lying, pomposity, smuggness, overall, groupthink. dvr it if you know how that hworks. more than anything though, have a terrific evening. you ve had the main course and now the dessert, the great sean hannity in new york city. sean: i m telling that story. so when you are back in new york with laura, we are all getting in this room and i m telling secrets. i and i m telling secrets about you two. tucker: [laughs] sean: oh, it s coming out. tucker: i m embarrassed already. sean: we are 98 days away from the single most important midterm election in our lifetime. we are 440 days into robert mueller s corrupt political witch hunt, and the trial of paul manafort kicked off in a northern virginia court room. you would think it s the trial of the century, it s not. he s facing potential life in prison or a tax charge that had nothing to do with russia from 2005. today the trial of paul manafort kicked off in what are alleged crimes had nothing to do with
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Dossier funded by the president s opponent, material fact. i was there for the beginning of the fisa court. andd one of the first. and that is a sacred duty because nobody gets to respond. i did hundreds of affidavits for regular wiretaps, for mafia people. somebody challenged those p eventually in court, but when i did a fisa affidavit, nobody got to see it. it was my responsibility for the court. that man lied, straight lied. no way he didn t know the steele dossier was a big phony piece of junk. you read the first three pages if a professional and this is like national enquirer. laura: you wanted it to be true, rudy.re so the president would leak it out. he knows it s not true. he s like a 3-year-old. that is pure jay edgar hoover. man, i ve got something on you. laura: is as a crime or is acts?eries of unethical how about a simple one, the signature on the fisa affidavit is a crime. laura: how was it a crime?
We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted as a power grab. americans understand that these are the values our brave men and women in uniform and our veterans risked their lives to defend, the foundation of our moral leadership around the globe is free and fair elections. voters pick their leaders, not where politicians pick their voters. in this time of division and crisis, we must come together and stand for and with one another. america has stumbled time and again on its quest toward justice and equality. but with each generation, we have revisited our fundamental truth, and where we falter, we make amends. we fought jim crow with the civil rights act and the voting rights act. and yet we continue to confront racism from our past and in our present.
it is a big moment because it is such a big stage. and it is a vast audience, and the coverage starts before the speech, and lasts for quite a while afterwards. so it is a real opportunity. i just can t think of too many cases where i thought presidents did that well with them. looking back over 43 of these, i think i ve covered, and one way or another, i can only think of fewer than ten moments from 43 speeches. this one, however, may leave an impression. it always seems like a big deal on the night it happens. we ll see how it plays out. i think is a speech writers did a good job of making a speech that was nonpartisan. it had a unifying theme to it, and certainly had unifying limits within it. all that does the president a little credit. he is not been a unifying figure as president but he reached for a unifying message tonight, andd one.
Month, american forces killed one of the leaders of that attack. [applause] we are honored to be joined tonight by tom wibberley, whose son, navy seaman craig wibberley, was one of the 17 sailors we tragically lost. tom, we vowed to always remember the heroes of the uss cole. thank you very much. [applause]