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Just go to my pillow dot com or call eight hundred zero nine zero promo code Hannity, take advantage of Mike special two for one offer my pillow dot Com promo code Hannity. What an incredible these newsdays. I gotta be honest, Keeping up with all of this is a twenty four hour job. There's no rest for the weary here. By the way, not complaining in any way. I'll take busy over slow news days any day, you know, Um, I just will. It's uh, there's a lot going on here, you know, a lot has been made over my comments. I was on with Bannon last night on a serious x M on the Patriot Channel. They he hosts Bright Part News. It's on after Me and Levine and Uh. Anyway, I happened to stop by. There was a book event party last night over you know. It's at some restaurant in New York, right next to Fox. So I stopped buying I and uh, I just said hello, and and a lot of fun people there and people that I liked there, And anyway, I didn't stay very long, but I just I went in there and he's actually doing his debut show and I he asked what I think of the Republican Party, and I said, it's a dead party. It's a morally corrupt party. What do I mean by that? I mean, if you promised certain things for all these years, give us the House, Senate and and and give us the presidency and will do a B, C and D and I expect those things to get done. And it's something that it's funny how much news it's making, considering I say it here every day, and that they're weak and ineffective and visionless and lacking identity. That's all true. I'm not I don't withhold anything from any of you. And they've been they have been the greatest disappointment. And I didn't leave them. They left us, meaning we the people in this country. They've left us. And yeah, I'm I'm happy about the economic bill, the tax bill. I'm happy the middle class are getting some relief that they desperately deserve. I'm happy that corporations. Corporations never pay taxes and it's a myth if you believe they do. I'm happy the corporate rate is now going to be competitive around the world. I'm happy the president on his own has gotten rid of all of these burdens and regulations he's getting rid of. I'm happy that he has independently saved the coal industry and is moving to an all of the above energy strategy, which will create millions of high paying career jobs. I'm happy about that. I'm happy multinational corporations will now be incentivized to take their trillions parked overseas in these tax haveing countries and that they'll bring that money back in the hopes that they'll build factories and manufacturing centers and create jobs and businesses and opportunities for those people that Obama left behind for eight years. I'm really happy about all of that. You know, I do think that they could have gone further. And by going further, it's simple follow the Reagan model, the Kennedy model. The Reagan dropped the top marginal rate, seventy twenty one million new jobs, created longest period of peacetime economic growth. He doubled revenues to the government, and we had GDP growth this highest seven point four percent at one point, you know, during the Obama years one one and a half. You know, remember we even had negative growth some quarters with Obama. And since Trump has done all of this on his own, we've seen two million jobs created, We've seen you know, the best consumer confidence. In seventeen years, we've seen a seven year high labor participation rate that means people finding jobs in the job market that didn't exist. We see that he's effectively pressured in embarrassed companies into staying here in America because they were they were so quick, and there was a mass exodus leaving and going overseas where they didn't have to deal with the burdens and regulations in this country. It never was about costs. It never was about labor costs. In spite of what some people will tell you, although there are Republicans that have their you know, nose up in the air country club, Republicans that they want cheap labor, and I'm sorry, uh, if you want the best labor, if you want American workers, or you might have to pay a little bit more. And the idea that you want to take your company south of the border or put in some other places obnoxious. But in some cases government is so disincentivized corporations they've had no choice if they want to be competitive. My next air condition is gonna be a carrier. You know, I'm gonna try to buy I buy cars that I know are made in America. That's it. I just do it because I want to support the industries. I'll hand it to your old fashioned And by the way, it doesn't matter. I mean, it could be a Toyota, it could be a Honda Hyunda, you know has a plant in America. I don't care what you buy, but I want American workers to be built in those cars. That's just what. It's just good for our country. It's good for those those families. You know, we can revitalize a city like Detroit, it's possible. It can revitalize these old manufacturing centers, and we can adapt to the new economy. We don't have to be you know, it's it's obvious now that we're moving very quickly and expeditiously towards a high tech world. Means a lot of jobs in the high tech industries. And I t and you know all of those fields. But you're always gonna need people to work. And I prefer to hire American workers. And I prefer that we not be competing with people that will work for pennies on the dollar that entered this country illegally and that could be taken advantage of by other people. That happens a lot too and if there are certain industries were told that I guess, you know, out in California they have a need during you know, certain times of the years that they can't get enough American workers. Well, if we can't find them and help them get to where the work is, or they don't want to do that work, which I don't understand. If you get any job, you should take it if you don't have a job, but if you if you have to, we can arrange you know, work permits. After we met people from other countries and allow them in as a guest worker and just have to monitor them that they don't you know, skip off and try and fade into the sunset and and hope for amnesty ten years later, which you know has happened. You know, this is a pretty amazing statement by Jim Acosta. When journalists are attacked, journalists have to resist. Wow, this is CNN. You get the president gets two scoops, You only get one. Look at the inside of this dog's ear. It looks like Donald Trump. Did you see me when I play that? Oh yeah, they did a whole report on the inside of a dog's ear looks like the face of Donald Trump. It's so unbelievable. Did you put up the article yesterday on the American Thinker on our website? This person is liberal. I'm a liberal, but I agree with Hannity, journalism is dead. And then he takes a shot because I give opinion, and I'm like, well, I'm a talk show host. A talk show host are known to give opinions. There's no secrecy here. And I think, now, thirty years in radio and onenty three years on the Fox News Channel, it's not a surprise that people finding out that Hannity is not an objective journalist. I'm a journalist, but I'm a advocacy journalist. I'm an opinionated journalist. I do straight interviews a lot of times, plenty of times, but I also give opinion. All Right, we've got some breaking news I want to share with you, but I want to backtrack a little bit here, and I want to get into at length what we talked about yesterday, and that is, you know, the scandal that has now developed within the top ranks of the FBI and this guy, Peter Struck and the guy that was removed from Robert Mueller's apparently now one sided and biased team that he put together uh, this summer after it was discovered that he was sending anti Trump text pro Hillary Clinton text to another woman that apparently he was having a relationship with, and she worked as a top FBI lawyer under Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Now since then, we've learned that the Office of Inspector General is reviewing Peter Struck's role in the Clinton email server investigation. And from what we know, Struck, you know, the guy that favors Hillary and h Trump. That this guy Hillary Clinton loving official at the FBI was intimately involved with investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. And as Katherine Harriget Fox pointed out, Struck was on the ground floor of the server investigation, and that included participating in the July interview of Hillary Clinton where she was not put under oath, and he was also involved in recommending whether or not Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted. This is a guy that has a political agenda and a bias and then we can't He's also the guy that changed the language of Comey's draft exoneration letter. Now, remember this was in May. They had an interviewed Clinton, they had an interviewed the main people involved in the Clinton email server scandal. And there's James Comey writing an exoneration of Hillary and he even put in the words gross negligence, which is the legal standard. Now we find out this guy Struck who hates Trump and loves Hillary, he's the one that changed it to extreme carelessness. And he also helped draft this exoneration statement. You know what that is. That's an abusively biased FBI guy that should not be investigating Trump nor Hillary Clinton. And what happened here is, in my view, if you want to talk about obstruction of justice, I think we gotta ask about him and Comey, because if you're not doing a full investigation and having equal justice under the law, that is, by its very definition, obstruction of justice. And then Struck lie uh sorry, led the probe into whom Aberdeen's emails that were found on Wiener's computer, and how some investigators are now saying to they believe Struck us tied to the FBI's handling of the Trump dossier, the phony Hillary paid for Boughton paid for Darsier with Russian propaganda and lies, and the and the Fiser surveillance of a Trump campaign associate. This guy's up to his eyeballs and everything as part of Mueller's team. And this is where it's getting interesting. The fix was in for Hillary Clinton and the and the absolute desire to take down Trump is evidenced by this guy's own comments. And then it raises the question will eight of the sixteen people that Mueller hired, Oh, they're big Democratic donors to Clinton and Obama. Well, I don't see any of them donating to the to anybody else. That's pretty outrageous. And you got the FBI Deputy director McCabe is the key witness. You know. Congress now wants the interview about the dossier, but McCabe will not show up to testify. And he's thought to have been the FBI's key point person or handler of this British m I six agent Christopher Steele, who created the phony Russian paid for dossier, the Russian propaganda dossier. Hill learc it and paid for Darcier. And then that you have the Political Action Committee, you know, tied to the Clintons, b F Terry mccauloff. Well, they gave McCabe's wife a half a million bucks for her Senate run and she got another two hundred thousand dollars from the Democratic Party, an obscene amount of money for state race and the president. You know, he's reacting to all of this, he said, after years of Comey and the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation, He's right, the fix was in running the FBI, and his reputation is in tatters, worst in history, says he'll bring it back. Well, the President's percent right about Comey and a percent right about this guy struck and apparently struck as also one of the guys that interviewed General Flynn. This is beyond outrageous. This is not a a a fair and balanced and objective and and equal justice under the law scenario here. Well, now we've got news breaking as we come on the air here to day, and that is I keep telling you about this Andrew Wiseman. Guy, Andrew Wiseman is the one that had the nine zero Supreme Court decision against him. He's the one that through innocent people from Merrill, Lynch and jail that ended up being innocent. He's the one that came up with new laws that didn't exist. He's the guy that was involved in the Enron case and the Anderson Accounting case where tens of thousands of people lost his job. Well, it turns out that Mueller. You know again, Mueller put this whole team together. Wiseman as the most atrocious record of being unethical of all of them. So the day that Sally Yates has fired through Judicial Watch, we now find out Wiseman wrote to Yates, I am so proud, proud that Donald Trump fired her. I am in awe, thank you so much. Well, now he needs to go. It's unbelievable. Our constant tuition now is in jeopardy. If this is the Banana Republic they're creating here, I get back to that. Also, false reports about Mueller investigating Trump's finances. Jay Sekula will clarify at the bottom of the hour and exclusive interview. 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Plus you get extra savings with exclusive holiday daily deals only at Tommy John dot com slash Hannity. Hey alright, so now, well we'll get into this with Jay Sekulo and Sarah Carter and Victoria Tunsing all stopping by today other news, Bryan Ross has been banned from covering Trump. Well, if you have to do that with your investigative reporter, what is the point, you know? PJ Media raises a point today a source that they're quoting of the January interview with General Flynn. The uh FBI Deputy director had contacted Flynn by phone directly at the White House, and White House officials had spent earlier the earlier part of the week overseeing the training and security measures associated with the new roles, So it was no surprise that Flynn to Flynn that McKay had called. Well, turns out McCabe told Flynn some agents were headed over to the White House. Flynn thought it was part of routine that the FBI was doing. It wasn't until after they were already in Flynn's office he realized he was being formally interviewed. He didn't have an attorney with him. That may become an issue. And the FBI ignored congressional referrals to investigate Hillary for felony perjury. There's an exchange with Jason cha fits over that I saw him on TV earlier today. You know Pelosi, by the way, Pelosi's warning that the world is going to come to an end if the GOP tax plan becomes law really a little fearmongering here. Uh, we'll get to all of this. Also, the Trump hating FBI agent sent an urgent alert to call me on Clinton on the Clinton Lynch tarmac meeting. Let me explain this to you now. Minutes after this guy Struck learned in twenty sixteen that Bill Clinton had been caught secretly meeting with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac and Phoenix. He sent an urgent alert to the FBI Director James Comey. Shortly thereafter. Emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the bureau launched a frantic attempt to track down the source of the information in a bid to quote stem any further damage. Now, Jay Sekulo is going to join us in a minute. It discussed these documents on his radio show earlier. Uh, I think it was either today or yesterday, And he said, Struck spent sent an email within eight minutes of the information hitting the d o J about the tarmac meeting. They went to people within the FBI, and eight minutes it reached James Comey. It was marked urgent and high. The talking points are still redacted. He said, there's some serious legal issues and conflicts of interest here. Now they were first obtained by Judicial Watch, and agents wanted to find the whistleblower who outed the tarmac meeting to local press. Well, that's believed to be a law enforcement official. All we'll find out what this all means. Jay Sekulo coming up next. A now toll, let's let's play. The Democrats melt down over the Republican tax bill. This is pretty funny. Democrats talk about this bill often in very acalyptic terms, but isn't really what's going on, and said, many people are getting a very modest tax cut and some people are getting a tax increase. Wall A lot of this is also joined the business. But it's not the end of the world now. It is the end of that. This healthcare, the debata on healthcare is life death. This is armageddon. This is a very big deal because you know why, there's really a very hard way to come back from this. They take us further more deeply into debt. What can you do but raise taxes. They contend that they're a gift to corporate America. A trillion and a half dollars could be up to a trillion a half dollars will be paid for by the growth it creates. And even their own people say on sense, not true, not true. So let's be truthful with the American people about that. They throw a few crumbs to the middle class, where they give with one hand, they take away in bounty with the other. And why because it is in their DNA to give tax cuts to the rich, that their purpose in coming to Palmist for many reason, it isn't the underworld is because America is a great country, and the greatness of America and the fact that God is always with us is what gives us hope. But it's very important for the American people to know how adversely they will be personally affected by all of this. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers responding to the tax bill and the impact that it could have on healthcare coverage, and a new opened out overnight. It's called Yes, the Senate Geop tax plan would cause thousands to die. If you want to explain your latest off ed look, I think this bill is very dangerous. There's pretty clear ab looking across different states and looking when health insurance has been phased in and out. When people lose health insurance, they're less likely to get preventive care, they're more likely to defer health care they need, and ultimately they're more likely to die. And it's very hard to quantify precisely. My piece explains why an estimate that thousands will die as a consequence of this bill is actually a very conservative estimate, done much much more carefully, based on much more rigorous evidence than the absurd claims made by some that this bill will somehow pay for itself. Doom and gloom. Republicans, Conservatives, liberals and Democrats. Libertarians, you're all going to die. Your children are going to die. Everybody's going to die, and they only exist for tax cuts to the rich. Prepare to die the moment that, in fact, this bill is past, well, then Nancy Pelosi, by the way, suggested he tells California Republicans to live and leave the state. It's sort of like what Andrew Cuomo was saying. If you're one of those conservatives and you believe in the Second Amendment, your pro life, you're not a New Yorker and you have no place in New York. If you remember that one, Nancy Pelosi says, I want every single California Republican to understand this. Your ideology doesn't come first, Your party doesn't come first. The people come first. If you failed to recognize that, you do not be long here. You disagree with her gone hip hip problems are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life two assault weapon? Is that who they are, because if that's who they are, and if they have the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York citizens. That's not who new Yorkers are, no place in the state. And well, I'm I don't care what people do. I'm fairly libertarian. It's your own life. But I do believe in the Second Amendment, and I am right to life. I believe that life begins a conception. That's not who New Yorkers are, and New Yorkers don't you have no way to be here in New York. Oh, he thinks he's going to be president, and he thinks he's going to be president, I'll leave, trust me, there's no point at that point. It's gone, Uh, we're gonna be trying to get Jay second, like I assume he probably got caught up in a meeting. But so you've got the Trump hating FBI urgent sending the alert on the arm MAC meeting. And now what we're finding out it's marked urgent and high and the talking points are still redacted. But what we find out is Pete Stroke was involved in that. This is unbelievable and within eight minutes of the information hitting the d o J about Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton on the tarmac. Oh, they went to people within the FBI. Comey new in eight minutes marked urgent high. There's some serious issues involving the law here in conflicts of interest. Judicial Watch Now has gotten ahold of these emails. It shows the FBI was not particularly concerned in any way with the scandalous meeting. They were only concerned about hiding the details from we the people, the public. That's unbelievable. And the FBI agents wanted to find who was who outed them on the tarmac. The whistle blow is believed to be a law enforcement official. There's just days before the decision of Loretta Lynch. FBI agents wanted to find the whistle blower. They didn't care about the meeting. FBI officials, right, we need to find that guy. What did he do wrong? The FBI Phoenix office was contacted in an attempt to stam any further damage. The fix was in. The fix was in from the get go. All right, by the way, Jay is available now. All Linda, if you're paying attention, you can call now. Would be guess I know I'm trying to get him. Thank you all right, You're very welcome. Not telling you to do your job. I just got a text I'm sharing with you anyway. Uh so we got that on the plate. Muller fired this guy, Peter Struck, you know, and he fired the mistress. By the way, he's calling my phone. I'll just tell him hang on, Lynda is calling you, shorthand there we go. Greg Jared has how an FBI official with the political agenda corrupted the investigations by Bob Muller And comey, let's get to Jay Sekulo. He is the chief council of the American Center for Law Injustice and also counsel to the President. How are you, sir, I'm good, sir, Sean, how are you. Let's go over this guy Struck that seems to be in the middle of everything now that we have um. And more importantly, he changed the words as it relates to the exoneration which was written by Comy before the investigation of Hillary Clinton and email server, and he changed the words from gross negligence the legal standard or you know, reckless disregard or whatever, it was extreme carelessness. And I want to get your thoughts on this, and I want to get you if he's involved in everything, and he's hates Trump and he loves Hillary. Well, he's he's no longer involved in the in the case, uh, in the investigation, so he's been removed. But it raised, of course, it raised a really serious issue, and uh, a serious issue because if you go back to the Flynn investigation, Uh, evidently he was the agent in charge of that one as well back in January. So it's not just as it relates to this one aspect, but it's multiple uh prongs of this, the Hillary Clinton side, the the the the aspect as it relates to General Flynn. And then of course was still on the team and I think until July on bomb Mueller staff, until he was reassigned to human resources. So this is look at, these are all issues that have to be raised. They're all serious issues. And again, um, if you look at the well, can I ask you a question, I mean, when if you're writing an exoneration letter before you've done the investigation, right, doesn't that sound like the fixes in and the person involved? And I think, I mean I've said that the whole time. I mean the whole time, and James call me not only did he write the exoneration letter before he does witness interviews. Many of these witnesses god immunity that he did not interview. And he wrote this letter three months before because they knew where this was going. So the whole process is ridiculous, Sean, It's been ridiculous from the outset. We've been saying it for a year. It's still ridiculous. I'm not sure if you heard this news. This just broke with Katherine Harriage over at the Fox News channel that the deputy Mueller deputy apparently and this is Andrew Weisman. Andrew Weisman. I told the story about him, and you know, he was accused of making up laws that don't exist and pretty unethical behavior. He had a nine old decision against him in the Supreme Court. He was overturned in another case by the Fifth District Court of Appeals. Uh. This is a guy that was wrong on the Enron investigation Anderson accounting, tens of thousands of jobs were lost, Merrill Lynch employees that were innocent, innocent spent a lot of time in jail because of him. And anyway, he along with seven other Clinton Obama donors, will put on Mueller's team. Now it turns out the day that Sally Yates was fired, that he sent a email to Sally Yates the subject line, I am so proud, and then he continued end in awe, thank you so much, all my deepest respects. All that sounds like we have And just like in the case of Struck, somebody that's pro Clinton and nanti Trump. So here's the here's the situation. There are ways in which these issues are raised. And the way in which an issue is raised is initially, if there was a concern about bias or improper action the lawyers that are representing um in a situation like with Manafort, his lawyers could raise objections both within the Special Counsel's Office and with the Department of Justice, the depth the Attorney General's Office was supervising it. That's the way in which this Then there's there's another words as a process in place for those issues to be raised. Is it a problem for you that that Mueller put together a team Andrew Wiseman's background and this guy Peter I'm not let me Sean, I'm not going to comment on that because of the nature of understood, All right, move on to some thing. So I don't want to. Yeah, I can't. I can't, but I will say this, if I was representing uh, Paul Manaford or Dates and you had these issues, I think those are the kind of things you raise. What about you talked on your radio show about struck send an email within eight minutes of the information hitting the Department of Justice about the tarmac meeting. Yeah, so all of that ends up going right up to James Colby and it reached called me about within about thirty two minutes of the whole thing hitting. And this was pursuing to a Premium Information Act litigation that we were engaged in on this that resulted in documents being disclosed. All they're still redacting some big ones, which we're back while re sawing yesterday in federal court. So all that's proceeding. But yes, uh, I mean, this guy was conflicted on a hundred different ways, and I think it's created a real problem for the Department of Justice, and they're trying to rectify it by moving him too. I guess it was human resources, But at the end of the day was the number two encounter intelligence. There was a lot of news made this morning, a report by Bloomberg that in fact, Mueller had started investigating Donald Trump's finances, which I believe Deutsche Bank. Is that true? Well, I just issued a statement on that. So we've worked on. We saw that news report this morning, and the fact of the matter is, and I'll confirm it here, is there are no subpoenas that had been issued regarding the president the president's finances to Deutsche Bank. That was completely false. The media reports were false. No subpoenas have been issued or received. And we confirmed that. My colleagues confirmed that with are they are investing information? Nope, So the the whole thing was a false report, fake deuce. Yeah, well you know what it actually looks like it originated in Germany. Wow. How is it possible that Hillary Clinton escaped criminal indictment for the mishandling of these documents and the email server scandal when we have all of this evidence? And how is it possible that an FBI director is writing this exoneration before he does the investigation. Isn't that the very definition of obstruction from him? Yeah? Sean there, In my view, James Colemey has no defense what what he has acknowledged doing, whether it was leaking the information about the president, or whether it was the statement itself, as you said, writing the statement before the witnesses were interviewed, it tells you what this was politics, pure and symbol. Is there any It was not equal justice under the law. And that has been my biggest claim here. What is the best outcome when you're dealing with people that now are exposed as having political biases that what's the best way to handle that? Start over? Look, my my goal in this entire process has been that this we get a fact, fact based determination that there was no violation of the law here. And and I think that's becoming crystal clear. I mean that you had, you know, the reports I mean talking about the Deutson Banks news today two days ago was Brian Ross at ABC. I mean, and all of these stories were incorrect. So when you look at the facts and and and do you look at the facts, there's no legal violation here? Do you think that this is something We keep hearing speculation from the media that there now they're on to Jared Kushner and all this deal with Flynn. There's a lot of speculation about the deal. I read the five page agreement and they did talk about one other person at the request of one other person. The media has speculated it's Jared Kushman. Yeah, but you know what, here's the thing with that. Uh. First of all, if if General Flynn were to have had a conversation with the Russians when the president was a distinticular case was the president elect, that's not the violation of any law. And this this argument that this somehow violates the so called uh, what's not so called. It's called the Logan Act, which has been on the books in sev but never s eighteen years. Yeah. Yeah, suffer some serious constitutional problems, free speech being one of them. But also the fact that we have a Presidential Transition Act in ninety three that that governs how this all operates. So this was no wonder. Of course, there's not gonna be a Logan Act violation. You're or every president elect would be violating it. So it's it's nonsense. I think this is against speculation. General Flynn pled guilty. Entered a guilty plea as relates to lying to federal agents during the investigation. Alright, j Secular American Center for Law and Justice, Special Counsel of the President, thank you for being with you. Will join us on TV tonight. Well, we'll follow up more with Sarah Carter and Victoria Tunsey. I know I'm running late here, all right. Our to Sean Hannity's show eight nine four one, Shawn is a toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. We have been going over this whole story involving this guy, Peter Struck, and how this guy basically had his hand in in pretty much everything as it relates to the Clinton email investigation, as it includes the dossier, as it it's everything, he has his hands it, and we find out that he hates Trump and that he loves Hillary Clinton. But yet he's involved in you know, changing the words from you know to extreme carelessness when it's gross negligence the legal standard. And now the story is getting bigger. Sarah Carter, investigative reporter, broke that story yesterday how this fi FBI supervisor was removed from the special Council. We have talked at length about half of the people that Mueller are appointed. They're all big Democratic donors, no Republican donors. Uh. Then we talked about judicial wats releasing you know, two productions of Justice Department documents showing strong support by top d o J officials for four we're Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and her refusal to enforce President Trump's Middle East Travel Band executive order, and she got fired one email. Andrew Weissman. We've told you all about him. He's the guy that had the nine zero decision reversial reversal under obstruction of justice. He was overturned by the Fifth District Court of Appeals. He's the guy that literally put innocent people in jail and made up laws and a whole bunch of other unethicable, unethical and questionable conduct that he's been involved in. On Now we find out that, in fact, he's a big supporter of Sally Yates and on the day that she got far, I'm proud of you and in awe of you. Thank you so much, all my deepest respects. Wow. So now we've got another guy, top deputy hired by Mueller, the special counsel. Anyway. The Judicial Watch obtained these documents through a May seventeen Freedom of Information Shann Act lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to a Foyer request seeking yates as emails from her government account anyway, The emails sent several sent from the Department of Justice email addresses show very strong support for Yates. It was fired for disobeying her boss, a direct order from the President of the United States. You know you have one particular guy for us. Attorney for the UH for Maine. Right. You are my hero, and you've got a career service employee in chief of the Justice Department's Special Financial Investigations Unit telling Yates that she is inspirational and heroic of Emily Grace Rice the U S Attorney for New Hampshire Obama pointee. Thank you as always for making us proud. It's truly an honor to work for you. Another Obama pointee, Barbara McQuaid, U S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Oh, thank you for your courage and leadership. This is wonderful news. The Department of Justice Civil Division Appellate Attorney Jeffrey Claire, Thank you, Attorney General Yates. I've been in civil appellate for thirty years. I've never seen an administration with such contempt for the democratic values and rule of law. The President's order is an unconstitutional embarrassment. I applaud you for taking a principled stand and defending it. Wow. Joining us now and welcome back. Investigative reporter Sarah Carter is with us and also with us Victoria Tunsing. She's a partner at the law firm to Jenova Tuntsing and legal representative for the informant at the center of those investigations as it relates to the uranium one issue, that guy that was six years working for the FBI and discovered the bribery and the kickbacks and extortion of money laundering. Uh, Sarah, let's start with your report and the follow up that we now have from Judicial Watch and what this means. Oh, I think it's revealing so much. I mean, think about this, Sean Andrew Weissman, you know, he plays an essential role in the Special Council. And remember it was Sally Yates that from the very beginning was the one that was pursuing Michael Flynn as well and had to go to the White House and report to him after she was privy to these tech cuts, to his unmasking, to his conversations and this relationship. I mean, it shows, according to sources that I've spoken with, real problems and conflicts of interest here and trying to be impartial. I mean, these are supposed to be people that are stepping back and just looking at the facts and trying to be impartial. And now you see that there's this behavior and it's very blatant. It's in emails. Um um. It's incredible to me that you know, they would be sending these emails after the election of the president and then you know, talking about President Trump so openly in uh, it really reveals how people was in the government that are supposed to be working on behalf of the president really feel about him. But but it's worse than that question because he's pro Hillary, he's anti Trump, and he along with come or writing an exoneration before the investigation. Yes, and there's other questions here. I mean, we now see all this information coming about about FBI supervisory Agent Peter Struck, you know, in his central role and his involvement in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, his involvement in Flynn as I reported, you know that he was one of the FBI agents who interviewed Michael Flynn as well. And you know, I've been talking to sources and they've said, well, have they spoken to the other FBI agent who interviewed Flynn, and honestly, according to everyone that I've spoken with, I can't find one person that says yes. So I don't know if the special counsel or even the grand jury even had the opportunity to hear the other agent. So this is very interesting. He took a senior position, he was a senior interviewer, so they took only his possibly his testimony. I mean, that's still I'm still investigating this, but but from what I've heard so far, they have they have not spoken to the other agent. I think that's very interesting. So now that the Inspector General has him in his sights and is investigating him, it's going to be fascinating to see what is revealed in that report, um, you know, by the Inspector General regarding Peter Struck and regarding others inside the FBI. Victoria, let me get your take on all of this. If they're writing an exoneration of Hillary Clinton and the main participants, including Hillary yourself, and not interviewed until months later, doesn't that sound like obstruction to you, Like they're obstructing the real investigation. Well, it's it's it's corrupt, John, it's a it's a corrupt way to approach any investigation. They've got a half ass backwards the first to interview the people and then you make a decision. Um. But you know, this whole sarrio that you and Sarah we're talking about points out the Trump is is great in many ways, but if you don't know the swamp, you don't know how to drain it. And Sally late Yates should not have been in office one minute after the President Trump took office. All of those people should be gone. High ranking officials should never be left in office because this just shows you that she goes out and gets all this publicity, and you know, and the U. S. Attorneys who were still in office were all being very sympathetic with her. This is not a way to run a railroad. It's not a way to run a Justice department to get your people in there. And what they still don't have an Assistant Attorney General for criminal in the Justice Department. What's wrong with the hill that they're not pushing it. I don't understand how you can draft a letter of exoneration and also change the language from the legal standard to something else. I don't understand this is the same guy that interviewed Hillary but not under oath. I can't understand that this is the guy that was involved in Flynn. I can't understand this was the guy involved in the dossier. And this guy has so much bias. And then big picture, you know, what are your thoughts on these new revelations about Andrew Weisman and all of these other people congratulating especially Wiseman with his Let me ask that about Wiseman with my kanyent who you mentioned who is the informant in the Iranium one case. I have told you that he was threatened by Thought Section lawyers that if he didn't withdraw his civil case, they would prosecute him for violating his non disclosure agreement. Guess who those lawyers reported to, Andrew Wiseman. You got it? Wow? Wow? And wasn't and and but and then McKay by. I mean, he was the key guy in the other case. What do you make Sarah, you broke this wide open yesterday. I mean, you know now that we have everybody else here and you look at his atrocious track record. Now we have to ask the question about Robert Mueller, because this is now Robert Mueller's team. These are the people. These these records were not that difficult for me to dig up. No, they're not. And I think there's a lot of concern and you're hearing a lot of chatter in Washington. What's going on here? You know, is this the witch hunt? How do you explain all these inconsistencies and problems within the Special counsel uh You know, this started out as was supposed to be UH Russia collusion. They weren't able to find that, and apparently they're going in every single direction that they possibly can. I tell you what really was disturbing was the Andrew Weissman email in that relationship he had with Sally Ates. You know, I have voyed a number of documents from the Department of Justice, and I'm still waiting. This is five months later, still waiting to get answers. But particularly with regard to Saliates her relationship with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. We know there's been a lot of issues there as well. We've reported on that in the past, Sean, you know, dealing with Hatch Act violations, discrimination issues under Andrew mackay. But most importantly, reports that had gone from Senator Grassley had asked the I G to look into whether or not he properly disclosed all of his wife's donations that had come to her when she unsuccessfully ran uh for state office here in Virginia, and the money that had come directly from people associated and very close friends of Hillary Clinton, which was Governor Terry mccauliffe in his pat groups. So there was a lot of very public political bias associated with people that are not supposed to show that publicly. They're supposed to be, you know, very The Bureau is supposed to be above board. And when you talk to Bureau agents and people who are down on the ground that and they are working the beat and putting themselves on the line every day, they have that pounded into their heads daily. And now they're saying, look, there were two sets of rules. One set of rules for the for the officials in Washington, d C. For the suits in Washington, d C. And another set of rules for all of us grunts on the ground. We couldn't get away with what they've gotten away with, and they're getting away with it. That's my biggest point, Victoria, And my biggest point is is that America's constitution, you know, they ignored Fourth Amendment protections. In the case of General Flynn, nobody seems to remember anymore that he was illegally surveiled, he wasn't minimized, he was unmasked, and raw intelligence was leaked. And now it seems that not only we weaponizing intelligence, but we're literally now weaponizing and criminalizing political differences. Sean, I'm I'm still perplexed. And I haven't really seen a rationale given by anybody in the Abombent administration as to why somebody was going in and interviewing General Flynn prior about about events that that happened during the transition. What was it that we could have possibly have committed and what businesses? All right, we gotta take a break. Stay right there, more with the Sarah Carter and more with Victoria Tunsing. We have so many questions, sold little answers, and so little time. All right, as we continue, Sarah Carter, investigative reporter and Victoria Tunsing, who is the attorney for the FBI informant. What is the latest with the FBI informant Um, We are preparing to meet with the Congress. We're just working out some dates and talking to them in the Senate Okay, so the FBI ignored For example, there was a congressional referral and Jason Chaffits had an exchange with with James Comey Sarah about did you ever review documents where Jim Jordan's asked her specifically, and she said there was nothing more classified on my emails either Center received, and Comey says, I don't remember reviewing that particular testimony, ecetera, etcetera. Isn't the evidence here if if the fix was in, doesn't it now mean that we have to reopen that investigation? Yeah? I would think so. And I think this is part of the reason why the Justice Department right now is looking at this um and very closely. And you know, I mean it's been back and forth, We've we've heard different things. We've heard um you know, Attorney General Sessions testimony about this. But one thing I do know is that within the Justice Department, they are taking this very seriously and they're looking at it. We can only hope that once they do speak to the informant, once the informant is able to talk to Congress Victoria is is making that happen, that his information will then lead to a full investigation so that they can look at all of these look at all of these issues, and and ensure that this is not buried again, but that it's available for the public. The public should know what happened and how this happened so that it doesn't happen again. Sean don't. And the basic bottom line question is why, knowing all these bad things about the Russian company, did our government say it was okay for this bad Russian company to buy uranium one. I mean all of that is true, but I mean we need the dossier issue investigated. Hit Hillary Clinton, Boughton paid for lies from Russian influence the election? You know we that we we need now the email server, we don't know the fix was in they were writing the exoneration, didn't do an investigation. Then we got James Comey himself. I think he needs to be investigated. Loretta Lynch needs to be investigated. Then you got the whole uranium one issue that needs to be investigated. Where is the Attorney General? And Sean, I wanted to go back with what I was just saying before the Great the Break, and that is that I think Flynn was set up. He would be asked questions by comey the FBI. There was no special counsel. This was not a special counsel investigation. Everybody this was prior to that. They went into his offices, did not prepare him in ahead of time. He thought it was something else. McCabe set it up and Sarah was reporting on this. Who could do more? But I'm looking at it at it legally. On what basis were they going in to say to him? Um, did you talk to the well McCabe told Flynn PJ media reports that FBI agents were headed over. He thought it was routine work and it wasn't until laughter they were in his office that he realized this was a formal interview. But what was wrong with his talking to the to the Russian ambassador. It's like saying, Sean, did you go to his counterpart? His counterpart to be, yeah, all right, I got a role. We'll see both of you tonight. Thank you. Quick break right back. Just because someone is accused, was it one accusation? Is it too? I think there has to be. John Keyers is an icon in our country. He has done a great deal to protect women Violence Against Women Act, which the left wing right wing is now quoting me as praising him for his work on that, and he did great work on that. The allegations against Congressman Conyers, as we have learned more since Sunday, or serious, disappointing, disappointing and very credible. It's fare sad are the brave women of Camp Floyd or owed justice. I pray for Congressman Conyers and his family and wish them well. Hell ever, Congressman Conyers should resign. Nancy Pelosi's statement, which I'm sure all of you all are aware of at this juncture, calling on the congressman to resign. First of all, it is not up to Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi did not elect the congressman, and she sure as hell won't be the ones to tell the congressman to leave. That decision will be completely up to the congressman. He's not thought about that. He's thinking about his health. He's thinking about getting well. That is the main focus of the family. From eyes or diminished in any way by what we're going through. This two shall pass, and I want you to know that my I cancy will continue through my children. Uh. I have a great family here and especially in my oldest boy, John Conyers. The third, who incidentally I endorce Uh to replace me in my seat in Congress. And I am am very proud of the fact that I am the Dean of the Congress and that I will continue to Yes, I'm I'm in the process of putting my retirement plans together and I will have more about that very soon. Congressman okay, and I want to get some clarity here, and I think I do it. But for the record, for those who may not have understood I heard what you said is that you're very confident in your legacy. You are today, at this time, at this moment, in this period, preparing for your retirement, a date in which you are not prepared to announce at this moment. Yes, I thank you for helping me get the center focus. I am retiring today and I want everyone to know how much I appreciate the support, if incredible, undiminished support I've received across the years from my supporter that's John Cony, you're stepping down, recommending that his son take his place as a Congressman Anti Pelosi, of course, referring to him as an icon. Another allegation today, apparently in church, some woman claiming that he I guess put his hand on her thigh or worse. I'm just so sick of reading all this crap. UH Pastor Darryl Scott is with us, founder Senior Pastor of the New Spirit Revival Center, the Reverend Jessie Lee Peterson, founder of Rebuilding the Family, Rebuilding, the man author of the antidote Healing America from the poison of hate, blame, victimhood. Welcome both of you and UH Pastor Scott. I'll begin with you and ask you your your thoughts on you know, all of these issues in Toto and what do you do? And I was consistent. I said, Okay, he's denying the allegations. Obviously there might be something to it since since he decided to resign. I think at the end of the day, you know, maybe this is gonna be a good thing and that we're gonna see people being more respectful to everybody else in the workplace. Jesse Lee, well, you're right. When we go through in this manner, I'll most people come out on the other side and they treat each other better than do the right thing. Because sometimes pay breathe on improvement in your life. I think it's time for John Conyers to step down anyway. He's been there a long time. He's known UH for going to work in his underwears. He's also known for reading the papers upside down. And so maybe at this age it is time for him to go anyway. But what I find is hypocritical about the Black Clocks and the Democratic Party is that Nasson fellos a. Members of the Democratic Party try to defend John Cayers and and call him an icon who served for rights of women. And and while on the same hand they say that they are for women, they support women and all that, but when they come to the Democrats, they tend to support politics and support their party rather than to supporting women. And we saw that once again with Bill Clinton when he was accused. They tried to destroy the women who accused Bill Clinton what he did to them. And also there's another guy by the name of Al Green. He's a member of the UH Congressional Black Caucus, asked John cary he's one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus. And if this were going on, and if it's true that John Caryer has paid awful woman, why did the Congressional Black Caucus allow these two men to stay there knowing that these accusations there, especially after they paid awful women. So it's a sposed Sean. Really what the Democratic Party is all about and what the Congressional Black Caucus is about, and that is they are not for the people. Therefore politics because as long as they can keep it political and brings power and rough for them. One of the quick point about John John represents Detroyd and it is one of the world cities. In this in this country, he's not He's been just his nineties WIST three and there's no improvement in Detroit at all. Has only gotten worse rather than get it better. So if you share a step now, I think that if you replace them with someone who's going to, you know, do what's good for the people and not good for them for the representatives, you know, pastor it is. I remember covering the Duke la Cross case. I remember covering Richard Jewel in Atlanta. I remember not rushing to judgment on the Cambridge police or in the Fergusson case it turned out hands up, don't you didn't happen? Or or these cops are all gonna be found guilty in Baltimore in the Freddy Gray case, or you know, all these examples where I take this position that if somebody makes an accusation, we've got to take it seriously. You've got to give people listen closely, and you've got to give of their story credence, and you've got to give them a benefit of the doubt. I'm sure in cases people wait because of a whole variety of legitimate reasons. But on the other hand, I remember covering the Duke Lacrosse case, and you know, it turned out those boys were not guilty. And the Bible says something about bearing false witness. I mean, and and and even if say of the time people are right, I do think there's conviction by media now, and I think that's dangerous too. I think you're absolutely right. But once again, I'll look at you. You take a lot of things into consideration. You take in the uh credibility of the accusers. And you know, the Democratic Party tries to make itself the moral conscious of America unless it completes with their agenda, because in actuality, they're the moral contents of liberal America. Once again, until it conflicts with their agenda. And then you know, and I said this and I hope I'm not overstepped here on the program when I say this, but right now, white people don't have free speech in America because this race card is being played. Uh so both sipilously that if you know anyone that is white criticized this or condemned John Kanye's action, the race card is conveniently played, I think even early on in this enter, and he tried to play the race card, uh in this But I don't know people around him did. I mean there was there was a comment made by Knyer's wife, and I'll play that for you, just to remind everybody. I mean to disclose who this Curson is or whoever this is. But as I think that that you want those stocks other people's houses, didn't go to stop white people's houses. It just okay, but this is our private residence. I mean, I don't know what that means, go to white people's houses. I don't think this was about um a race issue at all. I'm not sure how to interpret that comment. They always used were black, Yeah, they always used that when they want to get away we're doing wrong. We saw the same thing with Matthew Waters was auth we're doing wrong. Her husband sat on the bank, on the board of a bank, and and Maxine did some durty stuff there. They cry racism. Another thing that the Congression Black Caucus is john, which I think is insane. They are calling for the impeachment of President Trump when they they haven't proved anything on this, on this great president. But because he speaks out, because each other true, he deal with them. He put America first, he put in the country first. He's an outsider and he is a straight white conservative Christian mel of power. They hate him because he professed them from doing what they have been doing for the last number of years to this country, and so they accused him when he was accused of harassing women, they were all over. They saw him a racist because they want him out. And so I'm glad that the Democratic Party has been exposedable what it really is. It's like, uh, hypocritical party. I'm glad that's been I'm just I'm just looking at data. Data shows that Obama's track record doubles the debt, thirteen million more on poverty, eight million more on food stamps, or or eight million more in poverty, thirteen million more on food stamps, worse recovery since the forties, lowest labor participation rate in the seventies, lowest home ownership rate in fifty one years, and and minorities in America were disproportionately impacted by his policies. And I'm looking at things turning around now and I'm thinking this is good for everybody, but his bath. The worst thing that can happen to the Democratic Party is for a white, conservative Christian president to come in and improve the lives of the citizens, and especially the lives of black Americans. Because you're right, Obama did not do it the thing to help that I posted, and they thought that he would, and they got worse. Expecting the area of employement, they got worse, rather they getting better. And I honestly have to tell you that when I travel around to the schools and the urban areas around here, the young people, they are loving the president. They love the way to peak up, They love the fact that he put the country first. They love the fact that he's deported illegal aliens and looking out for the people. And that's not what Matthew Waters and the others want to hear. You gotta take a break more with the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, Reverend Daryl Scott will get to your calls also have a little bit of a shootout. Austin Gul's becoming up eight hundred nine for one. Shaun as our toll free telephone number. As we continue with the Pastor Daryl Scott, founder and Senior Pastor of the New Spirit Revival Center in the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man and the author of the antidote healing America from the poison of hate, blaming victimhood. What do you both make and we'll start with you, Darryl Scott, as you sit on the President's Diversity Board, National Diversity Board, what do you make of the effort since November nine of last year to de legitimize and destroy this president, a duly elected president. Well, you know it's it's a concerted effort by the left and the Democratic Party, and you know they'll play the race card once again. As as my brother, Reverend Peterson said at convenience, you know notice something, Blacks are hesitant to criticize other blacks in public. I don't care what they do unless the Trump supporters. The only open season on criticism to black spot blacks if those Trump supporters are in line with this administration. So they're trying everything that they can. But if you look at the numbers, if you look at the statistics, I mean, I'll give an example. I had a young guy that came to my church recently, was involved in some street activity, and uh, he came in and wanted to turn his life around and found a immediately. And he said, you know what, I've been trying to find a job for years and couldn't find one. But now I'm a was able to find one. And that seems to be the story throughout America. Jobs are available now where there were no jobs. And as Reverend Peterson said, the man on the street is not anti Trump. The man on the street likes him. They like his personality, they like a swag as hoots chorhythma. It's the black leadership that's trying to convince the black laity that Trump is uh anti black. But the proopers in the putting the evidence. You know, you quote numbers a lot, Sean, And the reason you quote numbers a lot is because numbers don't lie. But you know what, it's more than that, these are real people. These are our neighbors, These are our friends. This is our American family, and it crosses all boundaries, you know what. And when Americans are suffering needlessly because of government, we've got to fix it. If we care about you, gotta fix it. Well, you know, brother Scott is absolutely right, especially when it comes to jobs. I'm driving around l A and I'm seeing UH for works and or or you know, job openings everywhere now that I haven't seen that in years. And one thing that we do at barn By Non Proportization, we help young man find jobs. People can check us out at Rebuilding the Man dot com, Rebuilding the Man dot Com. But the really wanted to get rid of this president, Sean. It's because he's put in America. First. They are shocked and they haven't gotten over the shock. Shocked that an outsider like President Trump came in. They thought he was gonna lose. You were relaxed. They had no idea that he was gonna win. And then the president and outspoken, he's tweeting he left. I've got a run. But I agree wholeheartedly with you. You know, I was going on, they want to destroy him, and he really wasn't supposed to win. And that's their shock, and we saw it on election night and every day since. All Right, thank you both the reverends for being with us. When we come back Austin Goulsby, we'll have a little bit of a handy shoot out that more straight ahead. At fifty two Republican senators, fifty one voted, and we ended up doing it. And we didn't need our great Vice president to break the time, Mike. We didn't need Mike, we didn't need anything. We voted. The Democrats left before the vote was even. Somebody said started, somebody said before it was over. I don't even care. But we got no Democrat help. But I think that's gonna cost them very big in the election because basically they voted against tax cuts. And I don't think politically it's good to vote against tax cuts. But what we're doing is, if you look at it, we're going to grow the country. We're gonna grow jobs, We're gonna be growing everything. We have companies now that are pouring back into our country. Even before this, we've just set records in so many different ways. We've set records with every conceivable. You know, if you look at it, consumer confidence at a seventeen year high, and I think it's an all time high. Consumer confidence, uh, business count finds all time high. Everything is like at an all time high, including the big one it's called the stock market at an all time high. So I was backstage taking pictures with people far greater than my business people. I love my business people, but these are what they're called law enforcement people. Okay, do we concede business people? All my businessmen? And one great gentleman came up and he said, sir, I want to thank you. I said, what did I do for you? He said, my four oh one K is up? And I never thought of it, you know, I tell you. He gave me one of the great campaign lines. It's called how's your four oh one K doing? Because I can say this if the Dems won the election in my opinion, and I feel strongly about this. The numbers right now we hit record hies every day where I think we had sixty six times now where we've hit a record high since the election, sixty six times sixty six. All right, news round up, information overload. We'll get to the issue of this corruption, this big story we're breaking today. Andrew Weissman saying, oh, I am in awe. Oh, I am so proud of you to Sally Yates after she gets fired another Muller appointment that is obviously pro Hillary anti Trump. We'll get to that in just a second, but that was the President talking about his tax package. Of course, during the Obama years, we added thirteen million Americans to the food stamp roles and eight million more Americans are in poverty. And of course he's the only president in the history of this country to never see three percent GDP growth in a single year of his presidency. Last quarter was upward, upwardly revised GDP growth at three point three percent, as the economy because of getting rid of regulation and the opportunities that the President have created now turning the economy around. And of course we had the lowest labor participation, right, We had the worst recovery since the Great Depression. We had the lowest home ownership in fifty one years. And Obama single handedly took on more debt than every other president before him combined. But you know, no point going back over old news. The good news is the year to date growth in America is now over three you know, not only is the average annual growth of rate. You know what it's It was one point four eight percent during Obama's business cycle, the weakest of any expansions in the only president never to reach three percent GDP growth. Unbelievable distinction. And Austin Goulsby was one of the president's economic advisors at the time. We don't hold it against them, but just a fact or just stating the facts. Good, when did you leave working for Obama? Look? I left in two thousand eleven. Nothing that you just said was true. But I still have a bone to pick with you, which is I'm gonna send you a bill for my stress level. I'm sitting down Sunday, I'm gonna have a may, have some tea, some seal my kids. I look at this picture. I'm like, who was the screaming maniac on this magazine? And then I look, I said, wait a minute, I know that guy. Wow, that's where you're going today. Really you look like a nut. People are like, is that guy? Well? And I don't know, are you well? How could you look like that? You know, it's really that's your liberal I went back and I looked at a lot of New York Times magazine covers and guess what, There's never been one like the one they put up. That's the worst one. That's the worst one ever I've never seen. Well, I just want to know. I mean, you saw that. Didn't take a while for you to understand it, to understand why you were yelling. No, I wasn't understand but no, But what they did, they purposely they took a thousand pictures and that's the one they chose. Why do you all, right, Austin Gulsby, why do you think that is? Maybe you were unhinged that day? How do I know? No, that's not it. It's called liberal media bias. What that is called? And by the way, you know that's true. And you know what the sad part is, you know, you know what the sad part is, mayas you made this face, okay, Because they if they cared it all about being fair, they would have picked the you know, out of a thousand pictures, they picked the one god awful one that they could put on the cover to make no, to make to make me look as evil as I can. And but I tell you, you know, unlike the anointed one who got but then they got a Nobel Peace Prize, and like yere one of his presidency. Yeah, you know, but you owe me because I've been interviewed about you, and I lie and I say nice things, y and I don't know why you did. I have no idea. I was still never gonna forgive you for that. Oh my god, you know. So did you really see it? And you didn't know it was in there? I saw, I didn't know it was in there. Then I saw a picture of you. Actually, I thought the article turned out pretty good. I was very surprised. I thought they would be a meaner tour you than they were. And there was some bird pretty on the inside. And in the article, that's right, Linda is quoted extensively. And guess who didn't agree to an interview, Linda. She didn't want to be in it. Yeah, really swear to gone all right, smart one? Yeah, she exactly. I'm an idiot. I thank you, Austen, Yeah, thank you Austin great like everybody else saying what the hell is wrong with you talking to the New York Times for Actually I thought, no, no, it was a lot of the Hannity greatest hits. I mean, Hannity said this thirty nine years ago when he started his radio career. They did have some of that, but you look like you were you could dunk. I know you can't, but you look like you could. Excuse me, Uh yeah, I can. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can on I can on that basketball Horton, Yeah, yeah, I can in real life. That was actually didn't you like the picture of me as a baby? I thought that was particularly good. I was impressed. I was like, how did they get this? Did they break into your Facebook account or something? No? No, no, they asked for pictures that went out. They asked for pictures and when I was young, and I gave him that. By the way, that's one of I know. I actually had a vote which picture the cover or my baby picture from my Christmas card this year? Why not both? Why not both? Yeah? Which was just the real Sean Hannity, I gotta talk to you about a serious matter here. So we've got some breaking news, uh now, the last couple of days, and this is this should scare the living daylights out of YouTube, even though you're a big liberal, and that is you know, we now know that Robert Muller, you know, his number one deputy in this investigation. Now he don't. He picked sixteen people to work for them. Half of them donated to Clinton and Obama. None of them donated any Republican all right, and they donated tens of thousands of dollars. Then we've got this this guy that we now learned was sending out anti Trump pro Hillary text between him and another FB eye agent. I guess they're having some affair or something together. And literally his name is Struck. And this guy hang On, hang On from the team right, fired him as soon as he found Yeah. But but here's the problem. James Comey wrote the exoneration letter of Hillary before he did the investigation. He began writing the exoneration letter months before. And this guy purposely took out the words gross negligence that is the legal standard, and put in extreme carelessness. And then it gets worse. Now we have this guy, Andrew Weissman, another top deputy of Robert Mueller. And this is the guy that was involved in the nine old decision against him in the in the case, remember with uh Merrill Lynch and Enron and Arthur Anderson and tens of thousands of people lost their job and all those people were innocent. When you ever get a nine od decision overturn on obstruction of justice. It doesn't happen, just like and then the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals with that atrocious record, Mueller put this hack on his team. And now we find out that the day that Sally Yates got fired, he sent a I am so proud email, I am in awe email and thank you so much, my deepest regrets because she got fired by that's not partisan, that that doesn't show a political alliance. Attorney general who who had feared the administration the constitute. Okay, how about we're gonna put somebody that writes to Donald Trump on your case. I'm I'm in awe and I'm so fired. But my my understanding is that as soon as Mueller found out that was the case, he fired that guy. Okay, that's the one guy, but not Andrew Weissman. And my bigger question is why did wait a minute, why did Mueller hire only Obama Hillary donors, no Republican donors. Why did he hire a guy that was overturned nine zero in the Supreme Court was accused of unethical tactics repeatedly, that was was found to have created laws that don't exist. Used every bullying, tacked out the guy. We never want any processor to computer to use against anybody. Why did he put this guy on his team? Look, no, no, no, no, no no no, would you want him on I'm an economist. It does seem to me. You're gonna take, You're gonna take. The Obama record has something to be proud of. Yeah, there was no depression, which he was left stopped for a second. Wait a minute, Well there wasn't a depression. It's the worst recovery since the forties. Yes, anymore. It started as that, but it has continued. What do you mean it's continued. He never had three percent growth in any year of his presidency GDP growth, the only president never to reach that. True. He added thirteen million more, thirteen million more Americans on food stamps, recovery about to become the second longest recovery in US history. And it's the tortoise and the hair. It didn't get going as fast. WHA, So you're telling you're telling me that an average that took nine years for Obama's great economic policies to kick in. How do you explain the doubling of our national debt under Obama? How do you explain the tripling of the national debt under Ronald Reagan? Actually Reagan double Wait a minute, fairness to Reagan. Did Reagan doubled revenues to the federal government. But for every new dollar he brought in the Democrats, which he had for his entire presidency, the people in control of spending, they spent a dollar thirty five every time he brought in a new dollar at all, Ronald Reagan, that's twice you called me. Ronald Reagan created twenty one million new jobs. Ronald Reagan gave us the longest period of peacetime, and that on economic growth. And Ronald Reagan got to seven point four percent GDP growth by cutting the top marginal rates from seven from seventy percent. So I'll go, I'll go figure for figure with you on Reagan any day, and you're gonna lose from Paul Foker that you're forgetting cutting the interest rate. But he did there was in charge of the economy. Right, stay right there, we have Austin Goulsby taking cheap shots at me, and that hideous picture in the New York Times magazine. I think we should just leave it up there and put a big question mark media bias on my website. Quick break, welcome back. We'll continue more with Austin Goulsby on the other All right, as they continue, he calls himself an economist. What do you do that makes you an economist? What do you how do you call yourself an economist? Well, I got a PhD in economics. I study economics, I do research. I published papers on statistics and data as it makes me an economists. And every time I point out thirteen million more Americans during Obama's presidency went on food stamps, and eight million more went in poverty, and then they went down, you always forget that part. Okay, I'm talking total throughout his presidency. Look as I tell you, if I push you out the window so you're falling, you're always thinking you're from the sounds like an occupy Wall Street leftist. You know, we want to you want to throw me out a window. That's me. Unemployment rate on the day that Donald Trump takes office. Look at it now, it's down. It's down to the wait a minute, employment rate in a half century, with all due respect and employment And how is the economy doing? Unlike you, we're losing a million jobs a month and how many. And at the end of the day, Donald Trump's already created two million jobs. How many? Has created fewer jobs this year by three hundred thousand than Barack Obama did last year. And you know, it doesn't matter what statistic I bring up. He never had three percent GDP growth. He doubled the debt, and he said, nine trillion in debt is irresponsible, and I'm patriotic. Here's a guy that that literally gave us the worst recovery since the forties. All these millions more on food stamps. That's what I'm telling. Wait a minute, but you don't count the labor partify a patient rate, now I do. We now have not the lowest ever. It went down, it has come back some. It's continued since Trump got into office and started pressuring people to come back and build their factories in America like Ford and and Carrier and all these other companies. It's continued to go down under Donald Trump. I'm explaining. And he cut and ended your buddy Obama's burdensome regulations. No, that would be an argument for why labor participation would rise, but it has continued to fall under Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump is bringing business back to America. That is the opposite and creating data. Say you have, I'm gonna have to say, Merry Christmas. What are you gonna do for Christmas? I don't know yet. You want maybe I'll go hang out with you. Where are you gonna be? Come down to Ebiline, Texas. Remember when you were you you debated moving to Texas. They want you to move to Tech. You know why, because I want to move to Texas. They don't have a state income tax. Yeah, well, you're you're friend in the White House are about to raise the taxes for a bunch of middle class cap by the way, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nude no, they're raising taxes on people that live in blue states that have high state income taxes. So now let's see what the people in the blue states do because the red states aren't going to carry them anymore. Alright, eight, have Merry Christmas. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back. We got Congressman Roger Williams going to join us a much more straight a hut plays worried about what comes out of the Senate, But I think if they'll take this bill once we once we fine tune it. Uh, it will work, and I'm not we're talking. There's a lot of people talk about a phasing in the corporate tax rate. We don't need to phase it in. Let's put it in there. Let's let business grow. Let's let business take risks, get reward, hire people, put people to work. I mean, that's what it's all about. And we don't need to just get our foot foot weet. Let's jump in and create a tax a tax environment. It's good for not only us but the world. Democrats talk about the skill often very apocalyptic terms, but he's really what's going on, is it? Many people are getting a very modest tax cut and some people are getting a tax in Priest Walt. A lot of this is also joined the business. But it's not the end of the world. Now, it is the end of the word. This healthcare that Evada and healthcare is life death. This is armor head. This is a very big deal because you know why, there's really a very hard way to come back from this. They take us further more deeply into debt. What can you do but raise taxes. They contend that they're a gift to corporate America A trillion and a half dollars could be up to a trillion a half dollars will be paid for by the growth that creates. And even their own people say, nonsense, not true, not true. So let's be truthful with the American people about that. They throw a few crumbs to the middle class, where they give with one hand, they take away and bounty with the there and why because it is in their DNA to give tax cuts to the rich. That's their purpose in coming to commiss for any reason. It isn't the underworld is because America is a great country, and the greatness of America and the fact that God is always with us is what gives us hope. But it's very important for the American people to know how adversely they will be personally affected by all of this. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers responding to the tax bill and the impact that it could have on healthcare coverage and a new opened out overnight it's called Yes, the Senate Geop tax plan would cause thousands to die. Do you want to explain your latest off ed. Look, I think this bill is very dangerous. There's pretty clear evidence looking across different states and looking when health insurance has been phased in and out. When people lose health insurance, they're less likely to get preventive care, they're more likely to defer healthcare they need, and ultimately they're more likely to die. And it's very are to quantify precisely. My piece explains why an estimate that thousands will die as a consequence of this bill is actually a very conservative estimate gotten much much more carefully, based on much more rigorous evidence than the absurd claims made by some that this bill will somehow pay for itself. Yes, it's doom and it's gloom, and it's Nancy pelosi dire predictions that the tax plan is like death. You're going to die. Your children will die, your spouses will die. Anybody you like will be dead. The only people that will remain will be the little animals that can swim in the ocean. Otherwise you're dead. We will all die together. It's like death. Anyway, one seawn are toll free telephone number you want to, by the way, and Andy says all Americans will die, But I can't wait for that head like breaking news now all right? Joining us is uh? Congressman Roger Williams of Austin Texas is here, and he says the uh, where are we gonna go now that the House has passed their bell? The sentence passed their bell, and now we go in a conference. Where is this gonna end up? Well? I think uh, I think we hopefully. I'd like to see us get something out in the next fifteen days. I think we will. I know we will. And it's gonna be a good bill. And I will tell you the Senate bill has a lot, has some things on it that I like better and when we put out but uh and vice versa. But look at I'm a business guy, Sean, and this is gonna be great for our country. I was. I was in business when Jimmy Carter was president. I saw what the Reagan tax cuts did, the Bush tax cuts. These tax cuts are gonna put people to work. And what was dying I heard the Nancy Pelosi thing. What was dying was the free markets and in the American drain. This is gonna bring it back together. Risk and reward will let people begin to do some things, put people back to work. And I couldn't be more excited about what we're face. Why are Republicans seemingly afraid of across the board Reagan era supply side cuts. Look, I love the corporate tax cut, I love repatriation. I love a lot about this bill that I can I can go on in great detail. I love the middle class aspect, tax cut aspect of it. I like the energy independence aspect of it. And I like that the President removed a lot of burdens and regulations. But it seems there is fear among Republicans to go with and across the board tax cut for fear they'll be labeled as the party for the rich. Well, look at first of all, when we cut taxes, nobody understands most people understand the power of main street America. Uh, when we when we cut these taxes, the pay for is going to be economic growth. There's no question in my mind about it. And we don't need to be afraid of that. And uh so, uh economic growth will we'll, we'll, we'll bring us out of this. And if we can ever couple it with reducing the side of the federal government, then we've got a program working. But economic growth is the key and that's what we and I guarantee you that's what's gonna happen. They also punted on a state tax repeal, and they really did what years this? Yeah, yeah, you know what that means. It's never gonna happen. Well, let me tell you the estate tax. Uh. I know that Democrats want to say it's only for the rich and so forth, but it's the most unfair tax anywhere in the world. It's double taxation. Even I have a story about the estate tax out can wipe a business out. I'm not happy that we're not. It's not going to kick in fully this year, but you know it will phase out. But and I think the Senate's got doubles the threshold. But we're on the right path there. But I wish all this was happening and we don't need to put it off till nineteen like the Senate wants to do, because people, a lot of business will take off and it could stall. No, it's the House bill that repeals it. In in the Senate, there's no repeal, right, they have no repeal, but they double the exemption, right, and well, what so does the House bill? I mean, that's fine, but you know it's I agree with you, it's one of the most unjust Why can't they repeal it immediately? Well, I agree, but we get caught up Sean and these pay fors and and revenue neutral and as a business person, nobody ever uses those terms in the private sector. Revenue neutral means you're standing still. That's why we get back to economic growth is to pay for and frankly, massive cuts in the federal government. Then there's your pay for and you don't have to play all these games with adding and subtracting. And when do we start and when we don't start? What about Americans that are worried about the property tax up to ten thousand dollars uh and no income tax? What do you think of that? Well, that's salt. And of course a lot of the eastern New York, New Jersey, California are primarily the states that are complaining that they're not gonna be able to duck their state in local taxes. But one of the they're so heavily taxed. I mean, what aught to happen is they demand to their leaders that they cut taxes and let the taxpayers breathing listen, I don't I'm gonna get I'm gonna end up getting killed by this tax bell because I live in a highest tax state. I mean, I got a ten percent state income tax, three and a half percent city income tax, the highest, the second highest property tax county in the country. I live in in Nassau County in Long Island. And it's not by choice, it just is what it is. I'm gonna get killed, and it's and and I keep telling my friends, well, I don't think states like Texas that live within their means, and states like Florida that live within their means and they don't have state income taxes, I don't think they should be subsidizing the tax breaks big spending states like New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois. So I don't know, we should not. We should not, of course, me being from Texas, I mean I was Secretary States sticking up for you. Well, yeah you are, and we want you to come to Texas, and I'm sure the Floridians want you to come. But in business, if you want to sell more products, you cut your prices. And they ought to be cut in taxes to keep people in their states. It's just a simple business model. That's their problem. And we shouldn't have to pay for it. Uh, you know, And I gotta tell you something, you know what they're not gonna do. They're not gonna cut taxas, so you're gonna have here's my fear. I don't mind if people moved to Texas, and I know that there's great hospitality down south and in Texas and in Florida and all these southern states. But if you're gonna leave your high tax state of California and your high tax state of New York, and your high tax state in New Jersey, in Illinois, and you're gonna go to you know, the Carolinas of Florida or Texas, don't bring your liberal policies with you. Because you already destroyed your state, don't destroy other people's states. Well, that's a real concern that We've had a lot of people moving from California to Texas, and that's a real concern, and we'd like to remind them when they try to bring their liberal views to Texas. Remember why you're here. You're here because those liberal views did not work. Well. Then that's my fear is that all these people they say, oh, this is ridiculous, I can't save any money. Then they go to Texas and they're like, somebody proposes a five percent state income tax. Well, they still think that's low and I'm like, that's ridiculous. So listen, I'm standing up even though this is gonna hurt me. As long as the middle class gets their tax cut, corporate tax cuts will stimulate the economy, repatriational work. I wish you guys would fight for the end of the death tax, the biggest double taxation in history. And I just think that at the end of the day, that this is going to continue the economic growth that the President started with, you know, all the things that he's been able to do on his own. Do you think next year there's gonna be anything done on healthcare? Well, I would think so. I hope that we get this past. We can do way with the individual mandate with this tax plan we're in. But I think we need to address healthcare. I mean, I'm an employer. I've seen healthcare go up fifty percent in our business. We need to let the private sector begin to take over again, let individuals own their healthcare, not the government. So I think we need to address that. Are you a Freedom Caucus member? You know, I'm not a member of Freedom Caucus, but they're my buddies, and uh, the only thing listen, You're one of the few that I like outside of the Freedom Caucus. You know, I had to talk Louis Gohmert into becoming a member. I'm gonna have to talk you into being a member because Louis, Louis and Meadows are some of my good friends and so forth. But we think the same way. All right, Congressman, God bless you have a great holiday. Merry Christmas to You're allowed to say it again, Merry Christmas to you, Sean and all your listeners. It tries liberals crazy when you say that you're allowed to say it again? When were you never allowed to say? What do you mean? Hilarious? All right, let's get to our phone, as we said, added Greg in California thirteen and a half percent state income tax. Thank you, Jerry Brown. What's going on? Greg? How are you very christ with you you too? Sir? Hey, um my, I'm ideals, I am. I'm surprised Republicans have passed anything here. I'm glad they have, but I think that the Republicans and President Trump especially missed a great opportunity to educate the American people, and that is they lower the corporate come taxes great, but they really should have gotten a bit of it. Corporations don't pay income taxes. The people pay income taxes. And if they wanted to see the jobs come back to the United States, that they wanted to see the swamp drain, get rid of the corporate income tax. You know, when you have corereal tax that just adds to the bottom line of the business. So they either raise their prices, they lower their work hours, they lower their dividends. I've been saying this for years. Nobody wants to pay attention. Corporations do not pay taxes. All they do is pass the cost on to the consumers. But that's not our But you see, you're taking away. Government gets their power through the money that they confiscate from the American people, and then they and then they decide how to spend it. Now, look, we certainly need to contribute to roads, bridges, highways, infrastructure, a national defense, et cetera. But if there are states like Texas and states like Florida, and then a bunch of other states that either have low or no income tax, then you can't tell me that California, with its population couldn't get away with the same thing. What happens is these governments become big, powerful, greedy bureaucracies, and they decide what is best for spending people's money. And the liberals are so generous with other people's money. Here you have in California, your state, didn't Hollywood out there, and then you have liberal Hollywood out there. Well, if they're so keen on helping people, why don't all these millionaires and billionaires in bell Air, in the on the Hollywood Hills wherever else they're living, why don't they just contribute their income to people and helped save lives and and and be generous to every cause they want to be generous too. Why do I suspect they're not gonna like that idea? And California bear in mind, is the is the the government of the government employee, by the government employee for the government employee. That's what it's all about. That's like California is just in such dire straits financially. All right, thanks so much, Greg, God bless you. I mean, you pay big time living in the state of California, big time. Let's go to Chris's and St. John's, Florida next on The Sean Hannity Show, What's Up Chris how are you Christmas? Merry Christmas, sir, how are you good? Look, there's some really great questions by you and your staff being asked every day about all the stuff that's going on, and I'm upset that some of the people in Congress haven't been asking a couple of questions. In the early nineteen seventies, they've passed the Inspector General's Act that means every department, including the Department of Justice, has an i G that oversees them. The Department of Justice includes the FBI. So someone is being inappropriate from in the d o J for the FBI, that i G can convene a grand jury and have that person arrested themselves. Why no one has even asked the i G if there's any investigation going on to miss anyone acting out of order inside the FBI. We have this guy, this um stroke guy who seems to be all over the board to be curious to see if he's even part of the Petraeus investigation. Where these these same actors keep coming up and where they get this fake evidence which they obviously had to use the fake dossier to get FISA warrants. Now, when the transition team was given their computers and phones by the federal government. Did that Fizle warrant cover those computers and phones that transition team was given? Probably? And I look, I just want to know if the phony Russian dossier with salacious lies in it that Hillary and Hillary's run d n C paid for. I want to know if that was used for the Fiser warrant. I want to know if you know this. I want to know how much James Comey wanted to pay them. I wanted to know. I want to know. Look, we have so many questions. I am now convinced that their house of cards is beginning the process of collapsing in spite of what you're hearing from your liberal media. Anyway, I've got to run, Chris, I wish I had more time. Listen, Merry Christmas, God bless you appreciate the call. Alright, tonight our Hannity investigation. Why did Muller hire all the pro Clinton, anti Trump people to be involved in this witch hunt? Tom Fitton, he has new information as a result of the Freedom Information at Greg Jarrett, Charles McCuller, former Inspector General Alan Dershowitz. Tonight, Pam Bondi tonight and Dana Lash. That's all coming up Hannity nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Information you won't get anywhere. Thanks for being with us. We'll see you back here tomorrow. See you tonight at night