Do Your Job! - 4.5

Published Apr 6, 2017, 1:35 AM

Sean revisited Congress' efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare.  "I am beyond words that they can't get this health care bill done," an angry Hannity shared with audiences today, "and now they're going to go away!"  "Do your job," continued Sean, "I'm beyond words... stay and get it done!"  Vice President Pence is seemingly taking charge, and Sean has the latest on the ObamaCare replacement plans. The Sean Hannity Show is live from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.

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It looks like we are on course for Thursday and the nuclear option as it relates to Neil Gorsch and the schedule for this thanks to our friend Jamie Duprie, is that around. I guess it just probably is about happening right about now. They file culture that Senator McConnell, the Senate Majority leader, will file culture on Gorsch and Wednesday is a day of debate, so that'll be tomorrow. Thursday morning will be I'm sorry that the day of debate will be today. I'm sorry all day long, nobody's really covering it though. Thursday morning will be the cloture vote. That's tomorrow morning. When they don't get the sixty votes, then they'll go to the nuclear option. Now, the final vote is on schedule for Friday, either in the afternoon or evening, thirty hours after the culture vote. Now my guess is now here's here's a real educated guess. Even though the Democrats want to sensationalize this as much as they possibly can and do something that has never been done before over two hundred years, they are politicizing a Supreme Court choice of a president, and only for pure political purposes are they doing this. So now I'm just predicting though that there their commitment to the filibuster will probably weaken as we get close to Friday afternoon because they want to go home and they're going on Easter recess. By the way, you might think, oh, Easter is this Sunday. No Easter is not this Sunday. The Sunday is Palm Sunday. The next Sunday is Easter Sunday. Very religious, Yeah, very okay. And you know when they get back in the house, they get back in the house on the twenty four, what is today's date, So they're going today's the fifth. They're gonna be back the who takes off like this in their life? It's unbelievable. So what's gonna happen is that's pretty much what's happening there now. We're also following the House GOP and their talk is ongoing on healthcare. My insight sources of informed me there's a big push going on right this hour as we now address that issue. And you know, I just there's a part of me I am so ready to unload. I really am. Linda's laughing because she knows exactly what I'm talking about, but I'm gonna hold my fire for now because I'm disgusted at the Republican Party's handling of this. It is beyond incompetent. It is beyond It is so far beyond anything that I understand in my day to day life. You know, going away on vacation from tomorrow to the April, that is not something I have ever done in my entire life, and they have twelve of these vacations a year. Now, there's a part of me that says, good, get him the hell out of there. They can't tax us to death. But at this point in time, the Trump agenda of fixing the economy, lowering taxes, getting repatriation money back in, building a wall, fixing healthcare, moving to energy independence, education, and fixing everything else, crime and everything else, building up our military is too important. So it actually would be nice if maybe they would for go their usual fifty weeks vacation every year and maybe do what we all do every day, meaning all of you in your lives. I mean all right, just everybody stopped for a second. Think of every person you know, and think of your own life, because this is what my life is like. I work eighteen hours a day because I'm a I'm an absolutely obsessed addict when it comes to work, and I want to do the best job I can. How many of you do the same thing. You get up in the morning, I look at I don't have time to make breakfast. I never eat breakfast, and when I do, I just like scrambled two egg whites together really fast and put them in the microwave for crying out loud. It's ridiculous. Now I actually fry it up. I'll do it that way. It's not that bad. Only takes a second, so I'll do too too quick. Egg whites boom. I'm on my way and then I don't eat again until I get home for dinner, which is late at night. I know it's the worst time to eat before I go to bed. Why are you laughing in there? I don't eat Campbell's chicken noodle soup anymore. You should be happy you don't have to order it for me. But you've gone from not eating to not eating from eating soup. It's just a step in the wrong direction. Okay, I was fat, and you have to admit I look better because I lost fifteen pounds. I starving. No, I'm not happy about it. Well, it was either that or give up, you know, a vodka every night, and I wasn't giving up my vodka free. Okay, vodka with lemons and limes is not fat free. Yes it is. Lemons and limes. Don't they have calories? I don't know. They don't. That's why you stuck on them, because it's the only sugar. You can get its natural sugar well almost salt addict. And I like to eat a steak every night and an answer for everything and cap well, I eat cabbage and cauliflower and broccoli. But anyway, I'm digressing. That's pretty much so many inappropriate things to say about that, But I'm gonna be cool. No say what's say it? I don't care. It must smell wonderful in your house. No, that's not a podcast. Broccoli called flower cabbage? All right? Well are you go? You know, I love the fact that you all feel free to just mock your boss every day. That I was gonna keep it to myself. You encouraged because you're sitting in there telling all of them and then it's funny and I'm not a part of the joke. I would actually liked to be a part of whatever is going on inside of there, although I do prefer the privacy of being alone in my studio while I'm trying to do sign Come on in. Not on the days you have cabbage, but they're run in. I have cabbage every day, alo every single day. I love cabbage, Cabbage mixed with broccoli, smart balance and cauliflower is delicious, just put a little bit of smart balance in there. It's bad. I think it's better than butter, but it's probably not all right. Back to but I digress. So the average person listening to this program doesn't get to go on vacation like Congress till the twenty four especially after they promised for seven or eight years to get the stupid bill repealed and replaced. I honestly, I don't understand people that sit on the sidelines every day with no sense of purpose or urgency to do a good job every day, and the fact that they can't get these factions together to get this bill passed. It's dry, even me insane. I don't understand why not at this point, because it's pretty simple to do. You know, if this is not the most complicated are And by the way, if I hear reconciliation, the Bird bill, the Bird rule cloture, my head's gonna explode because there's not one American that gives a flying rip about the process challenges that they face in the Senate. All they want is to know you kept your promise and did your job. Lower the premiums that have gone astronomically high, unaffordable for many people, get rid of these ridiculously high deductibles for people, and give us better care for less money by using free market competition, health care savings accounts, health cooperatives, and all the other solutions we've been laying out on this program. It's not that hard. These Republicans are just pathetic. They cannot get there act together. And you're gonna, I know what they're gonna say. Well, it's very hard, Sean, because we have the room fracturing for in the Republican Party or a very diverse party. And we have a moderate Congressman, and we have the Study Group Congressman, and we have the Touris Day Group Congressman, and then your beloved Freedom Caucus, Hanna Davis, they are part of this problem too. And then we have the let's go drinking on Saturday Night Caucus. And that all the different factions and coalitions aren't agree. I don't want to hear it. Neither does any American. Do your job. Do your job before you go on vacation. Do your job because you're supposed to be public servants. Do your job because the rest of the president's agenda hangs in the balance because of the savings he's supposed to get from healthcare that would apply to his economic bill and his economic plan, which is supposed to create jobs, which is again, you wanted the Congress, you got it. You wanted the Senate, you got it. You wanted the White House, you got it, although a lot of you really didn't ever support the president, which annoys me. Also, well, we now have more job growth by the way, private sector created two and sixty three thousand jobs in March, significant increases from what Obama was leaving us with. There's more confidence in the economy now than there has been since two thousand and seven. I mean, these are major major improvements that are happening here. And you guys are about to go on your two three week vacation. It's it's I can't take it. The White House is a story out today on Bloomberg because of the President doing what he can do on his own, has now saved ten billion dollars by the repeal of regulations during the Trump era. In other words, Trump repealed eleven Obama era rules. He's got two more pending, and the estimates have come out that it's gonna save ten billion dollars. And they were sending were sending a eleven Obama era regulations. Also, it was huge when the president were sending all these restrictions as it relates to natural gas and coal and energy production in the country and allowing the Dakota Pipeline and the Keystone pipelines to move forward. He's doing his job. He's trying to do keep his promises. Why can't these other guys keep theirs? Everybody, I know you're listening to this program. This is what you're probably your average day is like. All right, you get up in the morning, you're tired, you barely can open your eyes. You go shovel coffee down your throat. Thank God for these new carrot coffee machines, and we make a cup of coffee that actually tastes good in three seconds. I hate to admit it, I've been using Starbucks Bold Dark. I know it's it's my favorite coffee, and I hate the Starbucks guy. I know I shouldn't be using it, but you gotta get me a better brand, and I'll try it because don't give me that look, because I'm sorry. I'm being honest anyway, And then you go off to work, you fight traffic or you get in some crowded subway or you get in some crow out a bus that people stink and smell and detestable. And then you make your way into the office, or you make your way into a contracting site or whatever you happen to do for a living. You you put in your twelve hours a day. I don't know anybody that works it out. Do you know anybody that works eight hours a day. I don't know anybody that works eight hours a day. And then you then you fight your way home through the traffic. You fight your way home on the subway or busses or train or however you get to and from work. And then you you get home, you gotta help your kids with your with their homework. You gotta yell at them because they didn't behave at school that day. Then you gotta put a meal on the table. And so then you go in the kitchen. I'm you know, you're cooking dinner for everybody. And then you finally flying cabbage. Are you done? Cabbage with is great with cauli, flower and broccoli. And then you you you literally you do more work and then you go to bed. Maybe you put on whatever watch Hannity that night, I hope for my rating sake. And that's that's the average person. And then you probably work a little on the weekends, and then you probably maybe find a little time. If you're a guy, you go fishing, you play golf. If you're a lady, you go hang out and do whatever the ladies do. I'm gonna go shopping, hang out, coffee, t crumpets. I don't know what people do. I don't know. I have no idea. But even if I'm watching TV on the weekend, I'm watching television and reading. I never stopped reading. I read all the time. I am addicted. Even during this show. I can text, read and write at the same time. And these people are gonna go away and we're not gonna have a healthcare bill. It pisces me off. It just pisces me off because we deserve better. And for those of you in the liberal media, take note, Sean Hannity is criticizing a Republican party that can't get their blank together because it's pathetic. It is now becoming pathetic. Serve the country, your public servants, do your job. What's so hard about this? All? Right, So I have insomnia, but I've never slept better. And what's changed just a pillow. It's had such a positive impact on my life. And of course I'm talking about my pillow. I fall asleep faster, I stay asleep longer. And now you can to just go to my pillow dot Com or call eight hundred zero nine zero use the promo code Hannity, and Mike Lindell, the inventor of My Pillow, has the special four pack. Now you get off to my Pillow premiums and to go Anywhere pillows. My pillows made here in the USA has a sixty day unconditional money back guarrantee and a tenure warranty. Go to my pillow dot Com right now or call eight zero nine zero promo code Hannity to get Mike Lindell's special four pack offer. You get to my Pillow Premium pillows and to Go Anywhere pillows for forty percent off. And that means once those pillows arrive, you start getting the kind of peace full and RESTful and comfortable and deep, peeling and recuperative sleep that you've been craving and you certainly deserve. My Pillow dot Com promo code Hannity. You will love this pillow. Yeah, they're lazy and they're going on vacation soon. Everyone in there thinks they're funny because they all put their feet up on their desk and they're acting like their drinking beer and relaxing and not doing their job. I don't listen, play any game you want, but you don't do your job around here. You don't last. I'm just thirsty. I don't know what you're talking about. You know, what have I always said about firing people? I don't fire people. No, I always say, people fire themselves, you do. I don't fire people. People really end up always in my universe firing themselves. Those people that get fired, and there's very few, because I'm not stupid in the people that I hire. And I just want people that want to care about their job as much as I do. And I wish the Congress cared about their job as much as all of you and this audience care about yours. And the differences is they're not likely to get fired. And you know, because the Jerryman during these people will get reelected. And it's it's sad that there's no sense of urgency, real life urgency that let's say you're an emergency room doctor. What do you get to go away for Easter? No, you gotta work Easterday. You know, if you're work in the restaurant business, you're working Easter Sunday or Palm Sunday or Christmas Day or Thanksgiving Day. And all those waiters and waitresses and everybody in between, by the way, that didn't come through the way you wanted came through. Gibber Josh Gibberish. And I'm just like, I'm so frustrated that they can't get this health care bill done beyond beyond words, and you know, and then they're gonna go away. You know, stay and do the Stay and do your work till you get it done. Stay, stay and do your job. And if that means working this Saturday and this Palm Sunday like average people, like real people, like all of us in the real world that care about our jobs. I can't imagine not caring about work. I mean, I think back to every job I've had in my life. I mean, when I was washing dishes, they piled up unless I moved and they weren't going away until I cleaned them. That was my job. You know. When I was a cook, those you know sheets that line up on on in front of the boiler. They need to get fulfilled, and they get they line up fast. You gotta move. I used to run inside these kitchens I worked in. I'd be running back and forth like and I loved it, sweating and loving it. When I was a kid, I was making money. I loved it. Nice sat poly girl at the end of the night was perfect for a thirteen year old kid. That was heaven. Sometimes they give us two and that was really heaven. Two same poly girls. I know. When I was a bus boy, I remember I worked at this place in Flora Park to Mary Peddler, I would run being a busboy run. Remember when the bar got busy, I was running across the bar. Had to make every peanut colada, banana, strawberry dhachery by hand at the time, every margarita by hand and blend it. What a pain in the You know what, Thank God they've streamlined the making of peanut coladas and daciries and I can't down. How about a shot in a beer? Good grief. I was like, oh great, yeah, that's on the house. Take the shot in the Budweiser. Just for not making me work that hard. You used to have to make every single one by hand, and now you got a full restaurant, a full bar, five deep did did? Nobody wants to wait for their drink? Move can? I have a peanut colat, a banana dacherie, and I'll take a regular DACRII and I'll take a strawberry dacherie. I made the best strawberry dackris. Take real strawberries. You fill it up halfway in the blender. Then you put in a little bit of head be cream just so it goes from a dark red color to a little lightish pink color. It really makes a big difference. And then you put in a ton of sugar to sweeten it out. And then you put in your rum and your strawberry liqueur. Pile it on with ice and mix it and it comes out. You put an umbrella and then you're done. That's simple. Maybe that's missing from the healthcare meetings. Maybe they need some booze. Maybe I'll send over a case of Jamison. See if they can't get these guys move it. Maybe I'll lock them in the room with pizza, Jamison's, bud, Cora's light, whatever they want, and they can't leave the room until I'll keep sending in food until they can't take being around each other anymore, and they get the healthcare bill done. That's what I've been saying. Bring in all the different think tanks, because these guys are smart. How the Heritage Foundation is full of smart people. Club for Growth, smart people, bringing the Tea Party, patriot people. Bring in the cater Institute. Let them advise them on on the best bill that's gonna lower premiums and give people better care, more choices, and more options. Let's see what's so hard about this. They had eight years to prepare for this moment. Eight years, all right, I want to move on. The President said to The New York Times today that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice may have committed a crime by asking for the names of people who were mentioned in these intercepted communications, in other words, the unmasking. He says, I think it's gonna be the biggest story I grew with the President. This is this is watergate on steroids and human growth hormone at massively high doses and levels. Huge anyway, that's what he said. He declined requests for evidence. It's not the president's job. Media Research points out Brent Bozell points out, the liberal media there's nothing to see here. That's their approach to Susan Rice's politically mote evaded unmasking of Trump and his associates as both a candidate and as a president elect. Oh, that's nothing. Do you not understand where weaponizing and politicizing intelligence gathering in the country, we're absolutely wiping and stomping on the Constitution and our Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure, our First Amendment rights for freedom of expression. This is this is the beginning of a police state. If this takes hold, that's how dangerous this is. But we, you know, as we never get to the bottom of anything. And that's Congress's fault again. Why has Hillary Clinton gotten away with her email server and the mom and pop shop bathroom in a bathroom closet and all the lies that she told? How did she get away with giving of America's uranium by signing off as Secretary State at the exact same time and leading up to the time where she signed off on it, when all this money is being funneled through surrogates of these companies into the Clinton Foundation and her husband's getting double his speaking rate in Moscow, and that we've had eight months of no evidence conspiracy theory advancement by the mainstream media. You know, remember when Donald Trump put out that he had been wire tapped. He was right, Donald Trump told the truth. I'm gonna do this in my opening monologue on Hannity tonight. So what did they do? They ridiculed, they mocked, they bashed Donald Trump. Now that Donald Trump has been proven right, where's their apology and corrections? You know, Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election. It is a totally debunked, baseless claim that the mainstream media has now been focused on without a shred of evidence for eight months. Remember when Devin Newness announced that he'd seen incredible evidence that Trump and members of his transition team had been caught up in this incidental surveillance where the names were amassed. Well, they didn't practice minimization, they didn't practice protecting the names of Americans, which is standard operating procedure. Newness also revealed that intel was shared among high level Obama administration officials. So instead of the media seeing the weaponization for political purposes of intelligence and politicizing intelligence. No, the way that they want to go after Devin Newness, What did he do wrong except report the truth and these shocking revelations, So they react by besmirching him. And then the destroyed Trump propaganda media's out there smearing anybody and everybody who doesn't echo there biased agenda. What we do have some real reporters and investigative reporters like Sarah Carter and and some people at Fox and others, but not a lot of them. And then you've got new so called news networks and they won't even cover the story. Susan Rice contradicts herself from what she said two weeks ago. You know, you've got the Mr Obama gasm thrill up his leg. Chris Matthews and others take in the low road, accusing Republicans of being racist and sexist for pointing out Susan Rice as a liar. Oh my god, this is pathetic. These are insane times we're living in. Up is down, Down is up, White as black, black as white. And if a liberal tells you there's a donut in the sky, you'll say, oh, there's a donut in the sky, and you'll get these stupid cable hosts that will repeated and regurgitated. They're beyond dumb, and they're feeding conspiracy after conspiracy. So I guess an audience of of knitwitz because if you had any common sense, you'd be able to see through all of this. Earlier today, when I asked about the New York Times, asked by the New York Times, Trump said, what's true. It's such an important story for our country and for the world. It's one of the big stories of our time. Trump is right. So you gotta partisan press ignoring something that's much bigger than Watergate. They won't give it any attention, ignoring the weaponization of intelligence, the politicizing of intelligence. Are they ever gonna get to the bottom of who leaked the intel and committed a felony as it relates to Michael General Flynn. Well, the media ever apologized for ridiculing the President over his surveillance claims. Now that they've been proven he was right, they're ever gonna make a correction, They're ever gonna offer an apology. You know, all these networks, all of them, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, M s A, they're all and all their friends in the print media, the Washington Post, New York Times. They're all corrupt, they all lied, and they never own up to it. Then they claim to be fair, and then they don't like people like me. I'm bad for America. I did their job in vetting Obama. They didn't do it. I did their job, you know, pointing out that will Bomba was a rigid radical ideologue that was indoctrinated, and he never broke his indoctrination. I predicted his presidency would fail. It failed spectacularly. But they never told you the truth about that either. All throughout the election. I mean, you got one revelation after another about wicked from wiki leaks, about collusion between the press and and Hillary Clinton's campaign, and nobody seems to care or pay attention to it. What we did their job there too. Now you've got probably the biggest scandal in modern history of unfolding before your eyes, and they're ignoring that. Also that now proven wrong that Donald Trump was right about Okay, maybe he could have used the word surveillance instead of wire tapping. If we're gonna get into word parsing, semantics and superfluous arguments, okay, we can argue he should have used a different word. Oh God forbid, he used the wrong word. You didn't say navy corpseman twenty times like Obama did. Nobody in the media cared to pick up on that but us. It's so frustrating. You know, this country, and this is why I'm at Republicans. It's like we've got all this work to do, and it's like nobody wants to do their job. The swamp just wants to stay all stay on vacation all the time. Think about when you say, roll your window down, dial the phone, what do you What is that just it's an expression, like you don't actually roll your window down, you hit a button. You know, you don't wire tap phones anymore. It's surveillance, and there's no wire attached to your phone. But the concept is what you're They were surveilling the conversations exactly, okay, and that's technically it's wire tapping. It's surveillance. But why are tapping surveillance? It's all the same thing. It's just an expression. It's so ridiculous. It's just absurd. When is the media Why can't they just listen? I gotta admit, in my life I've made so many stupid mistakes, I really have. I've been a dope probably half my life. Isn't just an idiot, and I make mistakes. You know what the most under utilized world word in the English languages. I'm sorry those words. I'm sorry. I apologize. I was wrong. I was You know, why can't they do that? I mean, they're fixated on taking down the Fox News channel. Now it's beat up on Fox all over the place, just outright deceptive, lying in headlines. I mean, I personally, I don't care when it's about. I just don't care. I got better things to do with my time than give a flying rip about what these other people in the media is. Now, do you understand why I've never been to a correspondence dinner? You understand why I would never go. People said, well, you're gonna go this year, Trump's gonna be there. Well Trump's not gonna be there, nor is anybody in his cabinet. But I wouldn't go anyway because I don't like these people, because I know they're dishonest to you, and I know they don't like me either. So why are we gonna put on a pretense? Alright? Eight nine for one show on We're gonna dig deeper. We're doing a deep dive into all of this surveillance, all of this unmasking, all of this leaking of intelligence, because it happens to be the biggest story of our time and the biggest scandal you'll probably ever see in your life, weaponizing intelligence, politicizing raw intelligence. Sean, Alright, a lot happening today when we come back. Well, one of the few real investigative reporters that is looking into this surveillance and the weaponizing of of our intelligence and politicizing of our intelligence, and that's Sarah Carter, the senior national security correspondent for Circle dot com. I mean, she has really been heads and tails way ahead on this story, and she's in the process of breaking new news on this and hopefully we'll have it either now when she joins us or certainly by the time she gets on TV tonight. And in Eastern Also, remember Susan Rice lied about Benghazi. Five Sunday shows. One person that knows she lies Chris Tanto Paranto, he was one of the heroes of Benghazi. He'll stop by today. Scott Juhlinger, He's a former CIA op officer. He's gonna join us Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson. He used to hold the nuclear football for President Clinton. You know Susan Rice worked for with her for two years. Doesn't apparently have flattering things to say about her. But well, we're gonna get to the bottom of weaponizing intelligence and surveillance and unmasking and leaking intelligence. Will do the mainstream media's job. It appears like we always have to do straight ahead. Alright, hour to Sean Hannity Show told free telephone numbers eight hundred nine one, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, all right, we continue our investigation into Susan Rice her unmasking anything but routine, likely political? And where does this go from here? Now? Susan Rice actually said I didn't pick this up yesterday when she did the interview with NBC. She actually said she learned from the press that General Michael Flynn was unregistered as an agent for the Turkish government. And then she won't commit to testifying over her role in unmasking the Trump team. And then it raises all sorts of questions, how did evil and Farcus know all the things she knew? And what did Brennan know? And what did Clapper know, and what did Rhodes know? What did Valerie Jarrett know? What did the president know? And these are the questions now that remain un answered. Now the media stands by there, this is not a story thing and just want to focus on every other thing imaginable, including an eight month conspiracy without any evidence whatsoever. Anyway, this is now beginning to unfold, even more so today. I understand when we're gonna talk to Sarah Carter in just a second, that she is working on a story she may be able to break by as early as tonight. As it relates to Susan Rice. We'll ask her about that next. But listen to Susan Rice from yesterday. First. Was there a suspicion about Michael Flynn Andrew? I don't want to talk about any individuals. I've spent hours with Michael Flynn during the transition, as was my responsibility to try to provide him and other members of the Trump transition team with the best possible briefings I could as to what they needed to do to hit the ground running. Uh. We had very civil and cordial interactions. UH, and he conducted himself professionally, and I did the same so I don't want to get into concern about any particular individuals. Again, I think that would be crossing a line. Did you know at the time that he was an unregistered agent for the Turkish government? No? When did you learn that in the press as everybody else did You didn't know that when you were a national security did Grand Paul is suggesting that you'd be subpoena to testify. Would you be willing to go to capital? You know, Andrea, let's let's see what comes. I'm not going to, uh, you know, sit here and prejudge, but what I will say is that the investigations that are under way as to the Russian involvement in our electoral process are very important. They're very serious, and every American ought to have an interest in those investigations going wherever the evidence uh indicates, Uh, they should. And I have an interest in that as an American citizen, as a former U S official, I would want to be helpful in that process. Now keep in mind, two weeks prior, in an interview on PBS, she denied on knowledge of any of this whatsoever, And she's acting as though the unmasking processes is ordinary. Well, there are many officials now, going on records, say it's extraordinary and it's not routine at all, and especially the fact that she was looking to unmasked members of the Trump team, transition team, campaign team. So she's looking for at a very specific set of information that has to be chronicled. Now, for example, the idea that they are umasking in these intelligence reports people connected to Donald Trump and Donald Trump himself. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer told Fox News, from my direct experience dealing at this level, that is never done, and that the National Security Advisor is a manager position and not an analyst position. She should have had. She should not have time to be unmasking individuals having conversations. It's insane. It's never done. An x CIA analyst Fred Flights agreed quote Rice's denials don't add up. It's hard to fathom how the d masking was not politically motivated. Former Ambassador to the U N John Bolton, he also has weighed in on this, calling it improper. If she wanted the names unmasked for national security reasons, well that's a fraud on the intelligence system. And Shaper went on to say that a U S citizens interaction with a foreign target is not typically reason enough to unmask any American. These techniques technology procedures are reserved for potential violations of US laws, adding that her actions it's not only legally insufficient, it's politically insane. Back with us. Sarah Carter, who's been at the forefront of this entire investigation. She is the senior national security correspondent for Circuit dot com. I feel like she's my co host. Now, how are you. I'm doing great, Sean, and thank you so much. That's a compliment. Thank you. All right, Well, some people would see that as a curse, but we'll move on from there. All right. So you're I know you agree with what Lieutenant Colonel Schaefer said, I know you agree with what Bolton said and what x CI analysts Fred Flights agreed with. You're down digging a little deeper and you think you're close to something. Can you give us a little preview? Well, I can definitely say it has to do with unmasking, and it's going to reveal. It's going to reveal a lot more about that topic, and we're hoping to get that story out tonight. Um. One of the things that you that you did say yes. As far as agreeing with Schaefer, Yes, of course, Fred Flights and I've been talking to a number of people, multiple multiple people within the intelligence community, and I can tell you this is extraordinarily rare because one of the questions they need to be asking, and I only wish I could have interviewed Susan Rice myself, is was she in charge of some investigation that we don't know about? Because it would be a lot different if it's you know, Director James Comey or you know, uh McCabe or somebody else who's in charge at the d o j um signing off for at the request to unmasked names, but to have the National Security Advisor to the President, which is a managerial job, unmasked names because she needed clarity, um, And that was kind of her statement that she needed clarity on on what was happening in these conversations. I'm very curious as to what clarity she needed. But according to the sources that we've spoken with, it is incredible the number of people that have said that there was really no need to know when it came to the being the National Security Advisor, which is a managerial position. So what what I would want to know is what what investigation was she in charge of? Who was she reporting this too? Why did she need to know this information? And it went far are beyond Russia, This goes far beyond Russia, not only according to our sources who you know, who are very concerned about this, but according to the chairman who made that very public and said this was the main reason why he was concerned. Right. But you know, I think that the real scandal here is gonna be who knew what, when and where? And what the purpose for this? You know, for the life of me, I can't get beyond any thought or any rationale. Then this is being political and that national security intelligence gathering was being used to really spy on Trump and the transition team and then candidate Trump, and I just we don't know the depth of it. I mean, is there aren't there ways we can get this information? Yes, there are ways that this information can get out. First of all, I mean, obviously there is there is an investigation being conducted both on the House and Senate side into this um. The President can also so choose to if if he sees fit, to declassify this. I don't know if people do that I think he's going to leave this up to the committees and their investigation. I think he wants to step back from this and allow those processes to go through. But one of the issues that you brought up is the weaponization of intelligence and Sean, this is so detrimental to democracy and to a republic. Weaponizing intelligence to use it against your enemies. If that was what happened. If that is the case, and if that can be proven, is not only detrimental, it would have they would have to resamp and re look at these laws that were so loosened within the Obama administration's time from two thousand eleven until two thousand seventeen, and they're going to have to require maybe more regulations on who can view these who can ask for these unmasking because remember Susan Rice would have to go to the n s A. She would be looking at these transcripts American one, US person one, and she would have to tell them I need the is unmasked for these reasons. And remember those reasons were very relaxed during the Obama administration, so all she really needed to say was for national security purposes. But you could say so charged with investigations, we'll have a whole history of all the unmasking request she made all throughout her years. They're correct, Yes, absolutely, those are logged. Those are logged, and they are kept logged any time you go to view any of these highly classified intercepts and incidental collections is what they call it, and you have these incidental collections unmasked. They are logged. So any time you enter a secured, compartmentalized facility, which everybody in the intelligence community calls a skiff, you know, you can't bring your phones in, you gotta go in, you gotta swipe your badge. It's kept in a log. So, yes, they do have the number of times. And I'm certain that's what Chairman Nunius, as well as Representative Shifts also was able to see. They were able to see how many times she went in and for what purposes, And that is really that is really the crux of everything. Once you see that, then you can start to see who else view that. What did Ben Rhodes go in? Was he on that list as well? Was he designated? If she wasn't around to look at those lists, who who in authority gave her to see that direction? It's very interesting because as you revealed that the laws were were lessened as it relates to this information back in So for Susan Rice to go on NBC yesterday and say, yeah, I did unmasks, but I did in financial security reasons, she knows in her mind or at least believes that's legal. And then so and then she immediately knows the law and says, well, it's but I didn't release it. I didn't leak it because she's basically she knows she's going to get caught unmasking. She knows that that information is being has been chronicled. So all of this wasn't my mind, was a defensive plan her part. But let me get your reaction. When we get back, we gotta take a break more with Sarah Carter and others will join us at the bottom half. How it remains our top story, and that is the surveillance, the spying, the weaponization of our intelligence community. Right as we continue with Sarah Carter, senior National Security correspond to PASSERCA News, she has been at the forefront of the investigation into all of the surveillance against Donald Trumps campaign, his transition team, and President elect Trump. In the lead up to him taking office. One of the things that I found interesting the President did weigh in on this today in an interview with The New York Times, and he believes that he thinks it's very possible that Susan Rice committed a crime, and he said it's such an important story for our country in the world. And I would argue, yeah, if you're weaponizing the intelligence and you're politicizing the gathering of intelligence, the umasking of of American citizens and releasing intelligence, which is a felony, yeah, that would be a major story. But the rest of the media seems to not follow your lead. Sarah. Why is there the mysterious reluctance and silence from the mainstream media and the shock that the president sees what we see. I think it's shell shock. You know, they've been going down this rabbit hole right trying to find any kind of evidence to connect Trump to Russia, and I think that in in and of itself is like something they just can't let go of. You know, they're they're desperate to find that collusion. And you know, as we reported in the past, John and I both broke these stories that the FBI to date has found no evidence of collusion right between Trump and the Russian government with regards to the interference in the election. By the way, Adam Schiff, who has now gone un characteristically somewhat quiet in recent days since he saw what Devin Nunez saw even he confirmed that. Yeah, correct, So he's even confirmed that, and you know, and he is also asking for Susan Rice to test a by I think everybody kind of wants to see. I think there's going to be a switch because they have to the mainstream media or the media and itself, colleagues across the country are going to have to start taking a look at this because the League itself sean the League of like I keep going back to Lieutenant General Michael Flynn's name of that highly classified FISA intercept. That was a FISA intercept. That means that the FBI had asked for that FISA to review the Russian you know, conversations back and forth Russian issues. So they actually wanted that information for themselves for their investigation, and then they captured Michael Flynn's name on that. But that isn't that is part of the espionage ac That is a felony. The leaking of his name. Now, if Susan Rice in some way was connected to that or somehow knew about that or help maybe verify, then that could have been a crime. Yes, absolutely, But what but what about if if you're unmasking these people and then that information gets out after you on mask it, doesn't that make give somewhat of a co conspirator in some way? Well, it could definitely make you a suspect. But remember there were other people that were unmasking. So for example, if Michael Flynn's name was unmasked during an FBI investigation, which it appears, that would have been the Department of Justice giving the FBI the permission to unmask that name. So they took this conversation and said, look, we need to see who this person is. Um can we get permission from the Justice Department to unmask this person's name? And then the Justice Department would either okay it or not okay. It would have to go through the Fife Accords as well, so they would unmask the name. Now, on the other side, what we're seeing with Susan Rice is that she was using through these loosening of regulations and laws and the Fife Accord itself, which signed off on it. She was in a way, as some sources were saying, taking advantage of this system and saying, as the n s A, as the National Security Advisor, I need to get all of these documents. But what doesn't make sense is that she isn't involved in the investigation. She wasn't a part of any investigation. She had a managerial position, and the information that she was looking at apparently according to sources, according to Chairman Nunius, and according to others, had nothing to do with Russia. So this is this, I think is the biggest story political story I've ever witnessed unfolding in our lifetime, and to watch the media ignore it is just beyond the pale. Alright, Uh, Sarah, stay right there with us. We're going to continue with Sarah Carter, senior National Security correspondent. She's been the lead investigator on this whole story. Scott Uhlinger is going to join us, as well as Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson at the bottom of this half hour. Then remember Benghazi, Remember the Five Sunday Shows, Remember the Susan Rice lie Well, Chris panto Fernto is going to join us and We're gonna talk to him because he was there and he knew the truth, and they knew the truth when she went on those five Sunday shows, So why would you ever trust her? That's all coming up this edition of The Sean Hannity Show. Well, a full coverage of all of this in the latest breaking developments on Hannity at ten Eastern alright, twenty five now till the top of the hour, we continue our deep dive, are digging dive down into the surveillance, the unmasking, the intelligence leaking issue, and the spying and weaponization of the intelligence community. And we continue with Sarah Carter also joining US Scott u Lingers with US former CIA operations officer and Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, who carried the nuclear football for President Clinton, wrote the book Dereliction of Duty. Now, before we get to all of them, let me just remind you now at the top of the hour, Chris Tonto Pronto, he was one of the heroes of Benghazi, and he knew the truth and he knew Susan Rice was lying on those five Sunday shows. So that makes suspect anything that she has to say regarding intelligence Here or unmasking here. But here's her two weeks ago versus what she said yesterday, contradicting herself a which means she was either lying two weeks ago or yesterday, you choose. I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Unas on that count today. I mean, let's back up and recall where we have been. The President of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, wire tapping Trump Tower during the campaign. Nothing of the sort occurred. Did you seek the names of people involved in to unmask the names of people involved in the Trump transition, of the Trump campaign, people surrounding the pres the President elect, let me be in order to spy on them, and absolutely absolutely not for any political purposes to spy expose anything. I really don't know to what Chairman Nunaz was referring, but he said that whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens. And I think it's important for people to understand what incidental means. That means that the target was a either a foreign entity or somebody under criminal investigation. But the fact is that uh in the President did request back in December, the intelligence community compile all of the information that it had on what it transpired during the campaign with respect to the Russians involving themselves in the presidential campaign, and that report was provided to the American people and unclassified form into Congress UH in classified form in early January. Did the pace accelerate during the transition, perhaps in early December, perhaps when the President ordered an investigation into the hacking the Russian hacking? Did the pace of unmasking requests, if you're unmasking requests accelerate towards the end of the White House of tenure? And I can't say the pace of an unmasking request would accelerate, but if you're asking where they're more reports provided to senior US officials after the President requested the compilation of the intelligence which was ultimately um provided in January. Yes, what happened was, as the i C went about the business intelligence community religenceness of following up on the President order fulfilling the presidence request for such a report, they went back and scrubbed more reports. They began to provide more such reports to American officials including myself. This is not anything political has has been alleged. The allegation is that somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. That's absolutely false. All right, what you heard there is one huge, massive contradiction by Susan Rice just in a two week period of time. I don't know anything about this. No wire tapping occurred at all, and yet she's unmasking the surveillance that did occur, and the pace is quickening, So she's contradicting herself very clearly. Scott Linger, former CIA operations officer, do you hear a the contradiction and is unmasking something that would be normal practice of the national security advisor of an American citizen when there's no warrant to surveil them and they're picked up in an incidental tap of of some foreign entity that was legitimate. Right first, Sean Um, I do agree with what you're saying. There's definitely some dissembling going on there, without question, and also the fact that a national security advisor would be regularly unmasking people would be highly irregular. I can see perhaps the situation where to get some context, she might have requested for one report to have someone unmasked. But if she's doing this type of thing in mass it shows that there's a lot more going on here than you know. She merely wants to keep up to date on world events and what should take Buzz Patterson does this. I don't like the type of thing that would happen on a routine basis, especially for somebody that denied knowing anything about this. Yeah. So, and I actually work with Susan Rights for two years in the White House nine and I know her, and she is a dishonest person and she's a political hack. Now, she wouldn't have access to that unless she was requesting those that informations. Hang on one second, that's that's a breaking news alert here. If you're saying that she's a dishonest person and she doesn't tell the truth, breaking news now here's Shawn Hanny. I'm only kidding, all right, but go ahead. Yeah, yeah, I mean she uh, she wouldn't have that access to the information unless she was actually asking for Now, the NFC does compile reports from the FBI to c I, A, N, S, A, M, depending on and put all the information into the presidentially griefing. Because she wouldn't see that information unless she had requested it. So that's that's the first point. The second point is is that she UM would not normally be the unmasking authority. So if she's an asking for it to be a mask there's a reason why she's ut a masking. So I I personally believe wholeheartedly that she was doing it to support the clickon campaign. She used to work for the Clintons, she knows don't well, and to support the How could it be anything? How could it be Sarah, anything other than political? Of just if somebody gives me a plausible explanation, I'm willing to listen to it, but I don't. I can't. I can't give you a plausible explanation for it. Sean, and I think that's the reason why we're investigating this, because the only UH information that we're getting is that there was grave concern that this is not common for a national security advisor. Why would she be requesting UM for the unmasking in such multitudes? It wasn't just one report. I found it really interesting too, when you know when she referred to nunyas, she referred to the fact that and she mentioned it once again that it was legal and incidental collection. So she she borrows from him what she needs and throws everything else away, right, So she's trying to build cover. But there's some very serious ethical questions here, and we have to look at what happened and why is this so widespread? I mean that to me is let me ask Scott maybe you know as a former cia OP officer. I mean, please, we'll have records of Sarah's confirming here of everything that she looked at correct, correct, Yeah, I would think so exactly. Another thing to look at, though, is um this has been talked about just a little bit is the you know, she's very quick to emphasize the incidental collection. So by incidentally collecting on Americans, you can easily get approval to obviously listen to foreigners, and in fact you don't need any approval at all. But what can all but it was also possible is by doing a net analysis a phone tree of different phone conversations. It's possible if you were politically motivated to choose the foreigners in particular you want to quote listened to, because actually you really want to hear the Americans that they're speaking to. So in other words, you're violating the spirit of the law, but you're still on the knife sedge of legality there. You're gaming the system sort of, and I'm starting to suspect that is what also has happened. I think that that's what you're saying, correct Sarah, that they gained the system, that's why the rules and laws were changed. Correct. Yes, and and maybe the rules and laws weren't changed in that respect to game the system, but they saw that once they were changed, there could have been a great possibility. It just opened up that gateway of allowing people to gain the system. Because I know for a long time, the FBI, d e A, other agencies would feel that they were left out. They didn't they didn't have the access that the n s A had or the CIA had to these documents, you know, that would show maybe some kind of connection between a terrorists and somebody operating in the United States with that terror network. So they really pushed and pushed and pushed to have this kind of access. I just don't think people realize how loose these rules became and how many people were able to gain access. In other words, that the rules were in change. That's likely the unmasking would have been a crime, correct, absolutely. I mean I think that that type of unmasking without with without explanation, I mean, they have to have a reason to unmask someone. But apparently under these rules now the only reason you need is that it is of national security concern. Well, almost anything can be a national security concern if you don't have to explain yourself. Let me go to buzz. Now, let's go back to your knowledge of Susan Rice, and you know her for two years. Tell us about the person she is. Well, she's not very fond of the military, so we didn't have a very close relationship. But she is a political operative. In my time in the White House, Sean she was the person if you recall that the Sudanese government offered uh someone the lading to the United States government back in she was the one to talk Bill Clinton out of taking him into our custody. That's the kind of person. She is. Does things from Philly political standpoint um and and hangs her foreign policy advisor and expert moniker on everything that she does. But she's a can you can you go back? Can you just I want to put some emphasis on this, you know, say this again, so our audience, here's clearly what you're saying about the woman you know, and Susan Rice, who was the person she helped release, well, she she was involved in um the turning down of the lad and when he was offered to a spicy dan back by the way I wrote. I wrote about that in my first book let Freedom, ring extensively. He was offered on a silver platter. She was a lot, she was a lot of voice in the room, and we were having those discussions about whether or not to take him, and Clinton was actually inclined to take him, but she was the one that argued that we didn't have um, we didn't have the enough legal foundation to took him in the custody. And you know, of course what happened five years later, But um, she didn't. She approaches thing so purely, what's in it for me? What's in it for the administration? How can we best um? Uh counts this uh in in protect You see, if we had Sarah, if we had a legitimate news media, wouldn't that be huge news. Don't you think you should interview Buzz Patterson about her being in the room when so Dan Awford been ladding on a silver platter, and we turned it down, and she was the one fighting for his release. Absolutely. I mean, but Buzz, I'm I'm more than happy to interview you about this, and yet that story research, that story in the media. Yeah, these are stories that are not be listening. I mean, people are not listening to the real stories here, and it's it's so unfortunate. I couldn't believe how many anchors, reporters came out on CNN and even on other networks, um that we're standing there just ending Susan Rice, even before she even admitted that she had unmasked. I mean, they were saying, there's no way she didn't do any unmasking, and then she comes out and says, no, I did unmasking, that it was legal. And these are the reasons why I'd love to see I'd love to see that questioning by Trey Gaudy of her under oath, which I think would be hug All right, Sarah, I know you have to go. You stayed longer than we thought. We'll continue with Scott Linger and Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson. Sarah will see you on Hannity tonight. Final Hour News round Up Information overload hour on the Sean Hannity Show. Toll free our telephone numbers eight hundred nine for one Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program. Now, one of the issues involving Susan Rice, we just proved in the last hour she either lied two weeks ago or she lied yesterday. There's no in between here. I don't know a thing. Now she knows everything, and it accelerated, etcetera. And we know she unmasked, she admitted mits it, so she didn't tell the truth. But this is not the first time that Susan Rice's line, and that raises a lot of questions about the veracity of everybody involved in all these issues involving surveiling than Candidate Trump and President Elect Trump and his transition team, the unmasking of General Flynn, the amasking of other Americans that she was doing, and then on top of that, the leaking of intelligence that in one case, General Flynn's case destroyed his entire career. I remember with Benghazi, Remember there was five Sunday shows and there was this narrative that was being advanced that oh it was all related to a YouTube video and and this was a spontaneous demonstration. Now, it was an idiotic analysis from the get go, because how do people spontaneously have mortars in their back pockets? How do they have RPGs in their back pockets? It was a lie from the get go, and she was Obama's go to the lie and she was the one that knew this was not true, because we have since discovered that they knew within hours it was a terrorist attack. Here's Susan Rice lying on five Sunday shows. But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact, what it began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what it transpired some hours earlier in Cairo, where, of course, as you know, UH, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hate video. UM. But soon after that, spontaneous protests began outside of our consulate in Benghazi. We believe that it looks like extremist elements UH individuals joined in that UH in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are unfortunately readily now available UH in Libya post revolution, and that it's spun from there into something much much more violent. How could it be spontaneous? Use your common sense here, a spontaneous demonstration because of a YouTube video and events that happened in Cairo, and they just happened to have spontaneously with them mortars that they're firing into the freaking compound. It never made sense, and we since discovered that it was all one big lie. And just like RPGs I have, I'm gonna go demonstrated just in case I have spontaneously felt like firing the thing, I'll bring it with the protest, I'll bring it. I'll go prote us with an RPG in one pocket and a mortar in another pocket. That really makes a lot of sense. But that's the lie in the BS that she went out and spun. One person that knew the truth from the beginning was Chris Tonto Pronto. It was a good friend of the program. By the way, he's got a new book coming out, The Ranger Way. It's gonna be released in May. But anyway, in his work with Nine Line Foundation. All right, so you're one of the heroes have been Ghazi. You're one of the guys that had to stand down order. Yeah, you know, I hate you. I know you call me here. I hate this. Shut up, I do. I'm allowed to call you anything. Becauld you just come in here and curse me out in front of I didn't flip you off to day that you should give you the bird, and I didn't today. I know you didn't give me the bird, but you used the language. That's the same thing. It's I'm sorry, gosh. You don't need to tell your viewers. Are your viewers are we? Are we in radio right now? We're on There are no viewers, there's no of you. Do you see any cameras in front of you? Did you have a late night last night? I did? I did, and I didn't even do anything with Let's just stop there. You're gonna get me. No, I don't want to get you in trouble, all right. But the reality is so you're at the c I A annex, which is how many miles away my half half of my Okay, you know that the the the compound is under attack. Hevery time you can see it. You're told to stand down how many multiple times? Three times? I don't care if you hear stand down? Wait whatever? The same thing we were delayed, you were delayed. You say, screw you we're going anyway. Bottom line, that's what we did. And you and and all the heroes have been Ghazi went the team, went the team, and subsequently we lost, and you did. We lost John Smith, right, ambaschlor Stevens. Then my my teammates turn was Ty Woods. I mean I know his father well and all right, so then you hear the spontaneous and you and the guys are saying what to yourself? You know? I saw it in Germany. The not the following day because we fought into the following day, but the fourteenth. I I turned the TV on. I was in Germany at the Air Force base there, and I saw this, the est lying sack of trash saying what she did. And I'll be honest, I looked at her and I just I looked at the TV, and I in my head, this is a long administration, par for the course. I was angry for a second, but then it was just you know what, this is what they do. You knew it was all a big manufactured lie. Definitely you did. Nobody talked to us either. That was that was not surprising to me, but it pissed me off. And a month later Obama was still spewing that lie, I got to win the election, and terrorism is on the run and I can't show that it's not. And this was in the lead up to the election, sir. So here we got Susan Rice now caught up in another scandal, and now she's for two weeks ago she said I don't know anything about this, and now she's admitting yesterday that she did unmask the names of Americans. Unbelievable. How she feels so untouchable. You know, Mr Sessions, he needs to take take this into account and he needs to set an example, so says the President Trump, leader and leader out in handcuffs. Put her in handcuffs on national TV. Set the example. So these bureaucrats quit telling lie, we lost four Americans in Benghazi September. Sir, you went there and you just you put your whole career on the line. When you don't US and orders and you're in the military, you're done. You're done. Yeah. And then at the end of that you would have been done. And we and we were, and we were anyway after after we decided to tell the truth, we all were. Subsequently, we all lost our clearances, which as a contractor basically means you're done, You're fine. I haven't worked since I have not and there has been are things coming up, but my life has significant, significantly changed. And this is how your country reward you for going and literally saving the lives of how many people in that company was over thirty close to thirty six. You got them out, You got them out safely. That we always seem to forget that, especially those that watched the liberal media. They don't remember the lives of how accurate was thirteen? You're accurate. We had took We took whole processed place in the whole process, from the scriptwriting to the set design. In fact, Tag even said he would waterboard Michael Bay if he mess it up for all those politically correct viewers out listeners after they say viewers again, I need some more, you need we got to what you dude, you had a rough night, I could absolutely say it. But you're entire thank you, I guess you know. So you're sitting here watching all this unfold. But your life changed. I mean, all right, yeah, you got to do a book in a movie and your life's changed in that way, But that wasn't your design, and it's it's all. Be honest, it's it's not gotten better. Money does not make things make you happier. Your life doesn't. And my life has changed. I'm divorced again, and don't cry for me, Believe me. It's my choice with things that have happened, but things have we have sacrificed by coming out. I gotta be honest. I know there's two hundred and fifty thousand people that we've identified. I think that really, you know, too many tours. Yeah, you know, if you're doing six, seven, eight tours, three tours with a lot of combat action, you know what they're all these guys are suffering PTSD. I know that some people don't like to use that term, but that's how I understand it. And they're coming back, they're not the same, and and then they're getting divorces, that drinking, they're using drugs, and we're not helping these guys. They deserve our help. And that's that's why you have these organizations like nine line you have. I have my own foundation, fourteenth our foundation. Well what is your what do you? What do you line? Jack Daniels, I tell you do whatever you need to do to feel right, and then go see Sean Hannity on this show. That's right. You know. That's the reason I can say this to him is because we've become really good friends. Otherwise you probably beat the crap kid. You're are you an m M A fighter now? From the last three years from you used to choke me out till now you could, you could probably choke me out now I can do big damage. You really can do that because I'm training five days a week and you are getting to look at your We're not getting we're not taking pictures together anymore because they were like, dang, Hannity's bigger than It's not that I mean, I just love and that's sick I have. I have your mindset, that's and that's what you need. If I had to be eighteen again, I'd go into military. You got that combat mindset. You're not going to be a victim, and that's I'm not fantastic. Um. There's a certain peace. It's really a bizarre mental side of this, and that is that you have the peace of knowing that you can always protect yourself, but also the confidence to walk away and that's the big thing and hold your head high. And that that's having confidence if you're saying, hey, I don't need to take it to that level. We can we can leave. And it's also the confidence to say, you know, maybe I made a mistake here. That guy's six eight. By the way, with what I'm learning, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter right. Size means nothing. Right. So I was at an event the other night with Bo Dieedle and Horaldo Rivera's for the FDN wine and this guy comes up to me cursing me out, stuck his finger in my right and my grill, and I was carrying drinks. I had just bought it for Bow and Horondo and I'm like, I handed it to somebody said get your finger out of my blanket face. I'm gonna break your finger and I'll break your jaw. It just came flying out like that, and it was interesting the words pushed them back because you knew I was serious, and because I was. I mean, when you have a finger, you're taking your snapping. That's that's just bullies, and bullies for the most part, do not have calm. And then they start walking away and cursing. The more it is they walk backwards, you know, It's it's very funny. You did you did a good job, isn't I? I don't. I don't want to ever hit anybody. I don't. I have no desire to hit anybody. And none of us that have been in any sort of combat or those sort of situations want to take lives, but hels necessary at times. All right, So tell me about Nine Line Foundation, because this is a passion here. Nine Line Actually they started by they build homes to build homes for for veterans that have been severely injured in common. You know, I'm working with building homes for heroes and and you know what you need to get involved with nine Line. We need to get you probably joined forces. I think that the owner here, he's he's still in captain. He was with the hundred and sixty. He's here, he's going to talk to you about that. But they are tremendous organization. And they also helped fund and they give money to Glen's Foundation with Glendhorty's Foundation, which was great, fantastic. You know, it's it's kind of cool, and uh, I've just decided that, you know, whenever we can, we try and help these groups definitely, and uh, it makes you feel good. This whole thing with the f d M Y was to help building homes for heroes. That's fantastic, and he got and we have one liberal in there. I get the one one. It was always one liberal and every freaking out when you're hanging out with cops and firemen, none of them are liberal. One guy gets in my grill and I'm like, oh geez, I can't even go to a fight and enjoy. It was a boxing matches. It's your face. It's your face. They just don't like your face. Well I don't like your face either. Why are you making fun of my face? What was up with that? I don't know what it's. I don't maybe see eyes to get your eye about. They're just I'm not even with a stop there again, but grief, I mean, all right, Panto parantos with us, I don't know. We hit it off from the very second we met each other. Fantastic and we just we just I don't know what it is. We just clicked. I love this guy, all right, quick break right back. We'll continue bite sized version of the show that you can take with you. The sign up today for Hannity headlines go to Hannity dot com. Alright, as we continue with Tonto Paranto. He knows Susan Rice is a liar because she lied on five Sunday knows as it relates to the Benghazi issue. Here's the example of relying either two weeks ago or yesterday on NBC. I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Unas on that count today. I mean, let's back up and recall where we have been. The President of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, wire tapping Trump Tower during the campaign. Nothing of the sort occurred. Did you seek the names of people involved in to unmask the names of people involved in the Trump transition, the Trump campaign, people surrounding the the President elect, let me be in order to spy on them? And absolutely suppose, absolutely not for any political purposes to spy expose anything. I really don't know to what Chairman Nunaz was referring, but he said that whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens. And I think it's important for people to understand what incidental means. That means that the target was a either a foreign entity or somebody under criminal investigation. But the fact is that in the President did request back in December the intelligence community compile all of the information that it had on what it transpired during the campaign with respect to the Russians involving themselves in the presidential campaign, and that report was provided to the American people and unclassified form into Congress uh in classified form in early January. Did the pace accelerate during the transition, perhaps in early December, perhaps when the President ordered an investigation into the hacking the Russian hacking? Did the pace of unmasking requests, if you're unmasking requests accelerate towards the end of the White House? And I can't say the pace of unmasking request would accelerate, but if you're asking where they're more reports provided to senior US officials after the President requested the compilation of the intelligence which was ultimately um provided in January. Yes, what happened was, as the i C went about the business intelligence community religenceness of following up on the President order fulfilling the presidence request for such a report, they went back and scrubbed more reports. They began to provide more such reports to American officials, including myself. This is not anything political has has been alleged. The allegation is that somehow Obama administration officials h utilized intelligence for political purposes. That's absolutely false. So she's just such a liar. You you watched that Sunday after you risked your life. You couldn't look by Woods, Glenn already dead, the ambassador dead, Sean Um Smith Smith dead, Okay, and she's on TV lining and I'm thinking, what are you thinking? I'd be piste. I'm more pissed now because she continually gets away with it. Make an example of her. Stop this right now. She deserves to be putting handcuffs and walked out of there after Devinus devon Us is done with her and be put in prison, and maybe this would stop, Maybe these broacrests will quit. Line. You are a hero. We love you, Chris Tonto Pronto, thanks for stopping by broken And by the way, no book is coming up, and may we'll hop back then quick break right back will continue. We know you never want to miss the Sean Hannity Show and now you never have to. Just sign up for Hannity Headlines. Bite sized version of the show that you can take with you on your laptop, your mobile phone everywhere you go, even to your liberal in law's place in Vermont. So um, yeah, and after a few hours of that, you'll be glad you've wrought Shawn on a long to sign up today for Hanity Headlines. Go now till the top of the hour one sewn. You want to be a part of this extravaganza. All right, let's get to our phones. I know a lot of you have been dying away in here so much to get to we continue our top story, which is weaponizing intelligence gathering. Now, you gotta understand, and I said this in the last half hour and I've said it in the hour before that, I don't hold the intelligence community responsible for what's happening here. The fact that we're gathering intelligence is just a necessary tool weapon, if you even want to say so, in a world that has so much evil in it, you know, I'd like to say, yeah, there does. There's no evil that exists in the world that ISIS and al Qaeda and Radical Islamis, they don't exist. But that's just not truth, that's not reality. Evil does exist, and you've got to outthink outsmart any attempts at destroying innocent human life, and intelligence is a big part of of the arsenal of weapons and tools that you use two save lives, that avert danger. Now when you take that information, especially raw intelligence, and you use it against innis an Americans for political purposes because you have political disagreements, well now you're you're running the risk that your country becomes a police state. Now some of you that hate Trump might be saying, who cares he was talking to the Russians, We needed to talk to the Russians. Okay, that has been debunked. There's no evidence to corroborate that. Not even the people that have seen the the raw intelligence have come to that conclusion, including people close to and at the higher echelon of the intelligence community under Obama. That would be Admiral Rodgers. That would be James Comey, that would be James Clapper. These are you know, even now Adam Schiff is acknowledging it is the minority leader in the House Intelligence Committee. So nobody, nobody has any information. I mean, if you watch some of these news channels, they're they're acting as though this Russia, this this non story, this false narrative, This conspiracy theory is somehow akin to the blue dress of Monica Lewinsky Shore fired DNA. Evidence that happened, it doesn't exist. And in the process they are ignoring what has now become the weaponizing of raw intelligence and the unmasking of Americans and surveillance in the guise of national security being used to for political purposes, and then of course leaking the intelligence and unmasking American citizens names. It is. This is beyond dangerous for this country. It is beyond evil and sinister. It is taking a necessary tool in the arsenal against evil in our time and using it against honest, innocent American citizens. And that is a great danger. At that point, you don't have freedom. You don't have a country any longer you have a You have a government so weaponized that it can it can basically blackmail and do whatever they want to any individual. And that is the decline of liberty and freedom. Do you believe in Fourth Amendment protections unreasonable search and seizure? Do you believe that your government should be getting warrants before surveiling any American citizen? Do you believe fundamentally that Americans have the right to speak their mind, their First Amendment rights without fear of recrimination of some sort. That is what is at stake here, That's what's in play here. This is now something a a that I never thought i'd see in my lifetime. And for the same media that ignored vetting Obama, the same media that never told you about the failures of his leftist policies, the same media that colluded with Hillary, is the same media advancing a false narrative, conspiracy theory and ignoring the real scandal at hand. And that too raises questions about about what I've been bringing up often for many years, about an information crisis in the country and journalism, real journalism mostly being dead. In the case of Sarah Carter and John Solomon and Adam Housley and James Rosen and a few others, journalism is alive, and they're trying to get answers that the media is doing their level best to distract the American people. They advanced the narrative. Well, why did Devin Nonas go to the White House to see the information? Because the White House counsel told him he needed to see it in a in a in a place that was safe and secure, and that was one of those places. But the media led you to believe that it was the White House giving the information of Devon Newonness. That wasn't true. Pretty interesting. Adam Shift shut up pretty fast after he went over and saw the information. Alright, Jeremy is an Albany, New York on w g Y. What's up, Jeremy? How are you glad you called? Sir? Hey, so I'm good to talk to your brothers and honor being able to speak to you. Yes, sir, the honor's on mine. What's going on? Well, I'm just kind of curious on your thoughts here. I mean, we were supposed to get some uh you know, some progress with Hillary being charged. Do you think we will see Susan Rice face charges or be brought into trial or anything of some sort to get us some answers to let these people be held accountable for what they're doing. I just it's completely crazy that they just keep getting away with all this stuff and there's no one on the left being held accountable from the Obama administration. Is nobody that I respect? I have zero respect. Have I ever had any respect for some of these people in media? It's it's totally, completely, utterly gone. This is Watergate on multiple steroids and growth hormone, and nobody wants to pay attention to it. And maybe maybe in the end they end up trying to bury the story. I don't know, but we're gonna have an investigation. It's gonna happen. I'll be shocked, stunned and amazed and saddened beyond belief if people aren't arrested and put in jail for what they've done here at very high levels. Anyway, I appreciate it. Bruce Is in Farmington, New Mexico, says that you're a former FBI guy. How are you good, Sean, Thanks for thanks for your opportunity. Yeah, former FBI agent, tech agent. And I actually sat on some of these warrants, actually set up my own and sat on some of these uh listenings. Uh the surveillances in other words, the raw intelligence gathering in other words, Uh, you've heard surveillance. You've heard it right, right with with a legitimate with a legitimate war. And I'm sure right, yes, yes, did the minimization, did the whole ring yards that we're talking about, right? I thought what I would do is explain for your audience. A lot of people are touching on this, and there's a lot of misconceptions. I thought i'd explain the mechanics of how this works and who's really in reparty and what I think possibly was motivasion. As an agent, I was an FBI agent. So as an agent, I would get a lead and I would open up a case on on a suspect, and I if I wanted to do a wire I would fill out a warrant and I would go to a judge, either a PHI sub judge or I'd get uh the U S attorney to fill out a warrant, go to PHISI judge and they would say authorizeed that that action would be okay. Then I would send it into the phone company and they would set it up. Now they do it all electronically. We used to go in and actually do a wire tap, and I'm sure that's what what President Trump was thinking. We'd actually go in and think it looked like a stick of dynamite has some wires coming out of it, and I'd find the wires that we needed and we tap them, and then we take the other wires and get up to wires that were coming into wherever we were doing the recording. So what we've got here is it's obvious that the Obama administration did not do it themselves, because if they did, Susan Rice wouldn't have to worry about I'm asking, they'd have all that debt because you you're listening to the ROD data coming in. So we what we've got is we've got one of the three letters. And I don't know who actually gathered this data actually has a transcript and that individual that that agent or that person that was transcribing, that is the person that would have done the masking of the data. Susan Rice doesn't have the ROD data she had she would have had if she. Well, first off, there's two possibilities. One than an agent sent all of this and said, hey, wait a minute, I got Trump's people, and she went to the administration. That agent went to the administration, or option to the administration, went searching and fishing for a United States attorney or an agent to actually open up a legitimate case on a foreign subject with the full intense of knowing that that subject talks with people in the Trump administration. The person that's in danger here is the person that had that raw data, that agent or that person that transcribed that trend, that that raw data. Because I can ask all of e my FBI buddies to unmask anything that they've done, I don't have any problem asking for it. It's the person that actually unmasks it. We've got to find that agent and who actually unmasked. But but as I understand that, if anybody goes into the privacy of where this information is stored, and that's stored in a secure location is my understanding. But there is a record of people signing in, signing out and specifically what they look at. Is that true? That's true, and it would be that agent or that agent supervisor that actually got it out right, Susan Rice could ask for it, but that agent is the one did this. But if she's only asking, there's gonna be a record of it all. It has to be. If she's only asking for unmasking of of Trump or Trump transition team members or Trump campaign members, then that has to prove a political agenda, doesn't it If she never did it before, and I would doubt that she had reason to before. Right, Well, again, you're you're looking at patterns, but this is the this is the beauty of what I see that they possibly did. They can say, hey, wait a minute, with twelve thirty three, I just asked for the data, you gave me the data, and I could share the data with the you know, the sixteen agencies that we're spending across. Now, she knew it was going to get leaked, but she didn't really leak it. Well that's I mean. But obviously then she becomes a co conspirator in the sense that you know, like for example, and then I want to ask the question about, well, how did Evelyn Farcas get ahold of this information? I mean, I know about it in July. You know, how did she, you know, predict the impeachment of Trump, Because obviously somebody was telling her something that she should not know, not being in the administration anymore, and frankly, not at a level that I think she would have seen it anyway. But let's say, let's let's say I called Trump Tower either when he's a candidate or I called Trump Tower if he's the president elect. And by the way, I did make those calls. I was always calling for interviews, that's my job. And let's say if if, for example, there was any surveillance on me. They don't have a warrant to surveil me. Correct, They don't have a warrant at that moment to surveil the president elect or then candidate Trump, do they. Well, you have two American citizens there. Now you have a full flage investigation. That's not place that yet. Well, now at that point you have a crime, Well you have somebody that has suspected a crime. Okay, But but if you don't have a warrant, you have no right to surveil me, period end of sense. Right, So there will be a warrant. If in your case, there would be a warrant, and you would go and look at at who swore that he knew of the various things that you had done or Trump had done. In the Sciensi case, there will also be somebody that says, I swear that I know things have happened, and I need this, I need this gun. So that paper trail is there. What we need is that agent whoever set up that warrant or swore out that warrant, to say, okay, this, yes, I was pressured by Susan Rice to unmask this based on stuff that I knew, and I had told her that was going on. All right, listen, I appreciate your expertise, Bruce. You. I think you shed a lot of light on this for people that I mean, it gets complicated. I'm trying to I'm trying to make this as understandable as possible. That's why I'm I'm keeping it to a bare minimum, which is surveillance legal and un legal, and unmasking the identities of people that you're not supposed to be surveilling, that you don't have a warrant to surveil, and then leaking intelligence obviously a crime. All Right, Doug is in Oregon, Doug High. How are you? We're glad you called, sir, Hi, how are you doing. I'm good, my friend. What's going on? Oh? You know, you got going on with Obama and stuff. I sell my power and they helped fund your your legal How many and stuff? You know? And na, No, sir, Obama was about as slimy as his Monica's dress is. So oh now, how many heads of cattle do you have? I don't have as many as I did. I went through a divorce, but I've got about Listen, sir, you you keep your cattle. You're very kind. I listen, I make let me just say this. Over the years, I've had so many people approach me, how you gotta sell T shirt? How you gotta sell I've wrote three books. I have a movie coming out that I like people to go see that I think has great meaning and in around Thanksgiving. But I if I'm gonna have a lawsuit, all fund it myself. I can afford it. And if there is civil action to be taken, I've got great lawyers. I'm gonna have to argue on two Jennifer's rates for crying out loud there through the moon. And uh, Jay Sekulo, you know he always he's a buddy of mine. He'll he'll, He's not gonna he'll take care of me. I'm not worried. I'm just fortunate that I have the means if I need to go down there. You keep your cattle. God bless you and your family, and we appreciate what you do every day. You're one of those people that helps feed every American and we don't give you guys enough credit. Thank you for what you do. I love a good steak every night, every night, I really do.

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