Russian indictments - 2.16

Published Feb 16, 2018, 11:00 PM

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller released indictments against 13 Russian's who were campaigning for and against President Trump. Sean breaks down the news on these actions including the interesting news that nobody in the Trump White House was involved. Will the media cover that aspect? Not likely... The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.

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And the second screw up was so bad that the FBI director Christopher Ray is now personally apologized to the victims families because the FBI revealed on Friday they got a tip from last month about Nicholas Cruz and you know that he wanted to kill people, be a professional killer. Remember those guys saw this thing on Facebook that was issued number one and anyway, he went on to say that they got another tip that he wont to go out and kill people. They published a statement on January five, a person close to Crews contacted the FBI through their public access line tip line to express concerns about Cruiz's erratic behavior and disturbing social media postings and under established protocols, the information that was provided by the caller, Christopher Ray said, should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received on that line on January five. The calls information was not forwarded to the Miami FBI Field office, and no further investigation was conducted at the time. Christopher Ray said the Bureau would review what had happened. He said, We've spoken to the families the victims and deeply regret the additional pain this causes all those affected by this horrible tragedy, and all the men and women of the FBI are dedicated to keeping the American people safe and are relentlessly committed to improving all of that and how we do it, etcetera. Governor Rick Scott so angry he now is saying that he needs to resign over this, so the FBI has failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable. And the FBI has admitted that they were contacted last month by a person who called to inform them of Cruiser's desire to kill people and the potential of him conducting a school shooting. I understand the anger. Um, I don't know what's happened here, but uh, we've got to get ahold of this. You know, you say see something, say something, People saw it and said it, and we still that happened. But I still think what we were saying yesterday is paramount. We've got to now do a threat assessment on every single school and absolutely protect our kids the way they should be. Now, the bigger story is, uh, to me is Robert Muller. The Special Council has now indicted thirteen Russian trolls of this is an incredible development and indictment here. I have spent the better part of the last well hour hour and a half. Let me play some of Rod Rosenstein and what he says here just to tell you what this is about. You literally had a bunch of Russian trolls that We're spending millions of dollars all over social media to sum it up here that there's this has nothing to do with the Trump campaign. There are no allegations of collusion in this in any way, shape, matter of form. This is completely separate. Rod Rosenstein, you'll hear it in a second, said no Americans had any knowledge of what the Russians were doing, and we had a bunch of Russians masquerading as Americans, deceiving everyone with whom they had contact. The defendants devised what you know, as you read this thing is the most elaborate scheme to so as much discord in this election. And what's even more interesting about all of this, you have, and Rod Rosenstein says this that the Russians were campaigning for and against Trump and organizing rallies in the same city in the same day, both for and against him. So you know, for those that will spin it in the media, they will, I'm sure omit one of the main followings or conclusions of all of this, because that has they have to make this fit into their phony narrative. And after a year, we still have no evidence of this, but it's a sophisticated operations they said, no American willingly participated in this, although posing as Americans, these Russians were communicating with unwitting Americans, mostly online, and uh so, let me play Rosenstein to let you hear what he had to say. The indictment charges thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United States political system, including the presidential election. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the United States with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. According to the allegations in the indictment, twelve of the individual defendants worked at various times for a company called Internet Research Agency LLC, a Russian company based in St. Petersburg. The other individual defendant you have, Jenny Viktorovich Burgos and funded the conspiracy through companies known as Concord Management and Consulting LLC, Concord Catering, and many affiliates and subsidiaries. The conspiracy was part of a larger operation called Project Locked Up. Project Locked Up included multiple components, some involving domestic audiences within the Russian Federation and others targeting foreign audiences in multiple countries. Internet Research Agency allegedly operated through Russians companies. It employed hundreds of people in its online operations, ranging from creators of fictitious personas to technical and administrative support personnel, with an annual budget of millions of dollars. Internet Research Agency was a structured organization headed by a management group and arranged into departments including graphics, search engine optimization, information technology, and finance departments. In the company established a translator project focused on the United States. In July, more than eighty employees were assigned to the Translator project. Count two charges conspiracy to give it wire fraud and bank fraud by Internet Research Agency and to the individual defendants and Counts three through eight charge aggravated identity theft by Internet Research Agency and four individuals. Now, there is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct altered the outcome of the election. I want to caution you that everyone charged with the crime is presumed innocent and lesson until proven Judy in court all right, no American willingly. Now let's go to the Q and a part of this and a lot of interesting things come up here. Again, What's what's so no American at any knowledge of what these Russians were doing? You know, there's one point in the indictment where actually says, at the same exact time, defendants and their co conspirators, through an organization control group, the same people organized a rally in New York called Trump is Not My President that was held on or about November. Uh. Similarly, defendants and co conspirators organized a rally entitled Charlotte against Trump held on a out the nineteen and they had them even apparently it's simultaneously going on at the same time. All right, let's let's go to some of the questions, because this is very informative, and are we happy to take a few questions. They're concerning the pistol. Mind yet from the election, for you, the allegations in the indictment, there's no allegation in the indictment of any effect on the outcome of the election, Jessy. On page four of the indictment, paragraph six, it specifically talks about the Trunk campaign, saying that defendants communicated with unwinning individuals associate with Trump campaign. My question is later in the indictment, campaign officials are referenced not by their name, by like campaign officials, one or two or three more campaign officials cooperative or were they do to what was their relationship with this? And then there's no allegation in this indictment that any American had any knowledge. And the nature of the scheme was that the defendants took extraordinaries depths to make it appear that they were ordinary American political activists, even going so far as to base their activities on a virtual private network here in the United States. If anybody traced it back to that first jump and they appeared to be American's Cathins haven't had any assurances from the Russians that they will provide these individuals for prosecutions, but no communication with the Russians about this will follow the ordinary process of seeking cooperation and extradition, all right, So what you have again, no allegations of any collusion and no Americans at any knowledge. What is so amazing to me is this is that there are there's anybody at this point that could be surprised about all of this. That's what shocks me now. Now think back in two thousand and nine, we had within Putin's network in the United States. Putin had a network inside of this country. And over the course of the last year, as we have been doing our job on uranium one and other stories, well we found out that this is particularly involving uranium one, that Vladimir Putin had a network, and that we had an informant inside of Putin's network at the time, this is eighteen months before Scipius goes forward and with the nine separate agencies in the approval of uranium one, and within the network our informant who testified in the last couple of weeks before three congressional committees, he was aware of Putin's people involved in bribery and extortion and money laundering and kickbacks and other types of racketeering. And this was all design and the whole motive was to get a foothold in the uranium market in America. A full eighteen months before the approval process, we knew Putin's network was committing crimes in this country. The FBI director at the time, interestingly enough, as Robber Mueller. So the question is knowing all of this, having an informantive inside of this network of Putin. This is two thousand and nine. Knowing that we don't have enough uranium ourselves, why would Siphius allow a foreign entity to take control of what is up to America's uranium, the foundational material for nuclear weapons. We've been telling you about Russian interference, Russian influence in this country now for a long time. As a matter of fact, you could trace it back to the Cold War and their desire to impact elections. And by the way, I think America has tried to impact elections itself over the years. Let's see dB running Prime minister. Oh, that's right, we had State Department dollars under Barack Obama going in an effort to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netan. Yahoo, this is what I'm sorry, what are you saying? V fifty victory fifteen. V fifteen was the name of the group that's where the money went. Thank you for reminding me, Linda. And so this is not a shock or surprise that foreign entities are involved in all of this. We've had knowledge of Vladimir Putin, a hostile regime, a hostile actor going back to two thousand and nine, and stupidly, with all the crimes we knew they were committing in America, we let them do it anyway. So the fact that they had organized spent millions of dollars to create discord and so discord in the lead up to the election, well, we already kind of knew it. Now we just know who the actual actors are involved in this, and we'll probably never get our hands on them. That's the sad part of it, all right, Two big stories. Marco Rubio, by the way, has just weighed in and he is calling for an investigation the FBI bungling the Parkland shooter case, and with new information for the second time. At very specific tip was given to the FBI on January five about this guy Nicholas Cruz and his erratic behavior and his the disturbing social media posts, and it was missed, and the FBI director apologizing for that later earlier today, let me get back to the Mueller indictment of thirteen Russians. But and before we give you any more details, let me tell you what it doesn't say. Doesn't say that Donald Trump or anybody in his campaign colluded with the Russians. Doesn't say Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. It doesn't say anybody in his campaign colluded with the Russians. It does in say, does not say in fact that any American colluded with the Russians. As a matter of fact, they took elaborate they spent an elaborate amount of money, and went to extraordinary lengths to prevent any American from knowing who they are, presenting themselves as activists all the time. So it doesn't say anybody on the campaign colluded with the Russians. Doesn't say it American colluded with the Russians. It doesn't say that anybody obstructed justice. It doesn't a that Donald Trump Junior attempted to colude with the Russians. It doesn't say General Flynn or Jeff Sessions did anything wrong in their dealings with the Russian ambassador before the election. What it does say is that thirteen Russians were using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, we already know Google and Facebook, but to help uh and then candidate Donald Trump. But it also says the same Russians were trying to help Bernie Sanders, and it says the same Russians were organizing rallies against Donald Trump. So it seems to be pretty much a wash. Anyway, you look at this thing, which I think the media is gonna have a hard time accepting in all of this, but they were pretending to be American activists and they spent an awful lot of money trying to deceive an awful lot of people. My big issue in all of this is the shock and the surprise of many people. I mean, we've been following this more closely. I think that anyone else in the media. We have told you every intimate detail about Russian hostile interference and getting a foothold in the Iranian market in America. We have told you We've missed all of the indicators. We had an informant on the ground that had penetrated Putin's network, so there was influence of Russians. Then nobody cared because it didn't involve Donald Trump. And this doesn't involve Donald Trump. And on top of that, in the process of all of this, interestingly, we find that the biggest Russian influence in the election was a Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dossier full of Russian government lies that she paid for after she funneled it through a law firm, and the d n C funneled it through a law firm, hiring Fusion GPS and then hiring a British spy named Christopher Steele. Alright, sorry, every time I moved this microphone it makes a ton of always. I apologize, but I have to move from one site to another to do everything I possibly can. H I clicked on the wrong site. I hate that. Yes, all right, I'll pull it up here in a minute. Anyway, glad you're with us. Uh, information coming in fast and furious. Two big stories were following for you today. That one and this is scary. The FBI missing a second more specific tip on the Florida shooter that came into the FBI, And this came in visa V their public access line tip line to express concerns about Cruiz's erratic behavior and disturbing social media postings, and they didn't follow up the The FBI director ray Is apologized for this. Remember we had the the first guy that went to the FBI and and actually took a screenshot of this guy saying, ah, my goal is to be a school shooter, professional school shooter. Um. Now you have Rick Scott, the governor of Florida wanting the resignation of the FBI director, Mark Rubio, wants an investigation into that. Will continue to follow all of that, and the most amazing development, thirteen Russians now have been indicted. And in this indictment it says the Russians campaign both for and against Donald Trump, and the whole purpose of this was to sow discord in the country, and that no American had any knowledge of any of what was going on. Nobody from any campaign, nothing to do with Trump, the Trump campaign. Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians. It doesn't say that. It doesn't say anybody in his campaign did, doesn't say that any American colluded with the Russians, doesn't say the president obstructed justice, doesn't say that Donald Trump Junior did anything, doesn't say General Flinner Jeff Sessions did anything. What it says is thirteen Russians spent an awful lot of money, used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to help then candidate Trump at different points, and then also campaign against him. It actually goes on in the indictment to say, well, the effort was launched in oh Donald Trump didn't run for president until twenty What fifteen or six team elections anyway that they were supporting, and then uh at points disparaging Hillary Clinton supporting Donald Trump. And it even goes on to say that the defendants used fake personas to organize coordinate political rallies in support of Trump, while also doing the same to create rallies protesting the results of the election. And on one particular day November, the defendants organized a rally in New York to show your support for President elect Trump, while at the same time organizing a Trump is Not My rally not my President rally, also held in New York. And Rosenstein said, there's no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the scheme, nor is there any allegation that the scheme was affected in any way the outcome of the election. All important points, and I go back to my last point I'm making in the last half hour. Why anybody would be surprised, I don't know, except that the me media in this country has done such a disservice as it relates to digging for truth, as it relates to not only this election, but involving you know, they act all upset about the unsavory actor, that is Vladimir Putin. They act all upset at the idea of Russian meddling in any affairs of the United States. But yet they completely ignored that we had an informant inside of Putin's network that was established to tap into America's uranium market so that they can gain a foothold into American uranium's market, and that we know and chronicled the informant did crimes of bribery, extortion, money laundering, and kickbacks. We did nothing. And in the course of the last year, what have we learned? We learned, Oh, there was a bought and paid for dacier by Hillary Clinton that used Russian government sources to lie about Donald Trump, that was used in the election, all in an attempt to lie to the American people. And more significantly, even though we knew it was bought and paid for by Hillary, they never told the fays A Corps judge. And the bulk of information that was used was massive. That was that phony Russian dossier was used to get a warrant as warrant to spy on the on the Trump campaign. Oh excuse me, So the Russians are all active in all of this. This is the stuff that we have just known about and that most of the media has ignored. Now let me move on because there's other information I want to get to. Byron new York had a great column in The Washington Examiner raising the question, well, why is the special Prosecutor Robert Mueller still refused to release the notorious memos that were written by James Comey. Yeah, the same James Comey that wrote the exoneration with with from Peter Peter Struck. I don't know what's worse. If you have you know, Russians that are lobbying foreign against you, or have high level the highest level in the FBI and d o J manipulating and fighting against you, and you're a presidential candidate and they're exonerating the person you're supposed to run against. I'm not sure which is worse. But anyway, these notorious memos written by Comey, which Comey gave to the Friend to lead to the New York Times, the Columbia Professor, which was the basis for the whole appointment of Robert Mueller, where are these memos now? The question that Byron York is raising, could it be because these memos would actually help Trump. Now, Trey Goudy, who's one of a handful of congressmen who has actually been able to view the Comy memos, say they completely exonerate President Trump. And what we hear what the rumors say with the mainstream media keeps telling us as an obstruction of justice charge that is being built by Robert Muller and his merry band of Trump paters and Clinton Obama d n C donors. Anyway, Bibern York. It's finally in seventeen in July, the FBI allowed lawmakers to see the memos, but the bureau made sure that the information in the memo was severely restricted. And that's when on the House side, Tray Gaudy among a few others, were allowed to read the memos with an FBI minder present, no copying, no note taking. Goudy said on Fox News on Monday on Special Report with Bret Bair, I've read the memos. They would be defense exhibit A in an obstruction of justice case, not a prosecutorial prosecution exhibit A defense exhibit A. And then Goudy continued, if Comey felt obstruction obstructed, he did a masterful job of keeping it out of the memos, all right, so that kills that whole case right there. Now that raises a lot of questions about, well, what is the actual purpose? Purpose Number one of the Special Council was to do what they did today, and that was to look into any potential foreign meddling into our campaign. Okay, now we've got thirteen people. If there's more, let's find them all and maybe while we're at it, maybe we can go after the bad actors that we're committing crimes of bribery, extortion, money laundering, and kickbacks. Robert Mueller was the FBI director at that point. Anyway, we also have information, and this is pretty phenomenal that, in fact, the judge that is involved in the case of General Flynn, that this judge is now demanding that the Special Council hand over any and all evidence. He will decide himself whether or not this plea is going to be accepted and whether or not there's any exculpatory evidence specifically asking for it as it relates to General Flynn. This is the same judge that was involved in the case of Senator Ted Stevens, which got all thrown out. And then you know that was back in the Bush years, and he did nothing wrong apparently in that particular case. Now there's other developments that were following. Sarah Carter's gonna join us later in the program. Today. She has a devastating piece out about Mueller's you know what The New York Times called Mueller's pitbull, his number one choice to be on the Special Council. Remember, we've broken down all the people that Mueller has appointed, some fifty thousand dollars in donations that they have given to Hillary and Obama and the Democrats, and no donors to Donald Trump at all in that mix. Anyway, we have more information about Andrew Weiseman. He was actually reprimanded in a case. This is where he gained his notoriety in the Eastern District of New York for withholding evidence. This is not the only time he's been accused of withholding evidence. Wiseman was reported to the Department of Justice, Inspector General and the Senate Judiciary Committee for alleged corrupt legal practices. You have a formal formal letter from the US Eastern Attorney. I'm sorry, U S Attorney Eastern District of New York Zachary Carter requesting to remove Wiseman's name of already in the court documents, you have a civil rights and criminal defense attorney was not political. A guy by the name of Doug shown no relation to the one we have on TV who said Wiseman needs to be I'm sorry. David Showden said Wiseman needs to be investigated for alleged past misconduct in court cases. Now, the top attorney in Robert Mueller's Council's office is what the New York Times calls Mueller's pitbull, Andrew Weiseman. Now, we already have told you about this guy's history as it relates to the author I'm sorry Anderson accounting issue in the Enron case. Here's a case where tens of thousands of people lost their jobs because of his investigation that was then overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court nine zero. And then yet four meroral executives put in jail for a year the year of their lives only that was overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. And in one of these cases he was excoriated again for withholding evidence why he was picked picked to run the Department of Justice and the criminal fraud selection is beyond anything that I'll ever understand. Anyway, he had a case that was targeting the Colombo crime family in the New York Eastern District Court. First the many that would draw criticism from judges anyway. The civil rights attorney just mentioned David Shown was the whistleblower. He then met with Michael Harrowitz, the Inspector General. He's the guy that's gonna put out the i G reports sometime next month, and several API officials. Discussing Wiseman, he says he's never been a member of any political party, not political for him. Told the Sarah Carter that his concerns about Weiseman don't stem from politics, but Wiseman's quote egregious actions in previous cases, and he was involved in the cases years ago, adding that he decided to revisit them based on new witness information and recent evidence that has come to light in several months. He said, the issue with Weiseman both predates and transcends any of these current political issues. And he said, I've met with Grassley, the d G, d O J. Horowitz, the i G, and these other issues, and he said all he cares about is the truth in this particular case and has chosen profession well. Anyway, he briefed the Inspector General on the full scope of allegations. But anyway, the case against the Colombo crime family was in the nineties and involved Theodore Prosicco was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, loan sharking, racketeering, firearms charges. And this guy was the brother of the Columbia Colombo crime family boss Carmine Prosco Jr. And New York was one of the major five families in New York, and Wiseman was a young assistant DA with the Eastern District of New York. Was the lead attorney in this case. Described by those who knew him at the time, they called him ambitious. The case wasn't a slam dunk, but it did reveal how he would do anything for a conviction. Shown says anyway, the one defendant. Another defendants successfully appealed their case in ninety seven, arguing that there were egregious Brady violations by Wiseman and the prosecution during their trial. Brady refers to the U. S. Supreme Court Brady versus Brady v. Maryland, in which the court held prosecutors are required to give the defendants evidence favorable to the defense. Oh, he's withholding evidence. Goes on to say, a court memorandum in order, which has never been made public before it was obtained by Sarah Carter, reveals the judge in this case, the Chief Judge, Charles Sifton, who presided over the case, reprimanded Yeah, Special counsel Mueller's pitbull, Andrew Wiseman, for failing to disclose that Gregory Scarpa Jr. They witness on behalf of the prosecution, was also working for years as an FBI informant and a moniker in the mafia underworld, was the Grim Reaper and Hannibal, and he was accused of being connected to more than a hundred gruesome murders related to his work for the Columbia Mafia crime family. According to reports. Anyway, the memorandum in the order were reversed. Now how many times has are they gonna knowingly withhold information from the court. This is the guy that was, you know now at the at the top of this investigation working for the Special Council. So all of this now comes into question. Robert Mueller was the FBI director at the time that we had an FBI informant that was telling him about Putin's network inside the US or Russia's network inside the US trying to get a hold a foothold into the uranium market in America. We have to import uranium. We don't have enough uranium in this country. Never made sense. And then still nothing was done in spite of all the crimes that we knew. The informant was telling the Department of Justice, the FBI about nothing was done to stop that whole, that whole deal from going now. And then, of course then you have the money aspect of it, and that comes in later as Hillary Clinton's you know, the charity gets all this money from all the people involved in the deal, although we now know that there's an investigation into that. You can't make this stuff up. All right, we gotta take a break. We'll have more on this our other top story of the day. FBI makes a major another blunder as it relates to the shooter down in Parkland. Unbelievable an apology from the FBI director today. We'll get into that next. It's a sad part today that we have to get into when we get back FBI missed a very specific tip. Now this is the second one that they missed on the Florida shooter. And apparently they had received a phone call on January five to their tip line, their public access line tip line, expressing concerns about cruises, erratic behavior, disturbing social media, those things, and the FBI director apologized. Under established protocols, the information provided by the callers should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information that was received the callers. Information was not forwarded to the Miami field office, no further investigation was conducted, and he went on to apologize to the families. Now, Jeff Sessions has ordered an immediate review of this. We'll get to that and the indictment of thirteen Russians straight ahead. September two thousand seventeen, I sent a a screenshot of a comment on one of my videos. Now people keep asking me which video was it. I don't know. I don't remember what video it was. When I saw the comment come through on my UH studio app on my iPhone, I screenshot of the comment, I hit the report button, reported to YouTube. Of course, they removed the comment, and then I tried to email it to the FBI. UM. I found an email address tips at FBI dot gov. Sent it to that email address. I immediately got back a m domain air. Basically that email address didn't exist. So I looked up the number for UH our local field office, and I called it all, left a message. Well, the next day I had two FBI agents standing in my office UM and taking down the information, taking down the UM, taking copies of the screenshot, and asking me questions that of course I couldn't answer. You know, all it was and my channel was a a comment. You know, people leave pretty heinous comments on a pretty regular basis on this channel UM, and I really didn't think anything of it. But what I did think was, you know, this comment said I'm going to be a professional school shooter, and I knew that I couldn't just ignore that. In two thousand and seventeen, the FBI received information about a comment made on a YouTube channel. The comic comments simply said I'm going to be a professional school shooter. No other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time location for the true identity of the person who made the comment. The FBI conducted database reviews checks, what was was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment, again as a native South Floridian. But heart goes out to the victims of the families and friends and the entire community. Thank you, all right? That is uh now the FBI director Ray actually going off saying he's apologizing. What you've heard. First was the first morning that the FBI had gotten you know, see something, say something, and I was a guy on social media, I want to be a professional school shooter, and he got it to the FBI. The FBI did follow up an interview the guy that sent them that screenshot and told them about that the next day. What we have found out today that looks like the FBI, FBI dropped the ball not once but twice in this case in Parkland, and the second screw up is so bad that the FBI director had to personally apologize to the victims and families. But they got a tip last month on this one issue that we told you about, but then we find out now that there was a second one. The agency admitted that they received a call January from a person close to cruise who contacted the FBI through their Public Access Line tip line to express concerns about cruizes, erratic behavior and disturbing disturbing social media postings. Quote. Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life, the statement said, and we have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received on January five. Now, the caller's information was not forwarded to the Miami FBI Field office. Quote. No further investigation was conducted at the time. The FBI director said he would review what has happened. He said, quote we have spoken with the victims and families. We deeply regret the additional pain this causes all of those affected by this horrific tragedy. He said. All the men and women of the FBI are dedicated to keeping the American people safe. Are relentlessly committed to improving all that we do and how that we do it, how we do it. Uh Marco Rubio has waited, and he's now calling for an investigation into how this got so bungled. In this particular case, Governor Rick Scott has actually gone a step further, He said. The FBI has failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable. The FBI admitted they were contacted last month by a person who called to inform them the of Cruz's desire to kill people and the potential harm conduct of him conducting harm at a school and a school shooting, and uh, he wants the FBI director to resign over this. Jeff's session similarly is weighed in and he is now calling for an immediate review of the of what has happened in this Parkland shooter case. But don't worry your friends over at NBC News, they're just worried the FBI blunders in Parkland will somehow hurt the Russian probe. I just saw this up on the Washington Free Beacon Andrea ms Mitchell fretting that the FBI has acknowledged errors not following up on a credible tip that Nicholas Cruz might have served as father for critics of the investigation anyway, she was there. The former executive FBI assistant Shawn Henry said Friday that it was unacceptable. Mitchell said this news came at a time when the FBI is very vulnerable because of the attacks from President Trump. Over its handling of the Russia investigation. It's completely unrelated to what they're doing on the Russian probe, but this could feed the public animust that has already been jinned up by critics of the Russia investigation, including the President. Let me just be clear here. It looks like the FBI made a very serious mistake. I have every confidence in every FBI officer that puts their life on the line for us every day. Yeah, it's unacceptable, and I have every belief that they're gonna fix it. This is not what they do every day. But on the other hand, you know, to take that and to turn it into politics is unbelievable. By the way, I just got this before we get into the indictment of these thirteen Russians. Devin Newness, who's the head of the House Intel Committee, released a statement today about these indictments. He said the Putin regime represents a pressing threat to American interests, including through Moscow's long running influence operations against the United States. The House Intel Committee has been investigating these threats for many years. In the year the Russians began their operation targeting the twenty sixteen elections, I warned about Russia's worldwide influence operations in April sixteen, I stated that the United States and their failure to predict Putin's plans and intentions is the biggest intelligence failure that we've had since nine eleven. Although the Obama administration failed to act on the committee's warnings, it's gratifying to see that Russian agents involved in these operations are now being identified and indicted. Anyway, here to weigh in on all these big breaking news stories, Jonathan Gillham don't forget his new book, Sheep No More. Dan Bongino's former Secret Service agent former m yp d and Uh also retired FBI agent Michael B. Jacker with us. Thank you all for being here. Dan, what's your take on all of us today. Well, I'll say on the on the FBI screw up here. You know, when I got into the Secret Service shown they always gave this cautionary tale in training about what happened during the Gerald Board years when they missed some signs a squeaky from and Sarah Jane More. Basically, we interviewed him Uh. Some of the agents said, probably not a threat. And of course, as as you know from history, they were a threat, they tried to attack Jerry Ford. The Secret Service changed everything after that and they made it pretty much a standardized form on how to go out and interview and conduct these threat cases. Long story short, I think it's about time somebody, whether FBI and conjunction with local law enforcement, gets together some kind of standardized form based on research on how to interview potential school attackers and targeted school violence. It's the only way. Yeah, Look, I understand that mistakes are gonna be made by all sorts of people here. Um. You know, in this particular case, they had too really important warnings that were missed Jonathan Gillham, and this isn't the first time that they've missed it, you know. They they kind of bungled the whole Boston bomber Sarnap brother interview when they talked to those guys as well, Sean. As Dan can tell you, as uh Michael Jack will tell you, and even yourself in being in radio for thirty years, complacency kills. If you become complacent. It doesn't matter how good your policies are. If you're too complacent to take things seriously. You got it's like having a cancer. It's gonna kill everything you do. The second thing is if you make these things too complicated, then like this used to be, where somebody would call a field office, it would go straight there. Now they have a number that you call and then that gets assigned to a field office, and there's a breakdown in that situation. We've we've taken the power away from just the agents, get a complaint and go do the job. And that's where I think we need to get back to with the FBI, is we just need to give the power back to the agents to do their job. Michael, what's your take on all of this. You're retired FBI. I have nothing but respect for law enforcement. I have nothing but effect for the secret Service, for the FBI, for our intel community, uh, the CIA. But I'm not happy with the higher echelon and an exoneration before investigation with Hillary. We'll see in the IG report. I'm not happy a lot of things that we've learned that you know, they never moved on uranium one and and we knew we had a Russian we had an American informant inside of Putin's network in America. That's two thousand and nine, you know, Sean, You're in really good company because there are thousands of agents, all of both current agents and retired agents, all across the country that are just as upset as you are. I'm talking about the the thing in in Florida. Uh, Jonathan is absolutely right. There's they've taken a lot of these uh procedures, and they've kind of kind of centralized them in in Washington, d C. Or wherever, and then they leave probably none agents the the responsibility of going through these tips and then figuring out what they're gonna do with them. And it's the agents should be listening to those the the these kinds of tips should be going to the local field offices so so that they can make the decision. They can gather their intel, their local intel, talk to the local police and find out about this guy and and it could possibly have they could possibly have grabbed him before he did anything. But yeah, I mean I actually think as you do. I I my suspicion was, all right, somebody answers the tip line. That's not a special agent, that's that's answering that line, and it's somebody else and they just missed it. And I think you have to have somebody that has the wherewithal to understand, Hey, okay, this is serious. We gotta take this seriously. And you know, I would assume that we're gonna put new procedures in place that prevent this from ever happening, but that does not give comfort to the people that just lost their loved ones. You know, he used to be back in when I was like in l A division or some of the other divisions. You had on the phone said nighttime during the day or whatever you had the agents that were there that we were answering the phone at nighttime, and you've got all kinds of crazy people that would call in. But every once in a while, somebody'll be calling in and it would be good, credible information, and the agent who's trained to listen to ask the right questions gets that information to the right place. I'm I don't know exactly how this system works now, but I wouldn't even be surprised if it was a recorded message and not a person actually answering the phone. What's your take down, what is your experience? Well, you know, again, I hate to keep going back to the Secret Service because I'm certainly not trying to do this, you know, we did it better than the FBI nonsense race. It's not this is very serious stuff. It's not a competition. But they did screw up on that with in the eighties with the Ford thing, and they implemented some procedures to change. And one of the things they did shown in addition to creating a template for interviewing potential assassins based on research on what they found out, was they started running the case through headquarters. Now that's not always the best idea, but I think as you've seen, sometimes you never know who's answering the phone. It's been a bad day. Some of this stuff may get swept under the rug, you know, for all kinds of reasons that are not malicious. Maybe they're just you know, they think someone's a little uh kookie or what they don't want to Dan, hang on one second. I want to get back to this. And that's a good point that they learned a lot after the attempted assassination against President Ford at the time Rowert County. Today was another tough day. UM. Two of the UH students have lost their lives were late to rest today. Pawk Land continues, as you know, to to mourn, to try and heal to try and take something to try and give some comfort to these families. I wanted to kind of give you an update on the case. You'll hear from Special Agent in charge of the FBI in Miami, Rob Lasky, and then we'll take some questions. We continue to follow up leads. Our investigators, working feverishly and fervently, have spoken to or contacted almost students and two hundred staff and faculty. We do have seven people that still remain in the hospital. Thank the Lord that we have not added to our list of casualties. I wanted to clear up some uh innuendo's misinformation that might be out there. The killer never was the possession of a gas mask or any type of smoke grenades. We did recover a bella clava, which for those of you might not know, it's just a face mask with I slits. Again, there was no gas mask or no gas grenades at any time. We heard that there were questions that the media had about where our school resource deputy was our school you, Our school resource Deputy Deputy Peterson was on campus. He is armed and I believe the campus at Stoneman Douglas is approximately forty acres. He never encountered the gunman. He never encountered the killer. Every day we're learning, we're learning something more and more about the killer. Through search warrants. We've uncovered electronic devices and cell phones that tell us a little bit more about him. I will not be speaking specifically about either of these devices as the investigation continues. We have uncovered at the Brow Sheriff's Office that we've had approximately twenty calls for service over the last few years regarding the killer. We will continue to follow up as we do with any investigation. We want to try and find out why this killer did what he did, what we could learn for it, and how we could keep our kids safe moving forward. So every one of these calls for service will be looked at and scrutinized. If we find out, like in any investigation, that that one of our deputies or call takers could have done something better or was remiss, I'll handle it accordingly. At this time, I'd like to bring up Rob Latsky, Special and Shape Agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Good afternoon. Have you seen Earlier today, the FBI released a statement regarding information provided to our public access line on January five, this year. The caller provided information about Nicholas Cruz and the potential of him becoming a school shooter. Under normal protocol, this information should have been provided to the Miami Field Office, their appropriate investigative steps would have been taken. The FBI has a termined that protocol was not followed, The information was not provided to the Miami Field Office, and no further investigation was conducted at that time. The FBI is still investigating the facts of this situation. We will the depth an in depth review of our internal procedures for responding to the information that's provided by the public. The FBI remains dedicated to keeping the American people safe. On behalf of myself and over one thousand employees of the Miami Field Office, we truly regret in additional pain that this has caused. The men and women who were in the Miami Field Office are part of this community. We walked the same streets, our children attend the same schools to include Stonear Douglas. We worship at the same places. We are part of this community. As this community hurts, so do we want to thank you for your time. God bless before we take questions I did want to acknowledge. I am so blessed to be able to sit here right now, standing here, right now and tell you that the son of one of our deputies was released from the hospital. He is on the men, he will heal, and I pray one day he will be going back to Stoneman Douglas. Behind me is UH under Sheriff Steve Kinzie. I'm Major Nicole Anderson and our current Jack Dale, who provided semplary leadership, incredible leadership as we continue to work through this tragic event. Um to my right is former Mayor of Parkland, current County Mission Commissioner from Parkland, Michael Udine. And another group of people that I want to thank enormously for what they've done for Broward County during this is our staff at UH, our public information staff. They have worked through some trying times. They've had request the after request, and they stood tall and and they've been amazing. So I want to thank them as well. Any questions very differ a sort of a sort of different sort of close to the service. I don't some of the calls for service we did not go out on. Some of the people that called in were from other states, and by a call for service. And that's a great question. A call for service simply means that our dispatch center receives a call. It doesn't necessarily mean that we went out on something. It could have been a telephone of contact with a deputy from a person in another state. Well, we might have gone out there, but we have been to dissect teaching everywhere. Break. I don't know. I'm sure it talked about the psyche of the killer. It was how to be related to the killer, but it was actually, um, a breaking of the law or a crime that I can't tell you a dress person. My hypothesis at this time is probably both. But my my my hypothesis would be it would be more the killer than the address. Why do you tell these families it isn't about I don't think anybody could say that. We still want to We still want to encourage our community to see something, say something. Um, you know, we we want to learn. That's what these things we were so much more perfect set at this tragedy. Then we wore at the airport. We took the things away, we learned, We train and and and uh and at the end of the day, make no mistake about it America. The only one to blame for this incident is the killer himself. Especially we have especial one question. I mean, how does the Miami Field office. I guess Rapp's bed around that you guys would kept being the dark about this call just to fun off on my quality after It's difficult. But we're professionals. Like I said, I have over a thousand agents or a thousand employees who would come to work every day and do the best to protect America. Almost all of them to a person, would be making more money in the public in the private service. But they come to do this job because they love this job. They believe in the mission, they believe the FBI and the FBI, and they believing law enforcement the process. Right now, that's all under investigation. Normally a two if a tip comes in and involves a credible threat against life for LIMB, it's immediately elevated to a supervisor and then provided out to the field office of the appropriate field office. How did how did the ADEI today knew to find the seventeen anilize? Did agents County phone them? How are they notified? Afres really incline that they happen from what understand to understand the phone, phone conversation or phone bridge was made to those families given the fact that they were spread out all over and we attempted to provide them the news prior to hitting hitting the public. What would you say, so I can't We need the happy is and it's a chance to put this pack the FBI, the potential of the FBI as something that's always better. We do our best. We have SMaL protocols to prevent these things. We will be looking into where and how uh if something the protocol broke down, and we will come back stronger than we ever worked before. What I say, even before I take the next but you don't let me jump in here. That ways, We're listening to a press conference down in Parkland, the FBI again apologizing having missed a number of tips that were sent their way. We continue with Jonathan Gillham Dan Bongino, retired at BI agent Michael Jack is with us. What's your reaction to that, Jonathan, Well, you know, I gotta tell you, Sean, there's a couple of things in there. You know. I was I hosted David Webb Show earlier today and one of the things I saw right when I got on I turned on Fox news dot Com, like I always do, I look up there and this sheriff is already making comments about gun control, and now he's saying that the only person that we should blame is the shooter. I personally, personally, if you went away, blame on people. Let's lay let's put some of the blame on the fact that we are not securing these schools, which you and I have talked about. That's one of the things that we're not seeing. We're not seeing any assessments here. We're seeing the ball is being dropped everywhere. If it's not dropped by the FBI during doing these UH interviews, is being dropped by local authorities in school UH administrators where they're not doing the proper assessments. And I'll just say one of the things about what we were talking about before, FBI agents should leave the FBI and these investigations that the Congress and all these different senators and people are saying that they need to have. The only people that need to be investigating the FBI is the d o J and their internal o PR and they need to get this stuff straight because these these worth they also need congressional over sight. I mean that's part of their job too, But but nothing ever comes of it, Sean if I would say, yes, you're correct if anything ever came from it. But like Benghazi, nothing comes to these things. A waste of money and a waste of time. What's your take, Dan Bongino, Well, listen that these are really serious situations, and I think it's going to require a certain area of expertise on I mean, we have counterintelligence people, terrorism experts, you know, in my case with the Secret Service, we had an expertise and protection. It's gonna be time, uh that whether in the FDA there's led by the fair or not. Excuse me that, Uh, someone takes on targeted school violence and puts together again some form of an interview and some kind of a process so that they can track these incoming calls so they're not missed. Again, I said before the break, the Secret Service has a way to track their threat cases through headquarters. That's not always the best idea, it may not be a great fit for the FBI, but it's a way to follow up in one central location. Hey, what's happening with this what's happening with this threat? We saw, and then the way to keep track of it so these things don't get lost. And I think we're gonna, obviously gonna have to do things different going forward. And Michael, what's your assessment of what you heard? Well, I think that I'm gonna break from what the other guys have said just a little bit. This comes from the top down. There has to be people in the leadership positions of whether it's the FBI or Secret Service that are cut from the same mold that you know, Louis free was when I was, he was my director through the nineties, and he was he came from the bottom up. He was a street agent. He understood how he just thinking how it should run. And and Louis or Letty, who was director of the Secret Service at that time, who was I had the honor of being his neighbor and when I was at headquarters, And you know, people like that need to be running organizations like the FBI and the Secret Service and Homeland Security, not political hacks that are coming out of the o J. They don't understand the importance of the mission like somebody who's actually done the mission. And that kind of leadership going downwards will help keep things like this from happening. Let me move on to our other news of the day, the indictment of these thirteen Russians and this coreinated effort, well funded effort to influence the elections. Now again, I'm I'm mounting around a little bit here. But when you actually go through the indictment and listen to Rod Rosenstein, Uh, we're learning a lot of things that people never knew before. For all the talk, uh, I think the most important thing is that we learned. Okay, it doesn't say Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. It doesn't say anybody on the campaign colluded with the Russians. It doesn't say any American colluded with the Russians, and it doesn't say the Trump obstructed justice. What it does say is it basically had nothing to do with the Trump campaign allegations of collusion. No Americans had any knowledge of what these Russians were doing. But they devised a scheme, an elaborate one and well funded one to so discord in the election. And you know, even simultaneously, they're running pro Trump and anti Trump rallies in the same city in the same day, Dan Bongino. So none of it maps you know what. I'm sorry, but you and I both know that none of its man. The liberals are gonna lie about it no matter what. You heard a press conference from the Deputy Attorney General today saying there were no Americans involved in this, and yet I still get toolboxes on Twitter, liberals from the Huffington Post coming after me going well, they unwittingly colluded. How the hell do you unwittingly collude? You idiots? Did we know? Didn't we know? That's a good point. Actually, didn't we know? In two thousand and nine we knew that Vladimir Putin had operators in America, and these operators we knew because of an informant. We're committing crimes bribery, extortion, kickbacks, money laundering, and we still allow them to get of uranium. I mean, this goes back to the Cold War, the Russians trying to influence our elections and so discord in this country. Jonathan, you know you said they're sick and to go about oversight, is this really a special prosecutor's job to determine this? I thought this is what the CIA did and what the intelligence of vision of the FBI that that was the mandate that was given by Rod Rosen staying that was part one of it. And there's no evidence of collusion at this point. And yeah, the media is gonna run rampant and wild with speculation, but at the end of the day, uh, they didn't care when the when the Russians were caught red handed trying to get America's uranium, and we allowed it to happen knowing because we had an informant within this network, right Sean. All this stuff is an intelligence mission and we have several agencies. This is what they do. But evidently they're dropping the ball as well, because you know, when I got my in doc into the FBI, and I can't say a lot of what I learned, but I can't tell you this. Everybody spies on everybody, and it's no secret. Excuse me, Barack Obama tried to influence the Israeli elections and there are closest ally and they even used taxpayer dollars. Let me give the last word today to to FBI agent retired Michael jack Well. John Jonathan is right. Everybody's you know, spies on everybody else. The Israeli spy on us big time. But this is nothing new. You go back and you look at what they got from when the wall fell and the Stasi headquarters, you know, came into the control of the CIA, and and uh, the bridge. They found all kinds of documentation about the KGB being involved in the racial riots in the sixties and the peace movement, and on and on and on. This has been going on forever. It's just turned into something that is a lot more sophisticated now because of the electronics we have involved, like the Internet and so on. All right, thank you all for being one of those, Thanks for your patients. When we come back on this very issue, we have Sarah Carter, she's breaking some new news about, yeah, the what they call The New York Times called uh, special counsel Mueller's pitball, and that's Andrew Weissman. And we have other new developments as relates to everything that's going on today. Thirteen indictments of Russians trying to influence the election, no connection at all to Trump. I'm sure that's just a pointing to fake news CNN and MSNBC. And as we roll along busy breaking news day in case you're just joining us. Right when we get back, we've got the latest done. These developments that thirteen Russians have tried to influence the election have now in fact been arrested. The new Russian indictment says Russians campaign both for and against Donald Trump, So we'll get to all of that and uh but the media of course won't get that straight. Also, the FBI acknowledging that they had more information that they missed as it related to the shooter down in Parkland, and they have now apologized, and it's resulting in a lot of ramifications. Marco Rubio asking for an investigation, Jeff Session saying there will be one, and Governor Rick Scott saying that in fact he should be uh fired, meaning Christopher Race will get to all that. Eight nine for one, Shawn is a toll free telephone number. When we come back, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett will break down this new development, the thirteen indictments, Russians try to influence the election, nothing to do with Trump, nothing to do with collusion. Going up next, our final news round up and information overload. Our indictment charges thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United States political system, including the presidential election. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the United States with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. According to the allegations in the indictment, twelve of the individual defendants worked at various times for a company called Internet Research Agency LLC, a Russian company based in St. Petersburg. The other individual defendant you have, Jenny Viktorovitch Bos did the conspiracy through companies known as Concord Management and Consulting LLC, Concord Catering, and many affiliates and subsidiaries. The conspiracy was part of a larger operation called Project Locked Up. Project locked Up included multiple components, some involving domestic audiences within the Russian Federation and others targeting foreign audiences in multiple countries. Internet Research Agency allegedly operated through Russians shell companies. It employed hundreds of people in its online operations, ranging from creators of fictitious personas to technical and administrative support personnel. With an annual budget of millions of dollars. Internet Research Agency was a structured organization headed by a management group and arranged into departments including graphics, search engine optimization, information technology, and finance departments. In twenty four team the company established a Translator project focused on the United States. In July, more than eighty employees were assigned to the Translator project. Count two charges conspiracy to give it wire fraud and bank fraud by Internet Research Agency and too of the individual defendants, and Counts three through eight charge aggravated identity theft by Internet Research Agency and four individuals. Now, there is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct altered the outcome of the election. I want to caution you that everyone charged with the crime is presumed innocent and lesson until proven guilty in court. All Right, that was Rob Rosenstein announcing, Yeah Muller indicting thirteen Russian trolls that had tried to impact the election. It's not really new news, but now having some specificity does certainly help a lot. Um. What has the whole uranium one deal been about that we knew eighteen months before? When they finally Syphius signed off on the Iranian one deal that gave Putin and the Russians of our uranium. Well, what did we discover in the course of the last year that nobody else wanted to report? That there was bribery, extortion, kickbacks, money laundering all committed on US soil, and that we had a spy within the organization now known as the Informant that has now testified with four three congressional committees telling our own government what this, what Putin and Russia were up to when I was twenty two thousand and nine, and now this is And the only shock I have is that everybody's acting so shocked. I'm not shocked. You know, we knew about the Google and Facebook ads, and you know, but simultaneously, you know Rosenstein describing they run a pro Trump and anti Trump rally in the same city in the same day, for crying out loud. One thing that didn't come out of these indictments today. It has nothing to do with the Trump campaign, frankly, nothing to do with any one American willingly uh working with the Russians in any way. This was an elaborate scheme. They wanted to sew as much discord in this country as they possibly could, and they did everything imaginable and paid any amount of money to do it. Joining us now with reaction, we have Greg Jarrett. Fox News legal analysts are Carter investigative reporter and Fox News UH analyst as well. Thank you both for being with us. UH. Let's start with you from the legal side, Greg Jarrett, I don't see any evidence of Trump Russia collusion again, absolutely, You're right. This has, as you stated, nothing to do with the Trump campaign and allegations of collusion. However, it would be a mistake for anybody to think that Robert Muller, the special counsel, is now suddenly shifted away from Donald Trump. UM. All you have to do is look at the dozens and dozens of people at the White House and elsewhere that he is interviewed, and he has been talking to them about the president's conduct, UH and the campaign's conduct before the election. And you know Muller would see you would think, I mean, when he said that no American had any knowledge of what the Russians were doing, and he goes through the the the big announcement today. You're right, this is completely separate and apart, and we've been at this now, there's never been any evidence presented up to this point at all that I know of of Trump Russia collusion. Is there No. But this was a way for Mueller to say, see, look, my special investigation is legitimate. I'm finding evidence of wrongdoing related to the election. And you know, I have here in front of me the appointment of special Council signed by Rod Rosenstein when he named Mueller. And there's two parts to it, to investigate Russia's efforts to interfere in the election. But the second part any collaboration or coordination between the Russians and President Donald Trump's campaign. So the second part of the investors completely unrelated to what happened today, which honestly is just small potatos. Sarah Carter, your thoughts, I think Greg brought up several really important points. Uh, And but my thoughts. I wasn't surprised either, Sean On on this indictment. I would. I think the only part that surprised me is how you know they listed the number of people, all of them of course outside of the United States. Now they're going to possibly try to get some kind of extradition and have these people face justice. I don't think that's going to happen. You've got to think of it this way. This was an operation run by the Russian government, by the FSB, which is their new KGB, right, and this was an operation to so discord and I think I think the important part here for most Americans to understand is that Russia had no game in this as far as like as far as Trump was concerned, President Trump, I know that a lot of people in the media tried to play up and they did this collusion between President Trump and the Russians, and they were looking for some kind of evidence to prove this, and we saw a number of false, fake stories out in the news media, some stories which had to be retracted immediately, others which were proven faults as the months progressed. Um And I think this indictment stipulates that that they are that there was no evidence there that there was anybody knowingly working with the Russians on this. Another important point here, Sean, is that the Russians were just and this is according to a number of people that were working during that time in the campaigns, both in the Hillary Clinton campaign and in the Trump campaign. The Russian were very concerned about incoming candidate president, you know, President Trump, because they could engage him, They couldn't figure him out. He was an oddity to them. They were constantly trying to garner how how this man was going to operate with them if he became president. And even when he did become president, the Russians wanted to sow discord. And guess what guests who helped the Russians. It was the media to a large extent, and and our own political partisan fighting. And this was this was what they intended to do. This is what people aided them with. And now we've spent the last year of the first year of President Trump's presidency basically battling out in the media, in the US public UH this idea that somehow President Trump and his campaign were colluding with the Russians, And what we have discovered is that on its face, there is absolutely no evidence showing that it is a lie. And in the end, the people that pushed that forward and pushed that disinformation forwards basically made the last year UH an impossibility and gave the Russians what they wanted. This is how up to their eyeballs they were in terms of their use of social media and platforms, and the indictment goes into all of us today. But you know, they created thematic group pages all over social media sites and I'm reading directly from the indictment, particularly on social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, and organization control pages addressed a range of issues, including immigration, where groups like Secured Borders, the Black Lives Matters movement quote blacktivist religion with groups including United Muslims of America, the Army of Jesus or Southern United and Heart of Texas. And what they were doing was really trying to sway the minds of the American people. One interesting thing is they conclude there was no impact on the election that they can discern it, although Greg, you're right, and look, part of the problem is that our social media, uh websites and platforms are so open. Anybody can conjure a fake name in an account, and so it's right for abuse that needs to be corrected. Because frankly, that was the only way the Russians could see that they could try to so discord and influence the election. Um. But but it wasn't enough. Uh, you know, they they had what eighty or so people working in this particular office, and so they were spreading you know, false information apparently on both sides of the aisle. And you know, whether it had any measurable impact, I doubt very much. It was a small operation. I mean, we have three million Americans, most of the adults, a lot of them vote. You can't reach all of those people with an operation of less than a hundred people and fake identities. And well, they did have some impact. I mean, um, now we go back to the investigators themselves, and you have an unbelievable peace out Sarah about Andrew Weisman that you've broken. Oh yes, I I didn't know if you were going to go in that direction, Sean. But I do want to make one point before we go to Andrew Wiseman. I really believe that, you know, if you just look at the indictment itself and know how the Russians operate, they weren't trying to in essence, affect the election to get any particular candidate to win. I don't believe that whatsoever. I think they were just trying to sew that discord and chaos and kind of throw our country into this tumultuous uh we're in right now, a special Counsel investigating the president. All of these lies spewed across the media, stories coming left and right from everywhere and and confusing the American public. So I think, if anything, that's that's where they succeeded um Andrew Wiseman. It's really fascinating, you know. I we look at the Special Counsel and we see all the different players, and there's been a lot of stories out there that we we know that more at least half of the Special Council were Democratic donors. And Andrew Wiseman as somebody who's come up in the media several times. He had a lot of support for apparently for Hillary Quinton. Apparently he attended her victory party. But there was a lot about his past that we didn't know. And one of the interesting things about Andrew Wiseman that I discovered was that he was actually reported to the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz a year before the presidential elections. And he was actually reported by a lawyer for whistleblowers who believed that Andrew Wiseman's actions in the court in the past showed egregious uh criminal with he that he believed to be uh since corrupt legal practice. I want to get to the whole listed, but including withholding, but not just in one case, but in multiple cases, all right, in multiple cases? All right, We're gonna hit all of this tonight Hannity nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Also, we have the Daily Caller Report and new information emerging about Michael Flynn and his judge that I find fascinating. Right as we continue with Sarah Carter and Greg Jarred will have a lot more on all of this. The breaking news story Mueller indeding thirteen Russians, no evidence that any American willingly participated in this, and the idea apparently was to just so as much discord as possible in the United States for the elections. And also we have the other news about Andrew Weissman Sarah's column. So he was caught Andrew Weisman, the top deputy of Robert Mueller, on multiple occasions trying to withhold exculpatory evidence in very important, high profile cases. Will explain what happened and why would Muller appoint this guy? Well, this is what Muller would appoin him, because he came up the ranks with Robert Mueller. Remember he was a general counsel for Robert Mueller and the FBI and was very close and still is obviously very close to Mueller. You know, the nickname he got was pit you know, a pit bull, you know, Mueller's pit bull. In the New York Times address that in a story and expose they did on Wiseman. But what's really fascinating about Wiseman is that he's described by a lot of attorneys that I've spoken with as somebody who's willing to do anything, cut corners, do whatever it takes to try to win a case. And one of the attorneys that went on the record to speak about under Wiseman and who did blow the whistle with his clients to the I G and as well as to the Senate Judiciary Committee even a decade ago, is a man by the name of David Shown. And here's somebody who has no political leanings. He doesn't belong to any political party. In fact, he worked with the A C. L U in Alabama, um has been awarded all kinds of things for his liberal activism. And he's a criminal old defense attorney. And what fascinating he says is that during a lot of the cases that Wiseman handled while he was in New York, in the Eastern District of New York. There were immeasurable complaints about Wiseman and how he I want to pick this up, stay right there, Sarah Carter or blockbuster report. Just how unbelievably disturbing the the track record of Andrew Weisman happens to be. Also more in our top story while Aren died in thirteen Russians no evidence of collusion. That is the big takeaway of all of it, that Russians trying to promote discord after all our reporting on uranium one, why anybody would be surprised as beyond me. And we'll get to your calls in the next half hour as well. Straight ahead as we continue Hannity Tonight at nine, full details on the Fox News Channel, news and information I promise you won't get from the mainstream media alright till the top of the hour if you're just joining us. Two big stories were really following today. Will full coverage on Hannity Tonight at nine the indictment of thirteen Russians. The biggest takeaway from the indictment here is that the scheme that was elaborate, well organized, and funded, was designed to sow discord in the election. It seemed that it didn't matter even at simultaneous rallies pro Trump anti Trump going on the same day, and uh, it was fairly sophisticated. Does this mean the Muller investigation is over as our own Greg Jared is saying absolutely not. And the other story we're following as the FBI missed a second, even more specific tip on this Florida shooter. Um and we have Sarah Carter. She has a website, Sarah a Carter dot com, and she has an incredible column about Andrew Weisman, the lead prosecutor appointed by Robert Muller. And Greg Jared is with us Fox News Legal analyst and he knows an awful lot about Weisman and Muller as well. I'm gonna let Sarah finish your story. So Andrew Weissman has this track record of withholding exculpatory information. He's the guy that lost tens of thousands of jobs for people that were working at Anderson Accounting. He was overturned on the U. S. Supreme Court nine zero. He put Meryl executives away for a year four of them, only to be overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. But I think the judges excoriating of Wiseman speaks volumes. And the question is, Sarah White, why was he appointed by the special counsel? I guess that's a question that the special counsel would have to answer, And I believe it's because, you know, he's deemed by those closest to him, the guy that's going to do anything to get anything, to get an indictment. And that's kind of a terror. If that is the case, that's a that's a really terrible reason, and it's the reason why he was reported. I think in the story. What makes this story so significant is for the first time we were able to get our hands on this document that actually a judge chides, he goes right after Wiseman and basically reprimands him. He says, Wiseman's conduct in a case that happened, this is the case that made Wiseman Wiseman right, this is the one that launched his career. Judge Sipped and Judge Charles Sipton in the Eastern District of New York specifically state that Wiseman's conduct and my office, my opic withholding of information and reprehensible. Is reprehensible in subject perhaps two appropriate disciplinary measures. At that point in time, they wanted to report Wiseman to the bar. He withheld information that the judge and that the defendants believed was necessary exculpatory information from the courts. And this is what's so incredible that despite that, he had enough allies behind him sean to basically get them to write a letter to the judge according now this is allegedly, according to the attorneys that I spoke with, was able to strong arm this judge into withdrawing his name from this complaint, and then they reissued a new complaint. But we've seen both of the complaints. I have. It's actually on my website the original complaint against Wiseman Sarah and Garner dot com. The original complaint state he might have been reported to the bar. Alright, Greg, you also have looked hard at the Special Council and the appointments by Robert Buller. I think you're equally disturbed at the appointment of Andrew Weissman as well. Oh, absolutely, I mean. Weisseman is a notorious lawyer. He's known for abusive tactics. He weaponizes the lawyers ruthless and unprincipled, and there are you could fill volumes with the complaints that have been filed two judges and the bar in the Department of Justice. He's been accused of hiding evidence, threatening witnesses. Innocent people have been victimized by this guy. And as you've pointed out on your your show, his biggest cases have been reversed by higher courts. He drove Arthur Anderson out of business, only to have the case a SmackDown by the U. S. Supreme Tens of thousands of people, real people lost their jobs there, that's right, But Weisman was undeterred. Then he goes after Merrill Lynch executives, putting them behind ours, destroying their lives. That case also reversed by the Fifth Circuits. So why did Mueller pick him? Because he knew what he was getting. He wants with a history of political bias, who would be equally determined as Mueller was to undo the results of the presidential election and drive Trump from office. And you know, Robert Muller sabotaged his own investigation by picking these partisans. Unbelievable, all right, now, I've started and we never got into it, and I tweeted it out earlier today. I know there might be you know, I'm watching some of our media colleagues, those that have ignored uranium one. But and this was part of the investigation that has now gone on a year when we when Sarah, John Solomon, Gregg, You've been a part of it for the year as well, when it was first discovered that there was surveillance, a lack of minimization, there was unmasking of American citizens, and even the leaking of raw intelligence General Flynn, all of all of which was happening. But we also a big part of the story was the Iranian one story, and that you know, Sarah, you you broke this story with John Solomon, that we literally had Putin's thugs a network within the United States, Putin operatives in the US. We knew because of the informant that you know that testified just in the last two weeks before three congressional committees that the Putin operatives were involved in bribery and extortion and money laundering and kickpacks. And we had an informant that was telling the FBI and then FBI Director Robert Mallow the whole time. So just to ask the question, my point is, how can anybody be surprised today, especially when this indictment talks about this effort beginning in Well, we can take back putin operatives to two thousand and nine and how they successfully were able to get a foothold in the Iranian market in America. That's right. It appears that even in the Obama administration, because they were so in kent on resetting their operation. Remember, the Obama administration didn't get up in arms about the Russians until the election. And you know, and until the election, we didn't hear a peep out of them. In fact, President Obama actually laughed at Mitt Romney at one point when he said Russia was our biggest threat. Well, we've known for a long time, the Russian involvement in the United States, particularly with our not just our uranium industry, but the spy networks globally, their involvement in the Middle East, their involvement in South Asia. I mean, we've known this forever. We've known this since the fall of the Soviet Union and before that, we've known all of this. It all depends on the politicking and at that time. Even though this informant gave such a valuable counter intelligence invation to the FBI and to the c I A, and U S agencies like the Department of Energy, they chose to ignore that because it didn't fit their narrative. They wanted to reset with Russia. They wanted a reset to move forward within Iran deal eventually, and this is what happened. And we saw that going all the way back, even into the Clinton administration, there was this need to reset. And we also saw the amount of money. I mean, could you imagine, I mean Bill Clinton got paid half a million dollars, Like people don't think about this. That same year that Uranium one deal was set through, he was paid half a million dollars by Renaissance Bank, a Russian bank that was touting the uranium one deal that wanted to push that deal forward. They pay Bill Clinton this half a million dollars, not even a peep, and then later in October they passed the Uranium one you know, the Scipius Board goes ahead and approves it despite all this insurmountable evidence that there was real national security risk with this deal. Greg Jarrett, we have talked at length about this um, and now you see like shock and surprise in the hearts of our fellow media people. And I've got a laugh because they have ignored this, and ignored this and ignored this. It seems to me just the natural culmination. You know, I've gotten trouble once a number of times, Greg, I've I've interviewed, unlike others in our industry, I actually took the time I went to London. I've interviewed on television Julian Ossange, and I've interviewed a multiple times on this radio program. And here's a guy that hacked into NASA when he was sixteen years old. He hacked into the d D when he was sixteen years old. He's now in his forties. At some point do we not have to look within and say, well, if he did it when he's sixteen, and he's doing it in his forties, at what point do we have to look within and say, why are we allowing anybody to have the capability to hack into any system we have? Well, it is a real and legitimate problem. And uh, you know, the United States government used to put a stop to it, and there are several ways they can do it, but to pick up on your argument about you know, Clinting greed and Uranium One. There is strong circumstantial evidence that Hillary Clinton, together with her husband, engaged in an elaborate but well disguised scheme to pedal influence on a global scale, and Uranium One, you know, was their golden child. I mean, all told, a hundred and forty five million dollars is estimated to have made its way from shareholders in Russian companies to the Clinton Foundation. And as Sarah pointed out, you know, Bill Clinton made out like a bandit personally after Rossatam announced its takeover of Uranium One, that's the Russian company, and Hillary Clinton head of Scythius, approved the deal. Bill goes to Moscow, he meets with Putin, and he gets a nice check for half a million dollars to deliver an hour long speech paid for, Sarah mentioned by a bank with close ties to the Tremlin and Kremlin and and the bank that was involved the Uranium One bank. You know, I us that this to me is what we've all been saying. Now. The only thing that I don't know what happens from here is if if there's zero evidence of Trump Russia collusion to this point, but we do have evidence of Hillary Clinton a she bought and paid for Russian government lies through her campaign, funneled through a law firm, through the d n C whose money she was controlling. And then we have you know, she is one of nine agencies and siphy is signing off on the Iranian one deal. Then all the money flooded back to the Clinton Foundation with people involved in it. It seems to me that we have an awful lot of Russian influence in in this country, and it seems that most of it related to the election. Sarah was with the Clinton's, not with the Trump campaign. Yeah, Sean, I mean, if you're just looking at the facts on their face, I think there's there's three separate investigations here from just what you know. You brought up one. There needs to be a thorough, thorough investigation and we know those are ongoing into the relationship between people associated with the Clinton's, possibly Clilary Clinton herself. You know, few gps uh Christopher Steel, the entire Russian dossier scenario, because that appears to have been part of this FSB disinformation campaign. And secondly, we know now that there is an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation, which appeared to have never been shut down completely. It appears to have resurfaced again. We know they've interviewed a witness out of Little Rock that's actually ongoing right now. And and then thirdly, we have to look at the extent of uranium one and how this past deal with the Russians, how it affected us, who was involved in that, who were the players. Now I think with Uranium one, it's going to be very interesting because it's going to take a lot of historical, uh deep dives, and it's and we right now the Department of Justice is actually looking into that. And I think the Uranium one story can criss cross with the foundation story, but they may be like two separate, two separate things that have the same crossroads, if you get what I'm saying. So the Clinton Foundation investigation could reveal something new. Oh and force, of course, the investigation right now by Inspector General Michael Horowitz into the FBI s uh handling of the Clinton server investigation. And and that's going to be so important to remember. It comes out in the next few weeks at least. That's what we've been told. Unbelievable, and we're gonna be watching and waiting. Uh, Greg, did you get an opportunity to to read all those new information about the judge in the case of Michael Flynn, General Flynn, and how the judge is asking Mueller for specific any evidence he might have at all that might be exculpatory for General Flynn. And this is the same judge that was involved in the Steven's case. I think the judge knows there's exculpatory evidence and wants to see it. This is a This is actually a very very discerning and skeptical judge, as all judges should be but aren't. And this judge has a lot of questions for Muller. And and my question would also be wait a minute, on what legal basis did the FBI even have the writer authority to question Michael Flynn. He had committed no crimes. It's not a crime to talk to the Russian ambassador in the transition. Happens all the time in previous transitions. Uh. They had already through surveillance, listened in on one of Michael Flynn's conversations, so they knew every that was illegal for questioning him about a conversation that they knew all about We're going to have full coverage of this tonight, and the media is so clueless in their coverage. I promise you we're going to break it down. Great work today and all along in this whole year so far, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, you guys have been phenomenal, and we'll see you both tonight on Hannity nine Eastern on Fox. Thank you both. But this is the most unbelievable story and the biggest shock, and all of this is why anybody shocked. All right, that's gonna wrap things up for tonight. All right, we have two big breaking stories and actually like five big breaking stories tonight on Hannity, Sarah Carter, Gregg Jarrett, Dr Sebastian Gorka, Judge Janine Pierro, Tom Fitton, also Sean Spicer, and Representative Mac Gates. Now we'll get into the thirteen indictments. How anybody in the media is surprised is a huge shock to me. The FBI acknowledging, they blew it as it relates to the Parkland shooting and the apology and so much more. And I'm gonna piece all this together for you tonight in our opening monologue. Nine Eastern Thanks for being with us, have a great weekend. We'll see you tonight. Back here on Monday call

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