Sean Hannity As A Guest

Published Jan 10, 2019, 11:00 PM

Gregg Jarrett takes the healm of 'Hannity' while Sean is in Texas with President Trump visiting the border. However, good news for 'Hannity' listeners, Sean calls in to describe his first-hand account of the border situation and to discuss just why it's so important we strive to protect the border. Listen as Sean is the key guest on 'Hannity.' The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.

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And as soon as Sean finishes that interview, he'll be calling in here to his own show, and Sean and I will be talking about what the President said, what the President intends to do next, And be sure to tune in on the Fox News Channel at nine o'clock Eastern time on Hannity because the entire one on one interview with President Trump, conducted by Sean Hannity will air in its entirety tonight on The Hannity Show on Fox News Channel. That's nine o'clock Eastern time. So lots to talk about here. Let's begin with what the president has done and what he may do next. He met on Capitol Hill yesterday with Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate other congressional leaders, and he offered to sign all of the bills they proposed to reopen the partial government shutdown in exchange for their consideration of funding. And the President didn't demand a specific amount, but he'd like to have five billion dollars, but consideration of some funding of a barrier. And as you know, the President of the other night in his Oval Office address, he was even willing to say, all right, it doesn't need to be a wall, it doesn't need to be concrete. How about a metal or steel barrier, an olive branch that the President extended to his critics and political opponents on Capitol Hill, the Democrats who control the House, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi their speaker, and Pelosi said yesterday along with Schumer, no, I'm not going to do it. So the only offer so far by Nancy Pelosi visa v. The wall is one dollar. That's literally what's on the table. She jokingly said, I'll give you a dollar, mister President, and that's where she stands. The President is willing to compromise, has offered various options, and Democrats say, absolutely not, We're not going to do it. So the Democrats are to blame early the shutdown, partial shutdown of the federal government. So what does the president do next? Here is what the president should do. He should, as his predecessors before him, exercise the right to declare a national emergency and then direct under a specific federal statute the construction by the military of the wall that he proposes on our southern border. Now can the president do that? Of course he can do that. First of all, the Constitution provides the president with broad executive power to wage war, not against just foreign foes, but to wage war against emergencies. In fact, if you know your history, and I'm sure you do, that was the basis upon which Franklin Roosevelt in nineteen thirty three. Is soon as he took over the presidency, he assumed jurisdiction over all banks in America. And he did so because it was an emergency. There was no specific statute or constitutional provision that says you may do that. Instead, there are inherent powers within the Constitution that gave him that right, that power, that ability. It's long been established that the president's principal duty, after all, is to protect the lives and the safety and the security of American citizens. No one doubts that if President Trump declares that illegal entry into the United States is jeopardizing the health and security of Americans, their very lives, he may act. So is that illegal immigration jeopardizing lives? Look at the statistics provided by the Department of Justice. In the last two years alone, criminal aliens have been responsible for approximately two hundred and thirty five thousand violations of law, four thousand homicides, thirty thousand sex crimes, over one hundred thousand violent assaults. In just two thousand and eighteen, seventeen thousand individuals with criminal records were apprehended at the southern border. And it goes beyond that. The crisis is also that of drugs. We are experiencing an acute opioid crisis in America. Three hundred Americans are killed every single week from heroine, and ninety percent of that heroine is flooding across our southern border. So is there a crisis our lives in jeopardy? Of course, So beyond the inherent powers of the president to declare an emergency, the president also has specific constitutional authorities. Look it up. Article two, Section three. The president quote shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. End of quote. Since crossing the border without government permission is against the law, it's a crime, the president is empowered to take action, such as building a wall, to halt that law breaking. And if you have any question at all about whether a barrier at the southern border, whether it be a fence or a steel barrier or a concrete wall, works, just listen to the Secretary of Homeland Security the other day. She stood in of telephones and microphones and television cameras and said, in places where a wall exists on our border with Mexico, ninety to ninety five percent of illegal immigration is reduced. So it works ninety to ninety five percent of the time. But beyond the inherent powers of the Constitution, there's something else. In nineteen seventy six, Congress passed the National Emergency's Act, vestings specific authority in the president to decide if and when a national emergency shall be declared, and permitting the president to issue an order pursuant to what he deems to be an emergency. Congress waived its veto power over his decision to determine what constitutes an emergency, and by the way, that was affirmed by the West Supreme Court in nineteen eighty three. The Emergency Act gives the President greater authority to take actions that he might otherwise be constrained to take. He can, for example, redirect funds money on an emergency basis to meet the crisis. So it's a two step process. First, the President declares a national emergency, and then he's authorized under a specific federal statute passed by Congress. I don't want to get wonky on you, but here it is ten USC. Twenty eight o eight. I have it in front of me. It's really simple, one page long, three paragraphs. I'm going to read it to you. In the event of the declaration by the President of a national emergency, in accordance with a National Emergency Act, the Secretary of Defense, without regard to any other provision of law, may undertake military construction projects, and may authorize the secretaries of the military departments to undertake military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law. In other words, it doesn't have to be a specific authorization from Congress to build a wall. The President may direct the Secretary of Defense start building the wall using military contractors. And the president not only has the power to issue that order, no one can stop him. Now, will somebody file a lawsuit? Of course, you know in America, anybody sadly can file a lawsuit, regardless of whether it's legally merited. Senator Kamala Harris, who's surely going to be announcing very soon she's running for president of United States, Democrat from California, has said on the record she will sue the President to stop him from using his emergency powers. But remember, since Congress conferred and in fact abdicated its authority to the president for handling emergencies, her lawsuit and any other one like it will be very difficult to sustain because they have no legal basis to complain. I mean, if Congress intended to have some say in what constitutes an emergency, it failed to place any limiting language in the National Emergencies Act. Congress gave the president unfettered power and determination. And by the way, you know, this is a president who would be doing very much what other presidents have done since the passage of the National Emergencies Act. Presidents have utilized the authority. Bill Clinton seventeen times, George W. Bush twelve times, Barack Obama thirteen times. And in fact, there are currently thirty one emergencies still in effect, dating all the way back to President Jimmy Carter's emergency declaration punishing I ran back in nineteen eighty and many of those I have a list here. But almost all of these declared emergencies deal directly with foreign threats, and the same certainly can be said of illegal border crossings from Mexico into the United States. But you know, you hear people in the media who are among the dumbest people I know, who say, well, where's the crisis? Crisis? What crisis? Reminds me of the Supertramp album? You know that was one of my favorite albums in young people these days go Supertramp? What's Supertramp? One of the great albums was what Crisis? And that's the media these days. But they weren't complaining when Barack Obama issued a national emergency declaration to block the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in Central African Republic. Same thing contributing to the situation in Burundi and South Sudan. If you ask the average American do you think Burundi and South Sudan and the Central African Republic constitute US national emergencies? The average person would say, are you kidding me? Burundi and South Sudan and the Central African Republic are not a national emergency to the United States, And yet no one complied and when Barack Obama declared them national emergencies. But here we have, as I outlined a serious life or death crisis at our border, and I gave you the statistics a moment ago, and you still have members of the media saying, well, it's not really a crisis. Um, I want to play this cut here of commentary of individuals saying this is not a crisis and other individuals explaining how they're wrong. This is cut eighteen. Take a listen. But the big scam of the whole address was that there's a crisis. There's not a crisis. Ninety being in a red car. What is the overdocing on? I think my neighbor and her sister wrote overdo the victim appeared to have been executed and left in the street. We were able to identify a group of emas thirteen gang members who we believe are responsible in a suspect in a series of brutal crimes is a gang member and illegal immigrant who's been deported four times. Tommy Vladim Alvarado Ventura is accused of stabbing two women and sexually assaulting a two year old girl. We saw from Trump today the typical lying, the nonsensity spinning of crises out of whole class ms. Thirteen gang members were rounded up this morning, charged in three murders. Sixteen year old Kla Quavis and her fifteen year old best friend, Nissa Mickens brutally beaten to death. Miguel Albarez Flores and Diego Hernandez Rivera both based aggravated kidnapping and murder charges for allegedly killing a teenage girl during a Satanic ritual last month in Texas. America's overdose crisis is worse than ever before because of the synthetic opioid fentel. It is deadlier than a heroin overdose, so that we have almost double this time last year. A synthetic opioid fentyl is causing carnage like America has never seen. Overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of fifty. Let's start out with this idea of crisis. The President use that word several times in the speech. Just because you say it's a crisis, George, doesn't necessarily make it once. Suffolk County Police announcing the arrest of seventeen gang members after a series of violent incidents, including the massacre of four young men. If Haro was the epidemic, fentenol's the plague, and the plague is here process by the way, it feels like it's a colossal waste of time. So he can deliver on a chant he began three years ago at some of his rallies. It's all about nothing. I'm Greg Jared on the Sean Hannity Show. Will be right back. Hey, if you're one of thirty four million Americans that smokes, you know what a hassle that can be for me. I'm out playing golf and I come back smelling like cigars. It's the smell on your hands and your breath, your clothes. But now, thanks to Jule, don't have to worry about it anymore. Jewel is a vaporizer. It does contain nicotine for a satisfying transition. Now, when I found Jewel, it was a complete game changer in my life. I don't smoke any cigars any longer. And Jewel was designed by smokers for smokers to be an alternative to whatever it is you're smoking. 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And the President has requested funding from Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer refuse to budge, And that interview, by the way, will be played live, well live to tape in its entirety tonight at nine o'clock on Hannity on the Fox News channel. So you'll want to be sure to tune in then to see all of the interview. But Sean's going to call in over the next couple of hours and give us an update on what the President said. And I'd like to put the question to you, and I would hope that you would give me a call and tell me what you think. The number, by one, by the way, is eight hundred and nine four one. Sean, that's eight hundred nine four one seventy three twenty six. Will be getting to your calls in just a moment. We have quite a few standing by. But the question is this, should the President declare a national emergency and order the Secretary of Defense, as authorized by law, to begin construction of a border wall in places where it is needed. The president has absolute authority to do this. Other presidents have declared national emergencies for a whole lot less. And when you think of what's at stake here, criminal aliens, in the last couple of years have committed two hundred and thirty five violations of the law, including four thousand homicides, thirty thousand sex crimes, over one hundred thousand violent assaults, and ninety percent of the heroine that luds across our southern border, killing three hundred Americans every single week. Does that not constitute an emergency a crisis? It does, that's my opinion. What are your thoughts. Let's go to our phone lines. Drew stands by in Daytona Beach. Drew, what do you think? Great? My question is, assuming that the President does declare a national emergency, he's gonna have to use military funding to construct the wall. Would it be possible for Kevin McCarthy to add in that dollar figure, whatever it is, into the continuing Resolution and still get that funding back again for the military basically to kind of sweep this all together in one deep little well. He could, but Pelosi would stop him from doing so, and since she's now the Speaker of the House and controls the majority in the House, that's probably unlikely. But the president doesn't need that. Look, there is a budget for the military construction projects of one hundred billion dollars, So you're only asking for five billion to be diverted from existing military construction projects to wall funding, So that would seem to be the logical choice. And again, the President is authorized not just by the National Emergencies Act, but by the statute that I recited earlier, which is a ten USC twenty eight o eight. Specifically, Congress passed the laws saying you can do this, and plus on top of that, how could the Democrats possibly complain? Because they pass the Secure Fence Act of two thousand and six, empowering the Homeland Security Department to build a physical barrier enhancement along the border. And you know Democrats have long fought for a barrier that separates Mexico from the United States. I want to play you a clip of what many prominent Democrats once said about building a wall in what they now say an absolute hypocritical flip flop. Here it is, I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in. And you voted for in America, where we build bridges, not walls. People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the US legally. To so many Americans, we do not want the wall to be a symbol of America, much preferring the Statue of Liberty be that symbol. Those who enter our country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we cannot allow people to pour into the US undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. If there are disruptions in these countries, that there's conflict, if there's bad governance, if there's war, if there's poverty in this new world that we live in, we can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind the wall. All of us agree that we need to have comprehensive bipartisan immigration reform that can only begin strong border control. We must have that. We must control our borders. But the wall is an immorality. It's not who we are is So how do you explain that? I'll tell you how I explain it. Hypocrisy born of stupidity is endemic on Capitol Hill. These are people who opposed who are opposing the wall, who once supported the wall, and they're only opposing it now because Donald Trump wants it, and they don't want to give anything Donald Trump wants because they hate him. It's as simple as that. They hate him as a person, they hate his policies, they hate what he stands for. They're unabashed scorn and visceral hatred of the president is reflected in their decision making now opposing the wall that they have long fought in favor of. They have advocated for a barrier, and now they're against it only because Trump is in favor of it, and there's no other way of looking at it. That is the plane unadulterated truth. Let's go to our next caller. Max joins us from Utah. Max. Hello, I think the Democrats are opposing this wall because their way for donations from across the border, the drug card tells will pay handsomely to stop the wall. You know, you could fund the wall if you just used all of the seized assets of El Chapo. There's a better way, and that's what I call it about. He can build the wall, he can make the Mexicans pay for it with already existing funds that he has of his disposal. Which funds are those? Okay, everybody in the world, nobody pays taxes to the federal government except for US citizens. Had people to hold a green card, so it's called legal aliens. The illegal aliens. When they pay taxes, they do so with unverified so security numbers with unverified names. Now they can't because they can't bear it. All this fun beam that is paid by these people working here in the United States goes into an account called the donation account. Okay, because they can't verify it. And we're talking, well, who controls who controls that account? Oh, the Federal Reserve. And since their incarnation, the Federal Reserve has never been audited. You can ask Ron Paul about this. He went on and on about how they knew that the Federal Reserve if you where our money actually go, you know, I like the idea. Maybe we need to get Ron Paul on the telephone. Next. This got our next caller, Richard joins us from New Jersey. Richard, how are you hey, how you doing today? Thank you for having me on. I think I have a little kind of unique perspective on things. First of all, I'm a government contractor who's out of work, so I can speak about that. But the also thing that is something that happened to me just this morning. Well, whenever are you, are you out of work because you were furloughed or out of work because for other reasons for furlough Yeah, I'm part of the government for okay, Friday. Friday was my last day I was able to work. Do you support the President's position? Nonetheless? Yeah? Absolutely? Why and um, well, just as an example, this morning, I went through was taking my daughter to school and was passed by two police vehicles screaming by, and found out just earlier today that a young man had overdosed and fatally just this morning, a few blocks from my home. And staystically speaking, probably what twenty five thirty of the drugs. Um, there's a chance that the drugs that he took actually came across the Mexican board. Yeah, it depends on the drugs. I mean, yeah, as we indicated before, the vast majority of the heroine in the United States is coming across our southern border, meth cocaine. I mean, who knows, but point point well taken Richard in New Jersey. Richard, thanks very much, appreciate that let's go to Rob in Pennsylvania. Rob, you're on the air, right, you know, just as desperately as we need a border wall, as we need dams and levees and sea walls as infrastructure to keep out things that are dangerous coming in and control the flow. But you're you're citing some US Code and there are laws that are never ever enforced, and I don't understand why. And you will be familiar with Title eight thirteen twenty four of US Code, which makes it a crime to encourage or help people to get here illegally, and also makes it a crime, a felony as a matter of fact, to harbor them, house them, or transport them. Those laws just aren't enforced exist federal law. There is no ninth Circuits going to overturn existing federal law. I don't think it's never enforced. You can't harbor one, you can't house them, you can't transport them, and you can't aid them to get here. You know, you're absolutely right. I am well familiar with that specific statute in the criminal codes, and it makes it a crime to harbor, harbor, or shield anyone who is here illegally, and the punishment is up to five years behind bars. And if somebody is killed as a consequence of you're enabling in harboring and shielding an illegal alien who commits that crime, the punishment is life behind bars. So you know, you think about the sheriff in San Francisco, the mayor in San Francisco, who were harboring and shielding the illegal alien who came here and murdered a young woman on the pier in San Francisco. Why weren't they criminally prosecuted back then? I argued vociferously that they should have been, But at the time it was the Obama Department of Justice. They took no action. I encouraged Jeff Sessions to take action. He suggested generally he might, and the feckless incompetence Sessions never did. We to start enforcing the laws on the books. We're gonna pause, take a quick, great time. Greg Jared in for Sean Hannity. He has an interview with President Trump. He is going to be calling in very shortly to tell us what the President said. You can watch the entire interview tonight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity, Shawn, I'm filling in for Sean. I'm Greg Jared by the way, the Fox News Channel, legal analyst, former lawyer, author of the number one New York Times best selling book, The Russia Hoax, and we'll be talking about that at the top of this next hour in a few minutes. But I'm here because Sean is down at the border. He is with President Trump as he meets with border security agents getting a briefing on illegal immigration and border security. As soon as the Sean finishes is one on one interview with the President, he'll be calling in to this program, so stay tuned for that. He'll give us an update on what the President said in tonight at nine o'clock Eastern on the Fox News Channel on Hannity, you can watch the entire interview with President Trump. In the meantime, we're taking your telephone calls. Got a couple of minutes left. Want to go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, you're a police officer, as I understand, and and God bless you and thank you for your service as a law traishman official. Appreciate it. Thanks. Greg. How are you today? I'm well, I just you know, I wanted to lead off by thaying, we're even in Pennsylvania here, we're affected by a lot of the illegal aliens, mostly here working on the farm. But the reason I'm not a police officer anymore is because I was injured by one who was attempting to get away from me and you know, erect my police cruiser and he was never deported even after he was caught. Unbelievable, which was very frustrating. I did have a question, just as a teaching moment. I am newer into politics, but did did Nancy and Chuck and all of them use the border funding in the past as a way to get elected or yeah, that's the first place. Well, you know, some of it was built, some of the fence was built. But yeah, I mean, you know, there is nothing that happens on Capitol Hill, especially among people like Chuck. I'd walk a mile for a camera, Schumer and h Nancy. We've got to pass the bill to find out what's in at Pelosi. There's nothing that they do that doesn't directly extend to their own benefit, and that is their perpetuation of power on Capitol Hill, which is sad, empathetic and tragic, but that's the truth of the matter. Bill from Pennsylvania, Thanks very much. Sean Hannity will be calling in to give us an update on his conversation with a president down at the border. Stay tuned for that. I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean on the Sean Hannity Show. Stay with us, and welcome back to the Sean Entity Show. On Greg. Jared's sitting in for Sean today is down in McCallan, Texas, near the border the Rio Grand River, where the President has been getting a briefing from border security on illegal immigration and how to stop the illegal crossings into the United States and all of the crimes that come with it, not to mention the American deaths by virtue of the illegal drug traffic across our border, mostly heroine, which is claiming three hundred lives of Americans a week. Those are facts. Those are statistics. You can find them from the Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies. But to those who say crisis, what crisis. There isn't an emergency. This doesn't have anything to do with national security in the safety and security of Americans. Tell that to the family of Officer Ronald Singh. Gunned down by an illegal immigrant just after Christmas Day. His five month old son will never know his father. And that, ladies and gentlemen, his life and death. Or tell that to the family of Pierce Corkran. A few days later, December twenty nine, he was killed by a suspected illegal immigrant driving without a license, without insurance, on the wrong side of the road. Pierce was only twenty two years old. Tell that to his family. There is a crisis. And a few minutes ago, the President was standing in front of television cameras briefly and said, this is common sense. As the Secretary of Homeland Security said the other day, the wall works ninety to ninety five percent of the time in places where we have it. It prevents illegals from coming across our border with drugs and with crime. And so, you know, all of the people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer who have long advocated for a barrier on our southern border now don't want it because Trump wants it. And that is nothing but petty partisan politics. And haven't we had enough of that in the United States? And the President repeated just minutes ago that if Pelosi and Schumer and other Democrats will not come to the table and offer some kind of a compromise, and he has offered several options over the last twenty days of the federal shutdown. Then the President said he would in a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act authorized by Congress, and then employ another specific statute that I've been talking about ten USC twenty eight h eight that says the military can use their existing funds to start construction of a different project not authorized by Congress. That's the law. It's plain and simple. Let you get the opinion of a terrific lawyer in America, civil liberties attorney David Schoen, who joins us now to discuss this important aspect of American life right now, a partial government shutdown, furloughed workers because Democrats refuse to come to the table to offer some sort of a compromise. So, David, you know I've laid out in the last hour the very specifics of the National Emergencies Act, and I also explain ten USC. Twenty eight OA emergency powers that specifically include constructing any unauthorized construction project by the military at the direction of the Secretary of Defense, who is directed by the President of United States, So the president, do you agree David does have a legal basis for taking unilateral action? Yes, I do, and I think frankly, they've done their homework to make the case to the American public for it for the exercise of those powers, putting aside the complete chaos created by this shutdown. They have the statistics now that they've marshalled about the numbers trying to come across the border and the threat that that poses to national security. I also think, you know, there is another issue. It seems to be at least if the president is dealing in this case with a foreign power power that is Mexico, the president certainly has the authority unilaterally to act in matters of foreign affairs. I think this also is another justification for him to act if that's what it takes. But it shouldn't come to that. Again. Congress has to relearn how to work by consensus. It hasn't happened this entire administration, and so it only becomes about ego, about who's going to own a problem rather than fixing a problem, and we see it with issue after issue after issue. You know, I'm glad you brought that up because I have in front of me the list of the thirty one existing national emergencies, beginning with Jimmy Carter, then on to Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama. And I don't see any, frankly, that don't deal with foreign threat. But you know what's interesting is a lot of these foreign threats in which national emergencies are declared, most Americans wouldn't consider to be foreign threats or national emergencies. Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine, South Sudan, Burundi, the Central African republic A, Cuba. Um, you know, the most Americans are, what a minute, where's the national emergency there? Uh, Nicaragua, El Salvador, I mean Burundi. Really it's a national emergency. I mean I said that to the other day to my wife, and she said, really, you gotta be kidding me. And yet no, that was a Barack Obama national emergency blocking property of certain persons contributing to the situation in Burundi November twenty third, twenty and fifteen. So you know, it's completely erroneous and specious for people to say, oh, you know, Max, because not a national emergency. Yeah, it is. Can you imagine if Congress would martial forces with the President to come up with the optimal security fence wall whatever the answer is. The President is not locked into concrete versus Steele versus something else. They paid them that way in the media. If they could just come to consensus with the best experts about what kind of barrier would be the best, that would serve the American people the best, That's how government should function. The folks on the other side of the president all say not all, mostly say they believe there is a national security threat involved here and that border security has to be enhanced. So we're really shutting down the government because they don't like the president's idea on how it's best to be enhanced. It's just an absolute absurdity. And five billion dollars, you know, the money that they waste. Take away twenty million from the Mueller investigation for starters. Yeah, I'm with you on that. Speaking of which, I want to get your reaction to something else. And before I do that, let me just tell our listeners that Sean's going to be calling in. He is doing an interview with President Trump down of the border. That interview will air in its entirety tonight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Tune in then, but stay tuned here because Sean will be calling in and he he'll tell us what the President had to say, give us a preview of the entire interview tonight on the Fox News Channel. But the other news that's broken over the course of the last hour is news that Michael Cohen, presidents one time now disgraced personal attorney, will apparently be testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on February seventh. Now, of course Democrats control that committee. Now, Elijah Cummings is the chairman of the committee, and in his statement, Cohen said he accepted the invitation from Cummings quote furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers. I look forward to the privilege of being afforded a platform. Blah blah blah blah Michael Cohen, who is an admitted prodigious liar and a considerable confessed criminal. So you know, I don't believe anything Michael Cohen ever says. You know, once a liar, always a liar. And you know who's to say he won't be lying in front of the committee. What do you think. I have a couple of thoughts about it. One is I think that Michael Cohen is going to speak publicly, ought to get his playbook straight on what his motivation is, because we heard originally, you know, he'd take a bullet for the president. Then he's had enough of this. His family comes first. Everything he does from now on is for himself and his family. Now all of a sudden, is for the American people and the good of the American people. So first off, I think he has to get his motivation straight. We're gonna speak about it publicly. But secondly, can you imagine how the Democrats would scream bloody murder if when the Republicans had the House, a House committee had subpoenaed to testify an ongoing witness in the Mueller investigation. They would have said obstruction, they would have said complete interference with the Muller investigation. They would have screamed bloody murder. And now Cohen is still trying to earn himself points by cooperating with Muller. In fact, they said they had to check with Mueller to make sure nothing he said would interfere directly for the investigation. All these folks are working together. That's the collusion to steal a word, and it's just the hypocrisy once again raises its horrible heads. You know, Cohen's the kind of guy if you put a statement in front of him that said I am Carrie Grant aka Archibald Leak signed Michael Cohen, he would sign that happily if if there, if there was some benefit to him, right. I mean, this is the kind of narcissistic, self absorbed in a sociopathic liar that Michael Cohen's record demonstrates. And so I mean, I'm you know, what do you really get out of listening to this guy in front of the Oversight Committee? I just don't know. Just grandstanding, just show voting, same thing that goes on with all of these so called investigations, whether it's buy the Muller team or buy the Democrats in the house. Unfortunately it's a public show. You know. Interesting. I don't mean to switch subjects too much on you, but I note something today just completely it fanomizes this. There was you know, Attorney General nominee bar was on the hill meeting with Democratic senators today. So Feinstein, for example, said that she's interested in knowing what was the genesis of the memo that Attorney General to be Barr wrote about the Muller investigation. So then someone said, well, did you ask him when you met with him? She said, no, I didn't ask him that when I met with him. I want to ask him that in public. Do you want the information or do you just want a grandstand? It's just unbelievable. Oh my god. You know, Diane Feinstein, I you know, I don't know how she thinks for that, Brandon Hurst, I really don't, you know. And it's one of the problems by having a non lawyer on the Judiciary Committee. Um, but you know there she is for a lawyers. Lawyers do a bad enough job. You're right. I don't know if you can distinguish among them. They really do. They're awful there. It's unbelievable. All right, um, listen, can I hold you over because I want to talk to you about the imminent departure of Rod Rosenstein. I wrote a column about it on Foxnews dot com. Um, and I'd love to get your reaction to Rod Rosen's n's departure and what will happen next with soon to be Attorney General William Barr. David Shones with us. Our telephone number, by the way, is one eight hundred nine four one Sean. That's one eight hundred nine four one seven three two six. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Shawn, Greg Jarrett. Sean will be calling in very shortly with his interview of President Donald Trump down of the border in McAllen, Texas, Elier in its entirety tonight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. In the meantime, let's talk for a moment about Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General who will thankfully leave the Department of Injustice and so we may get a reprieve and hope of reform at the DOJ. David Shones with US Civil Liberties Attorney David, what do you think? I think to your article today is phenomenal and says it all. You eat on every problem, almost every problem. I don't know if everybody knows all the problems they have arisen with Rod Rosenstein in this positions called Greg Jared why Rosenstein's departure will help restore the rule of law at the Justice Departments today on Fox dot Com. Everybody's got to read that. That says at all. Listen, the guy who's been a disaster, he shouldn't have been in a position to the first place. It's a very mediocre sort of person who I think was it was just a mistake to appoint him. But since then, as you point out in your article, I mean, the guy has never seen a conflictive interest that he didn't love. It would seem he you know, as you point out, he's a fact witness for the Muller investigation. He wrote the memo justifying Komey's departure, but then he fell all over himself to indulge Komey by appointing Mueller. He's got no business in this position. He's leaving now, you know, I've read a piece the other day. Nobody seems to know whether he's got control of the Mueller investigation or Whittaker does. Whittaker has the authority to have control over it. We should have seen some affirmatives depths by him to rein in the misconduct by those investigators. I think we will with Bill Barring there. I got about forty seconds left. But what's your opinion of Bill Barr. I think he is the man for the job right now. You know, this is who the President picked after careful consideration. It's the role now of the legislators to consent to that after ask him the questions they want to ask. I saw the Senator Klubischer said that she thinks it's being rushed. This is being rushed. You have a Department of Justice and complete chaos. You need a man with a person with experience to take the helm now and write the ship. The Great David Sean, civil liberties attorney, and he's going to stay with us for the next segment to talk a bit more about Rod Rosenstein. And we're waiting for Sean to call in his interview one on one with President Trump down at the southern border. We'll be right back and it is back on the radio right now, and in fact, Sean will be on the radio in just a few moments, we hope, as soon as he finished is his interview with President Donald Trump down at the border in McAllen, Texas, where the President is being debriefed by security officials there, Sean will join us and tell us what the President told him in a one on one interview that you can watch in its entirety tonight on Hannity on the Foxnews Channel nine o'clock Eastern Time. In the meantime, we've been talking about the imminent departure of Rod Rosenstein, and I wrote a column. You can look at it on foxnews dot com the opinion section. It's entitled why Rosenstein's departure will help restore the rule of law at the Justice Department. And let me just read one part of it here, which really synthesizes the role Rosenstein has played over the last two years. He has been the de facto Attorney General. Rosenstein engineered and presided over signal abuses at the Department of Justice, transforming the rule of law into the rule of lawlessness. He championed abusive double standards of enforcement and ignored wrongdoing in his own department. In the FBI, justice took a back seat to petty partisanship. More egregiously, Rosenstein was an active participant in one of the dirtiest tricks perpetrated in modern politics, the targeting of the president without legal cause or evidence. David Chone rejoins this now civil liberties attorney, and I appreciate you're reading my column and mentioning it, David. You know, Rosenstein has so much answer for him. One of the things that really sort of chafes at me is that he has consistently resisted requests by Congress to question him about his actions. Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure really why he's been given the choice so many times and why the Republicans missed some great opportunities with it. He had some very aggressive committee chairs, Devennunions did a great job in many ways. A lot of these guys good lad but I think they left the job unfinished. Unfortunately, bred Rosenstein got away with a lot of it. I'm waiting to see now, though, when Elijah Cummings will call him before his committee and we'll hear from Rosenstein how he obviously was forced out more obstruction, something like that. I hope that's not going to be what happens. I hope he'll just you know, ride off into the sunset. Because this has been a disastrous reign at the Justice Department. It started when you know, mister Sessions felt the ad to recuse himself, and from that point forward, the emblem of the Justice Department has been the Mueller investigation and it's gotten off track so badly everybody, most people in this country want to see us get back on track with policy. Stop the Mueller investigation, move forward with moving the country forward toward greatness economy, get back on track with the president had it headed. You know, Rosenstein is the one who brought us this national nightmare of Robert Muller and his team of partisans in their investigation into Trump Russian collusion without any evidence, without probable cause, and violation of the regulations. It was you know, it was Rosenstein who who volunteered to write the memo to Trump citing all of the reasons that Comey should be fired for usurping the power of the Attorney General, violating the FBI and dj rules. So the President adopts Rosenstein's recommendation and he sacks Comy, and Rosenstein's memo becomes public. And then suddenly Rosenstein is upset and angry the Democrats are blaming him, so he doesn't about face, seeks retribution. He secret proposes to secretly record the President in an attempt to gain damaging information about him. He solicits, allegedly others to wear wires, recruiting cabinet members to depose the president under the twenty fifth Amendment. And you know there are three top FBI officials, Andrew McCay, Lisa Page, James Baker, who all have confirmed in their testimony to Congress that these were serious and deliberate efforts by Rod Rosenstein to remove President Trump. I mean, he's just outrageous, isn't it. I think it's unprecedented. But I think the best way maybe to get snapshot of again the hypocrisy would be just take a second closure eye and imagine that President Obama were presidents still, and you just heard a story about senior officials in the Justice Department and FBI trying to say him up, record private conversations with him, and paint him as if you were a lunatic. Can you imagine the public outcry. But here, because there's a sense in the media of get Donald Trump, no matter what, the media becomes cheerleaders for this kind of outrageous misconduct rather than saying, these people have no business at the FBI, no business in the Justice Department. And you're right so much of that. Everything your article is right by the way about Rosenstein today and every word of it should be read by everybody. But one of the factors is you've just talked about a bit. Rosenstein was responsible for one session stepped aside forgetting us this horror show of the special counsel. He was triggered under six hundred point one of the regulations. He had options and have you read one paragraph further to six hundred point two, he could have simply had an informal investigation without appointing a special counsel and seeing that there's no basis for this, all of this business we hear about. Oh but mother has gotten so many convictions, Matt convictions for what we were told this investigation was. For most of them are subsidiary crimes because Muller felt people lied to him, turn the screws to them and they pled guilty to it. It's like Alice in Wonderland, all of this business and Rob Rosenstein's in the heart of it. So the point is that you were making is Rosenstein has a conflict if you're going to appoint the special Council under six hundred point one, it's because in this case he found there to be a conflict of interest for the Justice Department. Well, not only do you have a great part of Muller's team made up of Justice Department people. You have Rob Rosenstein's overseeing that investigation still at the Justice Department, but he's a fellow who is a fact witness. He signed a FISA warrant in this case. It's just it's outrageous. And again, every other watchdog and any other administration would be absolutely enraged by this, and instead anything that they think helps bring down the president is a good thing and consistent with the rule of law. Somehow, you know, in my book The Russia Hoax, I cite a myriad of law professors and legal experts who were all in unison aghast that Rod Rosenstein never recused himself, And I point out, at my calm, think of it this way, Rosenstein was interviewed as a as you point out, a fact witness in the Special Council probably was interviewed by the Special Counsel. So what if Rosenstein was lyne Well, the only Rosenstein would be authorized to decide whether to prosecute himself for line, which is exactly why the Code of Professional Responsibility, not to mention the DJ regulations say you can't be a prosecutor and a witness all rolled into one and yet you're exactly right. You're exactly right. And it's really highlighted by the way in this setting because under the regulations, Rosenstein has the specific authority to determine the scope of any investigation, and he can call off any avenue that the Special Council intends to go in. That's expressly written into the regulation and six hundred point nine I don't need to go through it the specific regulations, but that's his authority. And so you're right, he's you know, actor, judge, executioner, and deciser over who they're going to investigate, when they're going to investigate it, and when Mueller's tactics are appropriate or not appropriate. I mean, you know, if this was on an ethics exam for the bar, you know, I mean, any idiot could have answered it correctly. And yet yet Rosenstein has violated all of this with impunity. It's it's really quite amazing. And the other thing is, you know, the illegitimate nature of the appointment of the Special Council. This case was a counterintelligence pro The Special Council of Regulations allows for a special counsel in a criminal investigation, not a counterintelligence probe. And not only that you must state evidence of a suspected crime. There is none that was named or identified in the authorization order, which was clearly defective, and yet it has gone on for a year and a half. Last word on this, David, Yeah, I'll tell you the crime. The crime is stealing my tax dollars for the public investigation. I mean, we still don't know what their budget has been. We'll find out one day. It literally is in the double digits of millions of dollars. And we're how far into it now. I mean, it's just it's gonna be two years coming up. It's just it's got to end. The country wants to get back on track with policy. Yeah, that's the real crime right there, And yet it goes on and on and on. David Sean, several liberties attorney. Always great talking. You're such a wealth of knowledge and we always appreciate your sharing it with us. David Chone, thanks very much, Thank you very much. All Right, when we come back, I'd love to hear from you about either this subject or the President's visit down at the southern border. Sean Hannity is with him one on one exclusive interview. When Sean finishes, he will be calling in with an update. So talk to us about the government shutdown, border security, the building of a wall, or talk to us about the Muller investigation and Rosenstein. Our number is eight hundred nine four one, Sean, that's one eight hundred nine four one seven three two six. I'm Greg jareded sitting in today for Sean Hannity. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Shawn, Greg Jared. I have the pleasure of sitting in for Sean today because he's down to the border with President Trump and just concluded an interview exclusively. You can see tonight in its entirety on Hannah. But right now, Sean joins us on the phone. Sean, good afternoon. Hey Greg, First, thanks for jumping in. I do like this role reversals, says, I'm always interviewing you, so it's about time you get to throw me. Uh. Well, we're in McCallen, Texas. You know, I've just some background. I've been down to the border at least I think thirteen fourteen times now, and you know when I talk to these agents that are there, especially this is the where the Rio Grand Section is in McAllen, Texas, and I could walk across where we were into Mexico and I've needed in less than two minutes, minute and a half, depending how fast I was walking. And after talking to all of the border patrol guys, the ice guys, all the law enforcement guys, they are explaining in detail, you know, all of the drugs that are being confiscated. You know the list of countries where people are coming from Pakistan, Indonesia and La dash then all over the world, and they're crossing at the Rio Grand And we talked a lot about the human toll of all of this, and the president's plans is and those things. Now if they continue to spin met by obstructionist Democrats that have changed their position from two thousand and six to thirteen, that he would go ahead and declare a national emergency. And as you have written quite eloquently and Mark Levin and all the smart legal scholars, that is going to probably be the meaning point he does this. It's sad that we're politicizing something that so important when ninety percent of America's heroin is coming from that southern border where literally just about five minutes ago, and we know now fet and all is coming in in greater and greater numbers. And we know Americans are dying it around three hundred per week because of the coming into the country. And you know, Hollisley, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, everybody in the media with a little talking point that there's a manufactured crisis. Well tell that to police officers, things parents, or tell that who you know, this guy Pierce Porker in the twenty two year old and Knockville that was killed by an illegal immigrant, or tell that to any of the families that lose a lot one because of heroin the heroine of abusing epidemic in the country. The President was adamant that he's gonna stay strong and he's gonna find any way he can to get the job done, and there's no backtracking on his side. I also had a chance to interview Senator Ted Crews and Senator Cornin Uh. They are united, they said in the Senate last night. I interviewed Kevin McCarthy. They seem united in the House. I don't see a split. I see full support for the president. President is basically saying this is a life and depth issue for the American people, and he takes his job seriously protect and defend the homeland. Well, I'll quote you from a few days ago, and you've said it more times than once. Four thousand homicides, thirty thousand sex crimes, over one hundred thousand violent assaults, all from illegals crossing our border to the south. And that's just in the past two years alone. So it is utterly absurd when you hear members of the media as well as Democrats who say crisis, what crisis? How could they are? But the last time I was down here, it was in the exact same spot. I set through a security briefing with Victoria, Texas, and six hundred and forty two thousand crimes were committed against Texans alone in a seven year period. And yes, that includes some murders, homicides, grape, violent crimes, not all of them, but some. And I'll be the first I would just ninety percent of the people that want across that border right see the city and freedom that we had, and they wanted the life of themselves and their families. But it's the two percent criminal elements, the drug deals, there's the human traffickers. Those are the people that we have open borders are hurting the country. Sean Hannity calling on the Sports Illustrative Football Phone. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity shown. Greg Jared's sitting in for Sean, who called in just a few minutes ago close to the Mexican border where he interviewed President Trump. You can watch that interview of the president exclusive interview tonight at nine o'clock on Hannity on the Fox News Channel nine o'clock Eastern Time. Sean sit down interview with President Donald Trump. The President is down there to see firsthand the situation and to talk with a border security agents to determine the risks that Americans are facing without a wall. And of course the President has a long promise to build a wall. That wall's work. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christian Nielsen two days ago stood in front of television cameras and said, where the wall exists, it drops illegal immigration by ninety to ninety five percent. And so I'm looking forward to watching Sean's interview with the President to hear whether or not the President decides to act unilaterally. Given the fact that Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House and the minority leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer are refusing to fund the wall, and of course a partial government shutdown has ensued as a consequence. Joining us now to talk about this is Jessica Vaughan, who is Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies. Also whether It's Jeffrey Lord, former associate political director and the Reggae Administration, a columnist, author of the book What America Needs The Case for Trump. So Jessica, let me start with you, because because you know the facts, the stats, talk to us about the problem of illegal immigration and specifically whether there is a crisis and whether walls work. Sure. Glad to be with you. Illegal immigration has benifesting problem for decades now, and it but it is a crisis now for a couple of reasons. Illegal immigration is a problem because, first of all, it displaces Americans from job opportunities. It depresses the wages of Americans who are in the same industries as people coming here legally. It represents a national security threat because if people are coming in illegally, we don't know who they are or why they're here. And it also is a public safety problem because for the same reason, many of the people who are coming here. Are not coming here just to work, but they're coming here to join gangs or traffic drugs or be involved in other criminal activity. And of course this is a fiscal issue as well, because when people settle here illegally and are working in lower paid jobs, they are qualifying for welfare programs, and their kids are going to school here, and so they represent and then they're not paying taxes I should add, or at least not enough to cover their services. And so this represents a tax burden for Americans to support illegal immigrants who are not self sufficient. And search shows that each illegal alien is a net fiscal loss of over eighty two thousand dollars over their lifetime. So this is a problem. It's a crisis now because of policy problems that we have loopholes and court imposed policies that are enticing people to come to the border with a child that because they know that they will be released into the country simply by claiming a fear of return. So the people are turning over their life savings and the promise of future earnings to smugglers and traveling all through Mexico because they know that they can get away with it, that they will get into the country released and not have any consequences. This is dangerous. This is enriching criminal organizations and causing problems in the communities that have to absorb them. So it is a legitimate crisis. All right. So you've named some important things that we should consider. Displacing Americans from jobs, depressing wages, national security threat, safety problem. These are the crimes, a tax burden, and of course, as the President pointed out in his speech, coming with all that is the humanitarian crisis that exists. So, Jeffrey Lord, when you hear members of the media over the last forty eight hours since the President delivered his Oval Office address, a crisis. What crisis? How do you react to that? Well, the first way I react is the hypocrisy of it all, whether it's the media. I mean, you can't get into these media institutions. You've been in them, and you work in one, and I was at CNN, and you know they have effectively walls to keep people from going into the upper floors. They have security guards there, they have gates, etc. When I began my career in Washington working in the House and Senate, you could walk and drive anywhere on Capitol Hill now. And I was there the other day and drove by. You couldn't get close because they've erupted these low concrete walls all around the US Capitol building. They've blocked off all the streets with walls and these iron ramps that pop up from from belowground. Well, why are they doing that. They're doing it because they work, and they keep the Capitol and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and all of their colleagues safe. So the notion that this is and the media of course is not going to cover that, and you know, the media pushes an agenda, Greg, And I'll give you one quick contrast. We all remember the Time magazine cover from last year that had President Trump. It was photoshop, had President Trump towering over this two year old Honduran girl who was sobbing, whose picture was taken at the border, and they tried to make you believe that she had been separated from her mother, which was not true. The mother just put her down right at her side so she could be searched appropriately by border patrolation. Sure, where is the Time magazine cover right now about Ronald Thing, the California police officer who was shot to death, it doesn't exist because there are too many to fit on a cover, too many victims. Yes, that's right, and they're not going to do it because they are pushing an agenda. Yeah, you know. I want to set up our next discussion by playing a montage of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi claiming that experts don't want a wall, We don't need a wall. Take a listen to this. The experts say you can do border security without a wall, which is wasteful and doesn't solve the problem. Your question is not about do we need to protect our borders? Of course we do. Is it effective to build a wall even if it costs ten cents? Is it an answer? My name is Brandon Jet. I'm the president of the National Bordertrol Council. I've been a bord troll agent for twenty one years. I can personally tell you from the work that I have done on the South US border that physical barriers, that walls, actually work. The experts say you can do border security without a wall. Is it effective to build the wall even if it costs ten cents? Is it an answer? My name is de Gueto. I am a vice president with the National Border putul Council. It comes down to border security. We fully support the President and all his efforts to secure our nations borders. Experts say, you can do border security without a wall. Is it effective to build the wall even if it costs ten centse is it an answer? Once we deport these people, these people will not stay in their country. These criminal aliens that have been released from jail, that have been deported will come right back into the United States. However, we had a physical barrier, if we had a wall, we will be able to stop that. We asked a congressman to fund border security and fund the border wall. The experts say, you can do border security without a wall. Is it effective to build the wall even if it costs ten cents? All right? You know, you know Nancy and Chuck think they're experts on everything, but when you actually hear from the experts who were there, who have experienced, they say Nancy and Chuck are full of it. What say you, Jessica, I've been to places where we have effective barriers and they most definitely work. Anyone who has been to look at the barrier systems that we have. Now that all of that, both Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi voted for at one time, knows that they work. Of course they do. And they work from Mexico too, because they you know, you don't get thousands of people literally amassing by the border where there's no barrier to try to cross undercover of darkness. It slows them down, It drives them to places that are more difficult to cross, and it deters people. The illegal crossings in California and parts of Arizona and around El Paso and a few other places have been decreased dramatically by putting up the fencing, and it makes the neighborhoods on both sides of the barriers much safer because the criminal cartels that control these areas moved to other places to get people and drugs and other contraband across the border, you know, Jeffrey the ever oblivious and dense. CNN's Jim Acosta was mocked across social media today for posting a video that he meant to downplay President Trump's claims of a border crisis, but in truth, it actually ended up supporting the President's argument that border barriers improve security. So here's a costa. He's walking along this steel barrier. And I'll quote him here, but you can see the video online. It's hilarious. Here are some of the steel slats that the President has been talking about. Acosta said, but as we're walking along here, we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger end of quote. No, Jim, you're not seeing a danger because the wall is there. You know, this kind of idiocy seems endemic among the media. Great, I have to tell you, I know, Jim Acosta, and when I was so astounded when I saw that that I tweeted him and just said, simply, maybe that's because walls work, Jesus. And he's there with his you know, his ray band shades like he's mister cool. You know, he's hoping to get on a late night talk show once again. I just you know, it's it's a mindset. And the President mentioned the other night, uh, two words common sense and you know, at thirty thousand feet to pull back of it. This is the problem of the American left, in American liberalism. There is just no common sense there about a whole range of things. But this is the most obvious one at the moment. I mean of horsewalls work. Of course they do this is why they surround Jim Acosta with him when he goes into work, so that he's safe and secure from people trying to get in there because of CNN. I mean, it is just mind boggling here that they can't seem to figure this out. It's it's you know, you don't know whether literally the laugh or crying. Yeah, well, you know he needs to do is go to the many places along the border that have nothing, yes, like around Laredo and in South Texas where the President is visiting. And then if Jim Acosta stood there long enough, there would be legal alien adults with kids accosting him thinking, and then he'd figured out what's going on. Acosta gets accosted. There's your natural headline experience. Yeah, I mean, you know, but he wouldn't go there because well, he's not smart enough to go there. But second of all, he'd probably end up being a victim of a crime. And you know Jim doesn't want that, all right, he knows it's danger Yeah, of course, you know, it's it's obvious to anybody with an ounce of common sense and half a brain, which excludes necessarily Jim Acosta. All right, if you guys could stick around for just a moment. I want to talk to you just a bit more. Going to squeeze in a quick break. I'm Greg jared In for Sean Hannity. His exclusive interview tonight with President Trump down at the Border will air on Fox News Channel at nine pm Eastern on Hannity. Back in a Flash, Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show on Greg jared In for Sean Today because he is down at the border, just finished interviewing President Trump. That full interview will air tonight on Hannity at nine pm Eastern time on the Fox News Channel. Back with us are Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Jeffrey Lord, who is a former political director in the Reagan administration, a columnist author. So, Jeffrey, it appears to me to be imminent that the President, in light of the refusal of Democrats to negotiate, will act unilaterally by invoking the National Securities Act and then directing the military to engage in construction of a barrier where it's needed. Should he yes? Absolutely? Should you know? And you mentioned my time in the Reagan White House. President Reagan was faced with a strike from the air traffic controllers in August of nineteen eighty one, and striking federal employees. That is illegal, And the Washington conventional wisdom of the day said, well, you can't fire them because there are sixteen thousand of them and will be in trouble, etc. And Reagan said, either they show up for work or I'm firing. They didn't show up for work, he fired them. The union finally went bankrupt to the president of the union found up selling real estate in Florida, all because Ronald Reagan stuck to his guns. And I think President Trump is made of exactly the same stern stuff, and he's going to stick to his guns and he should. And in fact, you wrote about it quite eloquently today in a column entitled President Donald Gandhi Reagan And so that'll get your attention. You can find it at a spectator dot org. Final words from Jessica Vaughan. What about that using the National Emergencies Act. I've read it. The President is entitled legally to use it in a further statute to ten USC. Twenty eight oh eight, in which he can use emergency powers to specifically authorize construction. Yes, I think that he has the authority to do that, and there are some authorities in immigration law as well that would enable him, for example, to Deppe ties other federal law enforcement agents and stayed in local law enforcement agencies to assist at the border. And I would prefer that this gets done through Congress, all right, because I've gotta leave it there. Thank you both. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. Sean's interview tonight with President Trump will air live to tape. He did it live about an hour ago and it was tape recorded, and so you'll see it in its entirety tonight at nine eastern on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. That's why I'm here, Greg Jared sittin in for Shaun because Sean's down at the border with the President getting a security briefing down there from border patrol agents and others. Have some breaking news in the last few minutes. Lindsey Graham, United States Senator from South Carolina, prominent member of the Republican Party. The Republican majority in the Senate, has issued a statement quote, it is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall slash barrier end of quote, and Senator Graham cited to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal to negotiate on funding for a barrier wall, saying the path to negotiation has now been closed by Pelosi, and so Lindsey Graham calling for the President to use what I explain in great detail, citing the law a couple of hours ago, the president's emergency powers to order the Secretary of Defense to divert construction projects of the military to construct barriers where they are needed on our southern border. The president has unfettered authority to do it. He should do it. I have been advocating for it, and Lindsey Graham has now come out in favor of that, which quite frankly, probably means a lot to the president. I think it's inexorable the President will use his emergency powers. All right, Let's go to our next caller, Greg from South Dakota, and Greg, I want to thank you. You're a farmer there as I understand it, and you've been holding for a long time. I appreciate your patience. What are your thoughts. I've been here two hours. I'm going to take my time and get them all in. Number one is you were my pick for Attorney general from day one, mister Jarrett, thank you. Number two is build the wall, President Trump, because you can use the military. They will do it faster, better, cheaper. You're already paying them wages. You don't have that stuck on. You'll get more wall for your money. Good point number three And number three is homeline security. Back in December, when that Illinois Congressman Gooder, as I believe, was shastasizing Secretary Neil Right, the perfect comeback for him would have been. With all due respects here, I just thank god that Mary and Joseph were not Democrats. They'd just went to the closest planned parenthood and aborted an inconvenience pregnancy, and our savior never would have been born. Yeah, all right, I'm not sure I agree with that last point, but Greg, thank you for your thoughts. Greg from South Dakota. All right, let's go to our next caller. And it requires a bit of a set up here because we're transitioning now to the Robert Muller investigation, the Muller hoax, as I would call it. It began as the Russia hoax, and now has evolved into the Muller Hoax, with the media hoax and the impeachment hoax right behind it. I wrote a book called The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. I'm proud to say it was a number one New York Times bestseller when it was published in July. Since then, I've updated the book for a paperback version, which will be published in four weeks on February twelfth. You can go to Amazon dot com. It's already up there, the paperback version with an updated preface and epilogue, which provides you with additional new information that's taken place since the book went to print in June of this last year. So same title, The Russia Hoax, but it's an updated version of the hardback. You can buy it on Amazon dot com right now. You can preorder it. It'll be available in bookstores nationwide on February twelfth. I heartily recommend the book, if I do say so myself, because I think it lays out better than anyone else the facts, the law, and the evidence. So let's go to our next caller, Rick from Chicago. Rick, how are you hello? How are you Greg? I'm well, thank you, congratulations on your book and the work you're doing. Thank you. I'll get to the point. I was shocked when I read James Comey's testimony. We've been told for a long time now that Sally Yates sent the FBI agent to interview General Flynn on the idea that he violated the Logan Act, which is absurd, of course, as you know correct, but I was shocked to read the transcript. I'm sure you did as well. One of the few substantive things that mister Comy testified too was that number one, Sally Yates did not send the agents, in fact, that she called him afterwards him was upset that he had done so, and more importantly, number two that he came right out and said that the Logan Act had nothing to do with the reason he sent the agents, that it was part of his counterintelligence investigations, that General Flinn was under investigation as part of that problem, and not the Logan Act. So we've been told about this Logan Act issue, which he debunked. And also I had thought that Sally Yates was some kind of had a hand in the interview, but apparently did not. Did you see that yes, I did. I read both his December seventh testimony as well as his subsequent testimony. Everybody can read it online. It was published the day after each of his deposition interviews before Congress. You know, I would say this, I don't believe anything that James Cummy says. He is completely self serving and probably deep in his heart, he knows that he violated all kinds of rules and regulations, first in clearing Hillary Clinton and then launching the Trump Russia investigation without probable causing, without any evidence, and his conduct in in the Michael Flynn debacle. You know, they used the Logan Act as a pretext to go after Michael Flynn, to lie to Flynn, to convince him to do an interview with FBI agents who were just going to come over there and have a little chat, No big deal, no legal jeopardy, you don't need a lawyer. They were setting him up, and they used the Logan Act as a pretext. For people who don't know the Logan Act, it prohibits American citizens from interfering in diplomatic dispute. The Logan Act, which has never been successfully prosecuted in two hundred years, has no application to Michael Flynn because he wasn't a private citizen. He was acting in the course in scope of his position as the National Security Advisor for the incoming administration. So there's no Logan Act violation. But they used that as a pretext. And now that Comey has been exposed for erroneously and wrongfully using that, he's trying to change his story. Oh, it's a counterintelligence investigation, Like what why would why would there be a counterintelligence investigation for Michael Flynn, who's doing his job. He's supposed to be making contact with foreign officials. I mean, that's what all transition officials do. So don't believe anything James Comey says. That's my advice. That's my opinion of James Comey. He has zero credibility and he is a confessed liar. Remember he said on television that he has lied. So you know, and by the way, the record proves that. Let's go to our next caller, which is Bill from Virginia High Bill. Hey, Greg, great booklet, listening to it now through audible, fantastic, Thank you very much, Thank you. And regarding THEO, you know, you're welcome. Regarding the Muller investigation, that we're doing. When is the accountability what's going to happen Rosenstein obviously everything he's done wrong. When is something actually going to be going to happen, and when some accountability gonna be placed? Well, with Democrats in control of the House, people are pessimistic that justice will be served, that there will be some fairness and objectivity associated with the end of the Mueller investigation in his forthcoming report. I actually am optimistic. And why because William Barr will surely be confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States, and I think he is a fair man who has impeccable legal credentials, an outstanding career, an agile mind, and experience as the Attorney general obviously, so I think Barr will examine the conduct of Robert Muller and his team of partisans, examine the findings of fact and conclusions of law stated therein, and make an equitable determination as to whether any action should be taken. Now, you know, just look at all of Muller's prosecutions. None of them so far have anything whatsoever to do with Trump Russia collusion to win the election, which was the stated order authorized by Rod Rosenstein. And so that suggests to me that in the end, there will be nothing there that will tie Donald Trump to Russian collusion. Now the question will be, are there other things in that report that rabid anti Trump Democrats will try to use to impeach him. Of course, whether that will be a wise political move, that's up to Nancy Pelosi and to some extent Chuck Schumer. You know, you've got to get a majority in the House to vote for impeachment, two thirds to convict in the Senate. I don't think that would ever happen, But the impeachment hoax is alive and well, so we'll wait and see what's in Mueller's report. It'll be important to also consider simultaneously the Trump counter report being prepared by Jay Secalo, Rudy Giuliani and the other attorneys on Trump's team, because remember, Mueller is a partisan. He's only going to be presenting the prosecutor's side. He's a prosecutor, and prosecutors only present one side of the story. It is never fair, it is never balanced. So to accommodate that, to counter that, you need to consider the Trump Report, which will also be coming out. We're gonna take a quick break more of your calls on the other side. I'm Greg Jarrett sitting in for Sean Hannity. My paperback, The Russia Hoax. The paperback. Updated version of the hardback comes out one month from now. You can order it on Amazon dot Com. We'll be right back with more of the Sean Hannity Show. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show on Greg Jarrett in for Sean Today. He's on his way back to New York, but first he was down at the border today in Texas interviewing President Trump, who was meeting with border security officials, looking firsthand at the situation there, the crisis, and the question now becomes, given the Democrats refusal to fund the wall, will the President act on his own unilaterally by invoke the National Emergencies Act and a further statute that allows him to construct the wall through and with the military, even though Congress has not authorized it. Congress passed that law. President is perfectly entitled to use that law. He's authorized and empowered and should. And Senator Lindsey Graham a short time ago issued a statements saying this is what the President should do, act unilaterally build the wall on his own. Will there be lawsuits, of course, but there's no legal basis to sustain a challenge against the president's legal, unfettered authority to act. So you can watch Sean's interview tonight with the President. He'll be asking him about that nine o'clock Eastern on the Fox News channel, the program of courses called Hannity. And I've enjoyed being with you over the last three hours. I want to mention again my book, The Russia Hoax, will be coming out in a updated paperback version with new information, facts, evidence in law that have come to light since the hardback was published in July. You can order it now on Amazon dot com. It's up there. It'll be available in bookstores nationwide beginning February twelfth. The name of the book is The Russia Hoax, The illicit Scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. I want to thank all of our guests today. David Scheung was with us, Jessica Vaughan, Jeffrey Lord, and all of our callers who have a lot of great points to be made and some serious questions that were posed. You know, Muller hired a team of anti Trump partisans and he launched an intensive and indiscriminate search for some proof that the President had coordinated or conspired with Russians during the election. No evidence has emerged, so if frustrated Robert Mueller changed tactics. He expanded his mandate beyond its stated purpose to pursue anybody associated with Trump. The Special Council created opportunities for crimes where none existed, and if you want to read more about it, check out the updated paper version of The Russia Hoax available on Amazon dot com. I'm Greg Jarrett. Thanks for being with us.

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