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Going up next our final news round up and Information Overload hour. All Right, News round Up, Information Overload Hour, toll free. Our number is eight hundred and nine point one Sean. So, just a short time ago, Elon Musk tweeted out that what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at five pm Eastern time today. Well, it's five h seven, Linda. I'm looking at sweet Baby James's account. I don't see anything posted him. I'm missing something here, not yet. But if you know, if I were Elon Musk right now, and I mean I'm literally watching the feed. There are hundreds of thousands of people watching this live feed right now. So if this is a marketing scheme, I'll tell you what. It's awesome. How where is the live feed part? The last text? I'm sorry, the last tweet text. When it goes live, you'll see it. He's not live yet, He's not alive yet. He is not light what is listen? He's CEO. You know bosses, they have a tendency to be late. So here's my speculation. Is that Twitter, he's Well, here's the things to look out for now. I mentioned earlier in the program that in fact, we're learning that the FBI did had a lot of conversations in the lead up to the election with the social media giants. One of the things I want to know is whether or not the social media giants were influenced by the FBI in terms of, oh, you got to watch out for this, this Russian disinformation. And ironically, because the Hunter Biden laptop story turned out to be true and just everyone made the universal decision, you were not allowed on Twitter or any of these social media giant platforms to even share the New York Post story about zero experience Hunter and the contents of his laptop, or they didn't even acknowledge the truth of the story. And you had fifty one what former intelligence officials you know, signing on to a leather letter that this has all of the markings of Russian disinformation, etc. Etc. And none of that happened, you know, there was It's all turned out to be true. So anyway, I think it's interesting. Yeah, Elon actually tweeted out, this will be awesome with like a box of popcorn. It'll include a live que and a please screenshot. Now that's a different one. Well, what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter. Now I assume that he now knows what happened. Is it going to be a big, huge, major, massive bombshell the part that's going to be most interesting. Thank you, uncle James. He now gave me a big computer one to look at instead of this stupid phone that I'm looking at. Now, how are we going to know when he goes live? How do you know? As soon as you see it, when you look at it, it'll literally just pop up and it will be live and you will see it. Well, you see very easy. You will see him doing his Q and A. That's what a live stream is. Now, why who is actually running this computer that I'm looking at? Running the computer that you're looking at. I'm hoping it's you. No, it's not me, it's not at all. It might be the Chinese? Could you could be anybody this particular TikTok Sean. I'm not on TikTok, but thank you very much. This thing now, uncle uncle James needs to get back in here and fix this. It's a mess um anyway, I'm not seeing any movement at all. Anyway, Let's get to some phone calls. In the meantime, it is Friday, and hopefully we'll find out some information. How blockbuster this may be, I don't know, If I had to guess, I think probably the warnings, the admonitions came from probably within the government. That would mean two elections in a row. The government government put their fingers on the scales of a presidential election. Now in the first case, that would be Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, remember she paid for the Boughton paid for the Russian dossier. Well, first of all, we know that she had top secret classified information on her servers. And we've played over and over again the twenty sixteen statement by James Comey that no prosecute or whatever prosecute outlining you know, the one hundred and ten examples of top secret classified information, all the varying chains. Yeah, uncle James, you can look at this big computer thing that is a messier or trunk so I can barely see it, seeming him fix that. I am a technical idiot. I can't do anything but long story short. So she then buys this Russian dossier that was pulled with disinformation. Now the FBI then in early October they make a trip over the pond over to Great Britain to meet former m I six official or agent, and that would be Christopher Steele. They offer him a million dollars if he can corroborate the dossier. Remember, prior to early October in twenty sixteen, even people like Bruce Or in August of twenty sixteen warned the FBI that it was it was political op research and that none of it was confirmed in any way, shape, manner, or form and anyway so that they could they'd never paid Christopher Steele the million bucks because they couldn't verify it. He couldn't verify it. We learned in the end it's unverifiable. But by the end of October, even though he didn't get his million bucks, couldn't verify it. They used it as the bulk of information for the FISA applications that were used against a Carter Page, who we now know was an ally of the CIA, and then it was a backdoor because of his relationship with President Trump and his campaign, etc. Etc. So they put the thumbs on the scale there. They could have gone after all this talk about going after Donald Trump and the raid at Marilago and top secret information was there. Well, they let Hillary Clinton off the hook. And that doesn't even include the thirty three thousand emails that we never got a hold of. And the reason we didn't get a hold of him is because she used something we had never heard of before, bleach bit to basically acid wash her hard drive, and then of course the devices that they may have been duplicated on they would destroyed. I don't know what that noises yep. Anyway, I think if we're talking about I think if we're talking about Twitter and we're talking about what's happening today, one of the biggest things that we're looking at, if it's not more about the laptop, A lot of what he's going to cover today, if I had to hazard a guests from everything that we've seen so far in the news is the amount of cooperation between the Biden administration and prior to that, the Obama administration, and the complete and total suppression of anything that would let out anything about what they didn't want anyone to say. Think the conduit would have been the intelligence agencies from the FPI, I do, That's what I'm looking for. No, I think it's actually top brass from the administration. And I think that's why Eric Schmidt, the Age of Missouri soon to be Senator, was on yesterday and he is deposing Jensaki with regarding the Big Tech he was on, I mean, there's probably connections all over the place, but we do know that the FBI and others in the government were warning big tech, oh, there might be attempts at misinformation. So they had to be some communication from some level of government. And I would argue, I would bet more of the intelligence or the FBI intelligence agencies or the FBI, but we don't really know. Anyway, Let's get to our phones. In the meantime, let us say hi to Matt and Georgia. Matt, how are you glad you called? Hey, Sean, how are you a long time? Good sir? Happy Friday as we sit here and wait for Elon Musk to wake up, no doubt. Hey, I'll tell you I'm a fan going back to w GST in the eighties. Wow, the news Monster, Yeah yeah, yeah, the fifty thousand megawatt whatever it was, torch free speech. By the way, I'm still friends with Sluggo who hired me to uh work at Gst's a great guy and uh yeah, we followed Neil Boortz over to his ex wife, as he used to refer to it, by the way I talked to me the other day, he's doing great, well, awesome. Well, hey, I just wanted to let you know. I mean, I'm as worried as you are about what's happening with m Herschel Walker and Georgia, but I wanted to tell you that I am getting slammed from all different kinds of organizations. You know, everybody here in Georgia is I mean, they're texting me, they're calling there, everybody's like involved, and so nobody's just laying down and taking it um there. I know that Herschel's being outspent three to one. You know, I can't My wife and I couldn't early vote because we um we work. But I'm gonna start working on that next time around, you know, when we have a little more notice. But we'll definitely be there. I mean election. We live in North Georgia, um north of Atlanta, in the middle of nowhere, and we're very red in our place. We can vote. It takes us ten minutes to get to our polling place. So well, right now I can go over chapter and verse how radical Raphael Warnock is we'll way past that. Now. The Democrats I know him well, right, but the Democrats have a machine in terms of getting their votes out. One point five million votes already have been cast in this race. Now Herschel can win in Georgia, but Republicans have got to show up. And you've got to assume that the advantage going into election day on Tuesday is going to be with the Democrats, because that's the way the pattern has played out over and over again. I can't say for sure. I've had more people analyze the early voting numbers, and every analysis is different. It doesn't matter. But if every Republican and every conservative in Georgia listening to my voice right now, gets their ass up and gets out to vote, you know what, then he can win. That's what it really comes down to a degree, and we're trying to get him out well. Anyway, we appreciate the call, my friend. We love our friends down in Georgia. Dennis, Texas, you're on the Sean Hannity Show. Happy Friday, God bless you, mister Sean. It's good to talk to you. Pleasures on mine. What's going on? Well, my concerns the direction in our country. I mean, we were sold out by our administration, like you were talking about yesterday, how we have land here that's sold to the Chinese. And I mean the nonsense with Hunter Biden. I mean, it seems to me they can get away with anything they want as long as they're on the left, you know. And I'm just you know, I wonder will anything ever really come with the investigations. I mean, we saw the witch hunt they put President Trump through, you know, all that nonsense the whole time he was in office. And then now I know we're going to go after Joe and Hunter, But I mean, will anything come of it? I mean, I'd sure like to see some people in cups, you know, I really fear. And this is where you cannot underestimate the importance of the Republicans winning the House. That I said, there are three big things that they're going to have. They have the say over chairmanships. That is key, That is crucial. That sets the agenda. Number Two, they have the power of the purse. They can use that power. The Freedom Caucus is now trying to use it to enforce Joe Biden to enforce the laws of the land. And re implement some of the Trump border policies that were considering we're going to take in four and a half million illegal immigrants this year, that Chuck Schumer wants to give amnesty too. And then the next power that matters is the power of subpoena. Now we have James Coomer, he's going to be investigating Joe Biden. It's more about Joe Biden to me than it is about Hunter and the implication of whether or not as vice president he sold access to the highest levels of government and whether he benefited from such and participated in such. We have photographic evidence, and we have dates and times and meetings that he attended, and he lied through his teeth when he said he never talked to Hunter about his foreign business dealings. So you know on that origins of COVID, that is the FBI politicized. Is the do O jban weaponized? There is a chance we may learn that the FBI and intelligence agencies were telling big Tech, oh, we don't think that this Hunter Biden laptop story is real, which resulted in them suppressing the information. Now that would be a scandal in and of itself. I think they all need to be taken out, and I'm so fired. He hasn't come to an uproar yet, you know. I mean, I wonder if that's down the road, what's it going to take before people say this is enough? You know? Well, I wish I could answer that question. We'll learn a lot about where the country is. Maybe Tuesday in Georgia. I don't know, because I can tell you Raphael Warnock is not representative of the Georgia that I know. I don't look. We could sit here and speculate all day on and off. I you know what my first thought is, did somebody call him and say, you better get this right or you're gonna be sued. Why do I think that? Son? He made a statement that we're gonna be live, it's gonna be fun, We're ready to go. Oh, but we now have to go back and fact check it. Agree with you, agree with you. You're saying that on the air or I'm saying it on the airbus. Absolutely, it's odd that he would make this the proclamation that he's gonna not like him at all. I'm telling you right now, this is what happened when people started speaking about about different things. When I had to do with like COVID or thoughts they had, and they would get a phone call if they were famous from the White House, and you never heard from him again. You're gonna be quiet about that, you know. Sorry, Listen, I'm not going conspiracy land till these concy there were all those big time words that came out. What's up, Mike, how are you? Hey, Sean, I'd like you to change the language on this. Instead of calling it the Hunter Biden laptop story, start calling it the Joe Biden corruption dossier story, because that's I think you need to reframe this story so that it stops being about the laptop and farst being corruption. Docier, change the language, adopt the tactics of what the left has done to Trump for all these years. Well, I think you're right, and I'll follow the lead of James Comer, who's leading the investigation into this, and he was very clear, he said, let me be clear, this is an investigation into the president of the United States. The president lied when he said repeatedly before the election that he'd never won spoken to his son Hunter about his foreign business dealings. And now we have photographic evidence of Hunter and Joe and his foreign business partners now we know why he leveraged a billion dollars to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who was investigating his son, being paid millions with no experience, and we have identified at least fourteen separate meetings that Joe took place with Hunter and the foreign business associate. And then of course Tony bob Olynski had told us all that, yeah, the big guy was in fact Joe Biden and the cut for him and Hunter Biden complained bitterly about paying half his salary to Pops. All right, we'll continue, all right, twenty five to the top of the hour, and Happy Friday to everyone. This is an odd and on a lot of weird ways. What time did this original tweet by Elon Musko's out He put out a tweet earlier, I think around four o'clock somewhere in that area. What really happened with the Hunter Biden's story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at five pm Eastern time. Nine, all right, three thirty nine, So all right, five o'clock comes and five o'clock goes, and I can get back to where his Twitter account is on Sweet Baby James's official Twitter account anyway, he says, um, five o'clock comes and goes, and then he put out another tweet. We're double checking some facts, so it will probably start live tweeting in about forty minutes. Now, when he talks about live tweeting, is that tweeting or is it a live stream that he can run on Twitter? Can do a live stream on Twitter, right, right, So he could do a live stream from his account, and then people can submit their questions and go interactive with him and tweet in what they want to ask. Okay, but now he's why would he send out the announcement where double checking some facts? So probably start live tweeting in about forty minutes, just so that the Biden family can describe every sudden go back to double checking the facts. In the case that I'm not saying it's suspicious, I'm just saying it's odd. You would think if you're gonna make that broad an announcement, that you'd have this all locked down and then you'd do it at five o'clock, or if you're gonna be ten minutes later, we'll be ten minutes late. Let's just say you're going back to fact check it. You have to wonder did a phone call come in after you put out the initial tweet it three thirty or what. That's where my suspicious mind comes in. All right, let's get to our phones in the meantime. On this Friday, Brian Ohio, you're on the Sean Hannity Show. What's up, Brian. Happy Friday to you, Hey, Happy Friday to you too, Sean. Just kind of curiosity. One thing that I haven't heard anybody ask, does Joe Biden have any involvement in all this cover up nonsense? Well, I mean we might find out now what I'm looking for. I am just wondering because we know that federal agencies Intel, FBI, did they tell big tech companies? We know they said that to be on the lookout for potential Russian disinformation in the lead up to the twenty twenty election. Ironically, the only Russian disinformation in the twenty sixteen election that was bought and paid for by Hillary, and they didn't show any such concern. As a matter of fact, I go go back to the timeline. Bruce Or in August to twenty sixteen warns the FBI that it is political op research. They need to be careful, it's not verified early October twenty sixteen, the FBI, we now know because of the dan Chenko trial. They fly over the Pond. They meet with Christopher Steele, former m I six agent, and they offer him a million dollars if he can verify that the dossier is true, because he's the one that put it together. All Right, by the end of October, they still can't pay him the million bucks as he can't verify anything. We now know it was unverifiable because it's been debunked, But then they still used an unverified dossier is the bulk of information. Remember Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director, said that without the dirty dossier that Hillary paid for, they never would have had the FISA application approved. That FISE application was approved based on the dossier that was unverified, even after a million dollar bounty was offered to Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier. So that means they knowingly put unverifiable information in front of a FISA court judge to ruin the life of one Carter Page and then have a backdoor into all things Trump world because of his connections there. So I'm just suspicious that was the deep state putting their thumb and on the scales of an election, then none of them wanted Donald Trump to win. On top of the fact that they found top secret classified information that now all of a sudden is so dangerous important because Donald Trump had documents at Marilago. But meanwhile, the July twenty sixteen press conference of Jim Comey, he was very clear they found tons of top secret classified information on Hillary Clinton's servers. Now they had thirty thousand emails, but remembers she destroyed other emails, thirty three thousand of them, and nobody knew what bleach bit was. But she acid washed the hard drives, She had some of her staff beat up, blackberries and phones with hammers, and sim cards were removed just in case to get rid of any any path to finding the thirty three thousand. So now the question is, was big tech told by somebody in government, Oh, you can't trust this information on the laptop because remember the lap None of these big tech companies would even allow you to share the Hunter Biden laptop story at all. They wouldn't allow anybody to do it anyway. Eight hundred nine one Sean That is our toll free number on those Friday if you want to be a part of the program. Terry in Pittsburgh. Terry, how are you glad you called? As we're waiting for Elon Muskier. Hi sean first time caller, Love yourself. Thank you, You're welcome. Okay. So I'm fifty eight years old, and when I was growing up, I'm Democrat because my family's Democrat. I didn't know the difference between Republican Democrat. You just went along with the name. Then thirty two years ago I met my husband who was Republican and really got into know that the difference between a Republican and Democrat is people's ways of thinking. Now, back in twenty sixteen, you know when the voting was legit. Then it was when you go to the ballot, it's everyone votes. You know. It was like maybe three thirty the next morning that Okay, President Trump won. It was great. Then four years later in twenty twenty, it's like you're watching the TV with the results and you're like, what at ten thirty night, what you're closing down and then we're going to get the results tomorrow. Yeah, we look at Arizona. A week and a half later, there's still counting ballots. Oh, we have another batch of ballots and then meanwhile, right, but see what gets on my nerves now, and I just can't stand it is that I vote every year and I went to the pulling stace in here around Pittsburgh, my regular one, and it's like, okay, you sign your name, no photo ID. But then you get that paper ballot and it's like, okay, there's no link between a paper ballot and me to where somebody can just sit in the room and just keep seating and seating and sitting over and over again. And it's like, I just can't stand it. We have to do something to change this, because that's how they are. Democrats don't want photo ID. They don't want it. Democrats love, you know, ten weeks of voting or well as long as you can possibly have. They like early voting. It works to their advantage. Now, if you want to change the system, you gotta win elections. That means you have to work with a system we don't like, and then ultimately states can adopt what I'm What I would suggest is make election day a national holiday, and you make exceptions for the military. People out of town, they can apply for an absentee ballot. The sixty infirmed, the elderly, whatever. And then you have in every precinct partisan observers watching the voting. When the polls closed, you watch the vote counting at partisan observers see it up close and personal, and you count the ballots, You announce the winner, and if it's closed, you can recheck at two, three, four or five times. Who cares? And we would have confidence in the results and integrity in the process. But Democrats aren't interested anyway. Have a good weekend. Thank you, Terry, Mike, and Georgia. What's up Mike counting on George on Tuesday? It's up to you. It's in your hands. What's going on? Yeah, thanks for taking my call. I think it's gonna be even better. I think the delay that Elon did, he's so slick. I think it's going to be even better than we dreamed when he starts live feeden. And the second thing is, can you imagine what the ads brought during this fourteen or fifteen minute delay. He's pretty slick. But I think it's going to be even better than we dreamed. I think it's just disgusting what we've been through. You really think it's gonna be better than we then we're thinking here, you think it's gonna be a blockbuster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think he's maybe going to write down I don't care what kind of pressures. I think this guy is immused to that. I think he you know, he doesn't have a God complex. I think he's so logical and smart. I think he's just going to let it boil up and probably made a couple of billion dollars during the delay selling adds. I don't think he's doing it for millions of dollars. He's a billionaire. He doesn't need a few million dollars. I know that sounds absurd to any everybody else, but he's a multi billionaire. I'm I'm I don't know why. Maybe you're gonna end up being right. Why am I more suspicious? Why do I think that this is odd that he says, Oh I got a fact check. Oh I'll be back in forty minutes. I don't know. Oh, well we should know pretty soon, that's for sure. Mike. Appreciate it. Buddy Ed in Florida. What's up? You're on the Sean Hannity Show. Happy Friday, Hi, Sean, Look, I appreciate you very much. I watch you every night religiously. I love when you talk to Mark Levin. I'm originally from Islands. I've been I've been his seventeen years down here. But the thing is, you can still bump till on my accent. And I'm from New York. No, I can't tell at all, right, not at all. You don't talk like you're from New York. Wait a minute, Sean, I'm sure when you went to when you I'm sure you're born in Long Island or from right, you're a New Yorkers. I'm sure that they probably got you to lose your New York accsent am I right? You know, Look, I didn't even know I had one until I started in radio. And like, I don't listen to my show back. Maybe I should, but I don't. And when I first heard my New York accent, I was aghast. I was shocked. I mean, Sean, new York talk radio, How you doing coffee talk? I got no, don't pick on Linda, leave her alone. Well, you know, first of all, Linda say first of all, first of all say talk radio. Yes, correct, right, because it's true. But he understands, he understands what I want Linda to say talk radio, talk radio, talk radio. That's how it should be said, say coffee. Should you say talk radio like TikTok? I will never say it ticksoc. That's a terrible, terrible CCP platform. A lot of people from different parts of the country say talk They say, I happen to like accents. I like a Southern accent. I like a British accent. I like a New York accent. You know, I like Linda say coffee. Check all accents throughout the country. I can tell Chicago, I can tell where a lot of people are from. I actually really like Chicago accents, and I like Boston accents. Those are really good. I'm from Boston. All right, let's go to We appreciate it, Ed, Thank you. Uh. Who's next? Another ed? Texas Sean Hannity Show, Happy Friday, Ed, what's going on in the Free State of Texas? Oh, just solid labor. Uh. I just wanted to tell you I really agree with what you just said. That was the first thing that came to my mind when when there was a delay, and it's like, I bet you money. He got a call from some very very powerful people that said you better not do that, or you better consider why. I know? But is it because I'm so cynical? I mean, I've just been at this too long and knowing seeing all of the corruption, I never thought we would have seen an FBI on a witch hunt against the president the way we did. I never thought that would happen in a lifetime. I had such respect for the FBI. I had the two members of my family that we're in. The FBI were deity. But go ahead, you finish no. If you remember, Rush used to tell us that there were some very very powerful people were above him, and he never would name names. I mean, I remember this distinctly. He never would name names, but he said there are some very very powerful people that control that, but basically control And I just I just have that gut feeling, that same feeling that you that you have, And I don't think it's cynical just to say, guess what, We're gonna give you a call, and you really need to consider what you're fixed to say, so you know, here here is the truth that you may want to know about our industry. And I'm not sure what Rush was referring to there. I just know we miss Rush. But I will say this, there is a chill out there. There are people that are in their underwear right now in their basement. These are total, complete losers, and their job is to monitor me for hours a day in the hopes that I say one thing wrong, one phrase wrong, that they can then come after me, attack me, does credit me, cancel me, boycott me. And I've dealt with that threat pretty much my entire career. And that is real for any conservative on talk radio, and that's also real for a lot of us on Fox. I understand who they are. There's a lot of money being spent because they don't like opposition voices. But with that said, there's nothing that I need to tell you, my beloved audience here that I don't tell you, but I know they're out there. Anyway, was still waiting. It's only a speculation at this point what's going on. We're double checking some facts. 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