Sen. Ron Johnson: 'Vast web' of corporate connections between Biden family, Chinese nationals<br>
Senate Homeland Security Committee chair connects the dots between Hunter Biden and his dealings in Russia, China
This is a rush transcript from “Hannity" September 23, 2020. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: We do have breaking news tonight. Welcome to HANNITY. We are in the swamp
Washington, D.C.
We're reporting now, according to our affiliate, and that is WDRB, one
police officer confirmed shot in downtown Louisville.
And, by the way, tonight's ongoing protest. We're going to take you to the
scene. We have video coming in as we speak.
It is 9:00 p.m. in Kentucky, in Louisville, where a citywide curfew is now
in effect right now at this hour.
Businesses, local residents are bracing for a long night of unrest after a
grand jury indicted one now fired Louisville police officer with three
counts of first-degree wanton endangerment related to a raid that ended
with the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Two other officers involved were
not indicted. As Tucker was just explaining, nine out of 12 grand jurors
need to agree on the indictment.
Now, the Kentucky attorney general, the investigation there, those two
officers actions, they are saying tonight it's justified. Again, we'll take
you live to this developing story on the ground throughout the night
tonight.
At around 4:00 p.m., after several violent clashes, police did declare an
unlawful assembly in parts of the city. And they began making arrests.
Before that, "Townhall" reporter Julio Rosas posted this video to Twitter
where he witnessed a U-Haul truck pull up, distributing anarchist and other
antipolice signs and other, quote, "gear" to so-called demonstrators. We'll
have more details on the organization involved in all of this.
But, first, some background on Breonna Taylor and her tragic death.
By all accounts, Breonna Taylor was a kind, lovable, goal-oriented person.
She had two jobs. She worked as a life-saving EMT.
It was her passion, her calling in life. She worked at two different area
hospitals.
She had dreams of becoming a registered nurse. In other words, she embodied
everything great about "We, the American people".
Great American's doing great work every day for their fellow Americans. Her
calling, her passion was saving lives.
On March 12th, police obtained search warrants for five different locations
connected to a suspected crack dealer. That person's name is Jamarcus
Glover. One of the locations was Breonna Taylor's apartment.
Now, Taylor previously had dated Jamarcus Glover. And as of February 20th,
Glover allegedly, well, was listing her apartment as his home address which
was not. Detectives also witnessed Glover entering Taylor's apartment in
January to retrieve a package and deliver to a suspected drug house.
The warrant obtained for Ms. Taylor's apartment was something what they
call a no-knock warrant. That means the police, they were permitted, as
part of law enforcement strategy and techniques, to forcibly enter the home
without knocking. However, police reported that they did still knock and
identify themselves for a period of time before ramming the front door open
and according to the Kentucky attorney general, one witness, a neighbor,
heard in fact the officers identified themselves as police officers.
Now, at the time, shortly after midnight on March 13th, Breonna Taylor was
in the bedroom with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. Not her ex-boyfriend,
the suspected drug dealer. Walker claims police did not identify themselves
when asked.
When they broke down the door, he fired and he had a legally owned firearm.
He did injure one police officer. A gun battle ensued. Police proceed to
return fire and that killed Breonna Taylor in a hail of bullets. Eight
shots in total hit her.
No drugs were found in Taylor's apartment. The only officer charged today
by the grand jury was a detective by the name of Brett Hankinson who was
fired after his own department accused him of blindly firing ten rounds
into Taylor's apartment.
Keep in mind these are the rules. This is the system of justice they have
in Louisville. A grand jury is comprised of 12 individuals. To get an
indictment, nine of which have to vote to indict in order for someone to be
charged. The evidence in grand jury's is secret. And the defense is not
permitted to mount any case. This is just for an indictment. It wouldn't be
a guilty verdict.
The grand jury allegedly were briefed on all possible charges, everything
from capital murder to manslaughter to where we ended up for one police
officer wanton endangerment which is what Hankinson was ultimately charged
with.
Now, tonight, of course, people all across the country morning the horrific
death of Breonna Taylor. We hope the protests tonight in honor of her life,
a peaceful life and save lives, that some and all don't have ulterior
motives.
In this country, we have a system of justice. We are guarded by laws. Is it
perfect? Nope. Can I think of a better system? Is there a better system?
Not that I have heard.
Judges, juries, grand juries, trials. We believe the presumption of
innocence. We believe all the facts should come in. We believe we shouldn't
rush to judgment. Now, within this system, we can and should always make
improvements, pursue a more perfect union as we attempt to make this
country a more perfect place for everybody. Mob rule, anarchy, violence,
arson, vandalism, shooting police officers, hurling rocks and bricks and
Molotov cocktails and frozen water bottles, using hockey sticks, canes,
knives and guns against cops, that has to end, because that will lead to
nothing about more heartache and more suffering, burning down, well, fellow
citizens' businesses, putting innocent people in harm's way, kids getting
shot from the ages of 1 to 7 to 8 to 19 in every age in between.
In a scathing email to colleagues, the officer who was shot during the
Taylor incident accused city leaders of not caring about police at all, or
their families at all. He spoke out against violent protests had encouraged
his fellow police officers to do what they need to do to go home to their
families. That sounds a lot like, well, I should make a left turn into my
job I think I'm going to go right because I don't think anyone's going to
have my back. Anyway you look at all of this, it's a tragedy.
And tonight, we pray this horrible situation is not exacerbated any
further.
Here with a full report live on the ground in Louisville is our very own
Jeff Paul.
Jeff, let's get an update.
JEFF PAUL, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Sean, right around 8:30, we kind
of started to hear people talking about the officer who was shot about a
mile or so away from where we are here in Jefferson Park here in downtown
Louisville, and again, local affiliates reporting that an officer has been
shot about a mile away from here. What we don't know is if this was at all
related to the protests or things happening downtown, because of course
these officers still have a job to do no matter if there's protests are
not.
However, this is what the scene is at the moment as we go into about our
six or seven, minute six or seven of the curfew that was put in place
around 9:00 a.m. you see some state police out here kind of standing here
waiting is the was going to happen. There's still a few people who've been
protesting out here standing around, not exact sure what they'll be doing
next. As you go a little further to your left, you'll see what we have been
kind of thing happening out here -- some garbage cans that have been set on
fire. In fact, that particular one when we were doing our live report about
an hour ago exploded right in front of us.
I think there was some sort of aerosol or something like that in it. But
for the most part of the day during the day several hours in the marches
that happen throughout downtown, it was fairly peaceful. When it started
getting dark and when the protesters started getting closer to the mayor's
house, that's when things started to get violent between police and
protesters -- Sean.
HANNITY: Jeff, I want to ask you, I saw earlier, once the grand jury had
made their decision, I saw people with long rifles walking through the
streets. What are the laws there? And at this hour, do people seem to be --
well, listening to and following the curfew that's been put in place?
PAUL: Yeah, I noticed that when I got here. It is open carry here. Our
security guy with the said hey, this is Kentucky. Didn't see anybody into
the evening out here with any sort of rifle or anything like that.
As you can see, it's fairly quiet here in downtown. There are some protests
and people marching throughout the downtown area. Where we are, it's been
sort of ground zero for the protests for Breonna Taylor, it started to
really quiet down as we get into the night.
HANNITY: All right, Jeff Paul on the ground for us tonight. We'll go back
to you throughout the evening and continue to monitor the developing
situation.
Our thoughts and prayers with the family of this officer just shot. We'll
have more details coming up. Apparently we have a video incoming.
Also breaking tonight, we turn to a bombshell new development that you to
mutely disqualify Joe Biden from being the president of the United States.
A brutal new U.S. Senate report is now revealing shocking and new details
about the illicit and corrupt activities of Joe Biden's adult son, Hunter,
and how he profited while his father was in charge of Ukrainian policy and
other countries as well.
We have long reported these findings confirm zero experienced Hunter,
remember he said to ABC, any experience in oil? Nope. Gas? No. Energy?
Nope. Ukraine? No.
Why do you think you got millions of dollars? I don't know. Maybe because
your father was in charge of Ukrainian money and policies? Probably.
Anyway, he did get millions from a corrupt gas and oil company called
Burisma Holdings. Now, Hunter had zero experience in all of this. Still,
Hunter was rewarded with this lucrative position because his father, the
vice president, Joe Biden, was in fact in charge of America's Ukraine
policies on tape bragging about what he did.
As you probably remember, then-Vice President Biden leveraged a billion
U.S. tax dollars to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired. You're going to fire
this guy who's investigating my zero experienced son being -- well, paid
millions for corruption and other parts of the investigation, or you're not
getting the money.
And you have six hours. Son of a B, they did it. Remember all that, that
the media mob and Democrats ignored? Well, there's a lot more to the story.
It turns out this is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, according to the
Senate's findings, Hunter Biden and his family received millions of dollars
from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. According to the
report, Hunter actually raked in a whopping $3.5 million from the wife of
the former mayor of Moscow, as in Russia, via a wire transfer. Hunter also
opened a joint bank account with a Chinese national in order to fund a
$100,000 shopping spree for members of his family.
And that's not all. Joe Biden's experience, which was zero, also scored
lucrative multi-million-dollar business deals with foreign nationals
associated with, you got it, China's communist party and China's military.
And when you think it couldn't get any worse, think again. By the way,
maybe that expands why Joe Biden refused to support the travel ban had was
more concerned about how China felt about America than he did about keeping
Americans safe when Donald Trump put it in place ten days after the first
identified case of coronavirus.
Hunter Biden was allegedly using some of his money to hire apparently
prostitutes from Russia and other Eastern European countries who are the
victims of a sex trafficking ring. That is in the report. The report
determine that all of these are problematic activities, problematic
business dealings. It creates serious counterintelligence and extortion
concerns.
In fact, Joe Biden, John Kerry, other high-ranking Obama administration
officials, they were specifically briefed on the serious concerns
surrounding Hunter Biden and the compromised position of Joe Biden.
According to the report, the Obama administration, quote, knew that Hunter
Biden's position on Burisma's board was problematic and did interfere with
the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.
But despite getting briefed about his son's illicit activities, Joe Biden
claimed, I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business deals.
Well, Joe, it looks like you might be caught in the big fat lie tonight.
Why did you allow your son to use your position as vice president as
leverage to make millions of dollars from sketchy oligarchs. Russia, China,
Ukraine, all over the world.
Did you make any money from these deals? Is this why you refused to stand
up to China and refused to support the travel ban and you'd rather attack
Donald Trump? Who wisely implement in the travel ban ten days after the
first identified case of corona. Was Joe Biden compromise?
Now, is it because maybe he wanted more deals for Hunter? Why? So the
family could get even more millions? Remember, you got the $1.5 billion
deal with the Bank of China. He had no experience there either, meaning
zero experience Hunter.
And will anyone in the mob and the media, will they ever ask Joe Biden
serious question about what is an earth shattering scandal?
Imagine if this was Donald Trump Jr. or Eric Trump or Ivanka Trump or
Barron Trump. Imagine the hysteria. Apparently -- or Tiffany Trump.
Imagine when your name is Hunter Biden and your dad is running as a
Democrat for president of the United States, let's see, taking money from
Russian oligarchs, Ukrainian oligarchs, meaning billion-dollar deals with
China, taking the entire family on shopping sprees, complements of the
Communist Party of China, sending money to foreign prostitutes were being
sex trafficked and no one in the media mob bats an eyelash?
Here with more is Senator Ron Johnson, the great state of Wisconsin. He led
this investigation. He's the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee.
Senator, I don't get shocked very often. Joe always said no serious person
thought this was a big deal when he's on tape bragging about -- well,
you're not getting a billion dollars unless you fire a Ukrainian
prosecutor, it turned out who was investigating his son who had no
experience that was being paid millions. It's a lot deeper than that now.
SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): Hello, Sean.
My thoughts and prayers also go out to that Louisville police officer and
his family. This left-wing inspired rioting and anarchy has to end. We
simply can't allow America to go down this path.
But our report basically followed the money, and it is amazing just kind of
watching the mainstream media's coverage of this. They're just shrugging.
They're saying, oh, it's old news. It's not old news.
We've laid out, according to our report, on China, there exists a vast web
of corporate connections and financial transactions between and among the
Biden family and Chinese nationals. And some of these Chinese nationals
have connections to the current communist government and past affiliations
to the People's Liberation Army.
This is serious business here and let's face it, all these investigations
against the Trumps are always justified by the fact that can you imagine
President Trump if he has all these entanglements, the blackmail potential?
Well, take a look at the Bidens, the way they've been following the vice
president around hovering out cash all around the world, I would think that
represents pretty strong potential conflict of interest, extortion,
counterintelligence risks that we simply can't ignore.
HANNITY: Well, now, there were numerous warnings -- one, by the way, came
from the guy George Kent who we remember from the case involving what was
going on in this ridiculous impeachment. You know, compared to, you know, a
phone call that was -- I didn't hear anything wrong on that phone call of
President Zelinsky. You're talking about major millions of dollars.
But this goes, what? To Russia. This goes to Ukraine. This goes to China.
This goes to other countries.
Did he have any experience, Hunter Biden, to do any of these deals paying
him millions?
JOHNSON: Not that we're aware of. What's kind of odd, we also found out
from George Kent that seven months after Hunter Biden joined the board of
Burisma supposedly to consult on corporate governance and transparency, but
Burisma basically paid a $7 million bribe to end the investigations into
their owner, Zlochevsky.
So, Hunter Biden wasn't exactly doing a good job corporate governance and
transparency from that standpoint, was he?
HANNITY: And they tried to warn numerous times about the compromised
position.
Apparently, John Kerry had knowledge of Hunter's role in the Burisma board,
for example, but said flatly, oh, I had no knowledge when in fact, he did
have knowledge. Other people knew it as well.
There were numerous attempts to warn the administration. Everybody -- there
were pretty much everybody seemed to know it was problematic, is that true,
Senator?
JOHNSON: Well, there were certainly a lot of memos going around the State
Department. Everybody knew how bad a conflict of interest this was and how
it was going to frustrate their attempts to really carry out America's
policy to help rid Ukrainians of corruption.
But Amos Hochstein who is a special envoy into Ukraine, he's the only
individual that we know actually talk to the vice president about that, and
you mentioned earlier that the vice president basically denied ever talking
to Biden or Hunter about his overseas business traveling. First of all, I
never believe that. I mean, how can you spend an entire trip flying over to
China with your father in Air Force Two and not talk about what you're
going to do?
But Amos Hochstein now said that he talked to the vice president. The vice
president then apparently talked to Hunter who set up a meeting with Amos
Hochstein to talk about this conflict of interest.
So I think we've caught the vice president and I hate saying it, a lie.
HANNITY: Let's talk about Hunter's business dealings with Russia. Let's
talk about his business dealings with China. Let's talk about the monies
that were being sent around to unsavory characters that potentially were
involved in, what, sex trafficking schemes. What did you find?
JOHNSON: Well, in terms of sex trafficking, I'll just read from the report
because I want to get this right.
Hunter Biden paid non-resident women who were nationals of Russia or other
Eastern European countries who appear to be linked to a, quote, Eastern
European prostitution or human trafficking ring. Now, we've got a little
more detail in some of our footnotes.
But again, we were just following the money. We were looking at all these
financial transactions that should raise all kinds of concerns throughout
America and particularly the mainstream media.
So, the question really is, Sean, is the mainstream media going to start
asking and asking questions and demanding answers from the vice president?
HANNITY: Yeah. Well, so Hunter had business with Russian oligarch. Hunter
was doing business deals making wire transfers with Russian citizens,
Ukrainian citizens. I mean -- it's pretty breathtaking. I'm sure the media
mob -- I mean, they protected Hunter and Joe you know all throughout the
impeachment and said, oh, there's no serious person believes anything wrong
here.
Would this subject the vice president of the United States potentially to
blackmail, sir?
JOHNSON: That's the concern -- you know, the extortion threat here. And
again, I'll repeat, all the justification for the investigations of Donald
Trump and his possible business dealings in Russia are always predicated on
the fact that if he has those entanglements, just think of the blackmail
that somebody could engage in against the president United States.
Well, take what they were alleging that Donald Trump did, all false
allegations, and then take that and look at the Biden family, and it's an
order magnitude worse -- many, many orders of magnitude worse. Again, the
entanglements just with -- just within China, you know, these individuals,
there's -- there's millions of dollars of cash flow going back and forth
between China and the U.S.
And there's a dual use auto parts company that Hunter helped a Chinese
company gain control over potentially for the benefit of the People's
Liberation Army. Again, there's just so much here. There's so much detail
that needs to be investigated.
And so, we're hoping is this report provides a lot of detail and people
start connecting more dots and hopefully, hopefully, the American -- the
mainstream media will actually start asking questions so the American
people are informed before this election.
HANNITY: Senator, thank you for the good work you've done. The American
people need to fully, completely understand this before they start voting.
In 41 days, we have an election in this country. Some states voting early.
We look forward to further updates and we will stay on this completely when
the media has ignored it up to now. Thank you, sir.
Imagine the outrage in the media if this type of -- well, Senate report
came out about one of the kids of President Donald Trump, instead of Hunter
Biden.
Here with -- author about this and the ongoing -- well, unrest that we see
going on tonight, Louisville, Kentucky is the author of "Liberal Privilege:
Joe Biden, The Democrats and Their Defense of the Indefensible".
OK, if I remember correctly, Donald Trump Jr., good to see you. Thank you
for being with us.
We're going to get back to breaking news in a second, but if I remember,
you were in one meeting or, apparently, you thought you were going to be
talking about one topic and they accused you of talking about another and
you felt it was a waste of time, ended it in pretty short order, everybody
confirmed that that was the case. Imagine if you did these things.
DONALD TRUMP JR., AUTHOR, "LIBERAL PRIVILEGE": Sean, it wouldn't be
pretty. I'd be in jail right now.
The reality, I took a meeting with someone who had looked at a business
deal because, unlike Hunter, we were actually international business people
prior to getting into politics. Hunter, it seems was able to leverage his
father's vice presidency into multi -- hundreds of millions of dollars in
free fees.
But the one that's more scary to me since, you know, they're not worried
about China at all, according to Joe, it's not a threat. So, $1.5 billion
to Hunter from China which translates roughly to about $30 million a year
in fees in a typical fund model, $30 million a year to Hunter, that's no
big deal, but what about the $3.5 million from the wife of the former mayor
of Moscow?
Just so you know, the mayor of Moscow, this is like a known person tied to
Putin. This is not something that's ambiguous. This is not something that's
up in the air. This is a known direct link to Putin paying Hunter $3.5
million. If that's not Russia collusion, I don't know what is.
I took a 20-minute meeting, I did 30 hours plus of testimony between the
House and the Senate, not because I did anything wrong, but they were
hoping that you know what if I misspoke, if, Sean, if I said the meeting
happened at 12:01, no, no, it was 12:02, I'd be in jail right now.
The fact that they're not looking into it, the fact that some of these
monies are tied to human trafficking and prostitution is absolutely
disgusting and they're turning a blind eye to this. If I did one-one
hundredth of what Hunter has done and continues to do sitting on the boards
of these Chinese companies today, shipping jobs from places like Michigan
and Wisconsin, back over to China for the automotive company, et cetera, if
I did one-one hundredth of it, Sean, I'd be in jail and it'd be the biggest
news story of the decade.
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP JR.: We'd hear about it every day asking Donald Trump to drop out of
the race.
HANNITY: Stay right there. We do have breaking news.
As we go on the ground, we now are getting reports that, in fact, two
police officers have been shot tonight in Louisville and transported to
university hospital.
Here with the very latest on the ground is Matt Finn.
Matt, we have metro police apparently confirming that another officer was
shot tonight?
MATT FINN, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Sean, we have a crew on the way
to that shooting scene right now and we will bring the latest from that
scene.
I just want to show you what's happening here really in the heart of
downtown Louisville. Police are -- people tried setting this facility on
fire earlier tonight and police came rushing out of there and protesters
threw objects at police they declared this an unlawful assembly there are
remnants of fires all around this area. In fact, there's still a smaller
fire still burning in this area.
But right now, we are past that curfew time so police are out here, you
know, warning people that this is an unlawful assembly. They told people
over and over again to clear this area, and there's still some people
hanging out, you know, screaming profanities at police, trying to agitate
them. But for now, this is a much calmer scene than just even a few hours
ago when there was hundreds and hundreds of people out here and police
declare this an unlawful assembly and they warn people that they would be
arrested.
And just a short distance from here, our understanding is that two police
officers were shot here tonight in Louisville. We don't have any word on
their condition, but we will bring that to you soon as we get it, Sean.
HANNITY: Matt, what do we know about apparently there's reports that
earlier that we had an eyewitness here, see a truck that had things that
they were distributing to anarchists which would indicate that they were
planning for trouble very early on in the day and that -- that, for
example, they were they were hooks (ph) I guess giving out to different
people that were there. I guess fellow anarchists, you know, all sorts of
water bottles and signs and other things distributed, we don't know for
sure everything that was given out.
But apparently, this -- there was some planning involved in tonight's --
well, what happened tonight in a lot of different ways. What can you tell
us about it?
FINN: Well, Sean, just a short while ago I saw several people throwing
objects at police, water bottles at police. You know, we saw people
lighting fires. On our air just a short while ago, someone threw what
appeared to be a firework into a lit fire causing that to explode. So there
was obviously some type of orchestration or planned gathering here tonight.
The police did come out in force though and they warn people over and over
again here, that this is an unlawful assembly and they warn people to go
home.
And so, people -- the protesters did flee this area, they did kind of
respond to the police warnings. Now, you can see that the police are still
out here, the bobcats are out here. Police are out in full force keeping an
eye on the people who are still, you know, lingering in this area.
We know from recent protests that, unfortunately, in the late night hours,
bad actors often take advantage of this situation. So police are out here
in full force right now. There is lot order there is peace here but
unfortunately not far from here two police officers apparently shot tonight
so there is even more tragedy in this story, Sean.
HANNITY: All right, Matt, we just got video in. We've not been able to
independently confirm it, but it seems like others in the media are.
Lex 18 News has now confirmed our reporting that two officers with the
Louisville Metro Police Department have been shot. Let's just roll it.
Apparently, it's sound of the events of one of the officers being shot.
Let's listen.
(VIDEO CLIP PLAYS)
HANNITY: I will go back to the scene in a moment.
Let's get some reaction, though. Don Jr. is still with us. "Liberal
Privilege", his new book that is out.
You know, I watch the chaos every single night and I see your dad has been
out there regularly, begging mayors in liberal cities, run by liberal
Democrats for decades to restore order and safety and security, rejected. I
see governors in blue states rejecting your father's attempts to help keep
people safe and secure.
They have to ask and invite him in. Otherwise, he'd have to literally use
the Insurrection Act of 1807, not something any president would ever want
to do lightly.
When he has gone in Don Jr., he has successfully restored order, Kenosha,
Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., three quick examples. Your
reaction to these events tonight because it sounds like some of this
activity and assault on police where two are now shot and confirmed
tonight. By the way, we're awaiting a police press conference maybe
momentarily.
That that you have these groups that are planning violence and they
literally infiltrate themselves among some people that are genuine peaceful
protesters but it's happening in every big city run by liberal Democrats
for decades.
TRUMP JR.: I mean, honestly, Sean, it seems like the first time in America
where if you're in these liberal cities with liberal leadership, you can
actually get into more trouble for opening up your business to feed your
family than you do for burning down someone else's.
You know, we all said what happened to Breonna Taylor was dead wrong. It
should not have happened. Everyone acknowledges that.
Rand Paul was the champion of the legislation with her name on it and he
was attacked leaving the White House with people screaming at him to say
his name.
When you combine that -- or say her name -- when you combine that with
trucks showing up with supplies, you start to realize that this isn't an
organic peaceful protest gone wrong. This is anarchy. There are peaceful
protesters doing the right thing and I think that's wonderful. That's very
American.
But what's going on when police officers are shot, when Democrat mayors are
turning a blind eye, when they're more worried about protecting arsonists,
vandals, looters and outright criminals than they are about the citizens of
these towns, it's absolutely disgusting.
So, you know, I condemn in all ways shape and form what's going on to the
police officers who are just out there serving.
Again, as I spoke even in my RNC speech about what happened to George
Floyd, that should not happen. That was wrong. The only thing is everyone
in America acknowledged that was wrong.
Police officers mostly, importantly, they were the ones leading the charge
saying it's that that's wrong because they know when that happens, it makes
their job harder. Just because there's a bad apple doesn't mean that the
99.999 percent of police officers out there risking their lives for us
every day aren't incredible people, and we have to defend them.
But the silence from the media is deafening, that this has been going on
for four months in these Democrat cities with Democrat states, as you said,
Democrat city councils, Democrat rule for decades, and it took Chris Cuomo
and Don Lemon on CNN to say, hey, guys, this is starting to affect us in
the polls. Maybe we should actually come out against it.
I wonder if we're going to hear that from the media and the Democrats
because they're one of the same. I wonder if they're going to condemn it.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: We need to burn the system down, Don, didn't we hear from
Democrats this week that they'll eliminate the legislative filibuster,
didn't they hear the talk about stacking the courts, didn't we hear talk
about ending the Electoral College, didn't we hear the speaker of the House
talk about, you know, the Republicans are the enemy of democracy and they
can impeach the president any day of the week that they want.
So --
TRUMP JR.: A hundred percent, Sean, that's the reality. They've been
talking about this stuff forever, like we, they pretend like, oh, because
you're doing this, now, we're going to -- you think Chuck Schumer wasn't
going to do that anyway. You think they weren't going to stack the courts
anyway.
That's why I wrote "Liberal Privilege", because I get to hear a lot about
privilege these days, and God knows I am blessed.
But the liberals can do whatever they want. They don't have a check and
balance. There's no one in media that's not a left-wing activist anymore.
There's no pretense even at this point of objectivity. They can do and say
anything. They can create rules that they don't have to play by.
The son of the vice president, the guy that wants to be president from the
Democrat side can be involved with sex trafficking, taking millions from
Russian oligarchs with ties to Vladimir Putin and it's nothing. But if I
take a 20-minute meeting, they want to put me in jail for treason. That's
liberal privilege.
That's what Americans have to see. That is the hatred and the bias that the
average American is getting their news from, when a grand jury in an
impartial process doesn't give them the answer they want, they can burn
down cities and states and then they threaten it congressmen and women out
there saying, hey, you know what, we should just burn it all down.
You think that if Joe Biden wins, you think that problem's going to go away
or you think it's going to embolden these criminals. I think it emboldens
them. The fact that prosecutors in California are saying, well, we'll see
if there was a need or a social justice reason for the looting and the
writing because nothing screams social justice, Sean, quite like stealing a
62-inch flat screen.
It's insanity. The left has lost control. They don't understand what's
right and wrong anymore, and they're pushing what's wrong.
HANNITY: I've never heard these kind of threats ever before a temper
tantrum, 29 times in an election year Donald Trump Jr., there have been
Supreme Court vacancies all 29 times, presidents have appointed a nominee.
Thank you for being with us.
We're getting Bernie Kerik, former NYPD commissioner.
As I watch this video, I am appalled that the leadership in the state of
Kentucky -- I believe they have a Democratic governor. Anyway, they should
have had thousands of national guards standing by to respond.
My sources in the White House said that that help was offered tonight and
that calls were made. We have unconfirmed reports that the FBI apparently
is on the scene now in Louisville an unconfirmed report and we expect a
police press conference any moment now, where they may have suspects in
custody after two officers as we now have confirmed have been shot in
tonight's activities.
Earlier in the show, we reported in fact that a truck was identified as
having been -- well, pre-positioned, if you will, to give supplies to those
that were preparing for a night of anarchy.
Now, the effect the curfew went into effect 35 minutes ago at 9:00 p.m.
Eastern. Unfortunately, the mob and the media is using the case to fuel
more baseless smears against police and law enforcement officers.
Listen to what this one MSDNC, state-run TV, for all things radical
Democratic socialists said today about the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel
Cameron who happens to be an African-American. Listen to this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, listen, not only is he being intellectually
dishonest about that, you know, I find all of his remarks with regards to
this whole entire press conference offensive. And let me just speak to this
whole celebrity influencer thing while they can't speak for Kentuckians,
let me say this is a black woman. He does not speak for black folks. He's
skin folk but he is not kin folk. And so, just like he thinks they can't
speak for Kentucky because he's up there with a black face, he does not
speak for all of us.
This was not a tragedy. This was a murder. He should be ashamed of himself.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANNITY: You can disagree but the law is the law, that this grand jury,
you need nine out of 12, to indict no defense is presented. Every option,
including, yep, capital murder, were presented before the grand jury, and
of all the charges, this is what they came up with. If you don't like what
the grand jury did or said, well, take it up with them. I can't think of a
better system.
Remarks like that are repulsive. They're disgusting. They're despicable,
frankly deranged. But unfortunately, it's what we've come to expect from
the new extreme Democratic Party and the hate Trump media.
Matt Finn, he's on the ground still in Louisville. We can now confirm at
the Fox News Channel, it is true, two police officers have been shot and
there is a report there may be a suspect that is in custody. Any update on
that we expect to hear from the police department any moment now.
Matt Finn, a FOX News reporter on the ground reporting for us. What do you
have?
Sean, we are anticipating perhaps a press conference in a short while where
we'll get much more information about these apparent two officers shot not
far from here in Louisville. Right now, we are in the heart the downtown of
Louisville, basically outside of city hall and some federal buildings.
And there are still people lingering. You know, some people shining
profanities at police. Police are protecting this area. They declared an
unlawful assembly here.
We saw people chuck objects at police, throw water bottles at police, try
to start fires at the base of a justice center here. There's still some
small lingering fires. And this area here for many weeks and months has
been ground zero for protests and demonstrations.
There is a memorial for Breonna Taylor, but unfortunately here, tonight,
there was you know perhaps some criminal activity as people were lighting
fires and chucking objects at police and there are still helicopters
hovering above. There is a very strong law enforcement presence here
tonight. Law enforcement from our angle did apparently gain some control
and establish some peace here after declaring that unlawful assembly.
But unfortunately, it is late at night. There are people still laying
around here. There are people yelling profanities at police so you could
see that law enforcement is still keeping their line pretty strong here.
And, Sean, we'll bring the latest on this tragedy of two officers shot here
in Louisville. Back to you.
HANNITY: Any evidence of the National Guard on the scene, reports that the
FBI may now also be on the ground.
FINN: The governor said he was writing -- willing to activate the National
Guard. I have not seen them personally, but we have seen dozens if not
hundreds of law enforcement in all types of crowd control gear here.
HANNITY: We see this building, Matt, all day I was watching the FOX News
Channel --
FINN: What's that?
HANNITY: We saw this building. We saw -- I was watching on our channel --
I was watching people with long rifles marching through the streets and the
crowd growing by the minute that might have been an indication of the
governor maybe it's time. I know it was offered. Help was offered from the
president.
All right. Thank you.
Here with reaction, FOX News contributor Dan Bongino, along with FOX News
correspondent at large Geraldo Rivera, civil rights attorney, Leo Terrell.
Before we get to the events, Leo Terrell, you are an attorney. You're a
civil rights attorney. You've also -- you've been in a lot of lawsuits
involving police.
Look at the case of Breonna Taylor. Look at what we learned today, look at
the grand jury's decision. I could understand people's disappointment.
This sounds like just a beautiful woman and just a tragedy on so many
levels. The attorney general, prosecutors, they presented every possible
option to the grand jury in terms of what they can charge, including
capital murder. This is their decision. You need nine out of 12 to get an
indictment.
You don't hear from the defense when you're making a case for an
indictment. It's not like -- why do you think the grand jury came up with
this decision because it sounds to me if you can't get 9 out of 12 for the
for the charge of murder or the other charges, that that -- it would mean
you're never going to get a capital murder conviction where you need 12 out
of 12.
LEO TERRELL, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: You're 100 percent correct. And as a
civil rights attorney for 30 years, the grand jury got it right. Let me see
if I could capitalize it in a nutshell. Those officers were fired upon by
Breonna Taylor's boyfriend.
It was a tragic situation, don't get me wrong. But the officers --
HANNITY: And no knock warrant.
TERRELL: Yes, but the -- you know, the civilian upstairs who heard the
officers announced themselves and once those officers came in, they were
fired upon. Those officers have a legal right to defend himself and that's
why the grand jury did not come back with any form of murder charges. They
came back with the recklessness of the shooting of the third officer who in
my opinion is going to use the argument that he heard that this shot was
fired and they were justified in firing. He was a reckless shooter.
But let me be very clear, that tape that you showed of that woman talking
about race is ridiculous. She doesn't know about the composition of the
grand jury and for her to inject race in this and to attack the attorney
general, his color is irrelevant. The facts support the justification by
this grand jury and what I'm saying is, is that the Democrats and that
woman on MSNBC is playing the race card.
This was not a racially motivated shooting. It was a tragic shooting that
needs police reform.
HANNITY: Let me go, apparently, the National Guard was in Louisville, and
to the governor's credit, I correct a report by one of our reporters
earlier is in Louisville. The governor authorized late this afternoon.
Geraldo, you've been -- you've been a street reporter all these years.
You've been in situations like this and some even worse. You see what's
happening.
You -- you're also a lawyer. Your reaction to the grand jury and your
reaction to the -- to the verdict of the grand jury, decision by the grand
jury.
GERALDO RIVERA, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT-AT-LARGE: You know, assuming the
warrant was legal, Sean, and the FBI is investigating that right now and I
have no reason to believe that that it was anything but legal, the warrant
those cops, bang, bang, bang, police smashing the door. The guy shoots a
cop, so he shoots the cop, he uses deadly force against the police. And
what are the cops supposed to do?
They -- you know, they're charged, they're worried one of them officer has
been shot. Of course, they fired back. It's -- it wasn't even a close call.
And I predicted it, it was -- it was always going to be this way because of
the hype of the people who are anti-cop into fermenting this hatred. This
is what happened. People are disappointed and they're outraged..
But I have to say this about the people, the sniper or snipers who shot
those cops. They have defiled the memory of Breonna Taylor. They have
defaced the memory of Breonna Taylor.
You, to your credit, Sean, portrayed her as she should have been, as an
emergency room technician, a hard-working person shot to death six times in
her bed. My goodness, of course, the -- there's enormous sympathy for her
as there should be. But to then have anarchists, the disgusting cop
shooters shoot from the -- you know, snipe at the night to try to kill
cops, it is absolutely counterproductive. It is in its own way so viciously
anti-American, Sean.
HANNITY: By the way, we now got an update that the National Guard is
protecting the hospital where the wounded police are now being cared for.
Apparently, helicopters now with -- are now circling all throughout
Louisville. Police seem to now have a handle on the situation.
Dan Bongino, your years in law enforcement, a no-knock warrant, by the way,
and again, this was a different boyfriend of Breonna Taylor. We now have
the context of a former boyfriend involved in activity. There have been a
lot of surveillance that have been ongoing.
No knock warrant, police come in, legal firearm of Breonna Taylor's
boyfriend. He doesn't -- he didn't break any law, neither did Breonna
Taylor. There were no drugs found there. But after months of surveillance,
this is what had happened.
But they came in, they were fired upon, police in that situation are -- I
would think probably or as the attorney general laid out painfully, it just
seems like a tragedy on so many levels, but there is context, there is
texture, it is deeper than talking points of people that rush to judgment,
don't believe in due process that have celebrity status that create
expectations when maybe the facts will never get us to what they're where
they're saying it's going.
DAN BONGINO, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, Sean, this has to stop. When I say
this, I mean, there are police use of force incidents in the country and
unfortunate that happened. Police are forced to deal with people at their
worst moments, not because they want to, because that's their job.
When people are robbed, they're burglarized or raped or assaulted, they
call the police. They don't call their parents. They call the police.
The police show up first when you dial 911. That's why they're there. That
creates a very dangerous situation. But law and order, we get the law part,
what's the order part? That's process and facts, Sean, and not every single
tragedy involves a police. It's a criminal act.
And by firing everybody up like that MSNBC anchor speaking to things she
doesn't even know, this is what you get, you get police officers shot
before our trials even happened.
HANNITY: All right. I got to thank you all.
You know, 4,000 homicides in the city of Chicago alone in the eight years,
Joe Biden's vice president, Barack Obama's president, to almost 20,000
shot, I never heard a word -- basically I think we were the only show to
scroll the names of the people murdered, the names of the people shot.
And Joe Biden, police become the enemy -- of course, we're going to we're
going to redirect funds. And Kamala Harris, oh, I praised the LAPD, $150
million in cuts. In New York City, a billion dollar cut to the NYPD.
Really?
I've said and I can -- this is not going to end well. And then cops are
afraid to do their jobs.
When we come back, we'll monitor the breaking news. Two police officers
shot in Louisville, and as a result of the anarchy that has unfolded
tonight in the wake of the grand jury decision from earlier today. We're
awaiting a press conference from the police.
Please stay with the FOX News Channel for more breaking news.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: All right. Back to Louisville. Our own Jeff Paul on the scene
where two police officers were shot tonight in Louisville.
You know, I saw them lining up today and the crowd getting bigger and
bigger. People with their guns out. Hard to predict tonight could be an
awful night.
I do give the governor credit. We misreported earlier that he had not
brought in the guard. He apparently did bring in the National Guard --
Jeff.
PAUL: Yeah, he deftly brought in the National Guard. In fact, we have seen
them out patrolling the streets throughout the afternoon and into the
evening. But you can see there's a huge police presence behind us here. We
believe this is a block or so away from where not one but two officers were
reportedly shot here just behind us.
And just outside of downtown Louisville now. This is on the heels of some
very fiery protests after the announcement was made regarding the Breonna
Taylor case. But we should be clear, it's unknown if this is in fact
related to the protesting, but you've got to think, Louisville is a big
city. There is still going to be police officers out here doing their job
in addition to monitoring what's happening with the protests.
So, we're hoping to get an update in the next hour to get more information.
We should also mention that this shooting happened just a block away from
the hospital. There is a hospital right behind where I am looking this way
off to the side of the lane. So, we don't know the condition of the
officers or what led up to it but we are hoping to get more information --
Sean.
HANNITY: Keep us in the loop. We're also awaiting a press conference from
the police. Karl Rove was with us, the architect.
We have a debate in six nights, Karl Rove. I would assume this would be a
big topic in that debate. Kamala Harris praising defunding the police.
Kamala Harris literally advertising a fund to get anarchists out with bail.
Joe Biden talking about redirecting money from the cops, and cops becoming
the enemy. How big of an issue?
KARL ROVE, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, every time we have one of these
incidents, it becomes an issue. Remember, we have two concurrent majorities
in America. People who believe that the right to protest, as Eric -- as
Donald Trump Jr. said earlier, it's American to go out and say we protest
this, and to do so peacefully.
There was an Ipsos Reid poll that showed that about 73 percent, three out
of every four Americans believed that protests like those that followed
George Floyd and then followed Breonna Taylor are justified and worthy of
support. Four out of 5 Americans, 70, nearly 80 percent, said any violence
connected to those protests violated the purpose of those protests and it
was inappropriate and should be prosecuted.
So, we have a concurrent majority here who says --
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: What about the rhetoric -- what about the silence, Karl? The DNC
on violence in our cities? What about defunding the police?
ROVE: Look, this is what -- yeah, look, this is why I don't get it because
there's a big majority in America who believes those two things and yet the
Democrats can't bring themselves to do anything except call everything a
peaceful protest, and cannot bring themselves except in a very rare moment
to gently chide the protesters.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: Biden is talking about redirecting funds and police be the enemy.
ROVE: Oh, no, totally, totally.
HANNITY: Kamala Harris is helping raise money to get people out of jail
and praising defunding.
ROVE: Well, you forgot Bloomberg who's putting $16 million to pay the
fines of people who've been criminally indicted, criminally charged, found
guilty and obligated to make restitution to their victims. And he's -- and
rather than saying you are personally responsible for what you say and what
you do, he is stepping in and say, don't worry about it. I'm going to pick
up your fine so that you can vote.
HANNITY: Let me add to this -- 29 times, 29 presidents nominated in an
election year. OK. Now are going to throw into end the legislative
filibuster. Now are going to threaten to stack the courts, eliminate the
Electoral College and impeach the president every day.
We have 20 seconds. Wow.
ROVE: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You are referring to
Don Lemon, aren't you, when you talked about those things?
HANNITY: No, I'm referring to the Democratic Party.
ROVE: Well, no, no, Don Lemon. You have thought he said, we're going to
have to blow up the entire system. But listen to the tape, he really said,
we're going to have to blue up the entire system. You may not know this,
but the 2020 color of the year is blue. That's what Don Lemon said.
You may have thought, he said, we're going to have to get rid of the
Electoral College. But if you listen closely --
HANNITY: I've got to run.
ROVE: -- he said, you're going to have to get rid of the electoral
collagen. I mean, you are misquoting Don Lemon.
HANNITY: He was misunderstood.
Thank you, Karl. Sorry we are racing out.
We'll continue.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: All right. That's all the time we have left this evening.
Tomorrow, 40 days until you are the ultimate jury. We are praying for the
officers, their families and for peace for the people of Louisville and
around the country.
Stay with the FOX News Channel on continuing coverage.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Laura -- my heart is troubled, Laura.
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