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Sean Hannity. I have

0:16

If I was Rush Limb, i'd say my formerly

0:19

I now have in my formerly

0:22

nicotine stained fingers. Boy,

0:24

we miss Rush. You know, his

0:26

his entire team still

0:28

works next to us in our office. And

0:31

then I see Mike Mamone every day and

0:33

and the rest of his staff. Stay in

0:35

touch with James Golden. Not enough, but I love him

0:37

to death. He's like a brother. He's

0:40

just a phenomenal human being. But

0:42

anyway, um, so I have it this

0:45

letter in my hand, and

0:47

it's from McDermott, will and Emery,

0:50

and it is on behalf of Michael

0:52

Kohn, and it is sent to the Federal

0:54

Elections Commission and a gentleman named

0:56

mister Jordan, not Jim Jordan, and

0:59

that's the I believe it's Jeff Jordan, who was there

1:01

at the time. This is dated

1:03

February eighth, twenty eighteen,

1:06

again to the Federal Elections Commission Office

1:09

of Complaint Examination. And legal administration,

1:12

and they give it to the attention of

1:14

christ Dennis, a paralegal,

1:17

and this is what it says. I want to pay very close

1:19

attention to what I'm reading here. This

1:21

is from February eighth, twenty

1:24

eighteen. Dear mister Jordan,

1:26

I am writing on behalf of my client, Michael

1:28

D. Cone, in response to your

1:31

letter dated January thirtieth, twenty

1:33

eighteen. Now, specifically, this

1:35

letter responds to the complaint

1:37

numbered m U R seventy three one

1:40

three, which was filed with the FEC

1:42

the Federal Election Commission by Common

1:45

Cause and Paul S. Ryan Now

1:47

in a private transaction in twenty sixteen,

1:50

before the US presidential election, mister

1:53

Kohne used his own personal funds

1:55

to facilitate a payment

1:57

of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars

2:00

to Miss Stephanie Clifford. Neither

2:02

the Trump Organization nor the Trump

2:05

campaign was a party to

2:07

the transaction with Miss Clifford, and

2:09

neither reimbursed mister Kohane

2:12

for the payment directly or indirectly.

2:14

And contrary to the allegations in

2:17

the complaint, which are entirely which

2:19

are entirely speculative, neither

2:21

mister Kohane nor Essential Consultants

2:24

LLC made any in

2:27

kind contributions to Donald J. Trump

2:29

for President, Inc. Or any other

2:31

presidential campaign committee. Mister

2:34

Kohane has not been a government employee

2:37

during any of the relevant time period.

2:39

The payment in question does not constitute

2:42

a campaign contribution or expenditure,

2:45

and therefore the FEC lacks

2:48

jurisdiction over this matter. The

2:50

complainants have not and

2:53

cannot present any evidence to the contrary.

2:56

Accordingly, the complaint should

2:58

be dismissed. Please contact me

3:00

at your earliest convenience. Stephen M.

3:02

Ryan, counsel for Michael Cone.

3:05

It's pretty exculpatory now.

3:07

That's by tonight. This is all going

3:09

to be out there. Some fascinating developments

3:12

today and I can't give you

3:14

the reason why. I don't know

3:16

the full reason why, but it

3:18

certainly is very very strange

3:21

and very odd on a lot of different

3:23

levels. And for

3:25

some reason, the grand

3:29

jury was supposed to hear from

3:31

their final witness today at two pm.

3:33

Only a short time ago a couple hours ago that

3:36

they canceled the grand

3:38

jury hearing today. Those proceedings

3:41

were canceled amid quote major

3:43

dissension in the DA's

3:46

office, sources now telling

3:48

Fox News I'm reading from Foxnews dot com

3:50

anyway, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's

3:53

office has canceled the grand jury meeting

3:55

that was scheduled to take place Wednesday as

3:57

part of the investigation into former

3:59

president and Trump, amid speculation

4:01

of a possible indictment. Two sources

4:04

familiar telling Fox News the grand jury

4:06

was slated to meet Wednesday and was expected

4:09

to hear from at least one additional witness,

4:11

but Fox News has learned that Bragg's

4:14

office canceled the proceedings.

4:17

The grand jury was notified Wednesday morning

4:19

and was placed on standby for Thursday.

4:22

According to again the report

4:24

and a source to Fox News, we can't confirm

4:27

or comment on grand jury matters.

4:29

According to Bragg's office, two sources

4:32

familiar told Fox News Digital

4:34

Foxnews dot Com that means on

4:36

Wednesday that the grand jury was canceled.

4:39

The mid major dissension within

4:41

the DA's office, one source

4:43

claiming that the DA is having trouble

4:45

convincing the grand jury on

4:48

potential charges due to the weakness

4:50

of this case. Now, remember

4:53

put aside the statute of limitations

4:55

that was articulated in a

4:57

column by Jonathan Turley. Put all

4:59

of that aside, you know, put aside,

5:02

and by the way, statutical limitations actually

5:05

matter, or the idea that they're taking

5:07

what is a misdemeanor. Now, remember

5:09

there's an office that takes fifty

5:12

two percent of felony charges and

5:14

reduces them to misdemeanors.

5:17

Put aside the fact that Bragg loses

5:20

when he when he does have a trial on

5:22

felony charges, he's lost forty

5:25

nine percent of the time. I

5:27

mean, that is a spectacular feel

5:30

for any grand jury, you know, never

5:32

mind all the cases I went through yesterday.

5:35

You know, where he's reducing sentences to

5:37

next to nothing for murderers, he's

5:39

letting out people that you know, have forty

5:41

past arrest, but for you

5:44

know, major violent incidences.

5:47

You know, put aside the fact that he ran on

5:49

a platform to go after one man, one

5:51

family, one company, and that

5:54

was Donald J. Trump. Put

5:56

aside all of that. Who

5:59

could be surprised? Year Now,

6:01

I'm gonna play in a second. Bob

6:03

Costello, who was on our show last night,

6:07

what and Alan Dershowitz

6:09

was on later. Alan Dershowitz

6:11

says, that's it. This is game over, because

6:14

you have in the case of Michael Kohne. We

6:16

went over this yesterday. Michael Khone does not

6:19

particularly have the best

6:21

track record in life at all, in any

6:23

way, any shape, any manner, any form.

6:25

And Michael Khone, we now know is convicted.

6:28

I'll even use the Southern District of

6:30

New York when they announced he made a plea

6:32

deal, but he pled guilty

6:34

to charges of tax evasion, making

6:37

false statements. Okay,

6:40

that is supposed to be their star witness.

6:43

He as an admitted convicted

6:46

liar. That's all there is to it. How

6:50

is his credibility gonna transcend

6:52

that of Bob Costello, who happens

6:54

to have an incredible um

6:57

track record. Where now

6:59

finding out that other people, I

7:01

don't want to disclose sources of mine, but I

7:04

do know the names of

7:06

people that have gone in, and

7:08

I just think I should respect their privacy. According

7:11

to sources that I have. Kelly

7:13

Anne, I did not know Kelly Anne went

7:15

on in until what yesterday,

7:17

No, the day before yesterday. I found

7:20

out and she told her story. Her story

7:22

was very compelling last night. I'm

7:25

gonna get to all that in a second. But now think

7:27

about this. If you believe in

7:29

law and if you believe in equal

7:31

justice under the law, and you believe

7:34

in equal application of our laws,

7:36

in other words, all laws fundamentally,

7:39

their foundational is the US

7:41

Constitution. If you believe in equal

7:43

justice, you don't run

7:46

like the ag in New York has run ran

7:48

out a campaign to get Donald Trump,

7:51

and she has pursued and fulfilled

7:53

her promise. And the same

7:55

thing. We found a cut of Alvin Bragg

7:57

promising to investigate Donald

8:00

Trump when he was running for Manhattan DA.

8:02

Now again, according to all these sources, Soros

8:05

funded candidate. And you

8:08

know, this is a lot of money that is

8:10

being thrown around by hardcore

8:12

leftists that want nothing but chaos

8:15

in society. They're the ones that support

8:17

no bail laws. They're the ones that support

8:19

defund, dismantle insanity. Anyway,

8:22

this is Alvin Bragg, the candidate. This

8:25

is before the election. This is what he

8:27

said in a radio interview on

8:29

a New York radio station called Hot ninety

8:31

seven. Listen, are wondering,

8:35

whoever has this job? Are

8:37

they going to convict Donald Trump? Look,

8:39

that is the number

8:42

one issue. I'm

8:44

the candidate in the race who has the experience

8:46

with Donald Trump. I was the chief

8:48

deputy in the Attorney General's office. We

8:51

sue the Trump administration over a hundred

8:53

times. I'd be hard to argue the fact that

8:55

that's that'd be the most important, most high

8:57

profile case. And I've seen him up

8:59

front and seeing the lawlessness that he can do, and

9:02

you believe it should happen. I believe

9:04

we have to hold him accountable. I

9:07

believe that. Yes, So he's running

9:09

a lot, like the Attorney general to

9:12

get one man, one family,

9:14

one company, one corporation.

9:17

I mean, it's unreal. Now here's

9:19

where Remember Michael Cohen

9:22

is their star witness. So

9:24

last night on Hannity Bob Costello,

9:26

Now he was in the grand jury room on

9:29

Monday, and he

9:31

was very clear, like Kelly Amn was clear that

9:34

Bragg obviously did not want

9:36

them talking about certain topics. But

9:39

they felt compelled

9:42

to tell that the whole truth and not

9:44

just answer give short answers.

9:46

And they looked at the jury and told the jury the

9:48

truth. When you go under oath

9:51

somebody's yes or no question, I'm like, did

9:53

you kill that person? Did you

9:55

pull the trigger? Yes, that's

9:58

it, case closed. Yes, But

10:01

he was about to shoot me

10:03

first, and he had a gun pointed at my

10:05

head and I had to defend myself.

10:07

In other words, you got to give context

10:09

and texture to answers, and a lot

10:11

of times it's way more nuanced than did

10:14

you fire that weapon and shoot that

10:16

person? Yes, okay, guilty,

10:18

your honor CA's clothes. That's not

10:20

how it works. Now in a grand jury, you can indict

10:22

a ham sandwich as

10:25

they say, you know, show me the man, I'll

10:27

show you the crime. And the reason is

10:29

the defense gets no say in a grand

10:31

jury room. So the idea that

10:34

Bob Costello he reached

10:36

out to based on Michael

10:38

kohne appearances on television and what

10:40

Michael kohn was saying, because his conscience

10:44

was like, that's not the tru He

10:46

said he did not believe that Michael Kohane

10:49

was telling the truth and he wanted the

10:51

grand jury to hear the whole truth. Here's

10:54

part of what he said, Bob, did he tell

10:56

you specifically he did

10:58

this on his own without Donald

11:00

Trump's knowledge. Well, here's

11:02

what he did. He said he did this on his own.

11:05

He didn't mention Donald Trump's name.

11:07

He said there was a problem. Stormy

11:10

Daniel's lawyer or representative

11:12

got in touch with him. He worked out

11:14

a negotiated deal, got an NDA,

11:16

a non disclosure agreement one hundred

11:19

and thirty thousand. I asked him, I said,

11:21

is that Donald Trump's money? No? Did

11:24

you get that from any Trump organization? No?

11:27

Is that your money? Did you take it out of one of your accounts?

11:30

No? I said, where did you get the money from?

11:32

He said, I took out a heelock loan.

11:34

I said, why would you do that? He said,

11:37

because I wanted everything to be secret.

11:39

I didn't want my own wife to

11:41

know about this. I didn't want Melania

11:44

to know about this. That's what he

11:46

said. He said, if he had taken one hundred and thirty

11:48

thousand dollars out of one of his accounts,

11:50

his wife would have been pumping him for information

11:53

that he didn't want to give to anybody. And I said,

11:55

Michael, think about this. Don't answer it quickly.

11:58

You said that you or We're

12:00

up on the roof ready to jump, And I'm

12:02

telling you that there is a way out of this. If

12:05

you have information, it has to be true. What

12:07

do you have on Donald Trump? And that's

12:09

when he started with the same litany that

12:11

he wrote used for the rest of the two hours. I

12:14

swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything

12:16

on Donald Trump. I said, do you

12:18

have, I said, any information on the Trump

12:20

organization? The only thing I

12:22

know, said he is that some

12:25

money was missing from the Trump

12:27

Inaugural ball

12:29

or something like that. And I said, is

12:32

Donald Trump involved in that? No? Does

12:34

Donald Trump know about that? He said

12:36

no, he didn't know about it. Then I don't even think he knows

12:38

about it now. But the point is, when somebody

12:41

is really thinking of committing suicide

12:43

and you're offering them a legal way

12:45

out of this. If he had any information

12:48

about Donald Trump, that would have been

12:50

the one time, even for a serial liar

12:52

like Michael Khane to fess

12:54

up and say, well I know this or that

12:57

because I want to save my own hide.

12:59

But he didn't do that. And the statement

13:01

he gave us was very similar to that statement

13:04

that you just read. That

13:07

is exculpatory that now you

13:09

have his testimony directly

13:12

contradicting Michael Khon's testimony,

13:14

and the grand jury got to hear both.

13:17

Now, if if you're fair minded in

13:19

any way, and then when you if you bring

13:21

this into a real courtroom

13:24

where where you have rules

13:26

of evidence, and you

13:28

can't have hearsay, and every

13:31

detail is told, and the defense

13:34

gets to put up a defense something they don't get

13:36

to do in a grand jury. It becomes

13:38

a whole different ball game. This

13:41

this is not a good day for the DA

13:44

in New York. I would I would advise

13:46

you. I was at one point this is definitely

13:49

gonna happen after the weekend.

13:51

I was asked, I'm down to seventy and

13:54

going down fast. I

13:56

would say the odds are sinking

13:58

by the minute. I

14:00

mean, this is devastating. I'm gonna wait

14:03

to after the news at the bottom of the hour because I don't want

14:05

to interrupt this. But you got Michael Khon's

14:07

former legal advisor saying kone

14:09

has zero solid evidence. You

14:12

got this letter from the to

14:14

the FEC from Michael Khon's

14:16

attorney. That is about as exculpatory

14:19

as I think you can ever have my You

14:21

know, I'm not a professional lawyer, but I

14:23

read it. I'm like Wow. Contrary

14:26

to allegations in this complaint, which are

14:28

entirely speculative, meant

14:30

neither mister Kohane nor Essential Consultants

14:33

LLC made any in kind contributions

14:36

to Donald J. Trump for president

14:38

or any presidential campaign committee. Mister

14:40

Kohn has not been a government employee

14:43

during any of the relevant time period. The

14:45

payment in question does not constitute

14:47

a campaign contribution or expenditure. Therefore,

14:50

the FEC lacks jurisdiction and

14:53

that in fact it was Michael Khon and on

14:56

a private transaction he made, and

14:59

Michael Khone used his own personal funds

15:01

to facilitate a payment of one

15:03

hundred and thirty thousand dollars to Miss Stephanie

15:05

Clifford. Neither the Trump Organization

15:07

nor the Trump campaign was a part of the transaction

15:10

with Miss Clifford, and neither reimbursed

15:13

mister Cohene for the payment directly or indirectly.

15:16

Okay, tell me, tell me what the case is

15:18

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15:20

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15:22

this man, is that they're

15:25

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15:27

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15:30

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15:32

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15:35

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15:37

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15:39

my opinion, very pro Democrat jobs.

15:52

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15:54

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I want to go over this. Bob Costello

18:46

went before the Grand jury. Now, if you're just joining

18:48

us, the grand jury was scheduled to convene

18:51

in New York today at two pm.

18:54

They canceled it. No reason

18:56

given. Very odd, very

18:59

strange. Now I'm not conspiratorial.

19:02

Maybe they had a witness that got sick,

19:04

or maybe a witness that

19:07

got cold feet. I don't know, but

19:09

they're scheduled I think to reconvene.

19:11

What I read is tomorrow the reports

19:14

are Foxnews dot Com, Fox Fox

19:16

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19:18

that this chaos in Alvin Bragg's

19:21

office, there's gotta be some

19:23

people in there that realize

19:25

that this is going to be a

19:27

fiasco for them, especially

19:30

in light of Bob Costello

19:32

last night and now this exculpatory

19:35

letter from the from

19:38

the FEC that

19:40

was sent by Michael Cohen's attorney.

19:43

This is not gonna bode well. Now I

19:45

want you will go over Bob Costello, he

19:48

was called in on Monday,

19:50

what he said, and what Kelly Ann Conway

19:52

said last night she was called into the grand

19:54

jury. I had no idea and

19:57

anyway, for the first time she spoke out.

20:00

And Bob Costello, now I

20:02

am told, has somehow

20:05

been worn by somebody someplace

20:08

not to talk anymore. So thank god we

20:10

got this interview when we did, because

20:12

as Alan Dershowitz suggested, and I agree

20:14

with Professor Dershowitz. By the way,

20:16

find out the name of his new book. This new book I want

20:18

to read because he talks about all four

20:22

issues that they're going after Trump onm

20:24

One is the New York Case, the Stormy Case,

20:26

the other is, you know, the phone call

20:28

in Atlanta. Then

20:30

you got the special counsel. I guess investigating

20:32

a number of things, not the least of which is

20:34

the classified documents issue and the

20:37

January sixth issue. I mean,

20:39

it's clear that our

20:42

justice system has been weaponized.

20:45

This is a scary time for

20:47

this country. I don't

20:49

want any Republican, any

20:52

Republican district attorney, any

20:54

Republican DA going after

20:56

somebody just because of

20:59

what they're po It takes happen to be if

21:01

they broke the law, that's one thing, But

21:04

this is so personal. I

21:06

mean, you know, look at mullered by the

21:08

numbers, twenty two months, six hundred

21:10

and seventy four days, twenty

21:13

five plus million dollars to

21:15

costing you the American taxpayer. Forty

21:18

FBI agents, intelligence analysts,

21:20

forensic account accountants,

21:23

other professional staff, nineteen

21:26

attorneys, twenty eight hundred subpoenas,

21:29

five hundred search warrants, two hundred

21:31

and thirty orders of communication records,

21:33

five hundred witnesses, thirteen

21:36

request to foreign governments

21:38

for evidence. And meanwhile, we

21:40

now know that the FBI in

21:43

early October and twenty

21:45

sixteen went to meet Christopher

21:47

Steele. Not only did they go to meet

21:50

him, they offered him a million dollars

21:52

if he could corroborate the dossier. He

21:55

never collected his million because

21:57

he couldn't corroborate it. In January

22:00

twenty seventeen, they still had

22:02

two more FISA applications. The bulk of

22:04

information was that dirty Boughton

22:06

paid for Hillary Clinton dossier,

22:10

which even Bruce Or warned them that it

22:12

was a political document. And you

22:14

know, but no prosecutor would

22:16

prosecute. I mean, it's amazing

22:19

the FB they used unverifiable

22:21

information at the top of a FISA warrant

22:23

says verified. You know, no

22:26

prosecutor would prosecute. Let me

22:28

see, deleting thirty three thousand emails

22:30

with something nobody had ever heard of called bleach

22:32

pit and beating

22:35

up blackberries and iPhones with hammers

22:37

and removing simcarns. You've

22:39

got to be kidding me? Is

22:42

that not a classic case of obstruction top

22:45

secret classified information? By the way,

22:47

have we heard a peep out

22:49

of the Special Council investigating

22:53

Joe Biden on classified

22:55

documents? You know, where are

22:57

we? Where are the Democrats? How much

22:59

money he did the Biden family do in

23:01

business with China? You

23:04

know how much money did they do in business

23:06

with Russia? How you know

23:08

Joe Biden is bragging on tape

23:11

that he was going to withhold a billion taxpayer

23:14

dollars unless they fire a Ukrainian

23:16

prosecutor who we now know

23:18

was investigating his son. Zero

23:21

experience Hunter? How do we know he has zero experience

23:23

because he went on Good Morning America

23:26

and he said he had no experience in Ukraine

23:28

oil, gas, coal energy,

23:31

But yet they're paying him a fortune. You

23:34

know, why are Russian oligarchs investing

23:37

You know, Hunter Biden? Everybody knew that he

23:39

was a crack addict at that point in his life.

23:42

Everybody knew his propensity for hookers at

23:44

that point in his life. I was a total complete

23:46

mess. Why would China be doing a

23:48

billion five deal with the Bank of China? Like,

23:51

how much of that was profit? How

23:53

many deals did they do? When

23:55

are we going to get the answers to these questions?

23:57

Did they really get a five million dollar loan

24:00

from China with no interest and

24:02

forgivable? Anybody out there

24:04

listening to me, you want five million dollars, I'll give

24:06

it to you interest free, and it's forgivable.

24:09

What does forgivable mean? You don't have

24:11

to pay it back? That's what forgivable sounds

24:13

like to me. Or

24:16

you know any of the other cases, you know, sports

24:18

cars and foreign nationals spending

24:21

sprees. When are we going to get to the bottom

24:23

of all of this? No, this is

24:25

the dual system of justice. This

24:28

is a dual system of justice. Anyway,

24:30

Dershwitz's new book is out. It's called Get

24:33

Trump, and it deals with all

24:35

of these investigations he said last

24:38

night, and he debunks all of them and

24:40

says it's awful. He calls it the

24:42

subtitle is the threat to civil liberties,

24:44

due process, and our constitutional

24:47

rule of law. This is not hyperbole.

24:50

This is what a dual justice system

24:53

looks like. This is what criminalizing

24:55

political differences looks

24:57

like. This is what it means

25:00

when you have attorney general candidates

25:02

and DA candidates campaign

25:05

on getting one man, one

25:07

corporation, one family.

25:10

Because that's what's happening now. So

25:13

the star witness for

25:15

the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

25:17

is Michael Kone I went through

25:20

just moments ago, Michael Kane

25:22

pled guilty to charges

25:24

a tax evasion of evasion,

25:27

making false statements. Now,

25:29

the grand jury is not hearing about all of

25:31

this, but I will tell

25:33

you this, in a court of law, we

25:36

have rules of evidence. Oh I could

25:38

I promise you Joe Tacopine is gonna

25:40

bring it up and bring it up often anyway.

25:43

Making false statements, the

25:45

plea was entered blah blah blah. Cone

25:47

concealed more than

25:49

four million of personal income from the I R rest.

25:51

Made false statements. There's two false statements

25:54

accounts to a federally ensured

25:57

institution financial institution

26:00

in connection with a five hundred thousand dollars home

26:02

equity loan. Blah blah blah. That's from

26:04

the Southern District of New York. And

26:07

he had a lot of jail time, but they ended up

26:09

I guess because of COVID they let him out pretty early.

26:11

I guess he kind of in that sense lucked out. Now,

26:14

listen to Robert Costello and

26:16

what he says and how it contradicts everything

26:19

Michael Cohen saying. Like, listen, because

26:21

what you were telling them directly

26:24

contradicted what they had heard from Michael Cohen.

26:27

So I would imagine you caught their attention. Oh

26:29

yeah, I caught their attention. In a number

26:32

of ways. Because I

26:34

went in there to act as

26:36

basically a neutral witness telling the truth,

26:39

and the DA's office knew the exculpatory

26:42

information I was going to give, but the questions

26:44

I was being asked would not have

26:46

elicited that information. It

26:48

became clear to me that they weren't going to

26:50

cover the information that I

26:53

was there to give. So I started volunteering

26:55

in my answers well beyond the questions.

26:58

And I watched the jurors sit there, and

27:00

as you might imagine, there were twenty one

27:02

of them there that day, probably

27:04

five or six would not be nodding

27:07

their head unconsciously up

27:09

and down when I would be making the points.

27:11

Bob, did he tell you specifically

27:14

he did this on his own without

27:16

Donald Trump's knowledge. Well,

27:18

here's what he did. He said he did this on

27:20

his own. He didn't mention Donald Trump's

27:23

name. He said there was a problem.

27:26

Stormy Daniel's lawyer or representative

27:28

got in touch with him, He worked out

27:30

a negotiated deal, got an NDA,

27:33

a non disclosure agreement one hundred

27:35

and thirty thousand. I asked him, I said,

27:37

is that Donald Trump's money? No, did

27:40

you get that from any Trump organization. No,

27:43

is that your money? Did you take it out of one of your accounts?

27:46

No? I said, where did you get the money from?

27:48

He said, I took out a helock loan.

27:51

I said, why would you do that? He said,

27:53

because I wanted everything to be secret.

27:56

I didn't want my own wife to

27:58

know about this. I didn't want Malania

28:00

to know about this. That's what he

28:02

said. He said, if he had taken one hundred and thirty

28:05

thousand dollars out of one of his accounts,

28:07

his wife would have been pumping him for information

28:09

that he didn't want to give to anybody. And I said,

28:11

Michael, think about this. Don't answer it quickly.

28:14

You said that you were

28:16

up on the roof ready to jump, and I'm

28:18

telling you that there is a way out of this. If

28:21

you have information, it has to be true. What

28:24

do you have on Donald Trump? And that's

28:26

when he started with the same litany that

28:28

he wrote used for the rest of the two hours. I

28:30

swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything

28:32

on Donald Trump. I said, do you

28:34

have, I said, any information on the Trump

28:37

organization? The only thing I know,

28:39

said he is that some money

28:41

was missing from the Trump inaugural

28:45

ball or something like that, And I said,

28:48

is Donald Trump involved in that? No,

28:50

does Donald Trump know about that? He said

28:52

no, he didn't know about it. Then I don't even think he

28:54

knows about it now. But the point is, when somebody

28:57

is really thinking of committing suicide

29:00

and you're offering them a legal way

29:02

out of this, if he had any information

29:04

about Donald Trump, that would have been

29:06

the one time, even for a serial liar

29:08

like Michael Khane to fess

29:11

up and say, well, I know this or that

29:13

because I want to save my own hide.

29:16

But he didn't do that, and the statement

29:18

he gave us was very similar to that statement

29:20

that you just read. And I especially

29:22

made one point. I pointed out to them

29:25

that during that first two hour meeting, Michael

29:27

Kohane, who as I said before, was pacing

29:29

back and forth, would suddenly stop

29:31

in the middle of whatever he was talking about and

29:34

turn and point his finger at us and say,

29:37

I want you guys to understand, I

29:39

will do whatever the f I

29:41

have to do. I will never spend

29:43

a day in jail. He said that at

29:46

least ten to twenty times during that two

29:48

hour period. It was a bizarre

29:50

mantrap, but it made it clear to us that

29:53

Michael Kohane was saying, I will lie,

29:55

cheat, steel, shoot someone. I

29:58

will never spend a day in jail. Well happen

30:00

he did spend more than a day in jail. And

30:02

who does he blame? Not himself even

30:04

though counts one through seven related

30:07

to times that before he even

30:09

met Donald Trump. Maybe blames Donald

30:12

Trump. Amazing? That was last

30:14

night. All right? Now we have Joe Takapina

30:16

on tonight. We have a lot tonight on Hannity.

30:19

When we get back, Jim Jordan joins us. Later

30:21

we'll get Bill O'Reilly's take on all this. We'll

30:24

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32:00

so all of this, what is this? What

32:02

is Robert Costello doing here? He's

32:05

contradicting the star witness

32:07

of brag. What is this letter

32:10

to the FEC doing

32:12

to this case it's blowing it up, you

32:15

know, step by step, um

32:17

and by the way, it should be this,

32:20

you know, for for a prosecutor with the

32:22

most atrocious record ever

32:25

you know of any prosecutor in the country.

32:28

This should not be happening

32:30

in this country. But sadly, it

32:32

is happening in the country. And

32:35

this is what we mean when we talk about a dual

32:37

justice system. This is what we mean when we talk

32:39

about uh equal

32:41

application of our laws. You know,

32:43

I'm going to tell you something. I'm just gonna be very

32:46

blunt about it. We are we have

32:48

now weaponized justice based

32:50

on political party in the country. If

32:53

you're if you're a liberal, you get one system

32:55

of justice. If you're a conservative,

32:57

you get a whole of the system. I've had

33:00

this little tongue in cheek, but it's true.

33:03

If you're a conservative, you're gonna get arrested

33:05

for spitting on the sidewalk and Jaywaukee,

33:07

they'll indict you. Alan Dershwist, This Trump

33:10

indictment would be targeted injustice.

33:12

Great line, you know the indictment.

33:15

This is Greg Jarrett, show me the man.

33:17

I'll show you the crime. That was Joseph

33:20

Stalin's ruthless secret police. Well

33:23

they you have people campaigning

33:25

to go after one man, one

33:28

company, one family. I

33:30

mean there's something wrong with that. Never

33:33

mind that the Statute of limitations has expired

33:35

in both the New York state

33:37

law and the federal law. I mean,

33:39

this is a bad

33:42

cast on shaky legal and ethical

33:44

ground in every single way.