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00:00It is 9 p.m. on the East Coast, 6 p.m. on the West Coast.
00:03Welcome to Hannity, and tonight we begin with this Fox News alert.
00:06The search for Nancy Guthrie has entered now its second week, and it has now turned desperate.
00:12Take a look.
00:13We believe our mom is still out there.
00:18We need your help.
00:22Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock trying to bring her home, trying to find her.
00:30She was taken, and we don't know where.
00:33And we need your help.
00:37So I'm coming on just to ask you, not just for your prayers, but no matter where you are, even if you're far from Tucson,
00:45if you see anything, if you hear anything, if there's anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement,
00:55we are at an hour of desperation.
01:02NBC's Savannah Guthrie made that plea for her mother, now three hours before the approach set by Nancy Guthrie's possible kidnappers.
01:10Now, sadly, that deadline passed about two hours ago, reportedly without any proof of life provided.
01:17And, well, now here's what TMZ's Harvey Levin is reporting.
01:21Take a look.
01:23I want to read you just, I'll read you one line from the ransom note we received.
01:28And they say, it is in the best interest of everyone to have this completed.
01:33As soon as possible.
01:45So, you know, this was way back when the first ransom note was issued.
01:50And days passed.
01:52And on Saturday, Savannah said, we are going to pay this.
01:56So it's baffling to us.
01:58We just don't understand what has transpired.
02:00But the account we're looking at does not show a deposit.
02:04And tonight, according to a new statement from the FBI, they are, quote,
02:08not aware of any continued communication between the Guthrie family and suspected kidnappers.
02:14Now, at the same time, investigators have been combing through the neighborhood and surrounding areas.
02:20At one point, our very own Fox News drone film, one officer looking down a manhole.
02:25Police also searching a septic tank on the property.
02:29But as of now, no suspects have been identified.
02:33And police are now asking the public for help as the family is.
02:36Here with the full report from Tucson, Arizona, our own Jonathan Hunt.
02:40Jonathan, I've been watching you all weekend.
02:42Thanks for working so hard.
02:44What's the latest?
02:46Well, good evening, Sean.
02:48Sean, let's get to that new Instagram video from Savannah Guthrie first.
02:54A couple of things strike me in that video, Sean.
02:57The first of all, first of all, is the language that Savannah Guthrie uses in relation to her mom.
03:03She says, we believe she is hearing your prayers, for instance.
03:08She says, we believe she is out there.
03:11That is a different tone to the tone she had in the message she sent to kidnappers directly via Instagram on Saturday night.
03:21A lot of people interpreted Saturday's message as being more of a acceptance of a worst case scenario, for want of a better phrase.
03:30But now, Savannah Guthrie is clearly saying, we have hope, we have a belief, we have faith that our mother is still out there.
03:37Secondly, on that last message to the kidnappers, she closed that with the words, we will pay.
03:46Now, if you believe they want to get back their mother as quickly as possible, you would also assume that having decided we will pay, they would make that payment as soon as possible.
03:56But then the kidnapper or kidnappers had promised in their first ransom note that once a payment was made, they would return Nancy Guthrie to the Tucson area within a certain time frame.
04:10Has that time frame passed?
04:12Was a payment made?
04:14The time frame has passed and they've heard nothing more from a kidnapper.
04:17That could mean that the kidnapper took a payment and just decided, I'm not going to return Nancy Guthrie anywhere.
04:24I'm going to leave her in the desert somewhere.
04:26It could mean that the whole thing was a hoax in the first place.
04:29We simply don't know right now and we're not getting any answers from the sheriff's department here.
04:35Also, one thing on the Bitcoin wallet, you heard Harvey Levin of TMZ saying there that the Bitcoin address that they saw in the first ransom note, that wallet has zero in it.
04:47No transactions have been made.
04:49I do want to point out, Sean, that if you want to create a Bitcoin wallet, depending on the complexity that you want for that wallet, it takes somewhere between two and 15, one five, two and 15 minutes to create a new wallet.
05:06So they could have created another one, another dozen, another 100, and they could have communicated those in the second message that TMZ didn't receive.
05:16So the fact that that particular Bitcoin wallet doesn't have anything in it at the moment does not mean a ransom wasn't paid.
05:24These are all huge questions.
05:27We've all got a whole bunch of theories.
05:29Sean, every armchair critic around the country has a bunch of theories here.
05:33But at the moment, that is frankly all they remain in the absence of any more information coming from investigators here, Sean.
05:41But one thing you can say with certainty, having listened to and watched Savannah Guthrie's latest Instagram message, Sean, that is an expression of desperation.
05:53And while she paid tribute to the work that law enforcement investigators are doing, you could also feel a frustration at the very, very slow progress, if any progress, that is being made, Sean.
06:06Sean, there's one other point, Jonathan Hunt, on this.
06:09If, in fact, Bitcoin was paid, it can almost instantaneously be transferred into other cryptocurrencies.
06:17And your ability to trace it at that point is negligible at best.
06:21So that makes it particularly hard if, in fact, that happened.
06:24Jonathan Hunt in Tucson tonight.
06:26Very good point.
06:28All right.
06:28So what are local and federal officials doing to track down Nancy Guthrie?
06:31Now, keep in mind, this is the same FBI that has now tracked down six most wanted fugitives in a single year since Donald Trump and his administration came back into office, fighting crime, solving cases that have been reestablished as the main focus at the Bureau.
06:49Former FBI director.
06:51By the way, we welcome him to our Fox family once again.
06:54The newest Fox News contributor.
06:55He's back.
06:56The one and only Dan Bongino.
06:57You come at this, Dan, first of all, as a friend, number one, number two, but also having now recently spent time on the inside.
07:06And it's so easy for people on the sidelines, Monday morning quarterbacks, to be second-guessing everything law enforcement is doing.
07:15However, I do think a definitive statement, like we mentioned, the FBI says they are unaware that Savannah Guthrie was talking with her mom's suspected kidnappers.
07:25It means they know everything about the communications to this point.
07:29What is likely, in your mind, going on behind the scenes?
07:31Okay, so the FBI was brought in a couple days after.
07:37There was, you know, you have to have either, you have to have a request for assets to be brought in or you have to have federal jurisdiction.
07:44This was done by request.
07:46That's why you saw the crime scene was reopened again.
07:50That was the FBI ERT, from what I've heard going back in, the evidence response team, to take over and do what they do.
07:57They do it best.
07:58That's all they do is process evidence at these scenes.
08:01So what's going on right now?
08:03I see three possibilities, Sean, and I'm not going to weight them.
08:07I'm just, these are three possibilities.
08:10If you apply Occam's razor, I see you could apply.
08:12The first would be, obviously, it's a kidnapping.
08:15That was an intended kidnapping for a ransom payment.
08:17That would be the first possibility.
08:19Again, I'm not weighting any of them.
08:21The second possibility would be, this was just a crime that went awry.
08:25Someone was at the house, maybe it was a burglary, something went bad, and that you've got some bad actors committing another crime unrelated, in other words, requesting a ransom for something you didn't do just to take advantage of a situation like this.
08:39The third possibility, again, this is where I think you have to kind of think outside of the box is, especially given some of the messaging that we've seen lately, is the possibility that there may have been some kind of maybe a medical emergency or something, and maybe this was not a kidnapping.
09:00And I say that only because, and again, I'm not weighting these possibilities, we're just, when you can't find someone in a crime scene like this right away, within the first couple of days, you either have really good surgical type operators, or the story you've been told, or you may have believed may not be the story.
09:19I mean, think about it. What are the possibilities that there's no LPR trips, license plate readers, that SOMEX scrubs, social media exploitation turned up nothing, that cast analysis, cell phone analysis, that there's other tools I don't want to really talk about, but I promise they're there.
09:36You know, we've used them in cases, that none of this stuff was tripped after, you know, after the Bureau came in and applied all their assets.
09:42It's just, it seems really strange.
09:47Let me quote veteran FBI Special Agent Lance Leising of Arizona, and he said the notes to the media outlets, you know, that part of the investigation now he believes is coming gone.
10:00And then he said, in legitimate ransom cases, kidnappers move fast.
10:05They establish leverage quickly.
10:08Communication begins within hours, not days of abduction.
10:11Proof of life is produced early and often.
10:15This case has not followed the history of a typical kidnapping at all.
10:21What does that tell you?
10:24Well, there's two conflicting points on this.
10:26One, as I told you before, with this relatively, what appears to be sterile crime scene, you would have these incredibly skilled, and I don't mean that, of course, in a qualitatively good way,
10:38but they have these criminal skill sets that they were able to not leave a trace of DNA, a footprint, a fingerprint, a tire print.
10:47Again, they didn't trip a license plate reader, managed to turn off any cell phone type of activity.
10:53And then you forget the medication.
10:54Again, it just, again, it doesn't seem like that's particularly well thought out.
10:59How are you going to go out and get the medication afterwards?
11:02It's easy to go pop in a Walgreens when you know everybody on planet Earth is looking for someone.
11:07I mean, it just seems like a lot of conflicting information.
11:10And that's why I say I'm not waiting any of those stories.
11:12But clearly, at this point, I think we have to consider everything outside the box, because whatever is inside the box is not really panning out right now.
11:22What do you say to the FBI experts that I've talked to, the sheriff's department out there, that they're not ruling anything out?
11:30And I want to be very clear.
11:31I'm not rushing to judgment.
11:32I don't want people to rush to judgment.
11:34We don't do that on this show.
11:35We make a point of not doing that.
11:37But 90 percent of abductions usually involve someone that the abducted person knows, and a lot of times that ends up being family.
11:47Now, those are the odds.
11:49I'm not making any conclusions, any accusations at all.
11:52Just to the contrary, I think we need to be very careful.
11:55But those numbers are real.
11:57So if you're an FBI agent, that is in your head, correct?
12:02Yeah, I mean, you've got to consider that.
12:03I believe that was serious scenario number two I discussed, that this was an incident that went bad.
12:10Someone who knew the person, like you said, landscaper, electrician.
12:14We had a case in Florida like this before I was in the FBI, way before.
12:18But a woman had let a handyman in the house.
12:20They found the woman in the septic system.
12:23I mean, you have to consider that it was someone in the inner circle as well, that it was it was a horrible crime.
12:29We don't know what happened and that the distraction may be, in fact, a request for ransom later on to get people off the trail.
12:37I'm not telling you it's what happened.
12:38But again, when the story doesn't pan out after a couple of days and I've been on these, Sean, I mean, we handled the Minnesota show.
12:59The shooting of the lawmakers, you know, we had the incident up in Coeur d'Alene.
13:17I mean, we get woken up being cash all night on this stuff.
13:20I know the assets that get deployed.
13:22If you don't find them within the first couple of days, there's something about the story that's not right.
13:30Yeah, it's scary.
13:33We're always glad to have you back on the show.
13:34Welcome back to our Fox family.
13:36It's always great to have you here as well.
13:38Dan Pancino, thank you.
13:39All right.
13:40Based on everything that we know tonight, what's next for investigators and whoever is responsible for Nancy Guthrie's disappearance?
13:48How do we find them?
13:49Back with us now.
13:50Host of Crime Stories on Fox Nation.
13:52Our friend Nancy Grace is back with us.
13:54Let's let's start with the payment.
13:58And I think Jonathan Hunt made a good point.
14:00You can set up a crypto wallet in a different venue.
14:05And maybe that's something that law enforcement supported.
14:08And maybe we don't know that part of the story, nor should we at this point.
14:12Thoughts.
14:13Number one, this was not a medical event.
14:20If there had been a medical event, and I assume that means a heart attack or a stroke of some sort, her body would still be there.
14:28Nancy Guthrie could not walk over 50 yards.
14:31Her cane was found in her home.
14:34So what happened to the body?
14:36It was not a medical event.
14:37It's not a medical event.
14:38We can rule that out.
14:40This now is the critical hour.
14:43We keep hearing the press say this is the critical hour.
14:45No, because if Savannah has sent the money, the deadline has come and gone.
14:53If she sent the $6 million, Sean, what incentive is there left for the kidnapper to hand over Nancy Guthrie alive?
15:05He's got the money.
15:06And another thing, it ain't over till it's over.
15:12Bitcoin can and has been traced by the feds, by the IRS, by DOJ.
15:18Let me just throw out James Zong, who was trading on the black mark, on the black web, the dark web.
15:26They recovered $3 billion plus.
15:30He had stolen Bitcoin from the Silk Road on the dark web, and it was traced.
15:36Now, my concern about Bitcoin is if Savannah has sent the money, what I think will happen is that money will be sent.
15:45It will be transferred to potentially a low or non-regulated country that doesn't regulate Bitcoin the way we do.
15:54We can analyze it with a blockchain analysis like chain analysis, but other countries don't do that.
16:01So if that money is moved, that Bitcoin is moved to another jurisdiction, what I'm saying is they don't keep records.
16:09They don't have the same regulations that we do, and it will be hard for the feds to subpoena those records anywhere else.
16:17That's my fear.
16:18Now, there's no incentive to bring her home alive.
16:23That's my concern at this hour.
16:26We texted a lot over the previous message that was released.
16:32We received your message.
16:34We understand.
16:35We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate.
16:39And at that point, I got nervous.
16:41But then it says right after, with her.
16:44This is the only way we will have peace.
16:47This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.
16:50Let me play.
16:51We received your message, and we understand.
16:57We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her.
17:03This is the only way we will have peace.
17:07This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.
17:12A lot of people interpreted that a lot of different ways.
17:16I wanted to take hope out of the words with her.
17:19We discussed that privately this weekend.
17:26Yes.
17:26When I heard celebrate, it made me think of celebration of life like a memorial, like a funeral, and the somber tone of it.
17:34But it was celebrate with her, celebrate her homecoming.
17:39And that gave me heart.
17:40And still, she is, Savannah, still reaching out.
17:46And you can see on her face, she becomes more and more and more haggard, asking the public to help her find her mother.
17:55I believe if she knew or had a suspicion that her mother had already passed on, she would not be doing that.
18:03I don't believe it.
18:04I don't accept that at this juncture.
18:07But what we saw in the last days is very concerning.
18:11We know that police, law enforcement, FBI, were going down a septic tank behind Nancy Guthrie's home.
18:20Country folks, like where I grew up, you have a septic tank.
18:23You're not on city water or city septic.
18:26So I don't know if the feds or the locals decided, hey, wait, we didn't check the septic tank.
18:31They went out with a long contraption.
18:33It looks like a pole.
18:34But I believe that there was a light or even a camera affixed to that for them to look around.
18:39Obviously, they were looking for a body, although cadaver dogs would certainly have led them to that point.
18:44And they have had scent dogs out there and possibly cadaver.
18:48But I think that's crossing T's, dotting I's.
18:51Another theory is that they were looking for something the perp, the alleged kidnapper, had flushed during the incident.
18:59They had well over 30 minutes in the home, which is very unusual.
19:03They felt very comfortable in there, didn't they, Sean?
19:06Didn't they?
19:07That they were going to be caught in there.
19:09But did they flush something or did they drop something in the septic tank, like a weapon or some other object?
19:15Nothing was taken out that we could tell.
19:18The other concerning thing is that the law enforcement agents were back at the sister Annie's home.
19:25It was a late night visit.
19:27They were in there for over three hours and media observed flash bulbs going off from one end of the house to the other, from the garage all the way to the other in the house.
19:36What were they taking photos of in the middle of the night?
19:39And they came out with paper bags.
19:41Why paper?
19:42Because it's breathable.
19:45If you do plastic, you'll ruin DNA.
19:47You can also lose fingerprints in plastic, paper bags, and another UFED, a Celebrite.
19:56And this is what I suggest.
19:59There's been a lot of speculation.
20:01You know what?
20:02Go hook up to a poly and be done with it.
20:05Everybody in the family, be an example.
20:08Hook yourself up to a poly.
20:09And I would have everybody at that church, every granny nanny, every FedEx, every Uber guy, every one of them taking a poly.
20:19And if you don't take a poly, you're at the top of my suspect list.
20:23Let me ask you about the difference between the two messages, the one this weekend, which was very cryptic.
20:30They were reading it.
20:32Obviously, I got the feeling that was coordinated with law enforcement versus we need your help.
20:39We need your help.
20:40We are in an hour of desperation, which seemed very spontaneous, extemporaneous from Savannah, you know, three hours before the deadline today.
20:50I know, Savannah, as you know, we worked together for a while at Court TV.
20:59She can ad-lib like nobody's business.
21:01She doesn't need a script.
21:02But I did notice her, particularly in the last message where she was flanked by the brother and the sister, Annie and Cameron.
21:09She paused.
21:10She looked down as if she was collecting her thoughts and reading something and then looked back up.
21:17She had a script in front of her.
21:18I think the brother and the sister looked down at it also.
21:21In this last missive, you're correct.
21:24It seems more spontaneous, but I did notice her look over.
21:28I'm sure the feds knew she was going to issue this plea and that they also schooled her on what she should and shouldn't say.
21:38It seems more spontaneous.
21:39I noticed she's wearing makeup.
21:41And the others know she's pulled it together to make this plea.
21:47And I think that she was schooled by law enforcement as well, although it seems more spontaneous.
21:51I think that it was planned.
21:53All right, Nancy Grace, we appreciate your time analysis and we pray for Nancy's safe return.
22:01All right.
22:01And coming up, we are monitoring new details from the tragic disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, former FBI official Nicole Parker, Maureen O'Donnell, Greg Jarrett.
22:11They'll weigh in as we continue and a lot more news from around the world tonight.
22:14All right, this is Fox News Alert.
22:18We continue our coverage of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.
22:20Here with Reaction, Fox News contributor, former FBI special agent, Nicole Parker, Fox News legal analyst, Greg Jarrett, retired FBI special agent, Maureen O'Connell.
22:29Nicole, start with you.
22:30Let me go to where I went to with Dan Bongino in legitimate ransom cases.
22:37The kidnappers move fast.
22:39They establish leverage quickly.
22:41Communication begins within hours, not days of the abduction.
22:46Proof of life is produced early and often.
22:50And this case has not followed the typical kidnapping model.
22:55Obviously, the FBI has that in mind.
22:58Correct.
22:59This is definitely not following the typical pattern of what you would see.
23:02But again, everything in this case seems to be in a nominally.
23:05And that's why investigators, you've got to be on your toes and you've got to be ready to expect the unexpected.
23:10You've got to think outside the box.
23:12You've got to get creative and you've got to be aggressive and you've got to be always 10, you know, steps ahead of the offenders.
23:17And it's difficult to do.
23:19But let's just take note of the fact that I just would like to draw attention right now to Savannah's video today.
23:26It was heart wrenching.
23:27This was the first time that the plea was actually to the public because the other videos were to the offender or offenders, you know, asking for cooperation, telling them that they'll pay.
23:38This was the first time in an hour of desperation where she is coming to the public and she is pleading for help.
23:43And she is saying, please, we are desperate and we need your help.
23:46This is the time, Sean, there are people that have watched your program.
23:50I know for a fact that, you know, there have been other cases where people, the media helps the FBI solve investigations all of the time.
23:57Look at the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk.
24:00People within the sound of the voice of the media heard what happened and someone turned in their own child.
24:05And I truly believe someone within the sound of the voice of the media, whether it's your network or somebody else's, they know who did this.
24:11Now is the time to do the right thing and to step it up.
24:14You can be anonymous.
24:16Call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
24:18They are desperate and they need help.
24:20And I think it's very important.
24:21Jonathan Hunt, he brought up a very good point.
24:24As of earlier this evening, TMZ said, you know, according to the wallet information that we saw on the first ransom email, because remember, they were only receivers of the first email, not the second.
24:33But they said as of this moment in time, there had not been any deposit made.
24:37And that's important because, again, those transactions are publicly available on the blockchain if it is the same address that was in the second ransom email.
24:46It may not have been the same address in the second ransom email.
24:49And so we do not know what's happening.
24:51But one thing I can rest assured, FBI, they will not stop until this case is solved.
24:56They will not.
24:57They are not going to rest.
24:58They are working tirelessly around the clock.
25:01Maureen, let me go to the issue, the odds.
25:04It's 90 percent of the time it's family members.
25:06And I don't want to cast aspersions on anybody.
25:08I want to be very clear about that.
25:10But also, we know that law enforcement may withhold or manipulate release of information to draw any suspect out by lulling them into a false sense of security.
25:24Could that possibly be happening in this case?
25:26That could absolutely be happening because this is just one of those cases.
25:33Normally, there's one or two things that don't make sense.
25:36But this is a plethora of data points that most of them don't even seem to be connected to one another.
25:43And one thing that comes to mind is like this, what I call the absence of normalcy, where in a normal situation, we'd be able to pick up the vehicles or any vehicle, especially during a tight timeline in the middle of the night.
25:56And there weren't any.
25:58All the major streets around there, nothing.
26:01And then I thought about it, and I thought, could it be that the person lives close enough where they could just take side streets all the way back to their residence?
26:10I mean, there's just there's so many more questions than answers.
26:14I'm not even sure that the that Nancy's home is, in fact, the the place where this happened.
26:21And I'm not at all sure that this is a kidnapping.
26:23Well, I mean, they did find the blood there.
26:27I mean, I would imagine that's probably the the local the most logical place.
26:31But you may be right.
26:33Let me ask you, Greg Jarrett, based on what we know, the blood found on the porch, the ring doorbell camera ripped out.
26:43We see they brought Celebrite into the sister's house again for another check.
26:50How do you interpret that?
26:53Well, the ripped out camera at the doorbell, as well as the blood at the threshold of the front door, all indicates that force was used, you know, to remove her.
27:08And that suggests a kidnapping.
27:10And, you know, Savannah's latest message, I agree with Nicole, issued this afternoon, made to the public, not to the kidnappers.
27:18And, you know, that suggests to me that she may have given up hope that law enforcement and the FBI would find her mom before the deadline passed.
27:27And it did a couple of hours ago.
27:29And indeed, she hasn't been found.
27:31We have no idea if the demanded ransom was actually paid.
27:35And if it was, one of the messages from the suspected kidnappers said she'd be returned within nine hours.
27:42So more of the same agonizing wait goes on.
27:46And of course, Sean, the opposite could be true.
27:49The family may have decided that since the purported abductors refused to produce any visual or verbal proof of life, then the Guthrie's couldn't be certain that the demands were real or some hideous hoax by fraudsters.
28:05You know, how do you know that the money would be going to the real kidnappers?
28:08You cannot know.
28:10What's troubling to me is the conspicuous silence from law enforcement.
28:14You know, a couple of written statements, but no press conferences, a blackout for a while now.
28:20And the last we heard is they had no suspects whatsoever, apparently no actionable lead.
28:26And, you know, granted, these cases are very hard to crack, but they may have run up against a brick wall.
28:32When it comes to tracing the encrypted server, the disguised IP address that came from the same router, you know, all the surveillance videos, street cameras, cell phone activity, all of it has come up empty.
28:45And, you know, given today's technology, Sean, I find it hard to believe that there's no digital footprint that can be mined for evidence.
28:55But sadly, that appears to be the case.
28:58So it's more of a waiting game now.
29:00So exit question, yes or no, I don't like asking it, but I'm going to.
29:05Nancy Grace brought up Nicole Parker, the idea that anyone and everyone that had any contact with Nancy Guthrie, now it's time for them all to step up for a polygraph.
29:17Good idea or bad idea?
29:18Good idea, yes.
29:21Let's get your Maureen.
29:23It's probably already been done, yes.
29:25Wow.
29:26Greg?
29:26I don't know if it's been done or not.
29:31I would do limited polygraphs or group of friends, family members and so forth.
29:38All right.
29:38Thank you all.
29:39Let's hope for a safe return.
29:41And coming up, peace through strength and the art of the deal.
29:44President Trump continues to reestablish America's dominance on the world stage.
29:47Also, the House Oversight Committee working overtime to uncover the truth about Jeffrey Epstein.
29:53Chairman James Comer will join us and break it all down.
29:57And coming up, my thoughts on the Super Bowl and the wonderful halftime show of Bad Bunny.
30:03Straight ahead.
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30:18And in a major blow to the country's faltering leadership, Cuba announced that international
30:23airlines can no longer refuel in that country as pressure from President Trump is causing
30:30massive fuel shortages.
30:31That would tell me they're likely on the brink of falling.
30:34Meanwhile, President Trump is set to hold an urgent meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister,
30:38Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday amid negotiations, if you want to call it that, with Iran.
30:43Here now with the very latest, our very own Kevin Cork.
30:46Kevin, my understanding is we could be very shortly talking about new leadership in Cuba and Iran.
30:53Yeah.
30:54And this is such an important storyline, Sean.
30:56We've talked about this for years.
30:58We finally have an administration that's actually willing to put money where their mouth is and
31:02actually do the hard work.
31:04Now, I can tell you about this seizure.
31:06The War Department announcing this morning that the U.S., Sean, had hunted the ship called
31:10the Aquila 2 all the way from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean before eventually boarding
31:14that vessel.
31:15And this happened overnight without incident.
31:18Now, that vessel was operating, as you said, in defiance of President Trump's established
31:23quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.
31:25Still, it thought it could get away, but eventually it was tracked and caught and boarded and seized.
31:31With the War Department writing this on social media, when the War Department says quarantine,
31:35we mean it.
31:36Nothing will stop the Department of War from defending our homeland, even in oceans halfway
31:41around the world.
31:43Meanwhile, in Cuba, the government there says international airlines can no longer refuel on
31:47the island due to ongoing fuel shortages, citing, as you said, the president's threat of tariffs
31:53on any country that supplies the communist regime with oil.
31:57They, in fact, claimed tonight, Sean, they could run out of aviation fuel this evening.
32:03Now, this is all happening as we continue to monitor a possible White House meeting between
32:07the president and Bibi Netanyahu.
32:09That could happen on Wednesday, though the White House has yet to confirm the meeting.
32:14Netanyahu, for his part, has been on X.
32:16He says that the leaders are expected to connect in Washington on Wednesday.
32:21Of course, top of the agenda would be the rising tensions with a very weakened Iranian regime.
32:26Again, that's if the meeting happens.
32:28It's an exciting time, I think, Sean, because things are happening that could be for the
32:33great benefit, frankly, of the globe, and this administration is doing its part.
32:37Sean.
32:38I think certainly dictatorships are in decline very quickly.
32:42Kevin Korp, thank you.
32:44All right, the Epstein files, they're out, but the House Oversight Committee's Epstein investigation
32:48that is still going strong.
32:49The Clintons are set to be deposed later this month, but this morning it was Epstein associate
32:55Ghislaine Maxwell's turn.
32:57She appeared before the committee remotely from a federal prison and kept repeating the
33:01same line over and over again.
33:03Take a look.
33:05Ms. Maxwell, did you at any time play any role in Jeffrey Epstein's activities involving
33:10the recruitment, grooming, or trafficking of young women or girls?
33:15I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence.
33:19Ms. Maxwell, have you ever coerced, directed, or otherwise instructed any young woman or girl
33:25to provide sexual favors to Mr. Epstein or any other individual?
33:29I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence.
33:33Can you please provide us with all the names of other additional co-conspirators to the crimes
33:39perpetuated by you and Jeffrey Epstein?
33:41I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence.
33:52I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence.
33:56And House Oversight's work doesn't stop with Epstein.
33:59The committee is also trying to figure out how Congresswoman Omar and her husband saw their net worth increase from a few thousand dollars to millions and millions of dollars while she served in Congress.
34:11Here now with the very latest on both investigations, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is with us.
34:17Okay, she invokes the fifth, not a surprise.
34:19However, through her attorney, she says that if she was granted clemency, she would tell the entire truth and that President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing and that she would explain in detail why she knows that to be true.
34:38Thoughts on that?
34:40Well, several months ago, she said she would come testify in front of the House Oversight Committee if we would grant her immunity.
34:46There was very little support on the House Oversight Committee after we met with the victims and they described just horrible crimes committed by Ms. Maxwell.
34:57There was very little support to grant her immunity.
34:59Now she's come back and said, well, she'll talk if she's granted clemency by President Trump.
35:05And oh, by the way, I can prove that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton both were innocent.
35:10So, you know, that's going to be a decision up to President Trump.
35:13I don't think there's a lot of public support to grant her clemency.
35:17You saw the questions that were asked in the deposition today.
35:21These were questions that every American, regardless of political ideology, would ask.
35:25And she continued to invoke her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid self-incrimination.
35:29It was very disturbing to watch because the questions were so bad when you're talking about underage girls and co-conspirators and, you know, just the lack of emotion and pleading the Fifth to avoid self-incrimination.
35:43It was it was very disturbing.
35:46All right.
35:47Let me go to Congresswoman Omar.
35:49My understanding is that her and her husband, their wealth went from about fifty one thousand dollars in twenty twenty three to upwards of thirty million in twenty twenty four.
36:00How is that mathematically possible?
36:04Well, it would be very difficult if that were if that were legit, then he needs to be on Maria Bartiromo show every morning giving financial advice.
36:14But we've been informed in the last few hours that the ethics committee is probably going to have to be the committee that that takes that investigation up.
36:23I'm disappointed to learn that.
36:24We thought that the oversight committee could do that.
36:27So we're going to be writing a letter in the morning referring this to the ethics committee.
36:32And it's basically it's a simple investigation, Sean.
36:35There are two companies listed on Omar's husband's financial disclosure form.
36:40Both were worth one was worth between one thousand and five thousand dollars.
36:44And then the very next year, it was worth between one and five million dollars.
36:48Another one was worth, I think, twenty five thousand dollars.
36:51And the next year is worth between five and thirty million dollars based on the the ranges on the financial disclosure form.
36:57Either way, those are significant increases in value for and, you know, we just have questions that any American would have.
37:04What type of businesses are these that we know that the Department of Justice in the Biden administration was investigating Omar's husband for reports of fraud.
37:15We know there's a winery in question that has a big value on there that some believe isn't worth anything.
37:22So there are a lot of questions.
37:24This investigation shouldn't take long.
37:26She should just willingly come in, she and her husband, and answer these questions.
37:29It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.
37:32But thus far, over the last two weeks, it's been crickets from Omar.
37:36All right.
37:37Well, wait.
37:38I'd like to get investment tips from her and maybe Nancy Pelosi.
37:42Yeah.
37:42Congressman, thank you.
37:43All right.
37:44Coming up last night's Super Bowl halftime performance.
37:47Bad Bunny, not very well received by everyone.
37:51To put it lightly, I'll share my take.
37:53It might surprise you.
37:54And we'll get reaction from the one and only Brianna Lyman straight ahead.
37:59All right.
38:05Time now for all the news.
38:06All right.
38:06Let's start with the story everyone's been talking about.
38:09Last night's Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny.
38:12Now, the performance drew a lot of harsh criticism.
38:16Here's my take.
38:17Maybe it'll surprise you.
38:19Okay.
38:20Why is anybody surprised after the Grammys, after the announcement?
38:25I was not surprised at all.
38:27And by the way, if you don't like it, you get to change the channel.
38:30If you didn't like that show, you got to watch Turning Point.
38:33Nobody forces you to watch anything.
38:34And I'm not going to act like Alka-Seltzer in water and bubble and fizz the way liberals
38:40do about everything Donald Trump says.
38:42Does not.
38:43Here with reaction.
38:44Federalist election correspondent, Brianna Lyman.
38:46All right.
38:47Everyone bubbles and fizzes.
38:49And I'm like, okay, time for me to go cook some halftime food.
38:53You know, Sean, I get the libertarian instinct here, right?
38:56And under normal circumstances, sure, fine.
38:58Turn the TV off.
39:00But the Super Bowl and the halftime is one of the last shared cultural moments that Americans
39:05have that is recognizably ours, right?
39:08Football was created by Americans for Americans.
39:10It is not an international pastime.
39:12It is an American pastime.
39:14And yet Americans were forced to sit through one of the biggest cultural events of the
39:18year, being conducted in a language that is not ours, with symbols that are not ours,
39:24with foreign flags overshadowing our flags.
39:26And it felt for a lot of Americans like we were not invited to partake in a civic experience.
39:31If anything, it felt like we were invited to bear witness to the replacement of ours.
39:35And when you have people guilting us out of our God-given right to our sovereignty and our
39:40borders and our laws, to watch our language be replaced by a foreign language, to watch
39:45a foreign culture elevated above ours during a traditional American experience, it felt
39:50a bit like a humiliation ritual.
39:53Listen, I get the whole thing.
39:55I get every argument.
39:56But, you know, the NFL has made a decision that they want to make these decisions often.
40:02And, you know, I think at some point they might want to pay attention, pay a little bit of
40:08attention to Bud Light, because there could be a tipping point moment for them.
40:13But that's up to them.
40:14But nothing surprised me about this.
40:16The fact that everyone was surprised, the announcement was made a long time ago.
40:20He made his comments at the Grammys.
40:22What were you expecting?
40:24I can't believe this.
40:25I'm like, why are you?
40:27I didn't understand why anyone was surprised.
40:28Let's put it that way.
40:29Yeah, and I don't think, I wasn't surprised either.
40:32Remember, back in October, he said, look, you have four months to learn Spanish.
40:36And a lot of Americans were like, really?
40:38And I think the NFL could have done a better job this year.
40:41We are in America's 250th birth year.
40:44This should have been a celebration of the greatest country ever.
40:47And instead, we got this left-wing globalist pandering about how, you know, America actually
40:52means every country in North and South America, right?
40:54It was honestly insulting to Americans.
40:59All right, moving on.
41:01Earlier today, Sidney Sweeney rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, standing
41:07alongside the chairman and CEO of American Eagle Outfitters.
41:10The actress partnered with the clothing brand last year on the Sidney Sweeney Has Great Jeans
41:16campaign.
41:16The ad campaign, which you might remember, went viral and drove massive surge in the company's
41:22stock price within 24 hours of launch.
41:24Um, I'm happy for their success.
41:28Why that makes people bubble and fizz and get all worked up, I don't get either.
41:32Yeah.
41:32And let this be a lesson to everyone who cowers as soon as, you know, the woke mob comes wagging
41:37their fingers saying, we're going to cancel you.
41:39Don't be a panicking, right?
41:40President Trump told us that months ago.
41:42Don't be a panicking.
41:43You don't have to play along in the left's cancel culture game.
41:46You can do what Sidney Sweeney and American Eagle did and say, you know what?
41:50No, we're not going to let a small subsection that views everything through race.
41:54Tell us what we can and can't do.
41:57All right.
41:57One bit of good news.
41:58Kid Rock actually surpassed on one of the music charts today, Bad Bunny, with his last song
42:04that he sang at the alternative show.
42:06Uh, anyway, Brianna, we appreciate it.
42:08Up next, the desperate search for Nancy Guthrie continues.
42:11We have the latest report straight ahead.
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