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00:00Well, New Jersey, driving the rest of your show to watch the Eagles go birds.
00:05That was DVR.
00:12Welcome to Hannity, and we begin tonight with a Fox News alert.
00:16New York Attorney General and devout Trump hater Letitia James once proudly stated, quote,
00:23no individual, organization, entity, or elected officials above the law, period.
00:28Today, those words finally rang true.
00:31Just hours ago, New York's top law enforcement official was, in fact, indicted by a grand jury in Virginia on bank fraud charges.
00:39Now, remember, she ran on a platform.
00:41She's going to get Trump, go after one man, one family, one organization.
00:44And then, once elected, she cooked up a wild civil case against the president, asking a New York judge to penalize Trump for supposedly, interestingly enough,
00:56overvaluing his Florida mansion, Mar-a-Lago, on a fully paid-off bank loan.
01:02Everyone got paid back.
01:04And by the way, she went with an $18 million valuation, and it's closer to a billion, billion, five.
01:09But according to federal prosecutors, it was James who was committing mortgage fraud herself in 23.
01:16In order to secure a better loan and better loan terms on a second property, we're going to give you all the details coming up.
01:23Greg Jarrett, Jonathan Turley, they will break all this down tonight.
01:27But we begin with peace in the Middle East, all thanks to a groundbreaking peace deal from the White House.
01:33Now, this deal is so major, so historic, that even the left-wing legacy media mob, they are even praising President Trump tonight.
01:42According to MSDNC, Democrats, well, they could not have even dreamed of accomplishing this under Joe Biden.
01:49Take a look.
01:51The deal that President Trump is announcing played a key part in negotiating.
01:56It is a significant change.
01:59This war was blocked for two years.
02:01President Biden, who preceded him, was unable to find a way to stop it.
02:07President Trump found that way by being tough on both sides.
02:12And he'll take a victory lap for sure over the next few days.
02:16But it's deserved.
02:18There's no way that I can see that this would have been done without Trump's pressure in the final hours.
02:23Now, think of that.
02:25That was on MSDNC, a network dedicated to smearing, slandering Trump for an entire decade, peddling lies and conspiracy theories, one after another.
02:35That's not all.
02:36So-called journalist Martha Raddatz, who literally wept on air when Donald Trump won.
02:43Even now, she is singing his praises on ABC Disney.
02:47Take a look.
02:48There's no question that if this goes as planned, if we see those remaining hostages freed and Israel begin its withdrawal, it is a remarkable achievement.
02:57And President Trump most certainly deserves credit for his role.
03:00He has done this through diplomacy, pressure and the sheer force of his personality and persistence.
03:06He dispatched diplomats again and again, made threats just in the last few days to Hamas, saying, again, if they did not sign the deal, all hell would break loose.
03:15And they had the bombing of Iran as an example of that.
03:19But perhaps most importantly, he pushed Benjamin Netanyahu in ways his predecessor and others have not.
03:27All right, let's be very clear tonight.
03:29We're not cherry picking clips on every single network.
03:32There was wall to wall praise for President Trump.
03:35Take a look.
03:36Yeah, I just need to underscore what an enormous moment this is for so many people in this region, for the people of Gaza who have endured two years of war, for the families of these 48 remaining hostages who have endured two years of absolute agony.
03:52This is a watershed moment.
03:54President Trump announcing that the first phase of this plan will indeed move forward.
03:59Anderson, momentous day.
04:00There's not much good news in the world.
04:02This is great news.
04:04I am trying to hold it together, honestly.
04:06You may no mistake, it looks like President Trump has actually pulled off something here that many presidents before him have failed to do.
04:15We've heard it again and again from a number of people today really giving credit to President Trump for getting this deal over the finish line.
04:23And what are you hearing from your sources with regard to President Trump's role in getting both parties to sign off on at least the first phase of this peace plan?
04:30Well, certainly this is an enormous moment for the world, but also for this administration.
04:34I think this is news to celebrate.
04:36This is a huge accomplishment by the Trump administration.
04:39This is a major breakthrough and a huge accomplishment for the president.
04:43After months of deadlock, the hostages set to finally come home.
04:48Let's see how long it takes for them to get back to, let's see, racist, fascist, Nazi, oh, democracy in peril.
04:54Now, at the beginning of his second term, President Trump vowed that success would be his greatest revenge.
05:01He was telling the truth.
05:03Now, the peace deal will go down in history as a turning point in the entire Middle East.
05:08And it was President Trump.
05:09He did make it happen through the sheer force of his will.
05:12And now take a look at your screen.
05:14He's bringing them home.
05:16All the hostages will be returned.
05:18And meanwhile, U.S. personnel already stationed at Central Command will monitor the peace agreement
05:24in coordination with other international forces that are on the ground.
05:28It's amazing news that even, well, fake news, CNN forced Trump-hating Congressman Dan Goldman
05:34to actually credit the president.
05:36Nice to see.
05:37Take a look.
05:38Why do you think that this was not doable when President Biden was in office?
05:44I think the biggest problem that President Biden had is there was no pressure from Qatar,
05:55from Turkey, from Egypt.
05:57They were actually facilitating in many ways what was going on.
06:01And that is really ultimately how it all came together.
06:05So, I mean, but I think by saying that, it's sort of an acknowledgment.
06:08Trump has changed that dynamic.
06:09Yeah, absolutely.
06:10Yeah, no, I think that.
06:11I mean, he's clearly.
06:12I don't know how he, you know, and I think there's a lot that remains to learn about what
06:19prompted that change.
06:20But I do agree, yes, somehow, some way that that changed.
06:25I don't think Biden can have a conversation longer than five seconds.
06:29Anyway, unfortunately, most Democrats still don't have the courage to give Trump any credit.
06:35Obama, Schumer, others released disjointed statements praising the peace and the deal
06:41without mentioning President Trump as if what it appeared out of thin air.
06:45Also, shocking silence from so many squad members who have been loudly screaming of late.
06:51The war needed to stop.
06:53You would think they'd be happy today.
06:54And tonight on another front, congressional Democrats, they are continuing to play petty
06:59politics with no end in sight, shutting down our government to appease their radical base.
07:05Schumer declaring that during the shutdown, quote, every day gets better for us.
07:09Well, I wonder if Americans in our military not getting their paychecks feel the exact same way, Chuck.
07:15Now, of course, no one is buying the Democrats' terrible messaging.
07:19This morning, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called out to his face on CNBC.
07:25Take a look.
07:27There was an election and the Republicans were put in a position where they were able to pass
07:32the big, beautiful bill, or you call it the big, ugly bill, to then say we don't like any of that,
07:37so we're going to shut down the government until you take back all the things that you duly pass
07:42through legislation.
07:44If Republicans had tried to do that to the Inflation Reduction Act or any of the acts
07:52that Biden and that administration have passed, if they said we're going to shut down the government
07:57because we don't like any of those things you did, we're going to not pay our military,
08:01we're going to, you know, not allow the government to reopen until you do what we want,
08:06after an election where the American people put them in, put Democrats in power, you'd be going crazy.
08:12Take a look at the contrast.
08:15Democrats, they are busy blocking a clean, continuing resolution that would simply fund
08:20the government at current levels in order, what, to fight for free health care for illegals
08:26and refund PBS, NPR.
08:29At the same time, Donald Trump has been very busy putting together an unprecedented middle
08:34peace, peace deal that will save countless lives and hopefully alter the course of human
08:40history in that region and around the world.
08:43This is a moment of vindication for the president, but more importantly, it will make the entire
08:47world a better, a safer place.
08:50Here with reaction, Fox News contributor, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
08:55This is historic as it comes, and I can't wait to see these hostages released on Monday.
09:03Your thoughts on that?
09:05The government shut down all of it.
09:06Well, let's first stay with the Middle East, where I think President Trump is now moving
09:15into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister
09:21Winston Churchill were.
09:22He is achieving an orchestration of all of the major Arab states in order to support a peace
09:31agreement, and he is bringing enough pressure to bear on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis
09:38are going to go along whether they wanted to or not.
09:42And as a result, he is creating sort of a forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality
09:49and his ability to create friendships, friendships in Saudi Arabia, friendships in the UAE, friendships
09:57in Qatar, friendships in Egypt.
09:59I mean, this is an amazing orchestration by Donald Trump.
10:05If it works, and I suspect it will, you're going to see a moment of history that literally
10:11puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
10:16Now, here at home is totally different, and here at home you've got two pygmies who live
10:21literally within 1.1 miles of each other.
10:24They're both in New York City, a city that's about to elect a big government socialist with
10:29radical values.
10:31They're totally out of touch with the country.
10:33And think about Schumer's comment.
10:35Every day gets better.
10:36It sure doesn't get better for the workers who are laid off.
10:39It sure doesn't get better for the people who can't get their government services.
10:42It sure doesn't get better for normal Americans.
10:46Now, maybe that tells you how out of touch and how sick the Democratic Party has become.
10:52But the contrast between the destructiveness of the Democratic leadership and the remarkable
10:59focus on peace by Donald Trump is truly astonishing.
11:03Mr. Speaker, you talked about the relationship.
11:08Arab nations have been very reluctant to get involved in any peace process in the region
11:14or did it individually and to no avail.
11:18He was able to build a coalition.
11:21He was also able, because of his relationship with the Prime Minister of Israel, he was able
11:25to get the Prime Minister on board.
11:27How big a factor was the President's use of force by taking out the Iranian nuclear facilities
11:35and him telling the, you know, Hamas leadership, you have a choice here.
11:41You accept the deal or you will be obliterated.
11:43They have to believe they saw what happened in Iran that they would be next.
11:49So I think that was effective.
11:50Well, look, I mean, first of all, if you want to understand how vital it is what Secretary
11:57of War Hegseth is doing in the Pentagon to keep us at the front end, to make us continually
12:03be the most powerful nation in the world, this is essential because the ability to launch
12:09B2s out of Missouri and get them to hit with precision targets in Iran, excuse me, that
12:17sent a signal to the whole region.
12:19This is the most powerful leader in the world.
12:22He is prepared to use that power.
12:23He doesn't want to use that power.
12:26And we are going to orchestrate, as he did, brilliantly, all of his friends and allies.
12:31This goes all the way back, frankly, to Jared Kushner working with him to arrange at the very
12:37first visit, at the beginning of his first term, was to Riyadh, where the king had orchestrated
12:4354 Muslim countries, 54 coming together to meet the new American president.
12:49That was the beginning of the long-term process, which now appropriately has Jared Kushner in
12:56Cairo helping finalize the opportunity for a genuine peace across all of the region except
13:03Iran.
13:03And that will totally isolate Iran.
13:05So I think it is historically people are going to study this for centuries as a brilliant
13:11orchestration of power.
13:13Mr. Speaker, great to have you as always.
13:15Thank you for being with us.
13:16Now, during her campaign for attorney general of New York, you may remember Letitia James
13:22ran on the platform promising to get Donald Trump after her election.
13:26She made it her purpose to bring a case against the president and bring it to a Trump-hating
13:32judge.
13:33She ended up putting forward a ridiculous case, no victims, based on a loan valuation of Mar-a-Lago.
13:40She tried to state that it was $18 million.
13:43It's worth well over a billion.
13:44Now, this wasn't justice.
13:47It was lawfare.
13:48But now, interestingly, Letitia James is now whining that she is the ultimate victim of
13:54lawfare because she has now been charged with bank fraud.
13:58Take a look.
13:59This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of
14:05our justice system.
14:06He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job
14:14as the New York state attorney general.
14:18These charges are baseless.
14:19All right.
14:21The reality, according to prosecutors, James declared that a property in Virginia was her
14:26primary residence in order to get better loan terms.
14:29Well, it would not be possible for the attorney general of New York to have their primary
14:35residence be in Virginia.
14:36As the attorney general of New York knows, when powerful people cheat to get better loans
14:41and better loan terms, it comes at the expense of hardworking people.
14:45Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank and get a mortgage.
14:49And if they did, our government would throw the book at them.
14:52Now, there simply cannot be different rules for different people.
14:55Anyway, here with reaction, Fox News legal analyst, Greg Jarrett, Fox News contributor, Jonathan
15:00Turley.
15:01Greg, kind of an irony here.
15:04She did claim on this form, according to prosecutors, that this place in Virginia was her primary
15:10residence while she's attorney general.
15:12Yeah, purely on the paperwork that she executed, it's a pretty serious case against her, Sean.
15:20You cannot claim an occupied residence, get a lower mortgage rate, and then rent it out.
15:26You're cheating the lender by lying.
15:28And James actually incriminated herself.
15:31Both her mortgage and her insurance documents said she occupied it.
15:36But on an IRS records form, she admitted it was purely a rental with zero personal occupancy.
15:42Well, it can't be both.
15:45That's illegal.
15:46Predictably, today, she just whined that the law is being weaponized against her.
15:52Spare me the moral outrage.
15:54It was phony.
15:56She was the one who campaigned on the promise to get Trump, then conjured up that ludicrous case
16:00only to get slapped down by the appellate court in an epic embarrassment.
16:04I think here she's going to do exactly what James Comey is doing, claim selective, vindictive
16:10prosecution, try to get the case dismissed, avoid trial entirely.
16:15But, you know, under the law, the burden shifts to her to prove by clear evidence that the case
16:21has an unjustifiable motive.
16:24It is not an offense if the charges are justified, as I think they may be.
16:29She'll also claim, of course, oh, it's a big misunderstanding, paperwork snafu, somebody else is to blame.
16:35But under her own stated standard in the Trump case, she declared that is never an excuse.
16:42So she's hoisted on her own batard, as Shakespeare would say in Hamlet.
16:47You know, the irony here, Professor Turley, is that she wanted to go with and the judge in the case in New York
16:57went with a valuation of Mar-a-Lago that was so outrageously wrong.
17:03And they wouldn't let President Trump bring in realtors from Palm Beach, Florida,
17:08that would have put the value at over a billion dollars.
17:11They stuck with an $18 million valuation.
17:15So, primary residents, the documents make the case, by view.
17:20Sounds like she's in trouble to me.
17:22Your thoughts?
17:24Well, there's no question that Letitia James was lawfare's happiest warrior.
17:29She relished the limelight.
17:32And it's also important to keep in mind, she was using a law where the court agreed, because witnesses testified,
17:41that not a single dime was lost.
17:44Everyone actually made money off of this.
17:47There was no victim in the sense of losing money.
17:50But James said it didn't matter, because these figures, these filings were false.
17:56This is the ultimate example of karma.
17:59Now, having said that, I don't think this is going to be an easy case.
18:04There's going to be a challenge to Lindsey Halligan, who is the acting U.S. attorney.
18:09It's the same challenge that's going to be brought by James Comey.
18:12And the argument is that President Trump could not appoint an acting U.S. attorney for 120 days,
18:20because he had already used that period for another person.
18:23Now, there's an argument that the Trump administration can make against that.
18:26But it means that there's going to be a threshold challenge that could delay a trial.
18:32And I think that's what they're counting on.
18:35This is also a good district for her.
18:37It's not New York, so she didn't get that.
18:39But she got a very blue district and a very good jury pool for any trial.
18:45I think that's a good point.
18:47In the case of Comey, Greg, he got a Biden judge.
18:50Yeah, he did.
18:54And don't forget, it was Biden's Department of Justice that covered up, you know, the deceptions,
19:02the lies of James Comey, the abuse of power.
19:06It's a long list.
19:08And they completely ignored any prosecutions, allowing the statute of limitations to run on most of those cases.
19:17You know, we'll wait and see what this judge does.
19:20But Jonathan makes an excellent point about the challenge that will be made,
19:25not by Comey alone, but by Letitia James alongside him.
19:30All right, Greg Jarrett and Professor Turley, thank you both.
19:34When we come back, the great one, Mark Levin,
19:35he will react to the historic peace agreement between Israel and Hamas,
19:40plus Peter Navarro responds to Senator Grassley's revealing that the FBI whistleblower's claim
19:46he was targeted with extreme practices, putting, you know, handcuffs and shackles over a misdemeanor,
19:54and he lived right next door to the FBI.
19:56We'll explain straight ahead.
19:58After trying to sabotage President Trump's peace deal with Israel and Hamas,
20:03well, EU leaders are now rushing to praise President Trump,
20:06following the announcement that Israel and Hamas have accepted the terms and signed the deal.
20:12The European Commission president posted on X saying she welcomes the agreement to President Trump's proposal.
20:19French President Emmanuel Macron also posting on X saying, in part, quote,
20:23I commend the efforts of President Trump, as well as the Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish mediators who helped make it happen.
20:31Here with reaction.
20:32He is the host of the hit show, Life, Liberty, Levin, right here on the Fox News channel.
20:37I call him the great one, Mark Levin.
20:38Mark, I see three major things that happened here.
20:42He built a relationship and convinced Arab countries that have been reluctant and resistant to help to get involved in the peace process.
20:51He, number two, he showed Israel, number one, they had no greater ally or friend in the White House ever than Donald J. Trump.
21:00And number three, when he hit Iranian nuclear sites and took them out, he sent a message to the world that he means what he says.
21:09What's your take?
21:11I agree 100 percent.
21:13Actually, I think this is bigger than people realize.
21:16You have now a complete paradigm shift in the Middle East.
21:20Russia has no influence.
21:22Communist China has no influence.
21:25Feckless Europe has no influence.
21:27The superpower that has influence now in the entire Middle East, which is such a crucial region of the world, is the United States of America.
21:36Now, let's think about what's taking place here.
21:38The terrorist axis of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas has been effectively defeated.
21:44The Israelis, the IDF, defeated Hezbollah.
21:50Twelve days of war, they defeated Iran.
21:53The president of the United States took out their threat of nuclear weapons, which has been a threat overhanging the world for nearly half a century.
22:01And Hamas is surrounded.
22:03And now they have to agree to a deal.
22:06All of this was driven by the president and the prime minister.
22:10If Biden had been president, we'd have a complete, unmitigated disaster.
22:14We'd have a nuclear-armed Iran.
22:16And none of this would be happening.
22:18You have a complete realignment in the Middle East.
22:21The most powerful military force in the Middle East today is the state of Israel.
22:26The most consequential government and country in the entire Middle East is the United States of America.
22:33A complete paradigm shift.
22:34This has worldwide implications.
22:38It has implications for Europe, the Far East, the continent of Africa, the Western Hemisphere.
22:45Because what Donald Trump has managed to do in alliance with the prime minister of Israel has changed the whole map.
22:54He's changed the economic consequences.
22:56All the oil that comes out of the Middle East and so forth.
22:59The power of the United States.
23:01We're not a conquering power.
23:03We're not an imperial power.
23:04We're not a colonial power.
23:06This man, Donald Trump, is able to do this through economic and diplomacy decisions, through tactical, directed military decisions.
23:15We have never, ever seen anything like this.
23:18I think about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
23:21Maybe it's something akin to that.
23:23But people will be writing about this forever.
23:25And what does Donald Trump say?
23:26Okay, okay, on to Ukraine and Russia.
23:29Like, it's the next thing that we have to resolve in the world.
23:32It's really, really quite remarkable, Sean.
23:35And you're right.
23:36The decision to take out those nukes was key.
23:40It sent a message around the world.
23:42And it's not just that.
23:44I said in December 2019, when I was at the Hanukkah party at the White House, I said, Donald Trump is the first Jewish president.
23:54And what did I mean by that?
23:55His unequivocal support for the Holy Land, for the people who live there.
24:00Look, allies don't always agree.
24:03FDR and Churchill didn't always agree.
24:06Reagan and Thatcher didn't always agree.
24:08It doesn't matter.
24:09The fact is that fundamentally, fundamentally, Trump and Netanyahu agreed.
24:17And it's because of that partnership the Israelis defeated this access of terrorism.
24:23It's because of that partnership Donald Trump.
24:26Hey, you know, these Arab countries aren't all buddies.
24:29They used to fight with each other.
24:31Saudi Arabia hated Qatar.
24:33I could go down the list.
24:34We act like they're this this uniform group of our it wasn't that way until Donald Trump stepped in and he offered them.
24:42You want diplomacy?
24:43You want access to the United States?
24:46You want economic access to benefit both countries?
24:49Join us.
24:50That's what he did.
24:51That's what they did.
24:53He says to the Israelis, I have your back.
24:55I will not.
24:56We will get the hostages out.
24:58I will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.
25:01And here's the other point.
25:03Everybody wanted Iran defeated.
25:06I don't care.
25:06Maybe except for Qatar.
25:08But everybody wanted Iran defeated.
25:10Saudi Arabia wanted nothing to do with Iran.
25:13UAE wanted nothing to do with Iran.
25:15The whole alphabet of Arab and Muslim countries.
25:18Because Iran was an outlier.
25:20All of these dictatorships, whether they're monarchies or whatever they are, they all feared the same terrorists.
25:26They didn't want to be overthrown.
25:28The king of Jordan.
25:30The military dictator in Egypt.
25:31And I can go on and on.
25:33Some of them are all hanging by a thread.
25:35They all wanted this enemy defeated.
25:38And now it's defeated.
25:39The question is, on this phase two, what's going to happen with Hamas?
25:44How do we make sure that they are disarmed for good?
25:47How do we make sure that Gaza is, in fact, demilitarized?
25:51Because the ideology behind Hamas, Iran, and Hezbollah will not go away.
25:56It's been around for thousands of years.
25:58It's the Muslim Brotherhood.
26:00It's the Taliban.
26:02It's ISIS.
26:03It's all of them.
26:04So it'll be curious to see how this works out.
26:07But let me just say this.
26:09However it works out, the world is a better place.
26:12It's a safer place.
26:14It's a more humane place because of our great president.
26:18God bless him.
26:19And God bless our country.
26:20And God bless the prime minister in Israel, too.
26:24The great one.
26:25That's why we call you that.
26:26Mark Levin.
26:27Now, the abuses under Biden's politicized and weaponized DOJ were widespread.
26:32And in many cases, the process was the punishment.
26:36Take a look at this.
26:37Lastly, whistleblowers have provided me additional records related to the Biden-FBI political conduct
26:45against Peter Navarro.
26:47The first document is a request for physical surveillance on Navarro the day the FBI arrested
26:54him.
26:54The second document is a timeline of that surveillance.
26:59When Navarro, the FBI didn't, with Navarro, FBI didn't arrest him at his house, which was
27:07literally right next to the FBI headquarters.
27:11Instead, they surveilled him and his fiancée all morning, starting at his home, following
27:19them to the airport, and then arrested him in public at the Reagan airport.
27:25The way Navarro was treated is unnecessary.
27:29All right.
27:31Here now with more of the founder of JustTheNews.com.
27:33He's the editor-in-chief and chief investigative reporter and the director of the U.S. Office
27:38of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.
27:41Peter Navarro is with us.
27:42By the way, he wrote a book, I Went to Prison So You Don't Have to.
27:46He's here to tell us his story.
27:47John, let's start with what Senator Grassley discovered here.
27:52They had determined that Peter Navarro, who lived right next door to the FBI headquarters,
27:57was not armed and dangerous.
27:59He had never owned a gun.
28:00And then they surveil him all day.
28:03They used their special operations group, you know, top-tier FBI officials that kind of
28:09should be going after, like, cartel members and terrorists, to go after Peter for a misdemeanor?
28:14Yeah.
28:15Listen, two years ago, I interviewed an FBI agent.
28:17Long time.
28:18His career spanned the Ray and Comey years.
28:21And he said he saw at the end of his tenure there an extraordinary politicalization of the
28:26FBI.
28:27And that one of the things that troubled him most, more than even treating Republicans
28:30and Democrats differently under the law, he saw the FBI scheme to weaponize and to make
28:36the process the punishment.
28:38You might be innocent, but we're going to make the process you go through so untenable.
28:41We'll shame you and you'll be broken by it.
28:44And no better example of this than what Senator Grassley put out, thanks to Kash Patel, the
28:48FBI director, the Attorney General Pam Bondi.
28:51The FBI used the teams they normally use to surveil drug kingpins and terrorists to
28:56seek out a man who was willing to turn himself in.
28:59He had made it clear he would just turn himself in if he had to face a misdemeanor charge.
29:03That's the important thing, a misdemeanor charge.
29:05They surveilled him all day, massive resources, just so they could find the opportune and
29:09most embarrassing moment to arrest him.
29:11They made the process the punishment.
29:14That is what troubles Senator Grassley.
29:16I know it troubles Attorney General Bondi, and I know it troubles FBI director Kash Patel.
29:20That's why they made these public, these documents.
29:23But that's what went on here.
29:24We use vast resources to make a political statement with the FBI, and that's what that
29:29FBI agent was telling me two years ago.
29:32It really is remarkable.
29:34And Peter, we spent a lot of time on my radio show talking about your entire experience here.
29:40But it was the first time that anybody was held in contempt of Congress, a misdemeanor, since
29:471983 with both you and Steve Bannon.
29:49And that means Eric Holder.
29:51That means Lois Lerner.
29:52That means Janet Reno.
29:54Nothing happened to them.
29:56Walk through that day.
29:57I want people to know the magnitude.
29:59You live right next door.
30:01You were deemed not armed and dangerous.
30:0574 years old.
30:06Hardly a threat.
30:07Hardly a need for special ops.
30:09Why did they do this to you?
30:12Because that is the perp walk of all perp walks.
30:14And the media was tipped off, wasn't it?
30:17Yeah, CNN, of course, always has the scoop, Sean, as the left loves to do.
30:22It was a time where I was fighting a congressional subpoena based on my oath of office, a long-term
30:30congressional constitutional separation of powers between Congress and the White House.
30:36No one had ever been arrested for this.
30:38It was absurd on his face.
30:40It's pure lawfare.
30:42But I think, Sean, the importance of these revelations about my case is it's a broader
30:49look into all of the people who were involved in this broad conspiracy that you've been covering
30:55so well, dating back to 2016 for eight years, attempts to throw Trump out of office when
31:03he was in and stop him from winning in 2016, 2020, and 24.
31:07And I say that because the guy, Sean, who led this operation, it was like Walter Giardina.
31:15He's the guy who put me in handcuffs.
31:17He's the guy who got me in leg irons.
31:19But he's also the guy, Sean, who was involved in every single attempt to put Trump away over
31:28an eight-year period.
31:29He was the guy, Sean, that vetted the Crossfire Hurricane steel dossier and said it was real
31:35when we all know it wasn't.
31:37That started Crossfire Hurricane.
31:39Giardina was part of the Mueller report.
31:41Then he went on.
31:42There's Arctic Frost, which we now surveil senators, and other things like Operation Crimson
31:50River.
31:50All of this, Sean, all of this, the worst kind of weaponized lawfare.
31:55And I was, I looked at that document that Senator Grassley released, and thank God for him.
32:02And it's like, they checked that box, not armed and dangerous.
32:05I should have gotten those documents in discovery, but the judge, an Obama appointee, denied it.
32:13And the FBI and the DOJ hit it.
32:15So this is, this is a blockbuster.
32:17And Sean, I'll tell you this, the whole point of that book, I went to prison so you won't
32:21have to, which was a line from my speech the night of the day I got out of prison, is this.
32:27If we don't hold these people accountable, and it's a long list, they will do it again and
32:32again and again, and it may start as early as 2026 if the House gets controlled by the
32:38Democrats, sir.
32:39You know, handcuffs, leg irons, media tip-off on a misdemeanor.
32:46You concluded in an article you wrote, the Reagan airport, or airport circus arrest wasn't
32:51an anomaly.
32:52It was a case study in lawfare, which, where the process is the punishment, pre-planned media
32:58choreography, here's the amazing part of, of you and your story.
33:04You did not have to go through this.
33:07You could have gone into that hearing.
33:09You could have pled the fifth.
33:10You could have walked out, but you said no.
33:15You said, and I remember when you went and you went before cameras and you said, no, our
33:20constitution is more important than me being charged.
33:24Yes, sir.
33:26And that's, look, my case, interestingly enough, Sean, is on appeal.
33:30I've got oral arguments at the district court, and it's going to go right to the Supreme Court
33:34because the D.C. courts here are a cesspool.
33:38And here's what's weird, Sean.
33:39This is, this is part of the lawfare.
33:41The two judges, Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard, who ruled before I went into prison
33:49that I had nothing to appeal, therefore I had to go to prison before my appeal was heard.
33:55They're here in my appeal.
33:57That's crazy stuff.
33:59Insane.
33:59That's crazy stuff.
34:00That's insane.
34:00And so, look, it's, it's very important, Sean.
34:03If I lose my case, then every senior White House advisor going forward, Democrat or Republican,
34:10will have to risk prison to uphold their oath of office and defend executive privilege.
34:15And that's why I did this, Sean.
34:17And, look, when it comes time and you have those kinds of decisions to make, you make them for your country.
34:23And that's what I did.
34:25Oh, I admire you for it.
34:27We've been friends a long time.
34:29You're never going to get those months of your life back, though, Peter.
34:33I know.
34:34They can't give those back to you or the worry, the concern, the stress.
34:39Thank you for sharing it all with us.
34:41We appreciate it.
34:42John Solomon, you've been vindicated yet again.
34:45It's like every night on this show.
34:47Oh, John Solomon was right.
34:48But thank you for your, you know, unrelenting coverage of all of it.
34:53We appreciate it.
34:54Thank you both.
34:55All right.
34:55Coming up tonight right here on Hannity.
34:58Oh, yes.
34:59This is why I didn't want to.
35:00I need the lights off, the bright lights.
35:02I'm so sorry, but I am about to get on.
35:05I need you to turn these off.
35:06All right.
35:08Left wing California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter really making a name for herself
35:14in the worst way possible.
35:15We'll explain that and more straight ahead.
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