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Also, we're not gonna spend all our time on the con issue that the media is so obsessed about because there are other issues that impact and influence the election.
We will be pointing out to you vis a montage how the media treated Pat Smith, who spoke at the Republican convention.
Because if you listen to the people like Chris Matthews and the rest of the media, uh they're exploiting tragedy.
Was I don't care what that woman felt.
She lied about Hillary Clinton.
But yet Mr. Kahn got very different treatment.
We'll do the media's job.
We'll point out their bias, and we'll give you information you're not going to get anywhere else.
Because that's what we do on this program.
It's pretty unbelievable to me that the media could run with a story and just totally ignore other stories.
Ignore the stories of mothers who lost their kids to illegal immigrants that killed them.
These are illegal immigrants that had already been in jail for other violent crimes that were never deported.
So that's pretty unbelievable.
Um overwhelming margins among those that serve.
There was an incident that happened today.
If you didn't see it, I'll tell you about it and I'll show you tonight on TV.
But, you know, despite all the dishonest media reports, by the way, and this is important, Donald Trump and his refugee policy.
What he was listening to our FBI director, our CIA director, our assistant FBI director, our director of national intelligence, our House Homeland Security Chairman, and our former special envoy to defeat ISIS, all of which said, as I have said many times, that ISIS will infiltrate the refugee population.
Just like they did in Belgium, just like they did in France, and just like they are now doing in Germany.
An article today in the UK Express, Germans have had enough of this of all of this, blasting uh Chancellor Merkel, and now are claiming that Europe is dead.
That's not my headline, that's their headline.
The former Central Bureau of Investigation Officer gave a damning forecast about the future of Europe.
So Donald Trump says don't take in refugees unless and until we can vet them, because the job of the president, his first job is your safety and security.
This is about protecting the homeland.
So the one narrative that we ought to be debating is well, has the policies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made us less safe or more or more safe.
The answer is very simply less safe.
And Obama taking in refugees, even though he's being warned by his top intelligence officials, well, he's gambling with your life.
And Hillary wants a 550% increase.
She's willing to gamble with even more lives.
And when, not if, when what happened in Europe and Germany and Belgium and in France happens here, I think a very strong argument Can be made that if women are raped, which happened in Europe from refugees, people are murdered, like happened in Europe with refugees.
If it happens here, the people that didn't listen to Clapper and Comey and Brennan and General John Allen and Mike McCall and others would have blood on their hands.
It will be their fault for not listening.
Trump is listening.
So the idea what we should really be debating, well, number one, Donald Trump was not talking about Mr. Khan, not talking about his son.
He called his son a hero.
He never ever, you know, disparaged him in any way.
He wondered out loud why didn't the wife talk?
Now there's uh apparently the website of this guy's been taken down because of what we had told you yesterday.
We'll get into that with Matt Boyler Breitbart later in the program today.
So, you know, you got this guy in Europe now saying that Europe is dead.
Speaking on a Polish chat show.
I guess if I was in Europe, they would call this a chat show, or in New Zealand or in I guess Australia, they call it a chat show.
Welcome to my chat show.
Anyway, he said the worst problem for the police service is political correctness.
Listen to this.
Europe is at the end of its existence.
Western Europe is practically dead.
These people live in a void without ideas, and then come along the young who only want to make money as once did the barbarians.
And then he talks about immigration and said, Well, that's happening here.
You know, police arrested 900 Syrians in in England and Great Britain and Wales for crimes, including rape and child abuse.
Oh, who's paying attention to that?
You know, of the 6,877 Syrian refugees that Obama's brought into the country, 6,834 of the 6,877 refugees.
Are identified as Sunni Shia, generic Muslim.
Now that means only point seven percent represent this statistically, it's a small portion, but we have had Christian genocide when we talk about, for example, Catholics and Assyrians and Greek Orthodox Christians.
We've talked a lot on this program.
Uh Narain and Wayah has been a guest, the Yasidis.
All these people have been targeted by Islamic extremists.
Indeed, by the way, Secretary of State John Kerry is claimed that these groups are facing a genocide.
And even Paul Ryan announced that he's opposed to any religious tests for any entering the country.
Here's the problem.
We haven't taken in any of these people.
So it seems to be the refugee population, we're already discriminating, except against Syrians if they're Christians, which we're not taking in.
Apparently, Obama doesn't want to, in spite of all the reports of genocide, but five even though his own Secretary of State is saying it's genocide.
You know, things are so bad, and I know everyone's all focused on Mr. Kahn, but do you realize that just about any illegal alien can avoid arrest by following simple rules that are customs and border protection advertisers in a post on their website's homepage.
Do you understand your government and this president is so lawless, has such contempt for the Constitution, the rule of law, separation of powers, coequal branches of government, that your president and this government is providing a how-to guide for illegal aliens to in its sensitive locations, frequently asked questions.
Craig Bannister wrote a great piece on this on MRC today, explaining that immigration laws are not to be enforced at any of a wide range of designated sensitive locations so that illegal aliens may be free to live their lives without fear or hesitation.
Listen to this.
The policies provide that enforcement actions at or focused on sensitive locations like schools and churches and hospitals should generally be avoided, and that such actions may only take place when prior approval is obtained from an appropriate supervisory official.
That B, there are, you know, extending s extenuating circumstances necessitating immediate action without supervisor approval.
Oh, so law enforcement can't do their jobs.
So they can't go to schools.
They can't get people at school bus stops.
They can't get people at places of worship.
They can't go into, let's see, they can't go into uh medical facilities or hospitals.
They can't do that either.
And they can't during a public demonstration or parade.
They can't arrest people there either.
It's unbelievable.
But that's what's happening in your country today.
That's exactly what's happened.
Total, complete, utter disregard, lawlessness.
Here's an interesting story, though.
Donald Trump today, I know the media wants to fixate focus on Mr. Conn.
I'm done with you know I feel sorry for his son.
Donald Trump called his son a hero.
Donald Trump was not talking about the Conn family.
This is a non-issue.
So every time CNN and MSNBC and their abusively biased coverage of Donald Trump comes up, just remember what I told you.
And remember what I said in 2007 and 2008, journalism in America is dead.
It's dead and buried.
And but for Drudge and Breitbart and Hannity the TV show and this radio show, and I read today that Rush extended his deal.
That's good news for the country.
Even though we disagree a little bit on Trump, that's fine.
You know, look at McClatchy News.
An Iraq war hero today gave Donald Trump a purple heart medal before Trump's speech in Virginia, Ashburn, Virginia, prompting the candidate to comment that this was much easier than earning it himself.
And he told the audience at the rally something incredibly nice and kind just happened to me.
A man came up to me and handed me his purple heart.
The audience was obviously taken back, and I said to him, Is this this is the real one or is this a copy?
And he said, That's my real purple heart.
I have such confidence in you.
And I said, Man, that's big stuff.
I always wanted to get the purple heart.
This was much easier, but I'll tell you it was such an honor.
And Trump, who identified the veteran as retired Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Dorfman, then brought him up on stage, shook his hand, holding the award up for the crowd.
You know, Linda, we've experienced moments where people want to give me medals.
I've had this happen in my life.
And I get goosebumps when I think about it.
I I I can never tell I never took it.
Because I just I just didn't.
But I but I know it means so much to them to offer that.
And you just, it's so humbly.
It's amazing.
By the way, Trump said on my TV show, because he said it in a rally before I interviewed him last night that, yeah, we got to warn of a rigged election.
Let me warn you now, we're 97 days out of the election.
By the way, member in Israel, member it was me and John McLaughlin, and we were telling you that Obama operatives were in Israel.
Uh, and then we eventually found out what, like two weeks ago, that fifty-five million State Department dollars were spent by this corrupt president sticking his nose in our closest allies business, and they tried to influence the election and tried to unseat BB Netanyahu?
Yeah, well, don't doubt anything that these Alinskyites are capable of.
These Alinsky disciples, what these acorn organizers, members of the Church of GD America, and uh friends of Ayers and Dorne are capable of.
Remember they used one voice, that was the outfit they used, and they had all the operatives there.
Anyway, you got to be careful.
Trump was right here.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, now if you go back to Romney's defeat in 2012, CBS News had the headline, Romney earned zero votes in some urban precincts in Philadelphia.
And then anyway, Obama's victory over Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential election was driven in part by the president's strength in urban areas where robust support cushioned the incumbent against electoral deficits in rural America.
But almost a week after the election, it's now becoming clear just how lopsided Obama's victory was in some cities.
In dozens and dozens of urban precincts, Mitt Romney earned literally zero votes.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that in 59 precincts in inner city Philly, the GOP nominee received not a single vote.
Now, does any do any of you believe that?
No, of course you don't.
So what does that tell you?
And according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, nine precincts in Cleveland returned zero Romney votes.
Uh-huh.
What are the odds of that?
I think I'm going to play these numbers.
I'll get lotto tonight and I'm going to win mega bucks, and you won't hear me tomorrow.
No, I'll still be here.
I can't quit.
You know, I think Rush had a funny line.
I was reading the press release or something.
He said, if if Putin ever releases these emails, I've got to be on the air.
If if Donald Trump's president, I've got to be here.
And I hope he wins.
Anyway, so CBS goes on to explain that it really was possible that Romney did get 7% of the black vote nationwide.
There was really nothing fishy about the fact that dozens and dozens and dozens of entire precincts.
Not one vote.
Sorry, I don't buy it.
Possibility of fraud?
Really, Philly?
Come on.
You know, reports, remember the intimidation factor going back a number of years.
You have the Black Panthers with their bats hanging outside, intimidating voters there.
Donald Trump's right to sound the alarm.
Zero votes in urban precincts.
Yeah, I don't buy that.
So, and then we got the administration advising illegals how to avoid deportation.
And then you got the story.
This is pretty interesting, too.
You know, for all of you that listen to Hillary and watch the Democratic Convention, you know how everything is free?
Well, Social Security is supposed to be there for you.
Here's what's going to happen in coming years.
Let's say you're a millennial or in your 30s.
Before you get to Social Security age, I may just get in under the radar.
They're going to means test it.
In other words, if you have ten cents, they're going to take your money and steal it and legalize stealing.
They're going to raise the eligibility age to the day before you die so that they can steal it that way.
That's going bankrupt.
Social Security's insolvent.
Medicare's insolvent.
And by the way, remember, keep your doctor, keep your plan, and the average family saves $2,500 per family per year.
Well, let's see.
Oh, Aetna is now calling off its public insurance exchange expansion plans for next years.
They're getting out of the Unaffordable Care Act.
Just like United did, just like all the other big companies did.
And by the way, not only did you not save money, keep your doctor a plan, you're paying on average 40% more.
Unbelievable.
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There's something that I found fascinating in a political story, political story today about the state, the soul of the Democratic Party.
Now, what's fascinating is all the Senate Democratic candidates.
Guess who they're clamoring to come into their state and campaign for them?
Bernie Sanders.
They're trying to get Sanders into Ohio.
Who's running there?
I forget who's running there.
Against Portman.
I don't even remember.
And Pennsylvania, where Toomey is up by a lot.
In other words, where his anti-trade populist message could give, they think them an edge come November.
Who's running in?
Oh, Strickland, the former governor.
He was awful.
God, awful.
Why would the people of Ohio bring him back?
He was a horrible governor.
Horrible.
Look at what Kasich's been able to do there.
Anyway, so they're clamoring for Sanders support, and he's now only stumped for just one Senate Democratic hopeful, and that's Russ Feingold is trying to make a return in Wisconsin.
And a former colleague in the chamber and fellow left winger, but Sanders, who until last year was an independent, not particularly loyal to the Democratic Party since left the Democratic Party when he got out of the race, but top Democrats still want him to mix it up in several key down ballot races.
Quote, I believe Bernie can help us in any way that he will be most effective to help us at uh John Tester, Democratic senatorial campaign committee chair.
I'm sure he would prioritize liberals, and those candidates are probably gonna be more inclined to have him come.
It's pretty interesting.
Politico surveyed more than five more than a dozen Democratic candidates running this year in the most competitive Senate races.
Five said they would eagerly want him to come campaign for them.
And progressive socialists, leftist, you know, why do they want him?
Because that's the state of the Democratic Party.
Speaking of Strickland, by the way, he's been savaging Portman, a former U.S. trade representative on the issue of trade, but Strickland's campaign spokesman said that Sanders' message of fighting for working families and opposing unfair job skilled trade deals resonates in Ohio.
Wonder if the situation where Trump could win Ohio and Portman would lose.
I hope not.
That wouldn't have Strickland is the Strickland is just a Democratic hack.
He's going to be a reliable yes, yes.
Tell me what to do, yes, yes, tell me what to do, plug it in, yes, yes, yes, chan chan chant Obama, Hillary, you know, basically brain dead, uh, like a lot of these politicians are.
The anti-TPP message is so potent in Senate races that, according to Politico, even Ann Kilpatrick, Kirkpatrick, the Democratic Senate candidate in Arizona, said she would stump alongside Sanders.
So you got a 74-year-old cranky curmudgeon, angry socialist who a guy who honeymoon's in the Soviet Union uh would not have been welcomed by Senate Democrats in tough elections.
Now this is where this party is gone.
And we all know that Hillary won the nomination because the fix was in.
But it was Bernie that won the hearts and soul of this party.
In other words, he is their ideological touchstone.
He's the philosophical North Star for Democrats in the second decade here in the 21st century.
It's pretty amazing.
He wants to transform America in a way that Barack Obama seems like an unambitious centrist.
That's how radical he is.
And anyway, our job now is to see that the platform implemented by the by a Democratic Senate.
So anyway, the platform Sanders is referring to is the most left wing in the history of the Democratic Party.
That platform bears his fingerprints.
It embodies his ideology, his ideas, his worldview.
So as Hillary's the nominee, Sanders is going to fight to pull the party even more left.
And Tim Kaine might be the vice presidential pick, but it's Sanders who has a sense, you know, of where the Democratic Party is.
And Sanders may not be on the ticket, but his ideas certainly are popular.
Anyway, so that's that.
Um I want to focus on another issue, and then we'll get to your calls here.
Oh, and finally, we have the media asking an important question.
Hillary's campaign has gotten an awful lot of mileage out of George Stephanopoulos.
What sacrifices have you made?
Has there ever been a couple in the history of politics that have cashed in more than the Clintons?
So finally, somebody, in this case the Washington Times, had the temerity to ask, well, what sacrifices is Hillary made?
You know, so if personal sacrifice is the requirement, well, the John McCain should have been elected.
Stephanopoulos was trying to highlight Trump's lack of military service.
By the way, Hillary's husband, he dodged the draft.
I can't imagine the same question ever being asked of her.
But they're finally asking it, at least in the Washington Times.
Um, I'm gonna tell you something about this economy.
You better pay very close attention.
Somebody I know today asked me about what I thought of the economy, and I cited all the things I tell you every day.
I won't repeat them here.
It's the weakest recovery since 1949.
The lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
We have the lowest labor participation since the early 70s.
And if you look at the empirical data, and you look at this story, for example, the Wall Street Journal wrote over the weekend banner above the fold, U.S. in weakest recovery since 1949.
And the article was the news that our gross domestic product, which is the sort of the broadest measure of goods and services that we produce around the country, it grew at a seasonally an inflation inflation adjusted annual rate of 1.2% for the second quarter.
So you have economic growth tracking at 1% for the year.
One percent, the weakest start since 2011.
Combined, you know, he'll be the only president that doesn't reach 3% growth in GDP in a year of his presidency that's how bad it is so it makes for an annual this is what it's devastating that makes for an annual average rate of two point one percent growth since the end of the recession the weakest pace of any recovery since at least nineteen forty nine and it goes on from there I don't know what else to tell you you know during Obama's
two terms not a single year of three percent GDP growth and the U.S. economy at the end of June was only fifteen point five percent larger than it was when the recession ended in oh nine and at the end of the Reagan presidency the economy was nearly forty percent larger this isn't a recovery that doesn't mean that there aren't some bright spots but wages for example you know but home ownership and home sales at a post recession high but home ownership is at an all-time low now
Now, the rule of thumb is that the worse the recession, the stronger the recovery.
Well, the opposite is true with Obama.
Things have not recovered.
And add to this, he's taken on more debt than every other president before him combined.
His policies are a failure, and these numbers don't lie.
And you have millions more in poverty on food stamps, and they don't really give you an accurate unemployment figure because they don't count the chronically unemployed that represent the labor participation rate.
So they have failed.
I mean, at best, he can characterize the economy as sluggish lifeless listless lethargic pick your word whatever adjective you want every one of those numbers has a human toll to it human cost more Americans in poverty food stamps out of work you know Hillary told Chris Wallace over the weekend that the context of the question related to her email server about James Comey she lies there.
She lies about the economy Obama lies about the economy they all lie.
None of what they're saying is true.
Very frustrating all right let's get to our busy telephones here 800 nine four one Sean Virginia Beach Scott uh you're up first on the Sean Hannity show what's going on Mr. Annity it's a pleasure to be on your show.
Yes, sir.
What's going on?
You were speaking about Social Security, and I'm a 27-year-old.
I have a family-owned wealth management company.
My question to you, I'm a lifelong conservative, always voted for the Republican Party.
I've never understood why politicians can't wrap their hands around the entitlement system.
In the 30s, when Social Security was passed, life expectancy was 63.
Meanwhile, benefits began at 65.
Republican or Democrat, I'd love your opinion on why, particularly the Republicans, who I always support, cannot talk in a way that, look, demographics have changed, so we have to change the system.
Obviously, it's very divisive now.
The problem is, let me tell you what the problem is, and I know exactly what you're getting to.
Yes, sir.
Government politicians, they accumulate power by creating dependency.
They want to stay in power.
And the more that we rely on them, individuals rely on them, be it for an unemployment check, a welfare payment, some kind of subsidy, housing subsidy, whatever it happens to be.
Now, Social Security, the promise then was that you pay into Social Security, and you're going to get that money when you get older.
Well, now they're going to means test it.
Now they're going to raise the eligibility age, and it's still headed for bankruptcy.
Medicare, same issue.
You didn't keep your doctor or plan, and now...
now they're promising free college but yet we spend more per capita per student on education and we're 33rd or 35th in the world.
So we're not getting any bang for our buck there because there's no competition and teachers unions keep it in power.
Look everything these people do Republicans are just as guilty which is why John Boehner didn't use the power of the purse and shut down the government because he didn't want to be blamed and his power meant more to him and his colleagues than principal and what's the problem is is that they all cash it they all want to be called senator, governor, congressman, and they like the ego trip that goes along with it.
And let me tell you I I'm in the public eye here's the dumbest thing you ever going to hear somebody in the public eye say.
It's not healthy to be in the public eye.
You know, people believe believe their own crap, their own headlines.
They believe in their own power.
They think they're special.
They think they're entitled.
Their egos get the best of them.
Sucks.
I mean, you know, they're not, you know, if if you're gonna serve I guess this would go for relationships, marriage, government, elections.
You know, you're supposed to be a public servant.
You bring kids into the world.
You know what?
Kids can be a pain in the ass, but your job is to serve your children and love them.
That's self-sacrifice.
You know, I'm why are you all laughing in there?
They can.
But you do you put up with their crap until they're old enough to be mature on their own.
And literally starting when they're crapping in their diapers.
No, but you if you're a public servant you are supposed to serve people.
Not do make every decision and and view every choice through the prism of how it impacts you.
Why are you laughing your head put your microphone on.
You're allowed now what?
What's so funny?
What's so funny?
I'm not exactly selling the whole parenthood thing.
Oh boy, these kids can be such a pain it's the greatest joy in your life and it's the greatest worry in your life.
Maybe you could use those terms rather than pain in the ass.
Well I mean they can be I mean anyone that's a parent is shaking their head okay Liam's one year old.
By the way thanks guys for telling me Liam's one year old after Liam's birthday.
I really appreciate it so I can send my present on time.
Does he still have the presence I got paid in full from the from the uh baby shower you're all I think you should tweet I think I took over your whole apartment.
Well because the you you have a baby registry and every item's twenty bucks and I'm like all right well what will a thousand get me and it ended up getting me everything on the list.
Unless Congressman and Senators I don't need the best of the best I just need what I need.
Yeah I think I bought more Winnie the Pooh stuff than anything else.
Did you write a card for Liam that said Liam happy first you're a pain in the ass hope for many more well I mean he still craps in his pants I mean it's a pain in the neck.
You gotta clean it and it smells you know Bill Cosby used to do a funny bit where he'd say you know baby new baby comes home and takes a poop in his p oh look he boobed in his pants oh three weeks later why you gonna change that kid or not pretty funny.
It's all true.
Brian is in Georgia Brian you're on the Sean Hannity show.
How are you?
How are we going Sean I I've been listening to you since old Marty used to call in uh Miss Marty he slammed the beaches of Normandy was a true hero loved him he sure was uh you know I wanted to weigh in on this uh uh back and forth between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kahn okay I'm a gold star father myself uh on top of that I'm a retired army veteran so I think I have a little bit of a unique perspective on this you know could could Mr. Trump use a little bit more hack
in his response, absolutely.
But when you take your child's death and you put it center stage of the national campaign, you truly dishonor his sacrifice.
Now, he was a hero, no doubt.
But when you stand up there and you let yourself and his sacrifice be used as a political tool, you dishonor that sacrifice.
Listen, I'm not gonna say I don't know what to say I mean I just feel sorry.
Donald Trump said the son was a hero.
Donald Trump s was not talking about Mr. Connor's family in any way, shape, matter or form.
Donald Trump was listening to James Clapper, Comey, the Michael Steinbeck, Brendan RCIA director and all these intelligence people.
So it's very frustrating to me that it's taken out of context.
That bothers me.
Anyway I'm read you you're a gold star dad yourself.
I am I am uh Michael was killed in two thousand and five um in Afghanistan um just just under a year um just under one year prior to Mr. Cons uh death in Iraq so yeah I have a little and plus I you know I did about 24 years in the army um so I have a little bit of a perspective on it.
You know soldiers are apolitical we don't get to pick and choose uh or affiliate ourselves with a party while we're in uniform.
So for him to do that and you and allow his son's sacrifice to be used as a political tool to me as a gold star father and a veteran it really does dishonor that sacrifice.
Well I don't know how one recovers from what you've lived through and that goes for Mr. Conn too.
I think you never do.
You never do.
I don't think you do, and I honor you for his service, and I I pray for you and and peace to you and your family for the loss that you've suffered, which I think is something you never recover from.
Um I think it's brutal.
Anyway, uh and thank you for your service too, by the way.
I do appreciate that.
All right, sir.
God bless you.
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Given the Republican nominee's recent comments about the Khan family and his statement that if president he would consider recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea, does it make you question his fitness to be president?
Uh yes.
I think the Ram uh Republican nominee is unfit uh to serve as president.
Uh I said so last week, and uh he keeps on proving it.
The notion that he would attack uh a gold star family that had made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country.
The fact that he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia, uh means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job.
Twenty-three point eight million Americans in their prime earning years are out of the labor force right now.
In the last seven years, another 14 million people have left the workforce.
Okay.
Nearly four in ten African American children are living in poverty, while fifty-eight percent of African American youth are not employed.
Okay?
Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took office.
Now thank you.
Thank you.
We're gonna bring jobs back.
President Obama has doubled the national debt since he's been in office.
U.S. trade deficit in goods reached nearly eight hundred billion dollars.
In other words, we trade with people.
You know, it's funny, when I want to make good trade deals, the press says, Oh, he's not a free trader.
I'm a great free trader.
I like free trade.
But I like smart deals.
Somebody said, then what do you call yourself?
Because I know free trade.
I know fair trade.
I know every form of trade ever thought up by man.
Believe me.
It's meaningless.
So he said, What are your policies?
I said, My policies are very simple.
I want to make great deals for our country.
Okay, very simple.
You can call it fair trade, free trade, or any other of the other ten names.
I want great deals for our country.
And we have to use our great business people to negotiate the deals because we're using political hacks to make deals, and it's a joke.
Political hacks to make deals.
You know, if there's ever one person, and by the way, glad you're with us, our two Sean Hannity show, toll for your telephone numbers, 800 941 Sean.
If ever there was a person that was unfit to serve in the office of the presidency, it's our current president, as evidenced by, let's see, a fifty-one year low in terms of uh percentage of home ownership of Americans.
He's accumulated more debt than every president before him combined.
You didn't keep your doctor, you didn't keep your plan, and you're paying this year alone 35 to 40 percent more on top of last year's major increase.
You didn't save twenty five hundred dollars per family per year as promised.
On top of that, this is a president that will not say radical Islam that gave the Iranians a path to a nuclear weapon that single-handedly has put millions more Americans, 14 million more Americans in poverty and on food stamps, and the lowest labor participation rate since the nineteen seventies, and the worst recovery since the nineteen forties.
Thanks for the lectures.
Anyway, we're doing something different this hour.
Uh joining us is former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
In the second half hour of this hour, he will take your calls, your comments, your questions directly, as uh we have one of the brightest, smartest political minds and uh analysts in the country.
How are you, sir?
Well, I'm doing great.
And uh I just did a uh Facebook live on the Presidential Debate Commission uh and their imperial decision that uh we should have debates opposite uh Sunday night and Monday night football.
I suggested that maybe they ought to rethink that.
Isn't that one of the dumbest ideas?
I mean, did they do that to help Hillary or why do you think that was decided?
You know, I I don't know why they did.
I mean, you have this self-selected group going back to 1987.
They're total insiders.
Um I think they made the decision fifteen months ago.
Uh there's no reason to understand why.
You know, uh Monday Night Football goes back to 1970, so they've had forty-six years to figure out that it exists.
Sunday night football goes back to 1987, so they had 29 years to figure out it exists, uh, and uh they should simply change the dates.
And so I I did uh Facebook Live and said people ought to contact the Commission and demand that they change the debates.
I'll tell you what I'll do.
Do you have a an email, a link, a website, a place that we can uh have our audience weigh in on this?
Yeah, we we will I'll get one and get it to you.
Okay, we'll get it up, we'll get it up as soon as you send it to us.
What do you make of Obama's comments?
I actually like Trump's answer.
Trump started tearing apart the tragedy, which is the Obama economy and and America's decline on the world stage.
I thought he did a pretty good job responding to well, Trump's unfit to serve.
I don't think the Alinsky disciple, the acorn organizer, you know, the guy that went to the church of GD America and hung out with unrepentant terrorists was particularly prepared for this job.
Well, I I think when you look at uh and I thought Trump was very good on your show last night at one point where he said, Look, I I didn't lose Crimea.
You know, Obama did.
Um I think when you when you look at the totality both at home, thirty-four hundred dead in Chicago, no action by the President of the United States, uh, the worst race relations in the least seventeen years, according to Gallup, actually made worse by the President of the United States.
Uh you look at the disaster in Iraq, the disaster in Afghanistan, the disaster in Libya, the disaster in Syria, the disaster in Yemen, the disaster in Somalia.
You look at millions and millions of refugees, some of whom clearly are radicals who uh want to cut off heads and and uh kill people.
Um it strikes me that Obama went out on a really long limb, and I hope that that uh Trump decides to sell it off for him.
You know, what do you so if you were to look, I people ask me everywhere I go, what do you think?
What do you think?
What do I think?
And I'm sure you get the same questions.
The next thing people say, we love Mr. Trump.
Just tell him the shush every once in a while.
He doesn't need to sp say every single thought that comes across his head, and it makes me laugh because it's somewhat universal.
Um, what do you think of the state of the race?
What do you think is gonna happen in November?
And my answer is we don't know what the issues are going to be in November.
We've got three important debates coming up.
And I think they could be make or break for either candidate.
Well, I think that um the race is still wide open.
I think this is one of the decisive periods because what the Democrats are going to try to do is drag Trump down into trivial things, uh, chew away at him, you know, with with stuff like happened over the weekend with the con family and all that, set up little traps for him, uh have the President of the United States declare that he's unfit, etc.
And you're gonna see some Republicans flinch because they're not they they want to be loved by the media more than they want to stand up for their con their convictions.
By the way, we see that I could name names here.
John McCain is one and Paul Ryan is another.
Let's name names.
Well, I'm I'm thinking about, for example, uh the the campaign manager for Jeb Bush who announced today that she was going to vote for Hillary.
Um, I think given that Hillary got four Pinocchios from the Washington Post for lying about her emails on Sunday.
You know, the to say that there are times that Trump makes you uh uncomfortable because he's not as disciplined as he should be is one thing, to say that therefore you're going to swallow Hillary Clinton uh as uh an absurd uh totally uh the the most corrupt person ever to run for president.
I just it's a straight I can't imagine why people would would consider doing that.
Well, I I want to stop you right there because I don't think enough emphasis is put on this, and the media ignores it.
You know, there's like five in five days there was more coverage of Mr. Cond than there was three years worth of Pat Smith.
Uh Pat Smith, of course, spoke at the Republican convention.
The mothers who lost their children to illegal immigrants, they spoke at the convention, very little, if any, media attention.
They all were, in my mind, especially in the case of you know, lying to to the parents that lost loved ones in Benghazi, et cetera, et cetera, or lying or not helping parents who lost loved ones but killed by illegal immigrants and securing the border is a dereliction of duty.
But let me play the magnitude of this, because Hillary Clinton went on Fox News Sunday, and she said the following, and I'll follow it with a montage of her lying and being called out on the lie by James Comey, who she said didn't say this.
In a congressional hearing on July 7th, Director Comey directly contradicted what you had told the public.
Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received.
Was that true?
That's not true.
Secretary Clinton said I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email.
There is no classified material.
Was that true?
No, there was classified material emailed.
He directly contradicted what he said.
Well, I let me just he not only directly contradicted what you said, he also said in that hearing that you were extremely careless and negligent.
Well, Chris, I looked at the whole transcript of everything that was said, and what I believe is number one, I made a mistake, not using two different email addresses.
I have said that and I repeat it again today.
It is certainly not anything that I ever would do again.
I take classification seriously.
I relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom I worked.
And so in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, well, those among those three hundred people, they made the wrong call.
At the time, there was no reason, in my view, to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country.
I had not sent classified material nor received anything marked classified.
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 to the COVID.
So it was not true.
That I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.
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.
I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.
Secretary Clinton said I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email.
There is no classified material.
Was that true?
People across the government knew that I used one device.
Maybe it was uh because I am not the most technically capable person and uh wanted to make it as easy as possible.
Secretary Clinton said she used just one device.
Was that true?
She used multiple devices during the four years uh of her term as Secretary of State.
But we turned over everything that was work-related.
Every single thing.
Personal stuff, we did not.
I had no obligation to do so and did not.
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.
All I can tell you is that when my attorneys conducted this exhaustive process, I did not participate.
Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive.
Did her lawyers read the email content individually?
No.
Now, Mr. Speaker, I know that's long, but I think it makes a very profound point that she has a problem with the truth.
Well, look, I but I think you're rushing to judgment.
I mean, after after all.
I know I'm about to get whacked here.
Go ahead.
No, no, no.
I mean, why would you believe the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a person whose uh record of lying goes back at least thirty years?
I mean, surely she's innocent.
I mean, the fact that there were fifty some thousand emails was just an accident, the fact that she deleted over thirty thousand, they were all harmless about I think uh yoga and weddings and things like that.
And a funeral.
Surely in communication with Bill who does an email.
Right.
Surely we can trust her uh fully as much as we could trust Bill, who we found we couldn't trust at all.
Uh and of course, that's that's the absurdity of the whole thing.
I mean, you have you know, and this is one of things that the Trump campaign's got to come to grips with.
Anybody who's gonna vote based on Hillary being dishonest is gonna vote against her.
But we don't know in this day and age how many people are gonna refuse to even think about it uh because they either represent an interest group or or uh or a faction of the Democratic Party or whatever that just says, I don't care how dishonest she is, you know, she's the only hope I've got of keeping my government check coming.
Uh so if you're the you know, if you're the teachers union, it's amazing what you'll swallow in Hillary's dishonesty, as long as you think she'll protect you from charter schools.
And you go down a whole list, you know, if you're a hard-line environmentalist and you really want to make sure that we wipe out the coal industry and we wipe out natural gas and wipe out oil, then you know Hillary's your candidate no matter how dishonest she is.
And I think if it's a real test to see uh how big is the the market for somebody, no matter how dishonest they are, and that's what what Hillary's gonna put to the test.
All right, I'll tell you what we're gonna do.
Uh former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is gonna stay with us.
I have just like two or three more quick questions, and then we're gonna turn it over to you.
800-941 Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
If you have a question, comment for the former speaker.
We'll get to your calls when we come back.
Quick break, right back, and also at the top of the hour.
Who is Mr. Conn?
This are there things that we need to know that the media is not reporting.
We'll get to that and more as we continue.
As an example, when Bernie Sanders people all walked out, he had this mass exit, nobody showed it.
And then when they showed Bernie very angry, they're talking about Bernie, because he made a bad deal.
He should have not made a deal.
He would have gone down and done something really important.
Once he made that deal, and believe me, he has buyer's remorse.
You know, this guy has buyer's remorse.
He looked at that and he was so angry when they were talking about him, and his people are angry at him, and they should be.
If he would have just not done anything, just go home, go to sleep, relax, he would have been a hero.
But he made a deal with the devil.
She's the devil.
He made a deal with the devil.
Right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
It's amazing how the media runs with all of this, and Trump also addressed the media last night saying we're gonna punch through the media.
You know, clearly a joke, clearly a commentary about Bernie Sanders.
I mean, at the start of the DNC convention, they were chanting Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.
And don't forget when he first told his supporters that they need to support Hillary Clinton, they booed him.
We have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim K. And during the convention was the walkout, and those seats were filled with Hillary's supporters.
And it was barely reported.
We continue.
By the way, New Gingrich is with us.
He'll take your calls this uh half hour, 800 941 Sean, also Matt Boyle does some investigative work on this man, Mr. Kahn, and and some of the things that are coming out are somewhat disturbing.
Anyway, Donald Trump said, Mr. Speaker, we're going to punch through the media.
Is this comment about Bernie an example of what he has to deal with that she will never deal with?
Sure.
And any conservative has to start with an understanding that you're always going to be it's like a sailing ship going straight into the wind and the wind is the news media.
And if you are as bold a change agent as Trump is remember the world he wants to change is the elite media's world.
I mean he is a direct threat to the the the Chris Matthews of the world because he represents an alternative vision of America's future that drives them crazy.
And and uh I always try to to tell the Trump campaign these folks are not neutral.
They are the offensive line of the other team and you've got to understand that that they're going to knock you down if they can they're going to drag you into dumb questions if they can they're going to pick fights with you to your disadvantage if they can your job as a conservative is to understand that and to simply outsmart him and that's a very important component of how politics works in the United States.
Would it be good advice for Donald Trump to focus in in these remaining ninety seven days till election day on jobs, the economy protecting the homeland and by the way other issues that have become the hallmark of his campaign like border security etc I don't know if you know this story out today that the U.S. Border protection agency is advertising safe zones where illegals can cross we're actually advising them where to cross and you know all this talk about taking in refugees did you
know that this year alone Obama took in six thousand eight hundred and seventy seven Syrian refugees six thousand eight hundred and thirty four were either Sunni Shia or just generic Muslim and we seem to be already discriminating against Syrians if they are Christian because as we know and we've been chronol chronicling there's been genocide against Christians and the world barely pays attention to it.
Exactly.
Well, that's why you have to recognize the fact that they just announced that they're going to give 18 months of sanctuary to 8,700 Syrian refugees.
You have to ask yourself the question, why is it that they are willing to risk American lives on behalf of people about whom we know nothing?
And the fact is, we don't have any kind of police records.
We don't have any kind of context.
We know remarkably little about these people.
vet them you're trying to vet them in a war zone.
Yeah and it you know and every national intelligence director every every top CIA director FBI director assistant FBI director they've all warned at like in Belgium and Germany and France and Europe in general that all these terrorist groups will infiltrate that community.
All right.
Now is promised.
We're going to get to the phones.
Newt Gingrich has taken your calls.
800-941-SHAWN, if you want to join us.
Danita is with us.
Danita in Atlanta, Georgia.
How are you?
You're on with Newt Gingrich.
Hey, I'm delighted to be here.
Appreciate both of you guys.
And Newt, you are you are and were a household name that I grew up with.
And I'm not going to tell you how old I am, but I do appreciate the time that you've invested into the welfare of this country.
So I just have two questions for you.
And you've already touched on one of them.
And that is, is there any way that you have enough influence on Donald and a, you know, a car.
commonality with him and regarding two advising him to stick focus stay focused do not become on the defense because the defense is not where he needs to be right now and he needs to remain on the offense.
Well I first of all thank you for your kind words earlier I um I strongly advise both Trump and his campaign to stay focused I think he has and and here's part of the challenge in in in offering him advice he is the most successful Republican candidate in getting votes in the history of the party he got more primary votes than anybody else he carried 37 states and against 16 other candidates.
So at one level he he has to think to himself, gosh, I you know I must know what I'm doing, look what the results have been.
At another level, you've got to ask yourself the question, you know, Mr. Khan would given his background.
I mean he's an attorney, uh he apparently is an expert on Sharia, uh, he is a gold star father.
Uh he he goes on television, and and the truth is he voluntarily went to the convention, he voluntarily gave a very political speech.
But it wasn't to Trump's interest to notice it.
That's why you have surrogates.
Trump should have just relaxed and said he's allowed to have his own opinion, next topic.
And I think that that it never helps, you know, th the the only peop two people that Trump should debate are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Debating anybody else detracts him away from his campaign and the need to win the presidency.
And so it wasn't a reference to Mr. Kahn in any way, except that in relative political weight, he is not the peer of a presidential candidate and presidential candidates should only fight other presidential candidates.
And to be clear, he did say that Mr. Kahn's son was a hero.
Uh he was attacked by Mr. Kahn.
Uh Mr. Kahn, you know, continue to go on TV.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Danita, thank you.
We appreciate it.
Let's go to Ryan is in Newark, Delaware.
Ryan, you're on the Sean Hannity show with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
Hi.
Hi, Sean and uh Mr. Speaker.
Uh it's so great to talk to you guys, and uh I just wanted to say that I watched both of the conventions and that I was turned off quite quite largely uh from the from basically, you know, the show that the the Democrats put on the the face of the fake reality.
Um but and I felt like they were trying to paint the Republicans with a bad with a bad name, and I didn't appreciate that.
But my question for uh for both you, Sean and specifically Mr. Speaker, is I'd like to know um if you would consider Ted Cruz's non-endorsement and his speech a divisive tactic and the implic implications that it might mean moving forward and what can we do to get people like Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham and other ones to respect the vote of the people.
All right, good question.
Thank you so much, Ryan, Mr. Speaker.
Well, it's it's a great question.
You have to start with the uh notion that thirteen and a half million Republicans, the most in history voting for a particular candidate, uh earns some level of respect.
Thirty-seven states voting for the same candidate deserves some serious level of respect.
And uh that the alternative is so terrible.
I mean, the if you want a radical Supreme Court undermining all of our civil liberties, taking away our right to bear arms and imposing on us radical values, then Hillary's fine.
If you want an extraordinarily weak national security program, which has already proven to be a disaster all across the Middle East, proved to be a disaster in dealing with Russia, then Hillary Clinton is fine.
If you want more big government taking care of the government employee unions at the expense of everybody else, then Hillary Clinton is fine.
But it's not a free choice.
It's it's not like people can say, well, I I'm gonna go do this because after all it's it's perfection or Donald Trump and I pick perfection.
That's not the choice in the real world.
The choice in the real world is Hillary Clinton with everything that she's got that's negative, versus Donald Trump with everything he's got.
He has some flaws, but compared to her, uh his flaws are trivial.
Back to our phones as we head to Virginia, Ferry is the name.
Uh Ferry, you're on with uh former Speaker of the House, New Gingrich.
Hi.
Hi, I'm a Muslim minor minority female supporting Donald Trump, and I saw the DNC, Muslims wearing hijabs, chanting Hillary's near name, um, who she advocates against cur conservative Muslim values.
Um, Mr. Speaker, how can you advise Mr. Trump to let those Muslims know that he cares about their values, which are very similar to Christian values, and try to bring them over to um to his side.
Well, I think at some point he should seek an opportunity to give a speech on the legitimacy of Muslims who accept the American Constitution and the legitimacy of Islam as a s as a religion that in fact does bind people together.
Uh and I think that that's that just as much as we reach out to Christians and Jews and and frankly to Hindus and Buddhists.
I mean, this is a country of enormous diversity, and our real argument is with those radicals who would impose uh on the Constitution and create a different country.
And that that's a real fight.
But that that's uh we have to be very clear about what we're what we're describing.
All right, thanks for the call.
We go to Staten Island, New York, the all new AM 710, W O R, the voice of New York, Donna is a longtime listener and caller, Mr. Speaker.
Donna, say hi to New Gingrich.
Hello, Mr. Speaker.
It's quite an honor and a pleasure.
Thank you for taking my call.
Well, it's great talking to you.
I have a question for you.
Do you think that Donald Trump should apologize to Khan?
And if not, if it if it were you, would you do so?
How would you have handled it?
Well, I I would have and I think you know, Trump did come back and talk about his son being a hero.
Uh it's all right, but but I I think that a certain part of this is totally fine.
I mean this is a man who knows what he's doing.
He's a very clever lawyer.
Uh he has argued uh for Sharia.
He uh said things about Trump that were that were pretty go back and read exactly what Mr. Khan said.
Okay.
He put himself right in the middle of political arena.
And then the second that somebody responds to him, he rushes back and says, Oh, you're not allowed to answer me because I'm a gold star father.
Well, I can have as an army brat whose dad spent twenty-seven years in the infantry, I can have great sympathy for the Chans as a family and the loss of their son.
I can feel great honor in their son serving in the US Army and giving his life for America.
But uh there's a little bit of of bait and switch if you come out on the arena and and you say really nasty things about somebody, and then you turn around and pull up a shield and say, now you're not allowed to talk back to me.
Uh and I think some of that was going on in a way that, you know, I I would have tried from the very beginning to make clear that I honor your son's sacrifice, I honor your family's grief.
But he did say that.
He did say he was a hero, and it was clear that the comments about refugees, Mr. Speaker, if I may um excuse me, I can't help myself.
I'm gonna talk to your host, the comments about refugees were not about Mr. Kahn.
They weren't about his son.
This was about listening to the director of national intelligence, the FBI, the CIA director, and others saying that ISIS will infiltrate the refugee population.
That's what he was referring to with his policy.
And I think and I think in that sense that this will presently blow over, because the truth is that the media has tried to blow this up, and of course the president and Hillary have tried to blow this up in an effort to smear Trump, and I think that that ultimately people are gonna look at it and realize that that's exactly what it is.
It's a smear.
You know, and there's a lot of smearing going on in this campaign.
I did like the back and forth.
I do like the fact that you know Obama calls Trump unfit and and Trump comes right back in him.
And there have been past presidential Republican candidates, and they don't fight back.
So it's irritating when they don't.
Listen, I uh i I know my audience enjoyed this.
Uh Mr. Speaker, thank you for being with us.
I know it took a lot of your time.
And uh we uh also will see you on Hannity tonight at 10 Eastern.
Thanks for being with us.
Should be fun.
Bye bye.
800-941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
When we come back, there is a lot of information coming out about Mr. Kahn.
Was this political in any way, even though Trump was not with the refugee issue talking about Mr. Khan or his son, and he did call his son a hero.
Uh, we'll get into that with Matt Boyle over at Bright Bart.
Donald Trump is being slammed for his remarks against the father of a fallen Muslim U.S. soldier who spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
Kazir Khan gave a very powerful speech on the last night of that convention.
Very personal story, Pat Smith is the mother of Sean Smith who's killed in Benghazi.
The Democrats who opposed it said, you know what, they felt that she might have been exploited in her grief.
People were on their feet applauding a number of times during that speech uh given by Mr. Khan as he remembered his son.
But you don't have to respect the fact that the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign have decided to exploit this tragedy the way they have.
Father of a Muslim U.S. soldier who died in Baghdad made a powerful speech.
We can all feel for Pat Smith, right?
She's grieving, obviously.
I think it was exploitative of the Trump campaign to put her up there, like the powerful one we showed with Mr. Khan.
Like if she can replicate that moment at every at every appearance she does, then great.
And you just mentioned the Khan family right now.
Very powerful moment last night.
This guy will do anything to sm get you to sympathize and attack Hillary Clinton.
It's completely inappropriate.
The father of a Muslim U.S. soldier who died in Baghdad made a powerful speech.
I think it was wrong.
I don't care what that woman up there, the mother has felt.
It's wrong to have someone to come up there and tell a lie about Hillary Clinton.
I could barely I mean, I'm not I'm I'm that'll be all I say because that was so affecting.
I can couldn't get through.
If it's Pat Smith at the Republican National Convention, it's exploiting a tragedy.
It's wrong.
It's I don't care how she feels.
I don't care what that woman felt.
If she lies about Hillary Clinton, if it's Mr. Khan also lost his son, well, in that case, wow, what a powerful moment at the Democratic National Convention.
Now, to me, my heart goes out to both of them.
But as I pointed out yesterday, if you Google the names Pat Smith and Hillary Clinton, you know, you get fewer hits than you would if you if you Google uh Kizra Khan and Donald Trump.
And yet in five days, it looks like Mr. Khan has gotten more coverage than Pat Smith has in three years.
And Pat Smith gets smeared and besmirched and slandered for daring to say that she was lied to by Hillary Clinton in front of the casket of her dead son.
By the way, a story confirmed by Charles Woods and his family that right there, that day, she lied, and we know the timeline of what she was telling her daughter Chelsea and what she was telling the Libyan president, what she was telling the Egyptian prime minister.
You know, I I've I've said this many, many times.
The number one contribution to the Hillary campaign is going to be the mainstream media.
They want her elected.
They're invested in this campaign.
They're contributing every single day.
And it's obvious on this particular issue.
My heart goes out to any parent who loses a son or daughter.
Now, another note here.
Donald Trump did not support the war in Iraq.
Hillary voted for it.
Donald Trump said, once you committed to it, you gotta win it.
Hillary got involved in politicizing it.
And those cities that Americans fought, bled, and died for, like Mosul and Fellutia and Ramadi and Tecrete and others were then left and abandoned and then taken over, creating a vacuum for ISIS with the financial resources to expand their terror network.
Same thing happened in Syria.
So if the liberal media is saying this is an exploitation of tragedy, what does it mean in this case?
Anyway, Matthew Boyle is now joining us.
Matt Boyle, by the way, is a columnist.
He's an editor at Breitbart.com.
And he uh has been doing research on the Khan family.
He joins us today.
How are you?
I'm doing well, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
Isn't it first and foremost important to point out that Donald Trump, by the way, news roundup information overload, 800 nine four one Sean, we'll get to your calls this half hour, uh this hour.
Isn't it important to point out that Donald Trump called uh Kizra Khan's son a hero?
Isn't it important to point out that he was not talking about that family?
Look, it it's not like his son can't uh it's not like we could have two, we can't have two mutually exclusive things here.
His son can be a hero.
Captain Khan is absolutely a hero.
The story of what he did uh when he died uh the uh at the hands of a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004.
All the accounts are that he he led people away, uh the you know, his uh the people that he was with away from the danger, and he he f uh he uh absorbed the danger.
Uh I mean the guy is a hero.
But that doesn't mean also that uh Kazir Khan, uh his father, is not politically and financially illegally motivated here.
Uh and and what what's shocking to me is is that the entire rest of the mainstream media, whether it be the New York Times or the Washington Post or CNN or any one of these outlets that has been uh, you know, overload with this whole narrative.
None of them did any research into figuring out anything about this guy.
He actually just deleted his website, thanks to because what we did is we went and looked up what does he do for a living and what's his political motivation here?
Well, it turns out that Kazir Khan uh is an immigration lawyer who uh specializes in bringing in uh wealthy uh investors that come in on the EB five visa, which is a program that is fraught with corruption.
Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has exposed this corruption time and again.
Uh in and this guy uh has a political and legal and financial motivation to be opposed to Donald Trump's uh policy viewpoints, because obviously Donald Trump is going to stop uh at least temporarily uh Muslim migration from uh areas fraught with terrorists.
So uh what's shocking to me is that nobody else in the rest of the media did this.
We went and did it at Breitbar.
We went and found all of this information out, and now Kazir Khan has actually deleted his website.
Uh what do you think that uh look?
I you know, I I'm very uncomfortable because here's here's what people are gonna say.
I didn't like what Chris Matthews had to say about Pat Smith.
I listen, I have no doubt this man is suffering, his wife is suffering, that there's nothing more painful than to lose a child.
I can't imagine the pain and suffering that this family has.
I get all that.
I feel for them.
This son, I agree Donald Trump with his statement that Donald Trump said that this man is a hero, uh that this young man.
But the problem is Donald Trump called him a hero.
Donald Trump did not engage in this battle.
Um this father went out there and attacked him, but it was really Hillary that voted to send her son the hi this guy's son to war.
It was Hillary that pulled out early and politicized the war.
And if you listen to Donald Trump's policies on immigration, all he's doing is listening to very key people, and that is James Clapper and James Comey, and Brendan R. C. IA director, and our FBI director, and our assistant FBI director, and our House Homeland Security Chairman and our former special envoy to defeat ISIS that said that ISIS, like they did in Belgium, Germany, and elsewhere, will infiltrate the refugee population.
Yeah, look, this is the same thing that we've seen with any one of these other manufactured crisis uh uh that that takes up four or five days of the of the narrative.
Is that uh you have uh you have an instance where uh there's there's supposedly outrage, the media will create more and more outrage, then Democrats will pour fuel on the fire, then after that you'll see uh establishment Republicans start backing down all scared like and and you know, cowering into their corner.
Uh i i and then the media will keep uh pushing it, pushing it, pushing it, and then all of a sudden we get away from the whole the whole reason why we were having this discussion, which is again, Captain Khan uh, you know, is a is a hero.
He gave his life in service of his country to protect those around him.
Uh it's just like Pat Smith is a hero.
But again, what you have here is you have a politically motivated media that will do anything in their power to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House.
They have r they have come out of a closet.
We Sean, you and I have both been saying this for years that the mainstream media is in the tank for the Democrats.
Now they are sh the mainstream media is showing America.
We don't have to tell America anymore.
The mainstream media is showing through their behavior that they are in the tank for Hillary Clinton.
And in in look, there was a media research center study that came out the uh yesterday that showed that the the three major networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, have uh had this story of the uh of the Kazir Khan family uh up fifty times more.
Fifty, fifty, five zero times more than in the story of Pat Smith at the Republican National Convention.
It's clear they're politically motivated.
They're one hundred percent using these people for their political goals, which is that they were.
So in other words, the the analysis.
The analysis of the media about Pat Smith and and how Pat Smith in so many different ways was being used and they were exploiting a tragedy and it was wrong, and and I don't care what that woman felt.
I mean, all of that we now have on the record when Pat Smith spoke.
So you're saying that that the very thing they accuse Republicans of doing, they themselves are guilty of.
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Uh the the the left, the progressive left in the mainstream media are are are uh they do this repeatedly.
It's projection.
They do this all the time.
They continually go out there and they accuse Republicans of what they're actually, you know, responsible for.
Uh we see this on pretty much every single issue.
But again, the key thing here is that the mainstream media is out of the closet.
If anything, the DNC leak, those emails that came out, we saw political reporters sharing drafts of their articles with the Democratic Party.
We saw the Democratic Party working with uh people at NBC and all the other uh mainstream media outlets repeatedly to frame their stories and frame their narratives.
These reporters don't do that with Republicans.
They they are they treat Republicans like hostile people.
So again, what we're seeing now is that the mainstream media has come out of the closet in a way that we've never seen them come out before.
They are one hundred percent on the record in favor of Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
The Huffington Post includes at the end of every single one of their articles.
Now a uh they they have throughout the whole entire Republican primaries too a disclaimer about Donald Trump they claim he's a racist and a xenophobe and all this other stuff in there.
These reporters, editors, producers, anchors, etc, all throughout the mainstream media are exposed.
That's why uh as Trump said last night at his rally, he he walks through how he's going to have to punch through the media because the media is is is giving more to the Hillary Clinton campaign than any one of the billionaires backing Hillary Clinton's campaign could give to her.
You know, you actually put a lot of examples you actually called CNN and and spoke to uh I guess a spokesperson and they referred you to uh I guess Kate what's her name?
Baldine or something?
I don't know what her name is Kate Baldwin, yeah she's one of their anchors over there.
Okay.
And so anyway, you actually go to the video tape and you talk about for example the things that you know about uh Kisra Khan or Kazir Khan, depending on how you pronounce it, that in fact, you know, they knew nothing about him, did no research on him.
Do you think it's relevant that he was an immigration return attorney do you think that in any way that this was politically motivated and what is it about his background that troubles you look I I uh look here's the deal.
I think if somebody is an immigration attorney and they're using a speech at the Democratic National Convention to call out uh an opposing candidate, they were obviously endorsing Hillary Clinton by the way, Donald Trump was not talking about the cons.
He was talking about the people that our CIA, FBI director, uh National Director of Intelligence and all these other officials were warning about, which was that we've got to halt the immigration refugee program and less and until we can fully vet them.
We he wasn't talking about Mr Khan.
But Donald Trump's policy wouldn't affect the Khan family.
It wouldn't affect them at all.
They were already here uh long before uh Donald Trump's I mean they were here years and years ago long before Donald Trump's immigration again it would have been a temporar it would be a temporary ban on Muslim migration into the United States from regions afflicted with terrorism.
Um and uh again what you have is you have a guy who is using his speech that he's uh endorsing Hillary Clinton, sorting her campaign and coming out against Donald Trump and specifically against Donald Trump's uh immigration plan with regard to Muslim migration.
Uh in in in this guy actually works in this field and makes a lot of money off of this really fraught with corrupt corruption program uh of the the the Department of Homeland Security with specific visas, the E B five visas and they're they've I mean both sides of the aisle agree that the E B five visa program is completely broken and fraught with fraught with problems and corruption.
I mean Senator Grassley and and all the other senators on the j judiciary committee understand that.
They understand how big of a problem this is this guy's been working in this he has a financial motivation to oppose Donald Trump's uh in in a legal motivation in a at the very least it should be full disclosure.
I mean what what does Pat Smith have any connection, any policy issues she just didn't like to be lied to while Hillary was simultaneously telling the world one phony story and the American people and her personally a phony story about a spontaneous demonstration related to a YouTube video and telling her daughter the Libyan president,
Egyptian prime minister something else, she didn't like being lied to we don't know there there doesn't appear to be any kind of uh conflicting interest here with regard to Pat Smith uh uh the incident the in that instance or for instance another thing that the mainstream media has buried CNN buried these people is they didn't cover it at all they actually cut the camera away when mothers uh and fathers of illegal uh alien crime victims were got up and spoke at the Republican National Convention.
They refused to cover that they refused to cover uh the stories of Jamil Shaw uh or and there's there's countless more examples.
Laura Wilkerson uh uh son Josh Wilkerson died in Texas uh at the hands of an illegal alien I mean again these these stories uh the mainstream media cuts away from them entirely all of these people don't have a uh separate financial business or political interest uh or you know where they're they're working in the the the field where they're where they lost me on this and and this is I think is part of the media's corruption is there's nothing that Donald Trump said that would be against the cons or their family or deport them in any way,
shape, matter or form, nor do they inform their audiences about the admonition and warnings of our top officials because I think that's what hit where his decision is based.
Nor do they give context and texture to what has happened in Belgium and France and Germany and all of Europe in terms of the refugee population being infiltrated.
So there's there's so many different ways that they can be abusively biased.
And I think when you listen to the comments about Pat Smith and you compare it to that of Mr Khan, I think you have, as you said, and what I have said back since 2007 and eight, journalism is dead in America.
And if it weren't for alternative media like Breitbart and talk radio and Fox and some other places, we're all screwed.
We're running we're running out of time.
I I didn't realize I was over.
All right, Matt Boyle, Brightport.com.
Thank you, sir.
I uh it was good to see you at the Republican convention, by the way.
Thanks for being with us.
Yep.
Thanks, Sean.
All right, as promised, we're gonna hit our busy telephones here as we say hi to Bailey is in Niceville, Florida on the Sean Hannity Show.
How are you?
Hi.
What's up, Bailey?
What's going on?
I am twenty and I'm getting to vote for the first time in a presidential election.
And when I listen to all these different topics and everything, I just have to say that one of the things that bothers me the most is the stuff with my generation.
Um this whole thing with the free college I just am like completely blown away and shocked and just don't even understand why they're thinking they deserve free college.
I mean our parents paid for college their parents paid for college on and so forth.
So I don't know why members of my generation all of a sudden seem to be how old are you Bailey if you don't I know you're not supposed to ask this question.
All right you're 20 years old.
All right now here's the bigger question.
I because I think you're raising a great point and everybody wants free, free, free, government free, free, free well nothing in life is free.
But here's my here's what I don't understand about people.
If you look at social security it's headed towards insolvency hand headed to bankruptcy.
At some point in your life you're gonna hear that they're raising the eligibility age to probably the day before most people die and secondly all these people that paid 30, 40, 50 years in a Social Security expecting that they're gonna get a check and they were promised it we're gonna means test it and if you have five cents to your name they're gonna steal it from you and they'll legalize stealing.
Uh the same thing with Medicare the same thing with Medicare.
There's a story out today in the AP, another banner day for Obama's signature program, the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, because now America's third largest insurance company announced plans that they're gonna ease their way out of Obamacare.
Now this is Aetna this is Aetna following United this is United following so many other companies remember the promise was you keep your doctor you keep your plan and you pay on average per family twenty five hundred dollars less per year.
Well rate increases this year on average around the country 35 to 40% the same as last year.
A lot of people didn't keep their doctors and plans you know so my question is why do so many people put their faith their hope their trust their belief and their lives in the hands of others.
You know look at our school system.
We pay more per capita for child's per education for education and we have the worst results and again people expect this the government is going to do it right.
Government doesn't solve these problems and I all I'm saying is people you better understand and I say this more to my audience than I do anybody else you have got to understand and I've been poor poor poor for decades of my life and and now I've been able to save money.
And money in your life equals freedom.
Now how's that?
Because you have the ability to make choices you otherwise would not be able to make maybe you take the chance on b starting your business because you have a cushion maybe you take the chance God forbid if most people get sick you know the average person that gets sick this is true.
They can't survive a month they're dead in the water without going to a government handout there.
Anyway so you know I I look this there are people that have worked on this show over the years that have gotten sick for protracted periods of time.
Linda what do we do with sick people that get sick that work with us we take care of them.
We send them home.
Well you send them well if they're if it's long term illness for example I'm gonna be able to take care of them.
We take care of them we take care of our own you know I have a girl right now in her thirties that works for me on my TV show that is fighting cancer.
And she comes to me I said stay home get well we love you get back as soon as you can and you're not being docked a penny.
That's it.
You know that's just the way it is but for a lot of people I think everybody should just know that's not the norm.
That's just you going above and beyond that should be the norm.
That should be the norm.
But it is not well I'm just saying now everyone's gonna want to work for me thinking I'm nice.
Tell them I'm not nice.
Go ahead.
He's terrible an application in yeah well listen I'm just saying government isn't gonna do it.
My advice you're twenty years old, Bailey.
Pick a profession that will pay you well, that you feel passionate about, that it won't feel like a job every day.
Get up and do your best and work really, really hard.
Delay gratification, be smart in the home that you buy.
Never buy the home you want.
Buy the home that's gonna be a good investment.
Buy the home that's the cheapest one on the block that you can fix up in your spare time.
You know, buy the home that you're gonna make money on.
I mean, my wife and I had is is equal veto power in every home we bought.
For any reason, I don't like the look of that doorknob.
Boom, we're out of the house.
Because she wants a home.
I want to make money.
I want an investment.
I could sleep in a dungeon.
I don't really give a rip.
Well, I really can't I I have slept in dungeons for the most part.
I mean, not quite a dungeon, but I mean I I you know, for years I slept in crummy little apartments.
Why are you laughing at me?
What's so funny about that?
Sort of like your crummy New York apartments with rats and mice and roaches and all the other, and you've got fleas and ticks with the freaking, you know, zoo you've got in your house and that fat cat that weighs four hundred pounds.
No, how fat is that cat?
How many animals are in your house?
Three.
Okay.
And how fat is that cat that went to the fat cat?
That cat is no longer with me.
She's on the farm.
And that cat was the fattest cat in the history exactly.
Now she's an Olympian.
You were trying to kill the cat, feeding it too much.
Put a picture of the cat wrong with you.
All right, I want you to put a picture of the fattest cat on the earth.
First of all, you don't even like cats, so I'm not putting a picture of a cat.
And we'll we'll and I want to do a poll.
Is Linda's cat too fat?
Are you Dr. Seuss?
Should I sign you up for starting children's books?
Put the fat picture of the fat cat on my website and we'll have a vote.
I have to do something.
Do you mind?
What no?
I have a very funny story.
You know I don't normally do this.
Oh, no, not at all.
You have no control over the case.
I I have zero control.
I took a cab today and I had this driver, and I was on the phone with one of our guests because we were having some issues with our show today, getting everybody all lined up.
Long story short, he heard me talking and he goes, Are you Linda from Hannity?
And I look at him and I go, Are you a conservative?
That's pretty funny.
And he says, Yes, I am.
I listen to Sean three to six every day, and I love him.
I'm from Africa.
I was raised in Mali.
I came from nothing, and now I'm here in this great city, and Hillary is the worst person, the worst thing that could ever happen, and I just want to say thank you.
I almost preferred it.
I will tell you this that I when I've got to be.
His name is Issa.
I said I give him a shout out.
Whenever I get in a cab, they recognize me and they all listen.
It's unbelievable to me.
It really is.
He says he has to hide it from his other democratic cabbies.
Funny.
All right, back to our phones.
Thank you, Bailey.
Appreciate it.
I hope you take my advice.
Uh let us say hi to Mark in Illinois.
Mark, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm a longtime viewer, recent serious listener, and uh first time car.
So uh first of all, I just want to say thank you for keeping Peter Schweitzer on your show.
I read Clinton Cash uh last week and uh it made me vomit after the first three chapters.
It was unbelievable.
So I think it should be required reading for every American.
Well, I appreciate it.
I agree with you.
I don't think anybody can either see Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza or Peter Schweitzer's Clinton Cash, the movie, or read the book.
I don't know how people will vote for her.
I don't know how sixty-seven percent of Americans think she's a liar and still a lot of them will vote for her and they'll just ignore it.
Well, anyway, uh there's a lot I could talk about.
What I wanted to focus on today is Trump's uh message on jobs.
I think he's doing a really good job of attracting the blue-collar worker, uh, the white uh type of worker.
But I think he's really missing the boat.
And uh if you listen to what you know they say about the Democrats, it's more a college educated, white collar type of constituency.
And I think what Trump needs to emphasize is that for every manufacturing job that you bring back to the United States, you're gonna bring back white collar jobs.
You know, educate college educated jobs, like in marketing, uh management, uh HR, IT, engineering.
There's gotta be a metric out there that says for every manufacturing job you create, you're gonna create X number of white collar jobs.
And I think this is really something that he really needs to emphasize.
And get away from sort of the you know, the freeding frenzy on con and all that, and really focus on his messaging here to expand his base.
You know, look, I I like what Don Jr. says about his dad that he's a blue collar billionaire.
Let me answer your question in in a in a roundabout way.
Because you're right.
When one in five American families don't have a single member of the family in the labor force, and we're at a fifty-one year low as it relates to home ownership in America, and median income in real dollars is down in the last eight years, and you know, you got one in six men, eighteen to thirty-four in the country, either in prison or live in a mommy and daddy's basement, and you've got the the doubling of our national debt and him taking on more debt than every other president before him combined.
I mean, uh the it none of this is good.
Yeah, these people need jobs.
That's why I think Trump will win Pennsylvania as a shot in Wisconsin and Michigan, and some states that historically Republicans don't compete in, uh at least in recent election cycles.
But the only thing I can tell you is I actually think that everybody at some point needs to work with their hands in life and do real work.
You know, I I know you know my story.
Papers at eight.
Yeah, no, I fought when when I played hockey, yes, Linda, I did do that.
I thought I was Bobby Clark.
Uh but washing dishes by hand in a restaurant every Friday and Saturday night and Sunday night was a good thing for me.
Kept me out of trouble, put money in my pocket, and it taught me the value of work.
Being a bus boy and cleaning up dirty tables taught me how to work.
Being a cook and sweating my ass off and enjoying it, I love that job.
I was thirteen years old.
I was cooking in a restaurant late at night.
I loved it.
Cooking steaks, I learned how to do stuff, lobster, lobster tails, nothing major.
Fettuccine Alfredo, stuff like that.
I loved it.
You know, and then when I was a waiter, I made more money.
Then I became a bartender and I learned how to make drinks.
And I realized that I have a big fat mouth, a gift to Gab.
And then I got into construction.
I know you know, when I go into a house, I'm looking in everybody's corner.
Did they hang the wallpaper right?
Did they lay the tile out right?
Did they do this?
You know, all of that work, two decades of my life, it just it makes me appreciate everything that I have in my life now, but it it it's real world stuff.
Um I am treated much too nicely now at this point in my life.
I don't deserve the praise that I get.
Uh I never got it as a contractor when I was laying tile framing, roofing, you know, I barely got a paycheck.
It's like they give it to you and they they're pulling it back.
So roundabout way is, yeah, I think Trump is connecting with those people.
Because Trump hired all those people and knows all those people and gave them all jobs.
And built they built his buildings.
They built his golf courses, they built his homes.
So I think all of that is very, very important, and I think he understands the plight of those people because those that's who he hangs out with.
I mean, maybe yeah, he you know, he gets to hang out with some rich people too, but you know, p Linda, how many times do I tell you this?
And I've said this many, many times in my life before.
How many times have I said to you, why do people come up to me in a grocery store and say, What are you doing here?
And I'm like, Well, I know what you eat, so I would ask you that question for real.
All right.
Well, you want to tell everybody what I eat?
Yeah.
Do you want me to tell everybody what you eat?
I don't care.
Tell them I'm no I'm a Sean is on a very nutritious diet.
Yeah.
Of chicken noodle soup.
A can a day.
Campbell's.
Old school Campbell's chicken noodle, no frills.
No, and then I eat no fancy stuff.
Then I eat meat when I get home.
That's it.
Or you know, I did try California roll this weekend.
Sushi?
I well, it's not real California roll doesn't really.
I know California.
I love sushi.
You don't got to school me, I'm just shocked.
Uh I actually tried it and didn't hate it.
Did you lose that?
No, my daughter made me try it.
My son made me try it.
My daughter made me try it a couple of weeks ago, so I ate it.
What happened to you?
Well, what's next?
To furkey for Hannity.
I mean No, when I live with my sister, she used to make me eat tofu pups instead of tofu hot dogs instead of real ones, and made these uh what do you call 'em, um lentil burgers.
They were disgusting.
Oh, so disgusting.
And by the way, people are related to you.
What what is that?
My sister Teddy was was uh a vegetarian for like fifteen years.
And it didn't matter.
For all fifteen years, my father would say to her, Would you like a little steak?
You need some steak.
You want some steak?
And she's like, Dad, I don't eat meat.
Now she beats meat again.
And by the way, I don't need lectures from you about eating.
The crap on your desk every day, and that green, disgusting crack.
Our friend who's visiting us just said to me, he's like, What's in that?
What it is so what is in that?
It looks like it's kale, spinach, cucumber.
And that tastes good to you.
I mean, it doesn't taste as good as it makes me look.
