Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to the Sean Hannity Radio show podcast. This just into our newsroom. A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. Was another apparently that was another plane seized. An airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center lost. There appears to be a gaping hole. There goes, there goes, there goes there, it goes, but the full side has collapsed. A building has collapses. Our two him complete cower by. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center. This We're not going to be cowered by it. If we're not afraidful. The freedom loving nations of the world stand by our sasshion stars rout to have the red, white and blue whiz twee. We'll not gland to sue way brought to be a part of this country. Je me, I think about the families children to the play. Freedom itself was attacked and freedom will be defantasy East are you here? You'll just leave? You think it might be just let you leave the fes. Someone raised DESI to raise the resolve of our great nation is being tested. Then she stands I pre through the wagon united see from fur courage scar I mean, I'm the writing dy. Then we will not forget the twenty eight hundred people feel. Police and fire not only were heroes at the beginning, but they're still heroes. Miss with. We're gonna come out of this emotionally stronger, and the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time to the bridge. Those guys stood more to them anyone ever expected. Over this truth. They messed with the wrong city, They missed with the wrong stake. Stand and I just don't want people to forget. Well they all have a sense of duty to protect us all we still first in our decombination rust of the country. Now understand who the true defenders are made the Irish Hills, Krussian maker lakes and rivers. Blession, we see we made the look of the Irish infrolls. You we seem made the blessings of Saint Patrick. Behold, God blessed Ireland and God blessed the United States of America. She stands now America's embracing a new ethic and a new creed. Let's roll. The phrase new York's Finest and New York's Bravest mean something, now, doesn't it? This is a time to reflect and be thankful for where we are today through the we will rebuild New York City. She still yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves. That was seventeen years ago. I can't even believe how long it has been. Michael W. Smith. The story behind that song, and obviously we added a lot of the audio to it, and we have other songs we'll be playing throughout the day today. Is that at some point after the attack that happened here in New York City, George W. Bush said to Michael W. You got you gotta write a song, the video to it. We'll put it up on our website, Hannity dot com. I mean, if you watch this video and hear this song and you don't cry, you don't have a heart, you don't have a soul. Anyway, eight hundred nine for one sewn toll free number. You want to be a part of the program. Later on, Bernie Kerrick will we'll go back. We'll remember seventeen years ago. Then we'll go back and remember six years ago. It was also nine eleven, twenty twelve, when of course there was the attack in Benghazi and the stand down orders and the people. It's how fascinating that Barack Obama this past Friday, I called it a conspiracy theory about Benghazi. Can I add something? Do you mind? You know I never interrupt your monologue, so it's worthy. Go ahead, Linda, it's the lending them on Glacklin show. No, I just wanted to I was talking to someone the other day. I had never heard this as someone who lived here on nine eleven was trapped into building on nine to eleven myself, and I was talking to this guy who went down and volunteered on nine to eleven, and he was there. He was about three feet from the President when he came and gave that iconomy when he stood on the rubble with the bullhorn one hundred percent and was like, you know, giving soon the rest of the world will hear from us. And the interesting thing that he said to me, which I was like in shock, He's like no one could hear him because even though he was on the bullhorn, we were kind of behind him, right, and everyone on the job site, as they were calling it, was whispering in case they heard signs of life. Right, So there was this weirdness when everyone, like the President comes on the you know, the scene of this horrible terror attack, and you would think there'd be applause or cheering, and it was silence. The fireman, the elderly gentleman next to them. President Bush, I've run into many times. He's a wonderful man, and you know, it's it's an amazing thing to go back and think that we lived through this. And one of the things that always comes to mind, it's like you just can't believe it. One tower's hit, another tower's hit, the Pentagon's hit. I mean, think of it this way. My daughter just turned seventeen years old. She was born August twenty ninth, two thousand and one, and I asked her it sometimes, do you know what happened, you know, just a couple of weeks after you were born. She knows, she knows what happened, but she didn't live it. And it's amazing. How scared were you. It's like you're bringing your baby girl into this world and this happens, like what ten days later, those thoughts I wasn't afraid. I America had strength. It was chilling to watch. It's something that I've always known that evil exists. My dad had fought in World War Two after Pearl Harbor. I knew about his life experience four years in the Pacific. And we all know. I've learned enough history about your fascism, Nazism, communism. We know what happened Imperial Japan and that unprovoked attack. You know day that we'll live in infamy in nine to eleven with the worst attack in history. We're living here. And you know my son was in college. Now he literally dropped him off at nursery school, just dropped him off. Then I gotta call Gomez, calls me, Hannity Gomez, are you watching this like what? That's a run home race to the TV? And you know at that point he just stunts, just stunning one thing after another. Now, this is often the methodology of these terrorists, and all world's changed a lot from that. We forget you know, I know, we go through airports and we get padded down and we get wandered. Especially if you travel with sweet baby James, you get wanted more than usual because he has a big sign on his back that says wand me and everybody with me. He's the only one that gets wanted every single time. Now that he has an artist, unfortunately, well now he has a fake hip that this last Russia Summit disaster. Yeah, um, and but that never used to be the case. I remember how that day we were able to get on the air and radio. I mean, we couldn't get into the city. Nobody could enter New York City. And so Phil Boyce was our program director at the time over at the ex Wife our other station once that was once Good Good station and anyway, so over there, I'm just teasing our friends there, but honestly, we got up. We went. I went to w l i R in guard City, Long Island. It's since changed call letters a number of times, but it was a big station over at the time when I was growing up as a kid. It was an alternative rock station. And we went there and I'm sitting in one studio I think WLTW, which is light music in New York that they're in that studio. Opie and Anthony are in that studio. They were on ANYW at the time, and then that station was doing the Rome broadcasting and you got wires literally all up and down the hall, and somehow magically they were able to get everybody up on the air, and we were able to broadcast that day because I couldn't get into the city. I've lived on on a long island, and by the way, this is a very competitive business, but not that day. Everyone was all hands on deck. And the thing that stands out in my mind and what I remember the most, it was one shock after another, then the field in Pennsylvania, then the Pentagon. I remember when I was broadcasting. It was during the broadcast I had gotten a call from somebody. I don't think we've taken commercials that day, and I remember somebody said Barbara Olson was on the flight that hit the Pentagon, and that's Ted Olson's wife, former Solicitor General. Great guy. Barbara Olson had been a regular. She wrote about Hillary Clinton Held to Pay. I think it was the name of her book. I still have it. She had Hillary thesis from college, I remember. But more importantly is all of these families to this. This is a hard day for a lot of people. You know, there are kids that have grown up having never seen their mothers and fathers because they died that day. And a lot of the people that died were firemen, and a lot of them were policemen, and a lot of them were transit police people and other paramedics and first responders. And the most amazing thing that happens is while everybody is trying to get out of what is a horrific situation, those guys going up in the other direction. And even for a city like New York, which can be pretty cold, I mean, it's it's kind of a true image. I mean, Linda's walking through this. Come up, can you walk fast? Let's go? How are you going? Can we talk about my finer points today? And not bad thing? Yeah? Okay, But the point is New York came together because New York is a very impatient place at times, with impatient walkers on the streets. I am not alone, okay, But out of nowhere, all these you know, people started popping up tents and feeding all the first responders everywhere, all around, all around where the rubble was Campbell's soup. I never forget campbell soups. But they weren't charging anybody. Restaurants open, they didn't charge anybody, and you know, volunteers going down to the extent that they could allow people in. And I think we have a lot of lessons to learn from this. We had let our guard down. They were war with us. We had forgotten the Cobard Towers, the embassy bombings, and Kenyon and Tanzania, we forgot the USS coal the First Trade Center bombing. All that had happened, and we didn't do anything about it. And I don't Those enemies still exist out there, and that's a danger to every good man, woman and child on this earth. There is evil that wants to destroy us. You only need read the history of Stalin and Russia and fascism and Hitler in Germany. That is pure, unadulterated evil. You open any newspaper on any given day, you read about murder and rape and horrific things that are done man's in humanity demand. And on the other side of that, in the midst of such evil, you get the other side of the human experience, just pure generosity, goodness, courage on a level that you never see before. And that's what I remember. All those people that went up in the other direction and never went home that night pretty lieable. We better never forget, because it can happen again. We'd better keep our guard up. Do you have opinions that you feel you can express. I think we all do. Are you looking for a place to stir up conversation and let your opinions be heard? I want to introduce you to a new alternative social media site, snippy dot com. Snippy is an unbiased social media platform that's all about conversation and community. Snippy not only encourages freedom of expression, but guarantees its users the ability to discuss topics freely without any suppression from administrators. Check in for a quick update about current events, or spend hours scrolling through users posts. Write your thoughts and strike up conversation. Snippy's founders have intentionally created a forum where anyone can feel free to express their thoughts, frustrations, ideas, anything. Really, it's a place where discussion is valued, a place where your opinion matters, totally free. Go to snippy dot com now to express yourself. No shadow banning, no character limit, and no suppression of concern of it have thought ever? Check out the website at snippy dot com or download the app, No censorship, no agenda. Join us at snippy to get the discussion rolling. You know it is um. I do love human true human courage, and I know like when we go to movies. We like to see heroic figures, we really do, I know, for whatever reason. And I'm not particularly somebody that likes Hollywood a whole lot, but you know, all these action figure hero movies, I know a lot of them do very well in the box office and people like them. But there were actually more real heroes that day, seventeen years ago. You know, you think about this, two planes hitting two towers, another plane hitting the Pentagon, A plane goes down on a field in Pennsylvania because a bunch of brave people said let's roll. Those were all heroes, every one of them. And we forget, but they're remember. We remember them all today, their courage. I don't even know to say about this idiot Joe Scarborough, Liberal Joe and Mika. It really outdoes himself this morning. He actually writes a Washington Post column. It's not like he miss spoke. Now. I'm on the era. I fly without a net four hours a day, live radio, live television, every single day. But when you take the time to really write something, you have time to sculpt it, go over it, think about it. He just made a total asse out of himself and he's trying to walk it back now Mediaite has the story up that, after receiving heavy criticism, he was asking whether President Trump had a more detrimental impact on America than nine to eleven. I mean, this is how sick and twisted and ugly and deranged that Conspiracy Network has become. I mean, it's twenty four to seven hating Trump. You can't put it aside for five seconds, not even on nine to eleven oh one. And just anyway, he does a title a title piece in the Washington Post. Trump is harming the dream of America more than any foreign adversary ever could. Is it even worth talking about this guy? No, it really isn't just pretty disgusting, it's really twisted. It's sick. You know, all the success that we're having. Maybe you don't like the style of the president, the tweets of the president, things he says, sometimes the fights that he picks. But you can't deny it's worker. That's one thing. By the way, Joey Scarborough'll meek they used to love the president. Yes, they don't like them now so now they've gone all in. That's a Republican on Conspiracy TV MSNBC job STARTI joins us in a minute. The President now is at his desk at the White House in the Oval Office and talking about Hurricane Florence, a Cat four headed right for the Carolina Coast and the eastern coast of the United States. Here's what he says. Okay, thank you very much. I've received a briefing from Secretary Nielsen, administrat along and my senior staff regarding Hurricane Florence and other tropical systems that will soon impact the United States and its territories. The safety of American people is my absolute highest priority. We are sparing no expense. We are totally prepared. We're ready. We're as ready as anybody's ever been. And it looks to me, and it looks to all of a lot of very talented people that do this for a living, like this is going to be a storm that's going to be a very large one, far larger than we've seen in perhaps decades. Things can change, but we doubt they will at this stage. It's pretty late stage. We doubt they're going to be very very far off course. The places that are in the way and in the most jeopardy would be Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, that area, and again they haven't seen anything like what's coming at us in twenty five thirty years maybe ever. It's tremendously big and tremendously wet, tremendous amounts of water. So I've spoken with the governors of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. They're prepared, We're prepared. We're working very well in conjunction with the governors. I'd like to ask Brock along our administrator has done so well for US and Texas and Florida, we have something it could very well be very similar to Texas in the sense that it's tremendous amounts of water. Texas was the one that had I would say to this point, Brock probably more water than we've ever seen in a storm or a hurricane, and it went out for seconds and thirds. We've never seen anything like Edward. But females, you know, did a fantastic job, and a fantastic job well so in Florida. And I'd like to ask Kruc if you would to just say a few words to the media as to where it is now, what's going to be happening, and how well prepared we are. Thank you as president. Unfortunately, Hurricane Florence is setting up to be a devastating event to the Carolinas and potentially Virginia as well. So as you can see their forecasts, they're forecasting a major landfalling storm category three or four storm. At landfall, the biggest hazard that we're worried about is storm surge. That's the primary driver of the evacuations that are underway by the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia right now. But as this system comes in and makes landfall during the weekend, it's forecast to stall out, lose this steering it's steering currents and drop copious amounts of rainfall. Unfortunately, the remnants of Gordon passed through the Mid Atlantic over the weekend and dropped a lot of rain, saturating rivers. So Hurricane Florence has it come in and puts anywhere between twenty and thirty inches more and isolated areas to create a lot of indland flooding. So right now, sir, we're supporting the governors with achieving their life safety evacuation movements. We're focused on mass care and sheltering, and then we'll be focused on helping them to execute their response and recovery goals. What are the chances that it veers off costs and the hit won't be so direct. What are the chances of that? Unfortunately, I believe there's quite a bit of certainty in the track forecast because the forward speed is picking up, it's getting faster, and when systems do that, the track forecast becomes a lot more accurate. And I think the expectation needs to be set with the citizens in this area that if you've been asked to leave, get out of the areas that are going to flood and get into a facility that can withstand the winds. Let's set the expectations as well. This has an opportunity of being a very devastating storm. The power is going to be off for weeks, You're going to be displaced from your home in the coastal areas, and there will be flooding in the inland areas as well. So these are going to be statewide events. The hazards will be statewide. Thanks you wanted to show us this one, then this is a This is a seven day rainfall graphic. As you can see, the pink areas and the purple areas indicate twenty inches that's a mean area rainfall, that's an average rainfall amount, but you may see isolated amounts greater into the thirty inch range over Virginia, the central portions of Virginia and West Virginia. And these impacts are they're going to be through the mid Atlantic. So we're coordinating not only with South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, but other mid Atlantic states all the way to Delaware. Good, I guess, sir, And it has been great coordination. I have to tell you. The states have been terrific. Everybody's working together. The governors and all of their representatives have been absolutely fantastic in FEMA as nobody like you people, I mean they what they're doing is incredible. Do you have any questions for Secretary Nielsen or for Brock? Long since we see from what happened Puerto Ricos, Puerto Rico, I think Puerto Rico was incredibly successful. Puerto Rico was actually our toughest one of all because it's an island, so you can't trump things onto and everything is by boat. We moved to hospital into Puerto Rico, a tremendous military hospital in the form of a ship. You know that. And I actually think, and the governor has been very nice and if you asked the governor, he'll tell you what a great job I think, probably the hardest one we had by far wast Puerto Rico because of the island nature, and I actually think it was one of the best jobs that's ever been done. With respect to what this is all about. Puerto Rico got hit not with one hurricane but with two. And the problem with Puerto Rico is their electric grid and their electric generating plan was dead before the storm's ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy, had no money, it was largely you know, it was largely closed, and when the storm hit, they had no electricity essentially before the storm, and when the storm hit, that took it out entirely. The job that FEMA and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in Puerto Rico, I think was tremendous. I think the Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success. Texas. We had been given a pluses for Florida, we've been given a pluses for I think in a certain way, the best job we did was Puerto Rico. But nobody would understand that. I mean, that's it's harder to understand. It was a very hard, very hard thing to do because of the fact they had no electric before the storm's hit. It was dead, as you probably know. So we've gotten a lot of receptivity, a lot of thanks for the job we've done in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was very important and by the way, speaking of Puerto Rico, and there to be affected pretty much pretty soon by something else that's on its way, is it right? Potentially Hurricane Isaac right now is tracking south of the island, but we are We have several thousand people inside Puerto Rico right now working on long term recovery that have shifted to the response mode to monitor as Isaac passes to the sea. Do not want to see Hurricane Isaac hit Puerto Rico, That's all we need. But we have a big hurricane out there and then sort of skirting along Puerto Rico and the edge of Puerto Rico, that would not be good. How much do you think you need for ricovery efforts next, Well, we have it currently. We're gonna obviously these are all unanticipated, so we'll go to Congress. Congress will be very generous because we have no choice. This is the United States, and it's whether it's Texas or Florida, or frankly, if it's Virginia, because Virginia looks like it's very much in the path. Maryland, by the way, could be affected, very seriously affected. Just to add it's a little bit outside of the path. And then of course South Carolina and North Carolina. I think that any amounts of money, whatever it takes, we're going to do. But we're already set up. We have tremendous trucking systems, we have food systems, we have a lot of a lot of contractors waiting. But for the most part, it's been handled by FEMA, and also we've coordinated locally. We have food for days, we have emergency equipment and generators for many days. We should be in great shape. Now, I've also heard it could be twenty one and twenty two inches. If you can imagine what that is, twenty two inches of rain. It is not something that we've had, certainly we've never had this on the East Coast. But I think we're very well prepared, very well set up. When you say, yeah, I think this storm right here is very similar to Hurricane Hugo, and it's almost like a combination of Hurricane Hugo and eighty nine and her Floyd in nineteen ninety nine. But look, successful disaster response and recovery is one that's locally executed, state managed, and federally supported. So what FEMA is doing is prepositioning the federal government's assets to support each one of those governors that are about to be impacted with achieving their response and recovery goals. And that's the way emergency management and disaster response works best. I also think i'd i'd like to point out that what we learned last year is that we have got to build a true culture preparedness within our citizens here in America. This is a partnership and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor all the way to the federal government when it comes to correctly responding and recovery. We as power opportunity. What we'll do that right now? So sure, great, that's a great question. So FEMA doesn't own the power the power grids in any one of these states. A lot of them are owned by the private industry. So what we have our Business Emergency Operations Center calls. We're concentrating with the private vendors to make sure that they have strong mutual aid program is in place, and we set up incident support great bases to help stage power crews coming in from other states, and largely it's famous job to get out of the way to make sure that the private power companies can get into these areas to set up their grid. We don't own it. We don't own it. But unlike Puerto Rico, you have very strong power companies. They're very powerful, very well managed in the sense that they they have tremendous overcapacity. They are going to do a great job. They also have made contracts with other power companies that won't be affected, and they're going to be coming in. Just answer your question, they'll be coming in to the various states that will be affected. They're going to be coming in very strongly, and they're already lining up. They'll be here probably for the most part tomorrow or shortly before the stormheads, so they're going to be in great shape. These are really states that have very very strong power authorities. President people who need not that way. Well, that's very rich. I mean again, we've never seen anything quite like this. On the East Coast at least, and if it turns out to be as bad, you know, we go out there, you have you have people that actually go fly through these storms. These are very brave people, but they fly through and from what I'm hearing, the sites that they're seeing have not been seen on the East Coast before. So I would say everybody should get out. I mean, you have to listen to your local authorities and whether you're Upland or downland, but depending on where you are, you have to listen and you have to get out if they want you to get out, because it's going to be impossible to have people get in there, whether it's law enforcement or FEMA or anybody else. Once this thing, so it's going to be really really bad along the coast. Okay, anything else you ordering, well, you shouldn't be talking about that right now because it doesn't matter. But I really appreciate this statement. This state was excellent, and they both set out you know, the president. Wrapping up now is we go to Joe bistorti WeatherBell dot com. Joe, you've been saying one thing that you said to me in a text message. This is the real thing. This is the real deal. It's gonna the pattern, which was confirmed by the President's guy. The pattern is not going to shift. It's going right to the Carolinas and Virginia. Well, yeah, I think that there's a track rock showing that the track, well, you know, we've been further south, we've been in at Wilmington's Cape Fear and then taking it sort of toward Asheville, not quite as much up toward Virginia, and I think that that still has validity. And I could have given a strength of this big upper ridge of high pressure that's going to be developing this weekend, I could see this track going almost straight westward through South Carolina into North Georgia. I'm actually a little bit more concerned about North Georgia and South Carolina than Virginia now where where landfall is at Cape Fear, I don't think we're going to we're going to vary that at all. And the question becomes how fast does it come ashore? And if you see it, the best thing that can happen in the best of the worst world is that this comes and stops just offshore the water up wells, and even though those beaches will be getting battered, it would weaken a bit just before it came inland. And if it just keeps coming and coming and coming, and if it's inland late Thursday night Friday morning, you're going to see one hundred and forty hundred and fifty mile an hour winds where it makes landfall around Cape Fear. We do think that this is going to it sometime crawl to an almost halt. And the question is when and where is that hawk going to be? Is it going to be on the South Carolina? You said this yesterday that it's a slower moving storm than you go, which went in and out and created massive damage. And then that sense it makes it more deadly to you. It makes it. It makes it if it comes in and then stalls, that's the worst case scenario because it won't have time. A lot of times when these storms stall in these coastal waters, what will happen is they'll be up well and the water will cool and they'll start to get a little bit weaker. The storm that hit in nineteen sixty four and Dora, for instance, stopped off St. Augustine for a while before it came in, So instead of going in at one forty one in at one twenty. What we want to emphasize and what we would say to weather Bell is we believe this is going to be a storm that very very close and on top of Cape Fear late Thursday night and on into Friday morning, and then the track is more west into the southern part of the Carolina southern North Carolina, South Carolina, rather than up. I'm not really impressed with the I'm not saying I'm not saying stop in Virginia. I'm certain not telling you to you know, I don't worry about it. What I'm saying is that when that storm gets to the coast, there is a rearrangement of the upper pattern, sort of a handoff from the Atlantic Ridge to the Big Ridge is going to be over the Great Lakes of blocking Upper High and that when is it gonna hit? We gotta we gotta run here. When when do you think this makes landfall? It's midnight to six am Friday morning at Cape or North Carolina. That's when I think the center comes ashore. All right, When does it really start hitting though? Well, that big hurricane force winds reached the North Carolina coast by noon, maybe nine am in the morning on Thursday. I think those areas are getting battered. So by the time I come on the air Thursday night at nine, it's going to be in full swing by y'all. Oh yeah, it's gonna be rocking and rolling. I mean, it's just that storm is going to be WeatherBell dot com for the very latest. Americans do not yet have the distance of history, but our responsibility to hit street is already clear to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil. I hear people say we don't need this war and it's not a wart. I say, there's something worth fighting for. We are very grateful and thankful that we live in a country with this freedom of speech, that people who are either for or against the war can speak out. What about our freed Everything else went black and this piece of ground, everything came down. We didn't get to keep them by backing down, glass of popping, and people got hurt. He said, on realize the mess we're getting there goes there, goes Well, you start you're preaching. Let me ask you this, my friend, have you forgotten Oh my god, oh my god. Another plane just flew. It's posing is incredible. Have you forgotten? I saw this plane come out of nowhere and just green right into the side of the twin tower, exploding through the other side. There's been an active war declared upon America. My terrorists, you forgotten. I can hear you. The rest of the world hear you. And the people are knocking, filming down while your arm you forgot. No, no, no, no, no no, Say I'm gonna die, say your friend when I'm pretty Have you forgot? God? Dozens of residents that are sitting on the hill behind the Pentagon, almost like they're waiting for the Fourth of Drive fireworks, but instead they're staring, dumpshouted and look like what looks like a war result. I mean, you see bodies flying out of the sky and you can't do nothing about it. You tell me, there's no words to describe what's going on out. Have you go? America is a nation full of good fortune, was so much to be grateful for, but we are not spared from suffering. In every generation the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America because we are freedom's home and defender. Have you for God and the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time? At this memorial of this sacred earth in the field beyond this wall, and in the skies above our heads, we remember the moment when America fought back. We're also joined by members of the National Park Service, along with firefighters, first responders, and incredible people from law enforcement. These are truly great people. Some of you here today answered the call and raced to this field seventeen years ago. You fill our hearts with pride, and I want to thank you on behalf of our country. Thank you very much. All right, joining us now. He was the police commissioner on nine to eleven, two thousand and one in New York City, showed incredible heroism and bravery. By the way, as a brand new book out. It's a novel and it's called The Grave Above the Grave and actually comes from really real life experiences as I've been reading it. Of them Bernard characters, Well, what's up, commission how are you? I'm good, Sean, how are you? It's really good to see you. I think back seventeen years ago and I just it's unimaginable that all of that happened. You know, we played the song by Daryl Warley. Have you forgotten? I think a lot of people sadly have forgotten. I think we get further away. You see this guy here seventeen years later. Yeah, nothing has happened to Khalid Sheik Muhammad, who is the mastermind of no trial. Yeah, still waiting for trial seventeen years later. Why is he alive? Yeah? Who knows? Who knows? Yeah? Um, I just walk us through that day because you experienced something the worst attack on American soil in our history. You know it can add Pearl Harbor, the second worst, just as bad, horrible death and destruction, and you nearly died in the process. I did a couple of times. Actually that morning I was in my office when the first plane hit Tower one. My chiefest staff, Chompicciano, came in and told me that a plane hit the tower. I got to see the damage on TV and through one of my conference room windows. I called them Mayor. I told him I meet him downtown at seven World Trade, directly across the street from Tower one. That's where our commands for your command centerway. Yeah, I was. I was going to meet him there. And jumped in the car down to West Broadway and Vesse and we were stopped by the cops. A sergeant came up to my car and he said, Commissioner, you can't pull onto the block. They're jumping. And I hadn't. I didn't know what I didn't know what he was talking about, and I got out of the vehicle. That was one of the hardest things to watch. I looked up at one. In that first few minutes, I watched probably two dozen people jumped to their death and they were landing on vesse. They were landing in the courtyard between the two buildings and pretty much disintegrating and uh, well, for those that don't know, the reason they had to jump is that they had jet fuel and they and the fire obviously, and they were burning. They were being burnt a lot. Well, they were not wat sean. It was it was probably fifteen hundred to two thousand degrees in that area where they were, so they they took what they thought was the best route to end it, really because there was no living through it. We waited there on that corner. We backed up the vehicles. I told the Mayor's detail to meet us on Barkley and West Broadway, and as I was waiting for him, the second aircraft slammed through the north side of the tower. So when you see that big orange fireball blow out the north side of Tower two, me and my staff Joe loaded the Deputy Mayor, we were standing under it. You had no doubt after the first plane though, that this was terror. After you know what, if the first plane it could be an accident. The damage looked too big, you know, they kept saying plane. I was thinking, how big? What kind of plane? What was nobody know at the time? Was it a small you know, right? You know? Plane? The people the damage was enormous. But when the second plane hit, I didn't actually see the plane. It came from the southern end of Manhattan and it blew out the north side of the building over top of us. But I could hear the aviation pilots, the helicopter pilots from the NYPD yelling that a second aircraft had just hit Tower two, And at that minute, that moment, I knew we were under attack. When you think back to that day and your job at that moment is to lead your guy, and it that includes fd NY, I mean the fire department. They lost a ton of people, right, A lot of first responders lost their life, and I think the most amazing thing to me in that day is everybody else and that's in the World Trade Center that rightly they're racing down to get out of the building. But in the other direction there's a group of other people, you know what, And this is I think this is what people just can't grasp. Because of the magnitude of the attack, New York City first responders, the fire Department, the police Department, in Port Authority Police effected the greatest rescue mission in the history of this country. They took twenty to twenty five thousand people out of those buildings in the immediate area, and they evacuated more than a million people into the four boroughs and into New Jersey under Rudy Giuliani's leadership. It was a little over an hour before the towers came down, right right, So you didn't have a lot of time. But we remember the videos people walking over bridges and no exactly, Hey, Shan, you know what, when the first how we imploded. The Mayor and I, as you know, we were actually trapped inside seventy five Barkley on a block away blocked north. He was on the phone with the White House trying to get the president, and somebody came on the line, and I remember he hung up the phone. He looked at me, he said, this isn't good. I said, what is it? He said, somebody just told me that they think the Pentagon got hit. They're evacuating the White House. And they hung up on me. And I was before I could get my head around what he just said, the first tower came down. The first hower came down, and it felt like, you know, a freight train was coming through the side of the building we were in. And then then second you can't see a thing. You couldn't see nothing, you know. I you know, I can look back and laugh now, but at the time I actually thought, I said, you know, all the stuff I've been through my life, gun battles, shootouts, partners shot partner, friends killed in the line of duty, and all this stuff, all that stuff, but I'm gonna suffocate in this office because there was no way out. I couldn't breathe, and we were actually trapped in there for about twenty twenty five minutes. And then we got these maintenance guys to open up some doors under you know, in the basement of the building, and went out onto Church Street, and I remember getting into one hundred Church walking through a vestibule door and there was no sound. It's unbelievable. There was no sound there. It was definitely silent. Let's talk about those guys. How many first responders, police, firemen, port authority cops? You know? I lost? I lost twenty three that worked for me. The Port Authority police lost thirty seven. But the New York City Fire depart Department three, you know, and in the Mayor and I when we got trapped, we actually walked up Church Street to Houston to the firehouse. That house was locked down, it was complete, there wasn't no one in it. They left that to me is the story. I gotta take a break, We'll come back. Bernie Carrica remains with US former NYPD commissioner. He was there. He put his life on the line on nine eleven, nearly lost it. He also has his new book out the Grave Above the Grave. Eight hundred nine for one. Shaun is our toll free telephone number. Hey listen, I talk about simply save home security a lot on this show, and they offer the best protection for your home and your family. And I've known these guys a long time, and there are only five guys that we're working for the company. When I got to know them, well, guess what. Now there's almost a thousand and they protect millions of us as Americans. They protect our homes and family and it's the latest, greatest, best technology. C Net, PC Magazine, Wirecutter all named Simply Save Home Security their top pick. And here's a lot of reasons why it is wireless. There's no installation, no contract to sign, no expensive monthly rates. You get twenty four hour protection, seven days a week, shital monitoring, police dispatch. You get protection against intruders, fires, leaks, busted pipes at They even work during power outages and down Wi Fi, even if a burglar smashes your keypad. It's incredible to use. And right now you'll get a ten percent discount just by going to simply Save Hannity dot Com. And it's only fourteen ninety nine a month. That's simply Save Hannity dot Com. Simply Save Hannity dot Com. America will never forget, forget. This is the Sean Hannity Show. As we continue with Bernie Karen, former New York City Police Commissioner, on nine to eleven, as we remember all that happened that day. Two thousand and one is a book out. It's called The Grave Above the Grade. Chilling reminder of what we're up against. You know, you have in the midst of evil, because there's only one way to describe this as evil. And then you have your guys what you trained for. And everybody's going one way to get the hell out of there, and you guys are going in the opposite direction. I have to believe that those firemen and policemen knew that there was a good chance they were going to their death that day. They had to listen. They're smart people. They ran from the scene when the stuff fell, right, and after everything settled after Building two imploded, they went back to Tower one. They went back into the building, They went back to the surrounding area to start re evacuating. You know, there is courage like that is not easy to come by, and they knew the perils inherent with what they were doing. It's amazing. I give I have a lot of friends of mine and law enforcement, and then on the fire department, I give them such hell. I'm a horrible front. I'm like, wait, wait a minute, you get twenty four hours on in the twenty four hours. You get to cook these great meals, you get rack time, they get to sleep, sometimes not a lot, you know what, but when they're needed. The one day it was one day, and and then the one fire, one day and their life could be over. And it happens. It happens more often than it should, right u it is. And then you know, there was a pretty amazing moment too, because all these stores started opening up and just feeding all the first responders. Listen, we held cash, you know, changing hands. People just stepped up. If there's one thing that bothers me about what we're going through today, you know, the political attacks, the persecution of the president, this polarization in Washington on September eleventh, this was one country, completely, one country. And we had cops that drove and fireman that drove from California down to ground zero over a three or four day period. And I remember going down there at night and stopping these guys from Oakland, California, and I said, what are you doing here? Like, how'd you get here? There's no flights? Yeah, they said, well, my man, here's got to pick up. And this guy had a car and we jumped in. We just got on route eighty headed east until we saw the smoke. One thing I remembered is Campbell soup. I mean it may not sound like a big deal. I eat Campbell soup all the time. Check a noodle. They set up a soup tent for everybody, that's right, and they fed them for weeks and weeks and weeks, and the food came from everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. You know, it just as a reminder that evil does exist in the United States. To me, must remain the strong force for good. I always say, Ernie, that there's never been a country in the history of man that has accumulated more power, not only abused it less, but advanced the human condition for good. Not that we're perfect. And we saw the worst day that we could imagine, and then we saw the best in humanity by people like yourself and the mayor, and all of those firemen and policemen, port authority, cops and paramedics that all went there. It blows me away. And those families never got to see their families again. It's sad, it is it is, And all those people killed. I think there's a term, you know, this term never forget, never forgive, and never forgive you cannot forgive the people that did this. You can't forget what their what their mindset is, what their ideology is, what they want. They want the demise of Israel, they want the demise of this country. They strongly believe that if you don't worship the same god they do the same way they do, they have a right to kill you. And personally me, I just I'd rather be on the opposite end. I think we should kill them first before they kill us. It's interesting your new book is out the Grave Above the Grave, and it is about another attack on American soil from a network of radical Islamic terrorism, so it's really ripped from the headlines. You are a hero then and you are today, and I know the course of what you've done, you save lives. You're also a dear friend of mine. Thank you for what you did that day. I'll never forget. And everybody else, And to all the families that lost loved ones, we're thinking about them today and they're in our prayers. It's unimaginable these kids grow up with our parents after this, and you know what, Sean, just, on a personal note, thank you for what you do, because without your support, without people like you supporting the first responders. You know, this is why I hate taking on the FBI every day. I don't want to like doing it. We live in a time right now where there's so much anti government, anti comp sentiment, anti military sentiment by the left. They need all the support they can get. Ah, you are a hero that day. Thank you, Thank you, Bernie Carrick. The book is called The Grave Above the Grave. We'll put it up on Hannity dot com. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll continue. Over the past few decades, the politics of division, of resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party. This Congress has championed the unwinding of campaign finance loss to give billionaires outside influence over our politics, embraced wild conspiracy theories right no surrounding Benghazi one more thing if I made This year, a representative of the House referred to all loss as just another incident. This year. A network commented has said the President's performance in Helsinki was the Traders Act, as was nine to eleven. And last week a senator attacked the Supreme Court nominee and qual to him a racist for alleged comments after nine to eleven. Stop stop, please stop using the bones and ashes of all loved ones as props in your political theater. Their lives, sacrifices and death. Oh or it's so much more. Let's not trivilize them or us. It hurts to my mom and to all of you and your loved ones. Never forget. You know here it is nine to eleven two what eighteen? We had nine eleven, two thousand and one, We had Bernie Kerrig on the program earlier. Then, of course we know what happened on nine eleven, twenty twelve. And if you go back and you think about it, well that's when Benghazi happened. And there you have Baraque Obama claiming, oh, this is a conspiracy theory. Well we know it wasn't a conspiracy theory because the people that were there on the ground that others asked to sign non disclosure agreements, they've told a very very different story. By the way, we have two heroes that we're talking to today. Sean Parnell is with us. By the way, a Purple Heart recipient's got a novel out. By the way, it's an amazing man of war and New York Times best selling author and also Chris Tanto Peranto, Well, I don't really like in real life, he's not a nice person. He's a horrible human being. Actually, thanks brother, aciate that. I'm gonna come, gonna hang up now. Uh now we've actually become good friends and we can do that. By the way, is that story true that your Twitter account was suspended? What's up with that? Twice in about forty eight hours? What did you do? I oh, there was a there was a there's a left a liberal group that that was well Rob O'Neil tweeted something and I don't true acts. People send these things to make we Robo O'Neil is the guy that shot Been Lauch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well they said, well, Robot during during Obama Space, she couldn't you know. He said he could say Nazism, neo nazis him over and over and Rob said, well, yeah, but neo Nazi, but you still can't say radical Islam. And then this left his group chimed in, well he did kill Osama bin Laden to Rob, and obviously this group did not know who Rob was. And when I read I was like, oh my god, I just busted up lasting, So I mocked him. I said, did you just tell the guy that shot and sell them in Laden that you get that Dirk Hussein Obama killed Ben Laden? And I just laughed and I did say one normal Tano rangerself president said on Friday, the politics of division and paranoia is found a home and the Republican Party, and they've embraced wild conspiracy theories like those surrounding Benghazi. Um, well, you were there on September eleventh, two thousand and twelve, and we lost lives that day, and you were given a stand down order because I've interviewed you enough that you told me and yeah, all of this happened. And then you end up in Germany and for the first time you turn on the TV and you hear people lying about what had happened there, you know, and at that point in time, it was sickening, but I turned it off. Yeah. I think people realized that. They said, well, you just wanted to make a book, You just wanted to Actually I went back served in Yemen for eight more months. I went and as it took, you know, to my too much break, and I went and served again because I figured, you know, I figured at that time, and I wasn't into politics. Hey, the powers that be will get disfigured out. I trust them, they're my leaders. How wrong I could be and how how I started to see that there was a deep state definitely involved. And over this last six years, they still are trying to rewrite history of Benghazi, and that is a slap in the face, not to just the family members, but I wouldn't saying to myself. The guys that fought, and I watched Tyrone and Glenn die, I was shooting over their heads. They didn't die, you know, And just by being on the ground with me, I was shooting over their heads when they were hit with mortars. I saw those mortars hit and too, so do you just call it a conspiracy theory and try to rewrite history when I watched them die and then I helped get their bodies to the airfield, and I also idd ambassador's bodies who was dying who died that night as well. Um, you know, it really offends me, and of course I'm good to get angry. Well was the ambassador. Stevens had requested numerous times additional security, and it was never forthcoming. That was Hillary Clinton State Department, and here you are at an annex about a mile away. You know what's going on. You know this as a terror attack. And that's why this whole story you want to talk about a conspiracy theory and Susan Rice going on five Sunday shows and telling the American people an outright lie. But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is, in fact, what it began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what it transpired some hours earlier in Cairo, where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video. But soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi. We believe that it looks like extremist elements individuals joined in that and that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are unfortunately readily now available in Libya post revolution, and that it's spun from there into something much much more violent. That this was a spontaneous demonstration, It wasn't spontaneous. People don't show up at demonstrations with grenade launchers in their back pocket like they did in this particular case exactly. I mean, let me bring Sean Parnell. Hey, Chris, it's great to finally get a chance to meet you on the Great Sean Hannity's radio show. It's pretty amazing and YouTube, right, you know, I thank for your service. I admire you. You're a hero, my friend. And likewise, well, by the way, for those that don't know, and I think it's important, I was going to bring those up. Sean Parnell's Army unit served in Afghanistan was the subject of the book national bestseller called Outlaw Platoon, And it was nine to eleven two thousand and one that inspired you to join the army to defend this country. And you had what four hundred five day deployment two thousand and six and seven. Yep, you're the only a single member of your platoon was killed. And since returning home, three members of the platoon have taken their own lives. And there's some two hundred and fifty plus thousand men because we over deployed them all right, correct, And PTSD is real and these guys are struggling to this day. Well, I mean that is why I part of the reason why I made the jump into fiction with Man of War because, by the way, I have to say, it's surreal to see a Man of War in the shelves and the fiction shelves right next to Bob Woodward's book. But but I will say that's that's the reason why I wrote that book, a mainstream fiction story. Who Eric Steo is my hero, but he embodies the greatness of the warrior ethos that that Chris you and I have you know, aspired to hold true too when we were in the military. He embodies everything that is great about the American character. And you know, after September eleventh, the most horrific terrorist attack on our nation's history, I mean, what really stuck with me that day was how the first responders responded to it. Police officers, firefighters, just ordinary American citizens who on that day and my eyes became extraordinary because instead of running away from the flames that day, they ran headlong into them. And many of the people that went into the flames that day never escaped a game with their lives. And I just feel like, you know, that inspired me to serve my country, serve something greater than myself, and take the fight to the enemy. For a year, and a half. But but it also inspired me to write a great to me, a fiction book, with a mainstream fiction book, with a character that actually loves this country, because I don't feel like there's enough of that in our culture today. Well I agree with that, and you know, look, I though I don't in retrospect, I'm not willing to sudden guys to war anymore. If we're going to fight to win the war. Look we have you're exactly right willing. Look, we have a moral responsibility in this country that when we send soldiers to war, it win it, because otherwise you have guys coming home in question what it was for in the first place. For decades, how many are back here with no legs, no arms, with their faces disfigured for the rest to their lives. Thus, thousands of thousands and then others never came home, or they came home in pieces in a box with an American flag draped over it. We ask people to step up and fight for their country, and then we don't back them, and we politicize our wars, and then we pull out and we don't we don't finish the job. It's maddening because here, here, we are in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, seventeen plus years. We win every battle on the ground, but somehow, somehow, in my eyes, were losing the war because we have the wrong strategy, because we've we've we've let our politicians take over the war as opposed to letting what do you think happened? Fifty eight thousand kids died in Vietnam? Fifty eight thousand. Then a war becomes politicized, and what do we do? We pulled out. Yeah, And honestly, that the same thing that happened. It's the same tragedy that happened with Chris right. You know, you have politicians involved where they shouldn't be. In the case of President Obama, he violated a sacred trust. If you're if your boys are under attack and they were being shot at and they were being overwhelmed, you send in the cavalry. And not only did President Obama, by the way, the commander in chief, the first the first first, Ye, yeah, tyle, he's a commander of duty and obligation and responsibility to the men and women in uniform to be there for him when they need it most and in your most dire moment, Chris, he was not there, and not only that he lied about it. How did the personnel react to being told to stand down? They were furious. So the military is told to stand down, not engage with the fight. These are the kind of people willing to engage. What did Where'd that message come down? Where'd the standown order come from? I believe it came from either Africa or South Africa? So so how many times did you guys attempt to go help out Ambassador Stevens and this compound that was under under enemy attack? Officially there was three. There was actually two weights and a stand down. So if you want to say officially, but for thirty minutes we were we were trying to get out the gate. But if you want to say an actual hey, we need to go to our leadership, our chief and our team leader. No you're not go and wait all right, we'll wait. There was actually three different specific times who are the weights to meet? Kake got the stand down, and then we finally just said, you know, to hell with it, we're going guys. This is when you hear your buddy and I know, I know Sean's heard this before as well, that radio call and it doesn't even to be even any experts. It's just the voice that's just put that chills up your spine, and said then and when Alec the State Department officer who had barricaded himself and the Tackle operations, the tackle operations started, the consulate said jis which was us. You know what, we are a global responsor. If you said grs, you don't get here, We're all gonna f and die. The whole teams like, to hell with this, We're going now. And we knew, we knew that if any of us died over there, because we're contractors, we would get no insurance, no life the church, if webb get no health insurance because we just so, we would be different. But you still but here here you but you knew your fellow Americans were under fire. You knew that they needed help. You had the ability to help them. It's a you're a mile away, you're the first, You're it. You're the only line of defense they have. Ultimately, you ended up saving dozens of lives I was in the process. Yeah, people that otherwise would have died. You lost people very close to you in that firefight. That that took the same risk that you did. And then you get to Germany after you've flown out of there, and the next thing you hear is your government lying to you about the whole incident. They made it up. And still still all of us had had the tests of fortitude to put that aside, at least initially. We can only call seals and rangers and marines wires for so long before we finally have had it, which is about eight months. I'll give you that. That's that's how long it is a date month. And but we still have been test of forded to put that aside and still trust our leadership, even though deep down inside because I've been deploying at that point, I've been deploying for ten years, ten years, had been deploying Afghanistan, iraq U, Libya and then also Yemen. But we still have the the in test fortitude to put that aside. So you know, they're gonna get this right. This is America. They're still our leaders no matter who's in office. There's still you know, barbacks, and they're going to get distigued. That's the them. They they're not showing that we have their backs. I will take a break at more in just a second here as we continue with the Sean Hannity Show. All right, lets we continue with Chris Tanto Paranto and Sean Parnell. Look, I actually have another idea, and I want to run a buy both of you and my kid, Chris Tanto Paranto a lot, because he's like the little brother that I never had. But you didn't, no, I did. I mean, I'll choke your ass out, and you know it. Well, you know that I trained like a maniac. But I mean I'm glad that you're on the other side of the desk. Oh you're full of crap. You could kick my ass. But the point is, here's the thing. We got to start building the technology so we don't have to send men and women door to door anymore. We gotta stop. It's a tough fight, yeah, door to door fighting military operations on the matanus. We now have to fight with the best technology. We should never send boots on the ground in the situation like we did in Iraq ever again or Afghanistan. Well, I mean it's true. I mean you need some but you don't know. Look, I mean we we we drove around in Afghanistan in regular Humbies pickup truck pickup truck humbies, and we're getting ambush by were they up armored? No, and we're getting ambushed by enemy elements that were three times our size riding around in the back of the trucks. Were like, we're the Beverly Hillbillies. And it wasn't until six or seven months into the deployment where he finally got the equipment that we needed. But how many men and women were wounded? Oh gosh, equipment. I couldn't believe how long it took these uh humbies to get up armored. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, here's the other thing. So if it's me and I want to show those me and Toronto Tonto Pronto in a fight, who's gonna win me? Right? Uh? Yes, Sean. Is it a war of words, because it's a war. If it's the war of words, maybe no, I'm now. If it's a war of fisticuffs, I think you're done. I don't think so. I've been training for six years up. Now. You better hope he doesn't have the ability to reach through that microphone and choke you. Will I'll grab his carrotted and I'll rip it out of his neck. I'm just gonna be caught here and that humble profession. What the best thing is, I'll just fill him. I've seen him professional, listen, I've seen him out drinking. As much as I enjoy all of this, I need you to say goodbye. So if we could do that'd be great. Sean, It's great to see you, but I'm not I'm not going to me with right there. That's right, all right. I kind of like I like, I kind of like Tonto, but I really like Sean. I'm just saying name, the same name, and we spell it the same right, the right way, all right, love you both, Thank you, and thanks for what you did. Back what was it now, six years ago? Unbelievable eight hundred nine for one Sean Tolfrey telephone number. We'll take a quick break. Welcome back, we'll continue. Glad you're with us. Joining us now is Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch. He is the president of Judicial Watch. Welcome back to the program, sir. How are you. I'm doing wel how are you today? I'm good. So now we know in the latest struck page messages back and forth that there was coordination, the coordination between the DOJ and the FBI to actually have a media leak strategy with an ongoing investigation with evidence that was never proven. On top of of course, using the phony Steel dossier to get the FISA rants and everything in between. This is about as corrupt as anything I've ever seen and the biggest abuse of power in our history. And the question is where do we go from here? You know, I in a jest world, the Muller investigation would end or at least pause. I mean, just think if this is a regular criminal investigation at the state level, and you had the cops, you know, Strucking Company engaged in such outrageous misconduct abusing their authority going after someone because the political bias, the prosecution would stop, the courts would step in and stop it. And I'm I think frankly, our friends in Congress, Shan you just spend less time talking about Struck Page Comy and the rest and more time talking about what mister Muller is doing. Based on all of the crooked activities by that gang. Well we now know, but it's all tied together but for their corruption. Listen, it's all true. But we've got to build out the story, and each piece puts the puzzle together. We have now framed in that puzzle and now we're just fill in the final pieces of the puzzle. But what we know is breathtaking, and that is you had a group of people, and we have an insurance policy group. You had Struck, you had Page, ed Comey, you had McCabe and other people than Bruce or and Sally Yates and Christopher Steele. But two of the people were involved in exonerating Hillary when we know she committed felonies to keep their favorite candidate in the race. Hillary Clinton funds the money, funnels money which I would argue as a campaign finance violation through a law firm to Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson, and then he eyes Christopher Steele. What is the one thing all of these people have in common. Struck, Page and or Nellior works for Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele. They all hate Donald Trump. They never wanted him to be president. Now then you get this staciate is put together, which eventually we discover that Christopher Steele doesn't even believe himself. That becomes the basis for a Fizer warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate. And then of course, they never verified, they never corroborate. All of these things happen, and they're telling us it's true. Now, we might get that information sooner rather than later, and I hope we do. And then we find out that Or stays in touch with Christopher Steele was fired for lying and leaking, and that they're talking about firewalls so they don't get caught. They're afraid they're going to get exposed. And I think the single most dangerous piece of information we now have is that Steele was funneling his lies through the FBI into the hands of Muller's team VISA V. Andrew Weissman, and he's asking Or about, well, you know, did you get my information to the SC the Special Council. Well you may not have noticed, but last week Judicial Watch obtained new documents from the FBI. They were trying, it looks like, to rehabilitate Steel, but they found that they couldn't really believe in the dossier. And this is prior, this is subsequent to other documents we found, and this is a quote from the documents. The FBI said Steele was deemed not suitable as a confidentially human source, and he was not to collect intelligence on behalf or for the FBI. So this is the FBI's own documents showing that Steel was to be kept away from Andy, as you point out, corruptly continue to use them anyway. One intermediate step that can be done is the Office of Special Council, which is charged with making sure that put federal officials don't abuse their offices to advance a political agenda, like under the hatch ac for instance, which prohibits political activities by federal employees, and most circumstances, can conduct a criminal or serious investigation into what Struck was up to. He clearly had anti Trump bias. He clearly was using FBI resources to advance that bias to stop Trump as he says, and have an insurance policy. The Office of Special Council, which is not in a Justice department, can conduct an independent criminal investigation. So that I think that's one area that we can draw our attension to, or draw attention to as an opportunity for more accountability for Struck, because he has zero credibility. His lawyers are telling us, don't believe what you're reading his emails and text messages, and obviously that's not persuasive. Even the FBI had to let him go because it didn't become credible anymore. So we just got to keep the pressure on Sean here and if I were, you know, and if they don't want to focus on Muller, bring him in and ask him some questions. Why did you keep Struck on? Why did you fire Why is he keeping Andrew Weisman on? Weisman who's caught up in this in terms of potentially leaking information in the middle of the campaign to friendly media. Oh, I think that's the worst part. Let me go through, because you put out a release yesterday on the letter that we know was sent to Rod Rosenstein by Congressman Mark Meadows. I mean, I think this is very revealing that the FBI agent Peter Struck is contacting Lisa Page's girlfriend and discussing their words a media league strategy. The tech says specifically, I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you that I want to talk about the media league strategy with the DOJ before you go. The next day, the league comes out in the Washington Post. Then the day after that, Struck congratulates Page on a good job while referencing and referring to the two derogatory articles about Carter page in the text, Struck his warning page that two articles are coming out, one is worse than the other about Lisa's namesake and added well done. Page. So you have people in the FBI coordinating with the DOJ, and now we know that they that Christopher Steele in the Department of Justice of coordinating with the special counsel. How can they investigate? How do you have Rod Rosenstein in there when Rod signed the fourth Fizer warrant and appointed Muller and as a witness as relates to the firing of Komy right, and Struck is no, he's not just your regular FBI agent. He was running the Russian investigation at an operational level for for the FBI is traveling overseas. Who was running the Clinton investigation? Concurrently, we just said, documents come out showing that Struck drafted the initial letter that Komey sent the Congress reopening the Clinton email issue with the Wiener laptop fight. And now we just food for all the Wiener stuff because it looks like it was structed and want to look at all of that. According to the ig that investigation against Clinton was curtailed. Perhaps because the IG admits I think it's more direct of the bias that Struck had against President Trump. He didn't want the Wiener laptop. Find that all the Clinton emails were on Wiener's laptop, which is outrageous now that we know the eighteen classified emails were on that system. Get in a way with his get Trump Russia operation. Let me bring Sarah Carter in. Sarah pa that out not us, the IG did Sarah Carter, and I'm told that there. I just read the two text messages that you broke yesterday. But now we've got more text messages that you have that are going to be coming out tonight, and these two go even deeper. Can you give us a preview of what you're going to tell us? Well, I can give you a few hints. I mean it does go deeper. I think we're going to see a lot more with regard to higher level of shine at the FBI involved with Peter Struck and Lisa Page and coordinating with the DOJ. I think this is very significant because once again, once again, everything that they have been attempting to say to Congress or keeping from Congress, now they're getting caught. So they're basically getting caught with their foot in their own mouth. This is something that Peter Structs attorney, tried to admit. This was about how to prevent leaks, not about leaks. But there's just too much information here. There's not even circumstantial evidence. It's very solid evidence. Not only that in the in the text messages that I understand are coming out today, they actually talk about the name of the reporters involved in this absolutely and Struts and Strugs boss is mentioned in all of this, and meaning that he knew about it absolutely. And you know, so we know now that McCabe was well aware of what was going on. We understand now that Lisa Page and Peter Struck were actively speaking with Bruce Orr, who was a back channel for Christopher Steele. And Tom Fitton put it so perfectly when he was saying that, you know, it's Look, we have documents that show documents from the FBI themselves. This is not conspiracy theory. This is the truth. Documents that say Christopher Steele should no longer be used as a source. He's not trustworthy. I can tell you this. Months ago, I spoke to intelligence officials who worked with Christopher Steele. Directly while he was still a part of m I six, And they didn't have great things to say about Christopher Steele. They didn't use the spin. They thought he was a blowhard, they didn't believe half of what he was saying half the time. And let me tell you this, Christopher Steele got most of his information from Russians. So this is what I'm having a really difficult time understanding. We have the left and a lot of people that are anti Trumpers, are never Trumpers, saying, oh, we shouldn't believe this, say alluded with the Russians, and even though there's no evidence there whatsoever that they collude to with Russians, but they're willing to believe Russian lies, basically Russian lives delivered by a foreign intelligence And now we have people within the FBI at the senior level and the DOJ in text messages. This isn't stuff that we're making up. This isn't a dossier that was put together by some right wing Trump supporter. This is their own words, actually exposing these people for who they are and for what they were doing and how they were subverting the United States Constitution, the laws that garner this land. They were actually subverting it, malfeasance within these departments that we trust, that we give all our trust to. I mean, this is September eleventh, me go back day that we remember all those people. And here we have people at the highest levels in these agencies that are playing these games. Not the foot soldiers, not the people that are down on the ground fighting, but the people at the top. All Right, as we take a break here, we'll come back with Sarah cart and with Tom Fitton. Right as we continue, Tom Fitton, Sarah Carter, remain eight hundred nine four one, Shawn, your calls at the bottom of this samp hour. Let me go to your Discovery Freedom of Information Act in Judicial Watch. If Anthony Wiener's laptop contain hundreds of thousands of emails, do we know if any of them had any Hillary emails in there, Uma Aberdeen and emails in there? And when do we get ahold of those emails? Well, they've given us all the State the State Department received from the FBI, the emails that were State Department documents supposedly potentially responsive, and they gave us many hundreds of records, including at least eighteen classified documents that were from the Clinton email server present on Anthony Winer's laptop. The classified material included the identity of a CIA operative, so pretty sensitive classified material. And if, frankly, if anyone else had classified material, will set up a system that allow classified material not only to be accessible to the public essentially on your own server because it was so insecure, but then was placed on other systems like Anthony Wiener's laptop. You would have been arrested. Hillary Clinton would have been arrested. Aberdeen would have been arrested if the rules. Did we ever find did we ever find the thirty three thousand emails that she deleted and acid washed off with bleach bid and had busted up and you know on devices? Did we ever get all of those? What percentage of any did we get? Well, we're still unclear as to what percentage is there, but we've been getting them in dribs and drabs from the government. We should be getting the last bash soon. And these are the emails that were either deleted or missus Clinton did not want to do they have all thirty three thousand emails that were deleted, We don't know, but we do know there was classified information on the emails. That she deleted her hid from the America. Well, even James Comey admitted that on July fifth. So I guess the boat. Where's this Justice Department? Sean? I don't know me and Lynch, I don't have an answer to the protector, but why are they protecting her? Ray and Sessions? Unbelievable, Sarah, you want to take a stab at that because I don't know the answer to it. I don't think anyone knows the answer to what we do know. What we do know, Sean, is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is missing in action. We don't know what John Huber is doing because obviously we found out now that he's never interviewed Bruce or who is a significant player in all of this. We have Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who's somehow in charge of this special Counsel investigation even though he is directly involved in this. He signed the fourth vice A warrant on Carter page and should have known what was the problems and the compromises made there in the malfeasance. So basically we have no one checking on the investigators and Sor are you there with lose you all right? To go back to Tom Fitton. We'll give you the last word. Tom. Well. The immediate steps that can be taken now sean declassification, declassify the rest of the FISA warrant we have these or documents would be declassified because right now the FBI and Justice Department of stone walling the release of information, and the President can I think insert himself require more timely release and declassified material that's not being classified for national security reach. We know what we need. We need the three O twos between Bruce Or and Christopher Steele. We need the unredacted FISA memos, specific pages I'm told ten through twelve, seventeen to thirty four. If we're going to be thorough, we would get all of the Gang of Eight material, as I understand, which would be available to everybody, a specific classified email chain from October fourteenth between the FBI and the DOJ and every other request and you know, everybody else that's involved in this, and you know, and there are other things that haven't been turned over to the public. Thro Foy as well. They Justice depart and the FBI have said the text messages generated by Andrew McCabe aren't covered by Foya. They won't even look at him. So there's a lot of stuff here. I would a point of transparencies are maybe to run the Justice to oversee Justice Department and FBI responses, because you know, it's like the fox guarding the henhouse. They can't be trusted to provide documents in a timely way or at all on issues that as an agency or individually they have worries about because it would have in his corruption. We gotta let you go. Tom Fitton, thank you for being with us. Sarah Carter, thank you for being with us. Eight hundred nine point one Sean Pelphrey telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. We'll get to your calls when we come back. Straight ahead. All right, let's go back and yes, it was how long ago? It was? What six years ago Benghazi? And seventeen years ago today? Michael W. Smith there she stands. He was actually asked to write that song by then President George W. Bush. And we've inserted our own and then we'll play President Trump from earlier today. We'll get to your calls. Listen to the song everyone's asking to play. To go this just into our newsroom. A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. Another apparently that was another plane seized. An airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center. Lost. There appears to be a gaping hole. Oh, there goes there, goes there, it goes here, it goes but the full side has collapsed. Building has collaps complete. Cower bye, she Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center. This we're not going to be cowered by it. That we're not afraidful friend, the freedom loving nations and the bloom stand by ourselves stars rot did have the red, white and blue whist. We'll not land to sue the way rouble to be a part of his country. Jee Me, I think about the families children to the play. Freedom itself was attacked and freedom will be de fantasy East. Are you here here just leaving you league? It might be just let you lead the byes. Someone raised as to raise the resolve of our great nations is being tested. Then she stands, I pray there he didn't see the right of united self from degree. If our courageous there I mean the writing, then we will not forget the twenty eight hundred people police and fire, not only our heroes at the beginning. But they're still heroes mis us with. Really, we're gonna come out of this emotionally stronger, and the commitment of our fathers is now. The calling of our time was on the bridge. Those guys stood more than anyone ever expected over this truth. They messed with the wrong city, they missed with the wrong stay, And I just don't want people to forget we go. They all have a sense of duty to protect us all we step first in our determination. Someone rust of the country. Now understand who the true defenders are. Made the Irish hills, Krussia, make her lakes and rivers Blessia. We see, We've made a look of the Irish inflotion. We see stand make the blessings of Saint Patrick. Behold, God bless Ireland, and God blessed the United States of America. She stands now. America's embracing a new ethic and a new creed. Let's roll The phrase new York's Finest and New York's Bravest mean something now, doesn't it. This is a time to reflect and be thankful for where we are today. Through the we will rebuild New York City. Still, Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves. At this memorial, on this sacred earth, in the field beyond this wall, and in the skies above our heads, we remember the moment when America fought back. We're also joined by members of the National Park Service, along with firefighters, first responders, and incredible people from law enforcement. These are truly great people. Some of you here today answered the call and raced to this field seventeen years ago. You fill our hearts with pride, and I want to thank you have of our country. Thank you very much, most importantly to the family members of Flight ninety three. Today all of America wraps up and joins together. We close our arms to help you shoulder your pain and to carry your great, great sorrow. Your tears are not shed alone, for they are shared grief with an entire nation. We grieve together for every mother and father, sister and brother, son and daughter who was stolen from us at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and here in this Pennsylvania field. We honor their sacrifice by pledging to never flinch in the face of evil, and to do whatever it takes to keep America safe. Seventeen years ago, your loved ones were among the forty of Flight ninety three. Forty passengers and crew members on board the eight am United Airlines flight from Newark to San Francisco. They were men and women from every background. They were young people returning from visiting family, moms and dads on business trips, and friends going and coming from birthdays and weddings. They boarded the plane as strangers, and they entered eternity linked forever as true heroes. I was Michael W. Smith. There she stands, and the President from his remarks earlier today we have fran Is in Butler, Pennsylvania, fran High. How are you glad you called? Thanks Sean, It's great to be here today, and thanks so much for than this memory life all these nine to eleven fans, both throw one and those that did what they did in Benghazi. It's it's really great that you're doing what you're doing today. Thanks well, thank you for the opportunity to do it. We appreciate it. Well. My story is one with my first cousin, Joe Angelini Senior. He was with Rescue one and his son was Joe Angelini Junior, and they're still to this day the only father and son team that ever gave their lives up on the same fire in New York City. So they're well remembered and respected, and their names are one over the other on the South Tower wall right in front of the Survivor Tree. So yeah, you know, I gotta tell you something. So you're the cousin of a father and a son and you're and they were killed on nine to eleven. Do you know what happened exactly? Yeah. Well, Joe Senior was always ras because they always said, you know, he missed the big ones. He always missed the big He missed the first nine or the first Twin Towers attack in twin ninety two, and he was, he was on the street in front of the North Tower and in fact they rescued him. And his funeral was on nine twenty one in Linden Nurse, So he had the first funeral on Long Island. So that was quite a thing to be in that limousine and seeing all the people on both sides of the street. That was their first opportunity, you know to grief. Listen, I remember all of it. I remember that, you know, Rudy Giuliani tried to get to every single solitary funeral, and you know you did. And I saw him at the convention and I thanked him for being at both funerals, and he said, you know, I remember that church. And it dawned on me that he was at so many churches, and he said, I remember that church. And he spent the whole funeral there, three hours at each Hourny. Listen, I'm going to tell you something. It was devastating for these families. I know these families still today and they haven't gotten over it. And that's why, you know, on days daylight today, you know, it's very hard on them because they know what happened, and there was such a shock to our system and our soul. We weren't prepared. They were at war. We weren't at war with them. And you know what, we can never get back on that footing. We've got to understand that evil exists, the enemy exists, and that they want to destroy who we are and they hate who we are. And it's a hard thing for good people to wrap their arms around sometimes, but it's absolutely true. Yeah, we lost our innocence in a lot of ways that day. You're right, A lot of ways. You're right, all right, my friend. Thank you. We appreciate you being with us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to them and so many others. Cheryl is in North Carolina. I hope you're a hunker down there. You near the coast, Cheryl, Oh No, I'm actually about four hours from the coast. I'm kind in the middle of North Carolina, might in the Piede Mine. Okay, well, you're still probably gonna have some high winds, a lot of rain, and it's not going to be that fun. It looks like what's gonna hit Thursday, right around Hannity time on TV. That's what I've heard. Yeah, they said during the night Thursday or Friday's when we're going to get it. Of course, there's no water on the shift to be had. Yeah, well, I gotta tell you something. It is I'm all I'm hearing from everybody that knows, including my buddy Joe Bistarti, the official meteorologist of the Sean Hannity Show. This is the real deal. This is not a this is not a test. This is a real emergency for a lot of people. From everything I hear, people are heating the warning they're getting out, and I'll take whatever you need to take with you. Take your animals, take your important papers, take your valuables, those that you can take, memories with your pictures, Pack up your truck, pack up your your van, pack up your suv. Whatever you got your car, doesn't matter, and just be careful, get out of harm's way. And everybody understands, and we'll be here as the country. You know to come in behind you and help and donate like all Americans always do. Yes, they do. I appreciate everything you do and for telling the truth. But my comment is, I'll listen to a clip of Obama's speech, and if the country is in such bad shape and Trump is doing such a terrible job, why is Obama trying to take credit for it? Because he's jealous And I think Obama is incapable of recognizing that he himself and the rigid ideology that he brought into his whole life felt. I think Obama is a true leftist believer. Everything in his background shows that he believed everything I think he said, you know, community organizer, Acorn, Reverend Right, everything, the black liberation theology, Airs and Dorn. I think there is a radical side of this guy, and he's just contradicting the Democratic Party. They're talking about how bad it is, but he's really admitting how good it is. The glory for it. Well, of course he wants the glory, and he resents the hell out of it that the economy came back after he left office. Resents he wants to. He's literally saying, no, I did that. He tells all of us that you didn't build that, but he built the good economy after he left, right right disgusting. It is pretty bad, all right, listen, stay safe everybody in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia where we're praying for y'all. All right, hang in there and we'll be there. I know the American people, they'll be there and whatever you need, food, water, medicine, supplies, baby formula, cots, blankets, you know, we'll do whatever we can do to help. It doesn't make it fun, it doesn't make it easy. I've met many many people over the years that have had their entire homes destroy it. It is really really you know, it's a hard thing to go through, but could come out of it with your life first, and then we'll worry about replacing the material things. After Mike and Detroit. Mike, Hi, how are you hello? Sean? It's good to speak with you a long time. Listen, I love your Fox show. I'm going to try to be real quick because I got a couple of quick questions. All Right, some has got so many people in his porn are ready to fight anything he can turn over or declassify. I can't understand why wouldn't do it? What's he waiting for one of his kids to get indicted or something? And if they do get a special counts to look into the investigators, can it be stopped by the Democrats if they take the House and or Senate and something else I thought about if they're for the investigation the special counts to begin with, there was supposed to be a crime designated. If there's no crime designated, then can't Trump put an end to it? Yeah? I think thirty days name the crime or putting an end to it put them on their heels. Listen. I think all of that's going to happen. I think it's going to happen sooner than later. I don't think it's going to happen on a week where nine to eleven happen. It's to me, there's other things that we are more important to talk about. And I don't think with a big, massive hurricane about to hit the east coast of the United States, that looks like the real deal that that anybody's going to be focused on. We've got to worry about our neighbors right now. We got to roll up our sleeves and be prepared to help out the people of South Carolina, North Carolina and elsewhere. That's where our focuses. But afterwards, I would I would expect that he will do that. That's gonna wrap things up for today. Hannity Tonight nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel, We've got new struck page text messages will be breaking. George Popadopoulos, he's got to go to jail for fourteen days. Thank you, Robert Mueller. He and his wife will join us, Eric Trump, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, also, Jason Chaffett said Henry and Sebastian Gorka say EDVR Hannity breaking news news, struck page text messages will break it tonight at nine Hannity on Fox, and we'll see you then. We're back here tomorrow