Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, will walk us through the confirmation hearings today on the hill for Judge William Barr. What should we expect from this Judge, after his comments that he will support Mueller’s right to finish this investigation? How will the news related to Strzok/Page and Comey affect his decision making. And finally what about this news that James Baker was the media leak inside the FBI, which has now just been discovered after a letter from a high ranking republican house oversight member was sent to the US Attorney’s office.
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That's Famous smoke dot Com slash Hannity. You with us, There's hope, There's trepidation, there's worry, there's concern, there's I'm getting a mixed reaction, mixed bag over the hearings that have been going on today as it relates to William Barr, who we expect is going to be the next Attorney general. And look, we I supported Jeff Sessions, and that was a huge disappointment. And I always love Jeff Sessions, but it was a very nice, smart, decent guy. I don't know why that job did not fit him in any way. And to recuse himself immediately after he took the job that you know for three days after was he really owed the president and he owed the president a fully engaged attorney general. And none of this would we would not be where we are of two years of this witch hunt if in fact Jeff Sessions had not done that, and it in many ways has been very harmful for a lot of people. Now we've got a lot of news going on today that you're not going to hear in the mainstream media. And one of the things that has happened is James Baker. Now, remember Major Drew McCabe was the deputy Attorney General, a deputy FBI director, and James and James Baker, by the way, was the Bureaus General Counsel. These are the top positions. Now you got Comey, who is the FBI director, Deputy Director McCabe. Now you've got the chief counsel at the FBI, the Bureaus General Council by the name of James Baker. Now you can add Comey, Struck Page and others and then go to the Department of Justice Bruce or his connection to Fusion GPS's close relationship with Christopher Steele. Anyway, so we learned today to borrow our phrase, the walls are closing ian on a top figure involved in the Russia gay robe. And it's not President Trump, and the aforementioned walls are closing in I believe on James Comy himself. A long time ago. I tweeted out to James Comey. Remember this was before his book came out. And he's a huge Trump pater as we all know. And he's got this sanctimonious side of him and his self righteousness about him that in arrogance that I don't think he fully understands that he himself could be in serious legal jeopardy. Now Comey's former top lawyer James Baker. We now have learned today the Bureau's General counsel is now under an official criminal investigation. We learned that today and the crimes Baker is being investigated for the same types of crimes. Comey has already confessed to unauthorized leaking to the news media. Remember Comy admitted that he purposefully leaked information to a friend, a professor at Columbia Universe Versity, that handed it off to the New York Times for the purpose of getting a special counsel his buddy, it turns out Robert Muller appointed. So you know, the crimes that Baker's being investigated for the same crimes come He's admitted to. And that is you can't leak this type of government information. Now, the question is, and we all want answers to and we can look as deeply as we want and speculate based on these earrings today as much as we want, we don't really know what is ultimately going to happen. I need my cut sheep, by the way, if you have an extra one, and you know I'm watching bar today. And he says that he doesn't think Muller is on a witch hunt, that concerns me because I think the team, although he did mention that you should have a better team anyway. So he's out there today and he promised Lindsey Graham when he becomes Attorney General, he'll look into the FBI, d o J counter intelligence investigation into Trump. That was what we learned yesterday that after the firing of Comy for no reason, with no evidence, no probable cause whatsoever, just at a pure revenge of after the firing of Comie, who we now know deserve to be fired, and Comy even admitted that he could be fired without any cause anyway. So the soon to be new Attorney General said he would look into why would they bring this up out of nowhere? Now? The back story of that is it already had been happening for nine months, and Comy himself, and McCabe himself, and Struck and Paigs themselves had all said just the same point in time in May of twenty seventeen that after nine months because they started this Trump Russia thing, the same people that exonerated Hillary who he no committed crimes, violated the Espionage Act and obstruction, that they had no evidence at all after nine months of investigating so called Trump Russia collusion. But yet Comey's fired. Then they say, well, did he do it because Russia? They just ask a random question, why would he fire Coomy? Well, Comy deserved to be fired, Sally Yates deserve to be fired a lotted Frankly, there are a bunch of people still there that need to be fired. And if we're gonna have equal justice under the law, which I hope the new Attorney General will bring an equal application of our laws, then a lot of things are going to change very very quickly here. And maybe we're beginning to see the work of John Uber who was appointed by Jeff Sessions, you know, on leak issues. Maybe now that work has come into fruition. We still have Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General. He is to report back on FIS abuse. We already know that did take place. We know that the president has five from buckets of information that he's holding in his hand that will reveal corruption at levels we never dreamed or we never thought of. So we'll get to all of that. So anyway, so some of the other things, some of the things that Barr said today to me, we're promising some of them may have been political some of them. You know, people that I've talked to, most people I've talked to say he's a pretty straight shooter, and he believes in equal justice under the law, and he believes in equal application of the laws. Now, if that's true, what I'm gonna do on Hannity tonight is I'm going to put up the pictures of all the people that I'm gonna make it easy for the new Attorney general. You know, he's coming in. He may not be fully up to speed, So I'll make it easy, and I'm gonna put up the pictures and the crimes that need to be investigated into the people that are involved. By the way a story out today. You know, he's most pissed at all of these people in the upper rational lot and the FBI. FBI guys, and how often have I said it's gonna be rank and file at turn out to be the heroes in this story. At some point, I think it's beginning to happen, but we'll wait and see, you know, over time of in fact that happens. So bar In the opening questioning by Lindsey Graham, he said that he'd look into the counterintelligence investigation, in other words, the revenge conspiracy theory after Comey was fired. He also, after listening to Lindsey Graham, read the struck page tax By the way, I think a question and a witness in this case needs to at some point be Robert Mueller. Why did Robert Muller send those phones out and allow those phones to be deleted when they were both let go because of their bias and he never told us about it. They're biased, but that's the reason he let them go. They let those phones get wipe clean. And if it wasn't for the Inspector General Horowitz, we wouldn't have gotten any of the text messages. But we're still missing a key part at key moments. Some of those messages not been retrieved. So he promised Lindsey Graham that he would look into the Russia Hillary investigation, which I think is very very important. And that means the dossier that she paid for and the DNC paid for that same dossier, that she probably violated campaign finance laws by giving a check to a law firm Perkins Cooee that hired an op research firm that hired the foreign national that used Russian stubious Russian sources, and we find out every player involved in this as a hate Trump person. Struck Paige, Come, McKay, Baker, all of them. Hey Trump, they all do. They've all got a political agenda, even going as farm well, Trump should win a he's a lonesome human being. Hillary should win a one hundred million to nothing. And that's why the exoneration of Hillary that was written in May of twenty sixteen, before the interview of Hillary and sixteen other witness was so crucial in determining that the fix was in on that original investigation. And then days after the same Hillary loving Trump Peters start this phony Russia investigation, you know, which has ended in a bunch of process crimes and innuendo pushed by the media that is the extension of the Democratic Party. And then William Barr said that he will investigate if to steal dossier used to get the FISA warrant against Carter was accurate. And then he also went on to say, which concerns me and some other people, I believe Muller will be fair to the president. He doesn't believe that Muller's involved in a witch hunt. Well, I would just then respectfully ask the new attorney general to look at the people that Muller appointed. Why would Muller ever appoint all Democrats, most Democratic donors? Why would he ever appoint Jeannie Ray, who was Hillary Clinton's attorney at the Clinton Foundation? Are you kidding me? You think that's fair? That's a fair investigation. They couldn't find one Republican in the whole country, not one Republican. You know, how is it that the pit bull Andrew Weissman, that's Robert Mueller's pit bull, according to The New York Times. You know, with his track record of holding holding back exculpatory evidence in cases, his botching the Enron accounting firm investigation where tens of thousands of people, innocent people lost their jobs. You know, we keep hearing about furloughed employees that are going to get their back pay, But what about people that lost their whole career because of Andrew Weisman? Remember overturned by the Supreme Court nine zero. You don't get the Supreme Court to overturn something nine zero unless it's a slam dunk case. And then the mouthfeasance that took place. He puts four Meryl executives in jail for a year and then that's overturned. I mean, how you know you read License to Lie by Sidney Powell and you learned that Andrew Weisman is the worst person to appoint anyway. So he says that he thinks it's not a witch hunt. I don't know if he's saying that politically, because he did write a memo Democrats are mad about the memo that he thought the Muller investigation was not handled properly. So there's hope there. He agreed with Lindsey Graham in the sense that Sessions was right to recuse himself. That's not something that I agree with at all. And if I think the biggest mistake the Jeff Sessions made, if he knew he was going to recuse himself, he should have told the president. Because the president for two years didn't have an attorney general. You know that he got one. He got one appointed to him by the name of Rod Rosenstein, who has his own issues, a guy that's also conflicted. He's a witness in terms of recommending the firing of Komey. He's also a witness as it results to him signing the fourth FISA application, the bulk of information, the phony Clinton bought and paid for dossier. You know, so, if this guy does his job, he's gonna look into the phony dossier. We're gonna get to the bottom of the presentation and the fraud committed against Fiz Accords. And then if he's really going to do his job, then we're gonna get to the issue of Hillary obstructing justice and deleting those subpoenaed emails after she had violated the Espionage Act with top secret classified information on a Mom and Pop shop bathroom closet. Barr also told Diane Feinstein that he would release as much of the Mueller report as he could and obstruction reports as possible, based on DJ guidelines that he said under that Mueller would be allowed to finish his job, which supposedly is happening. And you know, so there's some things that are interesting. And he said he would not allow Trump to edit Mueller's report. Well, how would Trump be able to edit Mueller's report. Mul's Report's gonna be Muller's report. It's a stupid question by Diane Feinstein. Now he's being asked about enhanced interrogation. Anyway, we have a lot more to get to on this. We also will be getting to our Handity Watch update today on border security. There is a new caravan that's being formed. How does carter Page feel about the whole issue now of the dossier being put front and center, in the faisal warrants being put front and center. And I'll give carter Page my list of people that I'd be suing. One thing that is not political. It's smoking. That's about people, and there are thirty four million Americans now that's smoke, But for many there's not been a clear alternative. Jewel, for me, has been a game changer. I watched people all the time they go outside in the middle of the freezing winner just to have their smoke. You don't have to do that anymore because of Jewel. Now people don't have to worry about the smell on your hands. Jewel was specifically designed by smokers, forced smokers to be a satisfying alternative. It's a clean technology. Jewel has no ash, no no mess. 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I mean, that's abusing power, just like the powerful tools of intelligence, the deep state users, you know, to surveil, unmask, not proper, not follow proper protocol, and minimiz minimization of conversations of Americans, setting up people like Oh, you don't need a lawyer, General Flynn, don't worry. Oh, it's just a conversation, and comey saying I would pop, I wouldn't do this in any other administration to full advantage bragging about it. Um. Now, the you know, the lead story in the fake media that you hear is that he's going to allow motor complete. Everybody's going to allow motor complete his investigation. That was never an issue. But that's just you know, everybody said, oh, that's so important. Um. Supposedly we're getting near the end of the getting to the runway and this plane is gonna end. I didn't hear any thing today that would preclude Mueller being fired for cause. 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And you know this issue of whether or not the Mueller report would be made public, and he said, as the rules stands now, the rules, I think the Special Counsel will prepare a summary report on any prosecutive or deca nation decisions, and that shall be confidential and be treated as any other declination or prosecuted material within the department. Bar set. Now, what he's referring to are these memos that are written by Justice Department officials where they decline to file charges against individuals, essentially ending an investigation. Those memos are held very closely inside the government, not released to the public. And by comparing any Muller report to such a memo or prosecution memo, Bar's answer suggested a long awaited report from the Special Council may not see the light of day. By the way, why should the president be treated differently than anyone else, especially when he has been treated differently and there has been a witch hunt and now we even discovered a full on investigation whether he committed treason just because he fired James Come. He said, my goal and my intent is to get as much information out as I can. Was then criticized for not promising to follow any recommendation of Justice Department ethics officials, who may review whether Barr should recuse himself. Literally, that's their biggest hope is they want him to recuse himselves so they can get their favorite Rod Rosenstein back on the case. And he said, I'm not going to surrender the responsibilities of the attorney general to get the title. I don't need the title. He was once already the attorney general. You have it within your power to follow the ethics advice of your own department, and you're telling us you're not going to, he said. And then he said, no, that's not what I'm saying at all. And he's just basically saying, I don't think there's a conflict. And Barr said the president is free to fire his officials that he's appointed, and he wouldn't stand by if someone were removed to stop an investigation, which makes sense. That was asked by Richard Blumenthal in a particular moment. You know, he's asked about everything. He's not going to interfere in state marijuana laws that even contradict federal marijuana laws. And I don't think people understand we have This caller yesterday talked about both her kids had become addicted to opioids. Nor can say both of them. One is going to jail for six years, the other is in a rehab, a Christian rehab program that she says is very effective. But I mean it is a insidious evil in small towns, big cities all across this country. I'm gonna tell you one of the things you need to do as parents and grandparents. You know, you probably don't think twice about leaving medicine out. But these kids are looking for these medicines. The kids are you know, at young ages, you need to lock it up. Especially let's say you get some type of medical procedure. You're given some strong painkiller, vic it in, percocet, oxyconton. Have you ever taken any of these? Ever? So weird. I had my wisdom tooth out and I had a very weird thing called a dry socket, like one in one hundred thousand people get it, and I got it because you're very strange. Right, it's not even four o'clock, all right, So long story short, they gave me vic it in, right, I had never I wasn't a drinker, I didn't do any of that stuff. Took the vicun in. I was asleep, not kidding you, my dad, I was. I was in New York alone at that time. My dad came to stay with me. I slept for thirty six hours. Wow, thirty six hours. My father called the surgeon. Yeah, he said, Blair thinks it's the my pillow. Wait, wait, my daughter is asleep. He's like, He's like, my daughter is asleep. She's been asleep for over a day. I'm a little concerned. What happened during this Winston tooth surgery, right, And they're like, they're like, wow, your daughter must have like, never taken a drug. He's like, no, man, she's a purist. Definitely not right. So they gave me a whole bottle of these and I flushed it down the toilet. I was like, whatever is in this, I don't want any plot of it. I never took. I never took anything again. I've never taken a vicat in, a percos at, any those pain pills. Now. I have a kind of weird tolerance for pain, Like, for example, whenever I go to the dentist, I do not I do not want novocate talk about that. I hate the numb feeling. I hate it and i'd rather And what people don't realize is and I have really deep cavities because of course I didn't have the proper dental care when I was growing up that I should have add that long story short, I was. You know, my parents weren't focused on dentistry in their lives. Grandma and Grandpa had their tentures on the side of their their table every night. I can't believe that so many people had dentists back in the day, and it was so common and uh so. But I'd go in and I said, no, no, novacane, No, no, no, no, this is gonna be We know we have fast acting novocane. I said, no, no, novocane, just do it. I promise you it's gonna be fine. They go, okay. They never want to do it. The doctors never, the dentists never want to do it. I'm like, get it over with, let's go and get in there. And it's it hurts, but it's not the most What about laughing gas, I never tried that. Well. What scares me about the pain pills is I know doctors who have gotten addicted and professional people that have gotten addicted lawyers that have gotten addicted, and what if you haven't any way and addicted personality, you don't want to take those drugs, I mean if and and then apparently there's like doctors that are known in every community that just write scripts. You know, doctor feel goods are everywhere, and so you're gonna be able to get the medicine because you go to the doctor. Oh I'm in pain. Yeah. I ask all my doctor friends all the time to people try to get They're like, yeah, every day, every single day, people trying to get those pills from them. And they'll say anything, I have a pain in my back, Oh it's all it hurts so much, and they just they just know. And most most of my doctor friends will not give them the pills. They're just like, no, that's not what we do. And then they have these pain management centers and then you can get Seriously, if you're really addicted, they'll even give you methodone and you can get a prescription from methodone. I mean, so to me, it's it's so insidious. It actually is something that scares me. Now, I take etc migrain when I'm spoting, feel any little headache coming on, I take one pill and it works, knocks it right out every time. And then we have pain day with my sense a, my ninja guy, and literally I have to put out my arms and he bangs them as hard as he can to build up calcification and also pain tolerance, because you can't be in a fight if you can't think that for you for free every day, just come on in your hardest punch, smack you all the hardest problem. Your little baby slap is not going to do the job. First of all, I do not have a baby slap. Okay, I guarantee you will go punch for punch in the stumach. We'll see you last longer. I'm not hitting a girl, stop it. We're just teasing. First of all, I work out every day. You don't work out every day. I work out every every morning. You do not work out on your peloton every day? Yes I do. You said you do it two days, three days a week. I said that last year last year, oh the New Year resolution. No, since June, I've been doing every day, well, five days a week. It might not be consecutive. That's what I do with Ninja. And then but then I have to stand there and take really hard punches to the stomach because the whole notion of this it's it's a very it's something funny. Somebody from I think political called me today. I wanted to talk. Did you the guy asked. This is the question the guy asked me, goes, did you notice when you were at the border with the president on what day? Was it? Thursday? Last Thursday, January? Okay? Did you notice that the president had a band aid on? And were you yourself wearing a band aid on your hand? That's what the guy asked me, and I go, well, actually I got band aids on both hands right now. Because we actually do real sparring. You know, it's an eclectic blend of martial arts rolled into one. It's it's kroba, magaw, kempo, jiu jitsu, boxing, street fighting, blades, firearms, sticks, I mean, we do it all. We really, you know. It's a I'm now brown second degree. I'm trying to get my black belt, and I train with these other guys that are awesome. And the good thing is is when I train with these guys that are much better than me, you know that i'd have their black belts. They they're apps. Everyone's so respectful. Nobody wants to we don't want They don't want to give me, you know, stitches over my eye. Knowing I work in television, you know, we're just all. We all want to go home without a broken bone. So everybody respects now in the met in the interim, we're doing real hitting. You're doing real throws, you're doing real kicks, you're doing real punching. And but you just do it in a way everybody knows right where the thing is. You know, I'm not gonna armbarm, bust somebody's arm off, or you know, rake their jaw right off its hinge, which we all can do easily if you know how to. These are targeted strikes, very specific the whole process. Mine is more specific towards situational fighting. And for example, I work on firearm disarment. If somebody puts a gun at your head, puts a gun in front of you, puts a gun in your back, or you know, it's I find it easy to deal with a firearm than to disarm somebody with a blade. If somebody has any knowledge of how to use a blade, it's that you're dead. It's very, very hard because you go to disarm in the meantime. Okay, you're gonna grab it in your hands. Your hands gonna be cut in two depending on the sharpness of the blade. So it's much easier at close range to disarm. Somebody would say a pistol. Again, close range. The last time I said this, people wrote me, you so stupid, you said you can at close range. I would much rather deal with the firearm attempt at disarmament than a blade, especially if somebody has knowledge of how to use a blade. I mean, you can tell very quickly if somebody, you know, if somebody sticks it it out like this and you just watch the way they're holding it, that's probably gonna be much easier to disarm. But if somebody's you know, doing x's and a pattern and they know how to do it, it's gonna be really, really hard. Anyway, I have no idea why I got started on this. Yeah, what did Politico want to know about band aids? Oh? So they asked. So they said, did you notice if the president had a band aid on his hand? And I said, no, I didn't really notice it. Is well, we we think we saw a band aid, We saw a band aid on your hand. Is and I'm sure they were thinking, oh, Hannity likes Trump, so they put band aids on in solidarity together. And I'm like, what kind of question is that? Did I not is that the president had a band aid on? Now I happened. So we were doing situational fighting and sparring and we have these days that a call keeping it real, and we do wear gear and on both my hands, you know the way I hit I actually both I ripped open both hands in the same day. I mean, it's pretty violent cuts in there. But I didn't get the president is doing some training. President not doing training the people a new healthy style. Oh and then somebody else writes the story, Oh Hannity said hello to all the people and the administration, and he didn't hang out with us in the press. First of all, I hate you people in the press. Number one. Why would I want to hang out with you? I say it every day and night. I just can't stand you people. I think you're a bunch of liars and you deliver nothing but lies and fake news and hatred for the President. And then I'm like, oh, so I saw it. Let see my former boss that I work with twenty years, Bill Shine, and so I said, hey, let's going. You know, been a friend of mine for twenty plus years. I saw Sarah Sanders, who's frequently a guest on my show. I said hi to Sarah. I saw Jared Kushner, who's also been on my show. I said hi to Jared. I said hi to Secretary Nielsen, who's also been on my show. I saw Steve Miller, who has been on my show. So I'm supposed to talk to a bunch of liberal strangers that I can't stand anyway, and Hannity said, oh, I'm like and then he got special treatment. I was there to interview the president, you dopes. I mean, how stupid of those people, just so dumb. I announced that I was going to interview the president. Had better things to do than to say, Hi, where do you work. I'm Sean Hannity from Fox and the Sean Hannity Radio Show. You know, these people are so you know, to watch their hatred every day emerge, it is it is They've they've taken into an art form. And like these arrogant people in the upper echelons of the FBI, you know, the great irony is rank and file. FBI are very humble people. All my friends in the FBI, all humble guys. How cool is it when my cousin called in, Billy, who worked for the FBI, what was it last week? You know, I'm staying in touch with them and I and he heard me say, I said, my family was all law enforcement. My mom, my dad, you know, all my cousins, everybody were cops. But there were two him and his brother Pat, Billy and his brother Pat who passed away. You know, they were deity, you know what he says to me. We didn't know we were deity, he goes. But you'd see them and it's either they look like a hippie freak, you know, because they were doing undercover work, or they'd be you know, there was always some this guy eyes. But everybody thought they that nothing could get better. They reached the highest level in law enforcement. We were all so proud of them, you know, my FBI friends. Now, I'm I love these guys and every one of them. And there was an article out today. Let me see if I can find it real quick. It was an article out today that the FBI is disgusted with the Well here it is, no, that's not it. Oh, here it is. It was in the Washington Examiner. You know, the FBI rank and file are disgusted by these leaders. Every one of my friends is disgusted by these guys. Every one of them sees what they did and they are disgusted. And you know, comey oh, bragging about sending over agents that you know, taking advantage of the chaos on the fourth day of the Trump administration, having McCabe call over to General Flynn and say you don't need a lawyer, then sending his agency and they had the full transcript. They set him up. Unbelievable eight hundred ninety four one shown. You want to be a part of the program. May we'll have full coverage of all of this. Jay Sekulo is going to check in today Carter page Today, our friend pastor Daryl Scott much more Mueller a long time. Would you say you have a close relationship with mister Mueller. I would say we were good friends. Would you say that you understand him to be a fair minded person? Absolutely? Do you trust him to be fair to the president and the country as a whole. Yes. When his report comes to you, will you share it with us as much as possible? Consistent with the regulations and the law. Yes, do you believe mister Muller would be involved in a witch hunt against anybody? I don't believe mister Muller would would be involved in a witch hunt. And I want to say one final thing on the rule of law, because it picks up on something you said, mister chairman, what is the rule of law? We all use that term in the area of enforcement. I think the rule of law is that when you apply a rule to A, it has to be the same rule and approach you apply to B, C, D and E and so forth. And that seems to me to suggest two corollaries for an attorney general. The first, that's why we don't like political interference. Political interference means that the rule being applied to A isn't there a rule you're applying to. It's special treatment because someone's in there exerting political influence. The corollary to that, and this is what you're driving at, mister Chairman, is that when you apply a rule, when a prosecutor is applying a rule to A, you've got to be careful that it's not torqued, especially for that case, in a way that couldn't be applied down the road, or if it is applied will create problems down the road. And I think the Attorney's General's job is both. It is both to protect against interference, but it's also to provide oversight to make sure that in each individual case, the same rule that would be applied broadly is being applied to the individual. All right. That was from the hearings today for the new Attorney General, William Barr, and a lot of people get a lot of different feedback on it. Some things he said I found to be interesting in the right way to approach the law and his job, and I am a little concerned that he doesn't see the witch hunt aspect as it relates to the Muller investigation. The team that Muller has put together a group of heavily partisan Democrats, including well, Hillary Clinton's former attorney, a guy that has ethical issues, once cited for withholding exculpatory evidence and involved in a case where tens of thousands of Americans lost their jobs at Enron Accounting, and then that case overturned nine zero in the Supreme Court. Four Meryal executives go to jail for a year. Andrew Weissman puts them there, that's overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and he's supposed to be Robert Muller's pitbull. So a lot of people canned joining us. Now, Jay Sekulo, he's the chief counsel for the American Center for Law Injustice and also counsel to the President. I think you know Bill Barr? Is that true? I do. I've known Bill Barr a long time. What do you think of his testimony and the things that he was saying that some of would contradict your client and what he's been saying, Well, I don't think it's it's contradictory. I think it's you gotta understand the different roles in the different approach. I thought the most enlightening part of the discussion was when the Attorney General nominee, Bill Barr, was being pressed by Senators Bluementhal and later by Senator Harrona, where the issue was, will you guarantee us that you will, for instance, allow the special counsel to basically do whatever he wants? Will you guarantee us a subpoena right? Will you guarantee us that his report will be public? And what Bill Barr said correctly, is that Bill is going to follow the law. But he also said he's not surrendering his authority as Attorney General in the United States under the rules and regulations that have been set up. And it's pretty clear that a lot of these editors don't know what those rules are, but or the regulations that governed the special count they keep conflating uh Leon Jaworski and the Watergate Council and the Independent Council with the situation of special Counsel. It's just it's it's apples and oranges. The rules are different. They're not independent in the sense that they don't report directly to say Congress or directly to a three judge panel. They report to the Attorney General. So look, Bill Barr is a man of tremendous integrity, tremendous reputation. I've known him for three decades. He's going to be fair, which is all you can ask for. He's going to apply the law without a bias, which is something that's desperately needed. And he's aware that the Department of Justice has challenging Look at the biggest challenge today, the General Council of the Federal view of Investigation, James Baker. Yeah, James Baker is under a criminal investigation for leaking information. Now we also know that Winnie McCabe. McCabe was the number two guy director, the FI director. He's under investigation for leaking. We know that James call me leak because James coming said it. So, I mean, look, the FBI and the Department of Justice need a steady hand, and Bill Bard did not need this job. He's older than me, sixty eight years old, and has had a distinguished career. And I think people are overreading on both sides what he's saying here. It's the confirmation hearing. He is answering forthrightly. There are distinctions between what he's saying and the way there others would say it or phrase it. Is Bob Muller on a personal witch hunt. I picked up all that, and look, here's the thing. Bill Bard does not know that, and no one does except Bob Mueller and his team as exactly where all the tentacles of this investigation or nobody knows that. I mean, we have general ideas, we have more specific ideas as the President's counsel. But this is someone that has raised the issue of the obstruction inquiry in a memo that's being widely discussed now. He was critical of that. He's been critical of the thirteen, the people that were hired, and he said there should be no partisanship involved in these decision making. But he also said, I think the most important thing today he said, was he's gonna apply the law fairly. He's not surrending his authorities Attorney General. He's network They already asked him to accuse himself shown early in this sering well, and he actually thought he thought Jeff Sessions did the right thing by recusing himself. Now there is a difference between Barn Rosenstein. You got to hope that bar is going to be an honest broker. Now, if Bar is an honest broker, j that would mean that equal we'd have equal application of our laws, an equal justice under the law. That then brings us back to the exoneration of Hillary. That brings up the Espionage Act, that brings back top secret information and classified information on her server. That also goes to the heart of you know, when an issue to subpoena, when she deleted and acid washed and broke up her devices, That brings up the issue He did say he would be looking into the fi abuses, but bought and paid for Russian lies that were disseminated to the American people and used as the bulk of information to get four fiser warrants that were never verified, meaning the dossier. Is he going to do all of that because short of that, we don't have equal justice under the law. Well, let's talk about what what we do know. He already said to Lindsey Graham, to Senator Graham, that he's going to look into once look into the leak of what came out over the weekend, the purported counterintelligence investigation, and you and I talked about last night on TV. I mean, he's already said he's going to take a look at that. That's number one, a number two. I think here what's equally important is you've raised these issues of these other inquirs. You know there is a US attorney in I believe it's in Nevada, you talk, excuse me, that is investigating this, and we don't know what he's uncovering. For instance, did any since John Hoover is supposed to be investigating the leak aspect that was identified by then Attorney General Sessions I think he said some twenty or thirty leagues at the time. So now we know today that, in fact, the number the General Council of the FBI under James Comey isn't act under a criminal investigation, and we didn't know that till today. Jim Jordan wrote a letter that talked about the testimony that was given that his lawyer, Jim Baker's lawyer wisely would not let him answer a series of questions because of that. I would have been the lawyer. I would have done exactly the same thing, wouldn't let him answer those questions either. And you look at it and you say, Okay, there are things going on here we don't even know that are going on. And that, by the way, that's the way it's supposed to be. These investigations a proposed to be going You're not supposed to be leaking them. So I think, look, I think between someone of the credibility and stature of William Barr Bill Barr coming in and the fact that there is ongoing effort right now to clean this mess up, and it is a mess. You I thought about this today, Sean. I founded, as you remember, you have three years ago that massive suit against the IRS. It took us three years to get it resolved. It took us three years to get the rules change. It took us three years to get the people out. But the same I had a Freedom of Information Act request. We talked about it on our broadcast today. That has one of the you know, if you fight, they fight you on every document, but one document I got as guests who want it, James, James Baker, you got it right. And uh and by the way, Peter struck and these were involving James, comey, see I am wondering. Look a lot of these people have been fired, and you know these investigations never materialized seemingly under the old Attorney general sessions, which I know became a great source of frustration for me and all. The President was very frustrated. Um. I remember asking very key people in the Justice Department, is this a violation of law? If you delete acid washer hard drive after information has been subpoened? Uh, you're a good lawyer. Could you get me out of obstruction of justice? If I did that? And a charge such as that, well, you know I would fight for it. You'd fight for me, but it would be an uphill battle. Wouldn't it. Of course, of course, So here here's here's the rules that are different. I think what Bill the message Bill Barson today was There're not gonna be two sets of rules here. We're gonna play by the rules. We're gonna play We're gonna we're gonna deal with the laws. The law is written, We're going to apply it in an equalent, fair way, with integrity. Where he said he's not surrending his authority, He's not starting his tenure as Attorney General by surrendering his authority. And that was the message today. I thought he did a very effective job. Okay, and he's kind of and as it relates to the Mueller Report, he said he would release all that he was able to based on I guess Justice Department guidelines. According to guidelines, my understanding is he doesn't have to release any of it. That's right. That it's a confidential I mean, this is what people do not understand. I've been saying this for nineteen months, twenty months now. It's a confidential report under the regulations, it goes to the Attorney General, and then what the Attorney General says, he will release as much as he can to be transparent as the law allows. As the law allows, and that raises the whole spectrum of a the regulations that he's governed by, and be that various privileges that may or may not exist, or that would exist. It's an executive privilege. There's been a little fly that my colleague, you know. He in an answer to him, he was asked a question, will you allow Rudy Giuliani to correct the report? And he said no, I will not, And some have interpreted that as, oh my goodness, but that's not what First of all, that's not what Rudy said. Rudy didn't say we're going to correct the report. We said we wanted an opportunity to respond to the report, which is just due process. And Bill Bark correctly just said that he's, of course he's not gonna let anybody correct report. But the report he's talking about, the Bill's talking about, is his report that would go to Congress, because it's not necessary that Bob Muller's report goes. That's not the way they set the rules up, and that's not the way the law was established. Can send you a Jay Sekulo, chief counsel for the American Center for law injustice. Why don't we get regular updates from the Inspector General. Last time he took eighteen months to get the information out. Now, to his credit, he's the one that found a majority of the page and struck texts. Now he's looking into FAISA abuse and I've been told he's also been pulled. The congressional requests have pushed him in other areas as well. But it seems like anything that is anti the president is out there in three seconds. Anything that like, for example, has been very very slow to get information even today, that James Baker is being criminally investigated, just like Andrew McCabe is under criminal investigation. I would suspect over time, if we do have equal justice under the law, James Comey might find himself in such a position Struck and Paige would find themselves in such a position. Does that seem far fetch to you? No, I think here's what's happened. You know, these investigations are supposed to be going on and no one's supposed to know. But these things I've been leaked, and that leaking situation is out of control, as you and I've been talking about for two years. But now you look back, and you said, why is it taking Heartwitch so long? Let me tell you something I've got. I'm holding in my hand a report that our team put together of all the Foy cases we're involved in involving all these issues you just mentioned. Some of these go back to letters we sent in twenty sixteen shown we're just now getting the document, Harwitz. These people of lawyers, the lawyers are being cautious, the defense lawyers, and that's why it's taking a long time. But you got to say the final product of what Harwitch has put forward on both these issues has been very very well done. Well again, just how long? Like for for examples, tonight, I'm going to put up on the TV on television, I'm going to put up the names of people that I think should be under investigation and what the crimes are that I think that the new Attorney General should be investigating. And I'm worried that if he doesn't do his job completely that you know, there's a real threat to equal justice in this country. Nobody could have gotten away with or gotten the exoneration. You know, Hillary, how lucky is she She gets a guy to interview her that thinks that she should win one hundred million to zero. She has James Comey obviously in her court, as he exonerated her in spite of was writing an exoneration long before they investigated. None of those considerations ever happened to the president. Just quite the opposite. You get crazy, wild allegations and even reports now that the FBI, after the firing of Coomy, after they had already spent nine months investigating Trump Prussia collusion, they're sitting around a table basically arguing whether or not they should investigate the president for treason with no cause whatsoever, no evidence at all, just that or revenge for the firing of Komy. Well, I mean that whole thing so, sir, because James Koby told the President he wasn't under investigation. Peter Scrock says to an email to Lisa Page, I don't know if I'm going to go over to the Special Counsel's office. I mean, I don't think there's any there there, and he'd already been investigating it for a year. They fired James Coomy two two days before that, and all of a sudden, it's literally a federal case and there's supposedly a counterintelligence investigation that's why you need an attorney general to get a handle on what is actually going on. And as he said, he told Senator Herona, it sounds like you know more about this investigation than anybody else because there's a lot of speculating going on. But I think he's going to be an exceptional choice. He's got tremendous integrity. Look all you want in an attorney general, you want a leader. You want fairness, you want the rule of law applied equally. That's what you want. I think we agree, Bar You're going to get that, all right, I hope, so we'll find out in fairly short order. I think. Jay Sekulo, Chief Council, American Center for Law and Justice, Counsel to the President, thank you for being with us. We appreciate your time. As always. Later on we're going to check in with Carter Page in the program, considering now that the issue of Faiza is back in the forefront. Also, our friend Pastor Daryl Scott is going to join us about an urban revitalization coalition plan that they have and we'll go over that in great detail, a much more straight ahead than tromp much stuff holding an American people hostage much stop manufacturing a crisis. This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis. This is a manufacturing crisis. No crisis exists, and anyone making the argument is most likely guilty of fear mongering and willfully misleading the American people. Locals will tell him on the border, even conservatives, is that there isn't a national security crisis. The notion that we have a crisis, their security crisis is absolute nonsense because this is a manufactured crisis, and a crisis that manufactured by the Trump administration. This artificial crisis of the president isn't going to justify his appropriating money for a wall that Congress is unwilling to give. Is there a crisis at the border of the president said there's a humanitarian crisis at the border? Is there absolutely not. We have a challenge, Oh oh, humanitarian issues or challenges for us. The big scam of the whole address is that there's a crisis. There's not a crisis, folks. The president has manufactured one heck of a political crisis for himself. Donald Trump is manufacturing a national security crisis. You will hear them say, is that this is a manufactured crisis. It's not a national security crisis. It remains a Seinfeld shutdown all about nothing. What happened when there is a real crisis, when there is a real emergency, does he take to the airways? Do we give him the airways? Do we believe him? Some question if there is a crisis at all, as the President has claimed, there is not a crisis at the border, it's a manufactured crisis for the president to get a political wand the crisis can have, as we see now, a very elastic definition, and he's determined to convince you there is a crisis at the border, even though an intelligence official tell sin and quote. No one is saying this is a crisis except them all. Right. Of course, that was last week, and the media mixed in with the Democrats because they're all on the same page and they work work hand in hand on basically every issue, especially those that involved Donald Trump, which they can hate. As we have our handity watch segment on the border and update you Democrats were invited to the White House today, they boycotted going to even talk to the President. That's how much they care about the furloughed employees that they say they care about that are not getting their checks at the present time. Not a crisis at the border. Okay. Tell that to the families of four thousand homicide victims, or ten thousand sexual assault victims, or one hundred thousand acts of violence and violent assault victims. Tell that to the parents the angel moms and dads that were on my show Friday night, all of whom lost children because illegal immigrants were let set free from our criminal justice system and they were involved in killing their own kids. You're telling me that's that's not a crisis for those families. Ninety percent of heroin. How much do we talk about the opioid epidemic in America A lot? And ninety percent of the heroin coming into this country comes across our southern border. Now, a couple of really interesting aspects. We have had unbelievable record setting economic growth in the country, including our lowest unemployment records for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment are vets a going back to work, and record numbers. There was a real clear politics article Black America Faced the Facts on illegal immigration, and in it they actually quote Barack Obama in his book The Audacity of Hope, appealing to America's working class, he said, if this huge influx of mostly low skilled workers provide some benefits to the economy as a whole, especially by keeping our workforce young, it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net. And then The Washington Examiner had an article in March of twenty sixteen headline expert amnesty illegal immigration hits black wages the hardest and they go on to say that illegal immigration has disproportionally had a negative of impact on the wages and employment levels of Black Americans, particularly black males. According to Peter Kerson, now here to deal with this issue and many more. Pastor Darryl Scott is back with us. He's the chairman of the Urban Revitalization Coalition. Also Candice Camper, community affairs Director, Los Angeles Urban Revitalation Revitalization Coalition. Pastor Troy Martinez, He's a community affairs director Urban Revitalization Coalition, to talk about the efforts to lift up the minority community that is suffering and getting lower wages because of illegal immigration. Welcome all of you to the program. Thank you, Thank jan Do you all agree Pastor Scott with the assessment that because of the illegal immigration, that that Black Americans have been disproportionately negatively impacted by this? Absolutely, we've been impacting on a number of different levels, the economic level, social level, as far as crime and drugs and gang activity in our communities. We have to understand, Sean, when these people cross the borders, especially somewhere state like California, they're not moving into Brentwood and Burbank and Beverly Hills. They're going into the urban communities, and they are once again denying us or causing technic advantages of opportunities that were once afforded to us. And there's there's a criminal throat that the MS thirteen gang has become the premier gang in California. And I was talking to someone from the Department of Justice on last week and they told me what makes it so difficult in addressing the MS thirteen gangs is the fact that they employ miners in their activity, and so when they arrest the minors, they can't prosecute. They simply have to release them. And that's what makes them effective. I'm in the Midwest. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio, right down the ropes must in Columbus. The MS thirteen gang has a huge footprint there, and so you know there are segments of the infiltering the American society and it's negatively impacting the black community. Well, when you feel the same way, Canadae you seeing the same thing where you live in Los Angeles. Yes, yes, I actually have been boots on the ground. And actually right before of this phone call, I just received a call from skid Row where they found a Black American woman in her fifties that was found dead in her tent and she had been there for five days or more. My son got attacked by two illegal immigrants while waiting at the bus stop. He got stabbed. So this is affecting the Black American community. They have pushed out all the Black Americans here in Los Angeles, California, Homeless on the street, living in inhuman main living conditions, living with rats, roaches, feces, you name it. As illegal immigrants and other foreigners take over communities such as Watts, Inglewood, and Compton and pushing out all the Blacks and gentifying those neighborhoods and those communities away from Black American families that used to have a large footprint there in those communities. So it is affecting the Black American community. There's a lot of things that are not being said publicly that are happening on the street, and the media is not communicating this information publicly. The Black American race is being affected drastically due to illegal immigrants. They are in all the homeless agencies, They're in the Apartment of Social Services there at the city's Attorney's office, they are in every agency here in Los Angeles, California, and they are taking care of their own race of people as they push out the Black Americans who have been in this country for the past four hundred years, and our ancestors paved the way for our Black American families. My father is a Vietnam veteran. He fought for this country to pave the way for Black Americans and their children and their families for decades to come. They did not fight for this country for other people from other countries to come into the United States and take over our territories, because that's basically what it is. Another country has been allowed to come into the United States and take over whole communities and the federal government and these Democrats have allowed it to happen. They are taking care of people that are here in our country that aren't supposed to be here illegally. I don't agree with everything you're saying as much as look, I'll say ninety eight percent of people that cross the border illegally, I think just want what we all take for granted, freedom, liberty, opportunity of better life for their kids and grandkids. And many are just law abiding, you know, in every other way. But then you have the worry about oh, gang members, drug dealers, human trafficking, and all of the impact that's had on Americans. Also, our social services are overwhelmed, our educational system, our criminal justice system, our healthcare system. I think I would agree with you to a point that wages for some Americans, and according to the Washington Examiner, African Americans have been disproportionately negatively impacted by this, driving wages down, etc. And I also think that it's fair past Troy Martinez that we be able to vet who comes into this country, and we'd be able to vet whether they're able to take care of themselves and not be a burden on the people, the American citizens that are here. And thank you for that, Sean. And you know, right here in Las Vegas, Nevada, we are in the middle of a group of illegal immigrants from El Salvador that it went on a serial killing spree for the last year and now they're all in federal custody and there's an ongoing right now federal case against these five individuals. The youngest is seventeen, the oldest is twenty four, again all illegal from El Salvador. We have ten bodies that have been kidnapped from our inner cities, taken out to the outskirts of our town, which is desert, mutilated, tortured, and murdered. And it wasn't just illegal people that they were killing. They were killing American citizens. They were killing people that had migrated here legally. And it was affecting the black, the Hispanic, and the white community. We have a young man, Isaac Lowry, just twenty three years old, blonde haired, blue eyed kid lives with his mom, took a ten minute walk to his friend's house to go play a game. He was kidnapped by this gang. His mom reported it on February nine, twenty eighteen. His body was not found until February twenty fifth in the desert. Dismembered, these gang members took a machetting and took turns chopping him into pieces. It's horrible what we're going through. If anywhere else in the country, if there wasn't because it was so politically charged, if there was five people on a serial killing spring with ten mutilated, tortured bodies, this would make national headlines. Why aren't we hearing about? Yeah. Look, I've interviewed angel moms and dads, people that lost their children because of illegal immigrants, and it's the numbers are much higher than people admit. And Pastor Scott, I, you know, I think on the competitive side of it, I mean, America, we've got to make sure that Americans have opportunity. First, there are certain needs I think we have where the jobs are available. I think people can get work permits, people can apply to come into the country legally, and then we can vet them and make sure that they are able to provide for themselves. I didn't know this level of resembment though existed in this particular case. You know, I guess because I'd never really heard that the black community was so disproportionately affected this way. Oh, yes we are. And you know, even though some illegals might come into this country because they want the American dream, it can't come at the expense of other Americans. And so if we you know, in a lot of respects, Blacks are at the lower run of the social order in this country. And what happens is when the illegals come in, they don't move us up that ladder, they move us off the ladder. Even Barack Obama, in his book The Audacity of Hope, said that illegal immigration threatens to depress the wages of blue collar workers. So they're inspecting they're affecting our community. And you know, once again, we talk about the economic part, the jobs. That's one thing. But you know, unless you're living with these people, unless you're living in a community that's teaming with illegals, you don't see the other negative aspects of it. And so that's what a lot of us do see. We do see the crime, we do see the drugs. It's one thing they hear about it, it's another thing to experience it. We do see the negative impact, and we take offense to to that, because you know, it seems as if you know, we already feel marginalized as any and if things look the American government, the Democratic government, is more concerned about the rights and the opportunities and the benefits of illegal than it is of African American. I think it's one of the greatest accomplishments of this president. Record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, women in the workplace, and youth unemployment, and every American has a better shot at the American dream, which is what we want for our kids and our grandkids. But I gotta let it go here. We'll continue to follow the story. Daryl Scott, Canada's Camper and Pastor Tory Martinez, my thoughts and prayers in the case you were describing Kansas from earlier today in Los Angeles, it's horrible to hear stories like that towhere that on numerous occasions he met with mister Steele wise wife were with Fusion GPS. I read that, Okay, the warrant certification against Carter Page on four different occasions certifie that Fedacier, which was the main source of the warrant, was reliable. Would you look in to see whether or not that was an accurate statement and hold people accountable if it was not. Yes, mister chairman, all right, that was from the hearings earlier today eight hundred nine for one Sean Tolfrey telephone number. Well, every time we talk about FISA abuse, FISA warrants using Clinton's unverified, uncorroborated bought and paid for with funneled money through a law firm, into an op research firm, into Christopher Steele who uses you know, dubious Russian contacts and many of these issues and his dacier been debunked. Well, we got to go to the guy that was being investigated, and that's Carter Page. Now as you watch this, I'm watching very closely, and tonight on Hannity, we're gonna lay out who are the people that the new Attorney General needs to investigate and for what. And at the top of the list has to be everybody that signed end off on a dossier so they could spy on you for a year without probable cause, without verifying the information they were presenting to the court purposely withholding from the court. Hillary Clinton paid for it, and the DNC paid for all this. So as you're watching this, where do you stand, Sean, It's been incredible watching this today. You know, soon to be Attorney General bar He's just it reminds me of my time at the Navy, where you have a captain. You know, some captains were so so, others just have great control of the vessel and just really incredible competence. And you know, throughout his hearing today you got a sense of that, and you compare that to exactly as you're alluding to, these people that are basically rogues on a rowboat out in the middle of a swamp somewhere. I mean, this is just complete night and day between what we've seen previously in what we have in store. So I think that clip with Chairman Graham is a great, very promising and I think there's a great things ahead. So really excited. Now let's talk about your very specific experience. I mean, we keep hearing that maybe the Mueller investigation is wrapping up. We know there's an ongoing investigation into FISA abuse by the Inspector General of the DIO, J. Michael Horowitz. I don't think anybody has a clue with this guy from Utah was doing. John Houber, We haven't heard from him, but he's supposedly, you know, looking into a lot of these matters. So from your vantage point, you know, I guess you know. Has have you been before Muller's team yet? Well? I typically I don't talk about those things, Sean, but it's it's sure enough. You knows, as you talked about last night on your shows, the you know, the New York Times. It was leaked to the New York Times that I spoke with him, and I won't deny the information that's been leaked. So yes, I've spoken with him. And how many times were you brought before him? Well it was again, you know, there was reported last November and December, so it was right around that time. And sorry, November of twenty seventeen, so been over a year, so a long time ago, okay. And did they ever have any follow up with you on that is anyone ever? Was there any threat to you or your did your lawyers at any point think that you are a target of this investigation? And what is it that they obtained having surveiled you illegally for over a year. I think I think what they obtained, Sean, is a huge embarrassment, and I think you know now that we have a solid captain at the on the bridge of this ship, it's I think things are about to get turned. Why are you so confident that the new Attorney General will be that person? Well, I just think he is just tremendous experience. And also, you know, just listening to him today and also reading some of his prior you know, legal work. You know, I've been upsetting the law over recent months and years, and you know, just reading some of his work, he's just a really solid season player. So very excited now. Part of what you did in as your work life caused you to travel to Russia and places like that, correct, yeah, yeah, And the government knew every time you were going to a place like Russia is a hostile regime, Vladimir Putin as a hostile actor. You don't deny that. Right Again, things that have been leaked, which I can only confirm, how long did you live in Russia? Considering that's everybody's fixation and focus, how long did you live there? I was there three years two thousand and four to two thousand and seven, and you were you were a professor, right, you were a lecturer? No? No, I actually I was me and another guy opened Merrill Lynch's office there in two thousand and four. So it was a fast growth market. And Merrill actually closed down their office in nineteen ninety eight when the emerging market financial crisis, and I met another guy went over to open it back up when it was a booming market in two thousand and four and ended up living there for three years after that. Okay, Now, when you would going to a place like Russia or China, is it something that you would inform the government because you would work with government agencies. I'll put it that way in the past, correct, they knew you well. Again, I'm a US Navy veteran myself, and i'd be very obscure today. I don't know why you've seen you seem to have buttoned up here. You would have worked, you have worked hand in hand when you would travel to what we would consider hostile regimes, meaning hostile towards the United States. It was a general practice of yours that you made the government aware of your travel plan, and when you would return, oftentimes you would sit with very important people and talk to them and voluntarily give them information. I think that's a fair characterization. Yes, And why were they so interested in the trips just because you were going there. They understood this was how you were making your living right, Yes, yep, was there any and was there at any time at any hostility? Did they seem to appreciate the fact that you were willing to talk to them and give them information? Always very cordial discussions. Absolutely, So what was different about this time? And what do you think the rationale and the reason was behind you know, you know here Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for an unverified dossier and a whole fraud committed on a FISA court to obtain warrants so they can surveil you. I believe it's a slam dunk case of your rights being violated illegally, especially when you had when you got back from Russia. How soon thereafter had you spoken to let's just say, people associated with our government that would be interested in the information you had. You know, it's it's been a while, Sean, I can't remember precisely, but you know it's Were you there three consecutive years without coming home? No? No, I've I've always been sort of back and forth. Yeah, but you lived there for three years, that was your residence. Yes, Now, when you would come back home. Would it be a regular practice to talk to these people? Absolutely? And you know, I actually lived right next door to the US embassy. I lived in a one of these big stalin skyscrapers right on Kudrinsky Square there, right next to the US Embassy in Moscow, and so I had worked out in the gym there pretty much every day on. Did you always assume, because you're an American that you were being surveiled in your time there? Yeah? Absolutely. Again there's I've got nothing to hide, so nothing or worry about. So yeah, well that's really not my question. I mean, in other words, did you when you were in Russia, did you assume the Russians were likely, you know, surveiling you? Sure you did, absolutely? Yeah. Yeah. Um, so it's like your whole life has been surveiled. You you have lived your life. When did you first get win that you might be surveiled after the fives of warrant was issued? Well, actually I think it was uh the journalist slash blogger Louise Mensch, she had a piece, you know, about a week or so before the election, and you know, she started talking about that that then saying that there might be some fives of warrants out there. So so you got wind wind of that and did that change your behavior in any way or No? Absolutely not, No, there's nothing all right, So then no no concern. Yeah, so you're now moving forward with a series of lawsuits correct, yes? Yeah? And who would they be against? Well, I think um later this week the d n C Perkins Cooie and a couple of their partners, they have another court filing in about Christopher Steele against them. Well, they hired you know, they were the masters of you know, there's a master and servant relationship, right, they were the overall masters, paying for and managing him. So why wouldn't you Why wouldn't you sue? Why wouldn't you sue the Clintons considering they they're the ones that initiated this stasier that became the bulk of information presented to the FISA court to surveil you illegally, Why wouldn't you sue them? Well? Actually it was. It came out in a letter from Perkins Coupee in October of twenty seventeen that Perkins Coolly was representing both of them. And since DNC is more of a going concern. You know, Clinton campaign is sort of gone by the wayside here, d NC. Well, I would focus. I mean, you wouldn't sue, for example, everybody that signed onto the FISA, Warrens, and that would be like Sally Yates, James come Rod Rosenstein, everybody else. Sean. The way I look at the world is remember this Clapper Comey Brennan intel report that was just was really negative towards the Trump transition team lack in January of twenty seventeen, and they kind of split the world into two different pieces. One is sort of government propaganda and the other is hacking. My current lawsuits are about the government propaganda, right, and so I you know, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which is a agency of the US government, was working along Yahoo to put out the fake news before the election. You know, let me a violation of US law. So this is my first lawsuit. We'll see a bat hacking. I think you know similarly, well, the fact is everybody Russian, but we have certain Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure. Uh, there are laws against committing a fraud before the FISA court. I would think all of those people should be a target of a lawsuit. Let me ask you this one. We now have Lisa pages testimony and which was released yesterday, and she talks about she had referenced Steele's handler and said, when the when the first when? When the first FBI receives the reports that are known as the dossier from the FBI agent who was Christopher Steele's handler. This was in September twenty sixteen. Now that becomes the bulk of information that they used to surveil you. We do not know who, we do not know why these reports have been generated, and it says she was on Steele's handler is most certainly Michael Gadaye ga Eta. Do you know Michael gaida I don't believe I've crossed paths with him, but yeah, I've read the reports. He's the head of the FBIS Eurasian Crime Squad. And all I gotta take a quick break. We'll come back your phone calls in the next half hour. Why wouldn't you want everybody involved in illegal surveillance of you? Why wouldn't they be a target of a lawsuit, a civil suit by you? Well, I think you know, it's it's still early days, Sean, you know, and I think you've been on the front line of this for the last two years, right trying to get the information out there, and unfortunately the government has been very slow on disclosures. And again, this is part of why today is such a historic moment for soon to be Attorney General bar just really taking the reins of that department and helping to write this ship hopefully. So um, I think there's going to be great opportunities in the time ahead. So and we're still still because if you were, you were very you were more open and previous interviews we've had about your desire and willingness to help our government against the foe like Russia, and that you cooperated fully, and I think it's important to people know. And I think when when obviously unverified information and then fraud has committed on a court and you're the victim of it, you certainly have a lawsuit in front of you, and I think everybody involved should be a held accountable. Don't you want everyone involved that fraud to be held accountable? Absolutely, Sean, And I'm working on that and I think we'll have more to say on that in the weeks and months ahead. But again, I think if you have constructive style of the leadership at the top of doj um, it will help to turn around a lot of this corruption. And again the civil division within day is uh, you know, the ones that are responsible for these uh the lawsuits. I'm I'm in so lofton So you know, I think when we have better or more effective leadership. Oh, we're hoping. I mean, you know, if if we don't do it right this time, this is our last shot. So I hope the new Attorney General Barr, you know, um does his job, because if he does, we're gonna lay out who should be investigated. We'll give him well, we'll do his job for him tonight with all the evidence, all the laws that they were in play. Carter Page, thanks for being with us. Thanks a lot, Sean. You're doing too good of a job, and I think I think things are changing. So I just want a cake with a file. That's all all right, thank you, Carter Page, eight hundred nine one, Sean. When we come back, wide open telephones next twenty five. Now till the top of the r If you missed some of the hearings today, let's go over William Barr, the soon to be new Attorney General some things you here, you might like, some things you might be a little cautious about. But let's go over someone. What have you said earlier today in terms of people who are actually enforcing the law, don't we want to make sure they don't have an agenda? That's right, mister chairman. Do you know a Lisa Page or Peter Struck? I've heard their names, so do you know them personally? No, I don't. This is a message August eighth, twenty sixteen, a text message, Trump's not ever going to become president, right right? Struck responded, No, No, he's not. Will stop him. Struck was in charge of the Clinton email investigation miss Page where the Department of Justice. August fifteenth, twenty sixteen. I want to believe the path you throughout for consideration in Andy's office, that there's no way he gets elected. But I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before forty March fourth, twenty sixteen, Page destruct God. Trump is a loathsome human being. October the twenty twenty sixteen Trump is an effing idiot. Is unable to provide a coherent answer to all those who enforce the law. You can have any opinion of us that you like, but you're supposed to do your job without an agenda. Do you promise me, as Attorney General if you get this job, to look in to see what happened in twenty sixteen? Yes, mister chairman. How do these statements sit with you? I was shocked when I saw them. Okay, please get to the bottom of it. I promise you we will protect the investigation. But were lying upon you to clean this place up. Bruce Or was an Associate Deputy Attorney General for organized crime and drug Enforcement. His wife worked at Fusion GPS. Or you've for me with a few yes, I've read a bathpath. Fusion GPS. Mister Barr was hired by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign to do opposition research against candidate Trump and maybe other candidates. But we now know that they hired Fusion GPS Michael Steele, who was a former British agent, to do opposition research and produced the famous docier. Were you aware that mister Orr's wife worked for that organization? I've read that. Does that bother you if he had anything to do with the case? Yes? Are you aware that on numerous occasions he met with mister Steele why his wife worked with Fusion GPS. I've read that. Okay, the warrant certification against Carter Page on four different occasions certifies that the docier which was the main source of the warrant was reliable. Would you look in to see whether or not that was an accurate statement and hold people accountable if it was not. Yes, mister chairman. Do you believe that Attorney General Sessions had a conflict because he worked on the Trump campaign. I'm not sure of all the fact, but I think he probably did the right thing recusing himself. I agree, I think he did the right thing to recuse himself. And I want to say one final thing on the rule of law, because it picks up on something you said, mister chairman, what is the rule of law? We all use that term in the area of enforcement. I think the rule of law is that when you apply a rule to A it has to be the same rule and approach you apply to BCD and E and so forth. All Right, So there's some hope in some aspects of this, I mean, promising that he's going to look into the FBI D j counter intelligence investigation just because they were angry that Komey got fired. And after listening to Lindsay Graham, Red Struck and Paige tax Bar promising he's going to look into the Russia Hillary investigation, and which I think is really really important. That means the fis abuse, That means the dossier that he's also going to investigate. If the Steel dossier was used, was used to get a buys a Warren against Carter Page was accurate, we now know it was not, and it was never verified and it was never corroborated. He seems to like Muller and Rod Rosenstein. That's a you know, red flag to me. But maybe he's just saying he likes him because or maybe he has respect for them. But he had just disagrees. As we know, he had written a memo disagreeing with what Mueller was doing some time back, and he said that Sessions was right to recuse himself, but he will not be recusing himself, and also saying on the rule of law, the law should be applied equally to everyone, no special treatment. Well, if that's true, then we're gonna lay out for you tonight. If we have equal justice equal application of laws, will make it easy permiss the bar and will name names and will also go over the crimes that should be investigated. He said he would release as much as the Mueller report is possible, following DJ guidelines. And he said Mueller is going to be allowed to finish his work. It's almost supposedly done anyway, and the regulations Mueller could be only terminated for good cause, nothing big or job breaking in Now. The other big story is that James Baker, we now have confirmed, is under a criminal investigation, just like we know Comey's number two, Andrew McCabe, is under a criminal investigation. We don't know the latest in terms of what the Inspector General harrowitz where he is in the files of abuse investigation. We have John Houber, the guy that was appointed by Jeff Sessions now looking into all the leak allegations where they came from. Rod Rosenstein wants to make it easier to go after people in the media and get their information that's not come to happen. That's called freedom of the press. Maybe he can learn about that. Maybe we'll give him an education one day. All right, let's get to our busines. Phones eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let's say hi to Denny's in states Borough. Denny, Hi, how are you? And we're glad you called. How are you going? Sean? I appreciate you taking the call. All right, what's going on? Okay? I'm really upset in the fact that you have got a gunner officials that are going overseas and join themselves on their vacation, yet you have employees military personnelit Coastguard out there without pay. Well no, actually the president, the President intervened, as I understand it, to personally to get the Coastguard paid. That was one thing. Yeah. Look, I don't I I don't want anybody that's furloughed to have tough economic conditions. Um, there might be a way to thread that needle. I My sources in Washington are saying that there is a bipartisan group that maybe as early as tomorrow will approach the president, uh, you know, an equal number of Republicans and Democrats and say we would like an opportunity to be able to do our job, which the President has been trying to get Congress to do. They were invited even today to the White House. They just refused to go and not negotiate at all. But there are Democrats that are now saying, we want to work with the Republicans and come to a solution. And there are issues where maybe you know, there'll be some give and take, probably I would assume on Dacca and on Dreamers for the President's wall, and there were even Democrats now speaking out saying that they agree with the President that a wall should be built. If they did that, I think it might allow the opening of the government. And then if that doesn't work, if they can't get their job done, then the President has said, and I believe he'll will do it, He'll declare a national emergency and at that point we'll do it a different way. I don't care which way it gets done. Yeah, but is there a kind of some kind of ethics committee that stop these these couple heads from doing things like that. They know that shut now, they know that people that are going out paychecks. Yeah, they're going to get paid. I understand that, But there are some people out there that you know, live had check my paycheck, and they are counting on that with you know, with children, And yet these guys are going out having to do all the time, thinking that there's no problem. Look at look at what we saw over Christmas. The President stayed in Washington. The President, I'm sure would have loved to have gone down and had a great time at Maralago, but he stayed back. Yeah, and waiting for you know, even like tweeted, here, I am Christmas Eve Hall alone. I'm in the Oval Office. Anybody want to negotiate? You know that that's a part of Donald Trump that nobody will ever get, you know, of ten days into their job, we got all these you know, senators flying down to Puerto Rico to live at a you know, rich resort, you know, putting sunscreen on each other and having big parties. Well it looked like it looked like Menendez was putting sunscreen on somebody. That's what it looked like to me. All Right, So he's talking to a girl in a bikinis, whatever way you want to put it. And then when Fox asked him about it, he was pretty pissed off that he was asked about it. That only ten days into their job. Let me tell you about the greatest job on earth is being in Congress. They don't work at all and by the way, I'd rather they work at two weeks a year. That's it. That there's only so much damage they can do every and in two weeks, except with the confirmations and important things like that. Look, these elected officials, they don't do their job. What's my biggest criticism. Democrats are radical, hard hate Trump left, and a lot of Republicans are just weak and afraid and want to hold on the power. And I don't know what it is about people that they love to be called congressmen, they love to be called send at all, they love to be called govern all. I don't know what it is. Now. Some people do it because they want to serve other people. You know, look at the president, you may you know. I had a conversation with kind of like a never Trump or person recently in the last couple of days, and the person is conservative, and I said, well, I've been fighting for everything the president's doing for my entire thirty year radio career. I haven't changed who I am, My values, my belief system might have. You know, on some issues, I have changed and grown a little bit and maybe become more libertarian, but I've always believed in lower taxes, less government regulation. I believe in border security. I've always believed in peace through strength, energy independence. I believe that, you know, we have got to incentivize business in this country and not destroy business. And you know that's what the President's fighting for. I think America's got to reevaluate our role in the world. I think we ought to be developing the next generation of military technology so we don't ever have to send kids door to door like we did in Iraq, because we have the ability to blow these people out of you into smithereans, and we can fire the weapon from Tampa, Florida. And I'd like to see future wars. You know that we're involved in conflicts that we're leading in that technological field and advantage. I don't want American lives lost because these wars then become politicized, and after the politicized, forget it. You know, then you know what you have to ask that, well, why did we start it in the first place. We didn't plan on winning it anyway. I got off base a little bit there. Let me give you one other thing about government workers, and I don't I'm not making light of the government shutdown, and I'm sure, why are you laughing at me. Oh, you can say it. I don't care. I would never laugh at you. You definitely were Definitely you're laughing at Blair or you're laughing at Missus. Fake news. It's not fake news. Fake news, all right. So do you care about the government burloughed employees. I care about them. However, However, I care about families that are losing loved ones. I do I care about families that are that have an opioid crisis and their family with the opioids. An arrow incoming from south of the border him. I tend to agree with you. I think that it's very I think it's very, very hard to see beyond one's own needs sometimes. And I think if I was a government employee and I had a newborn, and I was living paycheck to paycheck, and you know, if I was some sort of you know, Department of Homeland Security employee, and I was protecting our borders and protecting us from terror attacks, all of these things are very scary, and they're in peril when we do not have our government workers working. But I also have talked to so many people who have been adversely affected by open borders, and I think that the Democrats need to stop playing possum, and Schumer needs to just go away if he's not going to come to the table and really try and work and make a deal. I don't care if they make a deal or if the President decides to go his own way. I think he should go his own way. I honestly don't. I don't think it's a bad strategy because the American people agree we need to secure the borders. All the poles show that. But also, if I may, for one moment, just because you asked me, you know, I thought I would just give you this little jump right in this little plot. You know, you know you want to reclaim your time. You know. All of that to say, I think that the president has not done anything that any other president has done. He does that. He's an anomaly in our presidential history. So why not take executive action and protect the American people because no other president can. The Congress is inefficient, it's not working to help us. There are a select few who want to work like our House Freedom Caucus, and the rest of them could care less sue. There's not even a difference between Republicans and Democrats anymore. That's why when you listen to Alexandria Acasio Cortex callor AOC. We don't need to say our whole name. It's annoying, AOC guess, said AOC. I wonder if people miss me on Twitter doing my Twitter fighting. They don't miss you, no, no, because they get you every day with your wonderful articles from Hannity dot com. I know, but I'm not the one posting. Um. What's your point? I don't know. I'm still wonderful content. And you don't have to get involved with people that are not worth your time. Cleanse up for today. A Hannity investigation. Now that James Baker we have confirmed he is under a criminal investigation, as is Andrew McCabe, Devid Newness. Also Lindsay Graham, Greg Jarrett. We're going to help Bill Barr, the soon to be new Attorney General out. We'll be telling him who should be investigated and why and what crimes need to be investigated. We'll get to that. Also, Dan Bongino and Pam Bandi and Joe Conscha all coming up tonight Hannity nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. See you then back here tomorrow,