GOP Debate - August 23rd, Hour 1
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Sean previews the GOP debate and gives some thoughts on what to expect on the other side of the evening.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Thank you, Scott Shannon. Thanks to all of you for being with us toll free. A number is |
| 0:04.9 | eight hundred nine four one Sean. You want to be a part of the program. Uh, you know, this should |
| 0:11.3 | not surprise anybody. Wall Street Journal is reporting. Now initially the reports were that a |
| 0:16.5 | plane went down and that it was possible likely that the Wagner group had pergusion. Remember, |
| 0:24.6 | he was the guy with his parliamentary, uh, sorry, paramilitary group. What am I saying, parliamentary? |
| 0:29.6 | paramilitary group, um, that was on their way marching to Moscow with the support seemingly of the |
| 0:37.7 | of the Russian people, Russia mad at Putin. A lot of Russians don't like what it's been going on |
| 0:44.2 | in Ukraine, et cetera. Um, anyway, so the initial report was he may have been on the plane. The |
| 0:51.9 | maybe dead, maybe not on the plane. Well, Wall Street Journal is now saying that this business |
| 0:57.6 | jet that went down, uh, that pergusion, the owner of the Wagner paramilitary group among its |
| 1:04.5 | passengers crashed northwest of Moscow, uh, according to Russia state, uh, task news agencies |
| 1:12.0 | citing aviation authorities, all 10 people aboard were killed footage posted by onlookers |
| 1:18.7 | showed what seemed like the trail of an anti aircraft missile. And then the jet, uh, you know, |
| 1:27.6 | it was, uh, you know, falling out of the sky, one wing is missing. Social media channels close to |
| 1:33.6 | the Wagner group said that the Russian air defenses had shot down the plane, one of several |
| 1:38.7 | aircraft owned by pergusion. And Russian officials did not provide a reason for Wednesday's crash. |
| 1:45.8 | Oh, I don't know, Linda. Maybe I'm just, maybe I'm just, uh, let's say two, two, uh, pessimistic. |
| 1:54.1 | I, you know, the idea that my initial thought would go to this murdering dictator thug, |
| 1:58.6 | Vladimir Putin. I don't know. I mean, that's probably a conspiratorial of me, right? |
| 2:03.6 | I mean, I would say maybe, and this is, uh, potentially. Yeah. And all the people, of course, |
| 2:08.6 | that were poisoned enemies of Putin that died. I'm sure that those were mere coincidences also, |
| 2:14.6 | right? Of course. New York magazine pointing out that pergusion was aboard the jet from Moscow to |
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