Sean was quick to react to Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech last night at the DNC convention. Why did Clinton need to reintroduce herself to America? She's been a public figure for thirty years and she felt the need to reintroduce herself? You could tell she was coached to hold back some of the typical angry rhetoric that fuels mostly Clinton remarks. All-in-all, even David Axlerod thought this speech was a missed opportunity. The Sean Hannity Show is live Monday through Friday from 3pm - 6pm ET on iHeart Radio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I made this case, and then we had to go forward, and we had no choice anymore but to go for a special counsel.
And man, she just jumped down my throat.
It was fierce and chilling.
She kind of belittled him in front of everybody, and anybody that stood up and tried to say this is a bad idea who was smashed down and belittled very personally.
Did you ever throw a lamp at your husband?
No, I didn't.
Did you ever throw a Bible at your husband?
No, I didn't.
Do you have a terrible temper?
No, but I do get angry about things.
I'm not going to deny that.
Go to the end of the line.
Okay.
Why don't you go to the end of the line?
The fact is, we had four dead Americans.
Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans?
What difference at this point does it make?
You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?
My husband is not the Secretary of State.
I am.
So you ask my opinion.
I will tell you my opinion.
I'm not going to be channeling my husband.
This woman, this little soft-spoken, pardon me for the phrase, dowdy woman, that was seen very unassertive, took a hold of my hand and squeezed it and said, Do you understand everything that you do?
I could have passed out at that moment.
And she held on to my hand and she said, Do you understand everything that you do?
I mean, cold chills went up my spine.
That's the first time I became afraid of that woman.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic.
And we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with administration.
All right, there you have it.
That is the real Hillary, not the fantasy Alice in Wonderland image making that you heard all throughout the week, culminating in last night's boring, dull, cliched, checklist, platitude, slogan, speech with no specifics, and absolutely zero accomplishments.
You wouldn't think it if you heard the media.
We'll get to that in a minute.
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We got through.
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The beginning of that montage, when you heard that voice saying, she jumped down my throat, it was fierce.
It was chilling.
Well, that's George Stephanopoulos describing what it's like being in the White House with Hillary Clinton.
I made this case and that we had to go forward and we had no choice anymore but to go for a special counsel.
And man, she just jumped down my throat.
You know, basically, you know, you never believed in us.
You never stood for us.
You know, we were all alone in New Hampshire, and it was fierce and chilly.
She kind of belittled him in front of everybody.
And, you know, I thought he took, he took it.
I couldn't believe that she really believed it.
I didn't believe that she really believed it.
And anybody that stood up and tried to say this was a bad idea was you know smashed down and belittled very personally jumped down my throat.
It was fierce.
It was chilling.
The second voice was Dee Dee Myers.
She also worked for Hillary, belittling him.
Anyone who stood up was smashed down and belittled.
Oh, a very different image than what we heard.
Here's my take on last night.
And by the way, I'm so glad you're with us.
And I am, we got to play some music later and have some fun because this has been a miserable week being in Philly, sort of holed up in that sense among liberal Democrats.
But you know what?
In spite of them, I'm still happy.
I'm not going to let any liberal, any leftist, any convention, you know, get me down.
This was a horrible week in spite of what the media is telling you today for the Clintons.
And I'm going to describe why in the untold story of this whole convention is, you know, first of all, here's a woman trying to reintroduce herself to America.
How do you be a public figure?
How are you a public figure for a quarter of a century plus, 30 years, and then have to reintroduce yourself?
What was fascinating if you were watching the speech last night is she had to start out so slowly because they had to put in a check and balance on the screaming, screeching, and yelling that is the hallmark of a typical Hillary Clinton event.
I mean, for whatever reason, she spirals out of control.
And at one point, actually, during the speech, it happened again.
And I go, there she goes.
And there goes that pitch.
And there goes the out comes the real person and the real anger.
But as it went on the speech, you know, she reverted a bit to type, not quite yelling as much as usual, because they told her, you got to tone that down.
You could tell that she was obviously coached for the speech.
Now, when you think of the week in Toto, it starts out, Bernie Sanders says we've got to support Hillary, and he is roundly booed.
As when the first introduction, Bernie Sanders takes to his own crowd, Bernie's supporters, says, we're going to support you.
Here's what he said.
No, we don't have it.
Sir, where is it?
Are you there?
Are you listening?
Anyway, so you heard the booze.
We played it earlier this week.
And then the next thing, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is booed roundly.
So I can see there's a little bit of interest in my being here, and I appreciate that interest.
And a little bit of interest from the press.
But that really shows you that Florida is the most significant battleground state that will make sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States of America.
We are the state that will deliver the White House.
We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive, we know that that's not the Florida that we know.
have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
So that's how the week starts.
Thank you, Jason.
Sorry I didn't give you a heads up on that.
All right, so that's how the week starts.
And then she has every possible big star within the Democratic Party with Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Warren.
Then she, of course, like we see every election cycle, there's always the race card played.
Al Gore speaking to a prominently back, a predominantly black audience.
They don't even want to count you in the census or the James Byrd ad used against George W. Bush.
So all of that happened.
And then you bring in the bigger stars.
Here comes Bill, the rock star that saved the reelection of Barack Obama.
And he couldn't lift her up enough.
Frankly, Michelle was former self, in my opinion.
And then it gets even better.
Then there's Joe Biden.
I mean, say what you will about crazy Uncle Joe.
He can give a pretty good speech.
He's a bit of a phony, but whatever.
He says, builds up Hillary.
And then in comes the anointed one himself.
There weren't Greek columns, but in he comes.
And to bring you the great crescendo to all of this, there is Katy Perry.
Katie, the speeches, every one of them were better than Hillary Clinton's.
You know, she got the endorsement.
And you just watch this.
Look, you can decide for yourself.
But I went down this speech.
I read it before she actually came out and I said, wow, this is a checklist speech.
In other words, let me check the box.
All right, we're going to talk about children's health care.
We're going to talk about free student loans for kids.
We're going to talk about immigration that we're for open borders.
We're going to say that we don't hate like Donald Trump because we actually want to vet people that come from other countries to practice Sharia so that when they come to the country, they don't want to commit harm against innocent Americans in small towns and cities.
You know, she checked the box and it was cliche, and we'll save America.
Yay!
And we'll do great.
Yay.
Trump gave specifics.
This was like an Alice in Wonderland version of politics that you were witnessing last night.
And if you want my opinion, this speech could not have been worse.
Even David Oxelrod agrees with me.
This was not a good speech.
This was a missed opportunity for her.
In many ways, a belly flop from the high board.
And rather than pick apart this speech line by line, you just pull back the lens a little bit here and look at this and see on a strategic level what I think they're trying to do here.
Rhetorically, it was even mediocre.
It wasn't even well written.
Platitudes, little elegance, no real thread that held the speech together.
In some respects, more like a State of the Union address, the laundry list address, tired proposals that are never going to come to reality.
She didn't address, you know, everyone claimed that Donald Trump's speech was dark.
His speech was dark.
Why?
Because he told the truth that there are millions more Americans in poverty, you know, some 14 million more in poverty and on food stamps, and that we have the lowest labor participation rate now in 51, in what, since the 1970s, we have the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
We have one in five American families that don't have a single family member working.
So rhetorically, it's mediocre.
No elegance, no theme holding it together, you know, like a State of the Union laundry list speech.
And Hillary, frankly, doesn't speak well.
She delivered it poorly.
I know the arena liked it, but this is the hardest of hardcore socialists in the country.
I mean, she's plotting and then falls back into what they told her not to do, raising her voice to this awkward level to signal some semblance of passion, even though it's somewhat contrived, unable to play off the crowd naturally like Trump can, or most good politicians, even like her husband or Barack Obama can.
You know, she pushed through chants and applause lines.
You know, a speech like that, even Trump got this with a little experience.
He let the people applaud and have fun.
At a moment like this, that's what you're supposed to do.
And I don't see any major political candidate in modern times that has butchered more applause lines than her.
It was actually funny at some points.
Then she has lipstick on her teeth.
That didn't particularly go over well and it was somewhat distracting.
Bill Clinton falling asleep was, frankly, fairly hilarious.
If you actually look or check the facts on all of this, you see that Clinton said 90% of income gains have gone to the top 1%.
Well, actually, that number is 52%.
So there were a lot of factual errors in all of this.
David Axelrod's comments were, you know, he tried to put his best face on it, but he said, well, giving a speech like this is not her strength.
She did not give a great speech tonight.
At least he was honest about it and he told the truth about it.
But it's a reminder of what I have said from the beginning of this whole election cycle.
And that is, at best, she's a mediocre politician, but she's a very bad candidate.
She's not somebody that has the ability like Obama to inspire.
You know, she doesn't have that passion, the oratorical skills of Obama.
She doesn't have the warmth of her husband.
And I've been saying this now for some time, is she needs to portray herself as a change agent that her husband, obviously this was something that was focus grouped and they paid a lot of money to come up with change agent.
I don't think she got anywhere close to making that case last night.
I think she actually went backwards.
So she succeeded in portraying herself as the candidate of continuity, status quo.
But the problem is this is an outside of year.
Now, if you listen to the media, they had a very different take.
They were in love.
You heard me, I used to talk about Obama gasms, you know, because, oh, yes, we can.
Obama.
Chant, chant, chant.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yes, we can.
Obama.
Well, it's sort of like with Hillary now.
They're trying to transfer that, but she doesn't have his charisma.
But listen to the media.
That didn't stop them from trying.
Listen to this.
And here we are, moments away from history happening live.
And for Hillary Clinton's all the drama.
All but discovered the high emotion of this week.
Everything has led to this one night, this one historic moment in front of America.
And Cookie Roberts, what an interesting choice for the beginning of that speech, introducing her mom as a grandma.
Well, it's a term that's not political, is it?
It is something that everybody recognizes and can see as someone who is loving and wise.
Those are thoughts that you have about grandma.
And Hillary Clinton has accepted the Democratic Party nomination, stressing her steadiness, her readiness, her experience, and her empathy.
She said, someone who will be the president for all of us.
And she didn't flinch from the fight.
Taking the argument right to Donald Trump, questioning his temperament, and blasted his biggest picture.
I'll jump in here.
We'll play the whole montage because it just goes on.
And I'm not sure what speech the media was watching, but it's very different than the one that I was watching last night.
It's kind of amazing, the perception.
But the single biggest campaign contributor to Hillary this year is going to be the mainstream media.
They're not going to vet her like they didn't vet Obama.
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And here we are, moments away from history happening live.
And for Hillary Clinton, all the drama, all the history, all the high emotion of this week.
Everything has led to this one night, this one historic moment in front of America.
And Cokie Roberts, what an interesting choice for the beginning of that speech, introducing her mom as a grandma.
Well, it's a term that's not political, is it?
It is something that everybody recognizes and can see as someone who is loving and wise.
Those are thoughts that you have about grandma.
And Hillary Clinton has accepted the Democratic Party nomination, stressing her steadiness, her readiness, her experience, and her empathy.
She said, someone who will be the president for all of us.
And she didn't flinch from the fight, taking the argument right to Donald Trump, questioning his temperament, and blasted his bigotry and bombast.
Those are her words.
This is a moment, Nora, that everybody has been waiting for, and they are really, really psyched about that.
Hillary Clinton walked out to Rachel Platt and said, This is my fight song.
And when you listen to the lyrics, you know that's a really good choice.
One line says, my power is turned up, and the power is turned up in here.
Back, Charlie, she brought back the name of her book, It Takes a Village.
It takes a village.
We've come full circle.
Yeah, I was moved by how many times she said strength and together.
She talked about strength, even said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
But it was always together.
We can do this together.
No one person can do it.
We can do it together.
And then she listed all the things that she believed in to say, this is who I am.
This is what my life was about.
But this is what I believe in.
And we need you to join us.
Bob, you got the sense of a person who's as tough as Donald Trump.
There was one moment when she mentioned Trump and stared into the camera with a look so menacing, it probably stirred Trump Secret Service details.
But she answered the question of why.
And she also was most passionate, to David's point again, on going after Donald Trump.
Case by case, issue by issue, on his temperament, on his worldview, on the fact that she is a unifier on this notion of American exceptionalism.
I think here the Democrats got handed the baton after the Republican convention.
And what we've seen for the past four days, culminating in this speech, is that they ran with it.
If you look at this speech, you actually see the impact positively of every one of these sort of movements of these young people.
You see the Black Lives Matter impact.
You see the theater supporter impact.
You see the Young Dreamers impact.
The Fight for 15 impact.
The Climate Solutions impact.
The LGBT impact.
Even Occupy Wall Street.
All the things the young people have been doing show up in this speech in an authentic way.
Not sure what speech they were watching because it certainly wasn't the one that I was.
Anyway, that is the fawning Obamagas media continuing their left-wing slant on pretty much everything that is liberal, leftist, statist, Democrat.
But, you know, I just, it's going to be interesting how this is perceived.
What if I'd be surprised by a bump in the polls?
I wouldn't be surprised at all.
Now, there is an interesting number that has come out.
The TV ratings show that this was a flop.
Apparently, Bill Clinton was not.
By the way, Bill Clinton's snoring.
That is just classic.
You cannot make this up.
Can you imagine the same Bill Clinton, and we'll have Gary Byrne on later in the program, who she threw a vase at her husband, gave him a black eye, according to Gary Byrne.
Could you imagine when she finds out, when she found out that Bill slept during her speech?
I mean, there's holy hell to be paid.
I can't imagine how painful that's going to be for him.
He's got to go home to that.
Well, not really, because they're not really together that much.
He has the Energizer meeting him in Chappaqua on a fairly regular basis.
So we read and we have heard many, many times.
Anyway, so you look at the numbers, this historic Hillary show, Big Three Networks coverage of the DNC totaled 10.2 million viewers, 2.5 in the demo.
Well, if you look at the RNC's night four, they had 2 million more.
And that is, well, more than 2 million more, 12.3 million, 2.6 in the demo.
And that's down sharply from broadcast TV's coverage of the closing night in the 2012 DNC.
So as I point out, I don't think she has the energy.
And again, she's making a bad gamble here.
You've got to look at this election year.
Bernie Sanders, a 74-year-old curmudgeon, angry socialist from Vermont, came that close to beating her.
And if the fix wasn't in, if there wasn't collusion with Hillary and the DNC, and they didn't have all the super delegates stacked up against Bernie, and they didn't try to disenfranchise the voters as they did, you know, through little emails that talked about, let's see, racism, racial slurs, gay slurs, misogynistic language, an anti-Semitic strategy to use the people of Kentucky and West Virginia.
By the way, Democrats, not Republicans, and play the anti-Semitism card.
Well, it's worth a few points.
The people in Kentucky and West Virginia know he's a Jew, which is what they did.
So in an insurgency year, she is running and reinforced that she's running to continue the Obama failure.
She didn't, you know, even though they say things are better, doesn't mean that they are.
All indications prove that they are not.
American people see it.
That's why there's a 71, 2, 3 percent belief in the country that we're headed in the wrong direction.
Add to that, 57 percent of Americans think she should have been indicted over the email server scandal.
Add to that, that 66 percent of the electorate think she's a liar, dishonest, and untrustworthy.
Those are not great numbers for anybody to run on.
And she had to move hard to the left because of all of the problems they had internally in trying to get Bernie Sanders voters to support her.
That's why she went for free college tuition.
That's why she went in the platform with raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.
That's why she trashed the Supreme Court decision on Citizens United.
That's why she, like John Kerry, believed that climate change and air conditioning are as big a threat to you as is ISIS.
You know, we need jobs for jihadis, don't we?
So she went further to the left than she ever went or ever conceived of going during the primaries.
So whatever outreach effort last night may have succeeded to shore up that base, I don't think it does anything to bring her to the middle and bring over independence.
That's my take.
Also, I think it's anticlimactic.
You know, when you have so many people out there that are better speakers than her and better performers than her, you know, start on day one, Bernie Sanders got a better reception.
And Elizabeth Warren was booed only because she was supporting Hillary.
And Michelle Obama, short speech, but a powerful speech from her perspective, especially coming from a woman that claimed eight years ago that for the first time in her adult life, she was proud of her country.
And then you go to night two.
Let's appeal to the base again.
Let's embrace Black Lives Matter.
Let's forget that this very week they said F the police.
Let's forget that this very week they talked about, you know, putting white people, you go to the back, black and brown people up front.
Left media come to the front.
White media, excuse me, you.
Excuse me, sir.
Somebody needs to tell these first to get to the vet.
No, no, somebody needs to tell these folks to get to the vet.
Don't mess up where the NRC is.
All right, we've played enough of that.
And, you know, and she had to try and humanize herself last night because of the perceptions that people rightly have of her.
She wanted to come across as warm and tender and relatable.
Well, you heard the media montage.
You know, they are the single greatest contributor this year again, as is every election year to the Democrats campaign than any one donor could ever be.
They run interference for her.
They're an extension of the Clinton press office.
And that's just the way it works right now.
But what she can't shake here, from my perception, you know, look, I don't know her personally, but I can listen to the likes of George Stephanopoulos and De D De Myers, what it's like to work for them, but I can't testify on a human level because I've never met her.
I just watch, I've watched her my entire career, watched her husband my entire career.
This is my 30th year in radio, my 20th year in Fox.
And I think what she can't shake here is the impression, which is just locked in concrete, that she's corrupt.
She's ethically a mess.
She's somebody that cuts corners daily, acts recklessly because that's who she is.
And, you know, what comes first in her life is herself.
We saw that in the FBI investigation.
We saw, well, at this point, what the hell difference does it make?
And in the Benghazi case, lying to us while simultaneously telling the truth to her daughter, the Libyan president, the Egyptian prime minister.
The Trey Gowdy questioning of James Comey is devastating as to whether or not she is a truth teller and has the veracity that we would want in a president, the capacity for.
So we saw all of this.
Now we still have the Clinton Global Initiative being investigated.
That went unmentioned during the convention.
Benghazi went unmentioned during the convention.
The millions more in poverty on food stamps, that went unmentioned.
What went unmentioned was a doubling of the debt.
The lowest home ownership rate in 51 years, that was unmentioned.
One in five American families, nobody's working.
That was unmentioned.
ISIS was barely mentioned.
They only got shamed into that as they were shamed into actually putting an American flag on the stage.
It's because it became a big story.
And then, of course, pushing out Bernie people and giving seats away and filling the seats.
That's an untold story.
The real corruption and depth of corruption that we now have within the Democratic National Committee.
Yeah, sure.
Fire Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Don't worry, Hillary.
You did me a solid, I'll take care of you now.
And that's what this week was.
So I think Hillary has failed in every respect in spite of the media analysis of this.
And it's not possible to undo her greatest vulnerability.
And that is that the vast majority of Americans view her rightly as dishonest, a liar, and untrustworthy.
And it seemed to me that what she wanted to do here with that speech was to alter these negative impressions of her.
I don't think she did it.
In some respect, I think she locked in those perceptions and impressions.
And anyway, so an opening night last night that is underwhelming, as evidenced, I would assume, by these ratings that I'm now looking at.
You got, let's see, we see, I don't know, what is it about cybersecurity and the Democrats they don't get?
Now, we had hackers breaking into her unsecure server.
Then we had the DNC get hacked.
Now we have another bunch of Democrats just had their fundraising files broken into.
The FBI is now investigating, according to The Hill, a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that may be related to the cyber attack earlier this year of the DNC, according to Reuters.
The cyber intrusion of the DCCC, the fundraising arm for the House Democrats, may have intended to get information on donors, according to sources, but that's yet another leak.
We have a new GDP report out today that totally undermines Hillary's claims in the convention.
Commerce Department reports that gross domestic product is not in sync with the lies we were told by Obama and Hillary in this convention, claiming that the American people have enjoyed real economic progress under Obama.
Very grim news that was out this morning, new report showing the economy only grew 1.2% in the second quarter.
You know, he will be Obama the first president, not only to accumulate as much debt as every other president before him combined, as I often tell you, but also the first president never to get a single year at 3% growth in GDP.
That means that jobs are unavailable.
That means the economy is anemic at best, probably teetering on the brink of yet another recession.
In other words, there's no recovery.
That's why so many people remain out of the labor force.
That's why when they tell you the unemployment number is down, it's meaningless because they don't count the chronically unemployed.
Only Washington could use a calculator like this and actually get away with it.
Anyway, it was less than half the 2.6% that Wall Street had expected here.
So that's obviously not a good thing.
And it shows that, you know, dragged down by inventory and business and investment that swamped increases in consumer spending is a huge dilemma here for the Clinton campaign and a big opening for Trump.
How do you sell Americans on four more years of this garbage?
They've had eight years to fix, quote, this.
And even in Obama's speech and Hillary's, they're still blaming Bush.
Well, after eight years, it's your bat, your ball, your ass.
It's not our problem.
These are your policies that have failed so many of your core constituents because minorities have been disproportionately impacted by these bad policies.
No wonder why Bill Clinton fell asleep.
And now, the funny part is Politico, which we now know, according to the DNC emails, they get their stories approved by the DNC before they ever send it out in the press and the public.
They're complaining that we conservatives are having too much fun reporting that Bill Clinton fell asleep during Hillary's historic moment.
Oh, I'm supposed to ignore that?
Oh, okay.
Thanks for telling me how to do my job.
And frankly, my career would never be what it is if not for their inability, their unwillingness to do their job.
They never vetted Obama.
I did.
They're not vetting Hillary.
I am.
And by the way, few people reported the truth.
The Daily Caller was one that got it, but she actually got booed during last night's speech and people calling for the release of those Wall Street speeches that she gave.
By the way, some other sad news.
The police assassinations continue.
A police officer fatally shot and injured in San Diego last night.
I just or early this morning.
It just breaks your heart.
There's hardly a day we can't wake up and hear another cop shot.
This could be 2016, a record year, sadly, that we now have assassinations and literally plotting and scheming of killing officers.
I made this case, and we had to go forward.
We had no choice anymore but to go for a special counsel.
And man, she hasn't shot down my throat.
This fierce and chilling.
She's kind of a little too in front of everybody.
And anybody that stood up and tried to say this is a bad idea, you know, smashed down and a little me personally.
Did you ever throw a lamp at your husband?
No, I didn't.
Did you ever throw a Bible at your husband?
No, I didn't.
Do you have a terrible temper?
No, but I do get angry about things.
I'm not going to deny that.
Go to the end of the line.
Okay.
Why don't you go to the end of the line?
The fact is, we had four dead Americans.
Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans?
What difference at this point does it make?
You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?
My husband is not the Secretary of State.
I am.
So you ask my opinion.
I will tell you my opinion.
I'm not going to be channeling my husband.
This woman, this little soft-spoken, pardon me for the phrase, dowdy woman, that was seen very unassertive, took a hold of my hand and squeezed it and said, Do you understand everything that you do?
I could have passed out at that moment.
And she held on to my hand and she said, Do you understand everything that you do?
I mean, cold chills went up my spine.
That's the first time I became afraid of that woman.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic and we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
All right, where is the real Hillary Clinton?
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All right, so we decided to bring in those that have a very different story to tell.
Another one's one that is more reality-based, not the image-making, not the movie-making, not the speeches that declare she's the greatest thing since sliced bread, or this checklist, platitude, cliched, sloganed speech she gave last night with no specifics that the media just loved.
Even David Axelrod said, no, that wasn't a great speech.
Kate Anderson Brower is with us, author of the New York Times bestseller, First Women, The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies and The Residence Inside the Private World of the White House.
We have Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, author of Dereliction of Duty, an eyewitness account of how Bill Clinton compromised America's national security.
And Gary Byrne, eight years outside of the Oval Office, working for the Clintons.
He wrote the book, Crisis a Character, a White House Secret Service Officer, disclosing his first-hand experience with Hillary and Bill and how they operate.
Welcome all of you to the program.
Gary, let me start with you.
Eight years outside of the Oval Office, correct?
Yes, sir.
You saw the convention, and in your book, you describe a very different person.
Tell us about the woman you know.
So the real Hillary Clinton I know is distant, angry, cold.
You know, she distorts the truth.
For instance, in one of the dialogues you were playing while I was waiting, I heard an interview with Barbara Walters where she asked her, Did you throw a lamp at your husband?
Well, it wasn't a lamp.
It was a vase.
So, you know, the real Hillary Clinton.
And you know, this is a fact.
This is not fiction.
You know, I'm making this up.
No.
You actually saw the broken vase.
They heard the noise of a loud fight took place.
He came down with a black eye the next day.
Yeah.
Or that day.
Yeah, she's very violent.
She's angry all the time, and she clearly despises the military and law enforcement.
I saw many, and I cite many examples of this in my book, and I saw it many times firsthand.
The person that they're trying to portray is just so fictitious.
And the real Hillary Critton is somebody who just is power-hungry and angry all the time and clearly a dictator.
And really, if she was any bit of a leader, if she had any bit of a leader inside of her, at the State Department, after the Benghazi thing, she would have stayed on, looked the American people in the eye, and said, this will never happen again.
Here are the procedures that we're going to fix so this never happens again.
But they didn't.
They lied.
They lied to the families.
They lied to the American people.
And then she moved on to run for President of the United States.
And everybody just forgets it.
Or they want to pass it off as, oh, well, those are dangerous places.
Everybody involved that night that could have protected those people or helped them.
Mrs. Clinton, the president, that whole chain of command was living behind protective fences with armed Secret Service or other types of security.
It's appalling.
You know, Kate, I know you're more of a reporter and less of a pundin and less of a political commentator.
But, you know, we just heard George Stephanopoulos talking about Hillary, the one he knew that jumped down his throat, that she was fierce, she was chilling.
Those are his words.
Dee Dee Meyer saying anybody who stood up against her was smashed down and belittled.
Is that what your research shows?
Well, some of my research shows that the idea that she was very unhappy in the White House, and I think what Gary is referencing when she threw this base, when I was doing reporting for my book about the White House residents and the staffers there, they described one incident in particular where there was a loud argument and the butlers and this florist were listening in and could hear shouting and screaming.
And this was around the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
So it's interesting that a lot of people around Hillary Clinton, though, do not mind that portrayal of her as a woman scorned because I don't think they see that.
They see that as a humanizing thing in some ways for her.
It makes her seem less robotic and more honest.
So it's just a different way of looking at it.
But yes, certainly my reporting verifies it and shows what others have said too, is that it was very intense of the White House.
She was not particularly happy in the role of First Lady, obviously, after health care failed.
And also when she was running for Senate, I interviewed one staffer who said she was really not interested in a lot of the kind of more First Lady, you know, the roles of picking out floral arrangements, china patterns, and those kinds of things she saw as a little bit beneath her.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I look at all of this and I'm saying, okay, so is it fair then to say that the image that was projected in this four-day convention is false?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Gary says, absolutely.
Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, you wrote Dereliction of Duty.
You're an eyewitness to how you believe they compromise national security.
Yeah, everything that Gary and Kate are aspiring to, Hillary, is exactly my experience in my time there.
Exactly the same woman that I came to know and see on a daily basis.
Very profane, very short-tempered, very quick to violent outbursts.
And in fact, I remember one situation where we were going to a fundraiser at the top of a hotel in Washington, D.C., and she had just found out that she was not going to be granted immunity from white water testimony from Janet Reno at the time.
And she was holding her husband responsible.
And as we went up to this elevator movement with just myself and the Secret Service agent and the first lady and president and the doctor, the White House doctor, she lit into him with every political word you've ever heard.
And I've been in the military for 20 years.
I've heard them all.
And she let him have it.
And he shook his head and took it like, you know, a beaten puppy.
And, of course, when the whole video doors opened up again, then they were holding hands, walking out smiling like nothing can happen.
But she definitely ruled the roost in my time there.
And it was a co-presidency in a lot of ways.
Yeah, a co-presidency.
And what about temperament?
What about conduct?
What about the things like, for example, Gary was talking about Benghazi?
I mean, you know, she is the only, the highest-ranking cabinet official after we know and are watching in real time the events unfolding in Benghazi.
And her biggest issue as she sits around the table is whether or not we have to tell the Libyan government that we're going in.
And then the second biggest issue is, oh my gosh, are we allowed to send in our military in their real uniforms or do we have to have them change and she had them change four separate times?
That's indicative also, Sean, of the way her husband ran a business.
You know, when I was in the White House, we had a couple of instances that have gotten Mossilla bin Laden, one to capture him, one to kill him.
And both times, Clinton let it dissolve into a debate over the phone with Madeline Albright and Janet Reno and Secretary of Defense Cohen about whether or not we could overfly Pakistani airspace, those kind of issues, and we never pulled the trigger.
That's the same kind of indecision we're going to get from Mrs. Clinton as well.
Yeah.
You know, I just, at the end of the day, I mean, I guess Americans are going to have to decide.
To me, this is a really big choice election.
But let's stay focused a little bit, Gary, if we can.
Sure.
One of the things, the arguments I was making about last night's speech is it's all image-making.
And, you know, I don't think she was in any way as good a speaker as those people leading up to her.
And I watched her give the speech last night, as close to an interview I'll ever have with Clinton being in the same room with her.
But putting that aside, and I watched this whole thing unfold, and I'm thinking, okay, she wants us to think something about her that's not true.
You experienced this firsthand.
You said things were thrown at Secret Service agents.
She cursed them out, including she cursed you out.
But if there were big donors in the White House or people she needed to impress, she'd put her hand on your shoulder and act like she was your best friend.
In other words, a total phony.
Yeah.
And the funny thing is, is by that time that incident happened where she's trying to, you know, make, you know, act like we're friends and she loves the uniform division.
And, you know, by that time, I had already known the real Hillary Clinton.
But when I was listening to her talk, I mean, for a minute there, I started to laugh at myself.
I'm like, oh, my God, I almost believe her.
I mean, you know.
But what I saw, one of the things I saw in that speech last night, Sean, after thinking about it overnight, is it was so robotic.
You know, I clearly, I mean, anybody who reads a speech, reads it off the teleprompter.
She's not just reading it off the teleprompter.
She doesn't believe it.
She couldn't sell that, in my opinion.
I mean, I have a different view.
And actually, the three of us on the line with you have a different view than most people will, especially Colonel Patterson.
You know, I just don't see how anybody can believe any of that.
And, you know, it was so full of hopes and dreams.
And, you know, we know what the reality is.
It's going to be one.
It's already started.
One scandal to the next, one disaster to the next.
And somewhere along the line, a lot of good military people are going to end up holding the bag over their bad mistakes and their inability to make a decision, pull the trigger and move forward.
Now, Buzz, you also talk about how Hillary tried to ban military uniforms from the White House and how you carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton and he lost the codes.
Yes, those are two separate incidents.
When I first arrived in 1996, she attempted to have the military aid.
There were five of us.
I was the Air Force guy at the time, and there was four other officers as well.
But she attempted to have us only wearing business suits in and around the White House.
She wanted to minimize the appearance of the military in the White House going into the reelection in 96.
And we argued with her that for security reasons it was a better idea for us to be in uniform.
We were secret service guys could pick us out of the crowd, but they were tasked with us supporting us as well than it would be to have yet another guy with sunglasses and a suit on out in the crowd with the nuclear football.
So that happened.
And when the Monica Lewinsky situation erupted in June of 98, I discovered he had in fact lost the codes, the codes he carries in his pants pocket.
How did he lose the codes?
How do you lose coats?
Well, every president since John F. Kennedy has carried them in their pants pocket or suit pocket.
And President Clinton carried his rubber bandit through some credit cards.
They're a carrier of wallet.
And in the chaos...
Since when does a president need a credit card for crying out loud?
Every once in a while.
Every once.
Every once in a while he'd step up and buy somebody something, but wouldn't happen very often.
But in the chaos of the Monica situation, I was in fact the first guy in the office that morning when it hit the press, and he wasn't coincided with me swapping out the codes for some new ones.
And he revealed that he had lost the codes and didn't know where they were.
Didn't want to talk about it right then, of course.
So I came back that afternoon, and he confessed that he had, in fact, lost them.
And the really sad thing was, John, that he didn't care.
He couldn't recall if it had been weeks, days, or months that they had been missing.
He was only concerned about the fact that I not tell anybody in the press about it.
He wanted to keep it out of the press, and it stayed out of the press till my book came out in 2003.
Wow.
So he personally asked you to cover up.
Shocking.
That's not in the Clinton MO in any way, shape, or form.
Last words, Kate.
Well, I mean, I think there is certainly an obsession with privacy that the Clintons do have.
And when these DNC emails leaked, I thought that was interesting.
I mean, when I talked to some White House ushers, they talked about how the Clintons wanted the phone lines changed in the White House so that no one could listen in on their conversations, which made it much more complicated for the ushers who were used to connecting with the White House operators.
So there is an obsession with privacy.
As far as her temper goes, I know Bill Clinton had a really volatile temper, too.
So I think they're similar in that way.
But yeah, I mean, they are obsessed with privacy.
And she was not particularly interested in some of the role that she was playing.
And I think that would, you know, her frustration with being first lady is maybe a little bit of what you're seeing.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, thank you both for being one of those.
We appreciate it.
This president ran to be commander-in-chief.
Unfortunately, his rhetoric has made him divider-in-chief.
We're more racially divided today than before he ran.
But there's more.
Did you see the new Black Panthers outside?
Where's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?
They don't speak for Black America and they don't speak for me.
Mr. President, I have a message.
This is not about black America, white America, or brown America.
This is about the United States of America.
You know, and quite frankly, somebody with a nice tan needs to say this.
All lives matter.
All right.
25 now until the top of the hour.
Glad you're with us.
That's Darrell Glenn, and he is a candidate for Senate in the state of Colorado.
I've been following this race now and watching his rise in the polls and rise of his career.
And he's running against incumbent Democrat Michael Bennett.
And he's been with Donald Trump all day at a rally in Colorado Springs.
And I got to tell you something.
I am, Darrell, I've not met you before.
I don't think.
If I did, I apologize.
And I am stunned and amazed at what a strong conservative voice you have.
And I fully want to help you in this campaign.
Well, Sean, thank you very much for having me on.
And I tell you, we are really fired up.
We're at a Trump rally right now, and you wouldn't believe the line that's outside of people that want to come see the next President of the United States.
You know, one of the things that frustrates me, and we had an entire night Tuesday night of this week, which I call the Black Lives Matter night at the convention hall in Philly, and I'm watching this, and they're chanting Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, et cetera.
And I'm thinking, okay, I have tape of Black Lives Matter this very week saying, you white people, you have to go in the back, you white people in the back.
And they also, we got them chanting this week, F the police.
Previously, as you know, they have chanted things like, what do we want?
dead cops, when do we want them now?
And pigs in a blanket and fry them like bacon and all this nonsense.
But Hillary Clinton is going and using Black Lives Matter, praising them at this convention, seeking out their counsel on criminal justice issues.
They've had numerous invitations to the Obama White House.
And I'm thinking, imagine if any Republican aligned themselves with such radical people.
What are your thoughts?
Well, and I agree.
And I'm trying to highlight the hypocrisy there because, you know, it starts at the very top.
When Mr. Obama, and now President Obama ran, he ran as the great uniter.
And he was talking about, and why use his line, a black America, white America, brown America.
He is dividing this community.
And when he actually takes a stand, it really polarizes and creates conflict between law enforcement and the very people that they're designed and sworn to protect and serve.
And he needs to understand that.
It starts at the top.
Yeah, he does.
Let me ask you a question.
Why, and I know you're a black conservative in this country.
I love the fact that you are a conservative.
I have many friends that are the same.
And I have witnessed again and again and again, I've done entire one-hour specials on this on television about how demonized black conservatives are in this country.
Why do you think it is that happens?
Why is it?
If you look at the statistics, since Obama's been president, there's been a 58% increase, black Americans on food stamps, a 20% increase, black Americans out of the labor force.
Why do you think in spite of that failure, he has not lifted up the black community, the Hispanic community, minority communities?
They have been disproportionately, negatively impacted by the Obama economic policies.
Why do they historically vote Democrat in spite of this failure that's not helping the communities?
Well, and a lot of that responsibility, we have to look in the mirror because, you know, I've been an elected official.
I started off at the city council level for eight years, and I would always have confrontations, you know, polite discussions with community leaders, especially in the black community, and they would always challenge me on why I'm a Republican and what am I doing about standing up for just black issues.
And I would try to educate them in the fact that, I'm sorry, when you start looking at jobs, when you start looking at making sure that your community is safe, those are issues that impact all of us, not just the black community.
So some of this is just based on your generation and that you're just used to voting a certain way just because your parents have done that.
We've got to push back on that.
And what I challenge Republicans is our messaging is part of the problem.
We talk at the 50,000 foot level.
We've got to be able to draw that connection in and show why when we're looking at things like ISIS and national security threat, why does that impact a family that's struggling paying their bills?
We need to draw that connection in.
And once we do that and we show that we are compassionate and we understand their needs, then we'll be able to break through.
So it's an ongoing dialogue that we need to have.
But part of the problem is our messaging as Republicans.
You know, let me ask you, let's go down a series of issues.
Are you pro-life?
Do you make exceptions for rape and incest?
You know, I am pro-life.
And, you know, it's one of these things where I have two daughters.
And I try to tell people all the time that it's how we talk about that.
You know, Democrats love to bait us into saying, okay, when does life begin?
You know, my opponent, I want to challenge him, when won't he allow an abortion?
Because they won't.
We always take the bait.
But I stand up for life, and I think that's extremely important.
Where are you on the Second Amendment?
I'm absolutely a strong defender of the Second Amendment.
And what I get frustrated with is when you start thinking about the presidents, when we have things like Orlando, they focus in on the instrument instead of the fact that we are at war with an ideology.
And I think that's dangerous because what you're only doing is basically taking tools out of the hands of law-abiding citizens that have the right to protect themselves.
Yeah, I agree with that.
Where do you stand on issues involving the type of justices we ought to appoint to the Supreme Court?
I am absolutely a strict constructionist.
We need to have somebody that mirrors Justice Scalia.
And that's why it's so important for this election.
This is a generational election.
When you think about the fact that this board is essentially a 4-4 split, you know, this next president is going to have the ability to shape a generation.
We have got to understand that because that's going to have a tremendous impact.
So I'm looking for somebody.
I do have a litmus test, and I put it out there.
It needs to be in the spirit of Justice Scalia.
Scalia was one of the most brilliant jurists, justices in our lifetime.
I'm not sure we'll ever see a mind like that again, although I happen to be very fond of Clarence Thomas, who I think is equally brilliant and incredibly, you know, his fidelity to the Constitution is as pure as I have ever seen it and as consistent as I have ever witnessed.
And I love that about both of them.
Where do you feel we ought to go on replacing Obamacare?
And do you feel that the Republicans have been timid and weak in challenging the Obama agenda?
And what do you think of their unwillingness in the House to use the power of the purse?
That's the one thing they've given away.
We need to be strong and stand up.
Number one, the government should never dictate to us the fact that we have to purchase health insurance.
So we need to absolutely repeal that.
But then we need to be strong about making sure that people have choice and be able to purchase insurance across state lines.
I mean, there are things that we can do.
We can put forward a solution.
So at the same time, we need to stand up for freedom and liberty and the fact that we believe that this is constitutionally unsound.
We also need to be very proactive and lay out an agenda on what we need to do right now.
And it needs to be able to translate into how is a family that's sitting down struggling, looking at the rising insurance costs that they're struggling with on a day-to-day basis, why should that family adopt our policy and fall in line with us?
It's our messaging.
We need to make that connection.
Where do you think about this idea that we need to secure our borders, build a wall?
What do you think should happen to those that are here illegally?
And what are your thoughts on Hillary's proposal to have a 550% increase in refugees, even though our top national security officials have all said that ISIS will infiltrate that population like they did in Europe, Belgium, Paris, and elsewhere?
Yeah, and we've really documented that on our website at electdarrelglenn.com.
But, you know, especially here in Colorado, Michael Bennett is hiding on this issue.
And, you know, a lot of people automatically want to jump to step C.
And step C is, what are you going to do about the people here?
You know, I try to tell people right now, think of yourself that you're in a boat.
You're in a boat with a hole in it.
And, you know, most people want to keep talking about where we're going to go next.
We need to plug the hole.
So we need to have strong border and port security.
That's something that we need to do on day one.
Then we need to actually make sure that we're enforcing all the laws that are on the books right now.
And we need to cut off these incentives that are allowing and encouraging people to violate our rule of law.
You know, providing driver's licenses, providing benefits, things like that.
We need to remember it is a privilege to be an American citizen.
And one of the things that I'm most proud of, even as a county commissioner, when it comes to Syrian refugees, locally, we aren't even told whether or not these individuals are coming to our communities.
So I push forward an emergency resolution to freeze the funding until they can show and demonstrate to us that they aren't a threat to this community.
By doing that, that doesn't mean that we aren't loving and compassionate.
What that shows is we have a fundamental responsibility to take care of our very own citizens and make sure that we aren't introducing people to the community that are a threat to them.
And Hillary Clinton wants to exacerbate that.
I got to tell you, I'm sitting here listening.
And listen, please promise me that if you get to Washington, I don't know what happens to some of these people, but I've seen this happen often over my career that they sound exactly like you do now, which is amazing.
And then when they get to D.C., something changes in them.
The culture there changes them.
And if you just stay true to who you are today, you will be a force for good and principled conservatism that this country deeply, deeply needs, because I believe conservatism is the antidote to all the problems that we currently have.
And I really wish you the best in this campaign because I think all of those things that you stand for are going to be good for the country and are needed.
And I think if we don't get this turned around quickly, we're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Absolutely.
And again, you know, this is the number one battleground state.
And we're trying to show that Michael Bennett is somebody that needs to go.
That's why people are flocking to electdarylglen.com right now and joining this campaign.
You know, I started my campaign 15 months early.
I went around the state and I actually did something unique.
I actually talked to people.
And our campaign is based on fundamental principles that we're going to go out there and fight for them.
And I tell people all the time that I'm going to bring a whole bunch of water from Colorado with me to Washington, D.C., because I'm not going to drink the water out there.
Yeah.
What do you think about the marijuana law out in Colorado?
Where were your thoughts on that?
Well, I think we, you know, it would be interesting to see whether or not people would vote for that again.
I think it has a lot of unintended consequences.
We still have conflicting laws with regard to, especially in my home county, we have a lot of military installations.
And the military, you know, when you start thinking about growing your military, if you cannot have and be using marijuana and be a part of our military.
So we need to clear up that conflict.
So states, you know, the federal government cannot pick and choose.
You either going to have to recognize states' rights or you're going to have to shut it down.
And that debate needs to happen.
And listen, I think the people of Colorado ought to be able to do whatever they want.
That's really, I'm fairly libertarian in that area.
And, you know, there's actually some good.
I know that there have been kids that have epilepsy.
And apparently there's some oil they can extract from cannabis.
And this was on 60 Minutes.
It was fairly impressive.
That actually eliminates all of the epileptic seizures of these young children.
Now, if it can be used for medicinal purposes, I'm all for it.
I think on a personal level, I guess it's like alcohol.
Alcohol is free and available.
And yeah, I like to have beer and wine, but I don't do it in excess.
And recreationally, I worry that it's a gateway drug, especially for kids.
Its availability is probably more than it's ever been.
So there's concerns there.
But I'm all for states' rights as you are.
And I think that's a good answer.
And I'm sure that's going to be brought up a lot during the campaign.
Let me ask you, what is your background?
Because I'm really so impressed watching your campaign.
And this does not happen to me that often.
Daryl, I'm just telling you, and I don't know if it helps you for me to endorse you, but I am totally endorsing you.
And I want you to win this race.
But if it hurts you, I'll say I'm against you.
Well, sir, I gladly will accept your endorsement.
You know, I grew up in a military family.
I went to the Air Force Academy, spent 21 and a half years in the military, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel.
During my active duty career, I went to school at night, got my master's in business administration, and went and got my law degree, came home, got involved in local politics, spent eight years on city council.
I'm currently a county commissioner in my second term, won my last reelection with over 80% of the vote.
And now we are going after the number one seat in this state, and that's the seat that's currently held by Michael Bennett.
He's in trouble.
He's on the ropes like Muhammad Ali.
I'm going to play and duck and die to make sure that we put him on defense because we're going to make him actually have to campaign on his record.
And when he campaigns on his record, he's going to lose.
Wow.
Very impressive.
Darrell Glenn, I look forward to when you're in New York next time.
We'd love to have you in the studio and put you on the television show.
And we're going to follow.
Look, Colorado's key.
Donald Trump needs Colorado and we need you.
Darrell Glenn from the great state of Colorado.
And thank you, sir, for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Hey, listen, I don't.
What an impressive guy.
What an impressive resume.
I just, you know, it was sort of he's he has the potential to be a rock star.
There's my prediction today.
Just I hope the people of Colorado are smart enough to elect him.
Michael Bennett should have to defend that record.
And here we are, moments away from history happening live.
And for Hillary Clinton, all the drama, all the disgust, all the high emotion of this week.
Everything has led to this one night, this one historic moment in front of America.
And Cokie Roberts, what an interesting choice for the beginning of that speech, introducing her mom as a grandma.
Well, it's a term that's not political, is it?
It is something that everybody recognizes and can see as someone who is loving and wise.
Those are thoughts that you have about grandma.
And Hillary Clinton has accepted the Democratic Party nomination, stressing her steadiness, her readiness, her experience, and her empathy.
She said, someone who will be the president for all of us.
And she didn't flinch from the fight, taking the argument right to Donald Trump, questioning his temperament, and blasted his bigotry and bombast.
Those are her words.
This is a moment, Nora, that everybody has been waiting for, and they are really, really psyched about that.
Hillary Clinton walked out to Rachel Platt and said, This is my fight song.
And when you listen to the lyrics, you know that's a really good choice.
One line says, My power is turned up, and the power is turned up in here.
Back, Charlie, she brought back the name of her book, It Takes a Village.
It takes a village.
We've come full circle.
Yeah, I was moved by how many times she said strength and together.
She talked about strength, even said, We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
But it was always together.
We can do this together.
No one person can do it.
We can do it together.
And then she listed all the things that she believed in to say, this is who I am.
This is what my life was about.
But this is what I believe in.
And we need you.
Join us.
Mob, you got the sense of a person who's as tough as Donald Trump.
There was one moment when she mentioned Trump and stared into the camera with a look so menacing, it probably stirred Trump's Secret Service detail.
She answered the question of why.
And she also was most passionate, to David's point again, on going after Donald Trump, case by case, issue by issue, on his temperament, on his worldview, on the fact that she is a unifier on this notion of American exceptionalism.
I think here the Democrats got handed the baton after the Republican convention.
And what we've seen for the past four days, culminating in this speech, is that they ran with it.
If you look at this speech, you actually see the impact positively of every one of these sort of movements of these young people.
You see the Black Lives Matter impact.
You see the Sanders supporter impact.
You see the Young Dreamers impact, the Fight for 15 impact, the Climate Solutions impact, the LGBT impact, even Occupy Wall Street.
All the things the young people have been doing show up in this speech in an authentic way.
All right, there you have it, the fawning news media.
It sounds like she scared Trump's Secret Service detail.
She's loving.
She's wise.
She's a mom.
She's a grandma.
I mean, I'm listening to this.
Even David Axelot had the honesty to say, given a speech like this is not her strength.
And she didn't give a great speech last night.
She just did not give a great speech tonight.
And when you look at the lineup of speakers ahead of her, I mean, it kind of takes your breath away that this is how the media is interpreting this because they are the single biggest campaign contributors to Hillary Clinton.
They're fawning coverage of her.
She didn't talk about real world issues, problems like radical Islam and terrorism and assassination of cops and open borders and crime and an economy that has millions and millions more Americans in poverty on food stamps and out of the labor force, a doubling of our nation's debt.
She didn't deal with the significant issues of our day involving a world that in large part is more chaotic than ever because of her bad decisions.
This was a checklist speech.
This was a platitude cliched speech.
There were no specifics in this.
If you like slogans, one listed one after the other, this was a great speech for you.
And I'm sure for some people, slogans works.
She didn't talk about her record, all the years that she has been in the public arena and how little she has personally accomplished.
And then when you look on the fact-check side of all of this, well, she said 90% of income gains have gone to the top 1%.
That's an outdated figure.
It's 52%.
She didn't mention that we were at a 51-year low when it comes to the home ownership rate or that the labor participation rate is, what, the lowest since the 1970s.
That didn't come up either.
Anyway, joining us now to delve deeper into this final hour news roundup information overload hour is Jeff Lord, former associate political director in the Reagan administration, columnist, author of the book, What America Needs, The Case for Trump, Danielle McLaughlin, attorney, constitutional expert who co-wrote the Federalist Society, How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals.
Anyway, welcome both of you to the program.
Danielle, what part of my analysis do you disagree with as a Hillary supporter?
Well, I actually agree with you that the speech on Thursday night was really, it was slogans.
It wasn't a lot of details, policy specifics, but we've seen that with her across the board since the beginning of her campaign in contrast to Donald Trump.
So, you know, the acceptance speech was broad.
It was about her ideas.
I didn't really expect that she would really get into the weeds on policy.
Yeah.
What were your thoughts, Jeff?
I mean, there you are over at the Clinton News Network, and I feel sorry for you every time I watch you.
It's painful.
It's like there's one normal person on the panel, and there's like nine other, you know, Trump haters and conservative haters up there.
Well, suffice to say, I was the only person on the panel who mentioned the name Juanita Broderick.
That does not surprise me.
I remember, let me tell a little funny backstory.
So one night I'm watching Jeff on CNN, and there's like 12 people, and they spend an entire hour that Jeff, they're all jumping on him.
And I'm right, oh my God, they can't pay me enough money to do what you're doing.
Well, the line, Sean, that struck me is she talked about, she had a line in there, something to the effect that she wasn't going to let Wall Street take Main Street again and drive it to all sorts of new lows and all this kind of thing.
And what is continually left out of this dialogue here on the financial crash is the role of none other than Bill Clinton with his national partners in home ownership, which was, in essence, the planning the seeds for the financial crash, in which they made it possible, you know, under the grounds that there was racial discrimination for people who didn't have the bucks or the credit to buy homes to let them do it.
Well, of course, the bubble blew up, the whole thing crashed, and we had this big financial crash in 2008.
But it was, you know, if you read, you know, one day, Sean, when I was in there to go on your TV show, I was preceded by, you will remember, Gretchen Morgenson, who wrote that great book, Reckless Endangerment.
She from the New York Times.
And it's all about the crash and how it happened.
And she lays the blame right off the bat at Bill Clinton's feet.
And there's not a word from this.
I mean, you would think that this just, you listened to Hillary last night, you would think that just this just happened out of the blue.
And that's not true.
And that was number one.
Number two, she said nothing about the debt.
I mean, the fact that it's been doubled since Barack Obama took office.
And of course, as you did say, she never mentioned the words radical Islam.
She's still not going to go there.
I just think, you know, this campaign is going to be about her and her judgment.
There is another thing that is really, there's so many untold stories.
When you read Gary Byrne's book.
Yeah, we just had Gary on.
And, you know, there is an untold story here, starting from the opening gavel of the convention, the booing that went on by Bernie supporters, ending with Bernie's supporters pretty much being thrown out of the hall and those seats being given to other people.
Some reports say even paid.
And it was all designed to make sure that this didn't become a public spectacle for everybody.
But what was going on behind the scenes is clear.
We heard Bernie getting booed, Wasserman Schultz getting booed.
Of course, Danielle, I mean, how revealing is it these DNC emails that show that there was collusion going on between the Clinton campaign and the DNC to hand the nomination over to her and in the process disenfranchised not only Bernie Sanders but his supporters.
And in the language, we have racial slurs, gay slurs, misogynistic language, and of course an anti-Semitic strategy which was, oh, does everybody in Kentucky and West Virginia know that she's a Jew?
That he's Jewish?
That he's a Jew?
I mean, don't you find that appalling?
Certainly.
There were some terrible things in those emails, certainly embarrassing for the DNC and clearly timed from Maximum Impact just ahead of Clinton's big week.
I suspect that if RNC emails with seven staffers were revealed, there would be some pretty awkward and awful things said.
I think those emails do show, and it's clear for people to see that people had problems individually, personally, with Sanders.
But the idea that there was collusion, I think, is of an overreach.
There was an email from Clinton's lawyer making suggestions, but there's no evidence that it was acted upon.
Sean, when I walked into the convention center arena on Monday night for the first time, you know, I mean, I don't need to tell this to you.
You're on television and you get recognized.
And a woman delegate from Indiana, who was a Bernie supporter, recognized me, made a B-line for me, made a point of taking me aside to talk.
And I can only tell you, this woman was furious, livid with Hillary Clinton.
She made it clear in no uncertain terms that hell would freeze over before she had anything to do with supporting Hillary Clinton.
And she went on in chapter and verse.
And it was very clear to me that there was considerable sentiment.
Now, will this last?
I mean, I suppose that's the question.
But most assuredly, I can tell you I got stopped several times by Bernie delegates, and they were not happy campers.
No, and sure, and we've seen this on the Republican side as well.
I spoke to some protesters outside the convention as well, Jeff, and with some pretty difficult and harsh rhetoric for Clinton as they protested numerous days outside the convention.
But we see this on the Republican side as well, in fairness.
There is a split within the party, and I guess fairly some of the establishment Republicans have come out against Trump and what he stands for, or maybe to some extent what he doesn't stand for.
These two candidates have the lowest approval rating in history.
So this is a pretty unique election.
And it's really the middle that's going to make the big decision here.
You know, the one in seven voters, the independents, people who are not firmly in the camps of Clinton or Mr. Trump, they're going to make the decision this year.
You know, I look back.
Okay, go ahead, Jeff.
Go ahead, go ahead.
You know, I'm just looking back at the whole thing.
Where was any mention of any significant success that she has had in the 30 years she has been in the public arena?
Did you hear anything, Danielle?
Because I did not.
What are the specifics she gave last night and how she's going to get the millions that are in poverty on food stamps, millions more since Obama's elected and out of the labor force back into work?
What is the answer to a doubling of our national debt in the eight years that Obama's been president?
Where's the answer to ISIS except a bunch of slogans and platitudes and bumper stickers, which we've been hearing for all these years already?
You know, last Thursday night was not the night for specifics for Clinton.
And as we sort of discussed at the beginning of the segment, just go to her website.
She has some really detailed plans and she's talked about those.
To some people ad nauseum, the very, very detailed thing.
She's a policy wonk.
You see her in the debates.
There's no lack of detail for Hillary Clinton, but Thursday night was not the night for that.
Well, why is it not the night?
Because Donald Trump gave specifics.
And this is why this is now becoming a choice election.
Well, sure.
And I think the contrast is that absolutely Donald Trump gave facts and details on his Thursday night, but the rest of his campaign has been far less focused on facts, details, and policies.
In the reverse, the exact opposite is true for Clinton.
Her campaign is grounded in the weeds.
So, okay, so you think that if you just give a checklist and say, I'm going to beat ISIS, and you give a checklist, and every child deserves free college, and you give the checklist and you say, every American deserves and has the right to health care, and you give a specific as, we don't need walls, we need more love, and we need a jobs for jihadis program, and global warming is as big a threat as is ISIS.
So you just check the list.
It's a very realistic characterization of her campaign.
I mean, she's been criticized for being too heavy on the details.
I'll give you one example of the kind of work that she has done over the years.
I spoke to Kate, to a woman, Kate Burdick, who was a juvenile justice center lawyer in Philadelphia, and she spoke on Tuesday afternoon with a number of advocates for children.
And what she said was, people who work with children don't often get in the headlines.
And just out of law school, Clinton went out into various communities to see and to stop practices where juveniles were being held in adult prisons.
And that's one very specific thing that she did to help people.
And I think people have to look at both records of Trump and of Clinton, and they're very different, and they're positive and negative in very different ways.
And then they ultimately have to make their own decisions about who's best qualified.
You know, John, all I can say is while we were there, and I didn't see him, but one of the survivors of Benghazi was there, made a point of coming there to.
Yeah, no, he was on my show.
He was on my show too nicely.
Why was he?
I just thought that was so remarkable.
And I thought that was a good idea.
That was actually by design, Jeff.
I actually wanted him there.
You know, because there is another side of the story, you know, and I felt my role during this painful week was to tell that other side.
Yeah, well, congratulations.
I mean, I just think that was great.
I mean, I certainly brought up Benghazi.
This is a question of judgment.
And she has repeatedly shown bad judgment.
When they talk about the kind of person who's prepared to be commander-in-chief, I said, well, she was commander-in-chief as Secretary of State when her department was involved in Benghazi.
And she wound up killing the ambassador and three other people.
I mean, this is inexcusable.
All right, guys, I've got to run, but I.
Yeah, I'm out of time, but I got to tell you, Jeff, you're my thoughts and prayers every time I watch you surrounded by people that can't stand people like us.
Danielle, thank you.
Appreciate it.
It's Friday.
Time to turn those party lights on, especially after this brutal week.
Strawberry simmer on hot lips.
Silver buckle hanging off her hips.
I sparkle when she smiles.
Sparkle when she smiles.
Lemon drop, take a sip.
Get your shine on right now.
Let's turn that party light on.
Get your shine on baby doll.
Ray-Bans got the whole shading.
Clone piece tucked in the console.
Riding hollow up on the band low.
She liked lucky.
Got hit up with something to get clear.
Kentucky clear.
Dripping rhinestones.
Turn your party lights on.
Baby, get your shadow shine.
A little Florida-Georgia line, a little Friday, especially after a rough week, Democratic National Convention.
Man, it's like when you're in that atmosphere, you're sort of in a poisonous environment and sort of seeps into your inner solar plexus and your soul and your heart.
And it's a good reminder that, all right, all right, things are going to be all right.
We got through this week and we will survive and things will be great.
What a lot of fun.
FGL is so much fun.
If you get a chance to see them in concert, they're just a blast and a lot of fun, and you'll have a great time and you'll get your party light on.
And I don't know, maybe we need to get some Kentucky clear and give it a little shot.
What do you think, Lauren, Jason, and Ethan?
You like that idea?
Jason, I see you like it.
Yeah, I usually do that every single Friday.
That's usually me.
Although I'm going to take it a little easier this weekend.
No Kentucky clear for you?
I'm more of a gin girl, actually.
Gin is the most disgusting.
Oh, how can you drink that?
Gin, whiskey.
I don't know.
It's good stuff.
You know, I'm either a bottle of wine to Dixie Cups guy.
I don't care what I drink it in, or believe it or not, Coors Light.
And I'll even drink it on ice because I just love my beer cold.
Anyway, hope you're having fun on a Friday.
Let's go to Marcus in Temple, Texas.
Apparently, he doesn't like me.
What's up, Marcus?
How are you?
What can I do for you?
Marcus, are you there?
Maybe Marcus couldn't take all the fun.
Rex in Twin Falls, Idaho.
What's up, Rex?
Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
I just wanted to say that you're being kind of hypocritical on the two different people.
You bagged Cruz for not selling out and backing Trump, but yet you say that Sanders is a sell-up because he backed Hillary.
Well, I've got numerous, let me tell you one difference.
I don't remember that Sanders said he would support the nominee, but Sanders did support the nominee.
I think he made the same pledge as Cruz made.
Cruz made it multiple times, but it was such a big deal was made over the fact that in the first debate, that Donald Trump was the only one that didn't raise his hand and said he was being honest and said, I may not support the eventual nominee.
Then a lot of pressure was brought to bear on him to sign the pledge.
He signed it.
Cruz signed it.
And I just think that Ted Cruz should stick by his word.
That's my opinion.
I know he didn't like the primary.
He has legitimate disagreements, complaints, but so does every side in a campaign.
Campaigns, politics is an ugly blood sport.
There's nothing good about it.
They're never going to be nice.
You're going to be mischaracterized.
You're going to be lied about.
You're going to be, it's the nature of the business.
You can't handle it.
Don't get in that business.
You know, look, be like me.
I'm in the public eye.
You can Google me and read all sorts of horrible things about who I am, but that's not who I am.
And if I'm going to put myself out there four hours a day, three on radio, one on TV, I'm open and give strong opinions.
I'm opening myself up.
And you know what?
It goes with the business.
And if you don't want criticism, public criticism, then don't get in the public eye.
It's that simple.
And many things that are said about me are false, and they're just outright lies.
There was one big one told this week about what happened at a sandwich shop.
But you know what?
Who cares?
That's life.
You got to get over it.
Back to our phones as we say hi to David is in Wheeling, West Virginia.
David, hi, how are you?
We're glad you called.
Happy Friday.
Thanks, John.
You too.
Thanks for your time.
I just want to say that I watch TV, watch this Democratic convention, and I hear them all saying that they're all about the working men and women and how many great jobs they've created.
And my experience here in the tri-state area is all I see is the destruction they've caused by tearing down every decent industry job with ridiculous regulations that have come from climate warming or climate change, whatever they can get people to believe, none of which is backed by any realistic scientific study.
And if that's truly what they believe, I'm just curious if they use wind and solar to power that convention hall and their own homes and offices.
And they make themselves out to be heroes because after crushing any chance for a decent job, they backhand it by saying how much they're for coal miners because they offer coal miner welfare.
Well, you know, I'm not into taking government handouts if I don't need them.
I just want to go to my job and work.
Listen, Hillary came out and said it before the primary in West Virginia.
She said exactly where she stands.
She wants coal miners out of work and coal mining companies out of business.
And then she makes the speech last night.
I guess one of the many lies that she is so prone to make, as William Sapphire once identified her as a congenital liar, pathological liar, all of which is true.
I mean, look, there's a big difference in the campaign.
The Supreme Court justices Trump will pick versus Hillary's.
Keeping Obamacare, not getting rid of Obamacare, expanding a new entitlement called free college and free baby care, child care, or not expanding the size and scope and influence of government.
Then you can move on to how to deal with ISIS, whether to balance the budget.
You can move on to significant issues like the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, constitutional authority, and et cetera, not exceeding constitutional authority and executive power like the president is currently doing versus what Trump would do.
You can add to that healthcare savings accounts.
You can add to that school choice and sending education back to the states.
There's all sorts of things.
This is a choice election.
Last night, you got an alter reality, which was that America's fine.
Everything's great.
We do have millions more in poverty on food stamps than out of the labor force, and we've doubled the debt.
And we do have major problems with ISIS and radical Islam, but we won't mention those names.
We'll have a feel-good convention, act like everything's fine.
We'll give a checklist that we're going to fix everything with no specifics, no accomplishments in 30 years in the public eye, and hopefully people will buy the slogans and the platitudes and the clichés.
So, anyway, appreciate it.
Yeah, go ahead.
Final word.
You know, one more thing, Nega.
She just says the younger generation we have is so generous.
You know, taking taxpayers' money for school and healthcare, whatever else you need is not generous.
You know?
Yeah, well, that's the redistribution.
That's the whole lie about the 1%.
51%, we've had the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
Now, what is the quintessential part of the American dream?
It is owning a home, owning your own home, having your own place, your own space.
You know, go west, young man.
What was that all about?
The idea was that Americans would work hard and build and get their piece of the pie for so many people.
Look at this statistic that men 18 to 34 in the country today, one in six, are either in jail or living in mommy and daddy's basement because they can't get a job.
That's the American dream shutting down for millions.
When you have millions more in poverty, dependent on government, millions more on food stamps, millions more out of the labor force, they're shut out.
The life that I've been able to live is because that dream still existed.
There was a ladder and a door, and I climbed the ladder and I walked through the door.
And so many other people, that's all they need.
They need the ladder.
They'll climb it themselves.
They need the doors open and they'll knock hard and get somebody to listen.
But those chances are not quite as abundant as they once were.
And then allowing illegal immigrants to walk in anytime they want, compete for American jobs that they end up getting because they'll work for lower wages, drives down wages and takes away opportunities from Americans.
This is what Hillary said about coal mining, by the way.
I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
Right, Tim?
We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
This is great.
Well, Trump's going to expand coal mining.
He's going to expand drilling.
He's going to expand fracking.
And he's going to follow nuclear technology.
You know, the French even get 75% of their energy from nuclear technology.
We don't do that in this country.
If the French can do it, I would think we're capable of it.
And on top of that, you can seek out alternative forms of energy.
I have no problem with all of the above.
But the idea that air conditioning is as big a threat as ISIS is obscene.
Anyway, Marcus from Texas.
Marcus, you back with us?
What's going on?
Yes, sir.
So what are you mad at me about?
I'm never mad at you.
I listen to you every day.
I actually think you kind of are humorous.
You think I'm humorous?
I'm glad you like me.
I'm glad you think I'm funny.
So it says on my thing that you disagree with me on something.
What do you disagree with me on?
I disagree with you on how they treat the Black Lives Matter movement.
They treat them like they're just a gang or they're just a family.
Let me ask you a question.
Black Lives Matter this week was, we caught them on tape chanting F the police.
Is that right?
That's a question.
Is that the right way to treat our police officers that risk their lives for us?
I think his phone is breaking up.
Well, the answer is no.
The answer is obviously no.
Get to the back of the bus.
Get to the back of the back of the line.
Let media come to the front.
White media, excuse me, you.
Excuse me, sir.
Somebody needs to tell this person to get to the back.
Somebody needs to tell these folks to get to the back.
All masked up.
We got this anarchist today.
Get to the back, or you will be out from this market.
You are not afraid to put people out.
You are not afraid to put people out.
White people to the back.
Black people to the front.
That includes media.
That includes all you white people getting the back.
