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Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to the Shawan Hannity radio show podcast A right glad you with us one Shawn Tolfrey telephone number if you want to be a part of this six dravaganza. Where is this? According to the latest zagby Pole, a landslide majority of people on the left now say that they are ashamed of America. Wow, fifty of all voters say they're proud of the United States, while the third say they're ashamed and not sure how they feel. All right, whopping of liberals say they're ashamed of America. We'll just thirty we're proud of America. Three quarters of Republicans are proud of the United States. Only six percent of shame of Democrats. Um, I'm sure this is all tied to Donald Trump and hating Trump and Trump obsession, etcetera, etcetera. That's what I'm thinking it's all about. And and I get it, I understand it. Of those people just cannot get over the fact, and there are a lot of them, even on the Republican side, they just can't get over the fact that Donald Trump won. They can't um a lot of news today. I want to get into this. Some great, great good columns out there that we're gonna be delving into here, not the least of which is you know, I've read this on the air yesterday, and the more I've had time to think about it, the more I realized just how profound this is. So you have Senator Chuck Rassley and Senator Lindsey Graham questioning and sending a list of questions. I read them yesterday, I won't do it today for the former National Security Advisor Susan Rice regarding what they are flagging as an unusual email that she sent to herself, and it was sent on Trump's inauguration day, just just literally minutes before she departed the White House for the last time. And we have Grassley's the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. They release a statement and the letter they wrote to Rice outlining the concerns of their email her email as it relates to the Senators or the Senate's probe in Russian interference. Now. They both say they received the email in question as a result of a request from to the National Archives for records of meetings between Obama and then FBI Director James Comey, And the email that Rice sent to herself was January. Now Donald J. Trump was sworn into office just afternoon. She sent this to herself at twelve fifteen, and it seems to document a meeting that she had just attended with then President Obama, FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates two weeks before, on January five. So they're talking about a January fifth meeting. And Rice's note reads as follows on January five, follow again this, but she's writing it eleven fifteen day years later, just as she's leaving the White House for the last time. On January five, following a briefing by I C leadership on Russian hacking during the presidential election, Obama had a brief follow on conversation with the FBI Director Jim Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Aids in the Oval office. Vice President Biden and I were also president. That meeting reportedly included a discussion of the Steel dossier and the FBI's investigation of its claims, and President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities by the book. Why would she say that now? The President stress that he is not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book. From a national security perspective, however, Obama said he wants to be sure as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. A portion of the email remains classified. The correspondence continues reading the President asked come to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we should share classified information with the incoming team. Remember, they made those rules changes just as they were going out the door. I wonder if that's impacting this in any ways, thought to self, and maybe I'll send myself an email and grass Lee and Graham said in their statement that they found it odd that Rice felt it was necessary to send to herself. Yeah, it is odd. That is the quintessential c y a such an unusual email purporting a document of conversation with them President Obama and his interactions with the be I regarding the Trump Russia investigation in her final hours as a member of the Obama administration. Now, grass Lee and Graham suggests that despite Rice's claim that Obama had told call me to proceed quote by the book, a lot of questions now have arisen about the conduct of FBI officials, the d o J, the State Department in the course of the investigation. Why would she feel the need to do this? And grass Lee and Graham sent, right, So a list of questions. It's gonna be interesting to see where that goes. And it's gonna be interesting to see if anything else has written about what happened on January five? Is it getting very is it getting more odd and more strange by the moment? I gotta tell you, um now we have Now this is another interesting point. This is in the political So two weeks before he leaves office, Obama's telling senior members of the administration that he wanted to keep then President elect Trump's transition team in the dark about details of the FBI's Russia Gate investigation. That kind of contradicts what Rice is writing herself that that he didn't want to get involved in anything involving law enforcement with this anyway that would maximize the bureau's ability to gather evidence that could lead to the prosecution of top Trump Bates, and even Trump himself. You're beginning to think of trappis set here, don't you. Anyway? Former President Obama suggested in January that information related to a federal probe of Russia election interference might have to be withheld from AIDS to then President elect Donald Trump. According to an internal White House email released Monday by these two GOP senators, and the warning Obama delivered was on January five. This is the conversation that Rice is now chronicling on the moment before she leaves office. She must feel very sensitive about it, and the President stressed he's not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. From a national security perspective, Obama said he wants to be sure as they engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there's any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. That's kind of unclear what the officials might have said in response, the grass Lee Graham are saying here that part of this is classified. But the passage after that states that Obama asked Comey to let him know if anything changes, Well he not the president. Well why would Comey tell him after he left office? Now, in this press release last week, remember we learned that the FBI love birds Peter Struck in Lisa Page had prepp then FBI Director Comey on details of the Russia Gate investigation, with Struck telling Page that the president quote wants to know everything we're doing. And yesterday we found out that comes last briefing with Obama aluded this, you know, notorious Christopher Steele Golden Showers dossier, and that revelation was included. But this letter sent by grass Lee and Graham to Susan Rice, I don't know. This is something here that I can't put my hand on yet put my finger on, but I'm looking. It's all happening in a very very just little bits and pieces. Some of you have complained. My good friend Michael Myers will write me occasion when do we get to the end zone? When did we find I said, well, you're appeeling layers of an onion. It doesn't happen overnight. Now, this raises serious questions about what happened at that January five meeting and who knew what, when and where, and what did they know and when did they know? It was watching some of the testimony today by the FBI director and and the CIA director and a bunch of others before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Christopher Ray is going to test testify before them as the growing conflicts between the White House. But they're going into close session, and they kept saying over and over again, that's probably something we'll speak of later. We'll probably talk about that later. We'll probably talk more later, which is a little bit frustrating if you actually want answers now Byron York is gonna join us today, and he points out that sources for Comey's Flynn exoneration where Peter King and Trey Goudy, So we now can corroborate his bombshell report that it will explain later in the program that they disgraced FBI Director James Comey told Congress behind closed doors that he didn't think General Flynn had lied, and that others in the FBI didn't think he lied. Well, then it raises the question, why would General Flynn ever plead guilty to lying to the FBI, which is a crime. I mean, that's the most fascinating thing. Why would they? Whyever would he do that? Is this a case where there was a threat of prosecution of his family? You know, they've had to had to be your reason if they didn't think that he had lied there. I want to find out what that's all about. There's a great piece by Rowan Scarborough today in the Washington Times and it's the dossier's ten core collusion accusations remaining unverified twenty months later. You know, we forget about you know what's in the dossier for crying out loud. We just know that it's unverified and sallacious and full of lies. And he actually took the time to go through all of this, and he you know, when you look at the whole dossier and how that became the predicate for a warrant and the foundation for a warrant. And they didn't tell the FISA Court judge that it was bought and paid for by the opposition political campaign. They didn't tell the FISA Court judge that it was not verified you know, for the ongoing special counsel into the Trump Russia election coordination, it's helpful to separate what counts, because I don't think without any dossier ever have a Robert Mueller here. But it was funded by Hillary in the d n C. And they sent it through the same law firm. And it's bad enough that they were going to use those lies, unverified, salacious lies in part from the Russian government, according to the Grassy Graham memo that came out last week. Anyway, the dossier I think takes on even more importance. Anyway, So they identified ten cores collusion accusations that the Trump campaign launched an extensive conspiracy with the Kremlin to interfere with the presidential election. To date, no public verification verification that Trump, for decades developer of tall buildings, maintained an eight year relationship of give and take with Russian intelligence to date, no public verification that Trump and senior campaign aids actively supported the Russian hacking of the Democratic Party computers to steal and release stolen emails. No public verification that Carter Page and campaign manager Paul Manaphor personally conspired with Moscow to hack the Democratic Computers when the hacking began in Tift. Neither man was associated with the Trump campaign. Both deny the charge. Page testified under oath that he had never met or spoken with Manaphort, so we have no public verification on that Darsier part or that page in Annapolis, grad energy investor and former resident of Moscow traveled to that city in early July to deliver a speech at the university. Dasier says he met with two top Kremlin Kremlin operatives that's discussed bribes and working to lift economic sanctions. Page testified under oath he had never met or spoken with either of them, and he filed libel suits. Anyway, bottom line is there's no verification of any of it. But that's what was paid for, and that was what was used as the basis for a fiser warrant and never thought in my lifetime, I just really roll along. Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred nine four one, Shawn, if you want to be a part of the problem. A lot of people are asking, all right, let me go. This is a great question. Arnold and Georgia. Arnold, how are you welcome to the program. I'm glad you called listen. Uh my theory, Well, this is what happened to me. The government can keep you going as long as they want to until you're completely broke, whether you're guilty or not. And I've been in that position. I know you're talking about. They have endless streams of money, have an endless supply of money, and they can always postpone your court date. Listen. I know people that have been literally sent into bankruptcy because of lawsuits, legal actions against them, whatever I mean. And and it does raise actually a fair question. Is there a two tier justice system between those that can afford the expensive lawyers and those that can Well, there definitely is. I had come into bankruptcy thinking, if you're if I'm not guilty, I have nothing to lose and everything will come back. But it doesn't work that way. Well, I've seen this happen in numerous instances what you're describing. And so in other words, all right, you mean I'll get I'll get away with this, is it, I'll make it go away? Yeah, people do that all the time. You know, if people get sued all the time and they give in the lawsuits that way, how much? All right, it's a grand versus you know, a half a million dollars, you know, ten years later and all the aggravation that goes with it. My case, it was a it was a case of losing part of my life, you know, being sent away. What did you do? No matter what? So you didn't have the money for the attorneys, you know, I didn't. I had some money for the attorneys, and I got some from my parents also, and I was highly played, you know, agent for as far as the government work. But there's just nothing that you can do about it. M hmm. And it was the same as General Flynn. Um. I don't know what the reasons are I have. I'm not sure if I suspect something else is behind the General Flint thing. They don't. If it's not necessarily General Flynn that they wanted, it could be someone else that like in my case, they wanted someone else, And I wasn't gonna say anything about it. I mean, even though they weren't guilty either, you don't want to involve them because it's just you don't just be going around in circles. Yeah, uh, I don't look, assuming you're innocent. I'm sorry you had to deal with all that. I don't know what it is. But I will tell you this, We've had a year worth of a media that's hysterical and unhinged and conspiracy theories one after another and no evidence at all. But we have evidence in the issues we've been covering, and a lot of it will continue. On the other side. Information download Sean Hannity and the breaking news you might have missed today. That's Sean's Insider Information. Hannity is on right now, alright now, till the top of the Sean if you want to be a part of the program. There's a lot of news out There's so much like happening all at one time. It's pretty amazing. Um. You know, I as I read the news every damn wondering at what point is this all like information overload for people? And then it gets to be too much and people can't understand that there's different things going on. For example, Um, you've got a bombshell email here with Susan Rice suggesting Comy may have misled Congress about meetings with Obama on and Russian hacking. That's to every other detail that we've given you. Then you got comey the FBI agents didn't think Flynn lied. Then yeah. Now we started asking, well, why did Flynn agree to a plea deal that said that he lied to the FBI. Then we're not even talking about I think the main crux of that, which is, all right, he was supposedly talking to his soon to be counterpart because he was going to be the n s A director and that would be a normal process for any incoming person in that position. And then of course the intelligence community they did nothing wrong by picking up Russia is a hostile state against the United States, so they picked up the phone call. But then the normal practices of minimization of an American that they weren't practiced in that particular case, they didn't minimize. They didn't and they unmasked Michael Flynn, and then they leaked for intelligence. Then they had a full transcript of everything that was said, and they go in and they interview him. Well, that's like a perjury trap with illegally obtained information, and I don't I don't know why Michael Flynn. General Flynn went along with that, and I suspect they said, well, we'll probably go after you and your family and your businesses for the last twenty years and and either take this deal it's the best deal you're gonna get her. Forget it. And that happens too, Susan Rice memo implicating Obama. He said, to do it by the book. That is the strangest email. Note to self, we did nothing wrong. Note to self, we are following by the book. That's pretty odd. It's one of the more bizarre things i've i've actually ever heard. Now we have Joe Degenneva is out there. He's talking about the FISA memo. He said, we're gonna see the Democratic memo. It's gonna be heavily edited by the FBI and the Department of Justice and the c i A. And he said the most important part of the story is that Odd Rosenstein and Christopher Ray wrote a letter to the White House Council Don McGann that they could not agree to the publication of the Shift memo because it contained national security and law enforcement concerns. Now, if you listen to the media, they're telling you, oh, no, President Trump is the one that said no to this. No, it actually wasn't President Trump. It was the FBI and the Department of Justice saying no to releasing the memo. And the most important part of that letter is when it says law enforcement concerns, well, that means that there's a criminal investigation under day underway, and release of some information in the memo by Schiff, you know, in some capacity, would impact some investigation. I wonder who they're investigating. The answer is pretty clear, because they're investigating the people at the FBI and the d o J who provided false information to the fis accord over a number of years. Here four separate times every ninety days, you gotta redo this more, this warrant, four separate times. We got a story out today BuzzFeed. If you remember as apparently working with others, remember they released the the dossier contents great pieces I mentioned in the last half hour by Rowan Scarborough. None of it verified zip, none of it. But apparently there's been six months a secret mission to corroborate various claims in the Trump Russia dossier that was assembled by Christopher Steele. So that's that's gonna be interesting to watch others now try and corroborate. I wander that I think they're still looking for videos of hookers in the rich Carlton in Moscow urinating on a bed. Uh Cody Sheer there's a report on Breitbart Today is scouring Europe for the fabled Trump Pepe tape. I didn't make that up, it says Cody Sheriff. Shadowy former tabloid journalists long been closely associate it with various Clinton scandals, traveling across Europe for more than six months in an effort to secure purported evidence of compromising material possessed by the Russians related to President Donald Trump. I guess the next thing we're gonna have is photos shopped, you know, pictures of Donald Trump. Ah, see there it is. It's kind of like the tax returns. We've found them anyway, so apparently they're still looking for them. And then, of course we have the issue of Sid Blumenthal. What was his what was his role in all of this? You know now that we have wanted admission that a Clinton associate, Jonathan Wiener is an op ed that he published last week in the Washington Post top State Department officials served under former President Obama administration, publicly confirming he passed on information from Clinton operatives to the British by Christopher Steele that was put in the dossier that got the what Visor warrant Anyway, he's a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International law enforcement, he wrote. He wrote that he had a friendly relationship with Steele, and then he goes on to say that, you know, Steal's dossier had all this information and so many sensational claims. But anyway, more importantly, Fox News reports that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen campaign and the d n C retained Fusion GPS through that d C law firms Perkins uh Cooy's I think it's what it's called. They paid this law firm upwards of maybe twelve million dollars. It's unclear exactly how much money went to the dossier. And anyway, Wayner writes in this op ed in the Post that he served in the State Department in the nineties before leaving for private practice. He met Steele. They became friends in two thousand and nine, and in when Weiner returned to the State Department, he wrote that he began passing on more than a hundred of Steels reports or passing them on with Russian experts at the State Department over two year span. Pretty interesting. And then he also said he met with Steele in the summer seen to review the information contained in the Trump dossier so he could alert the State Department, and then he prepared a two page summary after reviewing the dossier, and then he shared it with Victoria's new landers, a State Department diplomat, and she directed him to share it with then Secretary of State John Kerry. And it gets more disturbing because around the same time, Winer said he connected with his old friend Sydney Vicious Bluementhal. It was a long time you know Clinton operative, and he wrote that he and Bluementhal discussed Steele's report, and the Clinton operative gave him notes from a journalist he didn't know, and Winner was referring to Cody Shearer, the long time Clinton ally who was never a journalist, but rather someone deeply connected to doing Clinton's dirty war behind the scenes. Weekly sit Standard described him as one of Hillary Clinton's sketchiest supporters that was in the Conservative Tribute. Anyway, sheers second dossier contain many of the exact same claims as Steals dossier, so it wasn't a supposed so that basically it's all coming from the same sources. Some of this information was funneled to steal by Clinton operatives. He just throws it in there. What does he care if he verifies that or not. He's getting paid a lot of money. But what we're seeing, as Monica Crowley wrote yesterday in The Hill, is a federal abusive Obama Obama's watch, and I think when we get to the bottom of it, is unprecedented. And then add Susan Rice and that component to it, and this bizarre email to self, We're great, We're doing it by the book self, just unbelievable. Tell you. The biggest outrage of the week, though, all these media outlets that literally trying to romantics is North Korea. Well, I get to bother you at some point. I don't know what it is about the left and how they just they just think that if we're just nicer to them, they're gonna be nicer to us. I've never understood that. So you have the opening ceremony in South Korea on Friday night. The media echo chamber goes into full gear, heaping praise on Kim Jong UN's sister athletes from the North and South Korea marching on the same team, waving reunification flags. More history just a few seats away. Kim Jong UN's sister right there behind the Vice president. She's on hand for the Olympics as well. In a historic moment, South Korean President Moon Jay inn shook the hand of Kim Yo jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong The sister of Kim Jong un, shook hands warmly with the South Korean president and the v I P box at the Olympic opening ceremonies. But North Korea is stealing much of the limelights. Kim John and sister landed at Incheon Airport earlier since day three days at the world's media running after the sister of North Korea leader Kim jongn. And still we know very little about the woman who has stolen the headlines at the piong Chang went to Olympics. How about we know this, you know, to the Avanka Trump of North Korea as they were describing her and all these other accolades thrown her way. I'm stunned by what happened. See and then was the worst of all of them, Kim Jong UN's sisters stealing the show at the Winter Olympics. She didn't say anything. New York Times even acknowledged that without a word, only flashing smiles. Kim Jong UN's sister outflank Vice President Mike Pence in diplomacy the Avanka Trump, the Washington Post says, of North Korea, and it goes on from there. Um, did anyone in the media point out that she's the minister of propaganda of one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history. I guess they they have to know it. I assume they know something about what's going on over there, because it's not that hard to find out if you do a little research. Then they go after the vice president because he didn't shake her hand. Okay, the woman they're applauding is the official director of propaganda. This is a government that has murdered around four hundred thousand political prisoners and what many have called concentration camps that have been in existence since between eighty and a hundred and twenty thousand people are still imprisoned in those camps, and that includes men, women, and children. UN report over two hundred thousand people from around the world. They've just simply disappeared in North Korea. But she has a nice smile, And don't forget the three Americans are currently being held hostage in the rogue state. We forget that part, or that Kim Jong un and his regime are also responsible for the recent death of Erican otto warm Beer. He was imprisoned, he was sentenced to hard labor why for allegedly stealing a poster. And on top of that, if you look at North Korea while they're firing their missiles over Japan and threatening the continental United States. In Guam, well they're currently starving the people. Roughly thirty percent of the population is starving in that state. Oh while the little despot Kim Jong un lives a life of luxury and his sister enjoys a prime seat at the opening games of this year's at Winter Olympics. Anyway, in the mainstream media praising them, it's pretty disgraceful. And this is where I get into this whole issue about I don't understand the mindset of the left in this country. I don't understand anybody that could actually make an argument that it was a good idea to give this this guy's father three billion dollars and energy and we just got a promise that he's never gonna build nuclear weapons. Will verify all of this and didn't verification never happens, And here we are years later, and he's got nukes. Now he's building intercontinental ballistic missiles, and now he's talking about taking out American cities. And then he's firing and test firing missiles over Japan and near Guam. And then but everybody wants to suck up to a sister. And then one point seven billion dollars in cash by Obama to iron the same Malas who have been chanting death to America, burning American and Israeli flags and death to Israel. It's unbelievable. You know, if if you're finding out, who would ever think it's a good idea. Look, well, if we give you one point seven billion dollars, you've gotta promise us that you're not gonna build nuclear weapons. We can't tolerate a nuclear arm durant. But there's a mindset that thinks that I think I assume they think that that's gonna work. Now E really believe So I assume that that Neville Chamberlain believed that he really had peace in his time through the prism of history looked pretty stupid, but I guess at the time he thought that. Yeah, I really have negotiated a piece for our people. Didn't work out that way. I did not like the new Churchill movie, by the way, for a lot of reasons. I did watch it, and I've read a lot about Winston Churchill. Love him as a historical figure. The biggest problem is that they want to portray him in the worst possible light. All Right, Jay Seculo, at the top of the hour, we'll get the latest with him. Also, we'll be checking in with Byron York. You know, even Trump hater Peter Struck didn't think that General Flynn lied. Unbelievable there is if anybody's out there can't see through the media obsession with some issues. I mean, just watch some of your local cable shows. It is so bad out there in terms of what they don't report, what they should report, what they stay away from reporting, how wrong they report, and how conspiratorial they are, and what an extension they are of all things liberal. You just can see it like it's I don't know, plain is the nose on your face? It's so obvious. Alright, gotta take a break. We'll check in with Ja Sekulo later on. We will have much more on the news of the day, and we'll get a lot of your calls in nine for one Shawn, a toll free telephone number. About hours before the president elect was sworn in his president, Susan Rice, the outgoing National Security Advisor, sends an email to herself documenting President Obama's concern and guidance regarding Russian interference in the presidential election, the Steele dossier, according to Graham and Grassley, and information with the Trump's incoming team from a meeting that took place on January seventeen. Now, the January fifth date's interesting because the very next day and James Comey was there. The very next day, James Comy meets with the President elect and talks about the Stele dossier, among other things, and the Dave of four, Susan Rice writes, the email is the renewal date for the FIES warrant against Carter Page. Here's the problem, the problem, and nobody knows what this was. I mean, at the end of the day, the only person that knows what she was doing on this is Susan Rice. So she's gonna have to give an account for that. But folks, I mean, look at the facts. You always tell law students get familiar with the facts, understand the timelines, and there are multiple intersecting timelines on this where they come into the intersection. Whether it's the FISA warrant, whether it is the interview, whether it's this meaning, whether it's then the meeting with uh uh the President elect and James call me, whether it's the change of the Executive Order and how they distribute intelligence information. I want to get all this would be a fascinating study, and say November through February of twenty seventeen, seventeen, what took place. I want to know what happened. I want to know what happened. Hour to Shawn Hannity Show eight nine one, Shawn is told pretty telephone number, you want to be a part of the program. That was Jay sekil Why don't you explain this a more detail exactly what you're saying. So, Sean, here's the thing I think that's important for people to understand. So this meeting takes place on January five, right, so they already had the first series of FIZ and warrants. Understand though, the two of the five signatures on those FIS and warrant applications are at this meeting, So that includes the course, it includes James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. So they have this meeting on January five to brief the president on the Russian investigation, and the President and Susan Wrights in this email that she does two and a half weeks after that event, says, the president, you know, want to make sure the law was being fought, but also was concerned about what we should or should not share with the incoming administration. But remember this, on January five, they have this this meeting with President Obama, James Comey, Sally Yates, Vice President Biden, and UH and UH Susan Rice. The very next day, James Comy flies up to New York meets with Donald Trump, the President elect, and reviews with him intelligence matters and briefs him on the Steel dossier. So what grass Lee and Graham have asked for, which makes sense here, is why in the world would you literally, as the new president is being sworn in and the inaugural festivities are well underway, parade done, at the you're getting ready for the swearing in, why in the world would you do this memo in the last moment of the last day as your last act, and there's only one reason you're covering for something that either somebody was at the meeting they were concerned with leak I don't know, James Comby's leaked, or they were somebody saw them at this meeting, or they were trying to cover their tracks. We don't know. I don't know. But it's just if you look at the way the facts lay out, including the fact that this memo comes the day after the fires, a warrant was renewed by the Fives accord. So this just raises a whole I mean, I think what grass Lee and Grandma said is right. It's odd and and and pretty much. Yeah, and you like odd and unusual as the words they It's just to see what it says, y a. But it makes absolutely no sense. Is she doing this at the behest of Obama? Does this now bring Obama into it? In other words, what did he know about the fires and what did he know about all of this with with the dossier, etcetera. Well, look what she says in the email. That part of it's redacted, of course, so we don't know all of it, but it said President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities. Quote by the book, the President stress that he's not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective, reiterated that our law enforcement team and he should proceed as it normally would buy the book, and then the President said that he wants to be sure that as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there's any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. In other words, are we not going to tell the incoming administration information we have about Russia? That's what he said there. I mean, that's what she's saying that the president of the United States. Then President Obama said, that tells your whole story. This is the incoming president of the United States, and heater withhold information from him. Yep, he's the president elect. Where do you think, how do we get to the bottom of what it actually means? I mean, does this now open up an area of investigation into you know, other emails that were sent back and forth text messages. Do we now have to wait another year to get information from Susan Rice and and others that might have been involved in did Comy lie when Comy said that, you know it only met with the president on X occasions, not mentioning this one. You know, I don't know what Comy did or did not do. This is what I do know that Congress has asked Susan Rice a series of questions that they want an answer to. I think the date it's February. They want a response in writing to these series of questions. Because, as as Grassley and Graham said, this is unusual, to say the least, odd and we do know. And again I think it's worth stressing Sean, two of the five participants were people that signed off on the five the warrants, which is an unusual in and of itself, considering that they were the FBI director and then the deputy attorneys are in the United States. But there they were, and they're in the Oval Office for this meeting. And why is it that Susan Rice waited over two weeks to put this in writing to memorialize this, So you're right, it is it is a sense. It's to cover their tracks. I don't know exactly what the tracks they're trying to cover are, and I think that's where Congress, through its oversight, needs to move and move swiftly, and it just looks like they are. I want to talk a little bit about the two memos that came out, the New Nest Memo then the Grassly Grand Memo, and the Grassly Grand Memo that was the unredacted version, which I think was very, very revealing because at the end of the day, I won't I won't bore the audience with given the full history here, but James Comey and Peter Struck writing the exoneration of Hillary on the email server scandaled months before they interview her and seventeen other key people. That that, to me is pretty unbelievable. I've never heard of an investigation working that way. This is after, of course she pretty much dole or the primary against Bernie was rigged, all right. So she's funneling money through her campaign through a law firm as the d n C that Donno Brazil says she was controlling the money of meeting Hillary through the same law firm. They pay for a Russian dossier full of salacious information and We're even told in the Grassly grand memo that it's Russian government information, but put that aside. All right, so it's bad enough, she's gonna pay for information. Nobody verified it. Fusion GPS didn't verify it, the Clinton campaign didn't verify it. Nobody apparently verified it. But then it gets worse. Then the Grassly Graham memo goes on to say that the bulk of evidence presented to acquire or the FISA warrant against Carter Page was the dossier. Nobody had verified the dossier. And then we find out the unverified dossier. By the way, even James Comey said to Donald Trump, this is in October, they're issuing the warrant, but he said in January it was still unverified and salacious, right, So that's that's three months earlier. Now, Um, he's apparently part of a group presenting it to a FIS a court to get a warrant, and the only thing we get is a footnote that says maybe political in nature, when everybody knew Clinton bought and paid for it. You know, well, I thought with Michaelissenoffs, it was also interesting that they based his statement. The press account was also in the in the application evidently, and he so I just based that off the Steel dossier. So it was it was evidence verifying its own evidence. I mean it was the same. They were using the same information to verify the same information. So with circular in nature. I mean, I think if I was the FIES a judge, I wouldn't be too happy about any of this. And when you look at the what has taken place here, I think that and I think this is where where the questions line is. I don't think there's any question that absent the Steele dossier, there would have been no FIES and warrant even sought. That's according to UH on the Nunas memo. That's according to what UH is going to be was in the transcripts from the testament one from Ron Rosenstein. Now here's what's interesting. You have the the atom Ship memo, the Democratic response memo, which has gone back to the UH Senate House Democrats to work with the FBI to get it redacted the way it UH so it won't give up sources and methods and there and and Ship was very quick to say they'll do that. I think they were trying to kind of one step away or two steps out to step the president. I think he outstepped them by just sending it back. They were hoping he would send it back, either not send it back or send it back redacted. Um, and I think what he did instead, which I think was the smarter and more appropriate roses here, it is back to you. You get this cleared with the FBI and work it out, and you saw a very mild atom ship in response to that, A very mild atom ship in response to that. But look, I don't think there's gonna be anything. I mean I haven't I haven't seen it, so I don't know, but I will tell you this. I am working right now. I'm putting together a complete timeline of everything Sean that took place. And it's not over that long a period of time. It's probably gonna be four months. And I think when you see it in a timeline, it's gonna be breath taking. Our audience is following this closely. Yeah, so you've got in the summer of we know they're attempting to get FIES warrants and they're not successful, right, we mean, they make at least two attempts, they don't get FIES warrants, and that's very rarely where they don't get them. But they didn't get them here. They come back in with the dossier, they get the fives and warrant on the dossier. Then they have the interviews. You had the interviews with General Flynn with the FBI. That's all taking place in this period of time. Now we have the meeting, right do you have a meeting on January five that we now know about with two of the five signatures on the fives warrant they're briefing the President of the United States, President Obama. The next day, what happens President uh, the president elect, it's briefed by In this particular case, James called me the FBI director and the dossiers brought up and he said it's unverified and silastious, and you're not under investigation. Then the FBI comes back in and interviews uh, General Flynn again. And and there's evidence now that FBI did not think he was not telling the truth. They just think he he was confused. That's what that's according to James called his own testimony. So this is all happening within months. I mean, you've got all of this happening month. Then don't forget the executive order that was changed the year before, right at the end of the term. See that all of these end of the term stuff happening and there's really no great explanation for any of it. Then how do we get to the point where a special counsel is appointed in this whole thing? And and where are we in in that whole mess? Well, there's a you know, here's how it works. So the Attorney General is supposed to make an evaluation whether this investigation can be done internally or needs a special counsel. I said when you add, now, if you want to continue the timeline out and during that same summer of you also had the Fusion GPS matter with the Steel dossier. You had the number four at the Justice Department, Bruce Or's wife working for Fusion GPS assigned specifically to the Russian dossier to work with Steele. He is meeting with them. By the way, uh Wars meeting with Steele, Steele becomes the basis of his His dossier becomes the basis of the of the warrant. Then he leaks it to the press. The FBI says they pull back their formal relationship with him, although Bruce wore still meeting and talking with him, whose wife is working for Fusion GPS. So this is a shell game they played here, they moved, They just kind of moving the It's almost like remember the game whack Up. You hit the mold and hit one, and what it is you You kind of hit one here and boom, another one comes up. So I think what you have to do, what I'm gonna do is put together a full timeline on this to get an understanding. All right, So you gotta make this timeline out. Um, I wouldn't mind putting it on TV. Number one, number two, I think it is an important time. But the number three, how dangerous is it? You know? Two things have happened here. We spent over a year with no evidence of Trump Russia collusion, and every media outlet breathlessly hysterically reporting this again and again and again and again. Okay, then we've got instances where Hillary did pay for Russian lies about an opposition candidate. And then it gets worse because that was used as the bulk of information to acquire a fiz of warrant against the opposition party candidate against one of his members and then that was used to also spying an incoming administration. Now, to me, when you put all this together and then you add in there the you know, struck and and page texts, and the fact that Andrew McCabe is involved, and then the exoneration before investigation, it seems like everything was fixed just for this. How do you ever straighten out that if we can't have elections in this country where bought and paid for Russian lines don't raise enough eyebrows for people were in trouble. Well, look, I mean you hit the kind of the nail on the head there, and and the fact of the matter is nobody knows, none of us know the full nature and scope of what's going on here. I mean, there are individuals that now and they may, by the way, some of these government officials may not know the ins and outs of everything that's involved here. But I think what has to happen now is you look at this and try to piece together what is taking place, what is transpiring. You ask yourself what was the initial impetus, the cause for all of this, and then how did it play out over time? You know, we're leaving out the leaking by James Comey of the conversation you have with the President of the United States. That's why I'm saying all of this has to now be I'm gonna be meaning about this as soon as we're done laid out in a comprehensive timeline. I mean, just a comprehensive timeline to get a real understanding it exactly what was at play during these critical periods. None of us know for sure. We have hunches, ideas, but none of us know for sure. And and look the fact that we may never know, but it's got enough concerned that you got Senator Grassley and Senator Graham, neither one of which are conspiratorial, that are concerned about this. Well, I think the fact that these committees now are releasing this information, Uh, do we know for sure sources and methods were in the Democratic memo? That what that the FBI sent back? It had to be, right, Yeah, that's what that's the assumption, and that there was concern oversources and methods, and that's the basis upon which that the White House Counsel and reviewing the documents would Will that be one reason to send it back? I haven't seen it, so I don't know, but that's you know I'm hearing the same things you're hearing, and that was a concern, and Adam Ship did not seem to deny that when asked on I think it was ABC this Week or one of the programs, maybe Space the Nation. Uh, he said, no, we're gonna we'll we'll work with him to get it resolved. Say he did not fight that push back on that fact. You don't hear much about that right now at all. Realized they've got to do it all right, Jay secular, We appreciate your time as always. Eight hundred nine for one, Shawn, toll free telephone number you want to be a part of the program. Also coming up Byron York. He had a great piece about how James Comey told Congress FBI agents didn't think Michael Flynn lied. Well, then why would he ever admit to that? Why did we get to that point? David Brody has written a book about the faith of Donald Trump. Will hit that today. We have a great handedy tonight at nine on the Fox News Channel. We'll continue let's hit our busy phones here. Eight hundred nine for one Seawan is our toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program, right, Jennifer's and Louise Yanna, Jennifer High, how are you glad you called? What's going on? Hey? Sean? First, I wanted to tell you thank you for all you do for truth and for my president. Thank you's our president. Yes, it's not just yours, you know, I know, I know. Um. My question is what can we do collectively as a people to get these people like or struck page off our dime out of my government. I can't believe they're still there. I mean, knowing what we know now, they should all have been fired. Now there's a beginning of a purging going on between people fired, being fired, resigning, moved, and demoted. And I think it's only the beginning of those things. I think there's gonna be a lot more of that. Right, they gotta go, they gotta go absolutely offensive that they're offensive that I pay these people salaries. You know, the fact is that if they have, if you work for the FBI, you're not You're supposed to be about the law, about equal application under the law. You know, they're even talking about not only an insurance policy, they're talking about, Oh, we don't want to piss off Hillary God forbid, she wins. I mean it's it's just bizarre, all right, thank you. It should scare you, it should. And I don't see a lot of civil libertarians out there and liberals out there saying this is not what we want in this country. We don't want, you know, Russian propaganda bought and paid for used to get FISA warrants. But by the way, we're not going to tell the judge any of the pertinent information about the lack of the veracity in this document, nor who paid for this document. Back to our phones. Thanks, Jennifer, appreciate it. Uh. John in Massachusetts, John High, how are you glad you called Sean? How are you so glad to talk to you? A long time listener both of your shows? Yes, sir, what's going on? I get a question in your opinion, in light of all this new information has come out over the past few weeks and months, how do you see the smaller investigation ending? Where do you it's gott to end at some point? You know, one of the problems with special counsels is what we call investigative creep um. You know, look at the case Patrick Fitzgerald going after you know, in the Valerie plan case. He knew on day one who would leaked the information and it was Richard Armitage. Now he should have just shut down and said, okay, I figured out who, what the who the leaker was, and it was Richard Armitage. And then they break it all the way down into you know, putting Scooter Libby the squeeze on him day in and day out. Give us information about the Vice President Cheney at the time, and you'll go free, and then we'll go after Dick Cheney. I mean, it's an enormous amount of power. It's politicizing political or criminalizing political differences. And they seem to have an ending, you know, ability to move into areas that they never would design to go into. And that's the danger of special counsels and what that said, I think we need one to investigate the investigators and into this particular case. I do believe laws were broken. I do believe that crimes were committed here, and I think those people involved in them, you know, should pay the price. Do believe Jeff Sessions is doing the diligence? You know, it's hard. Look, I don't think you should have ever recused himself number one, And I think none of this happens had Jeff Sessions not recused himself. That's number one. Number two, Um, he moves too slowly and it seems to be lacking urgency. I know he's moved into the Iranian one issue and into some other issues. But I gotta tell you, Um, you know, I I don't see enough happening, And if I was him, I would appoint the special counsel now to investigate the investigators. It also takes him out of it, and I think there's probably you know, it sounds, you know, like I'm contradicting myself. I don't want more special counsels, but things are so bad here. I don't think there's any other way to get to the truth on this. It's gonna be very interesting when we get the Inspector General's report in just a couple of weeks. That's gonna, I think, open up a lot of people's eyes. But I don't think it's ending soon. But I think it's ending. Remember we heard it might end by Thanksgiving, by Christmas, by the New Year, by the end of February. Um, maybe they're wrapping it up, you know, the big fight now. I guess it is over you know whether or not Mueller gets to question Donald Trump, and I would say the answer should be an emphatic absolute no. I don't think you should have that. Um, Henry is in Oklahoma next Henry High. How are you glad you called? And welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Well, hello, Mr Hannity. 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You know, I've smoked for forty plush years and I just put them down almost immediately. So look, I saw the impact that had on my parents. I wish this product or a product like it existed at the time. I really do. Um. Let's go to Cannon, Kentucky. Ken, Hi, how are you glad you called? Hi? Sean? Uh? First of all, I just like to say from our area that since that area, we have a saying for you that you are a great American. Well, that means you're listening to my buddy Sean Hannity's Bill Huntingham, you're a great American. I want a full report Donald J. Trump is now saving the country and why these liberals want to get him out of office. I don't know. Pretty good, you are correct what I want to say, though, as a retired law enforcement officer and I proffered many affidavits for search warrants to see this happening through the Fiser Corps like it is when you proffer or construct, or you're any part of anything that would offer a fake bossier to the Fiser court and commit a fraud upon that court, you lose what I call credibility. If we were to ever do that, we would go from a police uniform to a different kind of uniform, and it wouldn't be a police uniform, it would be a prison uniform. And that's why I find it hard to believe that these people are still in existence with the FBI in the d O jaylike they are. I can't I claim it hard to believe. Well, listen, I I find it hard to believe. And it's really sad that this type of thing could happen. You know, our founders and framers they often talked about the size, the scope, the influence of government, and in this capacity, is that the power would corrupt them. And when you have a group of people at the very top that seemingly feel they know what's past and they're not going to apply the law equally to Hillary, They're gonna give her a pass and they're gonna put the fix in and then they're gonna go to a FISA chord after they've been denied at least once, maybe two times, and try and get a warrant so they can get a sneak peek into what's going on in an opposition party's campaign. That's problematic. And to use the other candidates information, not tell the court about it, not verify the salacious information, and that's bad enough, and do it all because they want to impact an election. That's what this can is down to. That's why this is so big. Watergate, Yeah, that was about impacting an election by stealing your opponents research, okay, a third rate burglary and then covering it up. This is far more sophisticated, far more dangerous, because you're using the powerful tools of intelligence, the powerful tools within the FBI and the d o j IS as the mechanism to pull this off. Even one one final comment here, Sean is what I find hard to believe, even beyond that, every night I watch you on television and I see all the events that have taken place through the d n C and Hillary Clinton. And I mean, anybody can look up the definition online or wherever their Webster's dictionary of organized crime. If that is an organized crime. I've never seen organized crime. And to think that the mafia was the largest organization in this country that represented organized crime. That would be like shrouds boy. Compared to the DNC and all the weaponizing they've done within the agencies of our federal government is a scary thought. It's very scary. A lot of going on here that's very scary. I appreciate the call. Thanks so much for being with us. All right, let's go to UH Lady sim in Calabasas, California. How are you? I wonderful? Hello, my hiro Sean? What's going on? How are you? What an honor for me to speak with you? I m once. I'm from a South Korea, immigrants South Korean and my very own eye. What's going on? The papaganda against UH South and the America, this evil regime and using this Olympics to papaganda, massy papaganda holding It's a messy papaganda. Let me tell you something, Sean. I'm gonna thank two American finest arm impulses sacrifice for keeping freedom my motherland South Korea for seven decades. You will stand by to us. We appreciate so much with South Korean, appreciate so much. We will never forget you. Not only that Mr President Trump, Vice President Mike Sense stood up for this evil dictator monster and North Korean Kim Johan and three roodiums, and and I am so glad you are elected as our president. Thank you so much. You are to you guys are doing commending jobs and saving our USA and South Korea and freedom loving world, the countries all over the world. Thank you so much. All right, well, that's very nice to you. Listen, we all are blessed by America. And I've always said that if America doesn't stand for liberty and freedom and human rights, then who's going to You know, there's a lot of criticisms of this country, but I can't think of a world without the United States and the moral compass we have. And that is the country that has accumulated all this power and sacrificed so much of it for others. And no country has accumulated that power and abused it less and used it for as much good as we have. And that is the American legacy and dream. No we're not perfect. I'll be the first to say, no, we're not a perfect country, but we have been a country that has used it for good. Unfortunately, now we have some cleaning up inside to do first destroy? Are you aware of a gentleman by the name of Oleg Deripaska. I've heard the name. Fair to call him a Putin linked Russian oligarch. Well, I'll leave that characterization to others, uh, and certainly not in this setting. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Juiciary Committee, last week sent a letter to a London based lawyer who is a law who represents Mr derri Posca and asked if Christopher Steele was employed either directly or indirectly by Oleg dear appost at the time he was writing the so called Steele dossier. Um, do you know if Christopher Steele worked for olegda Posca? That's not something I can answer. Could we discuss it in the classified setting? There might be more we could say there. Next is Russia, where President Putin will continue to rely on assertive foreign policies to shape outcomes beyond Russia's borders. Putin will resort to more author terian tactics to main control amid challenges to his rule. With respect to Russian influence efforts. Let me be clear, the Russians utilized this tool because it's relatively cheap, it's low risk, it offers what they perceive as plausible deniability, and has proven to be effective at sewing division. We expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false flag personas, sympathetic spokesman, and other means to influence to try to build on its wide range of operations and has ascerbate social and political fissures in the United States. There should be no doubt that Russia perceived that its past efforts has as successful and used the two thousand and eighteen u S midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations. An op ed by a number of former intelligence analysts called the Nunas memo and its release quote one of the worst cases of politicization of intelligence and modern American history. And quote you said you had concerns about that memo. I know you can't get into the um greaty details of that, but can you, um, can you say in your view whether or not one of those concerns is that it may have uh selectively cherry pay information without presenting the entire fact pattern that led up to that vice of warrant application. Well, center, I would just repeat what we said at the time, which is that we had then and continue to have now, grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum because of omissions. We provided thousands of documents that were very sensitive and lots and lots of briefings. Uh, and it's very hard for anybody to distill all that down to three and a half pages. Al Right, So that's the FBI Director of Christopher Ray writing, you know, he's not answering Tom Cotton's question, and that is whether or not Christopher Steele was employed by Russians while writing the Bony Russian dossier. And then of course Ray testifying that you know, he has grave concerns about the Newness vis A memo. But I'm assuming that's because they don't want any memo out there because they're the ones being investigated by the House Intel Committee. All Right, when we come back, great piece by Byron York is out how comy and even stru told Congress the FBI didn't think that Michael Flynn lied, then why was he charged with that? All Right, we'll take a quick break, we'll come back. News Round Up Information Overload is next coming up next, our final News round Up and Information Overload, Our UM. And I'm a big believer in the idea that the FBI speaks through its work, through its cases, through the victims. UH, it protects UH. And I encourage our folks not to get too hung up on what I consider to be the noise on TV and the social media. So you haven't seen any evidence of some sort of inherent political bias and the agency. No. That was Christopher Ray earlier today and testifying about these not seeing any bias at the FBI, which I don't believe he even believes that. But what is he gonna do? Yeah, I see a ton of bias at the FBI. Let me just come here before the committee and and and tell everything that I believe is wrong. Somebody that I think has been on the on the outside that's been doing amazing work on all of this is Byron Yorkie joins us now he's with the Washington Examinery that he has a great column out and it's Comey told Congress that FBI agents did not think that Michael Flynn lied. Well, then that raises the question about General Michael Flynn, who quote admitted to lying to the FBI when they came to his office in January of seventeen. Why did the General Flynn go along with that and be if they thought he didn't lie, why would they make him agree to that? Uh, Byron York, welcome a board. How are you hey? So thanks for having me? All right? So, if Comey and the other agents didn't believe he lied, why would Michael Flynn agree to take that plea? Well, I think something changed. I mean the timeline here is that, you know, you have to think back to January February and how crazed everybody was about Russia and Flynn and talking with the Russian ambassador and all of that stuff, talking about sanctions, and basically, the FBI goes to interview Flynn on January, the fourth day of the Trump administration, and asked him about these conversations that he Flynn has had with the Russian ambassador during the during the transition, which, by the way, was a perfectly proper thing for an incoming national security In other words, he's talking to his counterpart or he's soon to be counterpart, exactly exactly, and he was getting called. Flenn was getting calls from hundreds of people around the representatives of foreign governments around the country. If Hillary Clinton had won, her incoming national security advisor would have been getting calls from hundreds of representatives of foreign governments around the world. So um, anyway that the FBI comes up, well, but the Justice Department really comes up with this theory that maybe that these conversations that Flynn has had, these entirely normal conversations, violate the Logan Act. I'm sure you've told your listeners about the Logan Act. That's that two hundred year old law that has never ever been successfully prosecuted. Perhaps he violated that, or maybe maybe that Flynn might be susceptible to blackmail. So they went and questioned Flynn. Not clear, wasn't they made their intentions clear before they actually questioned him or not he met them without a lawyer. Nevertheless, when Congress inquired wanted to know what was going on in early March, James Comy goes to Capitol Hill talks to lawmakers. They say, well, what about Michael Flynn. Tomy says, well, the FBI agents who interviewed him do not think he lied, and one of them was Peter Struck. One of them was indeed Peter Struck. So you go from there. That's in March of last year. Go from there to December one of last year, when Flynn pleads guilty to doing just that tow line in that particular interview with the FBI, And the question is what changed? And I have to tell you I don't really know the answer. I don't lay out the answer in the story because I don't know, but but I do know. I have a theory. Now, it's only a theory. You want to hear it. My theory is I'll be happy to hear. Okay, I think and this again, I'm telling everybody, this is a theory. Now if the surveillance, lack of minimization, unmasking, and we know he was unmasked, and then the leaking of raw intelligence which we know took place of General Flynn. When that meeting took place, I believe it was the twenty four of January or somewhere right after he became National Security Advisor, correct January. Okay, so at that point they already knew everything that he had said in the transition to his Russian counterpart. The I're asking him about a conversation of which they had a recording and a transcript which they had read. And I doubt they told him that he had a recording or they had a recording or a transcript of it. Well, Flynn is a former director of the Descent Intelligence Agency, and as such, everyone that I've talked to believe that when certainly would have known that this is the kind of conversation that would have been wire tapped. In other words, the US intelligence would have been wire tapping the Russian ambassador. So my theory goes like this that they he either misremembered, which is very possible. I mean, if you asked me who was on my show last Friday, I'd have to sit here for a while and think. But if he asked me about Reagan's economic statistics in nineteen I can rattle them off in seconds. So I'm not sure what he remembered or didn't remember, or if he lied on purpose or didn't lie on purpose, or he misremembered or didn't But let's put that aside for a second. They should not have had that information because when we in fact, when there is surveillance as we should have of foreign enemies or a hostile regime such as Russia in this particular case, who's talking to the soon to be counterpart is the Russian ambassador, UM, and they pick up in a mirror can on that line. They're supposed to minimize that those reports are supposed to be written without identifying or amasking the American that was speaking to the Russian ambassador, and they would usually, if a proper protocol were followed, they would write an American that the ambassador was talking to an American and then they wouldn't then that raw intelligence would not be leaked either. So I suspect that there was some type And we know what happens with grand juries, and we know what happens with aggressive prosecutors, and here you have a big special counsel set up and they want to justify their existence. And I think he was probably given a choice either you agree the ally to the FBI, or we're gonna go back into all of your financial dealings and that includes that of your family and your son and others, and that would put them in jeopardy. That's my that's my working hypothesis. Well, it has been reported that UM that Flynn's son, who was in business with him for might for a while have been in jeopardy, and that amazingly enough, after Flynn pleaded guilty that the sun was no longer um. In other words, he fell on his sword for his kid, and that's what they came up with. But we also have to remember there's a lot that goes on between March of last year, when Comy tells this to Congress and December one, when, um, when Flynn pleads guilty. First of all, the president fired Comy uh. And then as a result of that, you have the appointment of Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel. Then you have Mueller creating this office and hiring a bunch of gun Hope prosecutors, the people who would make prosecutors. So the thing that changed his Comy's out and the prosecutors in, and the prosecutor that has to justify his existence. There's no doubt that these prosecutors, the specific ones that call me has hired h Weisseman and others have a reputation for kind of take no prisoners prosecutions, and um, you know, I don't know. I mean, the people who were very supportive of Flynn say that, Look, people sometimes plead guilty to get an investigation off their back. They've had enough, they've suffered enough, they're broke. Uh, they're worried about family members. They do these things like that. I've had other people who say no, they had, you know, clear information that he lied. So but but if he the timeline doesn't work because if you have James Comey saying he and his fellow agents didn't think he lied, this is before the special prosecutors appointed, then then how did we ever get to this point? Did that make sense? If it doesn't make sense, No, no, I I totally understand what you're saying. We should say that prosecutors acusing at the I agents normally do not make the prosecutorial decisions. And we should have a big exception because remember in the Hillary Clinton email case, Well, the Attorney General essentially gave James coming the power to make a prosecutorial decisions, but normally they don't. So what we had here was FBI agents going over to questions uh Flynn. But the decisions would be made by the people like Sally Yates who came up with this theory of blackmail or the logan act or of some sort of criminal exposure. Sally ages Is only testified once about this. She testified in May of last year before a Senate judiciary Subcommittee, and she talked about how she went after this interview with Flynn on January. She thinks the news is so critical that she started to go over to the White House and talk to the Council. Don began, so first he hears of it on January. Then tell him about this, and Don McGann says to her, and this is according to her account, says to her, look, what if Michael Flynn lied to the Vice pressent. Let's just say he did. What's that to the Justice Department? I mean, what's what's the crime there? And that is when Sally Flynn apparently goes into her theory about what she called the underlying conduct being the Logan Act, possible Logan Act violation and this idea which again to her theory that Flynn might be vulnerable to blackmail. So she Sally Yates said to intervene and have the FBI question UH plan on on pain of perjury. So you know, I have to say I wrote this story about what Comy told lawmakers. You know, I just think that's important information. I don't know what might have changed, but I do know that a lot of lawmakers view this whole Flenn case as really weird. Well, list the things that happened. I'm troubled by it, all right, by Ron YORKA, will hang in there. We'll have a couple more questions on the other side. Nine one, Shawn's a toll free telephone number. And as we continue, by Ron york is with us with the Washington Examiner and his pieces out Comey told Congress FBI agents didn't think Flynn had lied. Look, look where, colleagues, and you can tell me anywhere you disagree with me, but this is what I think. Where we are, I think you have Hillary Clinton was protected by call me and struck. I've never heard of an exoneration written before an investigation that allowed her to stay in the presidential race. I think the crimes that were committed were overwhelming and incontrovertible. If we're going to follow the law, mishandling classified information, etcetera. With the email server scandal, we'll learn a lot more with the Inspector General report, and then so she's allowed to continue on. She pays for a Russian dossier full of salacious lies and misinformation, and now we've learned that that was the basis the bulk of the information given to a visor court by Callmey and others, and they're just trying to justify it. And I think it was all designed to impact an election, and then when they lost the election, of impact an incoming president in ways that we've never seen before. Is there any part of that you disagree with? Well, I think there's some of the things. I wouldn't go as far as as what you say, although they're I mean, clearly there are a lot of things are obvious facts. I mean, Christopher Seels worked for the Hillary Clinton campaign. But I think, um, once we once we straighten out all these all these actual facts, and that's going to take a long time, I think we have this kind of step back and look at the troubling aspect of the FBI inserting itself into a presidential election on both sides. And you know, basically we had a presidential election in which both candidates were under FBI investigation, and I think you've got to wonder whether maybe the FBI was has just and well, let's go, let's go. Do you doubt that the fix was in? What have you ever heard of an investigation that exonerates They begin the exoneration letter months before they interviewed the principles. No, I haven't. And you know, we've seen some of the early drafts. We know that in May he was James Comen was circulating drafts of that exoneration level letter. Obviously, the interview with Hillary Clinton doesn't happen until July second, and he has exonerated on July five. Yeah, you've explained it to your listeners many times. But but not only did they write the asoneration letter before interviewing Clinton, they they did it before uh, interviewing lots of critical people, seventeen other people. Yeah, well, let me ask you. This community out like candy, and it was astonishing the way they did it. So it's bad enough that Hillary pays for this phony Russian dossier with salacious lies, but then it becomes the bulk of the reason presented before Viser court to get this this visor warrant on on carter page so they can see what's going on within the Trump administration or the Trump campaign rather and later on the incoming presidency and the president elect. And they never told anybody. In other words, they didn't tell the court that it was Hillary Clinton bought and paid for. And also it was unverified because in January, when James Comey went up to Trump Tower to talk to Trump, he said it was unverified installationous. But that's not what they were telling the court in October. Yeah, if I could add one thing about this, this warrant. You know, you've heard some defenders of the FBI say no, no, no, they weren't spying on the campaign because they didn't get the warrant until after Carter Page had left the campaign. But the fact is one of these warrants are very powerful things, and they allow the FBI to listen to phone conversations going forward after the warrant is issued, but also to look at email and text and any other thing that leaves the record going backwards as far as they've got the records. So carter Page had had emails with members of the Trump campaign and say may or June of this warrant would allow them to read all those And by the way, the warrant also allowed the FBI to break into pages house and plant listening devices if they chose. Unbelievable, do you do you have the same issues that I have with the team that Robert Mueller has assembled. All the Democratic donors, people like Andrew Weissman and his track record going back to Anderson Accounting and Enron and for meryal executives being overturned nine zero in the Supreme Court, will spending a year in jail that's overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, tens of thousands of jobs lost. You have a problem with some of these people, Yeah, I I do. I think it certainly looks bad. And you you could also have mentioned the Wiseman sending this kind of cheerleading note to Sally Yates when she refused to enforce the president's executive order, which which got her fired quickly, and Wiseman was a was a big fan of that. Um, I think it would be better. Uh, it just seems like it would be obviously better to hire a political prosecutors for this. I also think, and I wrote about this at the time, haven't seen as much since that Mueller and James Comey are good friends, and James Comey is going to be if there is, if there is to be a case of obstruction of justice against the president, the firing of James Comey is going to be the centerpiece of that case, the key witness, the star witness will be James Comey, who will be a good buddy of the prosecutor. So you know, it's just it's not a great situation, all right. Byron York, Thank you for being with us. Eight Sean a t the top of the hour, Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program. A lot has been made about past presidents and their faith and anyway, there's a new book out by my friend David Brodie. It's really well done and fascinating and interesting, and it's called The Faith of Donald J. Trump. And David's the chief political correspondent of the CBN Network. And here's the President talking at the National Prayer Breakfast. In their selfless deeds, they reveal the beauty and goodness of the human soul. When catastrophic hurricane struck, first responders and everyday citizens dove into rushing waters to save stranded families from danger, and they saved them by the thousands. Neighbors open their homes to those in need of food, clothes, shelter. Firefighters brave blinding smoke and laims to rescue children from devastating wildfires. During the horrific shootings, Stranger shielded strangers and police officers ran into hail of boats to save the lives of their fellow Americans right in Las Vegas. A terrible day, a terrible night, but such bravery. Families have adopted babies orphaned by the opioid epidemic and given them loving homes. Communities and churches have reached out to those struggling with addiction and shown them the path to a clean life, a good job, and a renewed sense of purpose. And soldiers, sailors, coast guardsmen, airmen, and marines have spent long months away from home defending our great American flag. So all we have to do is open our eyes and look around us, and we can see God's hand in the courage of our fellow citizens. We see the power of God's love at work in our souls, and the power of God's will to answer all of our prayers. When Americans are able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of their faith, and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all. Here with us today is another symbol of hope. A very brave nine year old girl named Sophia Marie Kampa Peters. Sophia suffers from a rare disease that has caused her to have many strokes. At one point, the doctors told Sophia that you would not be able to walk. Sophia replied, if you're only going to talk about what I can't do, then I don't want to hear it. Just let me try to walk. She tried, and she succeeded, and one of her doctors even told her mom, and they're right here in the front row where they should be. This little girl has God on her side. Thank you, Sophia, Thank you mom, great mom. I said, do you love your mom? She said, I have a great mom. I love my mom. Right. Just two weeks ago, Sophia needed to have a very high risk surgery. She decided to ask the whole world to pray for her, and she hoped to reach ten thousand people. On January, as Sophia went into surgery, she far surpassed her goal. Millions and millions of people lifted Sophia up in their prayers. Today, we thank God that Sophia is with us, and she's recovering, and she's walking very well. And I have to say this, Sophia. You may only be nine years old, but you are already a hero to all of us in this room and all over the world. Thank you, Sophia. As long as we open our eyes to God's grace and open our hearts to God's love, that America will forever be the land of the free, the home of the brave, and the light unto all nations. All right, David Brody joins us now. The Faith of Donald J. Trumpets up on Hannity dot com, bookstores everywhere, Amazon dot com. How are you, sir, Good sir, Thanks for having me on. I've actually enjoyed the times I've been on with you and your network, and you guys are actually nice to conservatives. It's rare. It's rare. I'm not used to read exactly. Um now, unlike say Michael Wolf's book, you actually spoke to the president about his faith, about his religious views. And you know, somebody said, I was reading the Heritage Foundation at the end of seventeen and they were pointing out that this president is governing in his first year, governed more conservatively than even Ronald Reagan. And everyone's you know, this big argument, is he a populist. Is he a nationalist? I'm watching a guy governing as a Reagan Conservative. Um, what did you learn about his faith that might surprise people? Well, there are a few things. And first of all, it funny you mentioned Michael Wolfe because I was basically going to say, this is the book Michael wolf probably doesn't want you to read. It actually has interviews with President Trump and Vice President Pence. Actually the interview with the President Trump was done in the Oval office too, with Mike Pence in the West Wing. Um. Look, there a couple of things. First of all, what was really striking in this book is he talks about the impact that evangelicals have had on him. When and I see evangelicals, you're talking about leaders that are around him, not just Paula White and some of these other folks we've heard about. Where we're talking specifically about many televangelists, many Pentecostals that he has never even experienced before Sean, and all of a sudden, there's this whole world that's opened up to him. So he says, the quote in the book is basically how this has impacted him greatly. And what we're starting to see now is a spiritual voyage, especially in the last couple of years, where behind the scenes there are a lot of folks that are I want to say, witnessing to him. They're really kind of sharing Jesus with him in a way that is something that he's not used to. Mainline presbyterian Um, the way he grew up is not the way necessarily he's getting an experience. Now. Well, I was gonna ask you in this context because I know people like Darryl Scott and and he put together a group of of he's the head of the National Diversity Coalition for the President and others, and I know that they do talk to him about these things. I know Franklin Graham talks to him about these things, and I know that he's interested in these things. And it's it's interesting when he gets in an environment where he can actually talk about it. As we just heard, he does show the side of him. You know, for me, a certain fundamental aspect of faith is discerning good versus evil. And I know we get into this all the time with Republican presidents. If Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire, the left goes crazy. Or if George W. Books. Bush talks about, you know, Iran and Um and Iraq and North Korea as being an access of evil and Donald Trump isn't willing to give let's see billions of dollars to Mullas and Iran that are talking about blowing us up and wiping us off the face of the earth or North Korea. You know that that frightens people on the left, But there seems to be a more fundamental understanding of the evil nature of some of these regimes and just how they treat their own people. Well, that's right. That's been a big magnet for evangelicals as to why they're attracted to Donald Trump. You know, Donald Trump's the world in in absolutes, and so do we evangelicals. And there's a kinship, a doctor phil moment, as I like to call it. And I think that's really important. And I also think to understand Donald Trump, you have to really know him, actually know him, because in private, as you know Sean, when the cameras are not rolling, evangelical leaders will come to recognize more compassionate side. There's a story in the book Sean about a private car ride. Mike Pence is telling me the story of the Vice president just a few months ago before the book came out, telling me the story. It's Mike Pence, Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins, Donald Trump in a car in Louisiana two thousand and sixteen, the flooding down there. This was before he was president. Trump becomes deeply moved by what Graham's Christian ministries Maritan's First, had done for flood victims. So right there on the spot, it's just before them in the car, he tells Graham he's gonna he needs to give the ministry a hefty six figure check, and he says, I got to do something. I've just been moved by this so much. And Graham politely told Trump to send it to Tony's home church, not Home's home church that had been instrumental in the recovery efforts. So you know, once again, camera's not rolling a different side of Donald Trump. Look, Walter Cronkite to to to quote the you know the liberal bastion media, right. I mean, Walter Cronkite always talks about in seeking truth, you have to get both sides of a story. Well, here's the other side of the story that media doesn't really want to tell well, I think that's that's an interesting way to put it. Look, I also think New York is a very different place. And I speak from experience because I was born and raised in New York on Long Island, and I was raised Catholic, and I was an altar boy. And you know, then I go on this radio adventure that takes me five years in Rhode Island and five years in California, and two years in Alabama and four years in Georgia, and then you know, fortunately I got back to New York and I was hired by the Fox News Channel. But in the time that I traveled, I began to see and and this is in no way disparaging of of any other part of the country or region of the country, but when I got to Alabama and Georgia, it was a a very different Christianity than the Catholicism that I grew up in, and I came to like it, appreciate it, identify with it. And I don't think it's that there are play says like this in New York, but the differences in Alabama. It's every other street there's a church. Yeah. Well, and it's interesting you say this because this is pretty much what the President told me in the Oval office. He said, look, I didn't hang around these people before. I don't know, I didn't know any of this. But now they're opening my eyes to you know, this whole kind of other side of the faith that he didn't know anything about. And you know, it's funny because a story in the book is a bishop, Wayne Jackson, who was one of the folks that prayed at the inauguration. Be's a lifelong Democrat. Uh. He Trump goes into Great Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit. Trump visited, visits the church, and then it was Wayne Jackson telling me that the moment Trump got out of the car, this is a quote from Wayne Jackson, the bishop. He says, quote, the spirit of the Lord told me that he is going to be the next president of the United States. So these are the circles that Donald Trump is running in. Now. A little bit more of that prophetic side, a little bit more of that definitely that evangelical side that is kind of blown Donald Trump away. But at the same time, he respects people of faith, the clergy, I mean, he members of time. He's seventy one years old. He remembers a time where you you're dressed up for church. You didn't come in baggy pants and and sneakers. And you know this is a respect for clergy that he has. I remember Daryl Scott, you mentioned Darryl Scott. He specifically said to me that in meetings with clergy, Trump adopts the position of the lesser, not of the more powerful. If you are fascinating, that's that is pretty interesting to hear from Daryl Scott. Do you think that the president is getting more faithful, his faith is growing? Do you see that or maybe in your conversations with him you've seen it absolutely. And there's a few different things that can point to. First of all, you know, of course you did that interview with the president right off the top in his presidency. I was able to do the third interview with him, and during that interview he said, I need God even more in this job. And just the other day, about two weeks ago, at the TV Network anchor luncheon before the State of the Union, I was actually there in the room in the State Dying room with the President. He's talking about how basically, as a businessman, Heart isn't involved, but as president, Heart is involved and compassion is involved, so he's getting a whole another side of this. And then at the National Prayer Breakfast, what did we just see? I mean, we had a president who, in his first year at the National Prayer break Fast talked about the ratings of the Apprentice more uh, he talked about the ratings of the Princess, about his accomplishments. But what did he do this time around? You know, years time? He didn't talk at all about the Apprentice, didn't talk at all about his accomplishments. It was more of god less of him. And it was a subdued, very poignant speech, and even the New York Times enjoyed. And that's saying something. But the point is is that we're seeing some movement on his on his behalf for sure. You know. I remember during the campaign and a lot of evangelicals took a lot of heat if they supported Donald Trump for president. I mean, okay, he was divorced, and he wasn't a perfect person, and he made the tabloids, etcetera. And I think it was Jerry Fallwell Jr. I know it was Jerry Fallwell Jr. That said, we're looking, we're not electing a pastor here if I was electing a pastor, I'd be looking for something different. I'm looking for a strong press that didn't think can fix the country. Well, that's right, and he nailed it right on the head. And look in the view of evangelicals, they see a culture that's securiorating quickly in the last decade. For sure. They want a bold culture warrior to fight for them. And and by the way, Sean showing that God does indeed have a sense of humor, he gave them Trump, which I think is kind of funny. But anyhow, the bottom line is it's basically in God's perfection. It's a match made in heaven because Trump and evangelicals actually share quite a few important cultural points of is of interest. I mean, look, there's a disdain for political correctness and all of that Judeo Christian values. He remembers Bible reading in school, he remembers prayer in school. He patent, he loves pattent in the fifties, he remembers America who once was dot dot dot. And but on these on these cultural issues, he comes down on the side of where evangelicals come down on and where I would come down on. Well, that's right, and you talk about fruit. Everybody talks about the spiritual fruit, Well, where is it in his life or where is it in your life or my life? And look, the spiritual fruit can be said from a public polo see standpoint. He has delivered a plus for evangelicals in the first years. A matter of fact, I talked to an evangelical leader the other day, I said, so, what's on the to do listen to two th eighteen? He said, my goodness, we're starting to run out of things. I mean literally the president from Jerusalem to the Gorsage to the life issue, he's been spot on and evangelicals have loved every minute of it. All Right, David Brody, congratulations on a great book. It's called The Faith of Donald Trump. And uh it is in bookstores everywhere. Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com. And we appreciate you being with us. Alright, Sean is our toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program, right, Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Right, So tonight we're gonna have what is in the memo that's been or the dossier that's ever been verified? Well, the answer is nothing. Absolutely positively nothing. And then that raises a questionable why are we always talking about this anyway? We have Sebastian Gorka, James Calstrom, he's great, ed Henry new king Rich. We have Jesse Water Versus, Jessica Tarloff, Dan Bongino, and Francisco Hernandez on the immigration battle. That's all coming up. 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