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In recent months, Democratic lawmakers have voted against legislation to close deadly immigration loopaul like catch and release. How about that one we caught on release some bye bye, Welcome to America, Welcome to America. That's what we have, We're going to keep the violent criminals out. Senate Democrats like John Tester and saw what happened there, What he did to one of the finest people in our country, what he did to the adval what he did is a disgrace. John test Bill Nelson, and Bob Casey voted against Kate Slaw legislation name for Kate Styling, who was gunned down by a five time deported illegal immigrant. And you saw what happened with that court case. Can you believe the result of that court case? Can you believe them? The same senators along nearly every other Democrat also voted to protect something that's actually becoming very popular, sanctuary cities. Can you believe? Finally people are starting together. Democrats are liberals, and Congress wanted disarmed, law abiding Americans at the same time they're releasing dangerous criminal aliens and savage gang members onto our streets. These countries send up their worst. Remember what my opening speech I got criticized for. Remember, well, guess what they're not sending their finest that I can tell you. We're getting some real beauties in here, but we're taking MS thirteen horrible killer gang members. We get them out, because our guys are much tougher than there's There is not even a little bit of a contest. And that's the only language they understand. That's the only language they understand. These are savage killers. My administration believes our city should be safe havings for Americans, not sanctuois for criminals. And we believed that violent gang members must be thrown out of our country immediately, not let to stay, to fester and to get larger. We get them out, and we are taken them out by the thousands, and we had the right laws, which we can have very quickly with cooperation, we wouldn't even have a problem. Be so much better, so much easier. We believe that politicians who put criminal aliens before American citizens should be voted out of office immediately as we secure our borders. We're also supporting the election as as he goes through his list anyway, that is his speech live as it's happening before the n r A. Right now, we have so much breaking news, I might otherwise stay with this and we'll be we'll be watching and monitoring if he says anything else. He did talk at length about how important elections are and clearly when the next when the next bill comes up, as it relates to the budget in September, he is saying that he's willing to shut the government down. That puts every Congressman in every senator up for election in a direct path of a politically volatile issue, and that is the issue of building and funding completely the border wall, which you know what the president is using every power he has. All right, let me let me start here with with some that is unbelievable. A federal judge today slapped down so hard Mueller and his merry band of democratic donors involved in this witch hunt. He said, basically said everything but that this is a witch hunt. It was a stunning act of courage from the judiciary branch of government, and it absolutely pierced the real truth behind the Mueller investigation. I it is. It is that stunning, and I think it is now the beginning of what will become a long process where eventually the truth and the constitution and the rule of law wins out in spite of deep deep state operatives involved in nefarious activities, abuse of power, and corruption at a level I've not seen in my lifetime. And I can't think of either. So at long last, you have somebody with the courage to actually call out Mueller's investigation for what it is. Now. What happened earlier today hat a federal judge presiding over Paul Manafort's case accused Mueller's prosecutors in open court, showing at times real flashes of anger, that quote that they are lying. Judge in this case, his name is T. S Ellis, and he also said the only reason that Mueller was pursuing charges against Manafort was to get him to flip on President Trump so Mueller could make a case for impeachment. He nailed it. You finally, as somebody in the legal system brave enough to stand up for the rule of law and stand up to a a prosecutor that has gone off the rails in what is a witch hunt against the president, as all took place in Alexandria, Virginia earlier today, and the judge ex pressed deep and wide skepticism today about the validity of one of the indictments against Paul Manafort, the chairman former chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign. Now Manafort appeared in court Friday to seek the dismissal of the charges that were outlined in the Virginia indictment. Remember there were two separate cases we're talking about. In this particular case, the judge appeared receptive, at least in large part, to Manaforts lawyer's argument that because the counts are not related to the Russia investigation, they should be dismissed. It is a It is the right and the compelling argument based on the rule of law here that they've gone so a far from their original mandate. They gotta remember, special counsels have a tendency to go way beyond what the scope of the investigation had to do with. In the case of Manafort, now we're talking about paying fraud charges involving involving nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do with the campaign, you know, going back to two thousand and five and six. Anyway, So the judge US District Judge T. S. Eliott the Third told Mueller's prosecutors, I couldn't believe it when I saw this. I don't see what relation this indictment has with what the Special Council is authorized to investigate. You don't really care about Mr. Manaford's bank fraud. What you really care about is what information Mr Manafort could give you that would reflect on Mr Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment. Wow, not only is he right, he stated it frankly and right up front. The whole purpose here and the prosecutors play this game all the time. Well, if you give me information on on person A R person be, then we'll let you off the hook. Patrick FitzGeralds he was never interested in Scooter Libby. He wanted Scooter Libby to give up anything as it related to Vice President Cheney at the time. And Scooter Libby wasn't gonna lie to make his life easier. It took fifteen years for him to get the pardon that he deserved, and he got it from President Trump. I mean that whole case, you know, was supposed to be who leaked the information about Valerie Plane a covert operative, which he was not well turned out on day one or two Patrick Fitzgerald. By the way, interestingly enough, one of Comey's attorneys, one of the people Comey leaked that classified information to, or the privileged information to now as an attorney for COMBA. Anyway, So the prosecutors, they tried to argue today that their investigative powers were outlined in both Rod Rosenstein's letter appointing Mueller in May and the memo he issued in August. Yeah, after the fact, if you remember that particular case, we'll we'll give you the mandate after you did what you did, which is ridiculous. And they added that they also had additional authority that they could not disclose in the courtroom because it related to an ongoing investigating ongoing investigations that could affect national security. The judge wasn't buying any of it, and he characterized Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's office and their argument as quote, we said that this was what this investigation was about, but we're not bound by it, and we were lying. And then he said, come on, man in court. The judge said this. Now, Ellis didn't make an immediate ruling on the mat of fort motion to dismiss trial date for that is said on July ten. And although Mueller's authority has been tested in court before this hearing today was notable this Judge Ellis's decision to wade into this to to what this entire mandate was about and how a far Robert Muller and his merry band of democratic don'ts have gone? Is absolutely right? And then that's when he said, you don't really care about Mr. Manaford's bank fraud. He said to the prosecutor Mueller's team at times losing his temper, the judge losing his temper, and Ellis said prosecutors were interested in Manafort because of the potential Manafort could provide material that would lead to Donald Trump's prosecution or impeachment. The judge said, quote, we don't want anyone in this country with unfettered power, and it's unlikely you're gonna persuade me that the special prosecutor has power to do anything that he or she wants. He said that to Mueller's attorneys in that courtroom. The American people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power. And then when Mueller's team tried to answer Ellis's question about how the investigation and its charges date back to before Trump the Trump campaign even formed, the judge shoots back, none of that information has to do with information related to Russian government coordination in the campaign of Donald Trump. Boom, And at one point the judge posed a hypothetical question, speaking as if he were the prosecutor about why Mueller's office refer to criminal investigation about Trump's personal attorney Michael Cone to New York authorities and kept the Manafort case in Virginia And he said, quote, they weren't interested in it because it didn't further their core effort to get Trump. And then Ellis said it mimicking the prosecutor in this case. Wow, this is a beat down unlike I think any I've ever heard of before. Wow. And the judge is right, by the way, we'll explain all of that when we get back. All right, So you could have harsh treatment to look younger, why would you risk that? 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That's Genuine Cell dot Com. I cannot emphasize enough how this is a earning point today what happened in court as it relates to Paul Manafort. The judge in the case, I don't see what relation this indictment has with what the special counsel is authorized to investigate. You don't care about Mr Manafort's bank fraud. What you really care about is what information is to Manaford could give you that would reflect on Mr Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment. Wow, do you know that when a judge calls prosecutors liar? What did I say? What was I When I look at the team that Muller had put together, and I look I'll keep going back to Andrew Weissman as exhibit A. He was the one that that The New York Times refers to as Mueller's pit bull. Well twice he was excoriated by judges for withholding exculpatory evidence. Remember, tens of thousands of people lost their job because of Andrew Weisman. The Mueller's top eight is pitbull at Anderson and County. And then it gets worse from there. He was overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court nine zero. Who gets overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court nine zero nobody? And then he put four Merriyal executives in jail for a year, and that was overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. And now you have a federal judge saying about Mueller's prosecutors in this case that you are lying. Those are the words that came out of this judge's mouth today. And then you know they try to fight back, and Alice wasn't buying any of it. You know, he's he literally characterizing the Special Counsel's Office arguments is we said this was an investigation what it was about, but we're not bound by it. And we were lying. Come on, man, and the judge was livid, apoplectic because of of what they did in court today and because of how far they have gone beyond their mandate in this particular case. You don't care about Manafords bank fraud. You care about getting the president what Manaport might give you. We don't need anyone in this country with unfettered power, he said, unlikely you're gonna persuade me. The special prosecutor has power to do anything he or she wants, and the American people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power. Wow. Wow, I just I've never heard this type of strong language in a case like this before. This is everything I've been telling you. By the way, the newest Mueller prosecutor donated to Hillary Clinton, just like the rest of them. That's in the Daily Caller today. We'll take a break, we'll come back. We have a lot more on this. We've got Haraldo Rivera was going to weigh in on it, new Ingridge, Dan Bongino and much more. All right, glad you with us now to the top of the hour one, Shawn new Ingrad to the top of the hour Later on Heraldo and and Bongino on this very topic. Our buddy herschel Walker got a big appointment by the President. He's gonna check in today on this Friday, all right, So let me give you the headlines. Federal judge accuses Mueller's team and he used the word lying to target Trump and said, come on, man, that's the judge from the bench saying that you don't care about Mr Manafort. US District Judge T. S Ellis the third told Robert Mueller's team, you really care about information that Mr Manafort can give you to lead to Mr Trump or an impeachment or whatever. Now. Ellis also demanded to see the unredacted scope memo, which is the the memo, the document outlining hang on one second, uh blah blah blah blah, I'm I'm multitasking here. Okay, um, Now, let me read this part of it to you because because this is really really smart. Now it could be the This is by far the most explosive development of all in the in the hearings in the Monophar case. You know that when a judge does this, this means this judge is pissed and he's now demanding that Mueller's you know, team of Democratic donors, including the new addition we just found out the latest edition of Mueller's team, uh Uzo s sone assistant U S Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, is now joining Mueller's team of prosecutors. And lo and Behold donated nine thousand dollar to Clinton's presidential campaign. Shaker another Democratic donor appointed by Mueller. But it's fair, and Mueller, of course worked under Obama. But he's a Republican. You know, somebody was said to me, well, you know, he's a good man. He served his country. I honored Mueller's service of his country. I don't respect him appointing Andrew Weiseman and only Democrats. I don't respect that he's gone beyond the scope and mandate of what this investigation is supposed to be about. I don't love the aggressive tactics that they've taken. They couldn't have made a call to Paul Manaforts attorney or Michael Cohen's attorney and say we're outside your door. Open it, you know, done it, and instead of the pre dawn raid and the way it's been described in the press. They can't do it in a respectful manner. It's unbelievable. What to scare everybody, intimidate everybody. Anyway, So the judges demanding that Mueller's prosecutors produced the unredacted version of the memo issued by Rod Rosenstein, which gave Mueller the authority to broaden the scope of the investigation. If by my memory serves me, that was after they in fact did the the raid on Paul Manafort. I'm sorry, can we have the permission to do this after? Now that rose? It was written after just a week after the Rosenstein wrote the memo. The addendum to the memo, after Mueller's swat team broke into Manafort's home, reports was saying, with guns drawn at six am and got Paul Manafort and his wife from at a gun point out of bed. Really did you think he he was? He was sitting in there, you know, ready for a shootout on the Okay Corral? You know? Is this how we treat drug dealers? This is how we treat mob members. Anyway, So Mueller's prosecutors, they're gonna have to turn over the full, unredacted version of the August second memo that the Deputy Attorney General the conflicted attorney general, the one attorney general that should be recused in this case, Rob Rosenstein, the one that in fact supported the firing of James on me, he will be a witness in this case. And then of course he signed one of the FISA warrants. The bulk of information were Russian lines that were paid for by a dossier put together by a foreign national, Christopher Steel, with money funneled through a law firm. Of course, they're not investigating any of that. And the judge said he liked to see the full memo which prosecutors submitted to the court after the raid. So basically Rosenstein gave the permission after the raid, not before the raid. That's a big problem for them. And for another case against Mantafort, with which with more page of redactions, while those prosecutors have urged this memo gives them the authority to bring cases against Manafort related to his work in the Ukraine. Okay, this is this is ten years before Donald Trump ever thought of running for president. You know, last there was a blog posting in Legal Insurrection and I actually said by the time of the August second memo, Mueller already was investigating Manafort's business dealings and gathering evidence for an indictment, which would be on seal. Less than three months later, July seventeen, a week before the Rosenstein memo, Mueller's team rated Manafort's home. That BI agents rated his home in in Alexandria, Virginia, arriving in the pre dawn hours, you know, seizing documents other materials related to the Special Council investigation of Russian meddling in the election. It had nothing to do with any of it. And that rate occurred without warning, which, of course is is one on one Andrew Weissman. If you read Sydney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie. Anyway, They go on to say in this piece, the August second memo purported to confirm Mueller's authority to go after Manafort's business dealings. But Mueller already was doing that and had been doing that for weeks, uliminating in the July home rate. So he went in for permission to do this after, in fact, they did the investigation, and after they raided his home. Sorry, I don't see if the if we have equal justice under the law, I don't see how this holds up. Anyway, there's midnight raid or six am radar Manafort's home, waking him and his wife with guns drawn. A shocking example of unnecessary bullying on its face, intended to intimidate, not just develop evidence, but the fact that it took place before the scope was even authorized, and that subsequent authorization took place in secret stinks too high Heaven. This is not gonna fly, not with this judge today. It's not gonna fly. You know, when a judge is saying outright that, in the metaphor case, that Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump, that ought to be awake up call for anybody that believes in the rule of law here. That ought to be a wake up call for every American. I thought Levin was was so on his game last night pointing out, you know, Mueller can't disable and totally destroy a presidency. In the process of all of this, with all this president as accomplished, we're on the verge of of possible de nuclearization in the Korean Peninsula. We have our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel forming a new coalition with the Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians, and Emirates in the US, and we saw that in spite of all of the blackmail and bribery of the Obama administration and a hundred and fifty billion in cash. Iran does have a nuclear program. The President is kind of busy. There are other issues he's dealing with. They're ongoing negotiations to release these hostages in North Korea American hostages is ongoing, you know, work to be done as it relates to trade concessions that China is making because the President forged a good relationship with the president of China. You know, there's also intellectual property protections that need to take place in all of this. You know, there's a lot of stuff here that is going on. We have the lowest unemployment rate in fourteen states ever, look at the numbers today, three point nine percent unemployers almost like full unemployment full employment rather, you know, lowest unemployment rate for African Americans and history, Hispanic Americans and history women in the workplace in history. You know. But there's a lot more to this. Also, I've been told by people that that Rod Rosenstein had a you know, as a has an ethical issue involving all of this, and a recusal that's going to come out before the end of the day. That the judge, the same judge in this case this morning, judge all us it's Rod Rosenstein recused himself. Well, if the judge is asking that, he's basically saying to Jeff's sessions, what the hell are you doing? Because Rod Rosenstein was the one that recommended Comey get fired, which means he's a witness in all of this. And the second reason for recusal will be he signed off on the Fiser renewal application, which of course resulted in lying to a FISA court judge not once, but four times. I mean, I have a federal judge accusing Mueller's prosecutors of lying in that they're full of crap. Wow, this is unbelievable. This is an unbelievable development. And now the president, you know, everyone's saying, well, what is the president gonna do? What if he gets subpoenaed by Mueller? Well, we do have a constitutional system, and it would be damaging to the president of the United States of can't function and do his job. How this president has been able to accomplish and the tax cuts and energy independence as much as he has. You know what under these conditions is frankly nothing short of miraculous. Well, Trey Goudy lecturing him about what he should act like an innocent man. Well, he's, he's, he's he is acting like an innocent man, saying this is a bunch of crap. There was no collusion. When does it get shut down? Unbelievable? Is now now do we Robert Muller and his team of partisans Obama donors, Clinton donors, d NC donors, no Republican donors. Robert Mueller, who worked for Barack Obama, wanted the job with Trump. They didn't get it. The day after he becomes a special prosecutor because of the leaks of Jim Comey. You know, and I can get into everything else associated with all of this, you know, I will tell you there. I am very impressed with this judge. I am pleasantly surprised at the courage that this judge is shown here literally piercing this veil of secrecy in this in this probe that has gone so far beyond its mandate, exposing both Mueller and Rosenstein for their deceit bul and underhanded taxics in this case you know, the Justice Department, you may not know this. In the case of Manafort, he even he was investigated for over a decade nothing. So Mueller appropriated the files for the very purpose that the judge described. They want Manaphort to flip and say something that they can use to impeach the president. That's all this is about. The judge sees right through it, describing Mueller as someone with unfettered authority here and he's saying, I demand to see your full unward acted secret scope memo. By the way, that came after the raid. The judge judge accusing the prosecutors of lying Mueller's team. Well, if we ever talked about firing Mueller's team for that all, how would the left react to that? But the Mataphoor case was starting there. That investigation began thirteen years ago by the Tax Division of the d o J. That thing was investigated to death. They brought it to life because as they saw it as a pipeline to Trump. Okay, we'll let you off of this, or we'll put you in jail for thirty years. Tell us something we want that will be useful in our campaign against Donald Trump, and we'll let you go. I can guarantee you if we ever get the interview with General Flynn, how much you want to bet they threatened to go after General Flynn's son, or agree that he lied to the FBI, How much you want to bet he fell on the sword for his kid, because I don't think General Flynn light to anybody in that in that particular environment. You know, when when you have these out of control special counsels, if you use the Special Council rules and regulator Rosenstein has to identify a crime in his initial order, he didn't. In court filings, Mueller admitted he and Rosenstein were deliberately vague when they wrote it. That can that confession alone means they're violating the regulations. And by the way, that would mean everything involved in this and everything they did is tainted. It's almost like a conspiracy to circumvent the Special Council law and the secret order that speculated the Manafort colluded with Russia, when really this is a tax case about Ukraine from thirteen years before Donald Trump ever wanted to run for president. You know what the judge saw right through it today? It proves a these are corrupt acts. It proves that this is a witch hunt and that this has spun so far out of control. It also proves rosen Stein has to go. So I've been saying Special Counsel all the that the whole thing needs to go. What it's doing to the country. The president has to govern under these ridiculous conditions. It even gets better because I'm told by sources in the courtroom today that the judge, this same Judge Ellis, took a shot at Rod Rosenstein about the issue of recusal. This I can only tell you this does not have This is the biggest slapdown beat down I think I can ever recall. This federal judge in the manafort case of Robert Muller and his abusively by his team demanding to see the unread acted versions of the mandates, which, by the way, I think I can get a hold of through our investigative reporting. We might have it on the air Hannity tonight. All right, we got new game Ridge to weigh in on this. Horaldo and Dan Mongina will weigh in on this. Herschel Walker checks in today. We'll get your calls in today a lot. On this Friday, stay with us our to Sean Hannity Show, gladuate with us on this Friday. We have massive headlines here that we're following, federal judge accuses Robert Mueller's team of lying to target Trump. Come on, man, that's the Fox News headline. Then we've got judge in mana four case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Donald Trump. Just a little background, we'll get new Gingridge's reaction to all of this. Finally, I would argue a long last, somebody in the judiciary is calling out the Mueller investigation for what it is. This unconstitutional which hunt in search of a non existing crime. Now, the federal judge presiding over the Mantaphor case accused Mueller's prosecutors today of quote lying, That's the word Judge T. S Ellis used today. And the judge also said the only reason that Mueller was pursuing charges against Manafort was to get him to flip on President Trump so that Mueller could make a case of impeachment. Wow, joining us now former Speaker of the House, New King Rich Fox News contributor as well. How are you, sir? Well, I'm doing well, and I must say this is the most remarkable break we've had so far in the entire saga, Mueller's witch hunt. Uh, you know, the U. S District judge who said this is this is the quote from the news from the Fox News coverage, which I've tweeted out there's just a few minutes ago myself because it is so important. He says, you don't really care about Mr Manafort. You really care about what information Mr Manaford can give you to lead you to Mr Trump and an impeachment or whatever. I was then demanded that they give him the onward acted Scope memo, the document originally given him outlining his job, because of course what Manaford did is he wint In accordingly said, they have indicted in the under things that they have no authority to even be looking at. And Elliott went on to say, we don't want anyone with unfettered power. Now, my my newsletter tomorrow picks us up in this whole thing up. And I quote someoney you've had in the show Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz from Harvard, who says that that he's totally opposed to anything moving us towards the police state, that this is unbelievably dangerous. I also quote uh Andy McCarthy, who you know well, who's a former federal prosecutor. He says that Trump should not, under any circumstance allow himself to sit down and be interviewed by Miller. And I point out Mueller cannot get Trump to speak if Rosenstein does his job, because the truth is that Miller will have to have Rosenstein's approval to try to subpoena at Trump. Well, I think all of that is true, but and then we have the conflicts. We know, of course that it was Rob Rosenstein that wrote a letter of stinging rebuke, and you talked about it the last time. I don't know the exact words, but to paraphrase that, basically, the FBI would never recover to its great status with James Comy at the helm. And on top of that, we now have discovered that Rod Rosenstein, he was one of the people that signed off on the FISA Warrant Application renewal, which was the bulk of information was the unverified, uncorroborated Clinton bought and paid for dossier with Russian lies he signed off on. He didn't do his due diligence when he signed that document, So that conflicts him out a second way, And why Jeff Sessions hasn't demanded he stepped aside, I don't know It's very odd because, as you just pointed out, and I've sent it out and I posted I think you've posted it, the Rosenstein memo of the President Trump before was fired is so devastating and so thorough and concludes this writing. It concludes that as long as comans there, they will never fix the FBI. Now, the gap between guy who the person wrote that and the person is allowed viewler who learned muck. It's just astonishing to think that the same person could could be doing both. And so I'm partially saying you're Rosenstein should say publicly and explicitly, Mueller will never get authority because he has to get it from us. You will never get authority to subpoena the president or to go to a grand jury with the president. There's there's no excuse for it. And in my newsletter tomorrow, I take I take McCarthy and Darts and others and lay out the case. But the president should simply follow Nancy Reagan's advice and just say no. If you go further into this. Federal judge his name is T. S Ellis, the third out of Alexandria, Virginia. He was This is beyond skeptical here. I mean, for a judge took say that the Special counsel is lying, and that's the word he used. And the judge saying the only reason Mueller's pursuing charges against Manafort is to get him to flip. He actually quoted he said, I don't see what relation this indictment has with what the Special counsel is authorized to investigate. You don't really care about Mr Manafort's bank fraud. What you really care about is what information Mr Manafort could give you that would reflect on Mr Trump or lead to his prosecution or his impeachment. I don't think I can recall on my lifetime such a stinging rebuke. And prosecutors are saying on on Friday that their investigative powers were outlined in Rosenstein's letter to Mueller in May, and they added that he also had the additional authority that that they could not disclose in the courtroom because it related to the ongoing investigation. But then Ellis repeatedly wasn't buying it, characterizing the Special Counsel's office argument as quote, well, we said this was what investigation was about. What we're not bound by it, and we are lying come on, man, that's what he said. Those are his words. I think that it's clear that the judge both reached a conclusion about Mueller and his team and at the same time reached the conclusion that he, the judge, was not going to give unfettered power to some prosecutor to run around UH and try to make a case. If the case doesn't agree, it doesn't exist. So I think the two weeks from now I have a very important moment in that courtroom in Alexandria, because he has insisted that they come in and bring the unredacted memo giving Miller power, and that he is a judge, not the FBI, not the Justice Department. He the judge, will decide whether or not that's an appropriate document. And I think this is a huge setback from Miller's case. Now you have an independent judge who's saying flatly that the Muller team was lying, which is actually what Giuliani has been saying, It's what McCarthy has been saying, it's what Dershowitz has been saying. And I think that this is going to have a significant impact as this thing evolves over the next few weeks. Let me read one other line, we don't want anybody in this country with unfettered power. It's unlikely you're gonna persuade me. The Special prosecutor has power to do anything he or she wants, he said. The American people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power. I mean, I actually see this case being thrown out. I'm if I'm reading into this the right way. I don't see how this judge comes back and says, Okay, well let it go forward. And then and knowing the special listen, we knew this when Andrew Wiseman was appointed Mr. Speaker. I went over his record again and again and again. Uh, even the latest deployment by Mueller. Again, another Democratic donor, you know, Andrew Weissman, his so called pit bull, according to The New York Times, was waiting in anticipation of Hillary's victory at her victory party in New York at the Javit Center that night. A guy that has been excoriated twice for withholding exculpatory evidence. A guy that lost nine zero in the U. S. Supreme Court sent Merrill executives to jail for a year, to be overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. This is not somebody you would put on any team that would involve anything involving a president of the United States. Well, that's right, And I think I think, by the way, what you're seeing now, uh with Judge Ellis is sort of the magic is disappearing from Miller and the judge is looking at the facts. And again I think I have a federal judge in court say to the US prosecuting team, you are lying. Uh, it's pretty strong staff, You say, Weisman has a record of this is early. You have to wonder why would Miller brought him in accept Muller one or a bunch of people who were hunter killers who are going to go out there and get the big game, which of course is the president. Uh. And I think that the I think that Judge Ellis has stripped all of the mystery away from the Miller investigation and said, flatly, your interest isn't going after President Trump. Your interest is not an injustice, it's not in criminal law. And I think that this is a pretty devastating indictment of Miller. I've never seen anything like all. Right, Now, a lot of questions have come up as it relates to whether the President should ever sit down with Mueller. I have a very strong feeling, along with other smart attorneys, that it's a perjury trap. Rudy Giuliani said as much the other night. Your thoughts, well, my whole newsletter will come out later on the day. So we excited Nancy Reagan's team on drugs and just say no. And my whole point to the president is there there. If you look at the New York Times proposed questions, they are absurd. They asked the president to go back seventeen months. And remember, remember this is a criminal case. This is not some oral history for the library. You have guys and everyone who want to destroy him, who want him to tell them what he said or what he thought in a particular meeting seventeen months ago at a time when the President States is dealing with Russia, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran. Go down unless you say to yourself what I don't think you or I could remember accurately a meeting seven team months ago. And the way these questions are worded in the New York Times version, they're they're they're entirely a trapped They're designed to set the president up for either perjury or obstruction or justice, and there are no circumstances where he should agree to go into that room because the whole thing is a trap, and I think they should call Rosenstein's buff I don't think Rosenstein man is going to look particularly given what's has happened in Judge Ellis's court today. I don't think Rosenstein is going to give Muller the authority to take the President of States and then compel him to testify. And I think the other push him right up to the wall on that and if necessary, go into cournament. Well. I think that then it goes all the way to the Supreme Court. And Levine was rightly saying, it goes against Justice Department, their own policy, their own procedures, past precedents, and and certainly take it all the way to the Supreme Court, because if that's what Mueller wants, the type of showdown he wants, and that's the type of showdown he's gonna get here. Um. I do think there's not equal justice and of the law either. I also think there's we don't have the equal application of laws. We certainly know that Hillary committed felonies numerous felonies obstructed justice, and I think the over overwhelming and controvertible evidence is in they fixed and rigged that case, as Rudy Giuliani believes as well in the interview that he had with me the other night. Then you have the whole issue of the FISA court where you had Hillary Clinton bought and paid for foreign national hired, funneled money, paying for Russian sources, Russian government sources, to manipulate the American people. But it's then used as the bulk of information presented in an application to spy on an American citizen a Trump campaign associate, and they never tell the judge that it's not verified, that it's never corroborated, and they never tell the judges four times with three subsequent renewals, that in fact, Hillary paid for it all. What is that? That to me is lying to a judge. You know. Andy McCarthy had a great line in a recent column. He said, the rules of the game are that the Democrats get away with murderer or Republicans get murdered. Uh. And in judicial terms, that's exactly right. Uh. And he and he makes the he makes the point that the Obama campaign had some NPC violations. Uh, they basically settled with a fine and get rid of it. At the same time there was a conservative Republican or dollar violation. They tried to put him in jail. Um. And this is a constant difference between how conservatives and Republicans are treated by the Justice Department and how liberals are treated. And I think that's where it's refreshing to see this judge take them on. And I think that he has certainly begun to puncture the balloon of whether or not this is a fair investigation. This is this is the single biggest day since this whole thing started. Somebody that actually seems to adhere to the rule of law understands what's really going on here. As we've been pointing out. We'll continue more with new King rich right as we continue with former Speaker of the House do ging rich Um. So, the President beefed up his his legal team. Emmett Floyd is now on board. Mayor Julianni is now on board. I don't know if you had a chance to watch my interview with the former mayor, but he has some very strong words for Hillary Clinton. She should be in jail. Uh. That James Comey is a pathological liar. Um that this is a witch hunt and never should have begun. And he was pleading with Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein to do the right thing and put an end to this madness. What is Jeff's What is Jeff Sessions doing? Well? I think this is where the question of whether or not Miller can actually move towards the subpoena begins to be very real. Um. And I think that Rosenstein is the one who really is in the crosshairs, and that the Session says to said, I don't even say love. You know, you've got to be prepared to stand up and do your job, and if you can't, you need to leave. Uh. And I think we're way to be on the point where anything that Sessions said about accusing himself matters, because none of this anymore relates to Russia. And so the reason that Sessions gave because he was under great pressure, remember, because of the whole Russian question um, no longer is valid and Sessions should reclaim being the attorney general of the entire department. And objective fact is that nothing Miller's doing today has anything to do with Russia. It has everything to do. We're trying to find a way to get the president either on obstruction or on perjury, and neither of those relate to the reason that you had that you had Sessions originally recused himself. What do you think of, Rob Rosenstein? We do have separation of powers. Congress has been trying and stymied and stonewall by the d J over subpoena materials they've been asking for. And Rosenstein said that he's not going to be extorted. What did you make of that? Remark? Well, that's a goofy Remarkably is the truth is the Congress has a legitimate right to demand the inform nation. Uh. And I think they can either subpoena him or they can just start cutting off funding. Uh. You know, the Congress is not powerless in a fight with the executive branch. Uh. But in this case, it's really strange. You have the Congress trying to get information. And I said, I just saw that the FBI indicated that some information that people were asking for in a Freedom of Information Act they might be able to get them by October. Uh. Now that's just a deliberate stall. And I think that there's an absurdity going on here as you know, uh and and you and I think you'll likely to see both the Houses and the Judiciary Committee chairman take very strong measures to compel Justice to send over the material. All right, Mr Speaker, thanks for being with us. We appreciate it. We will have all the latest information on Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We'll take a break, we'll come back. Your calls are coming up next our news round up with Eraldo Rivera and Dan Bongino on this very topic. Herschel Walker starts stops by today and much more as we continue alright now, so the top of the our one Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program. I mean just amazing news that we have here today. I mean, this is the biggest Mueller beat down day that we have seen to date. I mean an excoriation by this judge. Finally there is somebody that is standing up to what has become an abuse of power at a massive level. You know, look at the team that it was put together from the get go. Doesn't mean this is the end, but it certainly gives hope that there are people that get it, that understand that the Justice system is not to be played with in this country, and the same with the rule of law and everything else in between. Mattaphor Judge is now ordering Mueller to produce the Rosenstein memo that authorized the no knock rate. Really, what I mean? Did you have to come in guns blazing to make a big deal about it, when in fact he could have surrendered willingly with his attorney in his living room or stay outside where you can see him when you pull up. You know, we're not talking about drug dealers in the mob here and murderers here. Never mind the fact that none of what the Mantaphoor case was about, saying with General Flynn, to be honest, had a thing to do with Trump Russia collusion and then the double standard, which I talk about all the time. I won't go into it now. I want to get to some of the phones here. One Seawan our toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. We got. Scott is in Staten Island. Scott, Hi, how are you the all New AM seven ten w O R The Talk of New York. I'm good, sir Um. It's really getting ridiculous with Milla. Okay, he acts like he runs the country. Um, it's actually like a Twilight Zone episode. What's happening right now? Um? The president seems like he really, he's doing everything he could possibly do right now for the country. Nobody, nobody's talking about it. And then you know, you got Muller sitting up there just looking down upon everybody and the President as if this man is the complete, horrible, horrible person that he's portraying this guy to be. I believe that Mueller is a sick, sick man and he just gets off on putting people in prison. And that's it. Look, I don't know Mueller personally. I'm looking at the people that he's appointed. I'm looking at the partisan nature of it. I'm looking at the ethical issues that many of these these people have, and I'm saying to myself, I don't like it. It's it's obviously he has stacked the deck. His tactics have been overly aggressive. You know, there is something that is called prosecutorial discretion in these cases here. You know, it's the same thing reminds me that the School to Libby case Patrick. You know, remember the charge was that Patrick Fitzgerald was supposed to find the leaker as it relates to the Fallerie plane case, because she was a covert operative. Well turned out she wasn't a covert operative anyway. Number one. Number two, he found out on either day one or day two that the leaker was Richard Armitage, and he kept going and going and going and going, and and it was the same thing this judge was excoriating Robert Mueller's team for today, and that is they wanted Scooter Libby to say something about Vice President Cheney because they wanted to get Cheney, and Scooter Libby would never do it because he wasn't gonna make up a lie. And that's what they want them to do. And that's what I can't understand, because you know, you they talk about everybody wants truth, truth, but obviously they don't. They want people just lie and chewing. I don't understand Sessions. Sessions, why hasn't he been fired? I listen, I don't know what he's doing. And at the times he gives you a little glimmer of hope, but it's his department that is slow walking the investigations into everything that Congress has been wanting and demanding and subpoena documents for and the fact that Rod Rosenstein himself, who's conflicted. You know, he's he's the guy that said Comey should be fired. He's witnessed a I don't know how you say that the president's fired him for obstruction when Rosens Rosenstein is the guy that said it, and then on and then on top of it, you know, then he's one of the guys that signed off on that ridiculous FISA warrant with the bulk of information, unproven, unverified lies from Russia from a foreign national paid for by Hillary. It's the whole thing. You can't even make this up, and it needs to come to an end. If other why is this is not gonna end well for the country. The whole thing as of now, it's not going well for anybody in the country. You know how we go from Russia collusion, then you actually find some Russian lines paid for for one candidate, used to get a FISA warrant to spy on an American. I'd love to hear from these FISA judges that were lied to some This is unbelievable. That's why everything that we thought the liberal media was telling us is all flipped on them. Anyway, Scott, you have a great weekend. Appreciate it. Uh. Mike is in Jacksonville, Florida, w o k V. What's up, Mike, How are you happy Friday? Sir? Hey? Thanks John. Um, Yeah, that was my question. I saw your interview with Mayor Giuliani, and my big takeaway after watching the whole interview is where is Jeff Sessions. It's it's um, it's amazing that the mayor has talked about all of these crimes and nothing's happened. Um. So yeah, yeah, I wonder is his Sessions either part of the swamp or is he afraid of being destroyed by the Democrats. But but either way, he's not doing anything. So he could the President just say, hey, Sessions isn't doing anything, and I'm gonna give this whole thing sixty or ninety days and if it doesn't get wrapped up, I had the constitutional right to end this under Article two. He can fire Rosenstein. Rosenstein, he can fire Sessions, he can fire Muller, the whole thing, and then then it becomes a political disaster for the country. I mean, and he said this week, I might at some point have to step in here. And it's something because it's running muck. This is not how a justice system is supposed to work. That's what made this one judge, that a one judge finally understood it and stated it and was unequivocal in his condemnation of it. And he nailed what these prosecutors do day in and day out. They don't care about Paul Manafort in two thousand and five and six. They never have. All they want is, well, whoa can can you give me information to get the president, even if you have to make it up? And now so he So, if you're facing thirty years in jail and the guy said, I'll make a deal with you. Just give me something that is incriminating against this person and you go free, that's a pretty tempting offer when you're facing thirty years in jail. And if people don't have integrity, they would say they they'll say anything to get out of thirty years in prison. That's why I've never understood criminals, you know, you know, look at the case of Sammy the Bull Gravano. You know, okay, flipped on on on John Gotti, but he still had killed nineteen people, you know, and he got a free He gotta pass. You got to live a new identity, new life out in Arizona. You know, it's at that point, it's I just don't agree with it. Maybe a lessoning of the sentence, maybe twenty five years in jail for a team murders, but not to go free and get put in a witness protection program. I don't know the whole thing. We really we need to be careful because and and the fact that Hillary goes free. We're criminalizing political differences here. Hillary did commit crimes. They did rig the investigation. There was Russian interference in this election. Hillary paid for Russian lines to manipulate the American people, and then they lied to fights a court judge. In an original application and three subsequent applications. Rod Rosenstein signed off on one of them. Uh, Levi, our friend from Detroit, Michigan. What's up, Levi? How are you? My friend? And all my what's going on? My brother from another mother? Mr Levi? I missed your voice. It's been too long. I'm glad you're still with us. What's going on? My friend? Yes, sir, Yes, And let me say this, man, I would have never imagined in a thousand years that I would be spending Donald Trump. Let me start off by saying that you're talking to a staunch liberal, someone who has voted democratic all my life, very progressive in my thinking. But I don't say this to you, brother. He should fire mother. And the reason why I say that is because I agree that it is a witch hunt. You know, there's a turning up the tide here shine where you have a lot of free thinking African Americans. Now, do I agree with the Republican Party and the conservative agenda one percent? No? I do not. However, I have to call it how I see it. And when I see President Trump being opposed on all sides, even by those within the Republican establishment, I asked myself, because this guy be all that bad? I voted for Barack Obama twice, and I said openly for anyone to hear that I felt that he did, in fact turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to what was going on not only throughout all the major cities in America, but the contage that was taking place in Chicago, where he was from. So I'm not going to walk lockstep with any group, any political party. I'm gonna call it from now on how I see it. I agree with Kanye West that we have to subscribe to free thought if we're going to move America forward. And that's my comment. My dear brother. Al right, my friend, my yeah, we are brothers. How many years we've been together? Now you've been calling this program. Oh my god, I can't even call them brother. I used I used to give you such a hard time about about Louis Farracount. I gave you such a hard time, and now you don't even like Farracon Pope. I love. I'll never renounce. I'll never renounce them. But I'm just keeping it real, bro. That's all I could do is keep it real. You know what I'm saying, Yes, sir, all right, my friend, God bless you have a great weekend and leave my eight nine for one. Sean told free telephone number. Mary Anne is in Calamazoo, Michigan. Hey Marianne, how are you. We're glad you called. Happy Friday. I'm I'm doing great. Happy Friday to you, also, Sean, thank you for kicking my call. Thank you. I just wanted to say that I attended the Trump rally in Washington, Michigan on Saturday, and the enthusiasm was, oh my gosh, it was crazy. It was wonderful, And the one thing I took away from it was that he actually brought up Maxine Water's name and the impeachment and that like a broken record exactly, and that um, he was saying that, and he haven't done anything wrong, and he hasn't done anything wrong. And as you said earlier, they're looking for anything they can find. And I guess my point is that going into the election, we need to really look at who we're going to back, and that makes sure that that the House and Senate are secure, so they cannot advance this impeachment because they'll look for anything they can do. Listen, I will tell you right now, and this is I say this with all my heart. This is scary. This is a scary, scary time here, and it's scary for a lot of reasons. Because this election now is a referendum on whether the country wants to go down that road of impeachment. Will now go down in history as one of the most important midterm elections ever. Spread the word because by the time November comes, everybody's got to understand what is on the line here. It's a lot. It's about undoing a presidential election. Uh, Listen, you have a great weekend, Marianne. Right as we head back for our busy telephones, here we say hi to kurt Is in Texas. Kurt, Hi, how are you glad you called? Sir Sean You're imminent? How are you doing? No? No, thank you. I don't want the job. I appreciated the how about your old glory? To those above, well, hey, I got I got one suggestion for you and then one series. Okay, So first I start with the suggestion, don't call the Robert Mueller special counsel or special prosecutor. This guy is nothing more than a special pretender, and that's what he needs to be called, because he's just pretending. So moving on from that, I believe that I have a theory that possibly, uh the reason why Sessions in Rosan Steam are not doing anything as far as you know, moving this investigation along, or even Sessions jumping in and saying, hey, look this now has nothing to do with Russia collusion. So we need to, you know, put an end to this. Is because they both know that if they do that and then this comes to a close, they're gonna be fired because obviously Trump does not approve of what they're doing. And have been doing, and they're gonna lose all the power that they have. I think today is the beginning of a long process is going to be long on for Jially, I wish it was gonna be faster where this whole thing is going to come crumbling down. And I think you're gonna see a desperation evolving in the deep state that we've never seen before. Um yeah, look we see it in the ratcheted up investigations and attacks on yours. Truly. I mean you know that there there are those that hate what we have been able to do here and that is exposed this corruption and exposed this abuse of power and debunk lies as it relates to Trump Russia collusion, and get the truth to the American people. So you know, there is uh, there's certainly a price to pay when you take on these people in power. But I can't imagine an America where they win, because if they win, where Venezuela, God help us. We gotta protect that which so many fought, bled and died for. And that's a constitution, the rule of law, equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws. All right, I gotta take a break. News round up in for Nation Overload is next to Roaldo Rovera and Dan Bongino. Straight ahead, as we continue this Friday edition of The Sean Hannity Show. You have a group of investigators and they say that I am not a target, and I'm not a target. But you have a group of investigators that are all Democrats. In some cases they went to the Hillary Clinton celebration that turned out to be a funeral. So you have all these investigators, they're Democrats. In all fairness, Bob Mueller worked for Obama for eight years. You look at the statements that would me if you take a look, as an example, at the Rod Rosenstein letter to me prior to the firing of James Coleby. Just read it, put it in there. Your viewers don't know about it. Put that letter on the air. It's very much speak very loudly. And that's just one thing. Bottom line is. Bottom line is I want to talk to the people in charge if it can prove that it's a fair situation. The problem we have is that you have thirteen people. They're all Democrats, and they're real democrats, they're angry Democrats, and that's not a fair situation. Thank you, everybody. Secretary Clinton is someone deeply a meshed in the rule of law, respect for institutions, a lawyer. There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling a very sensitive, highly classified information. All right, that, of course the president responding to this witch hunt. And you know, look at the hypocrisy of James Comey, President propraising Hillary Clinton as someone that actually respects the rule of law. And she's a lawyer. Okay, really, when we know all the crimes she committed mishandling classified, top secret special access programming information. Interestingly, Comey himself may now be facing the same exact investigation in his violation of of the information he gave out to people he now hired as his attorneys, which he never should have done, which is illegal. And Hillary then, of course, wasn't obstructing justice when she asked to wash the computer and deleted subpoena emails and broke up her devices. But the big news of the days we start our news round up information overload. Finally, at long last, we have a judge that has excoriated and called out Robert Muller and the witch hunt investigation that he has involved in. Now, this was in the Paul Manafort case earlier today, and literally the judge's name is T. S. Ellis, and he accused Mueller's prosecutors his words of lying. And Judge Ellis said the only reason Mueller was pursuing charges against Manaphort was to get him to flip on President Trump so Mueller could make a case for impeachment. I mean I almost felt like, you know, taking a dive in the pool to be happy. It's it's finally so refreshing. Somebody's getting it. Anyway, this judge in Alexandria, Virginia, you know, expressing real deep skepticism today about the validity of the indictments against Manafort, and Manafort appeared in court early today seeking the dismissal of the charges outlined in the Virginia indictment. The judge appeared very receptive and as lawyers were arguing that because the counts were not directly related to the Russia investigation, they should be dismissed, so the judge literally told Mueller's prosecutors, quote, I don't see what relation this indictment has to do, has has with the special counsel is authorized to investigate. You don't really care about Mr Manafort's bank fraud. What you really care about is what information Mr Manafort could give you that would reflect on Mr Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment. Prosecutor said Friday that their investigated powers were outlined in both Rod Rosenstein's letter appointing Muller in May and a memo that he issued in August, and they added that he also had additional authority that they could not disclose in the courtroom because it was related to an ongoing investigation and could affect national security. But Ellis reportedly wasn't buying any of this. The judge characterizing the Special Counsel's office is, uh, the Special counsel offices argument is quote we said this is this was what the investigation was about, but we're not bound by it and we were lying. Come on, man his words. The judge didn't immediately rule on the motion to dismiss, but it's it's fascinating and although Muller's authority has been tested in court before, this hearing today is notable as this judge now and his decision as he wades into the you know, divisive political debate around the investigation. I mean to think about this you really don't care about Mr. Manaford's bank fraud, he told the prosecutor, at times losing his temper today and Ellis said prosecutors were interested in Manafort because of his potential to provide material that would lead to Trump's prosecution or impeachment. The judge said, we don't want anyone in this country with unfettered power. He went on, it's unlikely you're gonna persuade me. The special prosecutor has power to do anything he or she wants. Ellis said, the American people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power. And when the prosecution tried to answer the questions about the investigation, etcetera, etcetera, you know none of that information has to do with the information related to Russian government coordination in the campaign of Donald Trump. And then Ellis posed a hypothetical question, speaking as if he were the prosecutor, about why Mueller's office referred a criminal investigation about Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cone to New York authorities and kept the Mantaphor case in Virginia. They're not interested in it because it didn't further our core effort to get Trump, Ellis said, mimicking a prosecutor in the case. Wow. Aldo Rivera joins us. Stan Bongino joins us, Araldo, you're an attorney. That is a beatdown. That is a slapdown. It really is a stunned Uh and courageous stands by the judge. He's calling a space bade. He's piercing all the political and legal mumbo jumbo, the niceodies, and he is telling us that the emperor has no clothes. He's basically telling us, Uh, you know that the prosecutors ruthless and highly focused motivation was to torpedo and sabotage the President of the United States. I think that it is. I have never in my long career, I have never heard a judge so frank and so direct and so dramatic in his assessment of a special prosecutor. He have Muller with his demeanor and his reputation and his august air uh and his his patrician daring. And this is nobility personified. And this judge says, hey, wait a second, that's not that's not what's really happening. The guy is is full of it. What he wants is as a harshly political resolution. Uh. Ending in an impeachment of the city president. I think it's very stunning. I think it's stunning, and it could actually I think I think now this is going to be the beginning of a very long process where there's going to be more of these moments because obviously the I can't wait to hear from the FISA judges, for example, Dan Bongino, that were presented unverified, uncorroborated Clinton bought and paid for Russian lies, and Warren told that Hillary Clinton paid for the propaganda. I can't wait to hear from them, because you know, I kind of I kind of no judges a little bit, and they kind of like to be referred to as yes, your honoring, no, your honor, yes ma'am, no, no sir, yes, yes, yes, or no ma'am. Uh. They're not going to tolerate being like to at such a spectacular level like this. Right, and it's highly unlikely at this point that they were told the truth if you think about this, right, it's the basis for this spying operation, and these spies a warrants was a spying operation against Carter Page at least that you know that much reported to publicly released reporting and documents. If Carter Page is the the greatest Russian spy of our generation, you can't have it both ways. And why is he out to media interviews all over the place on the You're running free today again? How you say court designed to take down terrorists to spy on a campaign in opposing political campaign while the Barack Obama team was in power. Yet the guy you used to do it is still running free. That says to me you had nothing the entire time. You know, I said on your box show of the other night, I said, listen, you can't fabricate collusion that didn't happen. They have no case, John. They are investigating Trump. They are not investigating a crime. This couldn't be any clearer. I reading the tea leaves here, and I never like to do this in any type of court proceeding, especially Supreme Court arguments. Haraldo, and this wasn't the Supreme Court. But I don't see this judge in any way going along with Mueller's team, and I would I sense here that these charges are going to be dropped for the very purpose that had nothing to do with the Special Council charge of Rod Rosenstein. At the very least shown. What you'll see is an extended litigation with the government will appeal. The judge is very pointed ruling uh and and very very harsh ruling. I think they'll do it to try to redeem their own reputation. But I think that what has happened is here you have a sitting federal judge who has basically announced to the world that the Special counsel's entire intent has been to use whatever means necessary to take down the forty fifth presidents of the United States by going after manifort, by going after extracting the police from Gate uh Flynn General Flynn, uh, the Michael Cohen flamboyant raid in in New York. I think that you'll have it. You'll have a simler I believe a similar finding or certainly a similar argument in the New York in the Southern District case with the raid on the attorney's office. It is pretty clear that you have a rabid desire that is a political rather than legal or just go quick break. We will come back final half hour. Friend Herschel Walker stops by. That's gonna be fun. Love Herschel, who has just given a position by the President. We'll get to that and more this Friday edition of The Sean Hannity Show. All Right, as we continue with Dan Bongino and Haraldo Rivera here on The Sean Hannity Show, you know, I just if I I'm thinking, if I'm the prosecutor in that case and that judge is saying it to me, I am humiliated today. I am embarrassed today, and at some point that this is you know, so often with these prosecutors, they lose all perspective. If if you listen to, for example, Mike Caputo and his very very passionate description of what they did to destroy his family. You know, he said, this is a punishment strategy. I think they want to destroy the president. They want to destroy his family, they want to destroy his business, they want to destroy his friends, so that no billionaire and say fifteen years is ever gonna wake up and say, you know what, the country's broken, and I think I'm the only one that can fix it. His wife will say, are you crazy? Look what they did to Donald Trump and everybody around him. This guy Michael Capputo lost his home because I llegal fees while he was trying to serve his country, but now had to spend all of this money hiring lawyers. He's now back living with his father. He's on TV tonight with us. These are real lives, Dan, and we cannot let this stand, this deliberate strategy. Understand this that for a reason that Caputo piece, by the way, is incredible, and he says a hell for doing this. They took a six figures from this guy, came out of his kids college funds. He had a move. He now has to go you know, money again to pay all these weeks with those because what because he did exactly what you just said. He had to to merit and they say that sarcastically to go work for a Republican campaign, so him, this is a message. The message being sent to you is anyone who touches Donald Trump is gonna go down and you're gonna use the machine of government to attack you, bankrupt you, and bankrupt your kids. All based on a line. Sean, what I both know it if we thought for a second that Donald Trump kid paid and sincerely colluded with the Russians to overturn an election in the United States, Republicans will be the first one out there. A lot of slap rats, don't like this guy either even on the Republican side, there's nothing there, Sean. They ruined this guy's life. They're ruining the president's life, his kid's life, and anyone in his orbit almost because they won an election. That is it. There is nothing nothing there? Yeah, well there is nothing there. Um, Where does it go? All those talk this week about Rudy Giuliani and Mark Levin I think was just dead on accurate last night. All the constitutional power really is with the president, gerraldo Um. You know, all this talk about the president's gonna sit down here, they didn't. They do not have the power. You know, if the president uses his powers under Article two, for example, the president could end all of this. He hasn't done it. He's tried to patiently go through the process. But the president, you know, it is not as complicated. If the Constitution is on the side of the president, he has the ability to end this any time he wants. But he hasn't wanted to do that. But at the end of the day, the president can do that in other words, you know, and and what he should be doing is taking and challenging every move by Mueller. That is an abuse of power and abuse of his authority and abuse of the mandate that was set down originally in this case, can do, though sean is different than should do. What has to happen now, in my view, is you need urgent discussions between the President's Council and the Special Counsel on agreeing, and it could be in the context of the special counsel must limit the scope of what he's doing. Is that a person on earth who could withstand an entire unlimited, highly skilled, highly motivated, highly partisans attacked by UH prosecutors like the team Mueller has assembled. Nobody could withstand that much less someone who's lived as flamboyant the life as President Trump had nobody ever gonna want to run for office ever. Well, I but that be that as it may. Right now, our concern is this president, and I think that firing Mueller will not solve the problem. I think getting Mueller into a some kind of scale where he can pledge before the court that this is what I'm going to do, placate or satisfy this judge's concerns. I'm not New York was a was a mistake. UH, Manafort's got to be limited. Now, let's let's decide what this special counsel is doing. And I think the I'd love to see Congress, including Democrats, support the President in terms of his his his righteous anguish over the unbridled nature of this investigation. I gotta let it in there. Thank you both of being one of us eight nine for one, Shawn or toll free telephone number you want to be a part of the program. So Happy Friday. Incredible news breaking day to day. We'll have more obviously on this beat down a Mueller on Hannity tonight at nine, But first we got some other breaking news. President Trump made an appointment Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots, and Herschel Walker, friend of this program, to his brand new sports counsel. I couldn't be happier. And it's always a privilege and honor and a pleasure to welcome back one of the greatest best football players and athletes of all time, Herschel Walkers back with us. How are you, my friend? And oh man, how are you doing? Um? I am so happy for you. I mean, well, how long has this been in the works. Well, yeah, I hate to say, have been in the works a long time, you know. At President Trump for a long time, and I'm happy to be a part of his council because you know, I started out with him and the football sort of arena, and now to be back on the president Fitness Council is important though. This is something I've been working on then watching them for eighteen years, talking to corners about physical education, and now with the President now putting me on the fitness council, I'm proud of that and I'm happy and I'm just happy to be back with him because everything going on around him, I'm happy to be there. You are a big President Trump supporter, as I am. Um, You've known him a long time. You watch these attacks against him every day. What do you think? I am sad and I'm mad at the same time because that's trying everything they can to get this guy to office. This guy one of legitimate election, one of legitimate election, but they're trying everything they can to get him out of office. And I think it's sad because he's doing so many great things and instead of them trying to get him out of office, why don't they help? You know? That's what I think these people gotta do, is they gotta remember if we help, we can be continue to be a great country. But if they continue to do what they're doing, that's just short. Washington had been doing their job because this man is doing this without their help. Do that meaning that if they pitch in, we can do even better. You know, I give out statistics and and maybe people's eyes roll over. I don't know. I hope they don't because I think the statistics that I give out are important. And we're looking at an America now where fourteen states have record low unemployment numbers, record low the unemployment numbers three point nine percent. You have record low unemployment for the African American community, for the for the Hispanic community, for women in the workforce. You're seeing more jobs, more deduction, more people have more money in their pocket with their tax cuts. The president is doing the unthinkable with little Rocketman Kim Jong un, who has crossed the DMZ to meet the South Korean president and he's talking about uh an agreement that would end with the d nuclearization of the Korean peninsula UM And on top of that, he's he's made breakthrough strides with China that we've never had before to get free and fair trade. As the Chinese president is capitulated on intellectual property, on trade barriers, etcetera. So you know, and any defeated isis. And now we're on a path towards energy independence and he's talking about controlling our borders and he's had to do all of this with Robert Muller and company, who got the biggest beat down in court today, you know, breathing down his neck. Well, I think that's the problem you have, is that you're the only one that's doing it. You know, he used to look at Fox that the only one that talking to truth and I said, death was saying, you know, everyone now is worried about Donald, but worried about what happened with Mrs Clinton. You know what this is over right now he's the president and I think we need to have people in this country that respecting that you're the only want to giving those successors out which the American people need to know that. And I think they're starting to get tired because they see that. I think they see that he's doing a good job. They see that he's doing it. You look at his approving rating that's came up. It has came up, and I think the American people are starting to say Hey, you know what, we're tired of this and you and I've said it many times. The problem we have in Congress today, the problem we have this country's day, has nothing to do with presidents were electing right now. The problem we have is a Congress that don't get alone, won't even let him become to won't even let him be the leader. How in the world can you be elected to office and not be able to lead or elect the people you want to even be in the office with it. They won't even let him elect the people. He won't in the office with him. And I think that's sad. I think it's horrible, absolutely horrible. Um anyway, let me let me go on. You know, it's funny last time you were in studio, I guess people just think I'm all fire and that I don't work out. I don't work out as hard as you. But I thought I did a pretty strenuous workout, you know, as I do at least a hundreds sometimes two hundred pushups and the day, and I do a hundred situps absolutely every day. And I trained mixed martial art. You train mixed mixed martial arts. And we got down on the ground together and we actually videotaped it and it went fairly viral among my audience. And uh so, how did I do? Sean, I'm gonna tell you you impressed me. And this is coming from martial worker. A lot of people don't impress me, you know, and you impressed me because you know when I first when we first met, I said, you look good. I said, you look good as you look like you've been working out. And when you got down on the floor with me and start doing the pushups, I said, you have been working out, And I was impressed. And like I said, I do do a lot of pushups and sit ups, and I don't know how many how many push ups you do? What fift hundred a day? I do about day about ups? And you know, I'm always working out and right now being on the President Fitness Council, I better work out because I tell people all the time, you gotta practice what you preach. If you're gonna talk about it, you gotta be able to do it. And that's what I've been doing all my life. And I tried to incur people to do that. Listen, I don't know how you do so many Listen, I do an hour, hour and a half trading every day, five days a week, and I've gotten stronger than I've ever been in my life. I've been doing it, I guess maybe I probably now with my sixth year doing this, I got my second degree brown belt. Recently, I'm working towards my black belt and mixed martial arts. It's an eclectic blend of tempo jiu jitsu, uh, a problem of God in boxing and it's uh, it's a hard art and it's real fighting, and it's you know, I'm I'm proud of it. But I can't imagine if I didn't start this when I was fifty, I'd be you know, fat and flabby and out of shape. And and I can't imagine I have more energy now than I did when I was forty. Well, I mean, there's what a lot of people don't realize. It just gives you energy. And that's why I try to tell tell people about our kids in school that we were having schools today is people are trying to remove physical education out of schools, and I'm saying, guys, we gotta give kids activities that they have to do because it gives them energy and it is improving that grades are better, and also even in the workplace, and you and and even I'm and I'm not talking about this council right now, but what I want to say is I've been saying this for years, that I'm talking about physical education is more than just getting out kicking a soccer ball or just running around. We're talking about healthcare. We're talking about how they're gonna keep people healthy. And that's what I've been preaching all my life. I consider myself a healthy guy. What do you think of all these guys? I mean, you're an amazing you know, uh career, I mean just just phenomenal. Actually, you know SEC Player of the Year All American Um. I mean you know, you do mixed martial arts. You rushed eight thousand, two hundred and twenty five yards in your NFL career, I mean just phenomenal, receiving yards about five thousand of those. What do you think about this head injury issue involving NFL players? Because I know for a fact that you know a lot of guys have had that bell rung so often it really it kind of detaches their brain um from their skulls somewhat, and it it does cause severe damage well, you know that is that is real, and I think it is. It is a problem that I think the NFL is trying to address. And I said that they're trying to address it, and I think they've gotta address it. But one of the things that have to also address is determinant what is a concussion and what is not. You know, everyone that's had problems in the NFL is not from concussion, and uh, you know, and not that pre church and work again, but you know, I work with the military, and one of the things I said, sometimes sometimes guys, you may do things out of bad habits. You may do things because you have a coping problem. And what I mean by that is sometimes you have problems because you're trying to cope with other problems you have, whether alcohol or drugs, that has nothing to do with concussion. So something I gotta determin was'n't concussion and what's your problem really is? And what I say is, what are the route Not just to Liam's on the tree, let's what are the roots and get down to what the problem is and we can have that tree to grow. And that's what I've learned in my life that you get down to what the serious problems are and we can determine what what can help you to blossom. All right, We're really proud to be your friend. Uh, your incredible, inspiring uh figure for everybody. You make me feel like my workouts little, but I think it's big in my own mind. Uh. President Trump appointing Bill Belichick and our Herschel Walker to his new sports counsel Herschel It's always an honor, my friend. God bless you, and thank you for sharing all this with you with us, and uh we look forward to seeing what you and Belichick can do together. Be fun. Hey, thank you. I'm I'm honored to be on the President Fitness Calvin Shun You always impressed. Man. I'm always watching you, and it takes people like you to keep this country doing the things that it is. Uh, listen, you know what I'm just wasn't a little spoken the wheel. That's how I look at It's like a team, right. You need you need blockers, you need eyes on the front line, you need a quarterback, you need people to run, you need people to play defense. So it's all part of an effort, all right, my friend, God bless you. This effort is to save the country and not let them undermine a duly elected president who's doing a great job. All right, let's gonna wrap things up with today with all those breaking news. We'll have all of it tonight. The Mueller beat down in court today on the maniport case, also the Meadows and Jordan's letter absolutely demanding that they hand over what Rod Rosenstein had is the mandate for this investigation. We'll get into all of the Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, Sebastian Gorkat, David Limbaugh, Michael Kaputo, Ari Fleischer, and Monica Crowley all coming up nine Eastern. Have a great weekend. We'll see it tonight at nine. Back here on Monday,