February 7, 2022 • 31 mins
Rebekah Koffler is a Russian-born former US intelligence officer and author of “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America.” She is a strategic intelligence analyst with The Lindsey Group and the host of a new podcast, Censored But Not Silenced. Rebekah was born in the Soviet Union, and is appalled at the state of the nation right now, which is going in the wrong direction towards communism.
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I News found up information overload our eight hundred and
ninety four one Sean if you want to be a
part of the program. I mean, I can't believe what
is going on internationally in terms of foreign policy. I mean,
I look at the Israeli Prime Minister Bennett, who, by
the way, lied to the Israeli people. I have very
little respect for him. But he's in a bind right now.
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And Biden is now talking about another Iranian deal. Remember
the first Iranian deal. You have cargo planes of cash
and of the currency. They drop it on the tarmac
for the Iranian mullahs and anyway, so the new Prime
minister invites Biden to visit Israel. In a phone call
a few hours earlier, he said the Iran nuclear deal
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that world powers are negotiating in Vienna will make it
harder to stop Iran from getting nukes. Joe is allowing
that to happen on his watch. There was an interesting
moment late last week on Thursday where an AP reporters
grilling at eight Department spokesperson Matthew Lee on the price
of on the claim that Russia is making a propaganda
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film about Ukraine. Now, if I had to make a
guess and educated guess. I don't think Vladimir Putin is
amassing all of this military equipment, all of these troops
along the Ukrainian border unless he has serious intentions of
pursuing geographical ambitions, just like I have no doubt President
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she will do that with Taiwan right after the Olympics.
It's not going to be during the Olympics. And and
Biden's response has been nothing but pathetic. But just listen
to this exchange. What evidence do you have to support
the idea that there is some propaganda film in the
in the making. Now, this is derived from information known
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to the US government, intelligence information that we have declassified.
I think you okay, well where is it? Where where
is this information? It is intelligence information that we have
declassific Well where is it? Where is the de classified information?
I just delivered it. No, you made a series of allegations.
Would you would you like us to print it out
the top R because you will see a transcript of
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this briefing that you can print out for yourself. Not evidence, ned,
that's you saying it. That's not evidence. I'm sorry, And
what would you like, Matt? I would like to see
some proof that you that that that that that you
can show that that, Matt, you have been that that
shows that that that shows that the Russians are doing that. Ned,
I've been doing this for I know that you haven't
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you you have been doing this for quite a while.
You know that when we declassify intelligence, and we do
so in a means, we do so, we do so
to protecting sources and methods not going to fall. I
remember a lot of things. So where where is the
declassified information? Other than you coming out here and saying, Matt,
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I'm sorry you don't like the format, but we have
declass format. It's the content. I'm sorry you don't like
the contents. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you are doubting the
information that is in the possession of the US government.
What I'm telling you is that this is information that's
available to us. We are making it available to you
in order for a couple of reasons. One is to
attempt to deter the Russians from going ahead with this activity. Two,
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in the event we're not able to do that, in
the event the Russians do go ahead, with us, to
make it clear as day, to lay bare the fact
that this has always been an attempt on the part
of the Russian Federation to fabricate a pretext. Yeah, but
you don't have any any events to back it up
other than what you're saying. It's like you're saying, we
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think we have information that the Russians may do this,
but you won't tell us what the information. And then
when that is the idea behind the trance, then that
is the idea behind as turrance. And when it is
also that the Russians don't go forward when this is
you say, I just gave it to you. But that's
not what you seem not to understand. You seem not
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to stand the idea we are seeing the Russians are
moving forward with this type of activity. That is why
we were making a public today. If the Russians don't
go forward with this, that is not, if so facto,
an indication that they never had plans to do so.
But then it's unprovable. Oh my god, what is the
evidence that you have that suggests that the Russians are
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even planning this? Mat I mean, I'm not saying that
they're not. But you just come out and say this
and expect us to believe it without you showing a
shred of evidence that it's actually true. Other than when
I ask, or when anyone else asked, what's the information?
He said, well, I just gave it to you, which
was just you making a statement. All right, tell you
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have I mean it just you can't even make this
stuff up. Why would Putin be putting all those military
equipment and all these troops on the border. And look,
is it possible that he's trying to get the world
to freak out and gain major, massive concessions. You already
got the biggest concession you could ever want from Joe Biden,
and that's the Nord Stream to pipeline that, of course
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the waiver was granted to Putin, but Joe was simultaneously
firing workers on our own Keystone XL pipeline, high paying
career energy jobs that are not easy to find. Just
get another good union job where anyway. Rebecca Kaufler is
with US Russian born by the way, former US intelligence officer,
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author of the book Putin's Playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to
Defeat America, and by the way, she's also started her
own podcast, Censored but Not Silence. Rebecca, you were born
in the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union. Correct that, okay,
And you worked as a US intelligence officer. How many
years I watched from two thousand and eight until late
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twenty sixteen, early twenty seventeen, pretty much during the Obama administration,
so I witness how everything was unfolding Sean, and how
the Obama administration with light President Biden, did nothing about
Russia's plans and intentions and missed every single signpost and
did zero except trying to reset, to do a reset
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with Russia. And now my favorite, my favorite is tell
Vladimir a more flexibility, Tell Vladimir more flexibility after my
election exactly, it's outrageous. And now at the eleventh hour
they're trying to come up with the magic bullet. You
heard the State Department quote unquote expert talking about deterrence. Well,
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they had a chance. The Washington national security establishment had
about twenty years to establish a deterrance strategy, and they
didn't do anything about it. And now they have brought
us pretty much from the brank of war because Russia
Ukraine crisis goes very well escalate, you know, into something bigger,
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and well, you know Vladimir Putin, he's a former KGB
I mean, or his intentions to extract some type of
I don't know whatever he wants from the West, concessions
from the West. Or is it his intentions to do
what they did you know previously, which is you know,
take over Crimea. Yeah, maybe maybe Kiev this time. What
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is the more likely scenario? So the interesting thing is
that about Putin is that his fourth posture that he
assembled on the border with Ukraine. It's pretty flexible, and
it is by design he wants to achieve a tactical
surprise by keeping us guessing. The fourth posture is really
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sufficient to do anything from the full mechani to you know,
attack an invasion to actually take over the entire Ukraine
if he needs to. She can also do a limited
incursion just like President Biden green light and a couple
of weeks ago. Or he can launch an air missal
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strike campaign from stand up distances without even ever you know,
setting food Militarily, Ukraine can't compete, it's over. If he
wants to marginal at Ukraine killed fifty thousand people, he
could do it within seconds. And you're right, the minor
incursion comment by Biden certainly seemed like a green light
to me, The question is what are Putin's motives here?
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Is are these territorial ambitions or is it more likely
is looking for more concessions from the West. It's both
shod So Putin has declared and his government in multiple
strategic planning documents that he wants to reintegrate the format
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Union right or some semblance of it, not exactly the same,
but they call it the Union. She doesn't want to
take Ukraine fully because DNS would have to deal with
owning it right in Ukraine is a basket case by
very multiple criteria. But what he can do is deployed
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peacekeepers right the quote unquote peacekeepers, And she tested out
that playbook a couple of weeks ago in Kazakhstan. So
control over the political economic control sumter to uncontrol possibly
overas in Ukraine. And what you just said a minute ago,
extort further concessions from what would the concessions be because
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their economy fifty percent of at least fifty percent of
it is based on energy and exports. And why Joe
Biden from a geopolitical strategic vantage point, why he would
ever allow Putin to be the main supplier of energy
to our Western European allies, which only pushes them into
the arms of Putin and defeats, you know, even the
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purpose of NATO on many levels. Then then I'm trying
to understand why that Joe would allow this to happen,
and how does he Well, we nobody really knows, John, right,
what isn't Joe Biden had? But the concessions that I'm
talking about the person that knows least of what is
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in his head as him. But go ahead, that's that's true.
So remember what President Trump did during his administration. He
basically pulled out of a lot of treaties, right, you
know with the Russians, the Open Sky Treaty that Russians
were using or misusing rather to spy on American military installation. Uh.
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President Trump pulled out of the Intermediate Arrange Nuclear Weapons
UM treaty. But Biden is now trying to renew all
of these negotiations. Remember it's meeting up to meeting up
the meeting in Europe, right, But the Russians figured out
that they can simply, you know, uh, leave Biden by
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his nose and export concessions within various treatish That's what
I'm most concerned about because Joe Biden is just selling
out the store, you know, um with the with the Russians.
I quick break Moore with Rebecca Koffler, Russian born former
US intelligence officer on the threat that is Russia. Man frankly,
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China and Iran. Always honoring our servicemen and servicewomen and
standing up liberty every day. Sean Hannity, Rebecca Conflidence with Us,
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Russian born former US intelligence officer. We're talking about Putin
and Russia. You played this role as a strategic intelligence analyst.
You're a US intelligence officer. And I look at the
money that the Bidens got from the Russian oligarch, former
first Lady of Moscow three and a half million. The
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money is that that hunter received from Ukraine, you know,
with no experience in oil, energy, gas or Ukraine, but
he's getting millions of dollars, the one point five billion
dollars Bank of China deal, the thirty one million from
China that the Biden's got, as revealed in Peter Schweitzer's book.
And my question is this, you understand their intelligence apparatus
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better than anybody. To what extent do you believe that
the Bidens and Joe Biden in particular, is and the
Biden family in particular are compromised by Russia, Ukraine and
China and probably other countries as well. How to what
stent I believe. Definitely he is compromised, but most importantly
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the Russians beliefs that is compromised. Okay, to find what
compromise means in your world, that means you know that somebody, somebody,
and that somebody would be Russian intelligence services, would blackmail
Biden into you know, doing things, or that would mean
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that they would let the Bidens know, yeah, you guys
don't really want to mess with us, because we've got
all this information on you, and let them know that
they have it. Correct. That is exactly right. That's what
companiment means. And this is why we see a very
soft posture, not only right now during the Biden administration,
but the same you know, back during their Obama administration.
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They had the opportunity to develop a very viable counter
strategy and they did not. And the reason is very
possibly there is compromisa right there. And the Russians acknowledge themselves,
you know, they're following they hadn't a Biden leaptop story
and everything all the year. They probably any anytime any
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Biden was in Russia, they were spied on the entire time.
True or false. Well, of course you know, just right, Sean,
I mean you you try, Yes, yes I was. I
was warned when I was in Helsinki that I better
not turn on my phone and that I was likely
being monitored the whole time. Absolutely not just Helsinkid really
anywhere you know, you go to China, you go to Russia, Um,
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you better not even bring your own phone, Sean, just
get a get a burnout or something. Because there are
close proximity operations. It's not just like you know, hacking
your phone somebody even without physically owning your phone or
obtaining your phone, without even deploying malwa, with close proximity
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adds can um get and shoot your data. And that's
just the best. Right. We know the technology exists because
we see the scandal in Israel with the NSO group
on this new spyware technology. They could be outside your
house and download every single piece of equipment you've got.
So I'm sure the Russians have it too, and the
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Chinese exactly what closepportunity operations mean, by the way our
own FBI has it. That scares me too. Anyway, Rebecca,
thank you appreciate it. Uh. Eight hundred nine is our number.
You want to be a part of the program. We
didn't even get to the Biden China. Um. I don't
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know genocide Olympics. Thank god, nobody's watching it. We'll continue
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get your dose of independence and liberty every weekday right
here on the John Hannity Show. All right, twenty five
down to the top of the hour, eight hundred and nine,
four one, Sean, if you want to be a part
of the program, all right, so many people want to
get to these phones. We'll do that now. Dan is
in Connecticut. Dan, how are you glad you called? Hey? Sean?
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It is an honor and a pleasure to finally speak
with you. The pleasure, sir, is all mine. What's going on?
I just wanted to call about the incident with Joe
Rogan and how Cancel culture is literally trying everything in
the book to take this man down, and how chaotic
it's become. It just it needs to stop. I mean,
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it's like it's like they're sitting at a drawing board.
All right, Well, Spotify is not gonna remove them, So
let's dig up something else. Oh, he said the N
word in an episode once, but let's not bother to
actually read into the episode. Let's just totally take what
he said out of context and throw that to the
wall and hope it sticks. It's just getting ridiculous. It's
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like the interesting thing that has evolved out of this
is I've never heard of Odyssey, Linda, did you ever
hear of Odyssey? I'd never heard of them. I am
very familiar with Rumble. Rumble is an alternative to YouTube,
and actually we have a pretty big following on Rumble.
And although I have no access to any of my
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social media anyway, so I wouldn't be able to tell
you myself. And both companies have offered Rogan a four year,
hundred million dollar deal if Spotify doesn't work out. Now,
I hate that word. Nobody should ever use it, and
I don't think they should use Nazi analogies either. Now,
how many artists I don't know the answer to this.
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It would be we're looking into how many artists use
that word in music on Spotify. I would imagine I
don't like that music that uses that word either. I
don't like it used in any context. Um. Now in
terms of is Joe Rogan racist? Um? Okay, you listen
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to the context. I'll let you decide. But the idea
that we have a mayor in New York City talking
about cracker cops and let me let me remind people
what the new mayor of New York set every day
in the police department. I checked those crackers eyes man,
I was unbelievable. And the police department. I mean, the
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only point is I don't like any of this language.
I don't like bees and hose and and the N
word is off limits. People should stop if they don't know,
if they can't make a proper Nazi analogy, don't talk
about it or the Holocaust. It would be wise not to.
But it's it's we're at a point here where from
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my perspective is I don't like some of the music
that uses that language? Right? What is my answer? What
is the antidote is? What is how does Sean Hannity
handle music that I don't like or or music with
language I don't like, misogynistic, racist, Whatever it happens to
me is I won't listen to it. Now. The beauty
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is you don't have to listen to anything, watch anything,
and that's where where if we're going to really celebrate freedom,
then take the freedom you have and use it and
use it wisely. Does that make sense to you? It
makes perfect sense. I mean it's a saying as old
as time. My grandfather used to say. It you don't
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like it, change the channel. No one's forcing you to
listen to Rogan. He's allowed to have a platform, he's
got a great following, and we all may mistakes, you know.
I think back to last year when Chris Rock was
on The Breakfast Club and he was like, it's it's
like we've forgotten to allow people to fail. Failure is
what helps us learn and grow. I mean it's the
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same with Whoopee. I think Whoope's gone off the rails
in these past years, but I don't want Whippee to
be canceled. Let her learn from her mistakes and move on.
And that's what we need to do with Joe Rogan.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty
sure Joe Rogan has a biracial daughter, so I don't
see how Joe Rogan is racist. I mean, the guy's
been in the MMA scene for years. I mean, think
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of all the fighters from all different backgrounds that have
gotten a chance to get out there because of him.
I mean, the guy's got a great following. And you know,
I'm so glad you brought up how Rumble made an
offer to him, because I saw that that they emailed him,
and it's like, you know, Spotify, look, Rogan seems to
be very patient with all of this, but I mean,
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you can only push somebody so far. So if you know,
I can't speak for Rogan. Spotify CEO says he's found
the defensive or help him out to Spotify CEO this
weekend when this came out. Now, I didn't listen to
all the times he said it, so I don't have
that context, but I listened very closely, and I watched
his I don't know, whatever apology, whatever medium it was
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put on Instagram or some one of those social things,
and I watched it, and you know, he couldn't have
fallen on the sword any harder in terms of owning it,
apologizing for it, admitting it. He's embarrassed by it. I mean,
how far back do we want to go? I mean,
obviously people don't want to go back and talk about
Joe Biden actually partnering with a clansman to stop integration
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of schools and buzzing because he didn't want public schools
to be racial jungles, or he can't work at a
seven eleven, or my state's a slave state, or for
the first time ever he got an African American that
is clean and articulate and bright. I'm like, the first
time ever, really, Joe talking about Barack Obama. You know,
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Kamala Harris had called them out on all this. A
lot of this is selective, so but at the end
of the day, it's going to be everyone else that decides.
Remember this, it's gonna be something far less severe that
is going to take out conservatives because it's used all
the time. I've experienced this now for thirty three years.
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I mean, are we gonna go back now and go
over every Howard Stern show because I'm sure there's stuff
on there that Howard probably wouldn't want to come up again,
and the same with anybody else in radio and TV.
It's got to be some level of statue of limitations.
And also did people mean this? Like if somebody really
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apologizes and you believe it, you'll find out very quickly
by their actions. If this since here anyway for sure? Yeah, anyway,
appreciate the call down. Thank you. Eight hundred nine one,
Shauna is our number if you want to be a
part of the program. Henry in Florida, Henry, you're on
the Sean Hannity Show. What's going on? Yeah? Hi, nice
talking to you. Let's talk to you. Watch I watch
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your show every night. Thank you. I was just wondering
Joe Rodan using the N word, but nobody's ever been
saying anything about Hunt Dubiden using the N word for
all that time. Well, we brought it up on the
show at the time, and I remember saying, if it
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was a conservative, we've had a very different reaction. I
don't think I was far off, was I? No? But no,
nobody even mentions it. But as soon as it's a conservative.
By the way, I don't even think Joe Rogan is
a conservative. I don't. I don't know what his politics are.
I've never met the guy. Well, any any any conservative,
any conservative says the N word, to jump all over them.
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But as long as you're a Democrat, they don't even
bother saying it. We listen, it's if anyone in this
business wants my advice, take if you're even if you're
making a point, take that word and get rid of
it forever. That's my advice, because it's never gonna end
well for you. And we'll see, you know, whether or
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not Spotify sticks by him, I don't know. But he's
got two offers sitting on the table right now, starting
with Rumble, And if he wants to go to Rumble,
he'll get paid the same amount of money and maybe more.
Maybe if they offered a hundred, maybe they'll give him
one hundred and fifty. Who knows. And I don't think
his audience. If you watched his apology, you got to
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ask yourself did you believe it was Sincere? I thought
it was Sincere. That's my take on it, and so
do I. But you know, like they bring up everything
like with Trump, Trump when he was running for office,
they're making him take it while his business stealings dount.
Why don't they do this to Biden and his son?
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You know the answer standard you know, you know you listen,
Bill Clinton's brother used the N word, Joe Biden's son
used the N word. Um, you know, everybody needs to
just say goodbye to that word period anyway. Appreciated Henry
god Bush eight hundred and nine for one Shauna who
want to be a part of the program. Jan Is
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in Michigan. Hey, Jan, how are you glad you called? Than?
It's a real pleasure to talk to you. Thank you
the pleasure of mine. I just want to talk a
little bit about I was listening to Friday and you
talked about Pelosi making those comments about the olympiads to
say anything, well there in China and it could be
changed hers and retaliation. And I agree with everything you
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said that that's not American. Why is she saying that?
But hell must be freezing. I don't because I have
to agree with her on one thing. I don't trust
we can protect her athletes. Sean, what would make you
think when you said what nine thousand now was your
latest update on Americans left in Afghanis to him? So
you're basically saying that China would want to use the
Olympics to declare war on an American and imprisoned an
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American if they spoke out against let's say China on
human rights abuses or the weager minority Muslims in the
in the country, or COVID nineteen and what they unleashed
on the world, or their territorial ambitions with Taiwan and
the crackdown in Hong Kong. You're saying that, you know,
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like if it was let me put it this away,
if one of my kids and my kids were both athletes,
if one of my kids was going to the Olympics
and then not, and they asked my advice, I'd say,
follow your heart and I would not be fearful that
they would be taken prisoner in China. And if they were,
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trust me, I'd start my own war with China and
make sure that the world knew. You know that this
is what they are. Think it's a very They got
a lot of pressure on them for the Olympics. Now,
you know, we can call it the Biden China, you know,
genocide Olympics. Why the IOC ever gave them the Olympics
is inexplicable to me. There's no rational reason, but the
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idea that we're the land of the free and the
home of the brave, and we're going to tell our
fellow American Yeah, they you better be quiet. You don't
want to make the man or anything. I'm like, that
I can't give that advice to my son or daughter.
It's not in my DNA to give my advice to
my son and daughter. You know, if you have something
to say, say it, speak up. You know, if my
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son and daughter, you know, I don't want my kids
to be cowering in a corner because of the communist Chinese.
That's my take. I agree with you. I just don't know.
If God forbid something happened, if they would leave soldiers
in Afghanistan, what would make you think they wouldn't even
athlete in China. Let me tell you this would be
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This would be as big as Munich nineteen seventy six.
But I will tell you it is. The world is
in a very precarious position. And I'll tell you the
main reason is we don't have an American president with
even an ounce of strength. We just don't. And I'll
take it a step further. Our president is compromised by China.
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His family's compromised by China. He's compromised by Russia. His
family's compromised by Russia. He's compromised in Ukraine, and his
family's compromised in Ukraine and other countries as well. That
is a huge problem, and if his last name were Trump,
it would be a very different world reaction to this. Anyway,
appreciate the call, jan God bless you. Let's say hi
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to Julia's in Tennessee. What's up, Julia, what's going on?
Where in Tennessee? Are you Bentwood, Tennessee? Love Brentwood. Yeah,
that's close to Music City. What's going on? Yes? Yes,
last towards in the last week, you were talking COVID,
as we frequently do, and you all say, in conjunction
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with your doctor, make these decisions, get monoclones. I just
want to mention and as I heard that, I'm beginning
to believe that we no longer have a pandemic of
the vaccinated or the unvaccinated, with other pandemic of primary
care providers who can't want, or aren't allowed to be
able to give people who test positive for COVID early intervention,
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therapies and medications that would keep people out of the hospital.
And we hear when we hear of all the people
who are hopefully they seem to want it to be
unvaccinated people who die in hospitals. Nobody has ever done
any research to say how many of those people were
allowed to get early intervention therapeutics or medications because of
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the work, and we know there are plenty of them,
even though monoclonal antibodies seem to have been put in
a lockbox someplace. Julia, why do you think I am
repeat this so often? Because I know that if I
say monoclonal antibodies one time, nobody's gonna remember. But if
I say five times a day, people will begin to say,
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what was that? What did Hannity call that? Again? And
then the people will ask their doctor. The problem is
as Joe Biden failed, he failed spectacularly, and he failed
because he didn't prepare or we didn't see omicron coming,
ran out of tests, ran out of monoclonals, including the
new one that works best on omicron gsk Satrova MAB,
and he's run out of We never mass produced the
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anti virals that every doctor raps about. There's there's no
forgiving him for this anyway. God blush you in Brentwood.
We appreciate all our friends in Tennessee eight hundred nine
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I News found up information overload our eight hundred and
ninety four one Sean if you want to be a
part of the program. I mean, I can't believe what
is going on internationally in terms of foreign policy. I mean,
I look at the Israeli Prime Minister Bennett, who, by
the way, lied to the Israeli people. I have very
little respect for him. But he's in a bind right now.
(00:21):
And Biden is now talking about another Iranian deal. Remember
the first Iranian deal. You have cargo planes of cash
and of the currency. They drop it on the tarmac
for the Iranian mullahs and anyway, so the new Prime
minister invites Biden to visit Israel. In a phone call
a few hours earlier, he said the Iran nuclear deal
(00:44):
that world powers are negotiating in Vienna will make it
harder to stop Iran from getting nukes. Joe is allowing
that to happen on his watch. There was an interesting
moment late last week on Thursday where an AP reporters
grilling at eight Department spokesperson Matthew Lee on the price
of on the claim that Russia is making a propaganda
(01:07):
film about Ukraine. Now, if I had to make a
guess and educated guess. I don't think Vladimir Putin is
amassing all of this military equipment, all of these troops
along the Ukrainian border unless he has serious intentions of
pursuing geographical ambitions, just like I have no doubt President
(01:29):
she will do that with Taiwan right after the Olympics.
It's not going to be during the Olympics. And and
Biden's response has been nothing but pathetic. But just listen
to this exchange. What evidence do you have to support
the idea that there is some propaganda film in the
in the making. Now, this is derived from information known
(01:50):
to the US government, intelligence information that we have declassified.
I think you okay, well where is it? Where where
is this information? It is intelligence information that we have
declassific Well where is it? Where is the de classified information?
I just delivered it. No, you made a series of allegations.
Would you would you like us to print it out
the top R because you will see a transcript of
(02:11):
this briefing that you can print out for yourself. Not evidence, ned,
that's you saying it. That's not evidence. I'm sorry, And
what would you like, Matt? I would like to see
some proof that you that that that that that you
can show that that, Matt, you have been that that
shows that that that shows that the Russians are doing that. Ned,
I've been doing this for I know that you haven't
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you you have been doing this for quite a while.
You know that when we declassify intelligence, and we do
so in a means, we do so, we do so
to protecting sources and methods not going to fall. I
remember a lot of things. So where where is the
declassified information? Other than you coming out here and saying, Matt,
(02:53):
I'm sorry you don't like the format, but we have
declass format. It's the content. I'm sorry you don't like
the contents. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you are doubting the
information that is in the possession of the US government.
What I'm telling you is that this is information that's
available to us. We are making it available to you
in order for a couple of reasons. One is to
attempt to deter the Russians from going ahead with this activity. Two,
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in the event we're not able to do that, in
the event the Russians do go ahead, with us, to
make it clear as day, to lay bare the fact
that this has always been an attempt on the part
of the Russian Federation to fabricate a pretext. Yeah, but
you don't have any any events to back it up
other than what you're saying. It's like you're saying, we
(03:38):
think we have information that the Russians may do this,
but you won't tell us what the information. And then
when that is the idea behind the trance, then that
is the idea behind as turrance. And when it is
also that the Russians don't go forward when this is
you say, I just gave it to you. But that's
not what you seem not to understand. You seem not
(03:59):
to stand the idea we are seeing the Russians are
moving forward with this type of activity. That is why
we were making a public today. If the Russians don't
go forward with this, that is not, if so facto,
an indication that they never had plans to do so.
But then it's unprovable. Oh my god, what is the
evidence that you have that suggests that the Russians are
(04:21):
even planning this? Mat I mean, I'm not saying that
they're not. But you just come out and say this
and expect us to believe it without you showing a
shred of evidence that it's actually true. Other than when
I ask, or when anyone else asked, what's the information?
He said, well, I just gave it to you, which
was just you making a statement. All right, tell you
(04:41):
have I mean it just you can't even make this
stuff up. Why would Putin be putting all those military
equipment and all these troops on the border. And look,
is it possible that he's trying to get the world
to freak out and gain major, massive concessions. You already
got the biggest concession you could ever want from Joe Biden,
and that's the Nord Stream to pipeline that, of course
(05:04):
the waiver was granted to Putin, but Joe was simultaneously
firing workers on our own Keystone XL pipeline, high paying
career energy jobs that are not easy to find. Just
get another good union job where anyway. Rebecca Kaufler is
with US Russian born by the way, former US intelligence officer,
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author of the book Putin's Playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to
Defeat America, and by the way, she's also started her
own podcast, Censored but Not Silence. Rebecca, you were born
in the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union. Correct that, okay,
And you worked as a US intelligence officer. How many
years I watched from two thousand and eight until late
(05:53):
twenty sixteen, early twenty seventeen, pretty much during the Obama administration,
so I witness how everything was unfolding Sean, and how
the Obama administration with light President Biden, did nothing about
Russia's plans and intentions and missed every single signpost and
did zero except trying to reset, to do a reset
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with Russia. And now my favorite, my favorite is tell
Vladimir a more flexibility, Tell Vladimir more flexibility after my
election exactly, it's outrageous. And now at the eleventh hour
they're trying to come up with the magic bullet. You
heard the State Department quote unquote expert talking about deterrence. Well,
(06:40):
they had a chance. The Washington national security establishment had
about twenty years to establish a deterrance strategy, and they
didn't do anything about it. And now they have brought
us pretty much from the brank of war because Russia
Ukraine crisis goes very well escalate, you know, into something bigger,
(07:04):
and well, you know Vladimir Putin, he's a former KGB
I mean, or his intentions to extract some type of
I don't know whatever he wants from the West, concessions
from the West. Or is it his intentions to do
what they did you know previously, which is you know,
take over Crimea. Yeah, maybe maybe Kiev this time. What
(07:25):
is the more likely scenario? So the interesting thing is
that about Putin is that his fourth posture that he
assembled on the border with Ukraine. It's pretty flexible, and
it is by design he wants to achieve a tactical
surprise by keeping us guessing. The fourth posture is really
(07:46):
sufficient to do anything from the full mechani to you know,
attack an invasion to actually take over the entire Ukraine
if he needs to. She can also do a limited
incursion just like President Biden green light and a couple
of weeks ago. Or he can launch an air missal
(08:10):
strike campaign from stand up distances without even ever you know,
setting food Militarily, Ukraine can't compete, it's over. If he
wants to marginal at Ukraine killed fifty thousand people, he
could do it within seconds. And you're right, the minor
incursion comment by Biden certainly seemed like a green light
to me, The question is what are Putin's motives here?
(08:34):
Is are these territorial ambitions or is it more likely
is looking for more concessions from the West. It's both
shod So Putin has declared and his government in multiple
strategic planning documents that he wants to reintegrate the format
(08:55):
Union right or some semblance of it, not exactly the same,
but they call it the Union. She doesn't want to
take Ukraine fully because DNS would have to deal with
owning it right in Ukraine is a basket case by
very multiple criteria. But what he can do is deployed
(09:16):
peacekeepers right the quote unquote peacekeepers, And she tested out
that playbook a couple of weeks ago in Kazakhstan. So
control over the political economic control sumter to uncontrol possibly
overas in Ukraine. And what you just said a minute ago,
extort further concessions from what would the concessions be because
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their economy fifty percent of at least fifty percent of
it is based on energy and exports. And why Joe
Biden from a geopolitical strategic vantage point, why he would
ever allow Putin to be the main supplier of energy
to our Western European allies, which only pushes them into
the arms of Putin and defeats, you know, even the
(10:00):
purpose of NATO on many levels. Then then I'm trying
to understand why that Joe would allow this to happen,
and how does he Well, we nobody really knows, John, right,
what isn't Joe Biden had? But the concessions that I'm
talking about the person that knows least of what is
(10:22):
in his head as him. But go ahead, that's that's true.
So remember what President Trump did during his administration. He
basically pulled out of a lot of treaties, right, you
know with the Russians, the Open Sky Treaty that Russians
were using or misusing rather to spy on American military installation. Uh.
(10:47):
President Trump pulled out of the Intermediate Arrange Nuclear Weapons
UM treaty. But Biden is now trying to renew all
of these negotiations. Remember it's meeting up to meeting up
the meeting in Europe, right, But the Russians figured out
that they can simply, you know, uh, leave Biden by
(11:09):
his nose and export concessions within various treatish That's what
I'm most concerned about because Joe Biden is just selling
out the store, you know, um with the with the Russians.
I quick break Moore with Rebecca Koffler, Russian born former
US intelligence officer on the threat that is Russia. Man frankly,
(11:31):
China and Iran. Always honoring our servicemen and servicewomen and
standing up liberty every day. Sean Hannity, Rebecca Conflidence with Us,
(12:01):
Russian born former US intelligence officer. We're talking about Putin
and Russia. You played this role as a strategic intelligence analyst.
You're a US intelligence officer. And I look at the
money that the Bidens got from the Russian oligarch, former
first Lady of Moscow three and a half million. The
(12:22):
money is that that hunter received from Ukraine, you know,
with no experience in oil, energy, gas or Ukraine, but
he's getting millions of dollars, the one point five billion
dollars Bank of China deal, the thirty one million from
China that the Biden's got, as revealed in Peter Schweitzer's book.
And my question is this, you understand their intelligence apparatus
(12:44):
better than anybody. To what extent do you believe that
the Bidens and Joe Biden in particular, is and the
Biden family in particular are compromised by Russia, Ukraine and
China and probably other countries as well. How to what
stent I believe. Definitely he is compromised, but most importantly
(13:06):
the Russians beliefs that is compromised. Okay, to find what
compromise means in your world, that means you know that somebody, somebody,
and that somebody would be Russian intelligence services, would blackmail
Biden into you know, doing things, or that would mean
(13:26):
that they would let the Bidens know, yeah, you guys
don't really want to mess with us, because we've got
all this information on you, and let them know that
they have it. Correct. That is exactly right. That's what
companiment means. And this is why we see a very
soft posture, not only right now during the Biden administration,
but the same you know, back during their Obama administration.
(13:50):
They had the opportunity to develop a very viable counter
strategy and they did not. And the reason is very
possibly there is compromisa right there. And the Russians acknowledge themselves,
you know, they're following they hadn't a Biden leaptop story
and everything all the year. They probably any anytime any
(14:13):
Biden was in Russia, they were spied on the entire time.
True or false. Well, of course you know, just right, Sean,
I mean you you try, Yes, yes I was. I
was warned when I was in Helsinki that I better
not turn on my phone and that I was likely
being monitored the whole time. Absolutely not just Helsinkid really
anywhere you know, you go to China, you go to Russia, Um,
(14:38):
you better not even bring your own phone, Sean, just
get a get a burnout or something. Because there are
close proximity operations. It's not just like you know, hacking
your phone somebody even without physically owning your phone or
obtaining your phone, without even deploying malwa, with close proximity
(14:59):
adds can um get and shoot your data. And that's
just the best. Right. We know the technology exists because
we see the scandal in Israel with the NSO group
on this new spyware technology. They could be outside your
house and download every single piece of equipment you've got.
So I'm sure the Russians have it too, and the
(15:21):
Chinese exactly what closepportunity operations mean, by the way our
own FBI has it. That scares me too. Anyway, Rebecca,
thank you appreciate it. Uh. Eight hundred nine is our number.
You want to be a part of the program. We
didn't even get to the Biden China. Um. I don't
(15:41):
know genocide Olympics. Thank god, nobody's watching it. We'll continue
(16:12):
get your dose of independence and liberty every weekday right
here on the John Hannity Show. All right, twenty five
down to the top of the hour, eight hundred and nine,
four one, Sean, if you want to be a part
of the program, all right, so many people want to
get to these phones. We'll do that now. Dan is
in Connecticut. Dan, how are you glad you called? Hey? Sean?
(16:35):
It is an honor and a pleasure to finally speak
with you. The pleasure, sir, is all mine. What's going on?
I just wanted to call about the incident with Joe
Rogan and how Cancel culture is literally trying everything in
the book to take this man down, and how chaotic
it's become. It just it needs to stop. I mean,
(16:57):
it's like it's like they're sitting at a drawing board.
All right, Well, Spotify is not gonna remove them, So
let's dig up something else. Oh, he said the N
word in an episode once, but let's not bother to
actually read into the episode. Let's just totally take what
he said out of context and throw that to the
wall and hope it sticks. It's just getting ridiculous. It's
(17:18):
like the interesting thing that has evolved out of this
is I've never heard of Odyssey, Linda, did you ever
hear of Odyssey? I'd never heard of them. I am
very familiar with Rumble. Rumble is an alternative to YouTube,
and actually we have a pretty big following on Rumble.
And although I have no access to any of my
(17:38):
social media anyway, so I wouldn't be able to tell
you myself. And both companies have offered Rogan a four year,
hundred million dollar deal if Spotify doesn't work out. Now,
I hate that word. Nobody should ever use it, and
I don't think they should use Nazi analogies either. Now,
how many artists I don't know the answer to this.
(17:59):
It would be we're looking into how many artists use
that word in music on Spotify. I would imagine I
don't like that music that uses that word either. I
don't like it used in any context. Um. Now in
terms of is Joe Rogan racist? Um? Okay, you listen
(18:20):
to the context. I'll let you decide. But the idea
that we have a mayor in New York City talking
about cracker cops and let me let me remind people
what the new mayor of New York set every day
in the police department. I checked those crackers eyes man,
I was unbelievable. And the police department. I mean, the
(18:42):
only point is I don't like any of this language.
I don't like bees and hose and and the N
word is off limits. People should stop if they don't know,
if they can't make a proper Nazi analogy, don't talk
about it or the Holocaust. It would be wise not to.
But it's it's we're at a point here where from
(19:07):
my perspective is I don't like some of the music
that uses that language? Right? What is my answer? What
is the antidote is? What is how does Sean Hannity
handle music that I don't like or or music with
language I don't like, misogynistic, racist, Whatever it happens to
me is I won't listen to it. Now. The beauty
(19:30):
is you don't have to listen to anything, watch anything,
and that's where where if we're going to really celebrate freedom,
then take the freedom you have and use it and
use it wisely. Does that make sense to you? It
makes perfect sense. I mean it's a saying as old
as time. My grandfather used to say. It you don't
(19:51):
like it, change the channel. No one's forcing you to
listen to Rogan. He's allowed to have a platform, he's
got a great following, and we all may mistakes, you know.
I think back to last year when Chris Rock was
on The Breakfast Club and he was like, it's it's
like we've forgotten to allow people to fail. Failure is
what helps us learn and grow. I mean it's the
(20:12):
same with Whoopee. I think Whoope's gone off the rails
in these past years, but I don't want Whippee to
be canceled. Let her learn from her mistakes and move on.
And that's what we need to do with Joe Rogan.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty
sure Joe Rogan has a biracial daughter, so I don't
see how Joe Rogan is racist. I mean, the guy's
been in the MMA scene for years. I mean, think
(20:33):
of all the fighters from all different backgrounds that have
gotten a chance to get out there because of him.
I mean, the guy's got a great following. And you know,
I'm so glad you brought up how Rumble made an
offer to him, because I saw that that they emailed him,
and it's like, you know, Spotify, look, Rogan seems to
be very patient with all of this, but I mean,
(20:55):
you can only push somebody so far. So if you know,
I can't speak for Rogan. Spotify CEO says he's found
the defensive or help him out to Spotify CEO this
weekend when this came out. Now, I didn't listen to
all the times he said it, so I don't have
that context, but I listened very closely, and I watched
his I don't know, whatever apology, whatever medium it was
(21:18):
put on Instagram or some one of those social things,
and I watched it, and you know, he couldn't have
fallen on the sword any harder in terms of owning it,
apologizing for it, admitting it. He's embarrassed by it. I mean,
how far back do we want to go? I mean,
obviously people don't want to go back and talk about
Joe Biden actually partnering with a clansman to stop integration
(21:40):
of schools and buzzing because he didn't want public schools
to be racial jungles, or he can't work at a
seven eleven, or my state's a slave state, or for
the first time ever he got an African American that
is clean and articulate and bright. I'm like, the first
time ever, really, Joe talking about Barack Obama. You know,
(22:03):
Kamala Harris had called them out on all this. A
lot of this is selective, so but at the end
of the day, it's going to be everyone else that decides.
Remember this, it's gonna be something far less severe that
is going to take out conservatives because it's used all
the time. I've experienced this now for thirty three years.
(22:25):
I mean, are we gonna go back now and go
over every Howard Stern show because I'm sure there's stuff
on there that Howard probably wouldn't want to come up again,
and the same with anybody else in radio and TV.
It's got to be some level of statue of limitations.
And also did people mean this? Like if somebody really
(22:45):
apologizes and you believe it, you'll find out very quickly
by their actions. If this since here anyway for sure? Yeah, anyway,
appreciate the call down. Thank you. Eight hundred nine one,
Shauna is our number if you want to be a
part of the program. Henry in Florida, Henry, you're on
the Sean Hannity Show. What's going on? Yeah? Hi, nice
talking to you. Let's talk to you. Watch I watch
(23:08):
your show every night. Thank you. I was just wondering
Joe Rodan using the N word, but nobody's ever been
saying anything about Hunt Dubiden using the N word for
all that time. Well, we brought it up on the
show at the time, and I remember saying, if it
(23:28):
was a conservative, we've had a very different reaction. I
don't think I was far off, was I? No? But no,
nobody even mentions it. But as soon as it's a conservative.
By the way, I don't even think Joe Rogan is
a conservative. I don't. I don't know what his politics are.
I've never met the guy. Well, any any any conservative,
any conservative says the N word, to jump all over them.
(23:51):
But as long as you're a Democrat, they don't even
bother saying it. We listen, it's if anyone in this
business wants my advice, take if you're even if you're
making a point, take that word and get rid of
it forever. That's my advice, because it's never gonna end
well for you. And we'll see, you know, whether or
(24:12):
not Spotify sticks by him, I don't know. But he's
got two offers sitting on the table right now, starting
with Rumble, And if he wants to go to Rumble,
he'll get paid the same amount of money and maybe more.
Maybe if they offered a hundred, maybe they'll give him
one hundred and fifty. Who knows. And I don't think
his audience. If you watched his apology, you got to
(24:34):
ask yourself did you believe it was Sincere? I thought
it was Sincere. That's my take on it, and so
do I. But you know, like they bring up everything
like with Trump, Trump when he was running for office,
they're making him take it while his business stealings dount.
Why don't they do this to Biden and his son?
(24:58):
You know the answer standard you know, you know you listen,
Bill Clinton's brother used the N word, Joe Biden's son
used the N word. Um, you know, everybody needs to
just say goodbye to that word period anyway. Appreciated Henry
god Bush eight hundred and nine for one Shauna who
want to be a part of the program. Jan Is
(25:19):
in Michigan. Hey, Jan, how are you glad you called? Than?
It's a real pleasure to talk to you. Thank you
the pleasure of mine. I just want to talk a
little bit about I was listening to Friday and you
talked about Pelosi making those comments about the olympiads to
say anything, well there in China and it could be
changed hers and retaliation. And I agree with everything you
(25:39):
said that that's not American. Why is she saying that?
But hell must be freezing. I don't because I have
to agree with her on one thing. I don't trust
we can protect her athletes. Sean, what would make you
think when you said what nine thousand now was your
latest update on Americans left in Afghanis to him? So
you're basically saying that China would want to use the
Olympics to declare war on an American and imprisoned an
(26:03):
American if they spoke out against let's say China on
human rights abuses or the weager minority Muslims in the
in the country, or COVID nineteen and what they unleashed
on the world, or their territorial ambitions with Taiwan and
the crackdown in Hong Kong. You're saying that, you know,
(26:26):
like if it was let me put it this away,
if one of my kids and my kids were both athletes,
if one of my kids was going to the Olympics
and then not, and they asked my advice, I'd say,
follow your heart and I would not be fearful that
they would be taken prisoner in China. And if they were,
(26:47):
trust me, I'd start my own war with China and
make sure that the world knew. You know that this
is what they are. Think it's a very They got
a lot of pressure on them for the Olympics. Now,
you know, we can call it the Biden China, you know,
genocide Olympics. Why the IOC ever gave them the Olympics
is inexplicable to me. There's no rational reason, but the
(27:10):
idea that we're the land of the free and the
home of the brave, and we're going to tell our
fellow American Yeah, they you better be quiet. You don't
want to make the man or anything. I'm like, that
I can't give that advice to my son or daughter.
It's not in my DNA to give my advice to
my son and daughter. You know, if you have something
to say, say it, speak up. You know, if my
(27:33):
son and daughter, you know, I don't want my kids
to be cowering in a corner because of the communist Chinese.
That's my take. I agree with you. I just don't know.
If God forbid something happened, if they would leave soldiers
in Afghanistan, what would make you think they wouldn't even
athlete in China. Let me tell you this would be
(27:56):
This would be as big as Munich nineteen seventy six.
But I will tell you it is. The world is
in a very precarious position. And I'll tell you the
main reason is we don't have an American president with
even an ounce of strength. We just don't. And I'll
take it a step further. Our president is compromised by China.
(28:18):
His family's compromised by China. He's compromised by Russia. His
family's compromised by Russia. He's compromised in Ukraine, and his
family's compromised in Ukraine and other countries as well. That
is a huge problem, and if his last name were Trump,
it would be a very different world reaction to this. Anyway,
appreciate the call, jan God bless you. Let's say hi
(28:41):
to Julia's in Tennessee. What's up, Julia, what's going on?
Where in Tennessee? Are you Bentwood, Tennessee? Love Brentwood. Yeah,
that's close to Music City. What's going on? Yes? Yes,
last towards in the last week, you were talking COVID,
as we frequently do, and you all say, in conjunction
(29:02):
with your doctor, make these decisions, get monoclones. I just
want to mention and as I heard that, I'm beginning
to believe that we no longer have a pandemic of
the vaccinated or the unvaccinated, with other pandemic of primary
care providers who can't want, or aren't allowed to be
able to give people who test positive for COVID early intervention,
(29:26):
therapies and medications that would keep people out of the hospital.
And we hear when we hear of all the people
who are hopefully they seem to want it to be
unvaccinated people who die in hospitals. Nobody has ever done
any research to say how many of those people were
allowed to get early intervention therapeutics or medications because of
(29:49):
the work, and we know there are plenty of them,
even though monoclonal antibodies seem to have been put in
a lockbox someplace. Julia, why do you think I am
repeat this so often? Because I know that if I
say monoclonal antibodies one time, nobody's gonna remember. But if
I say five times a day, people will begin to say,
(30:09):
what was that? What did Hannity call that? Again? And
then the people will ask their doctor. The problem is
as Joe Biden failed, he failed spectacularly, and he failed
because he didn't prepare or we didn't see omicron coming,
ran out of tests, ran out of monoclonals, including the
new one that works best on omicron gsk Satrova MAB,
and he's run out of We never mass produced the
(30:33):
anti virals that every doctor raps about. There's there's no
forgiving him for this anyway. God blush you in Brentwood.
We appreciate all our friends in Tennessee eight hundred nine
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