and i think it's a really nice story and you seem to have a great relationship, thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> tucker: wally gator, out of time, sadly. we will be back tomorrow night and every night, the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> sean: tucker, thank you, welcome to "hannity," tonight if you voted for donald trump, you are a threat to democracy and will be dealt with as such. are you or have you ever been a supporter of donald trump? is this joe biden's unity that he talked about when he was inaugurated or is this about the soul of the nation that he is going to address tomorrow. coming up, we will play our chilling remarks and preview the big speech in independence hall where president unity is

planning a call to action against americans he is calling semi fascists. plus the golden state has a new regulation with gas powered cars, but the very same state is now begging its residents, don't charge your electric vehicles, because california's electric grid is about to crash. we have that report straight-ahead, so much for renewable energy. also the bombshell whistle-blower allegations from inside the fbi. agents are sounding the alarm on the rampant political bias interrupting what should be america and the world's premier law enforcement agency, but we began with the very latest anti-trump spear tactics surrounding the raid at mar-a-lago. desperate to stop a federal judge from appointing the master to review the case. and doj indicated that american should just simply trust their judgment. also took the opportunity to shave public opinion with that

image right there showing classified documents strewn across the floor, next to a box of frame "time" magazine covers and a subsequent rebuttal. and has stated "the government's response gratuitously included a photograph of allegedly classified materials from the container for dramatic effect." and on the social response, terrible the way that the fbi during the rate of mar-a-lago through documents haphazardly all over the floor. perhaps pretending it was me that did that. and then started taking pictures or the public to see. thought they wanted them kept secrets, lucky i declassified. meanwhile legal scholar jonathan turley who will join us in a moment tweeted this photo could lead and obviously misleading impression that documents were all over the floor when this appears to be the work of fbi

agents. and jonathan turley continued for critics the photo may appear to be another effort with prior leaks to help gain the optics and discussion where clearly a visual aid of documents with covers. and was intended for public consumption. keep in mind being handled by the same washington office that gave hillary clinton a free pass after she mishandled top-secret classified material on her unsecured private servers. and attempted to destroy the evidence, 33,000 emails, bleach bait, et cetera. also the same fbi office that brought us operation crossfire hurricane, the dirty dossier, fisa fraud, frequently peter strzok, lisa page, andrew weissmann. and the same office for tim tebow "suddenly retired" was

reportedly escorted out of the borough after allegations of liberal bias and misconduct in the hunter biden investigation and accused of slow walking the probe into hunter's laptop from hell to secure the election per joe biden, people that retire from the fbi are not walked out of the headquarters building on a hot sunny afternoon in august after being screamed at and ridiculed by his bosses like a laptop. this was a firing from. but no asking us to simply trust this very same office in the washington sewer and swamp with an investigation into joe biden's chief political rival. they want absolutely no scrutiny t at all whatsoever. and they rated mar-a-lago and would not let terms attorneys observed the search and demanded that mar-a-lago turn off all security cameras so that they

could conduct in private. i thought we wanted -- cams and cameras on police for a good reason. it keeps everybody honest. they did not want the affidavit release and the heavily redacted the affidavit after the judge ordered the release. even redacted the reasons for the reductions and now they don't want a special master to review the case. so what exactly are they hiding? and why would donald trump or anyone else trust biden's doj and fbi field office with a politically charged investigation on their history. here with a lot more as fox news contributor jonathan turley. good to see you. let's talk about the comments on the picture. merrick garland made the statement he will speak to his court filings in a court of law and not leaked to the press. i think that has been violated numerous times starting with the leak to "the washington post." oh, we believe that nuclear

information was included there, when did that happen? >> the picture was something that immediately stood out. and when you look at the actual text, the only attachment appears to be the statement that there were covers on the document classified. and did not need a picture to show that, was not even contested by the people. but instead they went ahead and put it in and it was for public consumption. they like that image and they wanted to get it out there. but what is also curious is the level of detail in this filing. this is the department of justice that previously said than on a single sentence should be released from the affidavit because national security would be harmed or the investigation would be undermined. they did release an affidavit that confirms many points. and did show that the earlier

representation was overwrought and overbroad. and saying that a special master would engage social security and their case. the special masters is an extension of the court and appointed all the time. it would be a master that is okay for decisions. i thought the legal aspects of their filing was really transparently weak. >> sean: they are making the pretext that they don't want a special master lying on the team instead, but isn't that within the organization akin to investigating themselves? >> well, these team teams have been controversial in past cases and the department of justice is notorious for over classification and over redaction. the department of justice has recognized that it may have actually gathered up attorney-client privilege

material. i would be surprised if they didn't. it was so ridiculously broad. the judge allowed the fbi to take old boxes of a single paper and then all of the boxes stored with the box. and took everything in the storage room. and now says this is ours, we should not have to give it back. it's the point of the special master to determine what you gathered, whether it is appropriate. >> sean: what can the national security concern be? because they are claiming this is impacting national security, which seems to be there fall back on any issue that they disagree with on donald trump on. >> this is a common mantra, i've been in security cases and had these in the past. and they take the environment that there isn't a danger to

national security and the special master, it can be cleared. counsel like myself are often cleared for tss i material. all of that is done in many cases. and so i think that they actually really undermine their credibility with this filing. particularly after just releasing the redacted affidavit which they said could not be done without endangering national security. >> sean: i talked about this being the same office with the russia hoechst in washington, and talked about phis abuse, talked about the double standard as it relates to hillary clinton, we can go back to james comey, recognizing crimes that are committed but no prosecution. that did not even include the 33,000 deleted emails with bleach bit, something i don't think anybody had ever heard of before. now we are at the point where all of this is happening and we have these whistle-blowers coming forward. my question to you is very

specific, why if these whistle-blowers are coming forward merrick garland and the doj sending out a reminder memo that are not to have contact with congress, if you are talking to members of congress and you are a whistle-blower, there could be serious repercussions, am i reading that the right way? seems like intimidation to me. speak of the problem is that it can be read that way, and i think that merrick garland has to show the leadership, not just in assuring the american people that the department will cooperate, but also to take modest steps to show that this was not a pretextual investigation. every chance he has had to do that, he has not done it. he opposed the redacted affidavit and was forced to do that. now opposing the special master and is likely to be forced into

that. these are steps he could've taken. the fact is that this is filing and has some very significant portions including details that probably overlap with some redacted material and the affidavit, we don't know. but there is a detail in this filing that did not appear to violate national security. but they see they saw obstructive conduct. >> sean: the sections they cited made that or cause that to be so broad that it would allow to take anything they wanted out of mar-a-lago and go anywhere they wanted and going into the closet of melania trump. in a case with this action and it be more specific if we are going to stay within the realm of reasonable search and seizure versus unreasonable search and seizure. >> i think they made a mistake signing off on the broad language and it should have had

greater specificity, because it was so unbelievably broad. what is amazing about the filing is that the justice tells the court we did gather up some other material, but we still should not give it back come because it is evidence that they make classified material with nonclassified. that is really just breathtaking. you can establish a record and give the material back, but typically if it is attorney-client material, they don't explain why they just don't obviously create the record and then allow the material to go back. they also say in a footnote, we might be able to give more information about what we have gathered, but we are looking for circumstances. what sounds like those extraordinary circumstances is to avoid a special master. >> sean: all the fingerprints of a pretext that they could search for anything they wanted and that's very dangerous situation to put themselves in. jonathan turley, thank you so much.

now to another line from the legal team filing surrounding the special master "left unchecked to the doj will impugn, leak, and publicize selective aspects of their investigation with no recourse but to somehow trust the self-restraint of currently unchecked investigators" here is president trump's attorney as well as fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and pam bondi. good to see you all. let's get your take first. >> i think that they were astute in their filing today. and part of the legal team that brought this up. i think that they did put this picture as mr. turley mentioned was more for the public eye. and that is exactly what we are not supposed to do. it's not about the preparation. it's about the justice. and it's not what we have seen out of this administration. we are seeing a lot of public

play and i hope that we can get the special master put in place so that we can have some impartial mediators to look at everything and get the documents that are supposed to be with the president back and look at everything. in a perfect eye. the presidential act protected him and allowed him to declassify materials, nobody talks about that. instead they look at the statutes they brought. i think that our papers are good and looking forward to what to the judge has to say tomorrow. >> sean: i would like your take as opposed to the declassified range of this. is this still an issue in question? because i see people on the left just automatically dismiss it. that is not declassified, how would they know? would they know? >> they would not know, sean, but president trump would know. his legal team when now, that

counsel's office with no and president trump has said he has declassified these materials. he was the president in the united states and has the right to do so. and it will be who will police the police? they don't want to special master. as a prosecutor if someone was challenging my ethics and the court of law and saying let's bring in an independent person to look at this, i would say, gladly. please come in and look at the evidence, look at what we have. if they have nothing to hide, they should welcome a special master instead of fighting president trump in his legal team at every single turn. >> sean: first it was the pass boards, now is attorney-client privilege information that they took out of mar-a-lago, i don't know if that has been returned yet. now it is about a tank team as you have rightly pointed out in your columns as people investigating themselves, why the mysterious reluctance, resistance towards an objective

special master and how do you cite special security when you can have somebody with a security clearance be the special master? >> yeah, look, i read the court filing and i have to say it is one of the most feeble and anemic arguments by merrick garland that i think i have ever read in a court fi filing. no legal standing to go to court, he claims. my goodness, a first-year law students knows that if you are the target of a search and seizure, you have a constitutional right to go to court and argue a violation of the fourth amendment to either suppress it or at the very least have special master review and segregate the material. the other part of what was in the court filing was this crazy notion of obstruction of justice. what is that? you have to prove that a person acted corruptly and with an

improper purpose. and the supreme court has narrowed it further and you have to act in morally with the depraved and evil purpose. where is evidence of that? if the president truly thought he had the right to access and custody of these presidential papers, there is no corrupt intense, and look at the warrant cited by merrick garland, they all require numbingly to willfully breaking the law. and it is where i declassified it and had a right into the records act to have access to it, then there is no criminal intent here. all of that is not addressed by merrick garland, instead they throw a prejudicial and gratuitous photograph and they are meant to be incendiary and

inflammatory, they spoon-fed it to the media. it just shows you how ruthless and depraved merrick garland and his team of prosecutors are. >> sean: that's exactly where i'm headed, and i want to get your take on this, obviously done and designed to influence public opinion. i think it is clear as have all of the other leaks as well. what happened to the merrick garland that said oh, we will do all of our talking in court and our filings. where's that guy? >> yeah, nowhere. what has happened is they have put this picture out so that you would assume and i am somebody who has been in the press and they love to talk about this somebody that has been in his office, this is not the way that it looks. they give you this appearance that you walk in and there are these top-secret documents just thrown about, and they don't understand, something could be

marked top-secret or classified, the professional acts he would have said is declassified, does not get a new marking all the time and it left the office as a complete public spectacle. and i'm not going to stand by it anymore. i've gotten intimidated and people have tried to intimidate me. it's not going to work. you can't go like this and say, look. >> sean: did the fbi do that or was that the way it looked before they went in there? >> yes, i am sure that you have seen the press today, and i do have firsthand knowledge, down there frequently and have never seen that. i have never ever seen that. that is not the way his office works. anybody who knows president trump's office, it is just a joke. they literally must have gone in and taken out documents they wanted or cover letters as it is and put it about so that the public believes this is top-secret documents put on his

floor. it's ridiculous. i can tell you personally and it's ridiculous. >> sean: so what we are really looking at here is the department of justice, the fbi staging a public opinion. would that not all so if all the speculation of a possible indictment, with that also paint a jury pool? and taint public opinion against donald trump by laying it out that way? and shown into merrick garland say we laid it out way? we took that picture and release that picture and he should be answering questions before congress, why didn't you -- keep to your word and do all of your talking in court? and where are all of these other leaks coming from? >> absolutely, and alayna is right, his office is neat and orderly, i could never see him leaving anything classified previously classified at any time classified laying out in

the open, this was made to taint a jury and to taint the perception of him. they have been doing this for seven years, the midterms are coming up and then 2024. they are at the end of their rope and doing anything they can to hurt him. all the search warrants, nobody would ever pull things out and lay them out that way. it makes no sense other than they are still trying to destroy the president. and it's not going to work. >> sean: great analysis all of you, gregg jarrett as always, thank you. when we come back, more fbi whistle-blowers are coming forward to expose the borough's political bias and as merrick garland is trying to stop them and intimidate them, and why did they work so hard to bury hunter biden's laptop? ron johnson with the latest on that and more, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ new astepro allergy.

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♪ ♪ >> sean: as we did report last night, fda whistle-blowers are coming forward at least 20 according to my sources many more. exposing the failures of fbi director christopher wray and exposing blatant abuse inside the fbi. as i predicted it has been politicized and the department of justice weaponized which is leading to a total collapse of credibility for both the doj and the fbi and now whistle-blowers are coming forward. they are sounding the alarm on what is a two-tier system of justice but the attorney general merrick garland appears to be sending a failed threat. and a stern reminder within the personnel, the fbi, the doj about any contacts with congress, but was on add to the democrats loved whistle-blowers,

or do they only like nonwhistle-blowers, hearsay whistle-blowers to attack donald trump? that would be rank the hypocrisy, and revealing their communications with the fbi following the revelations to mark zuckerberg, that they are directing the tech giant to be on the lookout for russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election which prompted facebook to censor the very true and very accurate hunter biden laptop story with the rest of the media. here now with the reaction is senator ron johnson. before yourself, senator charles grassley, jim jordan, do you have a good estimate of about how many whistle-blowers have come forward? >> first off, we need to keep the use whistle-blowers identity protected, so i will not reveal anything about them, but i will

say that he is probably in illegal order. federal government employees have every right to come forward and talk to congress and be afforded whistle-blower protection. and the fact that the attorney general would threaten them is literally jaw-dropping. so the good news is we do have people of integrity that are concerned about the credibility of their agency and are coming forward and starting to tell the truth. and that's the only way that you will restore credibility to these agencies if we expose the corruption and hold people accountable. >> sean: so when merrick garland issued the memo to justice department personnel looking at their policy of communications, do you interpret that to be intimidation and a threat of retaliation? >> yes, i'm not a lawyer, but that would seem to be an illegal order, because again, people working for the government have every right to come talk to congress and be a forwarded whistle-blower protection, so i

don't get how he can issue that order. >> sean: they have been various cysts don't make specific that the whistle-blowers are discussing, and one is the protection of hunter biden, as we know there is very clear and compelling evidence of crimes committed and evidence on that laptop. it also would implicate his father, the big guy about money is and payments and knowledge of business dealings where he made millions without any experience. that would be part of the protection. it would also entail for example looking into parents of school board meetings as domestic terrorists, apparently far more widespread according to people i've talked to and these are things that the whistle-blowers want to give out and the bias to donald trump, those will be three serious significant and frankly even dangerous issues

if, in fact, those are proven true, and i thought that the democrats liked whistle-blowers, why would they not want us to hear from them? >> because it will embarrass them or incriminate them. the bottom line is that in senator grassley's office they have said that fbi developed to the scheme in august of 2020 att the downplay of the derogatory information and the investigation. whistle-blowers said that once the fbi got to subpoena hunter biden's laptop, they said they will not look at the computer and further that they would not change the outcome of the election. and wanted to bury the hunter biden laptop and not investigated properly. they are partisans and we need to expose all of this information. the other thing that happened interestingly in august 6, 2020, this is when senator grassley

and i got unsolicited briefings that were later leaked to "the washington post" for smearing me. so i would argue that it's not only on the 2020 election, but in this wisconsin senate election by smearing me to that leak in "washington post." >> sean: such a good point, is there anything that you can do in light of merrick garland's friendly reminder to the people that worked and the department, any protection from the senate and the congress that elected officials can offer? they believe they have important information of wrongdoing? political bias perhaps? and short of being threatened with losing their job, because that seems to be a very chilling memo, that would have a chilling effect on anybody, wouldn't it? >> sean, there is very strong

laws protecting whistle-blowers, that's what i am saying, his jaw drop with merrick garland issuing an order, it's illegal, so whistle-blowers anonymity and i can offer them the protection afforded to them by law. >> sean: let's talk a little bit about joe grogan's podcast and mark zuckerberg going on there and being approached by the fbi in him being told that the possibility of russian disinformation just before the release of the information on hunter biden's laptop which seems rather convenient to me. which we all know now was absolutely accurate but with almost one voice the democratic party and their friends in the media mob and big tech silenced the story and squashed it by saying that's why the russian disinformation. it was not russian disinformation, and i have seen numbers that 80% of people had

the american people known all of this that this was accurate and not lied to by institutions if you will, the media among them believe that donald trump would've won that election hands down. that to me has a chilling impact on this country if they are allowed to get away with that, how do you handle that? >> first of all we have seen polling that says if the american people would have known about what was on hunter biden's computer, jill biden would not be present. there is no account that they interfered in 2020 farther than russia could have ever hoped to achieve. but again, it is important to understand that this is being led by the fbi. it sure seems that way. it's a piece of the puzzle trying to get facebook to squash information on hunter biden and get senator grassley and i, did they contact the 51 intelligence

officials and get them to write that letter? that said all of the earmarks of a russian disinformation? and it also interfered in the election. these are federal agencies with all of the federal government interfering in our election. it is just jaw-dropping. if you want me to get back in office, ron johnson first senate government.com. >> sean: up to $40 million on negative ads, over 50. >> smearing and lying about me. >> sean: i did not hear you? >> ron johnson, the dark money and they hated and used intel against me. >> sean: the people of wisconsin i think would have a larger say in who gets to pick their senator. senator johnson, thanks for being with us. democrats are now resorting to believe it or not new lows as

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♪ ♪ >> sean: mr. battle for the soul of the nation joe biden will use his prime time political speech tomorrow to launch more baseless smears and slander against conservatives. accusing them of being threats to democracy, but of course sits by silently while his own party is attacking americans every second of every hour of every day and white house press secretary kareem jean-pierre confirmed that to the speech will be filled with more reckless rhetoric and rage.

like earlier in the week when he used the word fascist. speak of the president thinks there is an extremist threat to our democracy and the president has been clear as he can be on the particular piece when we talk about a democracy and we talk about our freedoms, the way that he sees as the maga republicans are the most energized part of the party, this is an extreme threat to the democracy and our rights. >> sean: speaking out against the 574 riots in the summer of 2020, but of course it extends way beyond washington, because a week after the regulators put forward a new rule facing out gas powered cars by 2035, california, the golden state is now telling electric car drivers to avoid charging your vehicles a midsummer blackouts as it is the far left policy going from

bad to worse. a preview of coming attractions to the new green deal socialism that joe biden and the democrats one for the entire country. even elon musk probably against his own financial interest, because he sells electric cars has said repeatedly we need to produce more fossil fuel energy, and hear with marco rubio, you really can't make it up. by a mack an electric vehicle, pay 20 grand more. forget about the mining of mother earth with big heavy equipment run by diesel fuel. and in cold bolt nickel and other minerals, forget the fact that the electric grid to let my greatest run on fossil fuels, get the vehicle, but don't charge the vehicle, you really can't make it up, senator. speak of the problem in one of the critical problems in the left-wing policy like the democratic party these days is that they don't mesh with

common sense reality in the digital world, so they have these policies where we will give battery-powered solar panel, we don't have the infrastructure or anywhere near that. all of the tax levels in the world will not change that, number two, the materials that you need to build these batteries and solar panels are looking at them. and as we pointed out today we don't have the charging stations and if we do, they are not looking at charging the electric cars, the 97% of cars driven on the road by real day americans require gasoline. and we are not providing more of it, and doing things that hurt the economy and really hurt people's pocketbooks. >> sean: so now the president will give the political speech tomorrow which i find pretty interesting talking about the soul of the nation, a guy that referred to have the country as semi fascist, and remember the inauguration speech talking about unity. in almost sounds like are you or

have you ever been a supporter of conservatism and donald trump? that's what it is beginning to sound like to me, senator. it's because they are two things happening here, they are criticizing opposition. so this is what they have been doing for a while, when you look at the fake voter rights thing, no voter rights in georgia for example, gave the speech that anyone who did not support the bill they wanted was a jim crow observation list which is outrageous and absurd, then we sold attacks against the supreme court calling them illegitimate they see you finally meant that these weren't real judges and saw them come across the country and try to kill a supreme court justice in brett kavanaugh. and seeing pro-life groups being attacked and firebombed. the next thing you see is any criticism, you criticize the fbi and you get unprecedented irs, and we are now being threatened, in essence, they have now establish the fields where if

you criticize them, they will claim that you are putting them in danger. today on the other hand do not criticize republicans, they try to dehumanize smear republicans by calling not to republican officeholders, but republican voters everyday people by calling them semi fascist, last week in florida charlie crist running for governor once again here said that he did not want the support of anyone who had voted doors supported ron desantis, in essence, that -- they are not attacking political leaders alone, they are attacking voters, which is the majority, because donald trump won the state by four points. >> sean: as i have been digging into your opponent's record, looks like she nearly votes with the nancy pelosi 100% of the time. i don't know if the people of florida know that. she praised defunding the police which is -- i don't know if that is why you got the support.

and said that the crisis at our border, which is unprecedented, a 30-year high, something that was a normal thing, she made all of those comments, and what is the exact percentage of the time she votes with nancy pelosi? >> no, it is 100% pure and she has never broken from nancy pelosi once. it would be likely she would select her from florida. but it goes further than that. she is flush with money per democrats all over the country are pouring money into her campaign, ron johnson, same thing here. i need people's help. my website is marco rubio.com i ask you to help, because we will be out funded by the far left. she does these zoom calls with small groups of liberals saying inflation is not important, let's put that to the side and not talk about inflation, that is not our top priority. it tells you how disconnected she is from everyday people. but more importantly it tells you how radical the democratic party has become on some of the his ideas.

she is a radical rubber-stamp. it >> sean: they can't run on the border, certainly. will they claim success on that? 40 year high of inflation, record high gas prices, a disastrous foreign policy. we don't have law and order. they support defund, dismantle, no bail. our school system, crtv, age inappropriate materials being taught in school, what are they going to run on, senator? >> val demings says that the border crisis is nothing new when nothing important there. inflation is something we need to put in a corner and not be focused on. she clearly is -- she tries to portray yourself as a law enforcement. she was once a police officer. that's been a long time ago. in the last six years in congress she has turned her back on police departments and law enforcement, that's why they have endorsed me. she has helped the left attacked them, as he pointed on. she will run on the mainstream media and calling republicans and people who vote for them fascists. >> sean: senator, your seat is

critical if republicans are to have any hope of retaking the senate. same with ron johnson, and we will be following your race closely. people should not take any race for granted, i think you would agree with that. ♪ ♪ thank you, senator. fbi personnel calling on director that has now stepped down, a man who knows the real reasons why will join us next. that exclusive is straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> sean: we continue with our top story tonight, the lawyer who is representing fbi whistle-blower says his clients are calling for the resignation of fbi director christopher wray amid his leadership failures and abuse of power inside the borough and how it has been

politicized, joining us now is a retired fbi supervisor and attorney kurt sues dac along with fox news contributor and last night's host of "the ingraham angle" jason chaffetz,u are representing these whistle-blowers specifically what they are saying, i am hearing that there are three areas of concern that have come up, one is prejudice against donald trump, protection for hunter biden, and three it is far more widespread, the fda looking into school board meetings as domestic terrorists, is that what you have heard? >> what i am hearing, first of all, it is that the executives have done some critical wrongdoing and are supporting issues that are actually in fact illegal. and agents have been pressured to do things they don't want to do, and agent should never be pressured to do an affidavit or two forced to go into court and say stuff that they would not

believe. also, there is misconduct -- >> sean: can i stop you for one second? are you saying, and i have read this in "the washington times" that agents are being forced to sign false affidavits are pressured to? >> correct. yes, i have one client who is actually removed because he told his agents not to do that. but this has been an ongoing problem in the fbi because executives have been given a pass for misconduct and now they are looking at a president who is not -- who is being treated just like the employees in the fbi, donald trump is not given the same latitude that the executives and the fbi are given. there is a member report after report of two decades of how fbi executives involved in this conduct are actually at the misconduct, their punishments are reduced, they are eliminated, but with donald trump he is being treated like an fbi employee. and that's what is going on here. he is not one of the super

citizens. >> sean: jason, as you listen to this and look at the merrill merrick garland's reminder to doj and fbi employees about talking to congress, is that a threat? is that intimidation? is there an implied threat of retaliation if you talk to congress? because that to me would be covered under the whistle-blower act which protects people that do that. >> it is clear intimidation, this came hours after there were reports that the whistle-blowers are coming forward and then the attorney general issues a statement reminding people that they can't talk to congress, well, guess what, you can talk to congress and ron johnson and senator grassley or jim jordan, absolutely you can do that and it is clear. and to kurt's points, remember the inspector general has issued more than 1,000 pages documenting the abuse of power

within the federal bureau of investigation from taking leaks and using them in political ways. remember we had kevin kleinsmith who doctored documents and had to plead guilty to that. but barely was he outed it, and there are lots of other examples. and unfortunately for an agency that is the premier law agency in the world, i think they have been tainted. and director wray was brought in to change things in an agent of change and he has not done that. i don't know why he is in that position if he is not going to change things. >> sean: kurt, we have 15 seconds, can you tell us about how many people have come forward they know of? >> there are 20, but fbi employees are whistle-blowers have to go to doj to seek relief, not the federal court. they are stuck at doj. >> sean: wow. this will be fascinating to watch. thank you for being with us. we will take a break, more "hannity" right after this. ♪ ♪

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