Transcripts For FBC Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo 20240712

Was halper being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars just month before the fbi secured a warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign through carter page and we had hearing the story from the inside for the First Time Ever with an exclusive audio tape that he says is a smoking gun in the Michael Flynn case, plus the president ends the stimulus madness signing four executive orders into law to keep coronavirus aid flowing even if congress leaves for recess, gop house leader Kevin Mccarthy is here with the insight on the covid19 relief measures from the oval office and their impact plus his expectations for joe bidens runningmate we should know soon and then breaking news on china as the communist party makes another power grab, this time, on the islands in japan, the very latest plans from the United States, ahead of a ban being lifted on fishing in the South China Sea next week. Arkansas senator tom cotton investigates with us. Then, it is just 85 days away for america voting for its next president , Shawn Hannity is here with predictions and a look at his new book, all that and a lot more as we look ahead right here right now on sunday morning futures. All that coming up but first the exclusive newly declassified documents that could indicate fresh criminal it Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham will reveal them fresh of his grilling of sally yates when the former Deputy Attorney general dropped the bombshell about james comey. When you heard about the interview you got upset didnt you . I was upset that director comey didnt coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally yes i was. Did comey go rogue . You could use that term, yes. Maria joining me right now is Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham who promised right here on the program to subpoena yates before his committee and senator its always a pleasure to see you thank you for being here , sir. Thank you. Thank you very much. Maria i want to get back to the sally yates hearing in a moment. Lets talk about what we have here fresh, breaking news. These are retracted documents here, this is a Senate Intel Committee brief and this brief is from the fbi, were they basically telling the senate in march of 2018, senator, this is actually dated february 14, 2018 , that the sub source was reliable. Tell us what these redacted documents tell us. Well, here they are. It took me forever to get them. I want to thank attorney general barr for helping me retrieve them from the fbi but it was horowitz during his investigation of the warren application found information in 2018 where the fbi was called to the Senate Intel Committee because people were getting suspicious about the subsource, the russian guy, at the Senate Intel Committee level and the fbi was sent over to brief them, and this is the report they prepared before the briefing, and they did to the Senate Intel Committee, the fbi did, what they did to the fisa court. They mislead the hell out of them. They said that theres no evidence from the sub source to suggest that steele fabricated anything in the dossier. Actually the subsource said it was all bar talk, hearsay speculation and conjecture and the whole Sexual Activity of the president was made in so they completely misrepresented to the Senate Intel Committee in 2018 what the subsource had told the fbi in 2017, and that is a new crime , a different crime, and im going to write a letter to Christopher Wray and ask him who gave the briefing to the Senate Intel Committee in 2018 and how could they be telling the Senate Intel Committee in 2018 a bunch of lies when they knew better . Maria so lets go through these one, two, three. These are the three points the three statements that you find most troubling and the first one in this Senate Document is the fbi told congress that the primary sub source did not cite any significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could deny it, and i could identify it but the sub source already told the fbi that he had no idea where some of the language attributed to him came from, right . Yeah, he told him. He was interviewed in january 2017, march of 2017, and i think april of 2017, and after those interviews he said a lot of the things they are attributing to me i dont know where they came from, and a lot of the things that steele is saying didnt come from the sub source. It was just conjecture by steele , but the main thing, the one that gets me the most, at a minimum, are a discussion with the primary subsource confirmed. This is the one that gets me. At a minimum our discussion with the primary subsource confirms that the dossier was not fabricated by steele. Here is what the subsource told the fbi a year ago. Most of it is word of mouth and hearsay, conversations i had with friends over beers, and that some of the information such as the allegations about trumps sexual activities were statements made, but they told the Senate Intel Committee everythings fine. Maria unbelievable. Somebody needs to go to jail for this. This is a second lie. This is a second crime. They lied to the fisa court. They got rebuked the fbi did in 2019 by the fisa court putting in doubt all fisa applications, the fisa court just ripped a new one for the fbi, a year before theyre lying to the Senate Intel Committee. Its just amazing the compounding of the lies. Here is what i think. I think the person who briefed the Senate Intel Committee had to be part of crossfire hurricane because why would you keep telling a lie . If they told the truth the Senate Intel Committee in 2018, the dossier is not reliability would expose the crime they committed to the fisa court, so i bet you a dollar to donuts that the person who briefed the Senate Intel Committee in 2018 was part of crossfire hurricane trying to compound lies. Maria was it bill prestaf . I dont know but im going to write wray. This happened on christopher wra ys watch. This was in 2018 the year after the subsource was interviewed by the fbi three times telling them its a bunch of garbage and tell the Senate Intel Committee its reliable just like they did the fisa court. Im going to find out who did that briefing and whoever it is they are in trouble. Maria what are you going to do . Youre going to write a letter to Christopher Wray . Right. Im going to write a letter to Christopher Wray and explain this briefing to the congress. How could you send somebody over from the fbi in 2018, february march 2018, to brief about the subsource and mislead the senate so badly, you have information in your files that horowitz found where the subsource completely denied the reliability of the dossier but the fbi continued to lie as late as 2018. If it werent for horowitz finding this we would never know , so mr. Horowitz, you did this a great service, thank you. Maria yes, and his ig report as well. Look let me ask you about sally yates. What did you learn from that and also this upcoming tuesday is another hearing related to general Michael Flynn. The judge does not want to drop this want to get your thoughts on both of those first sally yates what did you learn . That everybody is throwing comey under the bus. When i asked sally yates about the interview with Michael Flynn orchestrated by comey was that okay, was that proper, she said no that was rogue. So you got horowitz, excuse me, rosenstein, now sally yates saying if they knew then what they know now, theyre dumbing it all on comey and thats probably the right thing to do. Eventually im going to call comey in and ask him how could you keep signing warrant application against carter page in april and june of 2017 when your agency knew in january and march of 2017 the dossier was a bunch of garbage. Maria right. How could you keep doing that . Maria unbelievable and its incredible to me how hard it is for you, the chairman of Senate Judiciary, to get the documents that you need to conduct your investigation. Its absolutely incredible that these documents have been sitting at the fbi for a couple of years, that youve been asking for them. Senator nice work, great to see you, sir thank you so much well keep following this. Thanks a bunch. 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These actions are designed to help struggling americans get back on track. Gop house leader Kevin Mccarthy was on the frontlines of the congressional negotiations. He joins me now with more. Good morning, congressman. Always a pleasure to see you thank you for being here. What was the problem . Why couldnt the democrats and republicans come together on this muchneeded stimulus . Well its not something unusual. Remember, every time weve done legislation, when it comes to covid, nancy pelosi has always held it up for her own personal wish list. Remember when we did the cares act . She held it up for more than a week when thousands of people were being unemployed, because she wanted more money for the arts and the kennedy center. When that critical money came through for the Small Businesses that went to the employees, remember the ppe and we were running out of money, she held it up again in that famous video in front of her refrigerator for ice cream that she didnt care, so thousands of more people were laid off, and now, when we were sitting here coming forward with people unemployed again, she held it up over the issue of pot and she believed pot was more important than the paychecks and now what President Trump did, he really showed he was the one person in the room that put people before politics. He said you know what . Im going to continue to help the people on unemployment. If youre going to continue to play these games im going to take action and put America First instead of your own personal ambitions. Maria so i dont understand, when you say pot. Why did that hold things up . Thats what held things up . Well that was one of the major things if you watch in her press conferences the democrats pass 3 trillion and in their 3 trillion bill it mentioned cannabis more than it mentioned research or jobs. She would say that you had to continue to do that 15 an hour extra in the unemployment, when her own majority leader shed no that wasnt a Sticking Point and that should actually be lower. President trump, what did he do . He made sure those who are unemployed continue to get extra money, found Common Ground, where nancy pelosi would not. She would just take that strong position that nothing can happen unless the liberal list of items she want and one of those happened to be pot. Maria wow, so lets go through the president s executive action here. Its calling for 400 a week in supplemental unemployment and Unemployed People they were getting the 600, and the action also requires states to pay for 25 of the 400 weekly benefit. Whats most important about these executive orders, congressman, that we need to understand . What are people going to feel . Well those people who are unemployed right now will continue to get their state unemployment but theyll get that extra from the federal government. So they can continue to pay their rent, pay their housing, and move forward, but if you look at the jobs numbers, its true that this is the right president , at the right time. Bring this economy back up. The millions of more jobs every single month moving forward. Thats what we need to do, get people back to work. The real challenge and the pain here that the democrats could not find Common Ground is when it comes to the Small Businesses i think they need a little more help when it comes to ppp, or what about those items when we want to take that supply chain back from china, that we want to bring those businesses back to america. We could have got tax cuts in there that provided those companies to come back to america, or what about the funding for the schools that we could open them safely . Those are all the things that got hurt because the democrats wouldnt be there. These are the items that the president has the power to do, as president , and he took those actions so those who are unemployed continue to get funding. That nancy pelosi has held you hostage, remember. Yes . Maria how will Vice President former Vice President joe biden handle all of this . We are expecting that he will announce his vp candidate in the coming weeks. Certainly before the Democratic Convention which is in a week away. What are you expecting there . Well hes narrowed the field he said it would have to be a woman. I believe he believes it be a woman of color so the field is a little narrow and all of them have pluses and minuses. I mean in the latest discussions he talks about kamala harris, a new senator from california. She has different pluses and minuses. Im not sure shell add to the ticket. Remember what she said about joe biden. I mean, she went after him with a vengence when it came to the campaign, and she never apologized for it. Then if you look at susan rice maria well what about susan rice . Susan rice is one thats very interesting. Never been elected before but what i really think, what would the American People think . Shes the architect of the iran agreement where we gave hundreds of billions of dollars to iran and what did they do with it . They used it on terrorists around the world around the globe. Her policies are not something that america would want, and i dont think she has a good track record we watched her lie to the American Public numerous times, but then again, if joe biden was president during this virus, we be in worse shape. Remember he was opposed to stopping those airlines from china coming to america. He thought that was a bad decision. It took him a month before he ever agreed with it. Maria all right, i know that youve talked a lot about Technology Companies and perhaps what theyre going to do going into the election. Real quick were running out of time here but i want to get your take on google. Are they going to try to censor conservative speech before the election 85 days away now . Not that they are going to try, theyre already doing it. You watch what they did in 2016 when they met together the special programs trying to bring more people out to vote for hillary but remember, they have 90 of all searches on the internet go through google. They determine what you see. They determine what you understand. They called the Republican Party of california that we had nazism in our ideals. They believe this was okay. Maria i remember that. They have taken like the bright part and not allowed you to see them so they stopped traffic from going to it. They could take control of maria youre right about that. 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Twitter reportedly has held deal talks with tiktok as microsoft tries to convince government officials it can acquire tiktok and fix the National Security issues while President Trump drops the hammer on these chinese apps, issuing orders to ban tiktok and wechat in the United States if they are not sold within 45 days. Secretary of state mike pompeo laid it all out here last week, right here. These Chinese Software companies doing business in the United States whether its tiktok or wechat, there are countless more as Peter Navarro said are feeding directly to the Chinese Communist party, their National Anthem National Anthem apparatus could be their facial recognition pattern, it could be information about the resident, phone numbers, friends, who theyre connected to, those are the issues that President Trump has made clear were going to take care of. Maria joining me right now is senator tom cotton the republican from arkansas, first sounded the alarm about china here on this program back in february. Senator its always a pleasure thanks very much for joining us. Thank you, maria. Maria so, youve got microsoft trying to convince everybody that it is okay if it acquires tiktok. It can get rid of the National Security issues, now we understand twitter talking to tiktok. Whats your view on this should tiktok be allowed to get acquired in the United States, will the chinese surveillance and espionage ever be eliminated from tiktok at this point . Maria, tiktok is like a trojan horse on american self phones and thats why i commend the president for taking the action to ban tiktok in america, its is whollyowned and operated by an american parent company. I encourage the adam schiff about a year ago to conduct the security review that ultimately led to this decision and thats because to most americans, tiktok seems like a harmless, fun, short form video app but behind that app on your phone, is a vacuum of data of everything on your device. Contacts, emails, Text Messages , photographs, social media posts, even browser history, keystroke, and location data that all goes back to servers in china, where it can be accessed by the Chinese Communist party for decades to come. Thats why if tiktok is going to operate in the United States, it has to have an american parent and be holy owned and operated not just the servers and the data, but all of the source code, the algorithms, the engineers, there can be no lingering ties to china, and i think we have to be reasonably skeptical about any American Companies to do that. They have to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the u. S. Government that they can server all those ties, otherwise, these Software Companies will have to be banned in america for the safety and the privacy of americans. Especially our kids. Maria all right, a couple of things that you said i want to get back to microsoft in a moment but you just went through a line of things that tiktok being on your phone can get just wipe all of the things on your phone, and send it back to the c cp. What would the Chinese Communist party do with that information . What is the threat . How can they hurt us with our own information . Theres many threats, maria, so first off, tiktok has been around for several years now. That means that Young Americans who were using it are now in their early 20s. Some of those are in sensitive positions in our military, or in the federal government or industry or National Laboratories on working on cuttingedge projects. Thats why the military has recently forbidden Service Members from using tiktok even on their personal devices because imagine all of this information in Text Messages and photographs and social media posts that the Chinese Communist party could use as leverage to manipulate or blackmail those Young Americans or think about the kind of profiles that they are building on americans that will be used for decades to come, and we have no idea how theyre going to be able to use that information. And then finally, just that vast amount of data helps them in developing advances in things like artificial intelligence, and machine learning. That is a huge benefit in the 21st Century Technology economy. Maria so, my question on this story is how many employees from tiktok will be melted into microsoft . I mean, weve seen over and over again how the ccp is able to steal information from the inside whether its motorola with all those engineers working for motorola and sending stuff back to huawei years ago or most recently, harvard, or cleveland clinic. The ccp has been either able to identify people within institutions to send info back or actually, hire people and get americans to do it so how many people from tiktok will end up working from microsoft . Maria, i think the default answer should be zero, whether its microsoft or twitter or any other company that makes a bed for tiktok because as you say, the Chinese Communist party has a long history of using insiders in our companies, in our laboratories, in our colleges of stealing technology so its up to any perspective purchaser of tiktok to demonstrate to the United States government that they will not have any lingering ties to china and that includes chinesebased employees in addition to all of the software and hardware. Maria what are the odds that you think microsoft or somebody in america acquires tiktok . This is going to go on well obviously the president is giving it a 45 day deadline. Well i think thats the president s preferred solution. He doesnt want to see americans lose access to what to them is a fun social media app but at the same time, were committed to protecting their privacy and their safety, so itll be up to a technical experts and our government to assess what microsoft or tiktok or any other purchaser might do, but its on those companies shoulder s to demonstrate that complete and total break from the Chinese Communist party and from mainland china. Maria all right, i want to move on to what china is now doing in japan. We continue to see the ccp doing power grabs. First it was india gaining territory in india and now youve got a conflict over here in japan, right around the islands and this is the longestcontinued presence since 2012. Also china is expected to end the fishing ban in the South China Sea were expecting u. S. Vessels there in the upcoming weeks. Tell me whats going on with this latest power grab of the communist party . Maria i think youre right this is just a continued instance of the pattern china has over to use this pandemic for cover to take aggressive action against our neighbors. As you say they essentially invaded india and killed 20 indians a couple months ago and cracked down on hong kong and now, they are once again up to no good and this is a maul set of islands just to the north of taiwan to the east of china, in the east china sea, and they sit on very critical commercial roots. They have very rich fishing waters and top oil gas. China as you say now has had a presence around those islands for the longest period of time since 2012 the last time there was a flareup and notably china is saying they are going to lift the ban on fishing around those islands next saturday. If that happens i would predict youd see a large number of fishing vessels, many of which are going to be in reality chinese coast guard or even chinese navy, probably armored up and ready to fight back against japans desire and intent to enforce its longstanding claim to those islands, so we need to make it very clear to china that we will uphold our defense treaty with japan and that those islands are rightfully, they rightfully are controlled by japan and they should be settled only by arbitration and by negotiation, not by force. Maria i just want to point out that just this week, we saw in the South China Sea, Chinese Air Force stepping up combat readiness drills, a number of drills. There was actually video out there of this but mysteriously that video has been taken down so well be watching the South China Sea of course senator great to see you this morning thank you, sir. Thank you, maria. 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My next guest is the man who first introduced page to halper while he was working as a phd candidate in cambridge. He is joining me for the First Ever Television interview for him and good morning, stephen thank you so much for being here. Good morning, glad to be here. Maria you worked for Stefan Halper, and we want to ask you, really, the background of 2016 so lets start there. What is your background in terms of working with Stefan Halper and why did you invite carter page to a conference that you were planning . Right, i had had a long background working on crime and terrorism at the white house and congress and went to cambridge to finish a phd id started years earlier at harvard and my intent was always to have a conference that looked at president ial campaign and National Security risk i had no idea it would blow up to this. Halper was not that engaged up until the point where he crossed paths with page and Christopher Steeles former mi6 boss richard dearlove. At that point he seemed to really focus on page and really try to isolate him with the Trump Campaign in ways that seemed like a real turning point , but how page wound up there with halper is really a comedy of errors and it was something where we were looking for someone from the Trump Campaign to make sure the Trump Campaign was represented and it just kind of happened to fall on his lap that page landed there. Maria well why did you want someone from the Trump Campaign . Here, you have, you wrote about these guys and you called them the cambridge four, that they are washed up spies. Why are washed up spies wanting to get in with the Trump Campaign . Well, for the conference, they were not involved in that decision at all. The conference was because i came from a republican background and i wanted an unbiased conference. I wanted to make sure if we had Madeline Allbright on one side we had a trump representative on the other side. I dont believe Stefan Halper even knew carter page was going to be at the conference until i emailed him, but what happened was before the conference if you look a few weeks ago, Christopher Steele had been hired by a Clinton Campaign contractor and then the spark that really set this off is when Stefan Halper and page were altogether and trump was portrayed to my surprise as a National Security threat and thats where the interest started to bubble in terms of where this took off. Maria so let me go back to Stefan Halper for a minute your phd supervisor and the office of met assessments awarded him four contracts between may of 2,012 and september of 2016. In september of 2015 he was awarded a contract valued at 245,000 to study russia and china. Characterize that. Are these the kind of money, these the kind of paychecks you get for doing a report on china and russia and isnt it interesting that just months later, after he was awarded another contract of 411,000, then the wiretapping of carter page started. Yes, ive never heard of that in an academic setting providing that much compensation for these types of reports. One thing i will say that was quite unusual was even after carter page had been smeared improperly as a russian spy, Stefan Halper would profusely thank me for introducing to him and i never really understood that but once i saw the massive payments corresponding to when he was surveiling page and pop pop critical theres a theory how that played out and the real smoking gun in all of this is all these tent it calls lead back to the small group including Stefan Halper at the center of spygate, Christopher Steele at the center of russia gate, none of the senate has subpoenaed or called these people to talk in four years i think thats the real smoking gun how are these people being protected and at a point so close to the election and with flynns hearing coming up that no one has called these people and gotten to the bottom of this and the information i provides a lot of troubling aspects of this. Maria so lets talk about that, because you actually recorded Stefan Halper. He was aware that you recorded him because you used to do recordings but this is on january 10, 2017, two days before there was a leak in the Washington Post, that general flynn was going to be investigated about the logan act and you recorded Stefan Halper talking about flynn. Lets roll that recording right now. If you go to the nfc, you have to consider very carefully if you feel that its appropriate for your work. I dont think flynn is going to be around long. I mean thats just my guess, but the way these things work, you inevitably find yourself at odds with someone. Probably lots of people, and when your opponent, socalled enemies are looking for ways of exerting pressure, they go to people that they know youre at odds with and thats how it builds and then eventually you get squeezed pretty hard. And that was my kind of lesson. Flynns reaction to that is to blow up and get angry. But that is his reaction. Right. Thats why hes so un suitable. Maria so what do you think was going on here, steven . Do you think halper was working for the fbi or the cia and getting paid by the office of net assessment to dirty up flynn and dirty up Trump Campaign officials . How did he know flynn was about to blow up two days before it was in the Washington Post . Right and some of this is things that i have based on interacting with him for a long time but they are beliefs. It was very odd, because i had told him extensively that flynn was incredibly close with President Trump at the time as its been reported the fbi was about ready to pull its investigation on january 4, before the Oval Office Meeting met where it was the logan act and flynn was discussed so i dont think he had any independent reason to expect that this would happen to flynn. He had also bragged to me and talked to others that david igna cious was one of his big press Media Contacts so again it seems something that really needs to be investigated. One of his students was also working with him at the post, bob robert costa, so the fact this has been investigated no one was called to look at this is as shocking as whats happened. Maria well what about you . You told me you spoke with john durham, somebody else told me that they thought you were disseminating the dossier. Are you involved in this . No, i had no idea at all. I mean, this is really upended my life. I was actually about to play out for my wedding when the stories broke that my phd supervisor for a long time was this fbi spy known as the walrus and since that time ive tried to uncover that and ive worked with investigators try to do this but with this flynn information i discovered a few weeks ago and the fact these investigations have not moved so far i felt i needed to come forward before the flynn hearing, and frankly, the fact is that people have been spreading rumors about other people leaking it, i think there were quite a few republicans involved in leaking this , that i found out through these different processes that have not been revealed so i think theres a lot of people trying to cover the tracks of what happened to start this thing, and i think thats why its so critical that we get to the bottom of it. Maria and you did talk to john durham, correct . I did, and i did tell him a couple weeks ago, i said im happy to continue to help but i need to go public because im concerned about how long this is taking, this shouldnt be political about democrats and republicans, this is about officials undermining our democracy and it needs to be known long before the election. Maria steven schrage, we want you to come back, hopefully the next week or next couple weeks to continue drilling down on this. Very important story thank you, sir very much. Thank you. Maria well be right back. K. K. Businesses are starting to bounce back. But what if you could do better than that . Like adapt. Discover. Deliver. In new ways. To new customers. What if you could come back stronger . Faster. Better. At comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back. But bounce forward. Thats why were helping you stay ahead and adapt with a network you can count on, 24 7 support and Flexible Solutions that work wherever you are. Call or go online today. 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Maria we are now 80 some days from election day 2020 joining me is Shawn Hannity the host of the incredibly popular hannity program on fox news he is the author of the new book, live free or die. Shawn it is great to have you this weekend welcome. Maria thank you ive got to could be grant you late you though first because 25 Year Anniversary reporting from the market floor, you got to, well it was virtual but you got to ring the bell on start trading on friday, congratulations for that. I also have to congratulate you on one other thing. I watch your sunday show religiously and most of them are horrible and i will tell you what, the work that you have done exposing the deep state, the abuse of power, the corruption, the spying on a president , the dirty dossier, you know, you have the whole cast of characters and it is remarkable that they all knew, they knew everything, there was nothing there, and they allowed this to continue, and if we dont hold them accountable ill tell you, i shutter to think what they do next in the deep state. Maria well this is a really good point and that transitions me into the book, because there is so much at stake in this upcoming election and i think you will agree, if donald trump doesnt win, we will never hear another word about this story, shawn. They will have gotten away with it, and we know that there was serious criminality here from the fbi agent changing a document and using it as evidence to exculpatory evidence not being shown to the fisa court to leaking to lying to congress, theres all sorts of charges here. When are you expecting the durham investigation . Im hearing september, maybe a little before september, by the end of this month, but i dont know for sure. Its taking much longer than it should. I dont want to have a 2020 president ial election when we dont know everything that happened in the 2016 election. I dont think its fair for the American People. Its like i dont think early voting should start until theres been at least one debate between the two major party candidates. Now theyre talking about september 29. Well, there probably will be anywhere between eight and 10 million votes cast around the country and im not particularly confident that joe biden is going to be able to hold his own against donald trump in these debates, but why wouldnt they let us see that before anyone cast a vote . Maria in the book, you write a vote for biden is not a vote for obama what were you saying . The modern Democratic Party has evolved into bernies parties, aocs party, the squad s party and its almost unrecognizable from that which obama ran in 2008 and joe has a lot of other issues going on for him. Hes going to be 78 years old when he becomes president. This week, was an unmitigated disaster for this guy. Come on, man. Did you get tested for , come on are you a junkie . His comments about diversity, you know, lying, dogface pony soldier. He barely made it out of his bunker for a couple of hours. The guys been hiding, every democrat i know can see what we see , and that is i dont know, im not a doctor, but whatever is going on is bizarre, and first of all he looks frail. He looks weak. This is the hardest job in the entire world, youre the leader of the free world. He does not, you know, it was a fair question for reagan in 84. The age question, and now its a fair question for joe biden. Does he have the mental alertness, the mental a queue it , the physical strength, the physical stamina to do this job and if this was a Traditional Campaign would he even survive i have my doubts. Maria quick break and then more with Shawn Hannity when we comee where are you . honey, did you hear about these new geico savings . Mom . Youll get an extra 15 on top of what geico could already save you. Can i call you back . You know your fathers learning to make sourdough. Even though he knows i prefer rye theres never been a better time to save with geico. 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This is what i want you to talk about because this paved the way for the radical left. Yes, the party has been hijacked by the elizabeth warrens and aoc s of the world but did it not start with president obama, shawn . Yeah, id even argue it started with bill clinton and hillary clinton, but remember, they tried hillary care, it failed spectacularly. Their first midterm was a disaster and in the case of obama we got a lot of glimpse. I did a deep dive of him as a candidate and what do we see . Frank marshall davis, community organizer, acorn olinski, black liberation theology, you know, two unrepentent domestic terrorists with Weather Underground thats the home in which barack obama started his career. Remember obama there were moment s we get flashes. Oh, were going to spread the wets around that joe the plumber moment or you didnt build that. That another indicator, but barack obama was being more of a politician. He absolutely grew up and i believe was radicalized, but he was, you know, a shrewd enough politician that he said do you know what i know if i say its political suicide it used to be Bernie Sanders socialism used to be political suicide but now, the party has now gone so hard left we saw this with impeachment, we saw this with the russia hoax. They will lie and they dont care, the ends justifies the means, the promises they are making are unfulfillable, cradle tograve, woundtotomb, youll have free education, pre k through college paid for , forgiveness of Student Loans paid for , government guaranteed job, a government guaranteed wage, government guaranteed vacation, healthy food, healthcare retirement and everything in between. Well the problem is is somebody is going to have to pay for that and its not going to be possible when on top of it youre eliminating oil, gas, and coal, the lifeblood of the world s economy. Maria so much at stake, shawn i know its all in the book. It is a great read. I hope our audience picks it up shawn congratulations. Great to have you this weekend thanks so much. By the way congratulations again. Maria Shawn Hannity. I never got to ring the bell i want to ring the bell congratulations, maria. Maria thank you so much Shawn Hannity joining us there. Have a great day, everybody. Liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. I wish i could shake your hand. Granted. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Good evening everybody, well be talking with the president of the United States, donald trump here in just moments, live. I do want to set just a bit rft scene. This interview comes as radical dems try to indicate a nightmare for democracy pushing mailin ballots only safe way to vote during the about chinese virus pandemic also pushing as many left wing activist and anarchist as they can into the streets of america. 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