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And another Express associate said, Express called me to come in for an interview right away and then sent me to interview with the company that same day. So don't go it alone any longer in your search for a job. Find your local Express Employment Professionals Office at Express pros dot com. Alright, why does the president always talk in our hour? Should I be thankful? Should I be grateful? Or apparently he's gonna take some questions at the bottom of this half hour will bring at least part of it to you. Live glad you're on board one, Sean. If you want to be a part of the program, you know you're destroy Trump. Hate Trump at any costs. News media in this country that they it is so obviously and abusively biased in what it is the narrative that they push. We've got more evidence of real collusion, real crimes that were really committed. But if it's not Donald Trump, they don't have any interest what happened yesterday with this guy, Sam Nunberg. You know, you would think somebody that spent as much time on the road in twenties sixteen is yours, truly, that went to Trump Tower more times than I can remember, interviewed President Trump probably more than anybody else in the media, interviewed the candidates more than anybody else in the media. We wanted to give you the best coverage available. We think we did a good job doing that in the last presidential election cycle. You know, but you begin to know the people that are important around a presidential candidate. George Papadopolis, I don't recall ever hearing his name. Wouldn't know him if I ran into the guy, and the same Sam Nunberg. Now Sam Nunberg is literally in the midst of some some event in his life yesterday, and the media is literally going all in to exploit Nunberg losing it now to even getting to the point, while I smell alcohol on your breath, Are you're drinking? No? No, I didn't know. No, no, no, no, I'm not drinking. If you smelled alcohol on the breath of the guy and you're interviewing the guy, let's be honest, you're exploiting this guy's meltdown, crack up, whatever you want to call it. I look, I don't know if the he says he doesn't do drugs. He apparently he's on antidepressants. Those are his words. He said he didn't drink. Aaron Burnett said, well, I smell alcohol in your breath, but that didn't stop her from doing the interview. Now I can give you a list of people that word scheduled to be on my show that showed up in a state of intoxication that I would say, you're not getting on the show. I had a one particular case. It was a pretty big blow up because the individual was not exactly happy with me, saying I'm not gonna put you on TV. If I do it, you're gonna regret it tomorrow. I said, I'm sticking up as a friend. Now get out of here. Security walks him out the building. I just think that's the right thing to do, the humane thing to do. People are struggling, they have in problems. Maybe they just had too much that night. Maybe it's an ongoing problem. On this particular person's case, it was an ongoing problem, and as a result, the person got clean, you know, about two weeks later, checked themselves into a facility and ended up getting clean. But I'm not in the it's you know, if I if somebody is obviously troubled or intoxicated, are we gonna put that person on the air? Why? And I've done that in the past, and you know the names of the people that I'm talking about. One case was out of control and the reaction was out of control, and this individual had a big posse with him and they were all piste and you could have gotten a lot of ratings, but you took the high road. Listen, it would have gone viral and absolutely would have been you know, entertainment TV. But I'm just not into hurting people and hurting their lives. And what was happening with Sam Numberg, I don't know exactly what it was. I've I assume Aaron Burnett wouldn't ask him on national television if and say to him that she smells alcohols. She didn't smell it. But this is what now has become TV. It's just like CNN had a big report. Oh uh, they went to what Thailand? First they're interviewing some Russian sex coach that may have something to tell Robert Muller. And then they send a report to Thailand to interview a prostitute who says she might have information that's gonna blow the Trump Russia collusion case wide open. And I'm thinking, isn't this the same company that's never taken the time to go into go to Great Britain. Not a hard flight out of New York, You fly straight across the pond and there you are in London. You could just walk and find where's the Ecuadorian embassy, somebody will direct you and maybe knock on the door. The one guy that would have information about where the d n C emails came from and the Bodesta emails came from would be Julian Assange, which should have been call number one, considering he's the only one we know for sure no is where it came from, and he says that he has the evidence, irrefutable, in controvertible evidence that would prove okay, this is where I got this information from. Now, as part of my job as a talk show host, which is a multifaceted job. At times I am an investigative reporter and at times I'm a straight journalist, and times I'm a partisan. At times I give opinion, at times I moderate debates. It's it's a different role than just your average journalists. We do a lot more, and we do it a lot better, apparently, especially investigative reporting. You know, you would think somebody in the media would go and say, Mr Assange, can you tell me answer this question. I know in previous interviews with Sean Hannity of Fox and Sean Hannity's radio show, and previous interviews, you said the source was not Russia and the source was no government entity, no state entity. Can you give us some insight as to where those emails came from? Considering the big investigation that's going on in the United States of America, I think that would be a smart question. And Muller and his team can go over there. And you know, they make deals all the time. I'm I'm sure they made a deal with Michael Flynn about Okay, if you plead guilty to lyne to the FBI will drop everything else. These prosecutors make deals all the time. They make deal. They made a deal with Rick Gates. Why because they wanted to get more information on Maniford. And they think that if they we'll give you thirty years in jail, or we'll give you a sweetheart deal. You plead guilty to this, you cooperate with us, you say what we want to hear, and then we'll put the other guy in jail and you get to go free. That's how That's how these prosecutors act all the time. And also go make a deal with Julian A. Sanch Let's see if he can give you the information about where he got the d n C emails and and the Clinton emails and then everything else. It's unbelievable. So now we're now we are reduced to interviewing what is she a sex teacher? A sex and what what is what? What is this sex coach? And the other one? What is this? What is a sex coach? What does the coach sit there and say, you know, dribble a little more to the left o'clock when you hit your slap shot. When you hit your slap shot, you gotta you know, if you want to get it up in the air. This is how you do and how do they do that? When you when you play checkers, which is the term we'll use for it at this three o'clock. Okay, when you play checkers, you want to excel to chess. When you play checkers, you want to play chess. And that's trying to become a chess. So you're in checkers and you want to become plus check on. So like the queen is dating the king, let's start there, and he's looking for checkmates, and where's and where's the rook and the bishop in all of this and where's the pawns? The whole team is in on it. The whole team is so that's what a sex coaches. People really go to. Sex coach people need to know that if you get all of the right players involved, and you're using all of your players the way that you should, that chess can be very enjoyable. Another you should be using the rook, the horse, the kaying, the queen, the pawn, and the bishop. You should use all your pieces. You can keep it simple and play checkers. You and not paid for the sex coach. Alright, So see an n wance to interview that person. Then their interview. They literally sent a reporter to Thailand in that case. But listen to what they did. Yet they're so they're so exploitive. Now, after you hear Nunberg, you're gonna understand that Nunberg, I don't care what Mueller's asking from him. Nothing Nunberg says here because he contradicts himself a million ways and sideways. He's obviously he's having some type of event going on yesterday, and nobody in the news meeting said, maybe this isn't a good day to talk. Maybe you need to, you know, get your act together and and come back when you don't smell like alcohol. You know, I was a campaign advisor from when everybody was laughing at Donald Trump. He advised, so he was that long. It was that for Sarah Huckabee to start criticizing me. I would say, and I know what, And I know you may not like the way I say. It's just a shutter fat mouth. Imagine your lawyer not to rip up a subpoena. Yeah, he's probably not. Why are you doing it? Because I'm not going to produce them every email I had with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone from November one. What do I have to produce them? All my communications? Are you ready to go to I'm not going to go to jail. How do you know you're not going to go to very publicly? Do you think that they have something on the president? I think they made well. I think that he may have done something during the election, and I don't know that. Yes, Muller. Muller thinks that Trump is a maturing kid. He thinks he's I'm sorry, he thinks he's what. He thinks Trump is the Manchurian candidate. And I will tell you I disagree with that. I'm gonna be the first one in history the flat out say I'm not going you're not going not going to the grand jury. I'm not going. I'm not gonna spend thirty hours going over my emails. I'm not doing it. I'm not cooperating. Arresting, you're not arrescue. Yeah, I'm not cooperating. You're more than happy you're gonna arrest me, arrest me. You know what, you know what if Sarah Huckabee wanted the ones to start to basically she's a joke. Okay, fine, Yeah she's unattractive, she's a fat slob, but that's not relevant her the person she works for as at approval rating. And by the way, you're gonna be fine when it comes out what he did. But people like Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Janine Pierro, they're gonna have to be They're gonna be very embarrassed. So Sam, I have to ask you one other thing, yes, man, And it's an awkward question to ask, but you know then that's where you're sitting very close to me. Talked earlier about what people in the White House were saying about you, talking about whether you you were you were drinking or on drugs or whatever they had happened today. Um, talking to you. I have smelled alcohol on your breath. Well, I have not had to drink. You haven't had a drink, so that's not so mouthwashed? Mom, I sar out there again. I know it's awkward. Let me just get give you the question you can category. No, I have not anything else, no, no, no sides, just the meds. I'm thinking, no, No, you're not smelling alcohol. I just use some mouthwash. It has a little alcohol in it. That's what you're smelling like. And okay, but they get through the whole interview, and you know what's outrageous. You know, then they ignore Hillary Clinton deleting thirty three thousand subpoena emails. They ignore it. They ignore acid washing the hard drive, they ignore beating up her devices with hammers. They ignore everything that that that the fix was in with Comey and Struck. We have new news out today. Peter Struck. Remember everything that they changed on on her um This one guy that he literally did not support any damage assessment, knowing that in fact foreign entities had gotten into Hillary's email. That's part of Katherine Herrige was report today. They ignored the of our uranium was in the hands of Vladimir Putin, and they knew ahead of time that he had operatives involved in crimes, and they still approved it. They ignore her phony docier she paid for. They ignored that they lied to a FISA court to get a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate. They ignored that they purposely lied to those judges. All these crimes we know, we're committed. The media is dead and corrupt and abusively biased. And what they report and what they don't report, just like the FBI their omissions, well not reporting as an omission and a bias also of the media. It's unbelievable. All right, As we roll along Shawan Hannity's show, you know why, pay attention to what is new news today that Trump hating FBI agent Peter Struck, who was the head of the FBI Counter Espionage Division, when in a full blown cover up mode when he found out that the Russians had actually used Hillary's illegal secret server to hack into her classified State Department email. Loipsie, Daisy, you mean American lives are at risk? Let me continue. During the final months of the Clinton email investigation, uh, the FBI agent Peter Struck was advised of an irregularity in the metadata of Hillary Clinton's server that suggested a possible breach, but Struck did nothing to support a formal damage assessment. And then we're still as a member of the FBI. The director James Comey in and as in a circle, Struck edited Comey's July public statement exonerating Hillary to cover up the fact that the Russians had actually gained access to her classified State Department email. In the initial May seen draft, two months before Clinton and more than a dozen key witnesses were interviewed, Comey said it was reasonably likely likely a hostile actors had gained access to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account, and struct changed the language to say the Russian hack was merely possible. Oh so, the top the FBI's top counter espionage guy at the FBI discovers the Russians penetrated Hillary's the illegal secret server, gaining access to America's most sensitive national security secrets, and instead of following up, which by the way, is a crime, he covers it up for her. Yeah, again, the fixes in for Hillary. Hillary gets away with everything, and then he changes Comey's exoneration letter to make sure, Hillary gets off the hook. And not only has this guy not been prosecuted, he actually still getting a paycheck from the FBI courtesy if we the suckers the taxpayers of America. But don't worry, that's not news. You've got Sam numb Nuts and his has meltdown on National TV. You got really important reporting going on in Thailand about a hooker who says she might have been able to break through on everything and everything included in the Trump Russia investigation or is it the Trump UAE investigation or is it the real witch hunt of all times? You see how bad the deep state is? Pretty bad. We'll give you the news you can't get elsewhere, exposing left wing media bias. No stone left unturned to Sean Hannity Show is back on the air now till the top of the hour. The President is supposed to have a press conference coming up. We'll dip in and out depending on what he's gonna be talking about. All right, so if you live in the East Coast, there's a massive, massive storm coming and that means we have to check in with Joba starting WeatherBell dot com. Author, Tell everybody about your new book, how's the new book doing. It's doing very very well, and thank you for bringing it up the other day. And now it's called The Climate Chronicles Inconvenient Revelations you won't hear from al Gore and others, and you could check it out on Amazon. Just one quat question that they do lie to us repeatedly about global warming, and then it's global cooling, and then it's global the ice ages Coming Time magazine had then there are is gonna blow up and burn up, and now they just they just call it global whatever um climate change because this way it's generic and if it's hot or too hot, they can say it's climate change. If it's cold or too cold, they can say it's climate change. But it didn't work out when they said global cooling or global warming, so they had to fix it. Yeah. Well, it's like as if you were in a match, Shawn, and every time you scored a point, the other guy got one. That's how that's how it works. Any answer is the right answer. Anything can happen and probably will, and it's it's really you'll find also if you get the book, folcuss so I have some humor in it because you have to have to smile at it. And there are a lot more important things on the plate of this country, uh than you know whether the temperature is going up a point two point three c or whatever. But look, this is a big storm. I mean, this is and it's it's it's funny because ironic we are returning to the fifties and sixties. He saw this type of stuff happen in March all the time in the fifties and sixties. They could rattle off a bunch of mine I won't hear. But here's what we've got going. We've got a storm system that is weakening over the Midwest, and a new one is going to take over on the South Carolina coast late tonight and tomorrow morning, and that's going to come north northeastward. The track of that storm is crucial. If it passes just to the east of Delmarva Peninsula, just to the east of Atlantic City. The area from Philadelphia to New York is in the foot of snow. I believe it's going to come inland a little bit, and that track right up over Atlantic City tomorrow around noon means that the rain or the snow and the big cities will have to fight with rain back and forth, and that will limit the accumulations. As it is, tomorrow morning's rush hour from philippin New York is going to be a royal mess, especially northwest of the City's is going to be snowing and at the height of the storm, and this complicates the forecast problem. It's going to be snowing two to three inches an hour right near that rain snow changeover line. So right now we have three to six in Philadelphia, three to six in New York City proper, but once you got miles western New York or Philadelphia, it's up to sit twelve locally eighteen. There's gonna be a lot of wind developing with it, and because the snow will be wet, trees and power lines will come down by the time we get to the evening rush hour. The core of the storm is from New York City up to Boston. Not so we moved from We moved from Philly to New York and then New York to Boston. So you can see it coming up the coast, and it's the same problem Boston, Providence, New London, New Haven, they're right on the borderline to the north and west is and out and out heavy wet snowstorm, major march snow in those big cities is a fight and again attract Joe. I hate to interrupt you, but the President Joe Bastardi WeatherBell dot com as the President is now taking to the stage with the Swedish Prime Minister. Let's listen to thank you very much, thank you. I'm honored to be joined by Prime Minister Luvin of Sweden at our first meeting in the White House. Sweden is one of our oldest and closest partners, and was among the first European nations to offer the United States an unsolicited treaty of friendship, a treaty signed, believe it or not, in seventy three. That's a long time ago. My daughter of Anka had a wonderful time watching American and Swedish athletes compete in the recent men's curling final at the Olympics. That was something I was a little upset with. That wasn't expected. But that's okay. We'll take it right. All of the athletes should be immensely proud of the great job they did. The Prime Minister and I have just concluded a series of very productive meetings. The relationship between the United States and Sweden is one based on shared values, including respect for individual rights, the rule of law, and human dignity. These common principles are the foundation of our partnership and we have had a great partnership for many years. We look forward to exploring further opportunities to increase our security and our cooperation in every other way, and we encourage nations around the world to share responsibility for our common defense. We appreciate Sweden's leadership on the United Nations Security Council and look very much forward to working together in the coming months. The United States is also grateful to Sweden for advocating for Americans detained in North Korea. I particularly want to thank the Swedish government for its assistance and securing the release of American college student Auto warm Beer last year. Terrible tragic event. We continue to pray for Otto's parents, Fred and Cindy, to terrific people over the tragic death of their son. And we remain determined to achieve a d nuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and there's been a lot of news on that today. Hopefully it's pos that if hopefully it will lead to a very positive result in economic matters. We are striving for a relationship grounded in fairness and reciprocity. The United States is one of the largest investors in Sweden, and the Swedish investments in the United States support over two hundred thousand American jobs. Earlier this afternoon, I heard from several Swedish business executives, some of the greatest in the world. Where are you, folks, please? Some of the great executives in the world, people I've known for a long time and certainly know of, and they're investing tremendous amounts of money in the United States and supporting also vocational training for American workers. Were grateful for those investments, and we are committed to working with Sweden to pursue even greater economic cooperation. We're also continuing to pursue bilateral agreements to advance mutual prosperity. I'm pleased that Sweden intends to procure the Patriot Air and Missile defense system, finest in the world, in a deal worth over three billion dollars. This system will increase stability and security in the Baltic Sea region. A strong and balanced economic relationship strengthen security and prosperity in both of our countries, and this is just the beginning. We have a lot of things that we're working on, and we're working on them really very hard. Mr Prime Minister, I want to thank you again for joining us, and I want to thank your great staff who we've met with, and your great business leaders who was a very interesting and productive meeting. A longstanding friendship between our people, anchored in our shared beliefs and values, has greatly enriched both of our countries, and this is just the beginning. Our relationship has never been better. An honor to have you here. Thank you, Thank you all well, Thank you Mr President for a warm and generous welcome. It is a true pleasure to be here at the White House. This year's Weed and the United States celebrate two hundred years of diplomatic relations, and this meeting I am reaffirms the strength of our relations. The history is shown that our two nations share fundamental values and interests such as democracy and human rights. We also share a strong partnership that continues to evolve today. We have discussed how to further strengthen our country's prosperity and security. As for prosperities, WEEN is one of the largest per capita investors in the United States, and my country may not be big, but we support directly and indirectly almost one million jobs in the United States, and some key executives of companies that provides these jobs are also here with me at this visit. At the same time, the United States is our most important foreign employer, and many US companies play a vital role in providing investment and creating jobs in Sweden. President Trump and I have discussed how our nations can support jobs and growth. It's a crucial issue for Sweden. That means embracing new sustainable technologies which permit our economy to grow at the same time reducing emissions, and also how we can secure good jobs in a labor market constantly changing due to automation and digitalization. Sweden and the United States are two of the most innovative economies in the world and we see great opportunities ahead. Swedish prosperity is built on cooperation, competitiveness and free trade, and I'm convinced that increased terrorists will hurt us all in the long run. And as a Swede, I of course support the efforts of the European Union to achieve trade with fewer obstacles and as few as possible turn into security. The President and I have discussed some key regional and global security challenges, such as the situation on the Korean Peninsula, but also the developments in in Sweden's neighborhood. We have also addressed the constructive cooperation between Sweden and the United States in the United Nations Security Council. I would like to underline that the transatlantic link is strong and it remains crucial to responding to global security challenges. Sweden is a military, non aligned country, but we build security in partnership with others, and we greatly value our broad security and defense cooperation with the United States, and one important example of that is our joint efforts to fight and combat terrorism. Sweden and the United States stands shoulder to shoulder in the global Coalition against ices and also in the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. And these vital military efforts must go hand in hand with strong political, diplomatic and also civilian support to create sustainable results. So, in conclusions, as we celebrate two hundred years of diplomatic relations, we're also planning for shared prosperity and security for many many years to come. And once again I thank you as a President for constructive and the successful meeting and for the very warm welcome that both my delegation and I received. Thank you so much, very much, Thank you very much, John, Thank you, Mr President. You spoke about North Korea in the Oval Office, so I'd like to turn a trade if I could. My understanding is that the Prime Minister came to you with a message from the European Union commissioned President saying, if you put tariffs on steel and aluminum, we'll slap you back with punitive tariffs on bourbon and jeans and the motorcycles that you talk about from Wisconsin. Are you still planning on going ahead with these tariffs? There are some people in your party who have suggested it's not a good idea. And and Prime Minister Levine, what's your perspective on on tariffs and what message did you convey to the President from Sweden and from the European Union. Thank you well. The United States has been taken advantage of by other countries, both friendly and not self friendly, for many, many decades, and we have a trade deficit of eight hundred billion dollars a year and that's not going to happen with me. We have been mistreated by many uh sometimes fairly, but there are really very few instances where that's taken place. And I don't blame the countries. I blame our leadership for allowing it to happen. When I was with President She and China as an example, we lose five hundred billion dollars a year on trade. We have a deficit of approximately five hundred billion dollars a year with China, and we're doing things with China which are very strong, but they understand it. But I was with him and I said to him in public, I said, look, I'm not blaming you. I blame our people for not doing a better job, for allowing this to happen. But it's like that with many countries other than smaller. The European Union has been particularly tough on the United States. They make it almost impossible for us to do business with them, and yet they send their cars and everything else back into the United States and they can do whatever they'd like. But if they do that, then we put a big tax of their cars, and believe me, they won't be doing it very long. The European Union has not treated us well, and it's been a very very unfair trade situation. I'm here to protect and one of the reasons i was elected as I'm protecting our workers. I'm protecting all right. The President joined presser with the Prime Minister of Sweden and we're gonna stay with this for our affiliates along the Shawan Hannity Show network. If you want to go to our normal break at this time, you can, and we'll continue this on the other side as well after the top of the hour. You won't miss a minute, and we'll also be taking your calls. Eight nine one. Sean is doing well. The massive tax cuts and all of the deregulation has really kicked us into gear. But I have to work on trade deals. We're working on NAFTA right now, and if we're able to make a deal with Canada and Mexico in NAFTA, then there will be no reason to do the tariffs with Canada and Mexico. But again other countries, we won't have that choice, and unless they can do something for us. As an example, if the European Union takes off some of the horrible barriers that make it impossible for our product to go into there, then we can start talking. Otherwise we're gonna leave it the way it is. So the fact is we've been mistreated as a country for many years and it's just not gonna happen any longer. How do you avoid this escalating? How do you avoid this escalating into a trade war? Well, it's we'll have to see. You know, when we're behind on every single country, trade wars aren't so bad. Do you understand what I mean by that? When we're down by thirty billion, forty billion, sixty billion billion, the trade war hurts them, doesn't hurt us. So we'll see what happens. You know, you can also take it. In some cases we lose on trade, plus we give them military where we're subsidizing them tremendously. So not only do we lose on trade, we lose on military. So and hence we have these massive deficit numbers in our country. We're going to straighten it out, and we'll do it in a in a very loving way. It'll be a loving, loving way. They'll like us better and they will respect us much more. Because even they say right now, they say, we can't believe we've gotten a way. I mean two countries have said, we cannot believe to be honest with you, we've gotten nowhere with us so long now. One of them made that statement before I got elected. He said, I can't believe I made that statement before I got elected. But it's one of those things we have to straighten it out. We really have no choice. And Mr Prime Minister, how forceful was your message to the President on on what the consequences will be if he goes ahead with terrors? First, trade is the European Union mandate, so we'll remember of the European Union, it's European mandates to to to handle the trade issue use But as a as a member of the European Union, I think it's important for us to try to find a way to cooperate between the European Union and the United States. I fully understand and respect the President's view that we have to look after his own country, the country that you're leading. I understand that fully that's my primarily task as well. But for me leading a small country depending on on open trade, we the best way for us is to to do that with others because our export equals to of our g d P, so for us it is crucially important that that we had this open and free trade today. Also, I believe that the supply chains are very, very complicated to see and I know that for for example, when we when we sell our fighter aircraft, which is a very good aircraft, the content is perhaps American. So we want this to be to be resolved incorporation. And when it comes to steal, Yes, we have an overcapacity in the world. That's that's obviously, but at the same time it is China that is producing about fift of the steal in the world, so and and European Union perhaps ten percent and less than that. So uh. To summarize, I think it was a pity again it's a European Union mandate, but it was a pity also that the t tip negotiations ended because perhaps with negotiations and talks we can come into a situation whether European Union and United States can cooperate. I think that would be a very good solution. Just to add maybe a little bit further, Um, if you talk China, I've watched where the reporters have been writing two percent of our steal comes from China. Well that's not right. They trans ship all through other countries. And you'll see that a country that doesn't even have a steel mill is sending us three steel for our country, and many countries are doing it, but it comes from China. So China doesn't send us two percent. They send us a much much higher level than that. But it's called trans shipping, so it doesn't look good when it all comes out of China, so they send it through other countries and it comes to us, and it's putting our steel mills out of business. Are aluminum mills are going out of business. And we need steel and we need aluminum. And you know, there's a theory that if a country doesn't have steel, it doesn't have a country, and it's true. So this is more than just pure economics. This is about defense. This is about the country itself. But again, remember this, we lose eight hundred billion dollars a year in trade. And I think I was elected at least partially on this issue, and I've been saying it for twenty five years. Our country has been taken advantage of by everybody, by everybody, almost everybody, and we cannot let that happen any longer, not for our companies and not most importantly for our workers, so we're not gonna let it happen. Please, Okay, all right, the President a joint pressor with the Prime Minister of Sweden. Uh, we're gonna come back to this in full, and you won't miss a minute of it. Since my first time before, you thought you might indulge me with two questions. First, sir, do you believe in North Korea's recent willingness to talk is sincere or is it an effort to buy time for their nuclear program? And to what do you owe this recent openness to talk? Me? No, I think that nobody got that. I think at they are sincere. But I think they're sincere also because the sanctions and what we're doing with respect to North Korea, including you know, the great help that we've been given from China, and they can do more, but I think they've done more than certainly they've ever done for our country before. So China has been a big help. I think that's been a factor. But the sanctions have been very very strong and very biting, and we don't want that to happen. So I really believe they are sincere. I hope the sincere. We're going to soon find out that you would like to see some change in the people around you. Does that include include your Attorney General Jeff Sessions or either of your abnet secretary. I don't. I don't really talk about that. I just said that. Uh. The White House has tremendous energy, It has tremendous spirit. It is a great place to be working. Many, many people want every single job. You know, I read where oh gee, maybe people don't want to work for Trump, And believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House. They all want a piece of that Oval Office, they want a piece of the West Wing. And not only in terms of it looks greater there resume. It's just a great place to work. It's got tremendous energy. It's tough. I like conflict. I like having two people with different points of view, and I certainly have that and then I make a decision. But I like watching it. I like seeing it, and I think it's the best way to go. I like different points of view. But the White House has a tremendous energy, and we have tremendous talent. Yeah, there'll be people, I'm not going to be specific, but there'll be people that change. They always change. Sometimes they want to go out and do something else, but they all want to be in the White House. So many people want to come in. I have a choice of anybody. I could take any position in the White House, and I'll have a choice of the ten top people having to do with that position. Everybody wants to be there, and they love this White House because we have energy like rarely before. Okay, thank you very much, sir, Mr Prime Minister. Last year you criticized the President for drawing a link between immigrant crime and the recent arrivals of refugees. This week, one of our own flagship papers in the New York Times actually profiled the link between hand grenade violence and immigrant gangs in your country. Do you stand by your criticism of the president? First, Sweden, we we have our share of domestic challenges, no doubt about that. So and we inherited a legislation that was not sustainable legislation on migration, which meant that we received one hundred and sixty three thousand refugees seeking refuge Uh bear in mind where to come to ten million inhabitants. So that was a lot of them came from September to December, which meant it was a dramatic increase. We change the legislation. So now we've decreased the number of refugees entering Sweden, and we're also putting pressure on the other European Union countries to take their share of the responsibility. This is not a responsibility for one to three or four countries. It is a shared responsibility. We're working with that now within the European Union. So um and we we of course, we also have problems with crime, organized crime in Sweden, shootings, but it's not like you have these no ghost zones. We we have. We have dealt with it. I'm dealing with it every day, allocating more resources to the police, more policeman trained, more resources to the security police, tough law on crime, tough law on terrorism, supporting terrorism. So we do a lot to combat that, and we can also see some results now in our three major cities, decreased shootings because we're attacking the organized crime very tough. And we'll keep on doing that because there is no space in Sweden for organized crime because they they they decrease freedom for for ordinary people. At the same time, sowedn't have a high growth. Unemployment is going down, Employment is going up. We have high investment rates, we're allocating resources to the welfare. We have a strong, strong economy with the with the surplus, huge surplus that we're now using to to develop our society with for example, the welfare that we that we want. So the pictures we need to be it's two pictures. Yes, we have our share of domestic problems and challenges, no doubt about that. But we're dealing with them, and we also have a good, good foundation for dealing with them, not least with the strong economy and the shrinking unemployment. Oh okay, so it's Kisa Sweetest radio. Thank you. This is an election year for both of our countries, and I want to ask you, Mr Trump, what do you think Sweden should learn from how the Russian influence campaign affected the presidential election in the US. Well, the Russians had no impact on our votes whatsoever, but certainly there was meddling, and probably there was meddling from other countries and maybe other individuals. And I think you have to be uh really watching very closely. You don't want your system of votes to be compromised in any way, and we won't allow that to happen. We're doing a very very deep study and we're coming out with some I think, very strong suggestions on the eighteen election. I think we're going to do very well in the eighteen election, although historically those in the White House have a little bit of a dip. But I think we're gonna do because the economy is so good, and because we're protecting our job Like our jobs are being protected finally, like with what we're doing with the tariffs, but the big thing would be the tax cut and the regulations cuts. Also the judges. I mean, we have outstanding judges judge course it's in the Supreme Court and many many judges going onto the bench all over the country. So I think we're gonna do very well. Uh, And I think it will be a tremendous surprise to people how well it's. The economy is so good, jobs are so good, Black unemployment, Hispanic unemployment at all time lows. I mean, we're really we're really doing well. So based on that, I guess we should do pretty well, and I hope so. But you have to be very vigilant. And one of the things we're learning is it's always good. It's old fashioned, but it's always good to have a paper backup system of voting. It's called paper, not highly complex computers, paper, and a lot of states are doing that. They're going to a paper back up and I think that's a great idea. But we're studying it very closely. Various agencies, including Homeland Security are studying it very carefully. But are you worried about thrush and trying to meddle in the mid terminal now? Because we counteract whatever they do well, counteracted very strongly, and we are having strong backup systems and we've been working actually we haven't been given credit for this, but we've actually been working very hard on the eighteen election and the twenty election coming up. Thank you very much, Mr Levin. Are you guys on the same page when it comes to evaluating the threat from Russia when it comes to middling in elections, you think, well, we we both agree upon that the election in the country shoute the result of the election and the country should be decided about nobody else but the voters in that country. And that is also a clear stance, and that is why our intelligence agencies now also increasing their own capacity to detect encounter, whether it's hacker attacks or or or financing, or producing or spreading propaganda, whatever it is. We are increasing our capacity to handle that. We are cooperating with other European Union countries. Some of our agencies also cooperating with American counterparts, and this WI will continue to do. And so any foreign power that that believes that they can interfere with our election, we will find out and we will call them out very clearly loud. The first time that you too meet, just the two of you, where did you find most common ground and where you differ most on political issues? We were first we we we we almost everything we now first we we we we we I mean we we both come from outside politics into politics. I've spent perhaps thirty years in industry as a welder, but also as a trade union ist, but trade union leader, h spending on my time cooperating with the company leaders, with the employer's organization in an effort to strengthen our industry. So that's perhaps a similar background, not similar because it's different. But but we come from outside politics. But of course also friends differ from time to time. The Parents agreement, the importance of Paris agreement, we stand by that. We think it's very important that we implement and fulfill the Paris Agreement because of the climate issue, and on that we might differ tariffs as well. But having said that, still we know that the relationship is a good yes, so we can take that we differ as well because the values are there and we cooperate very very good on economic issues making sure that we a jobs and growth, and also on security issues, both when it comes to combating terrorism but also when it comes to to defend ourselves. Just finally follow up for Mr Trump. Do you think the trade is forth Sweden and US differmost right now? Oh? I think we have very good relationships on trade. We have had and we are constantly in touch. We have on the military grade cooperation including design of various components of aircraft, etcetera. And we are we were discussing that we have some of the great makers of these components in the room with us today. Now. We have a very good relationship on trade and we always will have. Swede is a great country. It's small, but it's very sharp, I will tell you they are very sharp. Thank you very much, everybody. I appreciate it, thank you, thank you. All right. The President wrapping up as press conference with the Prime Minister of Sweden at the White House and the President touches on issues of trade. Obviously a Russia question come up an interference. President said, we're doing everything possible and how it will impact theen whatever changes they're gonna make are gonna go. There have time for a call out of this, by the way, and investigated report by John Solomon. Uh, saying hi to Ben and Georgia. What's up, Ben? How are you glad you called? Hi? Sean, Thanks for having me on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you. You're very welcome. What's up, sir? Yeah, I just wanted to say, been uh paying a lot of attention to President Trump and his dealings and Russia recently, and I've noticed a couple of things. I've noticed, um that he's you know, I like Trump, but he's sort of like a peacock when when another peacock comes around, he likes to fluff his feathers a little bit. And but but here's the difference between I think President Trump and President Putin and especially Kim John Nun. When President Trump, you know, what is his feather as we know, he can back it up. Yeah, yeah, you know because you know, we're America. So but but when I when I do think, look, I think the listen, I think the president's negotiating, especially on trade. I think as it relates to everything Russia. We know the media is corrupt. You could see everything that's happened. Peter Struck literally absolutely knew that Hillary's computers were compromised, and he did nothing. He needs to be handcuffed. He needs to be put in jail. You know when you see the depth of collusion and the depth of of fixing for Hillary and the media does nothing. You know what he There was collusion, and it was Hillary Clinton's collusion. It was hard Boughton paid for dossier. It was Muller and Horror and Polder. They allowed Putin to get a foothold in our uranium industry. You know, all of this time, it's nothing short of of corruption and a media that has a biased, abusively biased political position. Ship all right back to our phones. That and John Solomon has an investigative report. You know that Australian diplomat that was responsible for giving the tip the former Australian Foreign minister. He's the one that spread the information about George Poppadopolis at the London Bar. That became the official reason the FBI opened the Russia Intelligence counterintelligence probe. Oh yeah, uh, this former foreign minister gave twenty five million of the Clinton Foundation. Jim and Alabama, what's up, Jim? How are you glad you called? Sir? Yes, sir, thanks for having me. I had a question to ask you that nobody has asked anything the Trump Russian collations. Why would the Russians collude with Trump to steal the election from Hillary when the Russians half a hundred and forty five million dollars invested in Hillary already? Right? Uh listen. Uh. My take is is that the Russians all they wanted to do is what we heard in the last report. They wanted us so discord and chaos in America. Do I think they picked a particular side? Nope. I mean if you have simultaneous uh disruptions going on, or simultaneous demonstrations on the same day, and one is pro Trump and one is anti Trump, I think that pretty much describes that they want to sow discord. Now you have to ask this question, why didn't Obama do anything about it when he was warned by Devin Nounas and others in why was he lecturing Donald Trump to stop whining about interference in twenty sixteen, just weeks before the election, and why did it take a couple of months afterwards for him to say this is a disaster and then try to push the blame on Donald Trump? Uh, excuse me. They were hoping they didn't care about Russian intrusion into our electoral process. If they did, they had ample warning to stop whatever happened. But with all of that said, everybody has now said that it didn't impact the election in any way, shape, matter of form. So the ideas you want to put in place the process where they can't do it in the future, that would be pretty good. That would be a good start. And maybe we can start by not having compromised computers like Hillary Clinton had that the Russians got into. Alright, now till the top of the hour one, Shawn, you want to be a part of the program. All right, let's take a trip down memory lane. Hillary Clinton. You mean, did you wipe the server clean? You mean, like with a cloth? Ed and other lies about not sending or receiving classified information? Did you, like with a cloth or somebody though, UM, and I had uh not sent classified material nor received anything marked classified. It was a mistake to have a personal account. I would certainly not do it again. I make no excuse uses for it. Uh. It was something that should not have been done. But the real question is the handling of classified material, which is I think what the implication of your question was. And for all the viewers watching you tonight, I have a lot of experience dealing with classified materials, starting when I was on the Senate Arm Services Committee, going into the four years of Secretary of State. Classified material has a header which says top secret, secret, confidential, nothing, and I will I will repeat this, and this is verified in the report by the Department of Justice. None of the emails sent or received by me had such a header. I will reiterate because it's a fact nothing I sent or received was marked classified. Now, what happens when you ask or when you are asked to make information public is that it's reviewed and different agency's come in with their opinions. As you know, just recently, Colin Powell's emails were retroactively classified from more than ten years ago. As he said, that was an absurdity. I could not agree more. I always took classified materials seriously. Uh, there was never any material marked classified that was sent or received by me, And I look forward to as being wrapped up. What about people think, well, she might be president, what does she learned from this whole present? Well, that was a mistake. And I have said that, and I will say it again as often as I need to. H it seemed like a convenient idea at the time that certainly wasn't. And so I always take classified material seriously. There's no argument about that that I'm aware of. Um and I had not sent classified material nor received anything marked classified. Did you like, preserbly, what might with a cloth or somebody? Now add that to the story that came out today Katherine Harridge, Fox News, uh FBI well investigator Peter Struck, And of course we know about his mistress girlfriend, the attorney for former deputy uh FBI Director McCabe. Anyway, as um as FT is a member of James Comey's inner circle. We now have learned that, in fact, during the final months of the Clinton email investigation, the FBI agent Struck, who hates Donald Trump and was responsible for writing the exoneration before the investigation as it relates to Hillary's email. Oh, we now know that he was advised of irregularities as it relates to the metadata of Hillary Clintons server that suggested a possible breach by a foreign entity, and Struck did not support a formal damage assessment. And then we're still as a member of Comey's inner circle. Well, Struck edited the July Public State an exonerary exonerating Hillary Clinton. He did the interview of Hillary Clinton. What was writing your exoneration months before? And then on the weekend of the fourth of July, right after they had their h quote. Uh, maybe that T and crumpets. I'm not sure what they did. He didn't do his job. Uh. Then it was just two days later that James Comey exonerated Hillary even though he admitted that she had that she had committed multiple felonies. So where does it all go from here? Having all started with the Clinton's joining us, now John Solomon is with us with the Hill Now. His piece out yesterday is absolutely devastating as it relates to oh, yeah, that Australian diplomat donated million to the Clinton uh Foundation, but that wasn't known, and that goes to the whole Papadopoulos story four way. Hearsay, oh, yeah, we're the ones that started the investigation. That's not true either. Anyway. John Solomon is with us. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. All right. Let's start with your piece from yesterday. It's pretty big bombshell because the Australian diplomat whose supposed tip prompted the FBI's Russia probe has a major tie to the Clintons, and that tells me that the Russian probe wasn't started the way we're being told. Yeah, uh, well, it was definitely started with Downer tip. But there's a there's a big twisted Downer, which is he's been portrayed for most of the last several months, particularly as the criticism of the Steel memo and its connections to the Clinton campaign and the d n C have risen, and those concerns have risen with it. They've kind of the FBI has kind of hung its last hat on this idea that the original tip came in from a diplomat through normal intelligence channels. He has nothing to do with the cartons, and he heard this conversation about Papadopolas claiming that he knew that the Russians were gonna one day release damaging emails and Hillary Clinton. And that's how this whole thing really started. Forget Steel, forget Sidney Blooman fall, this is really how it started. Well, the one thing that the FBI forgot to tell Congress in the American public is that Alexander Downer, that guy who made that first report, was a twenty five million dollar donor to the Clinton Foundation. He's one of the four largest foreign government donors in the history of the Clinton Health Initiative of the foundation. Twenty five millions a lot of money, and it was given from the Australian government to help fight AIDS. But this is another piece of the puzzle where all four of the people who originally came forward and gave FBI informission, they're all people who supported the Clinton either in the past or in the present. Explain who the four are in each instance, because I think withholding the information about the twenty five million dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation, uh and it being four way hearsay to begin with, does tain't anything that might have been said, because obviously it sounds like they're Clinton sickofense. Yeah, there's certainly. Certainly Downer was effusive in his praise of the Clinton when he gave the twenty five million dollars. So here are the four people. We know. Christopher Steele the author of the dossier, and we know he was funded in full by the Clinton campaign and the Democrat National Committee, and we know from the Chairman Nunez and Chairman's grass these letters that he also was a person that personally, Steele personally despised Trump and wanted to defeat Trump. So he was paid by the Clinton's animates for Trump. That's that's number one. Number two, we have Sydney Bluemantal and Cody Sharer to longtime Clinton friends, Clinton supporters, Clinton p eyes were roaming the world doing Libya stuff when Hillary Clinton's secretary of State. They funnel information through the John Cherry State Department that gets the steel that gets to the FBI. So that's that's the second Clinton connection. The third Clinton connection is Michael Isikoff. He's a reporter at Yahoo News and he has admitted that his story in September, which was used by the FBI as independent collaboration to support a fist the warrant came from Steel. So really it's the fruit of the poison treat Christopher Steele is it to the reporter of reporter of reports, and the FBI cheats the reporter like it was a separate chain of information. And now we have the fourth one, al Xander Downer, a well respected diplomat who in an earlier life was million dollar supporter of the Clinton Foundation. So for fourth of the information that predicated and started the FBI investigation. Mind you, in the middle of an election, a presidential election can be traced to people who supported Donald Trump's democratic component. So you have the foreign Australian far the former Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, he has a key role in securing million dollars in aid from his country to help the Clinton Foundation. And down On, who's now Australia's ambassador to London. He provides the account of a conversation with Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos at a London bar. That becomes the official reason because then he he takes that information and he brings it to authorities sometime later, and that becomes the reason that the FBI opens or at least one of them the Russian counter intelligence probe. Now, lawmakers are pretty piste off about this, according to your piece, because the FBI didn't tell Congress about Downers prior connection, so we didn't know that he was related in any way or supportive of the Clinton's and the Clinton Foundation. And Republicans again are concerned because the new information means nearly all of the early evidence that the FBI used to justify their election year probe of Trump came from sources that were supportive of the Clinton including the steal dossier that we now know was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. Yeah, I know, you're exactly right. One of the people we talked to was Jim Jordan. He he's a chairman of a sub comedian's playing an increasing role in the Russian investigation. He said, you know, Hunter was the one guy we thought had no Clinton connection. We were excited to learn about him and you know, understand his role. And now we find out they knew of the Clinton connection about him, and they didn't tell us so in a way. But here we are omissions again because when they made the initial application to the FISA court, there was the rying omission about who paid for the dossier and we and you know a footnote that says it may be political and nature. Uh, that doesn't equate to Hillary Clinton buying and paying for the dossier that's full of Russian lines. Yeah no, And I think you know that. You mentioned Katherine Herridge's report just a little bit ago in the show, and Uh, there's an interesting thing I want to point out, because there's a similar pattern in the Trump world. Right, there's a lot of things about Hillary Clinton that seems to get modified, omitted, craftily edited into a footnote with that really isn't forthcoming. And you ask yourself, why is the FBI not being more open with the courts, with the Congress. There's no reason, if there's nothing to be ashamed about, there's no reason not to disclose the sub and say, sure, that's what happened, and we don't have any problem with it. Let's go to the U. The famous memo. The story today about stroke that kathin Herrog broke is so important for another reason. All Right, he didn't follow up, according to Katherine's report, on the possibility that there was a foreign breach. Now, I'm gonna remind you about something I reported just a couple of months ago, when Kobe's original ex honoration statement was drafted, he wrote, it was reasonably likely that's a very strong word. It was likely that Hillary Clinton's non secure price that was edited out, and it wasn't you know who made that edit. That's the Peter Struck. Peter Struck. Yeah, yeah, So again you have an FBI that's, for reasons that we don't understand yet, appears to be editing and changing things from original conclusions and ignoring or omitting facts. And you have to ask yourself one or two times it's a coincidence, four, five, six, seven, eight times. That's why the members of Congress, at least on the Republican side, are becoming more concerned that there was politicalizations, not just from the text messages where you know, people are expressing political opinions during the middlemal elections, but by their actions. And there's a lot of actions now that make the FBI look like they were acting in a partisan way. Whether they were or not, we'll find out. Stay right there will continue. John Solomon of The Hill eight nine one, Shawn toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program, Hey, Like many of you, I don't sleep well, will suffer from insomnia. But I'm sleeping better than ever. 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I want to go back to Catherine Herridge's report, though James Comey is writing with Peter Struck the exoneration of Hillary, all of it goes back to her. We know she committed multiple felonies as it relates to having an off site email server in a mom and pop shop bathroom. We know it had secret, top secret, classified and special access programming information on it. Then when she was subpoened, she deleted thirty three thou of the emails that would be obstruction to anybody else. She acid washes the hard drive with bleach bit, and then she's smashing devices with hammers. Now, if anybody in Donald Trump's campaign ever did anything similar to something that was subpoenaed by Congress, what would the reaction and result the It's a great question, isn't it. I think the answer would be. I think the answer would be they'd be arrested. That's what I think they would. I think so. And I'll give you another example that came up at the end of the Clinton uh investigation that a lot of reporters haven't focused on, but I think is so important when you compare to what's happened now with people like Mike Flann and Papadopus being in or charge or pleading out two single instances of Lyne to the FBI. Right, we have several people on the Trump team that have been pled out or charge of single instances of mine. But there was a technician that worked for the Clinton campaign or for the Clinton office, and he lied outright about the effort to cleanse the server during the period when this subpoena had been issued. He lied. What did the Justice Department do in that case? They didn't charge him, They didn't give him a one thousand one count. They immunized them so that he could tell the FBI the real truth of what he did. So they immunized them instead of charging him like the Trump people. But then here's a real twist. He decided not to answer one of the questions. They asked them, well, you did this right around the time you were talking to Hillary Clinton's email lawyers. Is it possible they instructed you to destroy this information? And he invoked attorney client privilege. Now that's really funny because Hillary Clinton's lawyers are not this man's lawyers. But the FBI accepted that and they just moved on. So when people look, are we getting equal treatment in the system, they see this very aggressive the treatment. Probably rightly so people who lied to the FBI. You should be charged if you lied. But we see an instance on the Clinton side again where someone admitted they lie and he walks away with no consequence, and he even gets to refuse to answer some of the questions. I have no idea, but at some point, if maybe it's the Inspector General's report, if some people don't go to jail here, then we don't have equal justice under the law. That's a that's the bottom line. All right, John, We look forward. When's your next report? We'll see we're working on a bunch of things and hope to get some more facts out into the public soon. All right, thanks for sharing. We appreciate a one Shawn toll free telephone number. We'll get reaction from Freedom Caucus members Matt Gates and Jim Jordan and Louie Gomert. That's coming up next our News round Up, Information Overload our and your calls are straight ahead. Going up next our final news round up and Information Overload our. I've addressed this previously. I think now we've had subsequently members of Congress on the Intelligence committees on both sides of the aisle, take a look at the the information that apparently was the basis for uh Chairman Nuness's concern and and say publicly that they didn't see anything that was unusual or untoward. I did my job, which was to protect the American people. Uh, And I did it faithfully and with to the best of my ability, and never did I do anything that was untoward with respect to the intelligence I received. So what we did is a couple of weeks ago we sent out to about a dozen people. We have another dozen people that are on the list, so will probably end up being about two dozen folks that are going to get this questionnaire. The questionnaire really asked some simple questions, when did you know the Democrats paid for the dossier? And who did you tell? There's ten questions in all, but that's the bottom line. Thankfully, we have received most of the people have responded, getting the information back to us promptly and on time. There are a few people who have asked for an additional week, which we have went ahead and granted that time. There are a few people, though, that are not responding. They seem to have went dark. However, if they did not respond here shortly they will be getting subpoena to appear before Congress to be treated with the deposition. And did James did John Brennan and James Clapper respond to your questions? Yes, they did, and what were their responses about when they knew and what they knew. Well, one of the things is is as we continue to do this unth I hope you understand, is that we have to compile all of this, we have to check it with their past testimony, we have to talk about it amongst our committee members. So I'm not dodging the question, but I just don't think it would be appropriate to say anything other than the fact that they did cooperate, they did answer all the questions. All right, news, round up, information overload our here on the Sean Hannity Show nine for one, Shawn, you want to be a part of the program. Alright, So all those breaking news today. Sarah Carter now looking into the possibility the House Intel Committee is now investigating, well, what did John Kerry know his possible role in the unverify dossier paid for by Hillary in the d n C. And so that's now a big question. How are we going to get to the fact that Americans have been abused on a high level in terms of the weapons of intelligence now turned against them, and then of course lying to a visor court in order to get a a visor warrant against an individual as part of the Trump campaign, and not telling the fis the court where the information came for him from, and nor verifying the contents there in which turned out to be lies anyway. Joining US Freedom Caucus members, we have Louis Gohmer from Texas, Matt Gates from Florida, and Jim Jordan from the Great State of Ohio. Louis will start with you. Uh, why do I imagine that if Sean Hannity presented evidence to a court in order to get an indictment or get if it's not an indictment, just to get any type of surveillance against them, and I withheld key information, I don't think even you could get me out of jail. Well, it is really outrageous. And you know, having been former felony judge, I just can't believe that these the federal fights are judges don't have enough self respect, even if not for themselves, at least for the court that if somebody comes in there and doesn't give you, they're not honest with you, they don't give you all the information they misrepresent. How do you not put somebody in jail for committing a fraud upon the court. Uh. It's what tells me, and we're working on it in my office to have a bill that just eliminates the fights of court when we can't trust federal judges to be honest, and if they're not gonna be honest, at least make sure that people that come before you are being honest. It just blows my mind how they nobody has been held to account for the misrepresentations to the court. But you're right, I mean you probably you would have gone to jail for for not giving the facts, uh the way these people apparently didn't, and then the fact that we are apparently I want to get it confirmed. But my understanding is the bicycle courts don't want to release the information they got. Well, as my old constitutional law professor Baylor used to say, there's only one court in the country that owes its existence to the to the Constitution, as the Supreme Court. Every other federal court in the country owes its existence and its jurisdiction to the US Congress. As uh, some people said, you know, we brought them into the world, we can take them out. And if they don't think that, then they got another thing. When you think about it, louis everything that Clintons do wrong they seem to get away with. I wouldn't get away with with the leading subpoena email subpoena emails to come from Congress. I wouldn't get away with destroying them. I wouldn't get away with acid washing them and and breaking devices with hammers. UH. If the FBI was investigating me, I wouldn't get away with UH, some of the things that Hillary has gotten away with. I don't think i'd get an exoneration before an investigation. I don't think I would have the words taken out as we know we're taken out in the Clinton case. You know, it's reasonably likely that foreign entities broke into the server that I never should have had. We know in fact that five foreign entities did that. I don't think I'd get away with that. I don't know, but don't don't forget the Clinton would not even allow the Democrats wouldn't allow the FBI even look at their servers. I don't know. But how does the FBI give him? How does the FBI? I raised this on TV last night. How did they get away with letting the Clintons do all of this and then all we hear about is Trump Russia collusion and we still have no evidence. How is that possible. That's the scenario we're living under. Jim Jordan's Let's just put it this way. They've got some mighty strong friends in the Department of Justice him and then bring him just yeah, I would, I would say, so, this is why you have to have the second special counsel. No one likes special counsels. I don't like him, You don't like them, But you tell me how you're gonna get answers to these fundamental questions. Think about this, this fact the dossier. We first thought only the FBI had the dossier. Then we subsequently learned no, no, no, it wasn't just the FBI had access to the dossier knew about it. It was also the Justice Department, namely through Bruce Orr. And then we learned just a few months ago it wasn't just the FBI and the Justice Department, it was also the State Department, which sort of raises the obvious question, if it was the FBI, Justice Department, and State Department, did the Obama White House know as well? And that's why what Devin noon Has did last week when he sent those questions to twenty four people in the Obama administration, asking those ten key questions about the dossier and started to get responses back on Friday. That's why that's so important. So yeah, we got to have a second special counsel looking at all this because there are so many questions that have been raised that are unanswered. The thing is is that and he's also followed up and by the end of this week he wants answers uh as it relates to protocol and whether or not it was followed in terms of the FBI, because as you bring information to AFFIS the Court, it has to, according to their standards, have been verified. Now we know it wasn't verified, and we know James Comey that we're talking about October sixteen. They presented to AFFIS the court. They don't inform the court that Hillary bought and paid for it. They try and create two independent sources before the court, but we know that Isakoff got the information directly from Steel, so there was only one source not verified, and that was presented to the court. They hid the fact that Hillary paid for it. And now we got to ask how many times can one person be covered up for in all of this, and when are people gonna start getting indicted and if everybody's talking about Robert Muller and Robert Muller in the Special Council. Well, when do we ever start investigating these crimes? Two things I think are critical here. When you go to the court, Matt and Louis will tell you this. Everyone knows that you're supposed to present the whole truth. It sure looks like the FBI did not do that. They didn't tell him who financed it. You know what else they didn't tell the court. They didn't tell them that their relationship with Christopher Steele had been terminated. And why did the FBI terminate that relationship with the author of the dossier? Because he broke a cardinal rule He told the press that he was working with the FBI, and yet they used his work product atifies the court four times, and don't tell the court that they no longer have that relationship with Christopher Steele. That is again why you have to have a second special counsel and Jim. Remember they not only that, but they also uh knew that Steele was the source for like the Yahoo's story that they used to corroborate his story, that used to him to corroborate his own story that they never disclosed that. Just last night, your son, you made a great point less on your show working with John Solomon and Sarah Carter. Where the other thing that I think is important to understand now is so the left and and shift and made a big deal out about Papadopolis was the catalyst for the Russia Trump investigation. Peter Struck took the Papadopolis stuff and that that's what he launched a Russian Trump investigation with. But now we find out that there's a link to Clinton there as well. That was the one thing where John did a great job in this where we thought this was not linked to Clinton because it wasn't linked to the dossier, And it turned out Downer, the ambassador to London from Australia, did have a link to the Clinton's namely this twenty five million dollar contribution to the Clinton Foundation, and he was the guy who initiated the meeting with Papadopoulis. That was the catalyst for this whole thing. So the circumstances just get stranger and the questions just become more and more again underscoring why a second Council, Special Council, the question where's Jeff Sessions Yeah, We've been on him for a long time. We called for this initially Sean seven months ago. We met with him personally in September. Congressman Gates was tremendous in that meeting, highlighting why we needed this. And we still get no response from from mister Sessions regarding the council. But how does he get not responding to Congress. Isn't he supposed to be responsive to Congress? Will the d j FBI never reveal when they're investigating. They always have the pat answer. Uh. I can neither confirm nor deny, but I do know that the d o J is looking into the uranium one matter. They are doing some investigating. I just am not sure you know how deep the investigation goes. Now they're supposed to be waiting for the Inspector General, but I'm telling you there are people that have a lot more faith in the Inspector General than I do. It's like the special The Inspector General has no prosecutorial powers. So then then it goes back to the d o J. Then they investigating. Then maybe we got the special counsel when in fact we know certain crimes were already committed. What are we waiting for well, and I've been saying since June, we need a second Council. And one of the things that the Second Council's kind of investigate is Muller and Rosenstein. They were originally involved in the uranium investigation, and miraculously they go quiet and shut things down, and they get their their plant in the whole operation to sign a non disclosure agreement. Never heard of that you're talking about the informant No, I agree, All right, Well, take a break. We'll take a break more with Jim Jordan's and more with Louie Gomert eight nine one Shawan and as we continue with Congressman Louie Gomert and Congressman Jim Jordan, both of the Freedom Caucus. So we have this report out by Katherine Heritage today that you know, it gets worse as it relates to the love birds, Lisa Page and Peter Struck. But turns out that as a member of FBI Director's come and Comey's inner circle, the guy that edited what was the exoneration long before the investigation of Hillary Clinton and the email server. Um, what we find out is that Struck uh realized in an initial draft two months before Hillary Clinton even got interviewed, and dozens of witnesses had been interviewed, it was reasonably likely that hostile actors had gained access to Hillary Clinton's private email account in that mom and pop shop bathroom. Now that was in their initial draft. They took that out to protect Hillary. Why is this guy still have a job at the FBI? Jim Jordan's no, a great question, and all kinds of folks are asking it. Um, Look, we suspected the fix was in on the Clinton email investigation. Uh, but once we saw the Struck page text messages, we all knew the fix was in. And it shouldn't surprise this that, oh, the guy who changed the exoneration letter from gross neglin is a criminal standard to extreme carelessness is also the guy who now changed this the wording in the letter saying they really didn't think that their computer was compromised and classified information was was was gained access to by by hostile actors. So it should in surprises. This is Peter Struck. This is the guy who rant was deputy head to counter Intelligence. This is the guy who viewed himself as the James Bond of the FBI. He was the guy who ran the entire Clinton investigation, and he was the guy who launched the Trump Russia investigation. I'm not surprised by it. But it's just one more reason, and I keep coming back to this, one more reason why we have to have a second special counsel get to the bottom of all this. Well, yeah, I agree with Jim Jordan and I hate special counsels. Well and I do too, but it's the only way that we're going to be able to get to the bottom of the problems in the FBI and the problems in the d o J. And we just say, with all of the things that we know Mueller us involved in, he was supervising uh improprieties. Going back to the Ted Stevens case, there are just so many Any Republican who says, well, I'm sure Mueller will give us a fair and impartial outcome, they either one they want Trump out of office no matter what, or two they are completely ignorant, or three they're trying to set themselves up to sound good when they go before Democrats in the Senate for a confirmation hearing. So that's it. There will not be a fair, impartial, unbiased decision by Mueller. People if they didn't know that from this history. They should have known the minute he started hiring people who were known for being just absolutely ardent Democrats and also being ruthless and putting people in jail that that we're not supposed to go. I gotta leave it right there. Thank you both. We will have progress on this in the days and weeks to come. Uh any idea, Jim Jordan, when we get the I G report real quick. I think it's gonna be the first of April, so I'm I'm hoping in less than four weeks. So well, why is it? Why is it taking so long? I don't know, deepers, I mean just it's typical with with uh and not like Mr Horowitz, but it's you know, fourteen months is deeper. Let's go. Yeah, great, I think it'll be early April. Quick, freak, we'll come back. Thank you both. Eight hundred nine for one Seawan toll free telephone number will continue now until the top of the hour. Toll free telephone numbers eight hundred nine one sewn. You want to join us, all right, let's get to our busy phones. Jody is in Jacksonville and Florida near pont of Vedra beautiful Panto Vidra listening on w ok V. How are you. I'm doing well, Sean, how are you? I'm good? What's happening well? UM? My opinion is that Mueller is into deep to admit sell here, UM, I fear that well, he fears that that would place him failure, would place him perhaps in the cross hairs of let's say, the public and um DC as a whole, UM in regards to UM his well, his failure. UM. So what is your opinion on that list? And I think it's really simple. I think that Mullard's gotten into deep. I think these special counsels investigative creep exceeding their mandate is pretty much standard operating procedure. And I think that you know, when, as I was pointing out yesterday, now they're thinking and talking about the UAE, and they're looking into this lunatic Sam Nunnberg and anybody that's ever had email contact with him. I mean, it's who knows where this ever ends. I didn't know this was an investigation into the Emirates now, because that's not what he said. That was not in his original mandate. And Rosenstein, who appointed him his best friend, should have stepped up a long time ago and said, keep the focus on where it should be. Don't expand the mandate, which, by the way, most special counsels do. Here. Look, listen to this guy in Nuneberg. Now he wants all the emails, text messages with this lunatic. You know, I was a campaign advisor from eleven when everybody was laughing at Donald Trump, So he was that long. It was that Yeah. For Sarah Huckabee to start criticizing me, I would say, and I know what, and I know you may not like it the way I say. It's just a shut her fat mouth. Imagine your lawyer to rip up a subpoena. Yeah, he's probably not. Why are you doing it? Because I'm not going to produce them every email I had with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone from November one. What do I have to produce them? All my communications? Are you ready to go to jail? I'm not going to go to jail. How do you know you're not going to go to Very publicly, you think that they have something on the president. I think they made well. I think that he may have done something during the election, but I don't know that. Yes, Muller. Muller thinks that Trump is a Manchurian candidate. He thinks he's I'm sorry, he thinks he's what. He thinks Trump is the Manchurian candidate. And I will tell you I disagree with that. I'm gonna be the first one in history the flat out say I'm not going. You're not going not going to the grand jury, I'm not going. I'm not gonna spend thirty hours going over my emails. I'm not doing it. I'm not cooperating. Arresting, You're not cooperating. Arrestue. Yeah, I'm not cooperating. You're bored and happy. You're gonna arrest me, arrest me? You know what? You know what if Sarah Huckabee wanted the ones to start to basically she's a joke. Okay, fine, Yeah she's unattractive, she's a fat slob, but that's not relevant her the person she works or has approval rating. And by the way, you're gonna be fine when it comes out what he did. But people like Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Janine Pierrot, they're gonna have to be They're gonna be very embarrassed. So Sam, I have to ask you one other thing, and it's an awkward question to ask, but you know I've I've before. You're sitting very close to me. We talked earlier about what people in the White House were saying about you, talking about whether you you were you were drinking or on drugs or whatever they had happened today. Um, talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath. Well, I have not had to drink. You haven't had a drink, So that's not so I just because it is the talk out there again, I know it's awkward. Let me just get give you the question you can category you have. My answer is no, I have not anything else. No, no, no, no besides my bed. Oh my gosh, you got wait we got interrupted or watching this last goes over and I get a text from our buddy Jonathan Gillian and he's like, oh my god, you gotta turn on MSNBC. You gotta see this right And I'm like, what's But part of it's on MSNBC. It's I come in the studio. We knew we just finished. I'm back in my office. I run back in here and I'm standing here. It's just being Jason, We're looking up at the screen. We're watching this interview. It's like watching a car accident. He's sweating, he's read, he's got I don't care. I don't let him come after me. I mean to his credit. I mean, that's what Hillary Clinton did, right, She tossed everything to the wing over emails and said I let him figure it out. But it's hysterical. He's on set and he's not leaving. So the host goes, well, I guess you could stay here if you want, Sam for the next segment. He's like, all right, yeah, sure, I'll hang out. Yeah, that's great. It's unbelievable. But you know, I don't know what's worse, you know, using a guy that's obviously having some type of a breakdown, whether it's drug, alcohol induced, or maybe he's completely sober, which would probably be a worst case that area. I smell, I smell booze on your breath, but you don't bring it up until the end of the interview. I don't know if that's worse or the fact that fake news CNN literally sent a camera crew and reporter to where Thailand to interview a sex coach in a hooker who says she might have all the answers to all of this just because she says, well, there's a sex coach in Russia. That's the sex coach, but there's another woman in Thailand who may have information on Trump and sexual escapades. The hooker hook was Trump ever in Thailand? Is that thou the new mandate of the Muller investor. I guess there's another does that then paid for? But the media is so exploitive, and look, I can give you you know who I'm talking about. There have been people that have shown up to do this show that are in no condition to do this show. And when I find out, usually it's me, because I don't send my staff to do it. I'll go out and say I'm not putting you on in this condition for your sake and for the sake of the audience, even if I don't like you, I'll do that. And I remember one high, very high profile individual had a fit, I mean, started throwing stuff, breaking stuff up. I mean, it was out of control. But I guess maybe three days later I got a call and thank you so much for throwing me out, And I appreciate it. I just don't think it's fair you're exploiting somebody that's obviously in a in a very bad state of mind, and you're doing it for what I mean, Obviously, there's nothing that this guy says that's going to be relevant or could be used in any way because he's contradicted himself a thousand different ways. And I just don't But this is what they're using now is news that's fake news. CNN. Let's let's talk to the sex coach in Russia and then we want to talk to the hooker in Thailand. If you remember, early on the Trump administration had already said that he was not a part of their staff. They had gotten rid of them. They pressed charges. I've known Trump longer than eleven. Trump was not thinking about running. He was flirting with it. It was more of a let me throw my name out there, have some fun with us, and that's what he was doing. He might have done a couple of polls, but he didn't have a full time anybody. Uh. If Numberg worked for him, it wasn't in any other capacity than what do you think about maybe a possibility um And I spoke to Trump at the time. He really didn't have any intention of getting in so I think anything that that they say here, it's just not gonna matter. But now all of that has to be seen in the context every single thing Hillary does and says she gets away with. Nobody would get away with the things that she gets away with. And I'm just thinking at times, you've got a special counsel that just keeps breathing down everybody's neck over insignificant things. They have left their original mandate, like you know, countries ago, and now they moved from Russia, and now they're in Thailand, now they're where else, and uh, the United Arab Emirates, they're just they're on a fishing expedition. And so it really is a witch hunt. And meanwhile, if they want to look at collusion, they ignore Hillary Clinton paying for the phony Dorcier. They ignore the uranium one deal. Because Bob Muller had an FBI agent, an informant inside of Putin's network here in America, and he did nothing to stop Vladimir Putin from getting uranium. Those are all real things that ought to be investigated. We need a special investigation into Bob Mueller's time in Massachusetts. And I think if we start to look back into Mueller's past and what he didn't didn't do when he was an attorney general there, the U S Attorney there, excuse me. Then we'll find out what's in his past. And maybe he doesn't want people digging around in there during his time with the Whitey Bulger in the mafia. Well, I don't think he does, and I don't think. Uh. I don't think anybody in the Special Council's Office is particularly fond of me. And I just think the idea I cannot imagine why I have stellar citizen. I am a stellar citizen. I agree, and I pay my taxes, and I obey the laws more than a good citizen. And uh I, I just I have no idea why I'm hated. There are people in life that have hate lists that are very long. You know, so many attractive people, you know so little time. Yeah, you have hate list, and you've brought your hate list back. How many people are on I first of all, I did you say earlier today that the hate list is here to stay or not? I did No. I absolutely did not say it's here to stay. You said it's back. I said, back with a vengeance. Okay, back with a vengeance, and so you're you. You admit you just lied because you said I said here say I didn't say that. Excuse me. You lied. You lied when you said that, you lied when you said, I'll never I'm I'm done with hate list. I'll never have a hate list again. No, I never said that. Yes, you're lying. No, I said I was converting to a list of attempt and I wanted to us some tables contempt and hate or them is not cutting it back to our phones as we say, Hi of Paul and Wyomi, Paul, how are you, hey, Sean? Thanks for taking my call, first time caller. UM. Just to put a ranch into the Mauler investigation. I believe that Mauller would have been appointed whether Comy was fired or not. Into a question, do you and your viewers, how do you know that the FISA judges are not as corrupt as the former administration, the Obama administration. Well, I mean we know from everything that we're reporting who's more corrupt and who's been corrupt from the start. You know, Look, when you have deep state actors and people at the highest levels of the intel community, the Justice Department, and the FBI running interference too to prevent Hillary from perceiving the justice that the rest of us would have when you have those actors, you know, basically running interference for her and on the inside. And then you have these same people that run interference when it relates to her relationship with Russia. But you're gonna investigate Donald Trump and you you know, use her bought and paid for information and you don't tell a judge about it. I mean, we've got some big problems in this country as it relates to real justice and equal justice and the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure. I never thought this would happen in my lifetime, but it's happening right before your very eyes. And the media is seemingly so ignorant that they think their big interview of the day is a guy that's losing his mind. It's unreal now, in a complete meltout, exactly not. My question is, don't do you think that there's a possibility that the fighted judges were in the hoots or um in the corruption as well? Well? If the judges don't mind being lied to, manipulated, and and you know, don't mind gross omissions like they've had in this particular case, and I guess they would be in on it. But I don't know any judge that likes to be led to One thing, You've got to understand about judges in that courtroom. They are all powerful in that courtroom. Uh if you say yeah, you know, you don't say yes, you're on a good luck to you in that courtroom when they say please rise, blah blah blah blah, the Honorable so and so presiding and you don't rise, good luck to you because that judge has all the power and authority to take you down. And a contempt ruling could be with a snap of a finger and jail overnight and jail for the next thirty nights, whatever they decide. So uh, why these guys felt they could abuse, you know, a sitting judge and light of them and purposely omit you know, pertinent information. I don't know. I wouldn't do it. If I did it, I'd be handcuffed, purple walked, mug shot at and and sent to the pokey. I'd be sharing a I'd be sharing a bed with some guy named Bubba the pokey, the jail, you know, jail. Well, I went to jail. If you remember to speak to prisoners at Rikers Island that day? Did they call it the pokey? I'm just saying, jail poke call it jail the pokey. I wouldn't want to live in Rikers. Rikers is not a pleasant place, um anyway, I said you, I said to the guys, I go, do you guys miss McDonald's. Do you guys miss having a girlfriend? You guys miss maybe going for a walk in the park, You guys miss not being around other violent people. I said, because you're gonna have choices. Some of you are gonna do your time and never come back here. And some of you are gonna be stupid, and you're gonna make the same dumb mistakes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And you're gonna live here the rest of your life. And I said, if that's your life you want, know that you have the choice. And then I said to them, if you have dopey friends and dopey family in your life that are corrupting you and you can't say no to, then go home, pack your bag and find a place to live elsewhere, away from those bad influences in your life. And then don't replace the bad influences with new bad influences. Stay out of trouble, go wash dishes, go flip Hamburgers, do what you have to do to survive, and then work your way back into school. That was my advice to them. Hey, that's gonna wrap things up at today. Letting not your heart beat troubled Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. 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