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This is pretty interesting.
So, it appears Bernie Sanders now walking back the pledge to vote for Hillary.
Not kidding.
This is a mediaite.
What a difference an hour can make.
On Friday, Sanders said on NBC that, yeah, he'd be voting for Hillary in November.
When he was asked the exact same question an hour later, he changed his tune.
When the day comes in November and Sanders has to cast his vote, to whom does it go?
He says, Well, in all likelihood, Hillary Clinton.
When would you say all likelihood, what percentage?
Well, I don't want to parse words right now.
Wow.
Maybe he's leaning towards Donald Trump.
That'd be pretty interesting.
You know, we had this Supreme Court ruling.
This is how lawless your president is.
And then we're going to talk about the terror attacks.
Obama, you know, the Supreme Court shoots down his illegal, unconstitutional executive amnesty.
Now, he himself had said it.
He didn't have the authority to do it 20, 25 times.
So now the Supreme Court weighs in.
And the Supreme Court says, no, you've got to respect separation of powers, co-equal branches of government.
And Obama announced after that that he intended to prioritize the deportation process so the ruling would have minimal impact.
Among the first to go, he promised, would be illegal aliens convicted of crimes.
Well, it turns out that's not even true because more than 2,000 illegal immigrants were turned loose on American streets after serving prison sentences last year.
And by the way, often because their home countries wouldn't take them back.
That's not my problem.
Put them in a boat, give them some food, and send them on their way, depending where they come from.
All right, I got a lot to say today.
And I know all of you are watching in horror.
You should see the front cover of both the New York Post and the New York Daily News.
I mean, ISIS, the JV team, has struck again.
And I have said at length, I cannot believe that we have an administration that can be so wrong so often on what is the defining evil in our time.
Now, my father's generation, World War II, they understood the dangers of fascism, Nazism, Imperial Japan, and they stood up and they battled evil in their time and they defeated evil in their time.
And as a result, we have had a better, safer world in which we could grow up in.
They rose to the challenge of their time.
I wrote a whole book about evil and how good people have a very hard concept wrapping their arms around evil.
You know, if somebody is a rapist, that is an evil act.
You don't violate a fellow human being that way.
That is evil.
If you hurt a child, that is evil.
Even I think it's evil to kill an animal for crying out loud.
And some people are involved in that nonsense.
There's a lot of evil in the world, and people don't want to recognize it.
Those that can sell drugs that they know are going to kill people, that's a pretty evil way to make a living.
Killing somebody in cold blood, there's some evil involved in that, too.
And you could say, well, then evil is responsible for everything.
No, there's good and evil in the world.
And when ISIS beheads innocent people, and maybe they do 20 in a row, maybe it's just James Foley alone, they take the head and they put the head on a body's back, which I'm sure the president never viewed.
That's evil in our time.
And so the question I have as we start this program today, how does one president and one presidential candidate get it so wrong on so many aspects of evil in our time?
Because it was only a year and a half ago that Obama referred to ISIS as the junior varsity team, almost surely responsible for this latest terror attack, this time in Istanbul.
Took place at 9.22 p.m. in Turkey at Istanbul Airport, which is the third busiest airport in Europe.
By the way, they have a big refugee problem.
A lot of Syrian refugees, over a million have flooded from Syria into Turkey.
Wonder if that played a part in it.
I wouldn't doubt it.
Three suicide bombers killed more than 40 people and some 230 wounded.
And anyway, the attack is believed to be the deadliest ever at the airport.
One terrorist set off a bomb after being shot by police near a checkpoint.
All this is on video.
We showed it on TV last night, just outside the terminal.
The other two attackers blew themselves up outside, one near the entrance, one in a parking lot across the street.
Witnesses described like hell on earth.
Panic everywhere.
We didn't understand it was a terrorist attack.
One paper reported a young woman wearing a brown-pink headscarf rocked softly back and forth as an older woman was there embracing her sobbing.
The young woman's husband was among those injured, and doctors had told her to prepare for the worst.
The worst case in that scenario.
My God, why did you take him from me?
She said, her voice breaking in panic and fear.
You know, those who survived this were obviously traumatized by what they had seen.
One man had landed at the airport, was on his way to the passport control when people started rushing towards him, screaming, bomb, bomb, bomb, gunfire.
Everyone just turned around, started running.
They ended up trapped in a corridor.
Panic set in.
Kind of frightening scenario, not knowing what's going on, being stuck in a corridor, thinking that perhaps around the corner is someone running around with an assault rifle.
Anyway, the attack now bears all of the hallmarks of an ISIS attack.
They took credit for it.
It exactly mirrored the bombing at the airport in Brussels that was claimed by the group three months earlier.
That attack killed 32 people.
ISIS has called for attacks during Ramadan and focused their attention on Turkey.
Turkey just last week made a deal with Israel.
I don't know if that played an impact or a role in this.
I guess time will tell, but they're targeting Turkey.
Why?
Because they see its government as being not as Islamic as they want.
You know, too close to its Western allies, too close to NATO.
ISIS is also feeling the pressure as the Turkish authorities now move to close down its networks inside of Turkey.
A little too little, too late, in my opinion, but for what it's worth, my advice for all of you is stay away from Turkey because in the past year, militant groups have executed at least 14 major terrorist attacks across Turkey, killing more than 200 people.
Then you've got Kurdish militants who have been in armed conflict with the Turkish government for decades.
You know, they struck at least eight times.
Then the Islamic State has launched the deadliest attacks, targeting popular, crowded, quote, soft targets.
And Turkey's grappling with growing domestic problems.
They have deep divisions.
They have a group of Islamists that support the president.
And then you have secular and nationalist Turks who oppose what they regard as an increasingly authoritarian grip on power.
It's becoming more of a theocracy.
New York Times reports that some analysts said the attack might be a game changer for Turkey's approach to the Islamic State, you think.
The U.S. and other allies accuse Turkey of not doing enough to fight ISIS and even contributing to its rise by allowing fighters and weapons to pass through Turkish territory as part of a policy of supporting Syrian rebels.
You know, Turkey, like Saudi Arabia and like all these other countries, they play both sides to the middle pretty well.
You know, if you want to understand why Turkey is the target, you know, you might want to consult a map.
Look at the two countries that are directly south of Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
Does that answer your question?
Now, those two countries have been decimated because Obama pulled out of Iraq, creating a void for ISIS.
He drew a red line in the sand as it relates to Syrian President Assad and did nothing after they used weapons of mass destruction on their own people.
It has resulted in a massive, you know, loss of people looking for some safe haven, some in Jordan, some here, some there, some everywhere.
And the president insisting we take them here, even though we know ISIS will infiltrate that population.
But you have people, Obama and Clinton.
Why is it these people have downplayed this threat posed by ISIS specifically, radical Islamists broadly, to the point that the president won't even admit ISIS, the Islamic State, is Islamic or won't acknowledge radical Islamic terrorism.
They have been so wrong so often on the most important security issues of our day.
It is pathological at this point that they continue to dig in their heels on this.
And you can see now, you know, the jihadists are forcing us to react rather than to be proactive the other way around.
And they're deadly, it's like they got deadly tentacles and their malevolent reach is expanding now throughout the globe, increasing chaos, disorder, turmoil, savagery, evil in our time.
But the president can't say that.
And they, by the way, the jihadists think the wind is at their back.
John Kerry, well, they're doing this because they're desperate.
It has been more than a year.
Oh, I don't want to.
He's a moron.
He's just an idiot.
And Obama and Clinton have barely raised a finger to fight radical Islam.
They can't even acknowledge it.
Jihadists, they view airports, military bases, movie theaters, restaurants, schools, that's their killing fields.
They kill, we condemn the killings.
I'm sick of it.
And then they blame guns.
Radical Islamists are at war with us.
And I'd be a lot happier and feel a lot safer if we were at war with them.
You know, look, go back to the JV team.
Remember the president?
He kicked off his apology tour.
He's going to start.
He was uniquely qualified to start a new relationship with the Muslim world because he went to a Muslim school in Jakarta and with a first-rate access bragged to Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times that there's nothing more beautiful than the Muslim called to prayer at sunset.
He was uniquely qualified.
And he paved the way for, you know, stability in the region.
They would appreciate his appreciation of them.
So he goes on an apology tour.
He withdraws the troops from Iraq.
He literally creates a vacuum for ISIS to fill in Mosul, Ramadi, Takrete, Fallusha with access to oil and financing to further their terror aims.
Then he draws a red line in the sand with Syria, but backs away from his promise to oust President Assad if Assad used chemical weapons against his own people.
Well, that allowed ISIS to further their foothold in that country.
In Libya, the president and Hillary advanced the effort to remove Qaddafi, and the country has since fallen into chaos.
Gaddafi was cooperating with us.
And when it comes to fighting radical Islam, well, he can't even say the word.
The JV team.
You know, the JV team is contained, he said, just before Paris.
Well, they're not contained.
You know, it's, you know, remember, then they said, oh, we got to give jihadists jobs.
Remember the jobs for jihadis comments?
Remember just last week, Loretta Lynch suggested we just need to love them more.
Love them?
You know, the president goes out of his way, bends over backwards, praising Islam, but talks about the terrible deeds in the name of Jesus Christ.
You know, this is beyond dangerous, this rising threat of radical Islam.
And then to add insult to injury, then you got a president that releases terrorists from Gitmo.
Then they add more insult to injury.
He gives Iran the number one state sponsor of terror $150 billion.
And then they add more insult to injury when they help oust an ally in Egypt and replace him with a terrorist from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Guy that calls Jews descendants of apes and pigs.
He got F-16s from Obama and Hillary and tanks from Obama and Hillary and $1.5 billion from Obama and Hillary.
Man-cause disasters, overseas contingencies, workplace violence, anything but what it is.
Now the president's insisting, in spite of what the CIA director says, the FBI director says, the National Director of Intelligence says, former special envoy to defeat ISIS says, assistant FBI director says, and the House Homeland Security chairman saying that, yeah, ISIS will infiltrate the refugees you're bringing in.
He's insisting we take them in anyway and gamble with your lives.
So he screwed up Iraq.
He screwed up Syria, screwed up Iran, screwed up Egypt, screwed up the entire region.
And how's that Russian reset working?
What has he done right here?
What is he missing?
The JV team, the contained team.
You know, it's unbelievable.
Eight years of incompetence, denial, stupidity, and radicalism, all summed up in failure.
And this is what we're going to get with Hillary Clinton, too.
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All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
Joining us now is Laura Wells.
She is a freelance journalist.
She's in Istanbul.
She's in Turkey, here to update us on what is happening on the ground after yesterday's terror attacks.
And Laura, thank you for being with us.
So thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, and it's now worldwide.
It's pretty much every corner of the world.
Yes, thanks for having me.
And certainly it is another tragedy.
We're hearing from the health minister today that 41 people are still in intensive care after 41 have been confirmed dead.
So there is a real possibility the death toll may rise.
130 people are still getting treatment in the hospital.
And we know now that the deceased are mainly Turkish nationals, but out of those 41, 10 were foreign nationals, five Saudis, two Iraqis.
The others were from China, Jordan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Iran, and Ukraine.
And we're learning more about these victims and really heart-wrenching stories.
One young man was about to marry in 10 days.
A man died whose wife is pregnant.
A couple died who both worked at the airport.
And even one military doctor in Tunisia was coming to Turkey to take back his son who had joined ISIS.
Wow.
You're kidding.
Did we just lose her?
I think we just lost Laura Wells.
Laura, did we just, all right, let's see if we can get her back on our newsmaker line here.
You know, this was a sad story on Truth Revolt today, which is a website.
And I don't know who wrote this piece, but the headline is, calls to Omar Mateens, that's the Orlando killer, terrorist, family are now being directed to CARE, the group CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Remember, they're the group that was the co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case, unindicted co-conspirators in that case.
Anyway, apparently, CARE lawyered up a suspect.
This article goes on by Paul Sperry, who was interviewed by two FBI agents at the mosque for 30 minutes on Friday.
The CARE lawyer also happens to be a long-standing member of that same mosque, the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, as well as a friend of the Mateen family.
Anyway, his sisters who work at the mosque own property on the same street, follow local care coordinators on social media, and the small Islamic center has now graduated two deadly terrorists over the past two years, including one worshipper who became the first American suicide bomber in Syria.
Local law enforcement authorities call it a breeding ground for terrorists.
Well, that's interesting.
Anyway, do we have Laura Wells back from Istanbul?
Laura, you back?
Sorry, we lost you.
Yes.
Okay, go ahead.
Sorry about that.
So we've just been learning some of the stories of these victims, and they really are sad.
But what an irony that a Tunisian man in the military there, a doctor with that military, came to Istanbul to take back his son who had joined ISIS.
Unbelievably ironic and tragic that he died at the hands of ISIS.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Tell us more.
What else do you know?
Well, the son had left quite a few months ago, and he came to Turkey because he was going to do his best.
His son had cut off contact with him.
He was going to do his best to find him and bring him back to Tunisia and talk him out of being part of this terrorist group.
And he never made it.
Unfortunately, ISIS got him first.
It's unbelievable.
It will be interesting to see if the son himself reacts to losing his father in such a terrorist attack.
Let's talk about the people that lived through this attack.
Now, the images were pretty chilling and scary.
I mean, we saw the one guy that was confronted by the police officer and shot, and then we saw the explosion when he blew up his vest in that particular case.
And you had the other two outside of the airport area.
You know, what can you tell us about the people, those that are injured?
I mean, you know, the numbers are extraordinarily high.
We had, what, how many people killed now?
What's the final number?
41 injury.
41.
230 injured.
239 injured in total, and 130 people are still getting treatment in the hospital.
41 of those are in intensive care.
So this is, it's just, we don't know if the death toll will go up further.
Typically, unfortunately, I've been following so many terrorist attacks in the past year in Turkey, and generally they do go a little higher with this many in intensive care.
The funeral started today because the majority of those who died were Turkish.
And it's a real shock to Turks themselves and certainly to the government because the Turkish government has been very focused on the fight against PKK, the Kurdish separatist militia that's fighting in the southeast that is deemed a terrorist group by the government of Turkey, the EU, and the United States.
But that's where their focus has been.
So they've had hundreds or even thousands of sorties against PKK in both southeastern Turkey as well as northern Iraq, and so few on ISIS in Syria.
Hasn't the Turkish government been moving more and more Islamist over the years and gotten a little more rigid and kind of pulled back from its Western allies in many ways?
Are you there, Laura?
Did we lose you again?
I think we lost her again.
I think we got, you know.
All right, 800-941, Sean is hot for a telephone number.
Let's get to our phones here.
Let's say hi to Steve is in Connecticut.
Steve, hi, how are you?
And we're glad you called, sir.
Thanks, Sean.
I'm great.
Thanks for asking.
Right, what's up?
Going back to Loretta Lynch on her gun control Sunday shows and the whole Bill Clinton meeting, she had a very well-prepared answer for an off-topic question where she kept repeating to the point about all procedures and policies and the investigation are being followed.
But the amount of time she repeated it and the meetings with Clinton and the donations to the foundation, it was almost like she was saying, oh, yeah, I'm as involved as I could be.
So I'm going to keep repeating this line that we're following every rule and every regulation in the investigation.
Almost like I'm getting ready for the letdown when I tell you I'm not going to press charges.
You can refer to me a month ago saying.
Well, I'd like to know what James Comey is going to do because the FBI has been doing this investigation now for months and months and months.
And, you know, look, next week is the 4th of July.
Then we've got one week before the Republican convention.
And then the week after that is the Democratic Convention.
And I'd like to know when we're going to get an answer as to whether or not she committed any crimes here and whether or not there's going to be a criminal referral.
I think we know her answer.
Well, that's the point.
But you know what?
If the FBI recommends, makes a criminal referral in this case, and many very smart, well-connected law enforcement people that I know, many sources I have close to the investigation, say that they have found criminal wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton.
Now the question is, how deep does it go?
What charges would be recommended?
There's two things that the FBI director can do.
The FBI director could just send the results of his investigation without comment, or he can send a criminal referral.
Now, if he sends a criminal referral and it's ignored by Loretta Lynch and the Obama Justice Department, well, now we've got a major political scandal heading into an election because that means that we don't have equal justice under the law.
Well, the Clintons are no stranger to scandal or dodging them.
Well, but the point is in this case, you know, does that mean then maybe FBI investigators and maybe the FBI director, if they don't act, maybe they resign.
And maybe they resign because the evidence is so overwhelming.
And that's something that we're going to have to wait, watch, and see.
I predict that's going to be the scenario.
If I were to guess, the evidence is there to prove criminal wrongdoing on Hillary's part, multiple felonies violated.
If he writes a criminal referral and they don't indict, they don't bring a grand jury together and they stonewall for her.
I can't see her being elected president.
But, you know, I would have thought of a president at sex with an intern in the Oval Office, lied about it, perjured himself, suborned perjury, lost his law license and was impeached, that he wouldn't have been thrown out.
But what do I know?
Back to our telephones.
Let's say hi to Andrea's in Southfield, Michigan on the Sean Hannity Show.
How are you?
Hey, Sean, I'm doing great.
Thank you.
I'm glad you called.
Oh, no problem.
I just wanted to say, I don't think, first of all, I just love Trump.
I'm a supporter.
I've always been a supporter.
I'll continue to be one.
What do you like about Donald Trump?
You know what?
He just, he's a leader.
He's got leader qualities.
I think his business sense, and I think that's what was appealing about Romney, but, you know, whatever.
I'm so mad at Romney.
I'm so mad at the Republicans eating their own.
I don't know what to do.
Yeah, Mitch McConnell said something stupid today, too, just like Paul Ryan's been saying something stupid almost on a daily basis.
And Republicans speak out more harshly against their own than they ever did against Obama or Hillary, right?
Yes, yes.
I totally agree with that.
I mean, if they're not going to be with him, then they just need to just shut up, just like he said.
But I just love everything about him.
I mean, he's not racist at all.
He's for the human race.
And see, the Democrats try to do identity policy.
Everybody, oh, you've got to get the Latinos.
You've got to get the women.
And I believe their numbers are understated anyway.
Like I said, I'm a black African-American female.
I have two degrees, two master degrees.
I love Trump.
I mean, he's all about business and a bright future and not letting other countries take advantage of us.
And why people don't want that, I don't understand.
I really don't understand.
And anything else in the United States that has illegal on it, we call it a crime.
So why do we make an exception for illegal immigrants and Syrians coming over here?
I don't understand it.
Anything else is illegal.
We stand behind, but not when it comes to slipping people in.
So I just love it.
Can you imagine?
Let me ask you this question.
Let's say I'm the FBI director, and I tell the president and the CIA director, the National Director of Intelligence, you've heard me say this.
And they all tell him that ISIS will infiltrate the refugee population.
Now, Andrea, I just, there's something about the sound and quality of your voice that I know that if you lived in New York, we'd be best friends.
I love you, okay?
So, you know, am I going to risk your life taking in refugees that we know ISIS will infiltrate?
Why would we do that?
Why would we gamble with the lives of the American people and their sons and daughters?
No, I would not.
But keep in mind, Obama, I just heard it this morning on 700 Club.
He was trying, as a child now, Muslim ways.
So he knows about Islam and everything.
So I don't think that's his first priority.
Why would he have care in the administration who's tied to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Come on.
Give me a break.
It's unbelievable.
I agree.
You know, you mentioned minorities.
And, you know, I was looking at polls the other day.
And, you know, the black American community seems to vote Democratic 90% of the time.
Hispanics go, at least the majority go towards Democrats.
And I'm thinking, have they not watched the last eight years that people so disproportionately, negatively impacted by the bad economic policies of Obama, Hillary, and others, that they have suffered more than any other demographic group in the country.
And I don't understand why they don't get it.
Why they tell you.
It's brainwashing.
It's a generational thing.
But don't totally rely on the past because this particular political arena is totally different.
So, yeah, maybe they did in the past, and they still continue because they just think if this Republican is just bad, period.
I asked relatives, you know, why you don't like Trump.
He racist.
What do you mean he races?
He just wanted to get us all jobs.
You know, what are you talking about?
How can you narrow down races?
You know, but I think that it's more to the picture than these polls.
I believe more black are for Trump.
And I believe you can't really look back at the past on anything with Trump because I'm sorry, he's going to win.
All right.
I've got to run, Andrea, because we have Laura Wells, our reporter in Istanbul is back with us.
I only have about 90 seconds.
I was asking you about the government of Turkey becoming more and more radicalized over the years, and I wanted to get your answer on that.
I think that's indisputable, actually.
The rhetoric from the leaders, including President Erdogan, is increasingly Islamic.
The mandatory religion classes in school is increased.
The amount of children that are training to be Imams right now went from 60,000 when they came to rule back in 2002 and now stands at 1.5 million children.
Certainly, Turkey doesn't need that many Imams.
So it's increasingly like that.
And certainly it is more dangerous at this point in Turkey to be a journalist or a critic of the government than it is to be a criminal or a thief or something like that.
And I've seen many such examples where thieves and criminals go free, but journalists sometimes are even sentences.
And you believe that actually you got cut off maybe by the government, that that's happening?
That's right.
I was speaking with another producer in the U.K. earlier, and my phone usually does not drop, has excellent service.
He said that anyone he talks to in Turkey, any journalist, this has been happening.
And then he hears a replay of the conversation.
This also happened with a journalist who is Turkish born, but lives in the Netherlands, now a resident, sorry, citizen of the Netherlands.
She came to Turkey for a vacation, had been critical of the government, now under house arrest, and she said everyone she talks to in the Netherlands, the same thing happens.
The line drops, they hear a replay of the conversation.
She said this is the classic sign of being tapped.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Well, I appreciate your bravery.
Want my advice?
I'd leave probably as soon as possible.
Thank you so much.
We'll see.
All right.
God bless you.
Thank you.
It's kind of scary.
Government cutting off journalists.
Pretty chilling.
800-941 Sean.
Newt Gingrich is coming up.
We also have our friend Philip Haney.
This is one of the founding members of the Department of Homeland Security.
He was directed by the Obama administration to scrub the names of Muslims that had radical ties, which is insane.
And Dr. Zudi Jasser, they both testified yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee headed by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and what they had to say will blow your mind.
That's next, New Gingrich's next, and much more.
We'll have the latest on the Benghazi report as well.
The Great Purge I referred to was in 2009, but that wasn't the last one.
There was another great purge in 2012 when they didn't just modify the records, they completely eliminated them out of the system, which bypasses the security protocol for the Department of Homeland Security.
And it may not have mattered except for one tragic consequence.
The Masjid in San Bernardino and the one in Fort Pierce were directly related to the case of those 67 records that were deleted out of the system.
Mr. Haney, would you elaborate on how potentially focusing on this threat might have helped prevent the San Bernardino terrorist attack or the Orlando terrorist attack?
The networks are made up of individuals and organizations.
Individuals don't exist without a network of organizations.
You have to look at both of them.
That's why there's no such thing as a lone wolf terrorist, because they don't function in a vacuum outside the structure of the community, just like planets don't rotate around the sun without the gravitational force to hold them in place.
So to look at these acts as separate from the community is a flaw because we're looking first of all at tactics, not strategy.
The strategy is implementation of Sharia law.
If we only look on tactics, they are kaleidoscopic and they will change constantly and we can never acquire a target.
If we understand the underlying strategy of the global Islamic movement, then we understand why these organizations exist in the first place.
And then we understand why the people that go there are going to be affected by that gravitational force, if you will, and orbit their lives around that central structure.
That's why the mosque in Fort Pierce is called Islamic Center, because it provides a center to their life.
I'm here today taking time away from my family, work during this last week of our holiest month of Ramadan, a time of fasting and deep atonement, because I could not feel more strongly that our current national and agency direction in combating Islamist-inspired terrorism is deeply flawed and profoundly dangerous.
As a devout Muslim who loves my faith and loves my nation, the de-emphasis of radical Islam is the greatest obstacle to both national harmony and national security.
Wholesale denial of the truth by many in our government and political establishment is not only dishonest, it infantilizes Muslims while lying to the American people.
But it actually emboldens the extremists on both sides of this debate.
That was testimony given yesterday by Phil Haney as he's been on the program before, a founding member of our Department of Homeland Security.
You remember we interviewed him at length because when Obama became president in 2009, all the intelligence that they had gathered over a six-year period of time about individuals tied to radical groups, they were told to scrub those names from the Department of Homeland Security database.
Also, that was Dr. Zudi Jasser.
He's the president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, author of the book A Battle for the Soul of Islam, an American Muslim patriot's fight to save his faith.
Now, in light of 41 dead, over 200 wounded in Turkey, our American government is still banning the use of the word jihad.
A president is still resistant to saying radical Islam.
Now, both these guys testified on Capitol Hill yesterday, giving testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight and much more.
The attack in Orlando, the largest since 9-11, as many Americans wondering, you know, what's going on here.
Now, I have gone over an entire list in the last hour.
How is it this president could be so wrong and say that ISIS is the JV team?
Before the Paris attacks, ISIS was contained.
How is it this president now in retrospect?
Do we look back at his decision to release terrorists at Guantanamo Bay?
Do we look back at the decision to keep open borders?
Do we look back at the president giving $150 billion to the number one state sponsor of terror in Iran?
Do we look back at after the Arab Spring when Mohamed Morsi became the president of Egypt, a former head of the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist group, a guy that once referred to the Israelis as descendants of apes and pigs?
Well, why did the administration give him tanks, F-16s, and $1.5 billion taxpayer dollars?
And the list goes on and on.
Anyway, these two men are here with us today: Philip Haney, who's now my new hero, and Dr. Zudi Jasser, who's always been a friend.
Welcome both of you.
Thank you very much, Judy.
Glad to be here.
Phil, I've interviewed, Philip, I've interviewed you after now the Orlando attack.
I've interviewed you a number of times, and one thing is very clear: you really do believe that the scrubbing of names and information from the Department of Homeland Security database may very well have contributed, or at least would have provided us an attempt to stop these incidents.
And it was very odd to find out that the State Department had warned about travel to Turkey on Monday.
So something was up, correct?
Yep, there's a, I call it a gravitational force, and it's gaining momentum around the world vis-a-vis the global Islamic movement, which is based on the intention to implement Sharia law.
I'd like to use an illustration.
A couple months ago, I was with T. Boone Pickens in his office in Dallas.
Everyone knows he's a commodity trader and a wildcatter.
He was watching his board, a big screen board full of numbers, flashing, turning off and on.
And I asked him, Mr. Pickens, what would happen if I just started randomly pulling numbers off that board?
How long would it take before you would be incapable of reading the trends that you base your living on?
He said, not very long.
And I said, it's exactly the same way in counterterrorism.
When you start eliminating the little pieces of information, what we call the dots, there comes a time when a critical mass is reached and you cannot develop cases to the probable cause level that you need to do in law enforcement.
So you become blind.
It's like driving down the interstate with no headlights on.
You're going to eventually crash into something.
And that's exactly what we're seeing.
The administration's policy is crashing into events like San Bernardino, Orlando, Fort Hood, Boston, Chattanooga, and so on.
But that goes to the heart.
Why would this president, the resistance now is front and center?
We all know he's incapable of identifying the enemy, radical Islamists.
He says ISIS, the Islamic State, is not Islamic.
He's actually said those words, the JV team.
And then you look at the phraseology that they've used, workplace violence, man-caused disasters, overseas contingencies.
You know, they tried to thread this needle over and over and over again.
And now we're bearing the fruit of you not being able to connect the dots because you were told to clean out your file of dots, people connected to radicalism.
So this shouldn't surprise anybody.
And Loretta Lynch is telling us we need to love our enemies.
That's the answer, love.
What's more remarkable about what happened after the Orlando shooting vis-a-vis Loretta Lynch's redaction of the transcript was that is exactly what was happening behind the scenes within the law enforcement community in terms of removing information such as my case and or what we call the rules of engagement,
telling sworn officers that they should not arrest, should not deport, should not put in, you know, watch over people that they kill at the border, but to let them go.
It's across virtually every agency in the law enforcement of the U.S. government that we've been told to stand down or we've been actually handcuffed.
It's only an expression of a much broader symptom within the policy of the U.S. government.
Before Loretta Lynch did that, it was like a vivid display in technicolor exactly what how this policy in the U.S. government is manifested.
We're going to remove the information in real time, right in front of you.
John, I'm sorry, Barack Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, today said, I'd be surprised if ISIS is not trying to carry out that kind of attack on the United States.
Now, we also know that he acknowledged, as our FBI director acknowledged, our assistant FBI director, our national director of intelligence, our former special envoy to defeat ISIS, and our House Homeland Security Committee chairman have all said ISIS will infiltrate the refugee population like Belgium and in France.
So all of this is now pointing in the direction that they're coming right for us.
These so-called soft targets are what they're after.
They've been successful.
We have a state of denial by the administration.
I mean, do we have to start from scratch now again, in your opinion?
I think you'd be surprised how fast we could turn it around if we did two things.
Assuming our allies win in the White House in November, what we would do is go back to the ports, meaning the airports and ports of entry in the United States, and re-up the officers on how to discern, detect, and do cases at the primary level when you come into the airport, for example, and then how to connect those cases with the other law enforcement agencies.
Because, by the way, FBI and DHS do not have reciprocity as we stand today.
They don't even have access to the same databases.
Yeah, let me bring in Zudi Jasser.
I could talk to you, Philip Haney, all day.
Dr. Jasser, let me ask you.
You're hearing what Mr. Haney is saying.
You have been dealing with radicalism in your community, but you're a voice almost in the wilderness.
You know, you look at the literal interpretation of the Quran and Hadith, and you say, yeah, you understand where this is coming from.
And so many others that may share your moderate views are silent because they don't want to be labeled an apostate because the penalty for apostasism is death.
Yeah, and, you know, I was so happy, Sean, that we had the opportunity to finally address this issue because under the guise of political correctness and the cleansing of this lexicon has not only put our country at risk, but it actually demonizes Muslims by telling America that, well, you know, Americans who see the problem within Islam think, well, then Muslims don't want to address it because it's all one monolithic entity.
And we were there to say it's not.
And there were some breakthroughs.
Senator Blumenthal acknowledged the points that I made that our Muslim reform movement that includes 15 bipartisan Muslims that are anti-Islamist, that believe in reform, reject Islamic State Caliphate Sharia ideology, and have not been given platforms because the government, the media are complicit.
And at the end of the day, I'll tell you, Sean, as a patriot, I see our Homeland Security, every attack sort of put on the grill as what did they miss?
What did they do?
You can't hold them accountable when we don't use the language because the precursors to the militant attacks is the non-militant homophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism.
So those ideas, the Sharia-type ideology that is supremacist, if we're not following, how can we hold them accountable in this whackamo program?
So we have to be fair to Homeland Security.
And if we love our country, which every Muslim I know does, we have to then give, you know, in the words of Loretta Lynch, a love, but a tough love where we acknowledge that Islam has a problem and Muslims need to deal with it.
But they're not dealing with it, and they're afraid to deal with it.
Isn't this really, you know, I was listening very closely to the testimony of Philip Paney, and he's talking about Sharia.
You know, that goes to the heart of what Donald Trump suggested about, okay, if we can't vet people properly, we can't let them into the United States.
Isn't there a clash of cultures if you grow up in a country where you tell a woman how to dress that a penalty for being gay is to get killed and women can't drive and men decide if they go to school or work, et cetera?
Absolutely.
And it's a clash of values.
And, you know, some of the senators and their questioning said, well, you know, maybe we just need to work with the peaceful Muslim.
I said, hold on.
It's not about peaceful.
It's not about radical or non-radical.
It's about those who share our values and those who don't.
And our Muslim Reform Declaration did that.
And at the end of the day, I told them, I said, listen, it is about the president's worldview and what partners they use.
The whole reason they won't use the language is when they have conferences at the White House about countering violent extremism, that axis of gravity brings in Saudi Arabia, brings in Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, countries beholden to the Islamist law, to the Islamist identity.
So those people cannot be partners and acknowledge.
They won't let us shift from countering violent extremism to countering violent Islamism.
And then the inner circle of the president is Muslim Brotherhood legacy sympathizers, which I outlined in my testimony, included many members of a network of the Brotherhood in America that then works with these foreign groups and making sure America doesn't counter it.
And that's what Philip Payney was putting together as a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security.
What is your reaction, Philip?
And we have less than a minute here to the fact that the administration was invited to this hearing and they never showed up, not one person.
Well, if they really cared the way they say they care, they would have shown up and they would have shown, they would have spoken at the hearing about how they are addressing the nature of the threat.
But the fact that they didn't come is a serious indictment.
I consider an abrogation of their responsibility.
They're public servants.
They're working for us.
They're supposed to represent the best and the brightest of our law enforcement capacity.
And they didn't even show up.
It's unbelievable.
I mean, it's a dereliction of duty, if ever there was one.
And now we have this very day our CIA director warning all of us that this is all coming here.
And I have no doubt it is.
And it'll come here again and again.
And I think the frequency of attacks ought to alarm everybody.
And the fact that a president is in such a state of denial and has been so wrong so often on the defining issue of security is just unbelievable.
I want to thank you both for being with us.
Philip Haney, Dr. Zudi Jasser, we appreciate it.
New Gingrich is coming up next when we come back.
We'll get his take on all of this.
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It has been more than one year since Daesh has actually launched a full-scale military offensive.
And that's because our coalition is moving forward relentlessly on every front.
Now, yes, you can bomb an airport.
You can blow yourself up.
That's the tragedy.
Daesh and others like it know that we have to get it right 24-7, 365.
They have to get it right for 10 minutes or one hour.
So it's a very different scale.
And if you're desperate, and if you know you're losing, and you know you want to give up your life, then obviously you can do some harm.
Oh, yeah, the attack in Istanbul was a sign of desperation on the part of ISIS.
Remember, it was maybe, what, a year and a half ago that Obama referred to ISIS as the JV team.
And before the Paris attacks, that, what, three days before he said ISIS was contained?
This is the same president that refuses to say radical Islamic terrorism, you know, man-caused disasters, workplace violence, overseas contingencies.
The same people that released Gitmo terrorists so they can go back to the battlefield, gave the Iranians $150 billion, opened up Iraq and Syria with an exit date, didn't protect the gains of our American military.
That helped create a financial base of support for ISIS and a battleground for them.
And I'm not even mentioning Mohamed Morsi, and they gave him, you know, the former Muslim Brotherhood head of Egypt at the time, tanks and F-16s, and a billion dollars.
How could they be so wrong so often and in such denial?
Former Speaker of the House, New Kingrich, is with us.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, although it is profoundly troubling to have an administration that just again and again and again gets it wrong.
And, you know, I think that the idea that the Secretary of State may actually believe what he says is almost as frightening as the idea that the Attorney General actually meant that you could defeat terrorism with love.
By the way, I don't think you can put enough emphasis on this.
That's what Loretta Lynch said last week, that we just need to love them more and have compassion more.
Wow.
I don't think that's what is going to win the war on terror.
Well, that's why I think that we have such a huge problem, because you have an administration which has no practical, realistic worldview in terms of engaging evil.
And when you look across the planet at the two Canadian businessmen who've been beheaded in the Philippines at the, I think it was 13 young girls who were burned alive because they wouldn't submit sexually to ISIS, at the people who were killed in the gay nightclub in Orlando, at the folks who were killed yesterday in Turkey at the airport.
I mean, you look at all this.
This is the face of evil.
And evil has to be defeated.
And to do that, you've got to be prepared to name it, focus on it, build a strategy big enough to beat it.
And there's no evidence that this administration is willing to do any of that.
And that does not necessarily mean that what we did in Iraq would have to happen again.
I mean, you know, one of the things I'd like to see, Mr. Speaker, and I know you years ago were a fan of Alvin Toffler, who wrote the book Future Shock.
I know that you always look to advancing technologies and health.
I've got to believe that technology could probably get us to a point where I'm not saying that all boots on the ground would be removed, but that technologically we could develop these weapons or weaponry that would prevent massive troops movements on the ground going door to door like we were in Baghdad and Mosul and Ramadi and Polusha.
Well, look, I think that there are a lot of things we could do.
We could take out all the electric generators in the region that they occupy.
And literally, we could decide as a matter of air power to eliminate every internal combustion engine so that they had this recent experience where the guys driving the convoy of petroleum trucks had to be leafleted so they could get out of the trucks and run away before we bombed the trucks, by which time the trucks had disappeared and were no longer a target.
I mean, the rules of engagement, if you are a left-wing person who doesn't believe in defeating these people, doesn't believe in the effective use of force, doesn't respect the military, you come up with rules of engagement which are just literally crazy.
What is it?
It's pathological at this point, though, this resistance to acknowledge radical Islamic terrorism or stating that the Islamic State is not Islamic or workplace violence, which we knew was a terror attack or man-caused disasters.
You know, when you put all of that together and then pulling out of Iraq and Syria and not drawing a red line and doing nothing about it, and then you add to that the Iranian $150 billion, the fierceness in which the president fought to release terrorists held at Gitmo so they can go back to the battlefield and kill more people.
You know, there's something that is so off here that it defies all logic and all common sense.
Well, no, it's a question of worldview.
If you went to the kind of left-wing, crazy classes that Obama took as a young college student at Columbia, and you learned that the key to the world was how bad America is, and you spent your life hanging out with left-wing radicals, which you, more than anybody else, pointed out in 2008, you got this more corrected than anybody else in the country in 2008.
And you said to yourself, okay, what would a left-wing radical with no real experience in the world be like if they were allowed to live out their fantasies?
And that's what you get with Barack Obama.
So you get an Obamacare program that doesn't work and is collapsing under its own weight.
You get an assault on the private sector in education because they hate people who make a profit.
Although you'll notice the newest scandal is going to be that Obama's closest friend is now trying to buy Phoenix University, a for-profit university, and is trying to get the Obama Department of Education to approve it.
So a little corruption and cronyism is okay, but honest profit-making is not.
And then you get to the larger world.
The first thing you know, if you're a good left-winger, is America is a dangerous country.
So why don't you weaken our military, reduce our capacity to get involved around the world, betray our allies, embrace our enemies, cut a deal with the Iranians.
All of this fits the undergraduate classes that Obama took at Columbia, which were offered by nutcake left-wingers.
People often ask me my take on Obama.
Over the years, they've asked me, and I said, well, he's a guy that is an Alinskyite disciple, an Acorn organizer.
He learned at the altar of Frank Marshall Davis, a communist.
He went to the church of Reverend Wright and the church of GD America, and America's Chickens Have Come Home to Roost after 9-11.
He started his political career in the home of an unrepentant terrorist, people involved in bombing the Pentagon, the Capitol, New York City police headquarters.
In spite of all of what I learned about him and black liberation theology and what motivated him and where his core was, I would have thought that the majesty of the office and the magnitude of responsibility would allow him to deviate at least somewhat from his rigid ideology.
You know, Bill Clinton had the era of big government is over, the end of welfare as we know it.
You probably pushed him harder to get to that position than anybody.
But I've seen no such sister soldier moment in this man.
He seems like the Manchurian candidate, if ever there was one.
Well, but, you know, but he's not.
I mean, Manchurian Canada was brainwashed by foreigners.
He was just brainwashed by American academics.
Barack Obama got exactly the same kind of left-wing, one-sided propaganda view that millions of young college students are getting, which is why Bernie Sanders did so well on the campuses.
I mean, we won the war with the Soviet Union, and we lost the war on the academic campuses, and the result is today a group of professors who are so far to the left, so out of touch with reality, and who are so engaged in teaching our children things that make no sense.
So Alexander Soljanitsyn.
So the admonition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn years ago are relevant.
Let me ask you this.
We got the Benghazi report yesterday.
It's a before, during, and after scenario.
Before 600 requests for security denied while the Brits and the Red Cross leave.
The during is there we now find out Hillary Clinton, the highest cabinet official on the meeting, four hours into the attack, which they had live images of, they knew it was ongoing.
They're discussing whether or not our military needs permission from Libya and discussing whether or not they should wear their military uniforms to the point where they had the military change uniforms four separate times and still never sent them.
And then a standdown order given to the CIA annex in which eventually the heroes of Benghazi just disobeyed orders and went.
And then the lie afterwards.
Look, there are a couple pieces of what you just said.
First of all, I think we need to close the State Department and re-recruit because I think the level of confusion in the State Department is probably terminal and probably can't be fixed by some modest reforms.
And you get this when you look.
I mean, the idea you're going to ask the U.S. Marines to get out of their uniforms because we don't want to have pictures of U.S. Marines saving Americans in a firefighter.
You cannot get nuttier than this.
You have to wonder, why are these people being paid by the taxpayers to be this out of touch with reality?
Second, it's very clear that the number one goal of the Obama administration that night was not to rescue the ambassador.
It was not to protect the young men risking their lives.
The number one goal was to figure out a story which would protect Obama's re-election because they had put a lot of emphasis on the fact that they were winning the war with Islamic extremists.
And if we ended up actually having been attacked, losing an ambassador to a deliberate attack by extremists, I think they were afraid that it would hurt Obama in the re-election campaign.
And so they sat down and they figured out how to lie.
And then, again, I'm always surprised people are shocked at this.
Of course they lied.
You can't prop up the failures of the Washington bureaucracy unless you lie about it.
That's why the Veterans Administration is filled with lies, for example.
It's why the IRS is filled with lies.
So this was simply the national security lying as part of the general culture of Washington, which has become increasingly corrupt and increasingly dishonest.
Let me then turn this, and by the way, the lie came afterwards.
I mean, we learned in this report that while Hillary Clinton was simultaneously telling her own daughter, the Libyan president, the Egyptian prime minister, it was a terror attack, they were manufacturing, again, live incoming images of the attack, mortar fire.
They were discussing, you know, what lie they would manufacture politically.
It takes your breath away.
The level of deceit, the level of dishonesty, the lack of priorities.
These are Americans under fire.
It shocks the soul and conscience, in my view.
But with that said, and knowing what we know, why is this election so close?
Two polls out now have it a two-point race within the margin of error.
Every major swing state is now within the margin of error.
What do you make of the state of the race right now?
Well, I think that to the degree that Trump slows down a little bit, does more speeches like the very effective speech yesterday.
I mean, I don't know if you noticed it, Sean, but he gave a speech in Pittsburgh on changing our trade policy to favor Americans that was so effective that Maggie Haberman in the New York Times gave it a glowing article.
Now, for the New York Times to print a glowing article about a Donald Trump speech, you know it must have been extraordinarily effective.
And I think if he sticks to the big ideas, the big approaches, he was very good last night in Ohio in rising to the solemnity of the attacks that were underway in Ankara, I mean, in Istanbul.
And I thought he was very effective at contrasting his willingness to be strong with Hillary's pathetic weakness in the face of exactly the same event.
So if he stays in that zone, he's going to get stronger and stronger.
She's going to get weaker and weaker.
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The one I just did took elections in Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Brexit vote, and Iceland, and pointed out that in every single case, the old establishment system collapsed.
And so I have a hunch that Hillary is very close to her peak.
I think with the Wright campaign, that she's going to lose by a shocking margin.
Can he reconfigure the electoral map, which I don't think favors Republicans?
It's irrelevant.
Look, if you switch enough voters, the electoral map follows the voters.
So you're confident.
Now, your name is being bantered about a lot, in case you haven't noticed.
I know nobody's ever asked you this, but your name is right up there at the top of potentially being a vice president.
Are you being vetted?
Do you know anything that's going on?
Anything you want to share?
I mean, I haven't heard from Hillary at all.
You know, I just do this because I know you're not going to answer it.
I just do it just to annoy you.
I know.
I just want to see what your angle is going to be this time.
I mean, I know it's coming.
I know as we get towards the end of the interview, you won't be able to help yourself.
And I just try, look, it is a great honor to be mentioned.
I think Donald Trump will pick somebody who fits what he wants to achieve and how he wants to achieve it.
And it's an honor to be considered as one of those people.
But, you know, Chloe and I got a lot of projects we're working on, and we're not putting any of them on hold at the present time.
All right, former Speaker of the House, maybe potentially Donald Trump's vice president, Newt Gingrich, sir.
Thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Great to be with you.
The Democrats and the White House pointing to Mike Rogers' committee, Intel chairman, and saying that he essentially found different findings than you all found.
Are you saying that his report was not good and that people shouldn't take him seriously?
Yes.
Well, they can take him seriously if they want to, but two of his Intel committee members were on our Benghazi committee.
They didn't sign his report.
They signed ours.
You don't issue a final definitive report without interviewing eyewitnesses.
He didn't interview the eyewitnesses.
He didn't even interview the guy that we found that told us who evacuated our folks from the annex.
And those who did interview, he interviewed them in groups.
And as a former U.S. attorney and a former federal prosecutor, you never interview witnesses and groups.
So I'll let Chairman Rogers defend his report.
Two of his hipsy House Intel Committee members were also on our report.
They didn't sign his.
They did sign ours.
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I don't even know where to begin.
I mean, here, this is a before, a during, and after scenario about how to screw up Benghazi, how to not go to the defense of Americans under fire, how to lie to the American people.
Now, you start with the 600-plus requests that were made by the people in Benghazi, including the ambassador directly to Hillary Clinton for security before this happened.
He raised the question of, well, why did the Red Cross pull out of Benghazi?
Why did the Brits pull out of Benghazi?
Why was 600-plus security requests denied?
That's issue number one.
And then the attack occurs, you know, and there's a meeting at the White House, the highest cabinet official in the meeting at 7:30, this is four hours after the attack.
Why are they meeting and talking about YouTube videos?
That makes no sense.
Why was no military operation started?
Why did we learn that they were discussing whether or not they should send in, you know, the American troops and what they should be wearing?
And people that were on the ready, our military men, ready to go in and save these people, were told to change out of their uniforms four separate times and change back into them.
And they still were never sent.
And then, of course, I talked to the guys that actually were the heroes in all of this, two of whom died-Ty Woods and Glenn Dougherty.
You know, but I talked to Tanto Peranto last night.
He was one of the heroes of Benghazi.
Three times, he was specifically, he and all of his friends at the CIA Annex about a mile away, they were told to stand down.
And then they all decided that they were going to risk their entire career because they knew that their fellow Americans were under attack while administration officials are debating whether our military should ask permission of the Libyans about going in there in the first place.
And then we know that Hillary Clinton created and at this meeting at 7:30, by the way, while the attack was ongoing, and here's what else we know: there was real-time video of the attack.
It's not like they thought it might be over by then because they had video of it ongoing.
And then Hillary Clinton, then they talked five of their action items had to do with blaming a YouTube video.
They cared more about politics.
Meanwhile, from the Benghazi report, Hillary Clinton's email, she emails her daughter on the night of the Benghazi attack.
And she said, Oh, two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al-Qaeda-like group.
The ambassador, who am I hand-picked, and a young communications officer on temporary duty with a wife and two very young children.
Very hard day.
I fear for more of the same tomorrow.
Well, the next day, she told the Libyan president that it was a terror attack.
She told the Egyptian prime minister it was a terror attack and simultaneously was lying to you, the American people, about this being spontaneous and a spontaneous demonstration.
You just happened to have RPGs and mortars in your back pocket, and you decided to take them out.
It's unbelievable.
It's just an outright lie on every level.
Mark Hanna is with us, author of The Best, Worst President: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama, Charles Hurt, Washington Times columnist, Fox News contributor, Breitbart news contributor, and a drudge report editor.
Welcome all of you to the program.
Hey, Sean.
So, Mark, my question is: number one, why would you deny 600 requests for security as this administration did?
Why would you do that?
I think the real reason, the real question is, why would you deny hundreds of millions of dollars in diplomatic?
Okay, diplomatic.
Mark, I don't really have time for your BS today.
I'm not in the mood.
You know what?
Hillary says to move on.
You know, at this point, what difference does it make?
It makes a difference.
Why would they deny 600 separate requests for security when the Brits pulled out, the Red Cross pulled out because of conditions on the ground?
Can you explain that or no?
I can tell you that the Obama administration had requested for worldwide security $440 million more than congressional Republicans were willing to provide.
Would those hundreds of millions of dollars made a difference at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi?
Maybe, maybe not.
But it's kind of disingenuous, I think, for Republicans.
Let me ask you a question.
As long as you say, would it have made a difference?
If it was your son or daughter that died that day, you want answers, Sean.
Oh, you would, okay.
And this report is a good idea.
All right, now let's go to part two.
Now, why do you think that the administration, while the firefight was going on and they had real-time video of the firefight, why do you think that they were in,
and Hillary's the top cabinet official in the meeting, why do you think they were debating whether or not we needed the permission of Libya to save American lives and whether or not our troops should go in uniform or not in uniform to the point that they literally changed clothes four separate times?
I can tell you that Bob Gates, George Bush's Secretary of Defense, told CBS that if he had been in that job at the same time, quote, I think my decisions would have been just as theirs were.
And he says, quote, it's a significant thing.
Am I being clear with my questions?
Yeah, no, Sean, you're asking about warnings.
No, I'm asking this.
I'll ask my question my way.
I'm looking at real-time video, Americans being shot at, mortar fire, and their lives are in jeopardy.
And your Secretary of State, the person you want to vote for president, is sitting in a meeting, and they're debating whether we get permission from the Libyans to save Americans, number one.
And number two, what clothes our military heroes need to be wearing when they go to save them.
And then in the end, even though this goes on 13 hours, they sent nobody.
Nobody.
Now, again, I'll go to this question.
Sean, I think it is that this administration, be it Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, they both.
They prioritize political correctness over fighting a war against an enemy that wants to destroy America and destroy civilization.
And that political correctness, whether it is manifested in their refusal to even say what these people are fighting for, or they're worrying about what people are wearing when they go in to storm the consulate to get our guys back, it's political correctness, and they're absolutely terrified of offending anyone.
Meanwhile, we're facing an enemy cages and drowning them.
Charles, I think you make a good point because remember, we also used taxpayer dollars that went to create the apology video of Hillary Clinton with a translation in Arabic for all the people in the Middle East, even though this was Americans killed by radical Islamists.
But of course, you can't say radical Islam in the world of Hillary and Barack Obama.
And their response to this attack was it wasn't to stand up to the Islamists and the radicals.
It was to condemn some goofy filmmaker that had himself attacked, you know, created this movie.
And of course, nobody had ever even heard of the movie until Hillary Clinton put it on a global stage.
Now you raise a good question.
Now I have a question, and let's see how honest Mark Hannah is.
So at the exact same time Hillary's telling the world and the American people, it's related to a YouTube video.
She is writing her own daughter.
She is talking to the Libyan president and the Egyptian prime minister and saying it's a terror attack.
Right.
So she either lied to them or lied to the American people.
Which one did she lie to?
Or there's a third option, or she had information that wasn't corroborated that she was comfortable telling privately.
In 12 hours?
By the way, and this lie went on for months.
She told, look, she had information that Ansar al-Sharia took credit for the attack.
Thank God she didn't.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
If you don't know the answer, isn't the best thing to say?
But she wrote definitively to her own daughter, I'll read it to you.
Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al-Qaeda-like group.
The ambassador, whom I hand-picked, and a young communications officer on temporary duty with his wife, with a wife and two young children.
Very hard day.
She said the same thing to the Libyan president.
Definitively, it was a terror attack.
The Egyptian prime minister, definitively a terror attack.
So did she lie to the American people when she didn't tell us what she was telling them?
No, she was telling them something based on uncorroborated information.
And thank God she didn't tell us that because you know what?
Ansar al-Sharia, which is an al-Qaeda-like group, which took credit for it, rolled back their credit they took for it.
She ended up telling her daughter and the Egyptian prime minister something that ended up not being true.
And guess what?
No, actually, Abu Qatala.
Actually, it was a terror attack.
Everybody recognizes it except for political hacks like you.
Now, this is the problem, Charles, we have with liberalism today.
I swear that if I had a video of Hillary Clinton walking up to somebody with a pistol and firing a bullet and shooting them in the head, that people like Mark Hanna would say, well, there's this reason for it.
It's really justified.
That's how their minds work.
And it's funny.
I mean, this all goes back to the original Clinton administration, which is, of course, that's where we first learned the phrase moveon.org with that whole outfit that was designed to, quote, move on from that, you know, all those scandals.
And honestly, it's all replaying itself yet again.
And she hadn't even won the White House back yet.
But we're already back into this mode of, okay, guys, you know, we've had this scandal.
It's been boiling around for a couple of years now.
Look, we're all just so sick and tired of it.
Let's just move on.
And it's a real, it's an arrogance that is sort of, even in this political environment, it's just staggering to imagine.
But this is, you know, it's a sense of entitlement that they deserve these positions and that they themselves don't owe the people they serve either their competence, their devotion, and certainly not the truth because they don't care about it.
I have a question now for Mark.
I want to go through a series.
Now, we know the Iranian deal negotiations started when Hillary was the Secretary of State.
We know that that was the time, you know, the JV team is how her president described ISIS, and then before Paris said that ISIS was contained.
We know that Hillary supported the release of Gitmo detainees.
We know that Hillary supported the idea of giving Mohamed Morsi, formerly of the Muslim Brotherhood, who referred to Jews as descendants of apes and pigs, giving him F-16s and giving him tanks and giving him $1.5 billion.
We know that she buys into not saying radical Islam, but it's workplace violence, overseas contingencies, man-cause disasters.
We know that she wants a 550% increase in Syrian refugees, even though every big intelligence expert we have, including our FBI, CIA director, National Director of Intelligence, and many others, are saying ISIS will infiltrate that population.
In retrospect, when you look at Iraq, they pulled out early, ISIS-filled the void.
They never followed through on Syria, ISIS-filled the void.
You look at what happened in Egypt, they support the Muslim Brotherhood.
You look at what happened with Iran, they give them $150 billion.
You look at with terror, they literally can't acknowledge radical Islamic terrorism.
Do you have any problems with how they've managed foreign policy?
Given the list you just said, how could anybody in their right mind continue to support this president and this administration?
I imagine.
And if your listeners are wondering that, my book is just the thing for them.
The best, worst president.
And thank you, Sean, for having me on to promote it.
No, in all seriousness, listen, that is a narrative that, you know, there are things that you mentioned that are true.
There are things that you mentioned, though.
You know, if we think that ISIS is an Obama creation, as some of his determinants.
No, no, no, no, no.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Once they pulled out of Iraq, remember, Ramadi, Felusha, pulled out of Iraq on to create.
Once Paul Bremer went in there, no, actually, all of those cities were won through blood, sweat, tears, and the lives of Americans.
We had those cities under control.
Then Obama gave an exit date, and then that void was filled by ISIS, just like the Russian reset thing.
That didn't work out too well either, did it?
The Iraqi prime minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, wanted American troops out and wouldn't let us stay unless he could prosecute American soldiers under Iraq.
Can I ask you a question?
I don't want that.
Is there any success you could really point to that Obama's had?
Sean, our American prestige on the global stage, the American allies, you often say that Obama has alienated our allies.
Well, guess what?
Foreign public opinion has a higher opinion of American leadership now, much higher significantly than it was under the Bush administration.
Whether it's the UK, Germany, France, Japan, Poland, our allies respect us.
You know what scares me, Charles?
This guy believes this P.S.
I feel like I've seen different polls, but maybe there are out there.
But look, the bottom line is this: that as you point out, Sean, you know, President Obama retreated from Iraq, and you can debate all day long about whether it was a good idea to go into Iraq, whether it's a bad idea to go into Iraq, whatever.
But once we were there, I think, Mark, you would agree, or you can't disagree with the fact that he chose to withdraw.
He chose to retreat.
He chose to give up all soldiers bled and died for.
And now the fact that we're having to go back into these places, isn't that prima facet proof that it was a terrible decision to meet those places?
All because he just wanted to.
It's just a same thing with Gitmo.
It doesn't matter actually who gets hurt and what actually happens.
All that matters is that he is able to say to people.
All right, Charles, I'm out of time.
I got a break.
Don't be mad at me.
Thank you both for being with us.
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Toll-free telephone numbers: 8009-41 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I know it's so much going on that some of you have been very, very patient here on the telephones.
You know, I've been very patient.
I actually gave you an entire day off yesterday.
All right.
Well, there was a big news day yesterday.
And it was a terrible news day, and there's no good news.
And so I thought I would give our audience some good news, which is that Sean Hannity is being nominated for the money.
I thought today was the last day, isn't it?
Tomorrow's the last day.
Okay, let's end this now.
So I figure I get at least today and tomorrow where I get to really be obnoxious about it and convince our audience, who I know feels the same way I do, that you should be inducted.
I really know our audience is filled with brilliant, wonderful, lovely Americans.
You know, the only reason I'm not fighting you is to save time.
Well, why would you fight me?
A woman's prerogative is always strong.
Even for Sean Hannah.
Because if I'm going to get in the Radio Hall of Fame, I don't think that I should have to ask my audience and lobby my audience to vote for me.
Either they want me in or they don't.
But how can they know what they want if they don't know what they want?
No, but they've changed the rules a hundred different times.
I might really want something on the menu, but if the chef is like, well, if she wanted it, she would tell me and just order it.
That's what I'm saying.
That's pretty stupid.
Listen, you know, I'm letting our audience know you're on the menu.
So he's on the menu, and if you're interested in him, you can text Hannity.
His name is spelled H-A-N-N-I-T-Y, last name only to 36500.
Hannity to 36500.
You only get one chance to vote.
I voted.
I tried to vote multiple times.
They told me no.
You actually get a message that says no.
What if you use a different phone line?
Yeah, I tried all that.
I did.
How do they know it's you again?
I don't know.
They just knew.
I texted from like a, there's an app that can disguise your phone number.
You know.
So I figured I would do it multiple times.
You know, not that I'm encouraging anyone to fakely vote.
Now you're admitting that you tried to cheat.
You know, just, I mean, I might be a little biased, but hey.
Listen, I had the honor, and this was an honor.
I inducted Scott Shannon into the Hall of Fame.
I inducted Neil Bortz into the Hall of Fame, and they were two very big nights in my life for them.
But I don't want to lobby my audience to, if they want me to talk about that.
Do you think that the people that voted for them were psychic too?
No, because the difference was they.
I had no idea you believed in that.
They had a different system.
We should actually do a show on psychics and how they're able to help us.
What do you want?
That crazy lady from Long Island?
I don't want her.
No.
Do you believe in that stuff?
Do you believe in it?
I do believe in it, but I don't believe in her.
You think you can talk to the dead?
I believe that there are people that have a gift and they can speak to the beyond.
Really?
And it's like, you know, if anyone can do that, I'd love to hear what they have to say.
If you know anybody you really trust.
I know somebody who we had to test this out.
We had that guy on one time.
That was years ago.
Remember his name?
Yes.
I have a picture, an image of his face in my head.
John something.
I don't know.
And he had a TV show for a while.
John Edwards.
John Edwards.
That's the guy.
I just, I don't believe it.
I think it's a crock.
John Edwards actually does have a gift.
Okay.
I just don't believe you can talk to dead people.
I just don't.
And I believe there's a heaven.
I believe, you know, what the Bible says about the afterlife, I think, is pretty encouraging.
The eye have not seen, the ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the hearts of man what God has in store for those that love the truth.
And I just think that the idea, you know, the fact that we have universes within universes within universes within universes is, it takes your breath away.
And I believe that there is an almighty creator that made all of that and is consciously aware of, you know, imagine this.
It's, what time is it here?
It's 5.38 Eastern Time.
It's almost time to go home.
Okay.
2.35 on the West Coast.
2.38, 2.39 now on the West Coast.
All right.
So imagine that right now it's sleeping time in China because it's a 12-hour difference.
And imagine that we're here.
And so God never sleeps.
You know, it was an interesting phrase.
You know, who do I say that you're?
I am.
It just is present, omnipotent, always has, always will be.
That's pretty perfect.
I think that there are people on earth that are sent by the Almighty, whomever you might believe that Almighty to be.
That come into our lives now.
That come into our lives and might have special gifts because we're all given special gifts.
Yeah, I don't know.
There's a guy who I think is the real deal.
His name is James from Prague.
What do you think?
I was a special gift in your life?
Absolutely.
That's why I want everybody to text Hannity to 36500 for the Hall of Fame induction.
I'm getting to the, let's go.
I'm going back to the phones.
Jim in Atlanta.
Are you happy when you win?
Listen, I haven't thought about it.
I don't think about winning.
I think about I'm not looking at this as a competition.
I'm a Mr. Ninja who dreams about beating people up, including yours truly.
Am I just set up winning for once?
Listen, I'm now hitting so hard I break things.
If I'm going to hit somebody, I'm going to break them.
You know who I'm bringing for security to the conventions?
I'm bringing my Sensei.
All right, let's get to Jim in Atlanta.
News Talk AM750 and 95.5 FM.
What's up, Jim?
WSP.
How are you, sir?
This is Jim in Atlanta, first-time caller.
Thanks for taking the call.
I just want to take a couple of moments of your time and make a point, a point that's interesting to me, certainly, and that is in the light of all the terrorism going on, I was going to try to call earlier on a couple of days ago in the wake of the Orlando disaster.
And now, of course, we've got this Istanbul attack less than 24 hours.
But 20 years ago, this past Saturday, 20 years ago was the bombing of the U.S. military complex at Cobar Towers.
I was reminded of that because I was there.
I was one of the individuals that was wounded in the attack.
And it's been on my mind for many, many years, obviously, since then.
Every time I hear of a terrorist attack, that comes to mind.
And I wanted to remind the viewers that in our news cycles, we tend to see these terrorist events are presented to us as unconnected, individual occurrences.
And that's simply not the case, about 20 years prior to the Cobar Towers.
The Cobar Towers, what people don't remember, you know, the Cobar Towers, the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole, the first trade center bombing.
Everybody forgets this was all in a big lead up to 9-11 and what happened there.
And the fact that you're a survivor, you were actually in the towers at the time?
I was in Cobar Towers at the time, that's correct.
Wow.
And you felt the explosion, I'm sure, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
There was a whole bunch of us together, certainly.
There was, I think, 19 killed, if I remember, and several hundred wounded.
It was a massive blast, left an 80-foot crater in the ground just outside the perimeter of the complex.
But one of the things I wanted to highlight, again, for listeners, is to drive that lineage back even further.
You know, in the 70s, late 70s, when the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun, on that very same day, there was another thing that happened that was covered in the press, but not so much.
And that was the kidnapping of the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan in Kabul.
Ambassador Adolph Dubbs was kidnapped by religious extremists.
He wound up being executed a few days later.
And for me, that's kind of the beginning point, the marker of a lot of the incidences that we see.
That lineage of Islamic terrorism that continues to grow and grow and grow.
The path that we see in terms of their tactic has been perfectly executed by them.
They continue to grow in their scope.
And now we're seeing it on the home soil.
And a failure to identify it means a failure to beat it.
And if I could make one last point for you, Sean.
Yes, sir.
Adolf Dubbs.
By the way, what was it like living in Saudi Arabia?
Well, I was there on a military deployment.
Of course, being in Cobar Towers, I used to be in the Air Force.
And so we were there.
And our time on a deployment, you know, you're pretty much confined to the base for security reasons anyway.
So we were there basically doing mission 12 hours on, 12 hours off, sort of thing.
So not a lot of interface at the time, you know, in the local environment.
Well, and is everything I say about Saudi Arabia and their treatment of women and gays and Christians and Jews true?
My observation was we saw a lot of that, yeah.
It's a very, very strong society in terms of the rules that are played out on the populace.
And anyway, that closing point I was going to make for you was, you know, when you look at Adolph Dubbs and you look at Tehran, when you look at the incident that became known as Black Hawk Down, you look at Benghazi, there's a point that connects all those together.
And the two points, actually.
One, in each one of those instances, the people involved asked for additional security and additional support.
And the second point that brings it together is that they were always denied.
And each of those denials came from administrations that were from the Democratic Party.
And I have found in my observations that Democratic leadership does not know how to take care of our forces overseas.
I've lived many other people have lifted as well.
Thank you, Jeremy.
That was it as July.
I hope we have a safe holiday, but my heart goes out to all the people that have been injured in these various terrorist attacks, and hopefully we'll do something about it.
Thank you for the call, Susan in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Susan, how are you?
I'm good.
Thank you, Sean.
I actually want to show you my appreciation of who you are and what you bring to this country.
And so I really do want to text Hannity, but I need to know that number again, please.
Oh, good.
Did Linda put you up to this?
What's the number?
No, actually, I truly believe that you can.
Oh, Susan, let me be of service to you, you wonderful, wonderful American listening person.
Susan, you don't annoy me, but she annoys me.
That's my job.
I get paid to annoy him.
And, you know, I feel so lucky to be paid to do that every day.
So you can text Hannity to 36500.
That's Hannity, H-A-N-N-I-T-Y, to 36,500.
And we just love you for your support.
Thank you so much.
It's painful.
Thank you.
You know why I just didn't want to write it.
It's painful, really?
You know why it's painful?
You know what you should say to me?
Linda, I'm so glad someone like you worked on it.
Can I tell you why I didn't want to be aware of that?
Can I finish a thought?
Do you want to know why I didn't want to write another book?
365500.
Because I never want, I hate the idea of asking my audience to do stuff.
Now, our advertisers, they're great products.
I'm proud to tell people and share it with them.
That's very different.
I'm uncomfortable.
They're on their phones anyway.
They can text Hannity to 36,500.
Susan, maybe you want to add something to the discussion?
How are you?
I'm good.
Well, actually, I also have something that I wanted to talk about.
On your show yesterday, after every commercial break, you had this speech by Hillary Clinton.
So she's saying, I am not going to raise taxes on the average American person.
People.
Well, you know, that's great, but she should be saying she's going to lower them.
Then she says that she's going to raise taxes on the wealthy, which I kind of think that's not going to happen, seeing how she fits into that category, although she may already have her loophole because she is crooked Hillary.
But the one that concerned me the most was when she said she's going to raise taxes on corporate America.
Isn't that why we're losing our American companies to the likes of Mexico?
So how is that going to benefit the American people?
Is it going to create jobs?
I personally think it's actually going to diminish jobs.
I personally think that Donald Trump is dead on accurate.
We have been used and abused by so-called allies with the worst trade deals, and the idea that he's willing to put pressure on them for reciprocity is a good thing.
And I think Americans have absolutely allowed ourselves to get screwed again and again.
And the people that are suffering are American workers.
Just like not securing the border, American workers suffer because that creates more competition for the 95 million Americans out of the labor force that would actually like to have jobs.
And illegal immigrants work for less, so it drives down wages.
It's a big problem.
All right.
Thank you, Susan.
I appreciate your kind words.
All right, let's go to, is it Danita is in Atlanta, Georgia.
Danita, how are you?
How are you doing, Sean?
I'm good.
How's things down in Welcome South Brother, WSB land?
Hey, we love it.
We love you.
We don't listen to anything else anymore.
You know, I'm a former local guy down there in Atlanta.
Were you listening when I was there?
I don't believe you.
You don't believe me?
No.
No, that'd be hard to prove.
Go ahead.
No, I lived in Atlanta.
I lived in Roswell from 92 to 96.
Wow, that's the best part of Atlanta.
That and Buckhead.
So you're probably real familiar, but I actually was working at Neil Bortz's ex-wife's house.
Was he there?
No, he wasn't.
No, he was on WSB at the time.
Well, I want to go ahead and give a shout out to some friends real quick who we listen to you, and they are young millennials, and that's Aaron and Jose.
Hi, Aaron.
Hi, Jose.
It's all about you.
Well, thank you, darling.
What can I do for you today?
And listen, we need to just kind of encourage you, let the girls do their job.
You are the people's ambassador.
So the more you put up a fight, the more radio time you're taking up.
By the way, do you know what I just said to you?
I was in Atlanta from 92 to 96.
That's four years.
Okay, but that's 20 years ago.
I was there 24 years ago.
How many years?
I've been on the air now.
I've got to be approaching my 30th year on radio.
Can you believe that?
And you're only 27, right?
Yeah, I accessed.
How can that be?
Well, you can do the math.
It's crazy.
Yeah, you need to up update your profile picture.
Why, to show my fat stomach, my gray hair, my five chins.
Yeah.
Well, you know what, Danita?
I loved Atlanta.
I loved the South.
I first went to the South in Huntsville, Alabama.
And I had a really thick New York accent at the time when I was there because I grew up in Long Island and talked about coffee and talk radio and stuff.
But you know what?
I just come to love the and I'm speaking generally, but there's God, faith, family, country.
That's the South to me.
I don't know.
I learned a lot while I was down there.
Do you eat at the varsity ever?
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, I am an actual native of Atlanta.
I was born downtown Atlanta.
So one of the few left.
And I have to eat at least once a year.
Me too.
A varsity hot dog.
I land at the airport, and the first, I beeline over to the varsity as soon as I land.
And you get those.
You can bring your tums, right?
You got to have your peptoes.
Yeah, you definitely need a little previcat or something like that.
There's no doubt about it.
But I get like four hot dogs.
I get the onion rings.
I get the fries.
I mean, I go to town.
Those chili dogs are great.
All right.
Thank you, Danita.
We appreciate it.
So I was there.
The first day I'm on the air in 92, the mayor of Atlanta at the time, Maynard Jackson, calls my show, welcomes me to Atlanta.
I got to know all those guys in the, you know, that were with Martin Luther King Jr.
I got to know, obviously, his niece, but I got to know Joe Lowry, Andy Young, Mayor Campbell, Maynard Jackson, Hosea Williams.
This guy, Tom Hauka, was a nut.
He used to be the driver for MLK Jr. for years.
But I really understood the bravery of the civil rights movement.
