. And then we had Kaya Jones who was with the Pussycat Dolls. And it's in music, and it's in TV, and it's in the movie entertainment industry, and these young girls go with hopes and dreams, and this is how, this is why my parents would never all right, dad, they never wanted me to major in theater and they didn't want me to go to New York at an early age. That was that true? Mr? Yeah, I remember. Was she incorrigible growing up? What she behaved? She was trouble all the time. That is not true. You're getting me confused with your son. Oh so she was an angel, and I don't know about an angel, but I was the middle child. She was the middle of the road. I put it. Put the middle of the road. Middle child is that right. Um, well, you know you think of it. And I know this is a second in the series. By the way, that the illustrations and these books that you do are phenomenal you and your first book was Take Heart, My Child, and that was your dreams for your child. I happen to see you guys on the show this morning for your your daughter is an angel. That girl is adorable. Um, and that's your granddaughters, sir. Okay, And so now through your eyes, my child's gift to me. And I started thinking about it as you got were talking about it this morning, say I'm getting southern, y'all. And um, and this is what was interesting to me is when you watch kids and it's raining outside, they love the rain. You know, to us it's an aggravation. You know, if with the snow, it's an aggravation. For a kid, it's heaven, you know. And and they for example, you buy them a beautiful gift or a toy, and all they care about is the plastic that they can pop. You know. It's like and we think it's the greatest gift we ever got them. And I mean, so tell us about well that's really what the book is about. Sean, It's just it's it's watching your children and learning from them and being able to as an adult say, I can grow and learn, learn the importance of life and what's really important. And that's three of the eyes of a child. Because you, I'm sure your schedules as busy as we live insane lives. I mean, let's go, go, go all the time. And does your child stop you and you go, wow? Your your child's name is Hayden, Hayden. Does your child that you find yourself stopping and saying I'm so stupid? I do find myself. I've always been a worker, and like you, I say yes to everything that Fox ever asks me to do. And my schedule is packed I have I mean it literally, minute to minute, it is packed. Having a baby has slowed me down. And the fact that I'm not afraid to leave work and go attend to her or go to her classes and just put my work life on hold for an hour. Do you find you getting better at saying no? Because I got better as I'm now. I just started my twenty three year at Fox, believe it or not. Last year. Congratulations, What will we do without you? Thank goodness? Who would have thunk it. I'm the last man standing a Fox News I'm in a studio that. Can you believe that if you really think about it. We're from South Carolina. I watched you. I would I remember it was the last thing that we would do every night. We'd watch your show and then go to bed and I'd get up and anchor the local news. And now I'm working with you and it's been a correspondent for your show and I'm on your radio shows. You've been there eleven years now, right, almost eleven almost eleven years. What did you think MS when you read this book, because I'm reading it my kids are older now. My son's eight teen, my daughter sixteen, and I'm I'm realizing that there were those moments. If I do have one regret that I wasn't home enough because i was working so hard. And but I remember my kids would like they would stop and pick up a rock, and then I'd be like, come on, let's go, go, go go. No, they then they pick up a flower, and I'm like to stop with the stupid flower. Then they pick up something else that was annoying me. And I remember at the time, I was pretty good at realizing all right, it's more important that they play with the rock than me to drag them along like they're a puppy dog, and and understand that that's of interest to them. Well, showing off like that, you know, always like the simple things in life, probably the best things in life. And that certainly what was true and raising children. And as I said today on on the TV station, you know, they get from God, so uh, how bad they are, how good they are, they yours your responsibility to care for him and love them and and chash them. And uh, you know, the little moments that we had with with all three of ours, we'll probably won't. So we were sitting together talking at the beach somewhere, sitting around on the beach and just been in town with each other. That was far more important than get a new car or a new house or whatever it might be, some new toy whatever. Like you said that, I think they had more pleasure playing with boxes at the toys game in and you know, and I'm looking through the illustrations and you have like a snowy day with an airplane and the kids are ecstatic. You have a scene in the park, a false scene, and the illustrations are beautiful. Then you have a little girl chasing birds in the book and a story around that. Then kids in a playground, which used to give me odjitive because I thought my kid was gonna break his neck. Um. And then then kids hanging out at a pond and just running around and playing and with the dog, and then you know, butterflies and flying kites and going on little boats. Um. I don't know about your life. I don't get to do this anymore, you know, I barely get to breathe. But it's it's we I think we rob our kids of their childhood a little well, you know, the book is it's really it's been interesting to see how all this is unfolded. The first book was about all the little little messages that Dad would leave me next to my serial bowl every morning, A scripture, a poem, and it was called take Heart because there's a scripture in the Bible that says in this in this world, you will have trouble, but take heart. I have overcome the world. And I think about that when we talk about isis we talked about you know, all North Korea? Take Heart, I have overcome the world. And that's kind of the message our kids teach us who learned to breathe learn to take a step back and truly smell the roses. You've been able to do that. This has helped you, It's helped me. I'm working on it. I'm I'm not a perfectionist, and I mean I'm not I'm not perfect at this. I'm trying, but I'm learning. I'm really just learning to take a step back and watch my daughter and appreciate her seeing a dog for the first time. I remember from the first book, you did tell that story that Mr Earhart stir Uh you you would leave notes for all the kids, right and Bible verses. Did you have any idea would have the impact to inspire Ainsley to do a book like this. No, not really. It just I was really surprised and actually kept him all or row him down some way. And I still have a file forward the house and I would kind of run out. I'm gonna have to go BackStar repeating yeah, but I see. My family is just shocked that I'm not in jail. I mean, they're really Uh. I was far more incorrigible in my life. I won't go there. H. I guess you're saying that's your brother. Okay, he turned out, Okay, how does it feel? Two? And this is just the fact now that the President of the United States of America that you're his favorite show. There have been articles written that Fox and Friends is his favorite show one of them. I think yours is too. He I think he's watched the show. Yeah, it's great. Yes, you know, the mainstream media or the liberal press will want to write an article about you know, we give soft interviews, and we do that. That is not true. The Vice President even told one of his folks that works more and told me that my interview was tougher than he gave three of us interviews at one point when was our one was me and I can't remember who the other one was, And he said that mine was the tougher one out of all three of them, which I took great pride, and because I planned my questions the night before, I talked about it. Sometimes I'll call you and I'll say, Sean, can I remember the questions with you? Or I'll talk to people on my staff and I'll come up with really hard hitting questions and things that I think our viewers are gonna want to know. I don't want anyone to think it's a softball question, but I do want people to think we're fair, and I think we are fair. No, well, and you work very hard to get these interviews, as everybody does. UM. And I noticed that Brian was was there earlier today. UM. One of the things you should be proud of is by far you you double your competition, you beat them combined, and and that's an amazing accomplishment, especially considering how tough Morning TV is. We have great I just want to I will tell you this is the best illustrated book with an incredible message. I think it reminds even those of us that are adults that that we need to slow down a little bit and we can learn from our children that their gifts from God and they have wonderful things to teach us and remind us about. Um. You're gonna be out in Huntington tonight at book review signing books. UH in about an hour and fifteen minutes from right now, be at Huntington's seven o'clock book review Brooklyn tomorrow night at Brookmark Shop which is on Third Avenue, and that's at seven pm. And then I'll be at r J Julia booksellers at six pm on Thursday in Connecticut. Then I go home South Carolina to sign books in Myrtle Beach on Friday night, Saturday during the day in my hometown in Columbia, and then on Sunday I'm in Greenville, my mom's hometown. So you can go on Ainslee your Heart books dot com to see the schedule, or any of my social media and if you want to buy us, sign on. It's on my website to Hannity dot com. Okay, and then I also have the sign books so tonight at book Review in Huntington's. If you want to go to any of these other ones, it's on Ainsley Books dot com or Hannity dot com. Heart. But if you want to buy a signed copy of the book, um, you can go on Ainslie book dot com. Well, congratulations. It's a great reminder for all of us. And some of the money goes to Folds of Honor, which is the military. Already, that's right, all right, Mr Earhart, sir, God bless you good to see you. You've gotta you've gotta be proud of this little girl, proud of all three. Do you like the best? Go there alright, quick? Break, We'll come back. We have an awesome Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel Quick Break, right back, We'll continue. All right, that's gonna wrap things up for tonight. We're gonna blow wide open the real Russia conspiracy collusion story. It's all happening tonight on the Fox News Channel. Hannity at nine Now. Sarah Carter, John Solomon, our good friend Greg Jarrett, new King Rich and Peter Schweitzer will all break this down for you in an understandable way. And I bet the rest of the media ignores it because they are corrupt. You don't want to miss it. That's happening tonight, nine Eastern Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Listens Vegas. Listen a powerful moment from last night's Vegas Strong concert that we were a small part of, headlined by Big and Rich than you had Ron White the comedian there, you had Rascal Flats playing an incredible acoustic set. Uh and had I mean, Big and Rich were on their game last night. It was it was just phenomenal. So while they were playing that, remember this is one hour before with a crowd of about thirty thousand people, the shooting that happened here in Vegas. Remember they sang that song in Unison. I mean, for some parents that lost their kids, they know that an hour before their child died, this is the experience that child had. And that video went so viral. So during the singing of this last night, I actually stood in front of the stage and I stood up on like this chair, and I think I got the best video I've ever taken in my life because I'm not the best video taker. And we posted it all on Hannity dot Com. I'm gonna air it on TV. All of this will air on TV tonight in my usual slot. We're gonna have Vegas Strong and Night a Hea Ling and all the highlights from last night are going to be played tonight, and I think you're gonna really enjoy it. And I know the people in Vegas did, and I know from what I've heard. A ton of money was raised for the families, the victims, uh for some of their medical costs and first responders others that were injured. It was just an incredible, amazing night. And one of the more important reasons that happened is because Big and Rich came back in town and they they played for this crowd at the Old Packed Orleans Arena last night, and John Rich joins us, as well as Thomas Gunderson. You may remember that he was shot in the leg and when President Trump came to the hospital, he wasn't able to stand, but he stood up for the president. And then he posted on Facebook, I'll always stand for my President. And then we find out that he really stood for Melania. He didn't stand for the president. He told me privately, Uh, guys, welcome to the shop. That was a great show last night, John unbelievable. And then I never knew you owned a bar in Vegas called the Redneck Riviera. Then you guys played, Then you guys played an other two hours. You kept me out to like three in the morning, and I have half a voice today, but I had the most fun I've had hid on. You kept me out till three o'clock. Come on you. But you know I watched you guys perform, and I there's such a passion in what you do. I saw I saw people crying last night. When you're singing the eighth of November, we're gonna show that. Definitely, it's gonna be on the show tonight. I actually film that too. That's got to be an incredible experience for you, night in and night out. Well, Sean, I mean, we are fire breathing Americans, you know, and when we take the stage, Um, we feel so blessed to be able to do that, you know, with our lives, to make music. And and you know, music is a it's a big unifier. You know, it doesn't matter and you saw this last night. Doesn't matter your politics or where you're from or anything else. When you play those songs and everybody like the eighth of November or you've seen God Blessing My America, or even crazy songs like Save Horse Out a Cowboy, you'll see all these people jumping in and and this energy like you saw last night. Man, it's just over the top. And I think that is It's really the comment that I would love America to focus on is is seeing their fellow Americans standing there together with their iPhones in the air. Those lights are shouting up and they're singing at the top of their lungs with every omp of patriotism and passion that they have. That to me is really what America is all about. And it's just an honor every time we step on the stage and are able to lead those songs. I was. I'd be honest, there was an energy last night in that arena that I imagine was just a cut above. You know, when I walked out in the crowd a couple of times and I met people. I actually met the guy that we hear on the audio tape when the dispatch when he says, all right on the on the thirty second floor kind of breach, gonna breach the first guy in and I met last night. A woman came up to me, and so many women came up to me and telling me the story is about how their husbands, what heroes that nobody knows about. And you know, you're right, the shooter didn't care if they're Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative. He just wanted to kill Americans. He didn't care who he was killing. And you know that's evil in our time. And uh, you know one of the victims is with us here, Thomas Gunderson. I mean, you know you're you're gonna you're gonna be in rehab for how long Thomas for your leg? Probably a couple more months, maybe even a few more months. We'll see how it goes, Yeah, you look pretty good last night, and I think you're I think your girlfriend is way out of your league. I'm just saying. And even your mom and dad told me they thought, so, oh she is. I got lucky. Nah, you guys are a great couple. I was having fun with you all last night, you know. And it's funny because this wasn't supposed to be political. It became political because that's what everybody, I guess does And the president walked in your rule and you made a point to stand, and then you wrote why you stood tell us absolutely honestly has nothing to do with who our president is, but just that, in fact is the president. You know. It's it's respect for my country. It's the country that is giving me everything that I have, and I feel that, you know, I owe everything back to this country, and I feel like everybody should feel that way. You know, there's a lot worse places to live. I truly believe this is the greatest place in the world. And uh, you know, I've been given every opportunity because of where I live. And I will always stand for for my country, my anthem, my flag, and uh, you know, especially the president of United States is literally the highest hell position in our country, so you better believe no matter what kind of paint them. And I'm I'm standing up and shaking that man or woman's hand. It's a pretty inspiring moment. But then you told me privately, you really just stood from Milania. Don't lie. Oh absolutely, I could have been shot through both legs. That's all right, that's the American spirit, you know, John Rich And not so why ust night? John, and and and Big Kenny and I and a bunch of other guys were sitting around in his bus before the show, and we're talking about communication, and I said, John, I do radio three hours a day and it's a warmth medium. You've got to connect heart to heart, soul to soul on radio, and people will figure out in ten seconds if you're a phony, because you can't fake it three hours a day, five days a week in radio, and the same thing on TV. Although you can make a lot of points without saying a lot of words. I could just roll my eyes and people know what I'm thinking. But I've always believed that the most powerful form of communication is music. And this is what you do so well, John, When when what made you want to follow this crazy career that you're on. Well, you know, I grew up out in Texas. My dad is a is a nondenominational Bible banging preacher, and he played guitar in church. And I watched my dad, you know, be able to get up and lead people and and sing to people and and impact people. And you know, if you got a great dad like that, every son wants to be like your dad. And so I picked up the guitar at an early age. And I really never thought I would have a shot at at making music for a living. I mean, it's never really entered my mind. I just did it because my dad did it, and and it was it was you know, it's like you said, it's a it's a soulful experience to be able to pick up an instrument and sing something to somebody. But man, you know, I'll let go the sentiments of the gentleman on the phone, which we had a chance to meet last night. We live in a place, you know, we woke up this morning in our eyes opened, and we are living in America. And we live in the only place in the world that literally has no limits to what we're allowed to go for and achieve. And we can dream as big as we want and work as hard as we want to to go after those dreams. And that's what I did with music. You know, if you think about our constitution, Sean, it never promised you, promises you happiness. I think that's a big conception with a lot of people that you're promised happiness. No you're not. You're not promised happiness to pursuit of happiness. You're promised a pursuit of it. And the pursuit of happiness is what gets me up every day and and charges me up. And when I'm able to grab that guitar and walk out on stage like we did here in Las Vegas for Vegas Strong and sing to those people and see them singing back, you saw it. That that is a connection that that nobody can ever break that. And only in America can you accomplish something like that. It's just an amazing I urge everybody, um until I'm back on the air. You're well, you're gonna see it tonight on Hannity. And and we have all the highlights. I made sure we put in God Bless America the eighth of November, and and I put in Save a horse right a cowboy because the right man you gotta put that we put And then you guys went over to your bar and you played another two hours and the crowd was going nuts. I mean, it was just a fun of easy night. And Thomas, how fun was that you got to bring your parents there? And um, I had a blast last night just meeting everybody. Everybody was they were back to celebrating freedom and fun. That's what I felt last night was that, honestly was the best time in my life. I'm not kidding. It's a it's so fun to meet, you know, people like like John and m mc kenny. You know, it's it's we look up to them so much, you know, and at the end of day, there are normal people just like us, but you know there are idols, you know in country music. And being able to sit with them and just talk to John for a little while and hang out with him and honestly meant the world to me into my girlfriend, you know, going through what we have lately, and uh, just amazing people, you know, so gracious and so kind to us. It was really cool. So one kind of cool moment last night is the President heard about the concert John and he's a big fan of yours, and he tweeted out that you all were playing last night with the words Vegas Strong. How cool was that for you? Man? What I mean, what else can you ask for? You know? I mean with the President Nited States recognizes what you're doing here in Las Vegas. I thought it was a huge gesture from him. Pardon me, Si, we stayed up, like a huge jure from I've been struggling for three hours. Tell me about more. No, But he tweeted and he had hashtag Vegas Strong. And you know what that hashtag Vegas Strong is. The police commissioner here in the city of Las Vegas set up a go fund Me account under Vegas Strong, and I think it's up over like twelve million dollars. And there's a lot of people out here, you know that that I wound up in the hospital. They're trying to pay deductibles on their insurance. Some people don't have insurance. I mean, it's just a lot going on. And and for him to be able to tweet that and alert that many people to to what's going on and give them a chance to donate to that was really a huge thing. And we're very gratefully did it. You know, I went to the hospital. This is the day that I met Thomas and as and your parents are wonderful. I I gotta I gotta kick out of your mom and dad. I think they're great people and and a tribute to the man you've become, Thomas. Anyway, and I went there and everybody, it was the day after the President had been there. The hospital staff, the administrators, the doctors, the surgeons, all the people that saved all those lives. I mean, they were blown away that the president, you know, took the time and stayed there much longer than he had ever planned and wanted to meet everybody. So um anyway, listen, I want to thank you all. John, what you did and and you and Big Kenny to pull this all together was amazing. All of the people from Beasley Radio, all the people from Cox, all the people from you know, Rascal Flats, Fox News. To pull this off in a week like you did was pretty amazing. And uh, I just want to say thank you for what you've done for this great city to help them heal. It was. It was a special night. It's all gonna air tonight on Hannity nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel and John, hopefully I'll see it at the Redneck Riviera tonight. Absolutely, I'll be down there again tonight. And Uh, just all you folks up there listening to Sean watch it tonight, and if you feel inclined to do so, you should make a donation towards that. Some of the greatest Americans that we have are are in Vegas and are struggling with a lot of this, so you know, all the support we can get is much appreciated. All right, guys, good to talk to you both. We appreciate it, alright. Eight hundred nine for one, Shawn, as we continue from Vegas. Uh, we're gonna one week away from the release of Let There Be Light, the first movie I'm an executive producer of. That's now the Great Moments last Night and one of my favorite songs by Big and Rich the eighth of November, let's just play some of this here now nine and the nineteen sixty five thirty Americans were over run over twelve hundred d come thank you, Oliver Is except for everybody nows and two months they shouted up so bad that he came back to the States and he spent two years at Walter Read medical sent getting over his injuries. What would you like to know what he did? But he finally walked out to Walter Read. I said, would you like to know what he did? What? He walked out and Walter, Hey, look out that hospital and he signed up and did three more tours of bed Niles. What he did for the United States signed and he's a hero. We dedicate this song to him, all of our veterans, all of our active duty, and the boys and girls overseas and harms fleet. This is called the Age of November. All right, we'll take a break when we come back. Well, we're one week away from the release of my movie, Let There Be Light. Deon Warwick did the music. She'll join us. Michael Francis, he's the pastor in the movie. Kevin Sorbo stars in the movie. They're all coming up next. As we continue from Big Alight now till the top of the hour. Right on our toll free telephone number, it's eight hundred nine for one sean. So we're in Vegas. Obviously, we had the big show last night and honoring the first responders, the families, the victims, and it was an amazing, amazing night. Um, we're staying in Vegas tonight because we have another incredible event that I'm going to be a part of. So one week from today, we're going to open with my first movie that I'm the executive producer of, and it's called Let There Be Light. And so we decided to do something special here while we were in Vegas, and we invited a hundred and twenty seven pastors different denominations. This this is its faith based, but it doesn't hit you over the head with religion. Hollywood is so formulaic. It's the same actors, it's the same formula it's a it's Batman, it's it's Superman. And so often the values of Christians and the values of Conservatives are just outright dismissed by Hollywood. And we've seen a lot about Hollywood values in the last number of days. So we decided and we got together with a lot of great people that we were going to present to the city of Vegas and early showing of the movie, and that's going to take place tonight. We have all the pastors, I think it's sold out, unfortunately, and right here in Vegas, and we're all going to get together and we're gonna show it to people. By the way, it's a free screening, and Kevin Sorbo, Sam Sorbo star in the movie. Kevin Sorbo is gonna join us in a minute. Um. As we started this project step by step, incredible people um joined us in the process. And one of the more exciting moments is when Dion Warwick was just one of the most renowned singers, entertainers and performers that I've known my whole life growing up in all her music is she decided to do the soundtrack for our movie, which we're really excited about. And the pastor in the movie is a guy by the name of Michael Francis Uh and his real life story I always knew. He grew up the son of a notorious underboss in New York under the Colombo crime family. He had a hint out on him. He went to prison and while in solitary, because he had to be in solitary rose he probably would have been whacked. Um, he got a Bible from one of the guards at the prison and it changed his life and he became a real life pastor. And he plays a pastor in the movie and I've been telling you a little bits and pieces about the story, but it's very contemporary. You have Kevin Sorbo playing a glitterati paparazzi, very popular l a New York type of guy with the with the young model, abandoned his family. He wrote a book Aboarding God. The movie starts out with some of the evil that we all deal with every day in the world, and then beyond that evil, it's a personal story and a personal journey. So as he writes this book Aboarding God, he's debating a Christian and the crowd is just eating him up and not liking the Christian message. And then we find out, well, why is he an atheist? Why did he abort God? And there's more twists and turns and emotional twists and turns in this movie that I think you could ever you know, imagine. I'm very proud of it. Now, before we get to Dion Warwick and Michael Francis and Kevin Sorbo, I want to play you Dion Warwick's incredible work for this movie and the soundtrack of this movie. Let there be like remember it opens October one week from today, And to get a list of theaters. All you have to do is go to Hannity dot com A to be like to Ley, let Debby and shine shut on me. Let Deviy liked to sing sist for the ones with the wounded line. Let there be lighted for the bulls we lift behind. Let be like somebody say, they may be shore that we may see. We will gain to baby like that can be like the shimmy, the sill babies busy, won't baby right now, right now, and you'll be like, it's still baby. Good show babies to the amazing Dion Warwick and the movie opens one week from today. List of theaters up on Hannity dot Com. Dion Warwick, renowned entertainer performer of all time, joins us right now. Michael Francis is with us. He plays the pastor in the movie. Let There Be Light. Kevin Sorbo is the main star in the movie, and he's the horrible person that makes a transformation. UM, welcome all of you to the to the program. Dion Warwick. I've been a fan of your since I was young. Your voice is amazing. You being in this project has added so much to it and I can't tell you how beautiful that song is. That's amazing. Could you tell us about the song? Yeah? How are you? First of all, I'm good, except my voice is a little shot from screaming last night at this biggest strong concert. Anyway, Well, the song, uh, it's something very very proud of written by my son, Damon Elliot, and his vision was to literally let people know that there there is a solution. And as it turns out, he called me his money. I need a voice, okay, and I did my part on it that. He also recruited some most incredible talents to participate as well. You're here Gladys Knight, who is just over the moon. As far as I'm concerned with what he gave to the project, the Unladey Maya really Ray Cyrus. I mean, he just went all out to get people who head same mindset would be nice to do what the film is about. The song represented, So I can not be proud of being a part of this project and more proud of affect that my baby. The idea, well, he has a beautiful heart obviously if he put that together. I mean the words in that song really touch people. Kevin, let me go to you. I never thought or dreamed i'd really be in the music business. And I remember watching your hit movie God's Not Dead, and I remember interviewing you at the time and I said, you know, if there's ever a project, maybe we can do one together. And you and Sam, your wife and Dan Gordon came to my office one day. I don't think we talked more than fifteen twenty minutes, and you told me the whole story of Let There Be Light, and I just fell in love with the story, and and we've just been working on the project ever since. I mean, it's an amazing the end product. It's one of the things I'm most proud of in my entire career because I think this is a movie that needed to be made. It's contemporary, it touches people's hearts, it's everything that I think Hollywood doesn't do. It's it's about real issues, real life crisis and conflict that people have. And it also offers a good message for people that I think is often ignored out of Hollywood. So you know, I was only too honored to join with you to do it. And um, from your end, you guys did a fabulous job. Well, thank you. It is interesting. I hoping came together because you know, my wife, Sam came up the idea. She started writing the script. She brought in Dan Gordon, who was a dear friend. And people may know Dan or may not know. Albody's one of the top writers in Hollywood. He wrote The Hurricane with Denzel Washington, The World Wider for Kevin Costner. But anyway, Sam and got together benish the script. I read the script. Three days later, you called me and said, Hey, I'm ready to do this. I'm gonna do something. You guys have anything, and my wife says, that's my script. We flew up to New York. Dan Gordon did the pitching, and in that twenty minutes that Dan talk, you didn't interrupt him once. I thought we should haven't done the documentary on that, because I thought that was pretty amazing. You were spell bound by the script and the story that he had to tell. Listen, I've I've and that there's some of the movie business. I don't like the business part of it, but what you guys have created the artistic part of it. You know, I have now shown this to over two hundred people. I've done my own focus groups, and you actually have up on your website. You know, some testimonials of some airings that we've had focused groups with people, and it's unbelievable of people that see this movie cry. And you start out as a very conflicted individual that hates God, abording God, and then we find out the reason why, and and you're living a life that really you shouldn't be living, and you left your family, and you're drinking too much and you're doing drugs, and and we find out the reason you wrote abording God, um and you had lost a son at nine years old, and the transformation is amazing. Part of that transformation comes when you meet with Michael Francis, who has one of the most incredible life stories of anybody because he is a real life pastor. Michael, Welcome to the program. And you grew up the son of a notorious under boss in the Colombo crime family, and your own father at one point in your life signed off on a hit on you, and you found yourself in isolation in prison and your life changed. Yea, Sean, it's good to be back on again. And I just want to mention really something really quick. Dion Walwick. She doesn't remember, I'm sure, but she played at my prom. My dad actually brought in Copacabannett at night and we all had a great time. Yeah, it was way Lance had a good time that it was great, it was terrific. Well, yes, you and I was. I was very attracted to the script. I'm really into apologetics. I love Kevin and I'll be honestly, I never acted before. They had to twist my aunt to do it because I've been myself and documentaries, but I said, listen, I'll do it as long as I don't ruin the film. You know, I was playing myself, So it was was pretty easy and a great cast and great crew, and I think it's a wonderful story. I think people are really going to be touched by it, very entertaining, very well. But you're also a pastor in real life. Now, how long have you been a pastor? Well, no, I'm not a pastor, Sean. I go out, you know, throughout the world and share my cestimony. So I mean, I'm not ordained or anything like that, which I think, you know, it could be a benefit because you know, I tell people I'm just you. You know, we all have a story to tell. Mine might be a little bit more dramatic, but at the end of the day. You know, it's a story about Christ, mercy and grace in my life. And there's no doubt in my mind that He saved my life. He put a woman in my life that led me to Christ, and over the past twenty years had so many challenges and struggles when He got me through all of it, and uh, you know, I'm just happy to tell the story whenever I can, you know, Kevin, one of the other reasons I wanted to be a part of the project besides the great story. And once we agreed to do the film, once I took on my executive producer role, I'm a big believer you let people do their job. And you know, you told me where you're gonna be filming, You told me what the schedule you're gonna be on. We went over the script, we did everything that was supposed to do, and then when I started getting the first pictures and first cuts, I began to say, this is something magical happening here. And I don't know if you've had the same experience, but everybody I've shown the film to, they all cry and it touches people deeply. That doesn't happen enough. When I go to the movies. I like to be moved and touched and vote and inspired and and so on and so forth. There's a movie about Redemption's move about faith, this movie about hope, and you know, we've been doing quite two screens and getting testimonials. Were just in Washington, d C. Last week at the Value Voters Summit there and it was amazing the responses from people coming out. Sam was doing the testimonials on camera. I was talking to people answering questions and uh, just just you know, answer me anything that to say. But there was a group of teenagers that walked out and they're about fifteen, sixteen years old, and one of the boys in that group, I wrote him say that is the best movie I've ever seen. And to get that from a teenage kid. What all they want to do is go see visual effect movies that you don't care about character development, you don't care about what happened at the people. You see thousands of people die in these smash him up movies. This is a movie that is real life and it's going to touch people. It's gonna there's something for everybody in this movie. They'll be able to relate, they'll be able to take something from it. And I don't want to preach the choir with this movie, you know, I want I want atheists to go, on agnostics to go. I want people to get up there and look at this movie with an open mind and open heart and come away with what they come away with, because I know it's going to touch them. I just gotta tell you, it's uh. It's been an honor to do this project with you. It opens one week from today. We have a special airing of it at Trinity Life Center. Then I'm going to be out on the road this week and I'm gonna be in Dallas for two church services with Dr Robert Jeffers at his church and I'm excited about that. Then we're gonna go see my buddy, Errol Scott, who is in Cleveland. But anyway, let there be light movie dot com and also Hannity dot com the theaters. Dion Warwick, I've always loved your work. God bless you. Thank you and your send an amazing job. Michael. It's great to talk to you again. And Kevin will have you on TV next week. We look forward to that too. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All Right, guys, let there Be Light debuts one week from today, special airing tonight at the Trinity Life Center. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back from Vegas. It's the Sean Hannity Show. All right. We're wrapping things up from Vegas. Now. For those of you in the Dallas area, looking forward to seeing you at Robert Jeffers Church that's coming up this weekend. There two services, one at nine o'clock, one at ten thirty, and then we're gonna go to past the Darryl Scotts Church which is in Cleveland at six o'clock on Sunday night. And one week from today we launched Let There Be Light, so hopefully you can find a theater near you. On Hannity dot Com tonight you will see the incredible tribute to first responders and victims in Vegas, the Vegas Strong Event on Hannity A special edition nine Eastern. Well, I think the uranium sale to Russia and the way it was done so underhanded, with tremendous amounts of money being passed, I actually think that's Watergate modern age. How could you not know that the Clinton team was paying for it? And in someone in the Clinton campaign no, this Markel I certainly did right. I'm sure that there is a small group of folks that were aware of the nature of the decision to hire Fusion back in the spring of but it was kept for reasons that I can understand to a very select group, given the sensitive nature of who they hired, a former m I six agent, Christopher Steele. Uh. This was the Democrats coming up with an excuse for losing an election. It's an election that's very hard for a Democrat to lose because the electoral College is said in such a way that it is very hard to lose that election for a Democrat. They lost it. They lost it very badly, at very easily. I mean you look at the votes. It was three or six to what to twenty three or something. They lost it by a lot. They didn't know what to say, so they made up the whole Russia hoax. Now it's turning out that the hoax has turned around, and you look at what's happened with Russia, and you look at the uranium deal, and you look at the fake Dosier So that's all turned around, all right. So that was the President speaking out about what we've been telling people now forever We had big breaking news last night on Hannity on the Fox News channel, and the the FBI informant that had infiltrated for some four years now has had his NBA lifted, meaning his nondisclosure agreement. Remember back in two thousand and nine that the FBI was able to have documents and emails and tapes. And of course, uh, uh the all his own experience having been an informant for four years, and this whole issue of Vladimir Putin trying to corner the market or uranium in America and now he's finally going to be able to talk. I assume first two congressional committees. There are two in the House, one in the Senate. Uh. The council for this FBI informant is Victoria Tunsing, friend of this program, and of course this man is at the center of this whole uranium one investigation. Uh, thank you Victoria for being with us. Jay Sekulo from the American Center for Law and Justice also Chief Council that the President is with us. And by the way, congrats Jay Sekulo, because I see that the I R s uh in the case that you took on. Uh. In other words, the i R S is admitted now that the targeting of Tea Party groups did in fact happen. That's your case, send. They signed a consent order, and Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, today said there was no excuse for the conducts. Hundreds of organizations were affected by their actions, and that today's settlement makes clear that the abuse of power or not be tolerated. That's not from me, that is from the Department of Justice that was representing the I R S. Each settlement. To those Tea Party and conservative groups that were targeted, were thrilled with the outcome of that. Well, I had three separate audits in just the last year. I wonder if this is related to it, because I'm a conservative and I always pay my taxes and it's beyond aggravating and expensive when they do this to you. But I think that was done in reaction to the Tea Party movement that was becoming effective. And once they get bogged down with lawsuits, they can't spend money or time on anything else. Well, and this one went on for three years, but as I said, great conclusion to the case, and very glad that it's been rectified for our clients. Who all now have their taxes and status, by the way, and a declaratory action that the government will not only not do that again, but what they did was inappropriate. So good start for that. One's done. The people, the people get the people get held accountable for that. Lois Learner for example, Well, it's the case was not against Lois Learner. Our case was against I mean, Lois Learning was a defendant in an official capacity. Shee course then was fired, fired or quit or whatever they want to call it. She was gone. So this goes to more of the policy and practices of the Internal Revenue Service itself, so they can no longer do what outrageous. Yeah, it was outrageous, and the good news is that's not happening again. We had a court order to justify it. Something. All right, let me let me go to Victoria. You're representing this FBI informant, and I know there's only so much you're able to share with us because of attorney client privilege. But the lifting of this nondisclosure agreement is massive because apparently he had what infiltrated for four years right as it relates to this whole network of people, including spies within the US that we're working for Vladimir Putin and Russia to get ahold of the American uranium market. He was talking to a lot of the Russians here in the United States that were involved in this uranium project to get the uranium one deal authorized by Sissius, and so he heard all the conversations that went on and what they were talking about, and now they were trying to influence the US government. Um, he's no longer bound, of course by the n D A thank you, Fdi. But now comes some hard part because we're gonna have to prepare him for talking to uh. It was the Senate Judiciary Committee. First, do we know when that's going to happen? Sean's happened after I get back from California weeks Okay, so you gotta you gotta plan vacation. Sounds like with Joe di Genova, your partner and your your best friend. But um, okay, so and saying at Jackie Autry's house, Grey Twidter, but he needs these two weeks to really get things organized because until this occurred, he didn't know if he was going to be doing something, you know, with the government. So it's actually well, he made the right decision choosing you as his lawyer. I've known you for many years, and I've known Joe for many years, and and not only are you married, but you have this law firm together. But you're two of the best lawyers in d C. J. Sekul Obi and another one in an independent firm. Um. So we do know this. We do know that the evidence from what I hear is overwhelming, that the evidence is incontrovertible. That the FBI, and that would mean the Justice Department knew all about Putin's intentions going back to two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten. It never made sense that anybody would ever give of America's uranium to a hostile actor or hostile state like Russia and Putin. But they did it anyway, and over sean. Not just that even if it were a pure, wonderful country, why would you give up it to a to a foreign country. But the the FBI and the Justice Department knew that these people were giving kickbacks and that this company was corrupt, and this was a company that was purchasing And as I said last not on your show, my client was told by the FBI that the President was being brief President Obama was being griefed on this conduct, and that's that he was learning this information prior to the octocision. So we they knew about bribery, they know about kick backs, they know about extortion, they know about racketeering and all of these crimes in two thousand and nine, and they knew that the predicate of all of this was sabotage espionage of Vladimir Putin. So then it raises a lot of different questions here, and Jay, maybe I'll bring you in on this from the extent that one has to ask, if they knew this, why didn't they stop any activity in all activity of a foreign entity infiltrating our country and trying to get the foundational material of nuclear weapons. Well, I think it raises the question that everybody wants to know, and that is how much information did President Obama have about this? When did he know it? When did they tell him about the kickbacks, bribery, extortions issues, And how the world did they allow this to proceed when they actually also got a plea on one of one of the individuals did plea guilty to money laundry charges too, did for racketeering, So the idea is how in the world, as you said, Sean, is to me, the fundamental question is we allowed percent of our uranium reserves go to a company controlled by the Russians, who, by the way, that company in and of itself was under a current investigation, and that went to Scyphius and was approved. That does not add up. It just makes no sense that they were not multiple flegs in the way here that somebody would have said, this is not an appropriate transaction to proceed. And how is the FPIOCH conducting an investigation? And Eric Holder, who also served on this committee, did not raise it. But there's but there's and with the amazing thing, and I guess it's an issue of coincidence maybe, but everybody that has now been involved in this issue of Trump Russia collusion, of which there is no evidence. As a matter of fact, I would not be surprised if at some point in the very near future the president is completely and totally exonerated of any of these phony allegations that have been reported in false reporting, in fake news for the last year. But we we've got to go back to a fundamental question here, and that is Victoria. You have Robert Muller, he was the head of the FBI. I would assume he knew. I got to assume that Eric Holder knew. I've got to assume that rod Rosenstein was overseeing this entire investigation with your client. And I've got to assume. And we've been told that it made it into the presidential Daily Briefing of Barack Obama back in two thousand and nine. But yes, his administration still continue to push forward to give permission for Vladimir Putin to control of our uranium. But let's not leave out this factor, Sean, and that is that today we're so used to talking about it. We haven't neglected to talk about HRC Hillary Rodham clinton involvement and that she sat on Cyphius and that Bill Clinton got five dollars for a speech in Russia paid for by bankers. By the way, but Victoria, I don't mean interruption. The bankers. This was Renaissance Bank. They had a financial interest in uranium one. I was just getting there. I was sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm a talk show host. Yes, no, And they were all former in Russian intelligence people, and they were they were promoting the sale of stock of this of Uranian one and they pay him five grand. He meets with Putin while he's there, and then of course the Clinton found Dation gets tens of millions of dollars from the people involved in the sale to the hit people with uranium one. UM. That is an important factor. And he supported the uranium one deal while there, and he first tried to use his own wife's state department to get permission to meet with people that represented there their nuclear energy industry, and then he didn't get permission, so he just went straight to Vladimir and then we've got all the money that was kicked back to the foundation. Jay. Yeah, so this is in Victoria is done a great job of getting this u NDA lifted. Uh And it includes, as you mentioned, includes the Clinton Foundation, rostom ten Action, Ranium one, and individuals. And it's not limited that as but but limited to anything related to those people. So we could go further. But here's the question that I I am pondering in Victoria may have the answer to this. It's great that the House and the Senate are going to do the investigations of all this. The question is what is the Department of Justice doing with this information and what is the FBI doing And maybe we don't know yet, and maybe there's investigations going on. But House and sent in investigation proms. I think it's great you get you'll get answers to questions. But I wonder what what is the ultimate asked this? Where does this end? Where does it end? All right, I'll tell you what. Stay right there, let's go where does this end? As well? We'll pick it up when we get back. More with Victoria Tunsing. She is the council for the FBI. Informant that now, as of late last night, just as we were going on the air nine Eastern on Fox, they lifted the non disclosure agreement, which means he can now tell everybody, starting with Congress, about his story, present his evidence that he has involving this deal J secular. Big win for him on this I R S case today, big news for the A c l J where the I R S admitted they were targeting tea party groups. Uh. And also he's the President's council. We'll get to all of this and a lot more, one Seawan told Free Telephone Numbers. We continue our investigation, quick break right back. We'll continue all right, As we continue Victoria Tunsing is the council for the FBI informant at the center of this Uranium one investigation. J Seculo one a big case today as it relates to the I R S admitting they targeted team party, individuals and groups. Uh. And also the lead count what are the lead counsels for the president? All right, so let's let's pick it up where we left off. Jay, you were asking Victoria question. Yeah, and that is so we now know that the House Committee on Oversight Government Reform and House Permanent Let Committee on Intelligence are going to be investigating the Senate Committee on Judiciary and said Victoria did a phenomenal job of getting this NDA lifted. The question is what is the FBI Department of Justice do once they get information, let's say, from the House and Senate or is there already independent investigations? Because everyone's asking me, I'm sure they're asking you, Sean, I'm probably asking Victoria as well. Where does this go? We're special council because because it would look awful for Jeff Sessions to be over an investigation when he was there with Trump staying locker out, Rod Rosenstein is precluded from doing it. He's conflicted out because he was a U S attorney over the case. Rod Rosenstein was U S attorney in Maryland, which was the office that that was overlooked. Then Robert Mueller was the head of the FBI. So neither one, none, all those people can be involved in this case. And my wrong, Victoria, you know, you're absolutely right. I mean just the appearance of a conflict today in back of a conflict because but their conduct is it has to be examined in the course of any investigation of this matter. And it's completely independent from uh, you know, you got the whole GPS fusion thing yesterday with the d n C and Hillary Clinton's campaign, Uh, continuing the funding of all that, that's an issue that's going to be evaluated. This uranium one transaction is not within the purview of the special council, this special counsel Robert Mueller, So this would goes to a special council. It would have to be a separate one set up just for this. And this would be again if you look at the nature and scope of it, it's it's it's you know, it's a significant issue. But again the House and Senate started the question is and and then as Victoria saying, the Special Council, maybe the way they go on this Victoria last word, I don't know what's in the purview of this investigation that Bob Muller's doing. It's so wide ranging. I can't even figure out what the crime is. So, but you're absolutely right that it should not be going to my client. I'll be very clear there. Alright, guys who've been amazing, I'll be honest. I don't but for Peter Schwitzer two years ago, but for the work of people like Sarah Carter and John Solomon and and pushing it on this show knowing that there was a lot of unanswered questions here, I don't know if we'd be where we are today. And Victoria, you representing the FBI informant is the best possible news for him because he's gonna have great representation. And Jay, this matters on every level because of all the garbage that has been falsely um leveled against the president. So it's uh, pretty yeahc NBC picked it up. Yet No, No, the same people that we're talking about how horrible Russia is, horrible, Vladimir Putin is now they don't show any interest because it doesn't fit their agenda, which is the extension of the Democratic Party. Anyway, Thank you all, We appreciate it. Uh, we'll have a lot more on this coming up. Uh. You're gonna hear about Fusion GPS in the next segment. That's straight ahead. 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We already know that the part about the coverage that they have on him what sex actions, is supposed to be true. My focus today is explore how many claims within Steele's dossier are looking more and more likely as though they are accurate. But dossier definitely seems right on these points. A quid pro quel relationship seems to exist between the Trump campaign and Putin's Russia. There's a lot in the dossier that has yet to be proven, but increasingly, as we'll hear throughout the day, allegations are checking out the famous dossier, which is getting a lot more credibility now than it did well. I think that's important, right that the dossier, right, which looked sort of out there at first, is getting truer and true and truers facts come out. The Clinton campaign apparently conducted opposition research, as every campaign does on their opponent. They got back apparently this very salacious and out infamous dossier, which they never used. In fact, didn't even reach the press until after the election was over. They never used it. What I have learned I've heard about the dossier, it's about his involvement with women, it's about possibly prostitutes. We were able crobbery in r Intel's community assessment, which from other sources in which we had very high compasses. So when the President just referred to to speake dossier that is false, I don't think that's that's an accurate characterization for the entirety of the dossier. Jared Christier, anybody else who met with the Russian in the last year, he knows it all. It's all if he had a little excitement in some hotel room in Moscow. I Spenny years ago that he's got those pictures. He's looked at them a million times, that said, well, we do want to hear from to for steal. So far, a lot of what he has alleged and the dossier has been proven. We reported a number of weeks ago that the intelligence community had in fact confirmed some of the elephant elements in the dossier, including the particular meetings and conversations detailed thew dossier took place in the places and at the times as described there So it directly contradicts the president who has repeated from the beginning that the dossier, like many parts of the Russia investigation, is a hoax. All right, twenty three now till the top of the hour. So there you have all these democrats, all of them going on and the media pushing the Steel dossier, Rachel Maddow, Maxim Waters and Andre Carson, Chris Matthews, Paul Bagala, Donnie Deutsch, you know, James Clapper, and it goes on from there NonStop. They just go with it. They wanted to believe every salacious detail that was paid for, that was made up by the Russias. Oh, I guess they're colluding to help get Hillary Clinton elected and impact the election. And Hillary funded the whole entire thing. Thor Halverson is with us, and he's the CEO of the New York based Human Rights Foundation, and he's here to shed some light on Fusion GPS, with whom he had a previous interaction with and and dealings with that we're pretty much unspeakable, he says. They are smear artists, he said, and what they've learned is if you want to kill an investigation, if you want to destroy a law enforcement investigation, go after the witnesses go after the whistleblowers. Wow, shocking. Now, we also testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in July of this year against Fusion GPS, which, of course they're not going to testify before anybody, and they're fighting a congressional subpoena. Thor, Sir, welcome to the program. Thanks for being Willis. Thank you for having me on your program. Sean, all right, let's talk about what you know about Fusion GPS, Alice, How you got involved, what you know and what people need to know? Sure? Well, how I get into this was was accidentally. I I was made aware of a massive country government contract fraud that was taking place in the dictatorship of Venezuela. In other words, um, someone gave me information about a theft, a theft of three billion dollars that took place in the Chavez government in Venezuela. So I took the information. I thought it was outrageous. These a bunch of guys in their twenties were awarded power plants contracts to build these power plants in Venezuela, and they built faulty power plants and walked off with the money. So I figured I would write about this circumstance in the United States and alert the authorities, and as much as the stolen Venezuelan money UM was being laundered through American banks. Well, to make a long story short, the targets of my investigation, the people that I was blowing the whistle on, ended up hiring Fusion GPS. They hired Fusion GPS to go after those of us who had been talking about this investigation, talking about this company, pointing out their crimes and what Fusion GPS did for them. UM in the case of four different people, they couldn't come up with anything tangible about us that was negative, so they just simply made it up and they created these dossiers pretty similar each, each of these dossiers making the same allegations over and over again, salacious allegations of outrageous conduct that range from extortion and rape to drug abuse and pedophilia. And then they shot these dossiers around to the media. So, whereas we are trying to expose the crime, they figured, here's what we'll do to eliminate the whistle blowers. Here's what we'll do to go after them. Let's create dossiers and accuse them of all sorts of horrible things. I read and I read Katherine Herrige's piece and Pam Brown's piece and on Fox News dot com. And you know what's what's amazing about this is you know that you're saying that they have a track record of intimidation and smear tactics. But it's beyond that because in your congressional testimony and your first hand account here, you're saying that they labeled you a pedophile and extortion as the drug trafficker because you criticize one of their clients. Now, how do you how do you know that they did all of this? Okay, Well, it starts off with the fact that the their clients were being investigated by the Wall Street Journal. As you know, the Wall Street Journal is a serious outfit. They were they were doing an investigation, they were writing a story. The story was four thousand words long. How do I know the story was that long? As the reporter and I were in touch constantly, we were sharing information. I was telling him about what was going on. Before you know it, the reporter was asked to visit Venezuela and meet with the men who he was writing about. When he gets to Venezuela into the conference room of these guys who stole billions of dollars. There's one of the partners of Fusion GPS sitting in the conference room. He also happens to be formerly the bureau chief for Latin America for The Wall Street Journal. In other words, the reporter walks into the room and there's his former boss, who is now a partner at Fusion GPS, saying to him, all of these allegations are lies. These are good men. They're just excellent businessmen. You know, they earned these billions and billions of dollars and you're being played. Here's a dossier about the men who are feeding you information. Don't ask me how I know that they're the that they are the ones feeding you information, But I do know that here's the dossier. That's the first time I heard the word Fusion GPS when the Wall Street Journal says to me, I can't believe my former boss is working for them. By the way, they gave me a file on you. That's the first time I learned. And of course after that I started learning more and more about them. Did you get the file that they had made on you? No, The reporter read it to me. I know what it contains, but he did not give me a copy. I think the Wall Street Journal has internal because I think it's based on what you're saying, that you'd have a lawsuit here if people you just can't make up out a whole cloth that somebody's a pedophile and extortionists and a drug trafficker. I mean, you're you're, you're, you're in the right neighborhood. I I can't really tell you what my what what I'm doing next, but let's just say that subsequent to this, the Wall Street Journal did nothing with this. In fact, the reporter and the journal said with this, this is full of this stuff is hot air. We're not gonna pay any attention to it. We're gonna keep doing our story. But then they kept shopping it around and Sean they found an out of work journalist in Washington, d C. Someone who's been dismissed from job after job, by the name of Ken Silverstein. They paid Ken Silverstein, and Ken Silverstein published it on a left wing website, one of these fringe websites. He published an article with these allegations in it, and then they paid Fusion GPS paid one of these sto companies, the ones that focus on um where things rank on a Google search, and they pushed the story way way up so that when you Google my name, it's the first or second thing that pops up. That's what Fusion GPS did. By the way, a lot of people don't know you can do. There's a whole there's a whole group of people you can pay to either very stories on Google and Yahoo or put them up on top. And there's I guess the particular methods that they use. The way you're saying that is true. Um, so what happened since this all happened to you? I mean, what is your human rights group about? By the way, what do you I mean? Do you work on issues involving We focused on dictatorships. We focus on the struggle against dictatorships, whether it's Cuba, North Korea, Russia, China, Venezuela and Gola. Our goal is to do is to enter that vacuum where the establishment organizations aren't really focused on a lot of them spend most of their time focusing on democracies like the US stay right there, well well more with thor Halverson knows with us and he is uh saying he's a victim of fusion. GPS will get more of his story on the other side of all of this as we continue here on the Sean Hannity Show quick Break, right back, we'll continue. I welcome back. As we continue, Thor Halverson knows with us and hey or how are you all right? So I want to get back to this. Everybody in the media is going with the same talking point. Well, a Republican, a GOP operative paid to begin the dossier on Trump. And the fact of the matter is that person got out long before Steele, who made up all of these allegations by paying Russians about Donald Trump and the more salacious details. So what they're saying isn't true. This was We now know that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats paid for the smear. Her campaign paid for the whole smear. So you're saying that this whole group is that why they're unwilling to talk to Congress and and I know that there's now they're trying to get into their bank accounts to find exactly where the money came from that led to the dossier that was used by the media and used by Democrats to try and impact this election. Even though all of the information and the propaganda and the misinformation came from Russia. Well, ask yourself, Sean, why are they Why did they admit to paying for the dossier? They admitted to paying for the dossier because of the subpoena. They want to get ahead of the subpoena and say, judge, don't go forward and open the bank accounts of Fusion GPS because we don't need to know that anymore, because now they're fest up and the d n C has claimed and the Hillary Clinton campaign that they paid for the dossier. The reason why is very simple, Sean. Those bank that bank information contains the information about payoffs two dozens of journalists inside and outside of the belt lay by Fusion GPS. I am convinced that Fusion GPS is engaged in regular payola with journalists in order to ensure that some stories get coverage and some don't. In addition, what that banking information contains is information about the criminal entities, most of them from abroad that higher Fusion GPS it kills stories to go after witnesses, to blow up concepts when the criminal entity is suffering or potentially going to get in trouble this is what happened in the Venezuela case. Derwick Associates paid Fusion to end with the credibility of the witnesses and to obstruct justice. Usan GPS doesn't make a lot of money from its American clients. It makes the bulk of its money from criminals abroad. This is like the most unbelievable story I think I've ever heard. It really is. Well, you know, but and listen, I'm just gonna say something. And this is on a personal level. I mean, you have no recourse. I'm a public figure. I'm on radio three hours a day, TV one hour a day, and when people lie about me, the standard is so high that I actually I have to prove that what they're saying was actual malice, and to get there it is such a high legal bar it's nearly impossible. So if you're a public figure, they can pretty much say anything, and they do say anything they want. And I just finally just compartmentalized in my mind that, Okay, this is my chosen profession. I didn't think that this was going to be a part of it, but people telling lies about me on a regular basis is just part and parcel of what I now a happening in my life. Well, and you know this better than anyone. Even though their lies, it's still hurts. It's still nasty when family members and whatnot, um look at this stuff and say being what they're saying, UM, and yet they get away with it. They get away with it. You know, it was it was really you know, despite the fact that Fusion GPS did this and hired this loser Ken Silverstein to write about it, the fact is that, um, it felt really good to know that there's a collection of us that are being the targets of Fusion GPS because finally, what these accusations can be explained. Finally, you know, whether it's William Browder, myself or in this case, President Trump can say, look there's a pattern here. It's the same company engaged in the same behavior again and again. These are former journalists who lost their way and decided we will do anything for money. They don't care about the truth. They care about making money, which is why they work for criminals. I'm assuming you're going to do a lawsuit, Well, look, a lawsuit is gonna cost millions of dollars and suing this person's daughter and I've got a break or come back and tell us more. And as you get more information on it, and we'll let people decide on their own. And I can tell you smear campaigns against Conservatives are just part of our everyday business. It's unbelievable. It's like a it's and by the way, they're well funded. All those people