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We got Donald Trump Jr. checking in today.
We got Newt Gingrich today.
Sheriff David Clark, Blue Lives Matter.
He will join us today.
Sadly, as we were reporting yesterday, another cop shot now has died at this time in Kansas City.
And it looks in many ways like another ambush.
Let me start with this today.
It is beyond frustrating to me that I'm at a convention.
I see what's going on.
I have eyes that see.
I have ears that hear, not well, but they hear.
And I'm watching everything that's going on.
And then I read everything that's out there in the media.
And I would think I'm in an entirely different country that I'm not living in the United States of America right now.
That's what I think.
Why?
Because you have, let's see, Morning Joe and Mika Brzezinski going on a tirade about Paul Manafort, who is the Trump campaign manager.
Oh, we'll call him Lurch.
All right, let's see what happens when I call Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Lurch, or any type of name, and see what the mainstream media thinks of that.
You got a film critic calling the GOP convention the world's largest lynch mob.
What do I warn you?
Every election cycle, I warn you this is going to happen.
And that is that Democrats, they don't have an agenda.
How does Hillary run on foreign policy with Benghazi?
How does she run on pulling out of Iraq and creating a vacuum for ISIS to build their little terrorist empire with the financing available through oil because they gave up Bramati and Fallusha and Mosul and Decrete?
You know, how do you run on a foreign policy that you draw a red line in the sand in Syria if President Assad uses chemical weapons against his own people, which he does, and then you do nothing?
Well, you just create a bigger vacuum, more space, more land, more resources, once again, for ISIS.
That's her record.
How do you explain after the Arab Spring if you're Hillary Clinton, that you gave the former terrorist head of the Muslim Brotherhood a known and by the way, labeled by the United States of America as a terrorist organization, you give the former Muslim Brotherhood new president F-16s and tanks and $1.5 billion taxpayer dollars.
How do you justify that?
How do you justify if you're Hillary Clinton beginning the process, which we now know that they lied to us about when they started negotiating with Iran, and that's when Adolph Mahmoud Ahmed Jenijad was the head of Iran, and they're negotiating this nuclear deal, and the secret part of the deal revealed earlier this week, they actually now can cut the time in half that they can build a nuclear weapon.
And they got 150 billion U.S. dollars.
And I haven't even talked about this idiotic failed Russian reset that they've had or how poorly they did with Crimea and Ukraine.
I'm not even talking about China as they pursue their territorial ambitions.
How do you run on this?
How do you run and say that you support Obamacare the way Hillary does?
How do you run and say, we need to tear down walls and put people together?
Okay.
Well, that means that fewer Americans have jobs and we're less safe because you don't have enough sense to build a border wall.
How do you run on that platform?
How do you run on a platform that says I'm getting advice on criminal justice matters from the Black Lives Matter leaders who keep going to the White House and meeting Hillary Clinton?
How do you possibly run on that agenda?
How do you run on an economy where your president just accumulated more debt than every other president before him combined?
How do you run on an agenda where one out of five American families don't have a single person in that family that has a job?
How do you run on an agenda where 95 million Americans are out of the labor force, 14 million additional people in poverty and on food stamps, now up to 50 million in poverty, 46 million on food stamps?
How do you run on this?
What do you possibly say?
And then when a convention happens to be going well, you ignore the fact that the president's vice president, that in this case Biden, is the biggest plagiarizer that we've ever seen in the political world, literally robbing and ripping off an entire speech of Neil Kinnock of the Labor Party of Great Britain.
You know, you have Barack Obama caught twice now plagiarizing and lifting speeches, in this case from either Elizabeth Warren or Duval Patrick, which he did a couple of times.
We'll ignore that, and we'll talk about two lines that Melania Trump stole when she literally brought the floor of the convention to their feet, you know, just to diminish the impact that she's having.
By the way, Don Jr. was amazing last night.
I've gotten to know him.
We've become good friends.
He swears he's going to teach me, I've never been able to shoot, you know, Clay when you fire up.
I've never been able to hit the stupid thing.
And I'm a marksman.
I know that sounds ridiculous.
But I'm a pistol marksman.
I'm not, you know, but I've tried it, and I had to stop after like five shots the last time.
I've lost a lot of hearing from radio in 30 years, and my ears were ringing, even though I had double protection on.
But anyway, I've got to know, great guy.
You know, so here you've got a film critic saying this is the world's largest lynch mob.
You got NBC bemoaning the RNC as heavy on harsh rhetoric.
The anger went too far.
Well, if the anger exists, it's probably against them.
And if they're hearing things for the first time, like Hillary lied five times to James Comey or six times to the American people when she lied about, oh, I only used one device.
Oh, I only did it for convenience.
Oh, I had never sent or received classified information.
Now we know those are all lies, just like Benghazi was a lie.
She's telling her daughter, she's telling the Libyan president, the Egyptian prime minister, one thing, and she's telling America a totally different thing.
She tells them it's a terrorist attack, which it is.
And she's telling us, no, not a terrorist attack.
It's a spontaneous demonstration.
They just happen to have mortars laying around in their back pocket and RPGs in their back pocket.
And spontaneously, they decided to take it out and start firing at the compound where Hillary and her State Department denied 600 separate and specific requests for additional security.
It's unbelievable.
But of course, the media wouldn't know that.
And so when you tell that truth, that somebody lies again and again and again, somehow that is harsh rhetoric and anger that goes too far.
Then you got, you know, I interviewed two women on Monday night here at the convention, both of whom lost their sons that were killed by illegal immigrants that had committed, that had prior criminal records.
And what do we do after they get out of jail?
We just let them go back into American society.
Why?
Because that's part of the Obama edict.
The Democratic Party has looked at the issue of illegal immigration, and they're thinking generationally that the odds are that there'll be more immigrants that want to be Democrats than Republicans.
And Republicans are dumb and stupid and short-sighted and not politically savvy.
And they just try and appease big business that wants cheap labor.
To hell with the poor guy in Michigan or in Wisconsin.
The hell with the guy in Minnesota and Pennsylvania and Ohio that are struggling to put food on the table because manufacturing and building and the economy and rules and regulations have stifled all economic growth.
Obama's going to be the first president never to hit 3% GDP growth of any president in history.
The economy is that bad.
And then Jorge Ramos on the issue of illegal immigration lectures the father of a murder victim.
You're never going to see anything like this in your life.
Don't you think it would be a better idea instead of doing that?
And maybe the police wouldn't be able to apply that law correctly with many immigrants who are not criminals.
How about permanent immigration reform in which everyone would go through background checks?
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
How about when illegal immigrants are killing Americans and I went down and listened to a security briefing that Obama had been invited to with Governor Rick Perry and there was 600 and what, 40,000 crimes committed against Texans in an eight-year period.
How about we build the wall and how about we demand that your first act as an American is that you obey the law?
Is it really, that's what Mexico does?
Try coming in from El Salvador, Latin America, Nicaragua.
Try going into Mexico because you think there's more opportunity there.
They're either going to put you in jail or send your ass back to where you came from.
Same thing with Australia.
Same thing with a lot of other countries.
America does it.
Boy, somehow that's racist.
Not racist to say obey and respect the laws of the land.
Bill Mark, you know, here Donald Trump Jr., these are not spoiled kids.
They're not.
They all work.
I've talked to Don Jr.
I've talked to Eric.
I've talked to Tiffany.
I've talked to Ivanka so many times.
I know these kids.
I've asked about their father.
You know, Don Jr. gives a great speech last night.
Eric speaks tonight.
Ivanka and Don Jr. will be on Hannity tonight.
Remember, we start an hour later at 11 when the speeches stop.
Also, Newt Gingrich will be with us, and also Laura Ingram and a whole bunch of other people.
You know, they're great kids.
What does Bill Maher say?
He compares Trump's sons to date rapists on an after-school special.
Really?
Kids that, what?
A lot of rich New York kids, spoiled brat parents, and those kids are doing Coke and heroin, and they're alcoholics, and they're drunks, and they're deadbeats, and they live their life on their father and mother's dime, and they ruin their lives.
Donald Trump doesn't allow that.
It's either you go to school or you go to work or you don't get anything.
And every penny, look, Don Jr., Don Jr. said, I don't get to use my father's plane.
That's his plane.
I don't get to, everything I get, I've got to earn.
And he explained growing up how he was taught the value of a dollar, taught that you had to work hard to earn what you want to make in life.
And that nothing should stop you and nothing also should be given to you.
I think it's a challenge for some parents when they get money that they want to give their kids a lot of stuff, but you can end up spoiling them rotten if you don't have any demands on them.
Then you got Tom Brokaw and Bob Schieffer bemoaning the GOP's big hate for Hillary, accusing her of everything.
No, how about you guys didn't do your job exposing her as corrupt and lying and manipulative?
That's what really happened.
CNN, they have a panel questioning the GOP's dedication to gun rights, tone deafness to big critics.
CNN is unwatchable to me.
It's so left-wing.
Chris Matthews, quote, bloodthirsty GOP delegates ready to kill Clinton.
Look, is it hyperbole?
Is it because he has nobody watching his show?
I don't know.
I see the ratings.
Nobody is watching MSNBC at this convention.
Nobody.
It's almost like you could put bar and tones up, and it would rate higher than Chris Matthews.
Although Chris Matthews did quote me, apparently, last night, Sweet Baby Jane, where'd you find this Media Research Center?
And he said, We're being treated so nicely here.
You're constantly meeting people.
They want selfies.
They're incredibly friendly.
And he goes on, I hope it's the same next week when they bring in their columns of conservative commentators like Hannity.
And I hope they get the same treatment.
They may not deserve the same treatment, but they ought to get it.
Now, first of all, how dumb is that?
They may not deserve the same treatment, but they ought to get it.
I'm like, yeah, we got the audio.
I won't play it now.
But here's the point.
Okay, I go to the Republican convention.
I've been to Democratic conventions.
Sometimes it's been nice, and sometimes it's ugly.
So I'll have literally five black belts surrounding me when I walk through the convention hall in Philadelphia.
You've got other networks.
MSNBC spent six minutes with code pink protesters.
There's no code pink protesters here.
You see one guy in the street with a sign and you've got 75 reporters or wannabe reporters with a camera and a microphone thinking they're reporters, thinking this is a big story.
One guy with a sign.
It's not happening.
You've got a, it was a Cleveland.com promoted an anti-Trump rally for Tuesday.
That's not supposed to happen until Thursday.
You've got ABC denouncing Chris Christie as inciting a mob.
How dare he prosecute the case as effectively as he did last night against Hillary Clinton?
Unbelievable.
And I can go on from here.
LA Times suggesting a military coup against Donald Trump.
You know, the world's largest lynch mob, this guy says.
MSNBC defending past plagiarism of Biden Obama and condemning Melania's quote moronic plagiarism.
Well, actually, it was a staff member of Trump who actually admitted it.
You know, Chris Matthews, bloodthirsty GOP delegates ready to kill Clinton.
This is not happening here.
I am here, and I'm telling you, you're being lied to.
Unbelievable.
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Now we're going to be joined by Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump Jr. coming up in the course of the program.
Sheriff David Clark of Milwaukee, he brought the house down the other night.
He'll join us today.
Also, another police officer killed, this time, well, I should say, assassinated, this time in Kansas City.
We'll get to that.
We'll check in with Pastor Darrell Scott.
He's a local pastor here, very popular, the Reverend Charles Christian Adams.
So much more.
A good slate of speakers tonight.
You've got, well, you've got, let's see, Eric Trump.
He's got to now top his brother, Don Jr.
Don Jr. is in the focus group of Frank Luntz.
His numbers went through the roof.
Mike Pence, the choice for VP of Donald Trump, will speak tonight.
Newt Gingrich, he has a pretty long speaking time tonight.
It's going to be interesting.
Ted Cruz takes to the stage.
Will he or won't he live up to his campaign pledge and promise that he would endorse the eventual nominee, Laura Ingram speaking.
So anyway, it's really good.
I think the thing I liked about Don Jr., for my father, impossible is just the starting point.
I love people that are willing to break through their comfort zone.
I love people that, you know, they want to do big things and they're willing to take risks to do them.
And sometimes you don't always achieve what you want, but most times you do.
And then Chris Christie laying out Clinton last night in the indictment of Clinton.
That was pretty interesting.
Ben Carson was pretty interesting last night and much, much more.
You know, Frank Luntz's group, we'll have one tonight, 1101 Eastern.
You know, he said Trump is the epitome of the American dream.
Fascinating way to put that.
And people are seeing him that way.
And unlike, say, Mitt Romney was kind of apologizing all around about his wealth, Donald Trump's saying, no, this can happen to you.
This can happen if you do these things that I did.
And let me get government out of the way and regulation out of the way and high taxes out of the way and let's stimulate the economy.
Certainly better than where we are now by every objective measure.
A follow-up to the Melania Trump speech that the Democrats tried to make a big deal about, there was apparently a staffer.
And you know what?
Why would I want to mention this poor girl's name?
What's the point?
It was two lines.
Joe Biden's a plagiarist that stole an entire speech.
You know, Barack Obama stole Duval Patrick's speech.
I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me.
I'm asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.
I'm not just asking you to take a chance on me.
I'm also asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.
I could keep going.
We played a lot of this yesterday.
So anyway, the woman said, hey, I was on the phone with Melania, and she was discussing people who had inspired her and speeches that she had been reading, and she wrote it down.
And it ended up coming back in the speech as a thought that she had given them, even though she had given attribution.
Frankly, an innocent mistake.
The speech was still, you know, Newt, I think, had a good line about that.
It's such nonsense that the media has nothing to cover here.
So they fixate on the insignificant just, you know, because she did hit a really good grand slam, as Newt said, and then they want to turn it into at least a double.
They can't have her, you know, they can't allow the Trumps to become a fascination with the American people and become almost JFK-like, you know, Camelot.
Why could we let that happen?
There's a report today that is very disturbing to me.
It really bothers me a lot.
You know, there is a lot of sore losers in this process that we've learned about, and especially people that were running that said they would support the eventual nominee.
That really annoys me.
The Washington Examiner today says that Gary Johnson hinted that former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush might considering it might be considering an endorsement.
Oh, so I guess Jeb Bush then wants Hillary Clinton picking the Supreme Court nominees for the country because that's exactly what he's going to help do if he does that.
Anyway, Trump does have a plan to fire as many Obama appointees as possible.
By the way, that's a great idea.
Thank goodness.
You don't want to keep people that are supportive to another party and another presidency in and around working for you because they're only going to sabotage you.
There seems to be a movement among conservatives urging Ted Cruz tonight to endorse Donald Trump.
Now, politico rights, they volunteered for Ted Cruz.
They gave him money.
They still adore him.
But it's time even some of his longtime loyalists are saying for Cruz to finally endorse Trump.
Now, there's no indication from anybody that I've talked to that Cruz will endorse tonight, but he will address the RNC convention tonight.
Now, as Iowa chairman, members of his home state delegation, Cruz's top supporters, are now on board with Trump.
And many hope that Cruz gets on board too for the sake of the party.
You know, I would think Ted Cruz on the one issue, even of Supreme Court justices, would be there.
Or building the wall would be there.
Or that energy independence would get him there.
Or schools, you know, the issue of schools being sent back to the states would get him there.
And vouchers and all sorts of other things would get him there.
Anyway, so that's pretty much all the news that we have here.
What else do we got?
We got a new poll finds that race relations have hit an all-time low under Obama.
Rasmussen's survey released today, after seven-plus years of Obama's leadership, race relations in America is at an all-time low.
And for the first time in his presidency, a majority of Americans believe that race relations have gotten worse under Obama, and many say because of Obama.
By the way, a CNN anchor was out there complaining about anti-Hillary chanting at the GOP convention.
Let's see if they'll be as upset when there's anti-Trump chanting at the Democratic convention.
Those are the types of things that happen.
Paul Ryan talked about his conservative vision last night.
I don't know if this means that Ryan and Trump are getting along better.
Frankly, it's been a pretty despicable process from my perspective.
And Scott Walker, who was on with me last night, I've always liked Scott Walker.
He's the governor of Wisconsin.
He's done a great job.
He's a great guy.
You know, he says that Paul Ryan now is in this fight for his life in a primary.
And I've had a lot of people asking me to endorse his opponent.
I don't know the guy.
I've never met him.
I've got to find out about him.
Chris Christie, I thought, was superb last night.
I know it was one of the best moments that I have seen for him.
He was criticized heavily in 2012 for talking too much about New Jersey and himself.
What else is going on?
Not a whole lot that's worth talking about.
I'm not really talking anymore about the Never Trump movement.
It doesn't mean a thing to me.
It died.
It's over.
This is the candidate.
I'm telling you what he has promised me in interviews, meaning Trump.
I've told you, I've interviewed Pence, energy independence.
They want conservative, originalists, constitutionalists as Supreme Court justices.
They want to balance the budget, build up our military, energy independence, school choice.
They want to fix the VA.
That's an agenda I can support.
And I think he's going to do it.
I don't know why Jeb Bush said, oh, he's never going to build that wall.
Why not?
Why wouldn't he?
You know, but look, the convention is step one.
You've got coming out of these conventions a 12-week sprint.
Remember, I told you at the beginning of the year and before I left for vacation at Christmas last year, it is going to fly by.
You're going to go to Iowa.
You're going to go to New Hampshire.
You're going to go to South Carolina.
And it is going to fly by.
And now here we are at the conventions.
Then you've got this 12-week sprint.
Now, in that time, you know, you've got to decide what's the strategy going to be.
You got to decide how you want to, let's say, position your opponent.
In other words, the narrative you want to advance about how bad they are.
And Hillary, it's simple.
She has no ethics.
She lies.
She's as left as Obama.
And basically, you're getting the same thing on steroids, except a little less honest and certainly less inspiring.
Somebody said last night, a good line.
But you're really getting, what you're getting in her is a continuation of what has failed.
That's your choice when you go in the ballot box in November.
In other words, she is the embodiment of Washington corruption.
She is the embodiment of everything that this year in this country has not been.
She is establishment at a moment that clearly the country wants dramatic change and a dramatic shift in governance.
Also, the Trump campaign, I think they need to make a judgment about whether or not they want to go out there and how exactly they want to project their message.
I think it's simple.
A couple of things I would do, and I've talked about this before.
If I was Trump, I'd say Rudy is going to be in my cabinet, probably Department of Homeland Security.
I would say that after prosecuting the case last night against Hillary, that probably it's a good bet Chris Christie could be the Attorney General.
I would mention somebody like Ben Carson to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services or somebody else who spoke the other night, General Flynn, maybe he's the Department of Defense.
Maybe he's the head of the CIA.
I would go out and name somebody like Bobby Jindal.
He had effective governance there.
Pam Bondi is speaking tonight, the Attorney General of the state of Florida, another rock star that really can add to the cabinet that Trump wants to build.
In other words, what I was calling a team of rivals.
I also love the idea.
I always thought the contract with America works.
People have the greatest distrust of government that we have seen in our lifetimes.
What about Trump's promises to America?
And all the things that I just mentioned to you, he puts down on paper that he wants to accomplish and he'll work towards accomplishing in the first term.
I think that would be a pretty good idea for the campaign.
You know, I think they need to focus on the states.
I think they got to go after states like New Jersey.
You know, he was only down 12 points in New York.
It may sound like a lot, but normally, Elliot Spitzer, I mean, he would win by like 40 points.
Democratic governors would win by 40 points in New York, except when Pataki was in office, and he was a pretty liberal Republican.
You know, he's got to go after states like New Jersey.
I think his message about trade and other issues is resonating in states like Pennsylvania.
His energy message is resonating in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and places like Michigan and Wisconsin.
Love to see those states in play.
He's got to get North Carolina, got to get Florida, got to get Ohio.
Virginia was dead even this week.
And then you look at states.
He's up by one in Iowa, a very important state.
He's got to look at New Hampshire, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada.
That's it.
Those are the most important states.
That's it.
And that's the ballgame.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones.
W-O-K-V in Jacksonville.
Joe, you're up first.
How are you?
Welcome to Cleveland, the RNC Convention, and the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi, Sean.
Great to be with you.
You're a great American.
Thank you.
I just want to say Don Jr. is a rock star.
He is just awesome.
He went out last night and did an absolute excellent job at promoting not only what his father wants to do, but promoting his father himself.
And it just, to me, it just, it sealed the deal for so many people that had any type of question about Donald Trump, I think got answered last night by Donald Trump Jr.
And he is just, he is, the whole family is awesome.
I know you know him.
You know them a lot better than I do.
But they are all awesome, and he has a bright future in politics.
Or if he wants to stay in the private sector, he's got a bright future no matter where he is.
Probably of all the kids, I'm closest to the boys, Don and Eric.
I thought Tiffany did a great job too last night.
I thought she was pretty amazing.
Look, my job is to tell you the truth.
My job is to give you insight, perception, and feelings that I have.
I'm not a journalist.
I'm a talk show host.
I have opinions.
I have never met a family of kids as impressive as this family.
They're just amazing kids, every one of them.
And I think they are a tremendous asset to their father in his pursuit of the highest office in the world.
And I think Don Jr. just knocked it out of the park.
I'm not going to lie.
I've seen Eric Trump's speech.
It is, you're going to have to flip a coin which one's better.
So I've been very impressed with them.
And I think they soften him a little bit.
I don't know why it is that if somebody is, you know, you speak the truth, you're politically incorrect.
You're immediately deemed controversial.
Well, that's not controversial if you tell the truth that everyone else is afraid to tell.
It's actually called refreshing.
And I think the kids, you know, you see how successful they are, how poised they are, how nice they are.
And I think certainly he's doing something right.
There's no doubt about it.
Nathan Lynchburg, Virginia, the home, of course, of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., who will be speaking tomorrow night.
Nathan, how are you?
We're glad you called.
I am great, Sean.
I am excited for once politically.
I'm enthralled.
I'm excited to hear about what Cruz is going to talk about tonight.
I know for a fact that he is a man of his word, and I have no doubts, unlike all the other candidates up there who promised to jump on board.
John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, Jeb Bush, all these people that made a promise and don't care about what they said.
Their word means nothing.
They are the chaff that's in the wheat, that's being burned away.
They are the ones why Donald Trump is where he's at.
But let me tell you something about Cruz.
He's a great man, and I can't wait till he joins in on this team.
And I can't wait to take Washington back and take America back and make it safe, make it great.
All those wonderful slogans are not just slogans with Donald Trump.
He's actually going to do it.
And you know what?
With this, the righteousness that I've got.
Real quick, I got a break.
Yep.
All right.
There's a lot more evil out there.
But thanks, Sean.
I'll let you go then.
All right, my friend.
I appreciate your call.
Thank you.
Hey, several laws.
By the way, we're loaded up today.
Don Jr. is up in the next hour.
New Kingrich in the next hour.
Sheriff David Clark is coming up.
Pastor Daryl Scott, the Reverend Charles Christian Adams, and more in Cleveland at the RNC convention.
I know my father.
I know that when people tell him it can't be done, that guarantees that he gets it done.
I know that when someone tells him that something is impossible, that's what triggers him into action.
When people told him it was impossible for a boy from Queens to go to Manhattan and take on developers in the big city, rather than give up, he changed the skyline of New York.
I've seen it time and time again, that look in his eyes when someone says it can't be done.
I saw that look a little over a year ago when he was told he couldn't possibly succeed in politics.
Yes, he did.
For my father, impossible is just the starting point.
That's how he approaches business projects.
That's how he approaches life.
Whether it's teaching his granddaughter how to swing a golf club or tackling the toughest negotiations, he's always fully committed.
That's why the person who had never run for office before stood on the stage 11 months ago in this very arena with 16 professional politicians.
And this week, that same man will stand before you as our party's nominee for the President of the United States of America.
All right, that was Don Jr. speaking last night at the Republican National Convention.
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Also, his sister Tiffany spoke.
Eric Trump will speak tonight.
Ivanka Trump will speak on Thursday night and introduce her father.
We have Ivanka and Don Jr. on Hannity tonight on the Fox News channel, but joining us now, he's been with us all week with his analysis and his insight.
His former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, you know, Frank Luntz actually had a focus group last night, and they went nuts over Don Jr. speech.
They loved it.
They want him to run.
And it was, he said, one of the best responses he's ever seen.
Well, I think that's right.
I heard Frank say at one point that a star was born.
And I think that's true.
I was talking to Don Jr. later last night, and he was still a little bit overwhelmed by the reception he'd gotten.
But, you know, the sincerity, the intelligence, the enthusiasm that came out of his speech was just electrifying.
Virtually everybody I've seen thinks it was one of the really highlights of the convention.
It hit me that this is the first family convention I've ever gone to.
Explain the difference.
What do you mean by that?
You get Melania on Monday night.
You get Don and Tiffany on Tuesday.
You get Eric tonight.
You get Ivanka and Donald on Thursday.
I mean, it's an amazing coming together of the entire Trump family, but in a way that each of them is introducing a component of Trump and doing so with great authenticity and great sincerity.
And I'm looking forward very much to seeing how Eric does tonight.
He's got a great speech.
It's a very serious speech, and he's thought about it personally a great deal, I know, because I talked to him over a week ago about it.
Yeah, I talked to him about a week and a half ago about it, too.
And he just wanted an insight what it was like to give the speech on that floor.
And it's more difficult than people would know because a lot of times being on that stage, there's so much activity in front of you that you kind of forget that there's this huge audience of 30 million people watching at home.
That's right.
And you've got to somehow reach both audiences because they feed off of each other.
So you can't be just purely a vaudevillian and focus on the people in the arena because that makes the speech too hot.
But you can't be too cool or the audience in the arena will go cold on you and then the audience at home will notice that.
So it's a very interesting balancing act.
But I think so far, Melania did it beautifully.
Tiffany, by the way, got a huge coverage in the Daily Mail.
Bess Kelly on our team is an avid Daily Mail reader, and she said Tiffany got more coverage today, more favorable pictures, more favorable headlines, than Kate Middleton ever gets.
And I think that's quite an accomplishment for a young lady who, this was her first big speech in front of an audience, and she knocked it out of the park.
It really is amazing.
It really is amazing, I think.
Everybody that, you know, I go out and about and I meet a lot of people, and obviously people know what I do for a living, and that I interview politicians and people in the public eye on a regular basis.
And they ask me questions about you, by the way, quite often.
You're speaking tonight.
I would not be shocked if there was a chant newt, newt, newt, like happened in, I think it was Cincinnati.
And I know, and you know what that's like.
We've been in the public eye together, you know, 25 years.
We've known each other that long.
But it is amazing.
The next question they want to ask me is about Donald Trump's kids.
Now, Donald Trump is a hard-driving businessman, and he's got these kids that are beyond impressive.
And I think for some, there's a disconnect that, well, how can somebody that brash, outspoken, hard-charging have these wonderful kids?
And the answer for me is simple.
You know, just because you're a hard-charging businessman and a tough negotiator and you're willing to speak your mind and you can say controversial things doesn't mean you're not a nice person.
Plus, I think, as they explain it to me, and I've sat and talked with Eric and Don Jr. and Ivanka and Jared about this.
You know, they actually had to go work.
I mean, these weren't billionaires' kids who just got money for free.
They had to go out at a very early age.
They had to do real work in construction.
The boys both are very comfortable driving Caterpillar tractors.
And it's a fascinating thing to talk to them and realize that, you know, the Donald believed you have to learn from the ground up.
You have to do real work.
You have to be responsible.
And that's what he nurtured.
And you see the result when you watch them.
And you see the quality of the speech you got last night and the quality of the speech that I think you're going to get tonight, tomorrow night from Ivanka.
So that to me is the biggest takeaway from this convention.
This is the first time I've been to a convention in which the entire family has played such a significant role and has done it so well.
And part of that, I think, is because Donald Trump is a phenomenon.
None of us fully understand him.
So there's probably a lot more curiosity about the Trumps than you would get for normal politicians.
People are just kind of, you know, what makes this family tick and what are they like?
And I think that they have done an excellent job of representing them.
And the enthusiasm here, I think, is just through the roof.
People are having fun.
They're enjoying it.
It's quite, you know, it's a big deal.
And Klista and I are both looking forward to speaking tonight.
And we reckon, in fact, we were out together on the stage a couple hours ago when the hall was pretty empty, just checking out the sound system and how everything will work.
And it's a very attractive thing.
Maybe the best sound system I've ever had in a big convention.
You know, it's hard.
A lot of times there's that echo.
By the way, we were just spending the last seven minutes talking about Don Jr.
And guess who just called in?
Donald Jr.
What's going on, guys?
How are you?
We're on with New Kingrich.
Listen, I've got to tell you, so last night, and we just played a portion of your speech.
I'm not sure if you wanted to go back and hear it again, but we played a portion of it.
I kind of know it right now.
Yeah, I think you I would assume considering you wrote it, you know it by now.
But so we did a Frank Lunt's focus group after your speech, and Newt Gingrich just used the words, and I think it's right, that a star is born.
I said this back months ago.
I see a future in politics for you.
Well, Sean, you definitely called it early because I think after our first real interview, you said that.
So we'll see.
I have a lot to do still within my career, but it was pretty awesome to get up there.
To be able to do that yesterday was pretty emotional, and I don't use that word lightly.
It's not really a word I talk about all that much, but today, because to be able to throw my father over the top in the delegate count, you know, for our party's nominee for the president of the United States, and then to be able to go out and speak on that platform, it was just awesome.
It was incredible.
You know, for a lot of people, that would be intimidating.
One of the things Speaker Gingrich and I were just talking about is all of you, meaning you, your brother, your sister, Jared, your brother-in-law, Tiffany, who did a great job last night also.
You bring so much to the table.
And I said, all right, so some people say, here's your dad, a hard-charging businessman.
He's tough.
He fights.
He is deemed controversial by taking a tough stand on positions.
And then everyone looks at the family and say, wow, he's got the nicest kids.
As somehow you can't be a hard-charging businessman and state the truth, even if it's controversial and not be a nice person.
No, no, no.
You can't do that if you're a conservative.
You can do that if you're on the other side.
But you can't be nice and conservative at the same time.
So, you know, again, it was great to be able to get up there to still utilize the platform and hit some of the issues that are so meaningful to me as an American, as a father, as a father of five, but also to be able to show another side of my phone.
Because I always say, you know, with my dad, he's the most famous person that so few people really know because he doesn't talk about those things.
He doesn't bring his grandkids to do the obligatory photo op and try to pander to that demographic.
Because I think in his mind, we're at a point where we're sort of past that.
It's a little too serious to do just those kind of things.
And so he likes to talk about the issues.
He likes to talk about his business record.
He likes to talk about those things and not get into the more sentimental, emotional sides.
But he does have a lot of things.
It's got to be a cool thing, though.
I mean, you have your father's name, and here you are, and you get a chance.
What I felt about the speech last night, and then I'll ask Newt about this too, is that you got to lay out the case for the person that you know and the positions that he's going to take and the choices that this country faces.
Because I view this as one of the biggest choice elections this country has had ever.
So, I mean, that's a pretty cool thing, right?
Yeah.
It is, yeah, it's surreal.
I mean, to be able to be there.
And again, we know him well, he's always going to make up his own mind, but I think, you know, he trusts all three of his kids, but we also look at things very differently.
We have different mindsets on things.
And I think, you know, we can give him advice and he'll weigh those options just like he weighs so many different options from different people.
And he listens to everyone.
I mean, that was such a big part of my speech last night that I really wanted to get across, which was he talks to the doormen in our buildings.
He talks to the guys on the construction site, the guys like pouring concrete and laying sheetrock.
And he listens and values their opinions as much and sometimes more than the executives that are sitting there staring at spreadsheets because he knows that's where the real work's getting done.
And he's always been that way.
Mr. Speaker, I mean, you spent a lot of time with this family as I have, and that's the family that I know.
One impact, as you look, you just said something that was interesting to me, that this is the first family convention you've ever been to.
When was your first convention, and what is the difference?
Well, the first time I actually went to was 84, but I've been watching conventions since 1956.
And what makes this one different is that Donald Trump is less known, I think, than any nominee I can remember.
He is this billionaire Enigma who has remarkable public speaking skills, is clearly a brilliant negotiator, has been sort of in the public eye for the last 30 years, but never quite focused and never quite explained.
And so I think starting with Melania and now with Tiffany and with Don Jr., we're beginning to get some people who know him intimately who are sharing with us the person they know.
And I think that's part of the fascination.
And in addition, I would say, they really do operate as a family.
I mean, this is one of those cases where they work together, they talk together, they get together, they love each other.
So you really have a very natural kind of family explanation for people.
And you got that in Don's speech last night.
I suspect you're going to get it again from Eric tonight and from Ivan Kaz.
But there's a level of affection that this big guy who can be very noisy and very aggressive.
But somehow, though, the experience of living together has given them a huge depth of affection for each other.
Yeah, it's amazing.
What has this been like?
You know, you said something last night, too, Don, and Newt touched on this.
You know, your father's really only been at this for a year.
And, you know, you talked about your father.
We played it just before you came on, is that somebody tells him no or it can't be done.
You see a special look in his eye.
You know, I love that attitude that says, yeah, I'm going to.
I watched Jeb Bush in an interview.
He's not going to build the wall.
And I'm looking at him like, yeah, I think he is.
I really believe he's going to build the wall.
That was the only challenge he needed is just Jeb saying that.
I mean, again, like I said, he's done it over and over.
I mean, impossible for my father is just a starting point.
You know, that's the challenge that sets him into action.
And, you know, he's done it over and over.
Yeah.
What was it like now you've got to meet people like Newt Gingrich?
You got all these people that probably you didn't know when you've gotten to know all these political people.
What is your take on the media and people like big figures, big thinkers like Newt?
I mean, what has it changed in your life?
Well, listen, you know, obviously the speaker's been amazing, just a brilliant mind, incredibly helpful for us.
You know, for me, I'm just a neophyte at this whole game.
So it was just awesome to be able to learn from guys that know that, who just have such a different perspective on these things.
And so it's been cool.
Now I've also met with plenty of people that are D.C. insiders that I couldn't be less impressed with.
So you have such a different juxtaposition from the guys that are the brilliant minds to the guys that are the hanger owners in D.C. Navigating that is not easy.
And it's been a little bit difficult.
But I couldn't be more thankful to everything that he's done for us.
Just an incredible advocate for not only my father, but the family.
And we've learned a lot and we'll continue to learn a lot from him because he's probably forgotten more about politics than I'll ever know.
I'm not sure about that.
But Mr. Speaker, I know the feeling's mutual.
Now, both of you will be on my TV show tonight.
I get tonight, Don, for the first time to interview your sister, Ivanka.
I've met her a hundred times, but it's the first time she's agreed to come on the show.
So we're looking forward to seeing her.
Your brother Eric tonight has to follow your strong opening act and Tiffany's strong opening act.
And then I guess Ivanka will introduce your dad on Thursday.
But thanks so much for your time.
Thanks for bringing us inside the process.
And, Mr. Speaker, we'll see you tonight on Hannity as well.
See you tonight, Don.
All right, guys.
Thank you very much.
Be well.
Thanks, guys.
I would like to make something very clear.
you tonight with a heavy heart as the law enforcement community prepares to bury three of louisiana's finest But there is some good news out of Baltimore, Maryland, as Lieutenant Brian Rice was acquitted on all charges in the malicious prosecution of activist state's attorney Merlin Mosby.
Now I want to talk to you about something important, indeed a concept that five law enforcement officers were murdered and nine more were wounded for earlier this month and for which three more were murdered two days ago in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
and that is the importance of making America safe again.
You see, I believe that this noble mission is not just a requirement, but a prerequisite for achieving this campaign's goal of making America great again.
All right, that's our good friend Sheriff David Clark of Milwaukee County tearing down the house at the Republican National Convention.
We are in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Tonight on Hannity, we have Newt Gingrich, Laura Ingram, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and so much more that too numerous to list.
We do have a case, as we reported yesterday and earlier today.
We have a Kansas City police officer, another one fatally shot.
This happened late yesterday afternoon, the AP confirming the report, citing a trauma surgeon.
And earlier, police chief tweeted that one of their officers was shot.
Please pray for our officer.
And this followed the death of Kansas City Police Detective Brad Lancaster earlier last year.
This did not get as much media attention as some of the other shootings, but it seems to be another example of an ambush lying in wait and the targeted assassination of America's finest.
Sheriff Clark, welcome back to the program.
So it's my pleasure to be on with you.
It breaks my heart.
I've gotten to know you now.
I consider you a personal friend, a dear friend, a man of great courage and conviction.
That brings great honor to the profession of law enforcement, and that is to protect and to serve.
And now we have either a terrorist attack or a cop assassinated.
It's almost every day now.
It's becoming all too routine.
You know, law enforcement, when one of us is killed in the line of duty, all law enforcement officers wear a black band across their badge.
I think many people have seen that in symbolic tribute to the officer losing his life.
And now many of us, including mine, we have a thin blue line through that, symbolizing the thin blue line.
And I said the other day, I made a decision because after we buried the five officers in the Dallas area, we were just about ready to take those bands off after, you know, several days after the last one's buried.
And then three were assassinated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
So I've made a decision that I'm not going to remove my black band across my badge until this war on cops is over.
And that's not going to happen soon.
You know, Sean, before this anti-police rhetoric and sentiment came about, this war on police, most criminal suspects were content with just trying to outrun a cop.
They saw a cop coming, they just run in the opposite direction and then make the cop chase them down and hope to just get away that way.
But now what they're resorting to is shooting and killing officers as a means of escape.
It's really chilling, really frightening times.
Let me play some of the president's rhetoric against police officers.
And even in Dallas at the Memorial Service, he's lecturing the country about and police, how he almost makes it sound like they're responsible.
Now, it's not the police's fault that inner city America is falling apart.
It's not the police officers' fault that drugs are rampant in many of American big cities and even small towns now.
It's not their fault that there's a target on their back.
I do blame the president for his rhetoric and rushing to judgment in high-profile race cases like Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.
We have an eyewitness in that case that places Trayvon on top of George Zimmerman, grounding him, pounding his head into concrete.
We have audio of George Zimmerman screaming.
We had a jury verdict in that case.
Marilyn Mosby's 0 for 4 in terms of the Freddie Gray incident.
You have the president rushing to judgment in the case of Ferguson.
We have Michael Brown robbing a store, intimidating a clerk.
Black eyewitnesses pointing out that he fought the cop for his gun while the cop was in the car.
That's where the first shot went off.
And that Michael Brown charged at the officer.
But here's some of what the president has said.
I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry.
Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly.
I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area and is not unique to our time.
And that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.
We've heard stories of some of these young men being stopped and put on the ground by police for no reason.
And we have to close the justice gap.
How justice is applied, but also how it is perceived, how it is experienced.
Eric Holder understands this.
That's what we saw in Ferguson this summer when Michael Brown was killed and the community was divided.
But the anger and the emotion that followed his death awakened our nation once again to the reality that people in this room have long understood, which is in too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement.
I think that there are circumstances in which trust between communities and law enforcement have broken down and individuals or entire departments may not have the training or the accountability to make sure that they are protecting and serving all people and not just some.
What's also true is that there are still instances in which a young black boy or brown boy is not being evaluated in terms of risk precisely in the same way as a white young person might be by the police.
Too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals, primarily African-American, often poor, in ways that raise troubling questions.
Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement, guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness.
And the worst part of it is it scars the hearts of our children.
Scars the hearts of white children who grow unnecessarily fearful of somebody who doesn't look like them.
Stains the heart of black children who feel as if no matter what he does, he'll always be under suspicion.
That is not the society we want.
Now, the challenge for us as the federal government is that we don't run these police forces.
I can't federalize everything.
I'm going to jump in here for the benefit of time.
And what is your response to that, Sheriff?
American law enforcement officer, Sean, sees President Obama as a character assassin.
That's what that was.
It was a montage of unfairly mischaracterizing the courage, the commitment, the sacrifice, the honor, the integrity of the law enforcement officer, the American law enforcement officer.
And, you know, he's the one that is playing race politics.
That's what their montage was.
It was race politics in its finest hour.
That's what he likes to do.
You know, he's a disciple of Saul Lelinsky, divide and conger, create chaos.
And that's what that stuff is about.
Isn't it evidenced by his virtual silence when since the time he's been president, over 3,470 Chicago residents, many black Americans were killed, many thousands of others shot, and he ignores that?
Isn't that evidence that there was a black father who talked at the convention, and he lost his 17-year-old son, Jameel Shaw, Jr., and he talked about it, well, once they found out it was an illegal immigrant, they didn't care because it didn't advance the narrative.
What are your thoughts on, well, how do you ignore 3,470, and then you jump up, you rush to judgment, you don't allow due process, you don't allow evidence to be presented, you don't allow the presumption of innocence.
What are your thoughts on a president that does this again and again and again and gets it wrong every time?
Well, it means it's who he is.
And so when he comes out later on with some flowery rhetoric about the true nature of the American law enforcement officer, we who wear the badges in our community see it as nothing more than a photo op or phony rhetoric.
He uses rushing to judgment as some form of exercise.
He does it all the time.
He made a statement relative to the incidents that happened in Baton Rouge or Louisiana and Minnesota with the police use of force.
He said, regardless of what those facts show, and then he went on to make a statement.
So basically what he's saying is, I don't care what these investigations shows, and then, you know, he sees otherwise.
So this is not a guy who wants to wait for the facts and let the facts speak, the facts and evidence tell us what happened.
He already has some preconceived narrative and some preconceived motive in mind when he does this.
So you look at the attorney generals that he's named, two of them now, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, both anti-cop law officers, really, as attorneys general.
And this president, in my 38 years of law enforcement, he is the most, with no exception, he is the most anti-police president that I have ever seen.
Now, the importance of an attorney general is that we work closely with the United States Department of Justice, and we've had almost, we see almost a hostility toward the local law enforcement officer in America when we should be viewed as allies.
And previous attorney generals, all of them, regardless of whether it's a Democrat appointed Attorney General or Republican, usually the United States Department of Justice has seen local law enforcement as the key piece, the key part, I should say, in keeping our communities safe.
And they've worked shoulder to shoulder with us.
But now these last two attorneys general have seen the American law enforcement officer as the enemy and the criminal, the crook, as the victim.
What do you think about Donald Trump?
He's called on the Justice Department to investigate Black Lives Matter, and it seems to be picking up support.
The Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said yesterday that he absolutely supports Trump's plan to ask the U.S. Attorney General to investigate Black Lives Matter and the movement if he's elected president.
We know we have a distrust in the black community of police.
We know that there's some police officers who need to be replaced, and police forces want to remove those people as well.
But before we can sit down at the table and have unity, we have to stop having protesters chanting, what do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now?
The same group that Obama has now invited to the White House numerous times.
Well, Sean, I'm at ground level.
I'm out on the streets, literally in these crime-raverse communities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I get to talk directly to people.
And I want to reject out of hand this notion that there's this general mistrust in the black community between law enforcement and the people that we serve.
We have the tremendous support of law-abiding, law-abiding, Sean.
That's the key here.
Law-abiding black people in these communities.
Where the mistrust is, is with the criminal element, but that's okay with me.
I don't care if they don't trust us.
Maybe they never should, because we're always going to suspect them as long as they continue to show that repeat behavior of criminal involvement.
So I think this Black Lives Matter movement is an ideology.
It's a hateful ideology.
It's a dangerous ideology.
You know, they're not an organization.
They don't have any structure.
They don't have a president or a chairperson and a board of directors.
This is an ideology that preaches vile and hate vitriol in the name of virtue.
It's very anti-police and it's very anti-law and order.
Donald Trump is the law and order candidate in this race.
There is no other person, as far as I'm concerned, that's worthy to hold that office after this anti-police president leaves.
If Mrs. Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton assumes that office, we're again going to have a continuation of the Obama presidency, and it's been nothing but anti-police.
It's really sad.
Unbelievable times we're living in.
It's a daily assassination or assassinations, targeting of cops.
Then we got terror attacks, and then we got a president using rhetoric against the police, rushing to judgment against the police, not allowing due process to go forward, not allowing the presumption of innocence, and a guy that can't say radical Islamic terrorism.
Thank you, Sheriff David Clark, Milwaukee.
We appreciate your time, as always.
My name is Sean.
Keep fighting.
I would hope that police organizations are also respectful of the frustrations that people in these communities feel and not just dismiss these protests and these complaints as political correctness or as politics or attacks on police.
They're legitimate issues that have been raised, and there's data and evidence to back up the concerns that are being expressed by these protesters.
And if police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a problem and there's an issue, then that too is going to contribute to real solutions.
And as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer.
It is in the interests of police officers that their community is trusting and that the kind of rancor and suspicion that exists right now is alleviated.
Yeah, of course it's the police's fault all the time.
Blame them.
It's their responsibility in every way.
Just absurd.
Anyway, news roundup information overload hour.
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And it all kicks off 11 Eastern and 8 Pacific as the speeches wind up, which is a lot of fun.
I'm so glad I made that decision.
I could have been, all right, let's go to so-and-so.
Sit there.
Let's go to so-and-so.
Sit there.
Let's go to so-and-so.
It there.
And I'm sitting, I'm dying to give my take and debate on the issues of the day.
So, anyway, we're having a lot of fun, if you haven't seen it, Ivanka Trump tonight, Donald Trump Jr. tonight, who gave an unbelievable speech last night.
And also, we will check in with Duke Gingrich, Laura Ingram, our panel of experts, guests, and everything in between.
As I reported yesterday on this program during the course of the program yesterday, yet another police officer fatally shot, this time in Kansas City.
AP confirming the report.
He responded to an armed disturbance, and an individual said three or four parties were shooting in his direction.
So now it's like open warfare assassination against our nation's law and order, police department, and police officers.
The White House responds to a petition requesting that the Black Lives Matter group be labeled a terror group.
Of course, they're never going to do that.
It's an online petition.
You know, there's an interesting CNS news article that said, told the story about a black man whose 17-year-old son was gunned down by an illegal immigrant eight years ago.
And he described Monday how the support he received after his son's murder dried up once it was revealed that the shooter was in the country illegally.
Jameel Shaw said his life changed in the twinkling of an eye, March 2nd, 2008, when his son, Jameel Jazz Shaw II, was headed home.
One minute I'm hearing my son's voice.
Be right home, old man.
I'm right around the corner.
The next minute, gunshots, and he's dead.
I saw the hole in his head, blood everywhere.
It happened so fast.
Jazz was still holding the phone at the same moment.
His mother was serving in the military overseas.
And Shaw said in a speech at the RNC last night that, you know, police said the 17-year-old just walking home, just walking home.
And then he said that you would think that Obama cared and Black Lives Mattered cared.
No.
What has my point been all week, you know, telling you that over 3,470 people have been killed in Chicago since Obama's been president?
What have I been telling you?
And by the way, the news coverage of this convention is unbelievable.
Go to MSNBC.
You've got Mika Brzezinski on a tirade.
Paul Manafort is lurch.
Well, say something like that about Hillary's campaign.
Good luck.
Let's see where that goes.
You know, you have a film critic calling the GOP convention the world's largest lynch mob.
You have NBC bemoaning the fact that the RNC is heavy on harsh rhetoric.
Anger went too far.
Jorge Ramos lecturing the father of a murdered victim on immigration.
Unbelievable.
If he's not in the country illegally, that son is alive.
Bill Maher comparing Trump's sons to date rapists on an after-school special.
And you got Brokaw, Schieffer, bemoan the GOP's big hate for Hillary, accusing her of everything.
Well, they didn't do their job.
They probably have no idea how many lies she has told and how corrupt she has been.
The CNN panel, you know, questioning the GOP's dedication to gun rights, quote, tone deafness to big cities.
Chris Matthews, bloodthirsty GOP delegates ready to kill Clinton.
You got MSNBC spending almost six minutes promoting scrappy code pink protesters.
I mean, it just, and I can go on and on, calling this, calling Christie, ABC, MSNBC saying Chris Christie was inciting a mob, pushing a banana republic.
I mean, you just can't make all of this up.
LA Times suggesting a military coup is underway against Trump.
I mean, it just never ends.
All right, joining us now for reaction to all of this, Pastor Darrell Scott, founder, senior pastor of the New Spirit Revival Center.
That's right here in Cleveland, Trump supporter that he is, and the Reverend Charles Christian Adams, presiding pastor at Harford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit.
By the way, Pastor Darrell Scott thinks that I'm going to be a minister one day.
I think he's absolutely lost his mind.
News.
Sean has the call of God on his life, and it'll catch up to him.
Well, we were discussing speaking in tongues, and I just said if I start speaking Russian, French, Italian, let's see, Spanish, any other language, and it's something that people could understand, I said I would believe in speaking in tongues.
That's how I interpret the Bible, that the Holy Spirit descended on the pipe, the apostles, and they were able to speak in the languages of the people that they were teaching and preaching to.
Yeah, but if you read in the book of Corinthians on the spiritual gifts that they were exercising, speaking in tongues in their regular church services, they actually got a little out of order with it, and Paul had to regulate it and put it in order.
And, you know, when you speak to tongues, you're speaking unto God.
All right.
I'm not going to go down that road.
We'll get into that.
Pastor, you're at this convention.
I just read off to you how the media is reacting to it and the horrible things they're saying: banana, Republic, a lynch mob, on and on and on.
What's your reaction to that?
You've been here every night.
You've been walking among the people on the floor of the convention.
Is that your perception?
Well, for me to be a black guy, I should have been lynched by now.
Because if this is some lynch racist Republican lynch mob, they're treating me like a celebrity down there.
And I'm be honest, and it's not fake.
I mean, I've had nothing but love, and it's been very well-behaved and dignified, and we're having fun with one another.
I mean, it's a love phase.
Everyone is feeling good.
Our candidate formally got the nomination, and I've had a wonderful time meeting people from all over the country.
And there's probably some of the best people.
I'll be honest, Sean, and I said this last night.
I've been to a lot of church conventions.
I've been to a lot of denominational conventions, and I've never had as wonderful a time and been treated as nice as I've been treated during this RNC.
Well, I tell you, I think that might be a bit of a stretch, but let me just say no stretch.
It's not a stretch at all.
In fact, I understated it because I can go into some stories about these church conventions with all the homosexuals walking around and everybody running the strip clubs afterwards.
And all I know what goes on in the inner workers of the church conventions.
This has been very well, been very much better.
What's your reaction to that?
Reverend Charles Christian Adams.
Why would you think otherwise?
Why would you suggest otherwise?
I was out and about with Pastor Scott.
We've hung out a lot together at this convention.
And frankly, I now consider him a dear friend.
I love him.
He's great.
He's awesome.
I've met a lot of his pastor friends, and we even said a prayer together.
Well, that's great.
I'm just saying that to say that a political convention is going to have more love than an ecclesiastical, denominational gathering, I think that's a stretch.
But if that's the way you feel, fine.
And I don't think there's anything extraordinary about there being red meat handed to constituencies, especially at conventions.
I mean, that's part of the fun.
But I think that's no effect.
Really?
The reason I like this better is because at the church convention, we love each other.
At this convention, we don't.
That people feel like the issues that are really affecting the complaints, the protests, the violence, and the conditions that really create those types of social disorders are not being discussed and addressed to the degree that they should be.
Well, I hear a lot of solutions.
Number one, I think we've laid out the case.
Look, Hillary Clinton, you admit, Pastor, she lied about her email server.
James Comey did the investigation.
I'll play the tape of him answering Trey Gowdy's questions.
We can load that up.
You know she's lied now many, many times, right?
I know this.
I know that.
I didn't ask you if you know this.
I asked you if you admit that she...
I don't know that she lied many, many times.
Well, let me get Trey Gowdy.
Let me help you out because the FBI director is a guy by the name of James Comey.
James Comey laid out his findings before the country, and that most of the statements that Hillary made about her email server scandal were false.
She was confronted, or Comey was confronted, about the specific things she told the American people by Congressman Trey Gowdy, and here's how that went down.
Good morning, Director Comey.
Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private email.
Was that true?
Our investigation found that there was classified information sent.
So it was not true.
That's what I said.
Okay.
Well, I'm looking for a little shorter answer, so you and I will not hear quite as long.
Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails, either sent or received.
Was that true?
That's not true.
There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents.
Secretary Clinton said I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email.
There is no classified material.
Was that true?
There was classified material emailed.
Secretary Clinton said she used just one device.
Was that true?
She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.
Secretary Clinton said all work-related emails were returned to the State Department.
Was that true?
No, we found work-related emails, thousands, that were not returned.
Secretary Clinton said neither she nor anyone else deleted work-related emails from her personal account.
Was that true?
That's a harder one to answer.
We found traces of work-related emails on devices or in Slack space, whether they were deleted or whether when a server was changed out, something happened to them.
There's no doubt that they're work-related emails that were removed electronically from the email system.
Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive.
Did her lawyers read the email content individually?
No.
That sounds to me, Reverend Charles Christian Adams, like we have the director of the FBI saying that she lied repeatedly to the American people.
Now, we also know another lie, that when Benghazi happened, she told the Libyan president, the Egyptian prime minister, and her own daughter that it was a terror attack, and she was telling we, the people, that it was not a terror attack, that it was related.
It was a spontaneous demonstration related to a YouTube video.
Are you denying she lies?
First of all.
Are you denying she lies?
Comey was reporting his findings.
You are saying that she lied.
His findings were the same.
She lied.
Hillary Clinton lied.
He is reporting the correctness of his findings.
But this is the problem that there's so much emphasis on Hillary Clinton this week that there's no talk.
And I'm not saying that.
Let me ask you a question, Pastor, because we're running out of time.
Do the American people—wait a minute.
The Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Do the American people deserve better than a pathological liar, somebody that lies all the time in the White House?
That's a loaded question.
Well, it's not a loaded question.
Don't you want a truthful?
The truth has to be solutions, though.
Sean, the truth has to be solutions.
Pastor Scott, in the movie Casino, Robert De Niro was a casino manager, and there was a slot machine that hit twice a jackpot.
And when he fired the guy, he said, either you're in on the scam or you're stupid.
Either way, I can't have you working for me.
Now, either Hillary Clinton is a liar or she's stupid.
Either way, we can't have her as president of the United States.
You have to come up with a plan.
You have to come up with solutions.
Their platform is bereft of any kind of conversation on how you're going to address the problems that society is.
That's not true.
That's not true.
I've read the document.
They talk about balancing budgets.
They talk about building a wall.
They talk about energy independence.
They talk about fixing the VA, building up our military, dealing with radical Islam.
Trump has gone out there and discussed all the things he would do, which is directly opposed to what Hillary Clinton would do.
So what you're saying, Pastor, is not true.
Maybe that's why you're supporting somebody that doesn't always speak the truth.
You have to support the chant, the forums, the discussions.
I'm not centering around that.
The coverage is not.
Now, I agree, it shouldn't be about Mrs. Trump and her supposed plagiarism.
But I do believe that somebody at some point has to move the coverage beyond the real heat that is.
I just gave you the agenda.
All right, but I've got to run.
Pastor Scott, I get to see you again tonight, right on TV.
You're going to join us?
Pastor Scott?
I'll see you tonight.
You may.
I'll see you tonight.
Reverend Charles Christian Adams, thank you.
We are in Cleveland, Ohio at the Republican National Convention.
Toll-free.
Our telephone numbers: 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program.
All right, as promised, I said we'd get to the phones here.
Let's do it.
We've got Eric in Texas.
Eric, we'll start with you.
Welcome to Cleveland.
Welcome to the RNC.
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, thanks a lot for having me, Sean.
First off, you've done excellent coverage, and you've made it really hard for me to wake up in the morning because I haven't been able to turn you off at night.
I'll get right to the point.
I think the comparison with Melania, Ms. Trump, and Michelle Obama isn't their little speech debacle.
The comparison is Melana Trump has loved the United States of America from the day she flew herself to be a citizen.
Michelle Obama said herself that the first time she was proud to be an American was after her husband was elected.
That was almost, that was not even eight years ago.
That's a huge contrast.
Well, we got some.
Look, first of all, we're talking about minor sentences in the speech.
It was nothing big.
There is a staffer that works on the Trump campaign that said she and Melania had discussed the many people who inspired her, and she said even the first lady speech from back then.
And she said, over the phone, she read me some passages and gave me some examples.
I wrote them down and included them in the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the speech, and she didn't check, and it was her mistake.
Now, listen, you know, look, I can tell you as a writer, and I don't like writing.
Writing for me is hard.
It is painful.
It takes too much time.
It's arduous.
It's difficult.
I don't like the process of writing it.
I don't like the process of rewriting it.
I don't like the process of editing it.
It's too painful for me.
I love what I do.
I like broadcast medium.
I say it.
It's done.
There's no polishing, priming, sanding, sanding, priming, painting, and doing it that way.
So, in the process, though, you know, when you do research for a book, a lot of things come into your mind.
And in the process of those things coming into your mind, it's some of the research you do.
You have to be extraordinarily careful.
Now, that's very different from what Joe Biden did when he literally stole the whole speech of Neil Kinnock of the British Labor Party.
It's dramatically different from Obama stealing from Duval Patrick or Elizabeth Warren.
So there's great distinctions here, but again, it's the liberal double standard.
If a conservative does it, it's the worst thing in the world.
If it's minor, it's still the worst thing in the world.
If somebody has a major case of plagiarism, it's totally ignored and excused because this is only select moral outrage.
This is not based on any real principles.
I agree.
You mind if I add one more thing?
Go right ahead.
Another big difference, Sean, is when Ms. Trump said it, I believed it.
Michelle Obama has proven that it was just a speech.
Thank you for that.
I didn't hear for the first time in my adult life.
I'm proud of my country.
That's a big change.
Anyway, I appreciate it.
Thank you, Eric.
We'll stay with another Eric, this one in Detroit, Michigan, on the Sean Hannity Show.
Eric, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Welcome to Cleveland and the RNC convention.
Hi, Sean.
This is Derek, actually.
I'm sorry, it says Eric on my screen.
What's going on?
That's okay.
I was just calling to comment on some of the things that's been going on as far as the black community and the quote-unquote anti-police sentiment.
I don't necessarily agree that there's an anti-police sentiment.
I do agree that there's an anti-corrupt police sentiment.
I say that, but you know something?
That's not what you hear.
What do we want dead cops?
It wasn't what do we want dead corrupt cops.
And when do we want it now?
Pigs in a blanket.
Blanket!
Red Life Naked!
Pigs in a blanket!
Radio behavior!
Pigs in the bank!
You know, I can only go by the words that people choose to use, the constant harping and criticism of the president.
Look, you know, we had the Freddie Gray case.
Marilyn Mosby laid out the case.
She made everybody in the country think this was a slam dunk.
This was a murder of an innocent kid.
Well, the innocent kid had a rap sheet a mile long, and he was selling drugs at 8:30 in the morning.
It's not exactly normal behavior if cops are walking by or riding their bicycle that you take off and run unless you're up to no good at 8:30 in the morning.
And he was known to the police as a drug dealer, and there was no evidence.
And so far, Mosby is 0 for 4.
And by the time it's over, I predict she's going to be 0 for 6.
And the president, well, he's 0 for 4, too, when it comes to Baltimore, Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, and the Cambridge police.
And at some point, I think a president with the bully pulpit of the presidency, cops deserve the presumption of innocence also.
They deserve due process also.
They're fighting for our right to due process.
They're fighting for our right for the presumption of innocence.
The least we can give back is even if it's a controversial incident, let's wait for the facts to come in, the evidence to come in.
And for example, the reason Officer Darren Wilson wasn't indicted in Ferguson, Missouri is because there were multiple black eyewitnesses that testified that everything that Darren Wilson said was true, that Michael Brown fought him for his gun, provoked the incident, that he charged at him, and this was after the video of him robbing a store and intimidating a clerk.
So the president to rush to judgment and see this through the prism of some type of racial politics is just wrong to me.
And it's also wrong while simultaneously we're talking about Black Lives Matter.
3,470 people in Chicago have been killed since Obama's president.
Many of them happen to be black Americans.
We don't talk about that.
Well, I put up the names of all of those people, and you don't know any of them.
I bet you you're not that far away in Detroit.
Can you name one person of the 3,470-plus people killed in Chicago since Obama's been president?
Can you name me one?
I can name two.
Two of them are relatives of mine.
I have two cousins that live in Chicago that have been murdered.
Okay, so you can name two because it hit you personally.
Can you name any other of the 3,470 plus?
No, I have no idea who those people are.
Yeah, but that's a lot.
We have an epidemic.
These are our kids.
They're dying.
Many of them are minorities.
We want them to live.
We want whatever talents they have to be contributed to society.
And that's not happening.
And all we have is politics.
And then we get lectured about the incendiary language that is being used at conventions.
Nobody here at a convention that I know of is talking about hurting anybody.
They're talking about different ideas to save a country that is in a rapid, precipitous decline.
I got to run, Derek.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
As we head back to our phones, let us say hi to Maggie is in Fairfax in Virginia.
Very important swing, Purple State.
What's going on, Maggie?
How are you?
I am doing great, Sean.
And I want to tell you, it is truly an honor to speak with you, and I really appreciate you being a voice for us out here.
I really mean that.
And I really just want to say just a couple of things.
Being a half-Cuban American, my mom was first generation.
I'm first generation.
My mom was born in Cuba, came to this country in 59.
Is that I'm really, really insulted and so tired of people, the left-wing media that we always talk about.
I'm so tired of them spewing this narrative that Trump is a racist and a bigot.
And it's really insulting because, one, we all know he's not.
And they just want to keep hitting this point until people just are going to think it's true.
And it really hit home for me yesterday.
I met a young boy, a Muslim boy from Canada, and we were just talking, having a good time.
And I said, so what do you think?
What's going on here in the States?
And he says, oh, Trump, he's a racist.
And I said, why?
You know, I just wanted to turn it around.
They can't give you an answer.
They can't.
Exactly.
You know what his answer was?
He wants to build a wall.
And I said, okay.
I said, we can't.
And you protect the laws of the land, and we're a society of law and order.
That's all that means.
But let me just tell you one thing.
Because, Maggie, this is not my first rodeo.
I'm getting up there in years.
My staff reminds me of it all the time.
I'm still in the demo, though, so that's a good thing.
But I've been to many of these conventions now.
And I could tell you, and I've been to every Democratic convention.
And, you know, I'll be surrounded by security as people try and punch and spit and do whatever they do at past conventions.
It's not been that bad, but I worry about this year.
But the reality is this: any Republican nominated that's going to be a racist, sexist, homophobic, wants the dirty air and dirty water, as if we don't have children ourselves, and we want them to breathe in clean air and drink clean water, and that we want to throw our grandmothers over the cliff and kill them because that's all they've got and scaring people into voting for them.
Absolutely.
And I'll tell you, I've had since last fall, I've had a bumper sticker on my car, and I get people taking pictures of it.
And it says, Hillary, or no, it says liar, liar, pantsuit on fire, and she's wearing a pantsuit.
And I didn't say who I'm for.
I just have that on there.
And then also this bumper sticker that says, anybody but Hillary.
And the vitriol and the intolerance from the left, I'm saving these little notes I get.
I get taped on my, I get taped on my car is really unfathomable.
And I just, it makes me really worried that we cannot openly, really be an open, you know, really have our opinions anymore without fear.
And no wonder people are so fearful to say who they want.
I don't even put a Trump sticker on my car because I don't want it to get smashed.
And I think a lot of people are thinking that way.
I mean, I think underneath, people are supporting him.
I'm hoping that because we just can't have someone like Hillary in the White House.
As I said many times to my friends, I can't have my daughter aspire and have her look up to someone like Hillary.
It would be an absolute farce.
And I'm saving these stickers that I get and just the vitriol and it's really intolerance, what it boils down to.
And you never see Republicans do that.
You really don't.
I think they have more class.
I think they really try to say, okay, you're entitled to your opinion.
But you just don't get that.
And it's really scary.
It's scary to see what it's coming down to.
And I think it's playing this whole narrative of Trump's a bigot.
It's playing into this thing with the cops.
It's a vicious circle that the left is creating.
So because it's putting fear in people to think, oh my gosh, if we elect Trump, it's going to get worse.
This is going to happen.
And that's not.
Listen, it's all scare tactics.
You've got to understand that this is where this is coming from.
All scare tactics.
And you know what?
I'm hoping this year it's not going to work.
All right, 800-941-Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
Thanks for a great call.
All right, let's get back to our busy telephones here as we continue from Cleveland and the RNC convention.
Shannon is in Newport Beach on the Sean Hannity Show.
Shannon, welcome to the RNC convention.
Welcome to Cleveland.
How are you?
Good, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, I'm calling in regards to a caller that you had yesterday.
A lady called in, and she was frustrated that not that many women seem to be stepping up and showing their support for Donald Trump.
And just as a single mom here in California, which is a more liberal state, it just baffles me that women buy into what the left is feeding them.
And you would think with my being a single mom, I would fall in line with some of the liberal and more democratic and progressive ways of thinking and what they want you to believe.
But I'm educated.
I'm a single mom by choice.
But I have to say, I financially am far worse today than I was eight years ago.
Well, the numbers show.
Look, the whole country's worse off.
The lowest labor participation rate, 95 million Americans out of work, 50 million Americans in poverty, 46 million Americans on food stamps.
We got, you know, 14 million more in each category than we had before, you know, before 2009.
I see people that can't get jobs.
I see people struggling.
I see people suffering needlessly.
Government decisions are hurting them.
When you care more about this ridiculous non-science of what a global climate change, which changes first, the ice age is coming, then the world's going to burn up.
Then they get called out for being hypocrites, so they come up with a neutral term, none of which is happening.
And that means that, okay, how many millions of jobs would we have in the fracking industry or in the oil industry or in the coal industry or in the nuclear industry?
The government is restricting any ability we have to get people those jobs and out of poverty off of food stamps, living happy, productive lives that gives them self-esteem and happiness and the ability to buy a house, buy a car, get their lives together, give a better life to their kids.
I mean, it's that simple.
It's, you know, government is the problem.
It truly is.
And it frustrates me that people cannot stop and say to themselves, where am I today versus where was I a few years ago?
And as a woman and a single mom, I don't want to be on food stamps.
I love that those programs are there for a helping hand, but they were never designed to sustain people.
And here in California, of course, we're greatly affected by the influx of illegal immigrants coming in here and lowering the wages.
And I had a fabulous job.
And due to that.
I've got to run.
Listen, Shannon, let not your heart be troubled.
I am hoping that America turns us around and that we make a change in direction and we get rid of the bureaucracy, the rules, the regulations, the taxes that are killing industry.
You know, let the trillions of dollars overseas come back for crying out loud so we can build manufacturing centers and factories and get Americans back to work again.
I know what it's, you know, somebody said to me the other day, it really pissed me off.
Oh, you're out of touch.
You don't know anymore.
What do you know?
I'm like, what are you talking about?
I live paycheck to paycheck for decades in my life.
I'm like, it really pissed me off.
Like, oh, you don't know.
What do you know?
I'm like, sorry, that wasn't my life my whole life.
