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Hi, see, we got the Clinton tax returns release.
We'll go over some of that here in the course of the program today.
Happy Friday.
And I mean it's a happy Friday.
I am, you know, I know that there are a lot of you out there nervous, concerned, worried, anxious.
I'm not one of them.
I absolutely refuse to fall into the ebb and flow of the daily news cycle, which is that, oh my gosh, what's going to happen?
How's this going to work?
How's this going to happen?
I'm just not going there.
Let me tell you what is happening, though.
And I want to be very clear, and it's part of a narrative that I have been advancing on this program now for a long, long time.
There's a story out there today, and the headline is, Establishment GOP looks to Arizona, Florida primaries to bolster their ranks.
Now, remember, we endorsed on this program a Freedom Caucus member, somebody that I have a great deal of respect for, that lost Tim Huleskamp.
Remember, and now Republican establishment folks look at that and they say, wow, great.
Let's target more conservatives.
That's what we're going to do.
In other words, you've got this whole group of people out here that from the very beginning, although they never really seem to coalesce behind any one candidate, although I suspect it was always for them they wanted Jeb Bush.
But it never came together.
I mean, that's why Jeb Bush had so much money, spent so much money in the primaries.
And by the way, as a manner of speaking, I like Jeb Bush personally.
I think he did a great job, was a great conservative governor.
I just think, unfortunately for him, there were a couple of things that were obstacles for him in this election.
One is his last name.
Fact, you're not making it up.
You've had two Bushes as president.
People are like, all right, we need other people.
Fresh blood has nothing to do with him personally.
And I also think his position on immigration was a big obstacle for him in this election year, as was his Common Core comments.
And it was the first interview I had in CPAC with him in December of March of 2015.
I asked him, and we spent a lot of time on those questions because it turned out to be that way.
You know, it's an act of love and all that sort of thing.
It doesn't make him a bad person.
My only anger with Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham and John Kasich, and to a lesser extent, I give, I like Ted Cruz a lot personally, and he's not part of the establishment.
Listen, they would love to defeat him like they beat Hules Camp because he had the temerity to stand up on his principles and the Constitution and fight and was willing to defund Obamacare.
And Republicans, had they stood with him, they could have actually done something profound and deep and successful.
But I still wish he would keep his promise.
And I do know it got personal between him and Trump, but he fired back pretty hard too.
And this is a blood sport.
It's not for the weak-hearted.
I mean, every day now, somebody wants to send me an article of this person attacking me.
I'm begun to realize here that all these insignificant columnists that have audiences of 10,000, you know, or 20,000 Twitter followers, like that guy in the Wall Street Journal, the best thing I ever did was talk about this guy.
So now everyone else tries to attack me and say, well, let me attack Hannity.
I want that kind of free publicity.
And I take it as a badge of honor.
And I love the fact, but I think we need a little history lesson here about where we are and why we're here and what this election is really all about in spite of how the media is trying to portray this to you and dishearten you.
There is a poll out today, a one-point race between Trump and Hillary.
If my gut tells me reading all of these polls, I would say probably nationally Trump is down three with plenty of time left to go and maybe even the defining event of this campaign season not even having happened yet.
So we'll see what happens.
But it is very telling.
You know, I'll read this article to you.
You got a super PAC targeting Freedom Caucus member Paul Gozer in Arizona after they beat Tim Hules PAC.
And the goal is to have a House, what's that?
What do you say?
Yeah, Tim Hulescamp.
I'm sorry.
What did I say?
Sorry about that.
And the goal, this article says, is to have a House conference that cooperates with Paul Ryan in leadership.
And primaries are the best way for establishment Republicans to eliminate, quote, troublemakers.
Anyway, establishment-backed Republican unseats House Freedom Caucus member.
Now the Hughes camp has been knocked off.
The establishment sites are shifting to Arizona.
And Representative Paul Goeser, who's been on this program before, another member of the House Freedom Caucus, now a group that calls themselves, quote, right-way super PAC, is now spending $130,000 to take him down with media opposing him and supporting his primary opponent, a pastor, a city councilman, a guy, I won't even mention his name.
Has he been in Washington too long?
Goes the radio ad from the right way asks.
You notice they say they're right way, but they're really establishment way.
Do you see what this is all about?
There is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.
And on the one hand, you've got, you know, look at this election cycle.
You've got publications, weekly standard types.
You've got people like Bill Crystal.
You've got Wall Street Journal types like this guy, whatever his name, that was fighting B. You've got National Review coming out with a front page, full-on assault on Donald Trump as the primaries were beginning.
Now, what's a fascinating thing to me is they had their chance.
They got tons of media coverage.
They got their chance to talk to the voters in the Republican primary.
And guess what?
The voters decided not to listen to them.
The voters decided that in spite of them, they're going.
They're going to make this an anti-establishment year.
And that meant that the majority of voters were going for either Trump or Cruz.
And a majority, a record number of people ended up voting in terms of a Republican primary.
Record number of votes were given to Donald Trump.
And now there is great gnashing of teeth and there's great anger and there's smoke coming out of the ears of the NRO guys and guys at the Weekly Standard and guys at the Wall Street Journal.
But remember, you know, we've tried it their way.
We've had their experiments.
Now, personally, I still stand by the fact.
I think Mitt Romney would have been a great president.
That's my own personal feeling.
I'm mad at him now.
I think he's been very harmful.
And with all the support that was given to him, I think he should have been a little bit more of a team player and accepted the will of the people.
But that's my own personal view.
I don't hold it against him personally.
He's still a good man.
I like his family, but he's hurting.
It's part of a group of establishment that are sabotaging Donald Trump's chances.
But they don't want to take responsibility for it if Hillary Clinton wins.
But boy, they deserve responsibility because they're the same people that would say to conservatives like me, Hannity, you got to support McCain.
Hannity, come on, Bob Dole versus whoever Bob Dole's running against, Bill Clinton.
You got to support McCain over Barack Obama.
Now, meanwhile, I went out there leading the charge, being told by really good friends of mine, big names you would recognize, that I was probably ruining my career and my career would end in 2007 and 2008 because I went so hard against Obama.
And I was doing it for a candidate that I knew was a rhino Republican for the most part, but I knew he was better than Obama.
And McCain would have been a better president than Barack Obama.
Now you've got a situation where the establishment folks, the NRIO guys, and then you got the Weekly Standard guys and the Wall Street Journal guys, and they're all going out there.
They went out there and they tried to persuade you, stay away from Donald Trump.
And I did what I promised you I would do.
It's up on my website.
If you want to listen to my speech in CPAC in 2015 and my speech at CPAC in 2016, 2015, I promised that I would give as much airtime to every candidate as possible and leave the decision to you, the voters.
And then I said in 2016, not now, not now.
And then I said in 2016, if people want to listen to it, they can go to Hannity.com.
And then in 2016, I said, whoever the winner is, I know some of you are going to be very angry and very emotional, but if we don't unite, we're not going to win.
So the very people that think of themselves as the great intellectual superpowers of the conservative movement, the establishment types, well, they're now angry because you didn't vote the way they wanted and you voted in record numbers for somebody else.
Now what they're ignoring is something very basic and very fundamental.
And that is there's a very good reason that this became an insurgency year, an outsider year.
And it's because all of their establishment guys failed the American people.
You don't need, listen to me, just look at every single solitary exit poll out there.
What did it say?
It said Republicans feel betrayed by D.C. Washington Republicans.
Now, did this just happen in a vacuum, or is there a good reason for this?
Well, there happens to be pretty good reason for it.
And the reason is, is that promises were made, conservative principles were espoused during campaigns.
You know, the right words and rhetoric were used.
And then they go to Washington and they thought they could bamboozle their constituencies and they'd have all these show votes so they could go home and say, well, I voted to repeal and replace Obamacare, but they'd only do it when it had no teeth, no meaning, and it was just a show vote to be able to go back to their districts and be able to say they did it.
But when the moment of truth came, Ted Cruz being the exception, and Marco Rubio stood with him and Mike Lee stood with him and Rand Paul stood with him.
And by the way, all four of those guys, for the most part, maybe with the exception of Rubio, they're hated by the establishment.
And those four guys, well, look at what they've done.
And everybody else is mad at them.
But at the end of the day, the failure is clear.
Under John Boehner, the national debt went up nearly $5 trillion.
Well, that's not conservative to me.
I can get that from the Democrats.
Okay, maybe it would have been seven if John Boehner didn't fight a little bit.
But the reality is, is when they ran for these offices and they said, give us the House back, they said they would control spending.
They said they would work towards balanced budgets.
They said they would use, or you assume they're going to use their enumerated power, which is the power of the purse, and not cede that power to the executive branch as they have done time and time again.
And when they had real opportunities to defund aspects of Obamacare and take a courageous, principled stand, well, that would never happen because there was always the fear how it would impact them.
Well, we can't do that because, you know what, there might be a backlash.
You know, we're going to get blamed for a government shutdown.
And all Obama had to do is threaten a government shutdown.
And that was enough to make them bubble and fizz like Alka-Seltzer and water.
And then they said, okay, well, just give us the Senate, and then we'll be able to do it.
We need the Senate to be able to do it.
And by the way, we'll stop that illegal and unconstitutional executive amnesty that the president is pushing.
Okay, well, we gave them the Senate and they passed the Cromnibus bill instead of waiting until they had more power and more support in the Senate.
And they said they'd defund the Department of Homeland Security sometime in February or March, and then they ended up funding it there too.
So I've been on this mission.
I'm saying all of you establishment people that are undermining and sabotaging Donald Trump and not endorsing him and writing all these columns that Jamie Weinstead.
I guess it's Michelle Fields, who I always liked too.
She's mad at me now, but I always liked her.
She's a nice person.
I didn't agree with her on the Corey Lewandowski issue.
Anyway, and he's saying, well, we might as well surrender to Hillary right now.
And then others are saying, well, we'll blame all of you guys that gave Donald Trump favorable treatment.
Well, I gave every Republican candidate good treatment.
I let them answer questions.
I would ask them questions so that you, the audience, could understand where they were coming from and let them explain things in their own words.
It wasn't my job to go out there and debate them.
My job was to let my audience hear from them.
So, but I'm telling all of you this and putting you all on notice here is that if Hillary wins and your sabotage from the get-go didn't help and you're just mad because the American people and voters didn't go along with you and you picked up your little toys like little crybabies that you all are and you're going home and you're doing everything you can do to undermine any chance that Trump has against Hillary Clinton, I still think he has a great chance of winning.
I hope.
I don't have a crystal ball I can't say for sure.
You know what?
Probably the event that will define this election hasn't even happened yet.
But when Hillary appoints liberal activists, justices, remember, you help create that.
You help build that.
When more illegal immigrants cross the border, I know that a lot of establishment type Republicans, they want cheap labor.
But when more and more American jobs go away and the labor participation rate goes to the lowest levels in the 50s, well, you help build that.
When no wall goes up and somebody crosses the border and commits an act of terror, well, you help build that.
When education remains failed and flawed and top-down from Washington and doesn't get sent back to the states, well, you're partly responsible.
If America is not energy independent in the next eight years, you can pat yourselves on the back for that.
If there are restrictions on our Second Amendment rights, I'd say you played a part in that.
If you have a president that can't say radical Islam, we're not going to win that war.
Well, you take a hand in that too.
And it goes on and on.
So that's my point to all of you.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't have contempt for the American voters.
I understand their anger, their frustration.
I understand why they voted the way they did.
And I just find that almost laughable that all of you phonies out there, you're just angry.
You have no influence.
Because if you had influence, maybe people would have, maybe people would have listened to you.
But you weren't too persuasive.
Why?
Because you're part of the problem as well.
And if this whole system, this incestuous, corrupt system, doesn't get fixed, well, then you could watch America decline too, and you can take credit for that.
Because that's exactly what's going to continue.
And if you, you know, that's why my heart, my mind, my soul, I'm at peace with where I've been and where I stand here.
Donald Trump is infinitely better than Hillary.
His agenda is infinitely better.
And I will proudly pull that lever, as I promised I would do in support the winner of this nominating process.
The people's choice.
You want to go against them, then you take the blame if Hillary Clinton wins.
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Tuesday of next week, we will be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and we're going to do a town hall with Donald Trump.
He's going to give a big speech on ISIS and radical Islam, and then we're going to do a one-hour event.
And there's so much I could tell you about it, but you can go to Hannity.com if you want to be in the audience if you're in the Wisconsin area, and it should be a lot of fun.
And I hope you can make it.
By the way, the Clintons, here's a few facts: adjusTedros income tax return, donated a charity $1 million, a little over a million, 9.8% of their income.
Okay, fine.
You know, I thought great liberals should donate more because they're paid so much more, but it's certainly better than donating old underwear as the Clintons have done in the past.
And you might say that, well, at least they donated $40,000 to another charity.
Well, the charity that they donate to, it was a relatively unknown charity called the Desert Classic Charities and donated the money right back.
The internet immediately did some digging, looked into the charity's filings, and the charity donated $700,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2015.
Oh, you donate to us, we'll donate to you.
So essentially, 100% of the Clintons' charitable donations went to the Clinton Foundation.
And worse yet, there seems to be some weird, bizarre kind of funneling.
My friend A.J. Delgado picked this up and told me about this earlier today.
It donated to a charity that donated a huge chunk to the Clinton Foundation.
So, you know, okay, you give to us, we'll get, well, I'll give you, listen, you give us a little something, I'll give you a little something, we'll call it today.
What does that mean?
You know, this is a person for years who have spoken about helping the downtrodden.
Okay, she makes over $10 million a year, but donates nothing to any charity outside of her own.
And then you say, all right, well, the Clinton charity is a charity, the Clinton Foundation.
Well, from what I've read, they've only give 10% of what they take in.
So they have big problems with that.
It's been widely criticized, the small percentage of the Clinton Foundation money that is ever used.
In other words, it's spent for overhead, et cetera.
I've seen estimates as low as only 10% actually goes to real charity.
And they're constantly paying for the Clintons' travel and their personal aids and payroll and so on and so forth.
Their 2014 tax return showed that out of their $28 million income that year, half of their $3 million charitable donation again to the Clinton Foundation.
Okay, then why isn't more of that money going to charity?
Makes you wonder.
It's a big story.
So, you know, you got to love the government and how they lie to you.
How many times have I told you that the government lies, especially about issues involving the unemployment rate?
So it turned out in July, they were told you, oh, wow, we had a whopping 250,000 jobs created and all those in the liberal media telling you this is great.
New York Post business analyst John Crudell points out the U.S. economy actually lost 1,000.03 jobs in July.
The Labor Department announced 255,000 new jobs.
The discrepancy is caused by these so-called seasonal adjustments.
They make these every year.
In other words, teachers leaving the workforce for the summertime, retail workers laid off in bunches after Christmas.
In other words, all of that is normal and acceptable to economists as part of a natural, predictable ebb and flow of the economy and the job market.
Now, the question is, were this July's seasonal adjustments, were they consistently applied from, say, last July?
Now, labor was more, when they give these numbers, labor gives out the numbers.
They were more generous this year when converting their raw data.
So, for example, those 1.03 million jobs lost when they adjusted into the seasonally adjusted number that everyone quotes as the new jobs number.
Had they used the same 1.22 million seasonal adjustment this year that they had used last year, it would have been 65,000 fewer jobs last month.
But again, you know, you get unemployment numbers, they don't actually tell you the real unemployment rate because they don't count the long-term chronically unemployed and those that have actually given up because they can't get a job.
That's another criticism I have of Republicans because this is pretty interesting, isn't it?
Republicans, have you ever wondered why Republicans haven't forced the issue of building the wall?
Because they're pressured by all the people that give them money to run their campaigns.
Big business that wants cheap labor.
There's a whole segment of our society that wants open borders because they want to hire the guy for $5 an hour, not the American for $15 an hour.
And the problem is with open borders, 11, 14 million people, more people coming in every day is, so you've got 95 million Americans out of the labor force, and then you've got X number of jobs available right now in a slow economy, the slowest recovery since the 40s.
And so people are competing for those limited jobs.
Then you have illegals competing, and that's driving down not only opportunity, but wages.
Oh, or Republicans like that too.
You ever ask yourself when Republicans have power, why don't they ever go after building the wall?
Because they've had their own special interests.
If anything, Democrats are smarter.
They're thinking, all right, well, let's hope that seven out of 10 of these illegal immigrants one day become citizens and they vote.
We hope they'll vote Democratic, and we'll assume they'll vote Democratic.
So they at least are playing longball.
Republicans are just short-sighted.
Can I get enough money to get elected in my next campaign cycle?
You know, you got to understand about this whole system.
You've got the whole rest of the country, and then you've got Washington.
And Washington is just unique in and of itself in this sense.
You've got Congress, you've got the Senate, you got the White House, you got staffers for the Congressmen, you got staffers for the senators, you got staffers for the White House, and then you've got the media.
And what you've got is one big, incestuous cesspool where all they do is pat each other on the back, go out, have drinks, make out with each other, buddy up with each other.
And, oh, can you, I need this item about my senator.
Can you put this in there?
You've got very little investigative reporting.
I mean, just on Hillary Clinton alone and the email scandal, you know, there's no Woodward and Bernstein that are emerging today, even though there's more opportunity than there's ever been before.
I mean, you can look at all the other issues.
Look at Clinton.
Look at all these people that I mentioned this week that had access because they're Clinton Foundation donors to Hillary Clinton and how they reap financial rewards.
One guy gets the rights to Columbian Forest.
He's a big Clinton Foundation donor.
Another guy gets a meeting with, you know, this whatever country it was that he needed a meeting with because he goes through the Clinton Foundation and Hillary's Secretary of State.
And, you know, all those people are getting rewarded.
And it's just corrupt.
And in comes Donald Trump and he wants to blow up the whole system.
And he says, I don't need your people.
I don't need your people's money.
I don't need anything from you people.
And he doesn't do things in conventional ways.
He doesn't say conventional things.
And all those people that like the system as it's currently designed, both Republicans and Democrats, because they're equally guilty.
John Boehner didn't stop the debt from rising.
Republicans aren't using enumerated powers.
They're ceding their constitutional authority to a president that wants to build up more and more power in the executive branch.
So they're not fighting.
And thus we have all of the, you know, the conditions we now have the country in.
And for those at the Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Standard and National Review and all of those presidential candidates who refuse to endorse Trump and Paul Ryan, more critical of Trump than he's ever been of Hillary and Obama.
They haven't fought the Obama agenda.
You know, I just say this.
You're going to get the government you all deserve and probably, I guess, deep down want.
Because I don't think they can handle the change that Trump would probably bring to them.
Because he would, he is not going to be your typical politician.
And if you just look on paper, you know, there's no earthly reason when you know Hillary Clinton is going to appoint those to the Supreme Court that do not respect the Constitution, do not believe in checks and balances, separation of powers, but she's going to put activist judges on the bench.
And those elites that think they're so smart and so much smarter than you, the lowly voters out there, we, the lowly voters, that they are criticizing all of you that voted for Donald Trump and they're out there undermining him and sabotaging him every step of the way.
Well, when Hillary makes that at Supreme Court appointment, they own it.
They're not supporting him.
They're undermining him.
They're undermining anybody that does support him.
They basically have nothing but contempt for the American people.
They want to take their middle finger and shove it right up your face.
And they want to get right in your grill and they want to blame you, the American voter, because you didn't listen to their admonitions and your warnings.
And you didn't go along with the establishment person that they probably wanted.
I would guess it was probably Jeb Bush.
And NRO and Weekly Standard and Bill Crystal and the Wall Street Journal and all these people, you know what?
They had their opportunity to influence you and you didn't pay attention to them.
And we did our job here.
We put every candidate on the air.
We gave them access to the airwaves to make their case and they made it.
And then you made up your mind.
And so now they don't want you to win because they look bad.
But they're the same people, though, in past years that would say to conservatives that, hey, you know, we really need you guys on board here.
What do you want?
Barack Obama?
Well, they didn't go out in front and lead with their chin the way I did as it was taking on the Obama agenda.
You know, these same people, you know, you should see when their stupid little books come out.
A lot of these guys write books all the time.
Linda, you can testify to this.
All these guys write books.
Yeah, there's a lot of book writing going on.
A lot of book writing.
And by the way, do these books ever sell?
Nope.
They only sell if they come on your show.
Okay.
So what do they do?
These people that have nothing but contempt for talk radio, nothing but contempt for Fox News, nothing but contempt for those people that have voted for Trump.
What's going to happen when their books come out?
What's the first call that they have their publicists make?
To you.
That's correct.
And what are we telling you?
Technically to us, and then we tell you.
And then what do I say now?
Sorry, Romney.
Nine out of 10 times.
Sorry, not now.
No.
And it's just amazing.
So, you know, I'm just saying to these guys: okay, you've got what you wanted.
You're hoping that in the sense they are hoping that Hillary wins, they want to be able to put their middle finger in your face, the voter's face.
They want to be able to say, what, we should have gone with another McCain or another Bob Dole.
I happen to like Mitt Romney.
I think Mitt Romney would have been a good president.
But Mitt Romney got really bad advice, especially in that third debate.
I think he could have won that election.
My own personal opinion, I'll never forget that night.
I was screaming at his team.
What did you just do?
Why did you take your foot off the gas?
I think they got a little bit scared after what had happened with Candy Crowley in the second debate.
So when you don't get originalists on the Supreme Court and you're not supporting Trump, you can look yourself in the mirror and you can blame yourself as far as I'm concerned.
If you have all of these people crossing the border and maybe somebody crosses that is part of ISIS, a report in the paper today about how one person associated with ISIS is now telling our own national security people that, yeah, there are people in Mexico that are ISIS sympathizers.
Okay, what if they one day cross the border?
What if they one day go to a town or a city in America to bring harm to the American people?
Well, Donald Trump could have stopped that.
Hillary Clinton won't build a wall.
You know, is Hillary Clinton going to rebuild our military?
You trust Hillary Clinton with anything involving the military after Libya, after supporting the Iraq war and then ceding that ground that Americans fought, bled, and died for to ISIS to create a vacuum for them, or the idiocy of making a pledge that if President Assad ever uses any type of biological or chemical weapons against his own people, that's a red line and there'll be a price to pay for that.
Well, now the void has been filled in both Syria and Iraq by ISIS.
You can blame Hillary and you can blame Obama for that.
And Donald Trump did yesterday, and he's absolutely right in his analysis.
So if you don't have a wall and you don't rebuild the military and education is still top-down and they suck up to the NEA if Hillary's president, and if she fires those coal miners that she promised to fire and puts coal companies out of work, and we don't start any drilling in the country and we don't do any fracking in the country and we don't create those millions of high-paying jobs, then you can blame yourself.
If you don't get better trade deals, if you keep Obamacare, if you have a president that can't say radical Islam and you're not going to protect your Second Amendment rights, take your sanctimony and shove it right up your own ass because you helped cause that.
You built that.
You created that.
That makes sense, Linda?
You getting that?
It's impossible for them to get the bigger picture.
No.
You know, so they always wanted conservatives to go against their own principles and support these rhinos.
But boy, when the American, when Republican voters, 65% say they feel betrayed and for good reason, because Republicans haven't stood on their principles.
They're not limiting the size and scope of government.
They're not fighting the good fight when they cower every time Obama says that he's going to blame them for shutting down the government and they cede their enumerated constitutional authority.
What are you saying into my ear?
Rodney Dangerfield is calling.
Is that really the Rodney from the beyond?
What's up?
I'm from the beyond, that's for sure.
How you doing, Rodney?
I'm doing.
How you doing?
We're getting no respect here.
Yeah, I get no respect either.
Hey, I just wanted to tell you, I don't believe the polls.
I think they're full of it because out where I live, nobody's got a Hillary bumper sticker.
Nobody's got any Hillary signs in their front lawn.
All I see is Trump.
So I don't believe the polls.
I think they're skewed.
I know that's cute.
I can't prove it, but I know that's skewed.
Listen, I don't know if anything's skewed.
Listen, I think you just have to take the polls for what they are.
Here's what's going to decide the election: the people in Florida, the people in Ohio, the people in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, the people in New Hampshire, the people in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada.
That's probably assuming everything else is about what we would expect it to be.
That's my take.
And the American people will get the government they deserve.
It's just a fact.
I happen to think we should be ambitious.
While we're at it, let's connect every household in America to broadband by the year 2020.
And it's crucial that every American have access to the education and skills they need to get the jobs of the future.
So we will fight to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone.
Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pockets of low-income families, it also means they will spend more at the businesses in their neighborhoods.
This is something that this is economics 101.
We need to get incomes and wages rising, and it will help the whole economy grow and be fairer.
We will fight for a more progressive, more patriotic tax code that puts American jobs first.
I am proposing an across-the-board income tax reduction, especially for middle-income Americans.
This will lead to millions of new and really good-paying jobs.
The rich will pay their fair share, but no one will pay so much that it destroys jobs or undermines our ability as a nation to compete.
Tax simplification will be a major feature of the plan.
The United States also has the highest business tax rate among the major industrialized nations of the world at 35%.
It's almost 40% when you add in taxes at the state level.
And in many cases, and many states, it's much higher than that.
In other words, we punish companies for making products in America, but let them ship products into the United States tax-free if they move overseas.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is backwards.
This is backwards.
All of our policies should be geared toward keeping jobs and wealth inside of the United States.
All right, second hour Sean Hannity Show.
Happy Friday, toll-free.
Our telephone numbers: 800-941-Sean, you want to be a part of the program speaking about jobs.
Now, look, you're hearing two distinct, very different visions for the country as it relates to the economy, as it relates to jobs, as it relates to energy, as it relates to coal, and drilling, and fracking, and nuclear technology, and the millions of jobs that could be created, for example, in that industry.
You know, identifying radical Islam or not identifying radical Islam, bringing in unvetted refugees, increasing it 550% or not doing that, building a wall or having open borders.
I mean, repealing Obamacare, replacing it or not, Supreme Court justices with fidelity to the Constitution or those that want to legislate from the bench.
There's so much at stake here, and that's why I get so frustrated with the establishment types.
Well, I can't weigh in on this election.
I can't support Trump.
I'm going to sit on the fence.
I don't want anyone thinking badly of me because he one time said something that was controversial.
Well, this is how bad it is.
You know, we have an update to last week.
Remember last week's unemployment rate?
They told you the government unchanged 4.9%, and we keep telling you that we're now at a 51-year low in terms of home ownership rates in this country.
We have the worst recovery since the 1940s, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, 12 million more people in poverty, 7 million more people, I'm sorry, 12 million more on food stamps, 7 million more in poverty.
Okay, so last week the government told you they created 250,000 jobs.
Well, if you look at the New York Post and their business analyst, John Crudell, he actually writes: the U.S. economy lost 1.03 million jobs in July.
The Labor Department and what they announced last year, last month, with a $255,000 job gain.
Well, the discrepancy is caused by so-called seasonal adjustments.
In other words, adjusting for seasonal oddities like teachers leaving the workforce en masse in the summertime and retail workers getting laid off in bunches after Christmas is, quote, normal and acceptable to economists.
But this time, the question is: were the seasonal adjustments applied fairly and consistently in July?
Well, it turns out that Obama's labor department was far more generous this year when converting its raw data.
So, in other words, the 1.03 million jobs that were actually lost into the seasonally adjusted number that everyone quotes as the new jobs number.
In other words, had the Labor Department used the same $1.22 million seasonally adjustment for the year like they used last year, well, it would have produced 65,000 fewer new jobs last month.
In other words, 190,000 versus 255,000.
So, in other words, you're lied to again and again and again.
Here with us, Herman Cain, Mr. 999 himself, at least I understood what 999 was.
Would have been better than the economic mess this guy created.
How are you, sir?
How are you doing, Sean?
Good.
What's going on?
Well, you know, people trying to compare Donald Trump's economic plan to Hillary Clinton's economic plan is like comparing apples and oranges.
And here's why: you know that Trump has some specifics in there about reducing the corporate tax rate, lowering the individual tax rates, reducing it from seven to three, removing regulations, putting a moratorium on new regulations, and saying that he was going to ask every federal department to provide a list of waste that we could eliminate.
That's a plan.
Hillary Clinton didn't give a plan.
Her whole set of scattered thoughts were about redistribution of income, more taxes, more regulations, and more free stuff.
That's all she talked about yesterday.
So that's where we are.
Well, I agree with that.
And, you know, what's bothering me is you have all these guys that ran for president.
For example, you made a run for the presidency.
And when you were running, at one point, you were even leading until the media smeared and slandered you.
But that's a different story.
We've discussed it before.
But didn't you make a promise?
Didn't the media and Republicans say, will you support the eventual nominee?
Didn't they ask you that?
Yes.
And didn't you keep your promise?
I'm the ultimate nominee.
And I was right to do that.
I supported Mitt Romney.
So did I.
And I doubt it.
I thought Mitt Mitt Romney would have been a good president.
I even met with Mitt Romney on several occasions and said, Mitt, you won.
Let me give you some thoughts that you might want to consider so you can win.
I wanted him to win.
Well, the sad part is Mitt Romney did not take any of the advice that I gave him.
Not that all of my advice is perfect.
He didn't do any of it because of his political supporters who were basically telling him to ignore what he says, you know, act like you're listening, but really don't do anything.
And that's one of the reasons he lost.
Yes, he lost because a lot of conservatives stayed home, but he also lost because he didn't take the one big piece of advice that I gave Mitt Romney that he didn't take, I said, you need to be bold relative to the economy.
That's what Donald Trump has done.
He's been bold.
Hillary Clinton isn't.
And so that's why Mitt Ryan did.
But I did not go around saying never mitt, never mitt.
No.
And I'm just as disgusted as you are about all of these so-called Republicans who are showing their true hypocrisy stripes by continuing to push back.
And every time they push back, Sean, and you know, and I know, and we've both been talking about this on our respective shows, that this is helping Hillary and hurting the Republican Party.
You know, I agree.
I mean, and I'm watching all of these people.
It seems like everybody's got their own little agenda here.
I think everyone filters their support through how does this make me look?
And I try and look at what's in the best interest of the country.
And for me, it's the issues I just said.
It's the Supreme Court.
It's refugees.
It's identifying the evil of our time.
It's immigration.
It's Obamacare.
It's energy.
You know, if we got those six issues fixed alone, it would make the country a dramatically better place than what it is now and stop the precipitous decline that America is now in.
I would like to see that happen.
You know, I went on a tweet storm the other day and this guy writes, well, who are you to tell us?
And I said, I'll tell you who I am.
I'm a guy that was an eight-year-old paperboy, a 12-year-old dishwasher, a 13-year-old cook, a 14- and 15-year-old busboy and waiter, a 17-year-old bartender, a guy that framed houses, painted houses, hung wallpaper, laid tile, did roofing, fell off a roof three stories, and a guy that was able to navigate slowly, very slowly, into a dream that I had, which was to be on radio, working for free for years and working for very little money for a lot of other years.
I said, that's who I am.
And I just happen to love my country, and I'm a patriot, and I don't like all the economic statistics I give out every day where so many Americans are suffering.
Wait, Shane.
Shane, why do you call me Shane every single time?
Shane.
My producer's name is Shane.
Yeah, Shane.
Okay.
Okay, Mr. Trump, what's going on?
What's up in your mind today?
I know you are Sean, but that's a natural mistake when I call Shane a name.
That's a natural mistake.
You do it all the time.
Every time you're on.
All right, Neil.
Whole purpose.
Boards, what's on your mind today?
Go ahead.
Don't get offended.
Look, what you say is exactly true.
And that is true of a lot of us.
My first job was shining shoes.
I have shined shoes.
I have been an assistant janitor.
My dad used to be a janitor for the Pillsbury Company.
I was his assistant at 12 years old.
That was a good job.
People don't know that you and I worked our way up because we kept working hard.
And see, here's the thing.
When Hillary and the Democrats come out to Donald Trump talking about, well, he's a billionaire, the tax cuts are going to help him.
And he's only interested.
That is bullfeathers.
And you know it.
He is one of 320 million people.
What about those people that are still struggling?
What about those businesses that are on the brink of bankruptcy and they need Donald Trump's tax cuts and reduction in regulations to help them survive?
What do you make of all these people that are panicking?
I mean, you got a poll out today that shows it's a one-point race.
You would think that this is not a winnable race.
And I just, that's all I know it to be.
There's so much that's going to happen.
There's so much game left to play here.
Yeah.
These polls, Sean, are manipulated.
I know that.
I have looked at some of these polls and I do what a lot of people don't do.
I read all the way to the end.
If they don't tell me how many people in the sample and what the distribution was between Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, I discount the poll.
And a lot of those polls that claim that Hillary had this great lead, they are not valid in terms of how they did the poll.
But they want these pollsters and the Democrats and the liberals, they want the public to believe that Hillary has such a great lead.
She's out in front because they don't want to talk about her dishonesty.
They don't want to talk about her lying.
They don't want to talk about her bad judgment.
They are trying to cover up for her.
And between you and I and a few other conservative talkers, we have to educate people.
And that's what you're doing a great job of.
And that's why I talk about this stuff every day.
You know, I talk about it too.
Are you getting as much fire as I'm getting when I point out what the differences are between Hillary and that, for example?
Let's say Hillary, God forbid, ever won this election.
I'm holding a lot of people responsible, Herman.
I'm saying that those fellow presidential candidates like Kasich and Jeb and Graham, and I love Ted Cruz, but I'm disappointed that he's not fulfilling his promise.
I know he was disappointed with Donald Trump.
So anyway.
That ran against Donald Trump, all of these never Trumpers, all of these anti-Trumpers, they will be responsible for Trump losing.
Period.
They are already trying to position themselves as, well, it's not our fault.
Yes, it is your fault.
It is your fault because rather than try to get our Republican nominee elected, flaws and all based upon your perception, let's basically prevent Hillary from appointing those liberal judges, running this country into the ground with more spending and higher taxes.
They are losing sight of the real objective here, Sean.
And I'm with you.
I'm totally disgusted with them, with them.
And I'm calling them out at every opportunity.
Yeah, I'm calling them out as well.
You know, it's just very interesting to me is that there's been real sabotage here and real damage done.
And it seems to me that the end game for a lot of these people is to be able to pat themselves on the back after they are saboteurs and say, and by the way, this isn't all of them.
I think some have some honest intellectual differences.
But I think for some, it's they want to be able to stick their finger in the face of every voter.
Every person, like, for example, like myself, I think I was very fair to every candidate in the course of this primary.
I didn't endorse anybody.
I said from March of 2015 at CPAC, I'd support the winner.
But they really, it seems like there's a real contempt that there is a rejection of the establishment.
There's a real contempt.
Every exit poll showed 65% of Republicans felt betrayed by their own party and disappointed by their own party.
So I just think that there's so many self-centered people here in all of this.
The people that are continuing to push back and make these last-ditch efforts to try and sabotage Donald Trump, who are slack, quote-unquote, conservatives and Republicans, one, is sour grapes.
And two, they think that they are the kingmakers.
If they don't buy into who ought to be president, they want to basically go against the will of the American people.
Donald Trump won for one very simple reason.
The voters, the conservative Republican voters said, this is who we want to be our candidate.
And they're also saying, this is who we want to be president of the United States of America.
These establishment people are pushing against the will of the people.
And the good news, Sean, is that the people are realizing the vast difference.
As long as this stuff goes on between the establishment folk and an outsider like Donald Trump, they are cheering for Donald Trump.
Somebody once said, Donald Trump is going to go to Washington, D.C. as president.
He's not just going to sit at the head of the table.
He's going to turn the table over.
That's what they are afraid of.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I think it's the table being turned over.
And if the table's not turned over, guess what?
America will continue its decline with the help of the Republican Party.
Weak, effectless, visionless, spineless, which is what they have been.
All right, Carmen, good to talk to you.
800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
Dan Bongino, our buddy from Florida, is going to join us.
He's up in an important race in a primary down there, as well as Gary Byrne, both former Secret Service agents.
And we're going to talk about did or is the Secret Service are they actually looking into Donald Trump over his Second Amendment comments.
All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
All right, we're not allowed to play the music anymore.
It's the only caller that had music that is now banned from the show.
Our buddy Tavares, we get an update on him.
Greenville, North Carolina.
Sir, how's the new job?
How are you doing?
Hey, the new job is great.
Insanity Hannity, that used to be your name, but now it's Crazy Shane.
Yeah, all right.
Thanks a lot.
All right, Herman II.
We really appreciate it.
Crazy Shane has been great.
Listen, ironically, my employer is a 60-year-old farmer who, while he was in the field doing the crops, as far as he was on Combine, and he used to listen to you a long time ago, he said.
And we were talking, and he said, and long story short, he came up that I was Tavaris.
He was like, no, that's you for real.
And that so happened that we talked about everything from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton to Black Lives Matter to the Klan to KKK to Black Panthers to everything in between, Sean.
And we opened each other's eyes on a lot of things.
He's an independent who's voting for, who's voting for Trump because he's tired of, he used to be a Republican.
He's tired of the Republican Party, he said.
But he said he's still holding his breath and he's voting for Trump.
You know what I mean?
But he asked me why I was voting for Hillary.
I said, because he's a white woman.
That's why I'm voting for Hillary.
Why else would she?
Am I supposed to laugh at that comment?
Was that supposed to be funny?
Yeah, it was supposed to be funny, Sean.
Listen, if you think, look, let me get serious with you for a minute.
Is this the new Shane Hannity?
Yeah, this is the new Shane Hannity.
All right.
Is this my favorite over-the-road truck driver here?
Is this my man?
Is this the guy?
Yeah, listen.
By the way, how much money do you think you can make in a year doing this new job?
Don't mind me.
Doing this new job, I can make at least $38,000 to $40,000.
And before, Sean, I was at maybe 24, 23.
So we basically have doubled your income.
And all it took was you getting a little bit of an opportunity and you making a pledge to me that you'd follow up and you'd finish your job and you'd do the school and you'd get it done.
And you did your part.
So we made a really good deal, didn't we?
I'm not done yet.
You know, I'm not done yet, man.
I'm going to improve on it and I'm going to pay it for it.
I have to.
I have to do this.
I'm hauling pigs.
I'm hauling pigs.
I work for a farmer hauling pigs.
Real live pigs you're hauling in your 18-wheelers?
Real live, 180 at a time on these beautiful North Carolina roads.
Hauling that swine.
I'm going to look out for you.
Yeah, you got to.
It smells great.
It smells great.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
I don't eat pork.
Let me tell you something.
If I went from a job that paid me and I'm now making twice as much or around twice as much as I was making, I'd be a happy American.
But you know what?
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm ecstatic.
I'm trying to get you.
I think you should be so happy.
You should say, Hannity, for you, I'm going to do it for you.
I'm voting Trump because I know that means that much to you.
I think you should say that.
I'm not going to make you.
I didn't probably do that.
But, Sean, he's like a crackhead that won't stop smoking his own crack.
Man, you can't.
Oh, okay.
But Hillary's a really good thing.
But Hillary's really honest.
Hillary's really honest.
She's really trustworthy.
She's really somebody that is, you know, somebody that you can really depend on and count on.
You're right.
You're right.
And the thing is, she is a liar.
She has been caught in her lies.
But why won't Trump let her wallow in her mess?
Why he keeps shooting himself in his foot?
You know what?
That's the playbook of a typical Republican keep shooting themselves in the foot.
Listen, I think there are times I gave my advice to Donald Trump publicly, and that is that I think he's got to focus on two.
I think he's got to focus on two people.
We've got a lot of game left to play.
I'm not buying into this notion he can't win.
What he's promising America versus what she's promising, to me, it's distinct.
It's discernible.
And if anybody wants Hillary to pick a Supreme Court justice, I'll blame all of you.
You know, it's funny, and I know that I've rattled the cages of these elites like the Bill Crystals and Jonah Goldberg's of the world and the guy at the Wall Street Journal, Stevens, Brett Stevens, or whatever his name is.
And I know that they want to blame me for all of this.
And they say, hey, I facilitated all of this.
You know, what they really are saying deep down here is they have contempt for the voting public, that they think the voting public.
If I had as much influence as these people say that I had, you got to agree because you've been with me for a long time.
Obama never would have been president, would he?
You know what happened?
The reason why Obama is president and has been president two terms is because Republicans didn't pivot and get everybody to vote for them.
They still at 10, 8, 1% black vote, 7% Hispanic.
It's like, it's a shame.
It's a shame.
It's come on.
And Sean, you can't drag Donald Trump across the line.
Your name has to be Jesus Christ in order for this man to have a come to Jesus meeting and take himself out of his own comments.
Back out, Donald, and let the Republicans help you help yourself get across the finish line.
Why are you sabotaging your own self?
I haven't seen anything like it, Sean.
What's going on?
For real.
Why are you giving Hillary?
Who are you going?
Well, look, you make a good point.
I understand your arguments and your points here.
Bottom line is: you've got the most corrupt, the most dishonest, the biggest liar that I think has ever run for that office, and that's saying a lot.
And you know what?
If America votes for it, then America will get what they will deserve.
And when Hillary makes a Supreme Court appointment, I guess fingers will be pointed all over the place.
But I'm going to blame the National Review guys, and I'm going to blame the Weekly Standard guys and the Wall Street Journal guys.
And I'm going to blame every Republican candidate that broke their word and said, oh, I can't vote for the winner, even though I said I'd vote for the winner.
So I'm going to blame them.
I'm going to blame them for their sabotage, for their inability to work with the candidate and try and get on the same page and try and win an election.
So that's who I'm blaming.
Anyway, appreciate it, Tavares.
Gave you a lot of time.
800-941 Sean on number.
Let's go to Sherry is in New Jersey, the all-new AM710WOR.
How are you?
Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
Good to talk to you again.
Happy Friday to you.
What's going on?
Listen, Trump, I've been the Trump supporter from day one, and I just, I'm just getting nervous.
And I need you to tell me to calm down.
Everything will be fine.
Just, you know, see, watching TV, I have Fox News on 24-7.
I see the polls, and it's really, I'm really getting nervous.
Should be nervous.
And you know what?
And if you're a Trump supporter, you should be acting as though you're behind.
You should be acting as though everything is on the line.
You should be acting as though there's a chance you can lose.
And you should use that sense of urgency to motivate you to get out there and help whatever way you can.
That's how I would say that.
He really wants this, right, Sean?
He really does want this, right?
Yes, I think he really wants this.
Yes, I believe that to be true.
100%.
Okay.
I hope so.
I hope so.
All right.
Listen, you're the best.
The Hasheri, I'm not going to say let not your heart be trouble.
I don't have a crystal ball.
I can't predict.
All I can do is read polls like you do, analyze them as best I can.
If I would have to guess today, my guess nationally is probably Trump is down by three as I look at the polls.
I think Hillary has had a little good run.
I think Trump has run into some bumpy road.
I think some adjustments need to be made.
I've talked about them at length.
I've done monologues both on radio and TV.
So that's my take, but it's certainly winnable.
I think America is going to have to see these two together on stage.
I think Hillary's going to be well prepared.
She's going to have all of her lines.
She's going to have all of her attacks.
And Donald Trump is going to have to sit there and she's going to do everything she can do to anger him and upset him and make him mad.
And if he reacts to that and plays into her narrative about temperament, then I think she'll win.
If he stays disciplined and stays on message and stays on the attack himself in a smart, witty, funny way, and he shows America that his vision is going to be better for the economy, better for national security, then he wins.
So, you know, there's still a lot of game left to play here.
I don't go with the day-by-day.
I warned you last year during the last two years, I've warned you about this.
You're going to have polls go up and down and all around, and Marco's up, and Cruz is up, and Kasich is up, and this person won this state, and that person won that state.
And all of a sudden, you know, the next day you're scared to death.
If you're a Trump supporter, you're heading into Wisconsin, Ted Cruz wins Wisconsin.
Wow, Ted Cruz is back in it.
Now Ted Cruz has to win Indiana, must win for Trump.
It's all part of the process, the ebb and flow of politics.
That's what makes it so fascinating and so fun to watch.
But at the end of the day, this isn't like a sporting event when the game is over, your team loses.
Ah, well, no big deal.
We'll get them next time.
We'll get them next year.
It's more significant because this impacts generations to come, especially with the Supreme Court.
Larry is in Hawaii.
Larry, hi, how are you?
And we're glad you called.
I'm doing well.
Thanks for taking the call.
I'm calling in response to the doctors that were on yesterday.
And also the prevailing attitude that I believe is constant deception in our society has become the norm.
I think that, without a doubt, the president is dishonest, and Hillary's dishonest at celebrated, but it's spreading into other professions.
The doctor you had on yesterday was dishonest.
And if you would indulge me for a minute, she was saying that Trump has personality disorders.
And the diagnostic criteria for personality disorder is pretty straightforward.
And I'm going to give you a couple and tell me who this applies to.
Failures to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
Trump or Clinton?
Deceitful, as indicated by repeated lying.
Clinton, I mean, is this supposed to be a trick question?
Definitely and aggressiveness.
Clinton.
Disregard for safeties of self and others.
All right.
So you're what kind of medicine do you practice?
Lack of remorse.
What kind of medicine do you practice?
I'm a surgeon.
You're a surgeon.
What kind of surgeon?
But people, I don't want to give out too much information because it's a small island and this crew is pretty vengeful.
And I could talk to you off the air.
But anyone who takes care of people, whether they're in law enforcement or hospital settings, knows personality disorders when they see them.
But now you got doctors who are saying things that are absolutely false.
Well, it's kind of hard when they're hiding all the information, but I got to move on.
Larry, appreciate it.
Thank you.
800-941.
Sean Wendy in Tennessee.
Wendy, hi, how are you?
Well, glad you called.
I'm great.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good.
Welcome to the show.
Well, I feel like the media makes Mr. Trump out to be this horrible person.
And I was, like you just said, in Tennessee, and he was in our area on Wednesday.
And I know some law enforcement officers that got to meet him.
And they said their opinion of him changed greatly.
He was very genuine, down to earth.
He was very friendly.
He talked to them just like they were like he was anyone else.
And he really wanted to hear what they had to say.
He shook their hands.
He took pictures.
And they really felt like he cared.
And he cared about the law enforcement community.
And I really feel like he really wants to make America great again.
Well, I think if you applied the promises as he has been discussing them to the country, I think they solve a lot of our problems.
And in the sense that what Hillary is offering versus what Trump is offering, and that to me is what I'm looking at here.
We know what we're going to get with Hillary.
You can't expect things to change the definition of insanity as you do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
Well, Hillary will do what Obama has done.
And if you expect a different result, then that is the definition of insanity.
And that's what infuriates me somewhat about all of these guys on the right that consider themselves the great intellectual powerhouses of the conservative movement, and they are not.
And, you know, many of them have interventionist needs and desires, have learned nothing from what happened in Iraq and Vietnam and all these young men are national treasure.
They fight, bleed, and die, and then we give up because these wars get politicized.
They don't seem to learn or, you know, a lot of them want to cater to big business and cheap labor, and that's why they don't want to build the wall.
A lot of them have their own other selfish motivations as it relates to things.
And what they have been trying and the people that they have sent to us as president in the past, they have not worked.
Mitt Romney didn't win.
Bob Dole didn't win.
John McCain didn't win.
And now they're taking their toys and they're going home and they're being crybabies.
And anybody that is supporting a more populist nationalist like Donald Trump, who's making very specific conservative promises, is somehow the Antichrist.
And we're responsible.
And the people are stupid because the people didn't listen to them.
That's the only reason that they think we're stupid.
So anyway, appreciate the call.
800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Dan Bongino, Gary Byrne, two Secret Service guys.
Turns out the Secret Service is not investigating, as CNN reported, Donald Trump over his remarks about Hillary and the Second Amendment.
That was a lie.
That was more media bias.
We'll get to that when we get back.
You're running for office in Florida.
You're running for Congress.
So do you support this kind of language, this kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump as someone who's running for elected office?
Don, what kind of language trying to motivate me?
Just answer the question.
Do you support what Donald Trump said today?
That was an answer to the question.
Support people ought to vote for Donald Trump.
You support what he said today.
Don, people who believe the Second Amendment should absolutely vote against the gun grabber, Hillary Clinton, 100%.
And whatever you need to say within the realm of reason to motivate people to get out and vote.
Yes, you should do that because you will lose yourself.
First of all, that's a talking point to call someone a gun grabber.
No one is trying to take your guns.
That is a talking point.
Don, you're captain talking point.
You're like captain talking point, and then you throw it back at me.
You're insulting me.
What's my talking point?
Tell me what my talking point is, Dan.
You came into this and you said, listen, this is pretty clear.
Donald Trump was implying some kind of a violent act against Mrs. Clinton.
How is that a talking point?
Do you know what a talking point is?
A talking point is when you are a political operative and you go on television every single day and you say the same thing over and over and over, whether it's wrong or not.
Because you have been fed something by the Holy Spirit.
I've never said this over and over.
You're actually the first person to ask me about it.
So I've never said this over and over.
That's not a talking point.
You asked me a question, I gave you an answer.
It's clear to me.
And Jeffrey, again, I appreciate your comments, but I disagree with you completely on this.
When you take the totality of circumstances, it was not a guy in a bar making these comments.
It was a presidential candidate giving a speech where he was talking about the Second Amendment.
This isn't even close to the Secret Service would laugh this off if you brought this in their office.
All right, news roundup and information overload hour.
That's our buddy Dan Bongino fighting it out over at CNN.
And by the way, headline on Drudge for a big part of the day is how CNN is losing their viewership because they've gone so hard pro-Hillary Clinton.
And of course, my buddy Dan Bongino is running for Congress down in southwest Florida in the Fort Myers and Naples region.
That's Connie Max Hold seat.
And I have endorsed him for that position as I have a condo down there.
How are you, sir?
Hey, great, Sean.
Thanks for having me.
Appreciate it.
What's going on?
Tell me about that exchange.
I mean, I thought you got the better of it.
I mean, but you can just see how hostile these news media people are.
I know you've been dealing with this for a while, given the popularity of your show, these lefty-e-hacks.
But what they do, Sean, is they come into an interview like that with a pre-existing narrative, or what Lemon ironically referred to as a talking point in their head.
The talking point about Donald Trump's Second Amendment comments, if you're a hard leftist or mainstream media type, but I just said the same thing twice, right?
The talking point is Donald Trump was implying that violence against Hillary Clinton is okay.
Now, Sean, having been a Secret Service agent for 12 years, if you actually listen to the speech he gave, not only is there not even a threat, there's not even an implied threat.
But the irony of that is that Lemon, Don Lemon, feels the need to go after me.
I'm not a Trump surrogate, Sean, at all.
I've never spoken to the Trump campaign ever.
I've never met Donald Trump.
I have nothing to do with the Trump campaign.
But what I do have something to do with this conservatism, and I'm tired of media hacks, you know, dictating what the average, reasonable American should think.
And the average, reasonable American should have come out of that and said, okay, Donald Trump's trying to motivate Second Amendment voters.
Not Donald Trump was implying violence is okay.
It's just ridiculous.
Well, I think it's ridiculous, too.
And, you know, look, you know, then there was a report all over CNN that they got wrong, that the Secret Service had questioned them.
By the way, also with us is Gary Byrne.
He's the decorated White House Secret Service veteran.
He was there for the eight years that the Clintons were in the White House right outside the Oval Office door.
Now, both of you are in the Secret Service.
Do you see this as any threat?
And wouldn't the Secret Service, if they thought it was in threat in any way, wouldn't they have questioned Donald Trump?
Yeah, they would have.
And I do not see it as a threat.
I agree with Dan 100%.
I actually watched an interview this morning, again, just to make sure.
And first of all, Danny did a great job.
I see why you're running for Congress, and I wish you the best of luck.
And two, this is just, Dan said it's exactly right.
This is just the left already pre-set up when they got there.
And it's funny because, you know, they had David Gergen there, who was supposed to be, you know, everybody always says he's somebody in the middle and both sides respect him.
He is 100% a Clinton supporter.
Don't let him fool you.
I've been following him for years.
And the ideal that what Donald Trump said was anything other than motivational speech for people to go out and protect their Second Amendment rights, if anybody thinks anything else, they're completely wrong.
And they're just playing into this notion that there's something functionally wrong with Donald Trump and there's not.
It's just the way he speaks.
He's learning to be a politician.
Well, I think that's obvious.
I mean, yeah.
And you know what?
I also played all these comments of people like John Kerry and other people over the years and all the things they've said.
Sure.
You know, in the case of John Kerry, he's talking about going to the White House and taking out the key guy, which is George W. Bush.
Right.
Nothing happened with him.
You remember when Dan Quayle was president, people making comments.
If you ever hear Bush dies, they have the Secret Service says orders, shoot Quayle.
Yeah.
I was there when that happened, and I was appalled by it at the time because I was in the Secret Service.
And I, you know, I protected Dan Quayle, and I thought he was a pleasant guy.
And, you know, but nobody lashed out at the congressman who said that.
You know, he got to apologize, and that was it.
But because Donald Trump's running for president and the mainstream media, which, Dan, you said it best, is also the left, you know, they do everything they can to make him look bad.
I'm telling you, if Donald Trump cured cancer tomorrow, they criticize him because it took him three days.
Yeah.
You know, Hillary's lie, by the way, about Bosnia.
Remember when she made the lie?
Wasn't that an attack on the Secret Service?
Because if she landed under sniper fire, wouldn't that have been the Secret Service that failed her?
Yeah, absolutely.
And the military.
I mean, you know, Dan can talk to this a little bit better than I can because he was actually an agent where I was a uniform division officer.
But, yeah, they, Dan and myself, I'm sure, not that I can speak for Dan, but anybody that was ever in the Secret Service, when they heard that story, they rolled on the floor laughing.
There's no way that could have happened without everybody knowing about it and being a big deal.
Right.
Sean, I'm so glad you asked this question because you're really one of the few guys who brought that up.
Like, gosh, if that happened, wouldn't there have been an after-action report in the Secret Service or what they call in the military like a hot wash or something?
Exactly.
So there was a protectee who was, there was a potential assassination attempt by snipers and nobody heard about it?
Right.
I mean, what a slap in the face to the U.S. Secret Service.
Let me play this because, I mean, this was such a lie.
I mean, you know, there's so many lies when it comes to Hillary.
You got the Benghazi lies, which are dramatic because they impact the lives of four Americans and their families.
They're dead.
Their families will never see their loved ones again.
And at this point, what difference does it make in her mind?
But, of course, they denied security before.
They denied security during the attack.
They were more concerned about what uniforms that our brave men and women that were going to be part of the rescue would be wearing.
And then after, of course, just lying right to the faces of the family.
And you got all the Comey confirmed lies on the email server scandal.
And now you've got this lie.
I think this is probably one of the, if not the biggest lies she's ever told.
I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia.
And I remember landing under sniper fire.
There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.
I remember landing under sniper.
No, wait, that's what I said when I was sleep deprived.
You can read my book and I said something very different.
Yeah, I misspoke.
It was totally, I was totally misspoke.
You know, I've talked about this endlessly.
I wrote about it, and I don't know what I was thinking because, yeah, we were told that we had to land under some threats, and the military did a great job.
I was the first first lady taken to a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt.
But that was just sleep deprivation or something.
Yeah, imagine Donald Trump said, oh, I landed under sniper fire, and he didn't land under sniper fire, Dan Bongino.
Yeah, and Sean, there's another doozy here that people forget that Gary would know intimately, haven't been in the uniform division.
Do you remember when we had the government shut down, the Barack Obama shutdown, because he wouldn't sign the budget?
And who did he blame for the White House tours being shut down?
He blamed the Secret Service, which Gary, you know, having been involved in Uniform Division.
The Secret Service Uniform Division doesn't shut down White House tours.
Those people assigned to tours are there no matter what.
But again, it was appalling.
And you're right.
I was in tours for almost three years, and we did tours for everybody.
We never denied anybody.
That was pure political theater.
They do best.
All right.
So tell me a little bit about your race.
How's that going, Dan Bongino?
It's going great.
I know you know the area well, Sean, having your place down here.
It's tough, though.
I'm fighting a, I mean, as inside baseball and establishmentarian as you can get.
He's knocking us on the air with about $100,000 plus, you know, in negative ads a week.
And it's tough, but I feel really good.
The conservatives, the libertarians, the constitutionalists are coalescing behind the race.
I think we're going to pull it out.
The primary is August 30th.
Absentee ballots are already in the mail or vote by mail as we call it down here.
So I feel good about it, but it's tough.
This guy's got a lot of money, and he'll stop at nothing to try and kneecap me in this race.
And I fight back, though.
Yeah, no, you fight back hard.
All right, let me go back to this whole issue because this is where you got in the fight with CNN and play the montage of liberals saying the things that they say.
Talk to your neighbors.
I want you to talk to them whether they're independent or whether they are Republican.
I want you to argue with them and get in their faith.
We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know who's asked to kick.
We've got to punish our enemies, and we're going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.
I might have to put Mr. Burgess on Fox News.
I'll put Mr. Burgess up against Sean Hannity.
He'll tear him up.
My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June.
Right?
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.
You know, I just, I don't understand it.
We ran away to a wonderful retreat in Vermont, and that was our getaway.
You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.
Could have gone to 60 United Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.
My friends, a lot of average citizens out there don't understand the importance of that court.
I mean, the death of Scalia saved labor.
And I don't wish anyone ill.
It happened in a good time.
Am I right to perceive that you enjoy fighting with Donald Trump?
No.
No, you're absolutely wrong about that.
I wish Donald Trump would just disappear.
Donald Trump would be a danger to the United States.
This man should never be allowed to come within miles of the White House.
I guarantee you, Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that, Malarkey.
Don't buy that, Malarkey.
They're going to start peddling that to you.
I got two.
If he tries to fool my Beretta, he's got a problem.
Wow.
Gary Byrne, your reaction to that.
Yeah, basically, Sean, that's part of the thrust of my book that I wrote, Crisis of Character.
There's two standards.
They can say whatever they want anytime they want.
You let a conservative say something like that, and they go right off the deep end.
The crazy stuff that the vice president has said over the years about taking your shotgun and walking out to your back porch and shooting a couple rounds if you hear somebody in your backyard.
Come on.
That's worse than anything I've heard Mr. Trump say.
And so, yeah, it just goes back to there's two standards.
The standards for liberals or for the Clintons and the standards for everybody else.
Yeah, you know, it's funny because I know you were there with her eight years and you're trying to tell the story.
What has happened to you?
Because we're talking a lot about the media bias here.
So you tell a story.
You were outside the Oval Office for eight years.
Hillary Clinton, you explained, is a phony.
Here she, when she has big donors or guests, oh, Gary's my favorite Secret Service guy ever.
And then how does she treat you behind the scenes?
How does she treat the rest of the Secret Service staff?
She treats them terribly.
She's had some of her staff, like I said, talked about before, they were terrified, Sean, to tell her that they made a mistake.
And of course, I've talked about the story that the agent I used to work with years ago, where she punched him in the back of the head with a Bible.
And then, you know, she berated me because, and this is the important part of this story is that, you know, Mrs. Clinton is one of these people that wants this huge government programs, expansion of everything.
But she does never, she never wants to follow the guidelines and rules herself.
And one example is her berating me in front of the Oval Office because she can't leave 30 people inside the Oval Office unescorted when the president's not there.
And those are the, you know, those are rules and national security rules based on national security law.
But they're not for her because she's special.
And, you know, it's one of many things that I talk about in my book.
But, yeah, it's two standards.
They never want to do what the rules are.
They just want to do whatever they want to do.
She's like a dictator.
And I experienced many of those things my time there.
Yeah, and Dan, you have explained it many times.
I'll tell you something on this topic.
Yeah, real quick because we've got to go.
Yeah, Gary's a credible guy.
Any of these former agents who are saying he's not are totally full of it.
What he says in that, you may not agree with his book, but he is absolutely 100% credible on this.
I can vouch for it.
Let me ask you this.
So your campaign, I understand they're coming after you because you're anti-establishment, although I think that district needs an anti-establishment congressman.
How are things at the race?
And how can people, if they're down in Southwest Florida listening to Fox 92.5, how can they help you?
Yeah, they can go to Bongino, B-O-N-G-I-N-O.com.
And yeah, I appreciate it, Sean.
We need some more arson.
It set some darn fires for conservatism.
We need to stop it.
Gary, we're going to have to get you to run next.
Yeah, all right.
So Dan Bongino, all my Fox News Radio 92.5 friends out down in Fort Myers in Naples.
Dan Bongino is when is this primary?
August 30th, but votes are in the mail right now.
Vote by mail.
People have their ballots in the House if they requested a vote by mail.
All right.
Thanks so much, Dan Bongino.
And, of course, Gary Byrne.
Let's get to our busy, busy telephones here.
Let's go to Stewart in Missouri.
Stewart, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
Hey, I'm just going to work.
I can't speak to the world of the public because you have that media, and I appreciate you for doing that.
But those people who are never Trumpers, they need to get in behind the Republican candidate.
He won, the people who've spoken.
The people that are there, the elitist, we sent them to Washington to do a job, and they are supposed to represent us, the people.
We, the people, have spoken.
We've said Donald Trump needs to be where he's at, either to get on or get out.
That's the way it is.
They do their job, represent the people that sent them there.
The people that have spoken and said that Donald Trump deserves a shot to get it done, or they could just pack their bags and go back home.
That's just the way it should be.
I do think there's a certain elitism, a certain arrogance among these people.
Not all of them.
Now, look, I have friends that are principal people that absolutely positively just see things differently than me.
Good friends of mine.
I respect where they are coming from.
But that's, you know, all these years, all of these rhinos that have been rammed down our throat by these very same loser establishment types, now they're mad at the American people.
Well, the American people and Republicans in particular, 65% of them are angry.
And they're angry and they feel betrayed.
And they feel betrayed for good reason.
They feel betrayed because they were made promises by Republicans that were never fulfilled.
If Republicans had no intention of fulfilling the promises, they shouldn't have made the promises in the first place.
And it goes from everything to controlling spending and the power of the purse, which they promised if they got control of Congress back.
It goes to defunding Obamacare, the aspects that they were capable of doing and they didn't.
It goes to the 2014 stopping what they said was illegal, unconstitutional, executive amnesty.
It's also literally taking their enumerated powers in the Constitution and ceding them to the legislative branch because it's too inconvenient for them to stand up and take a risk for the principles they say that they adhere to, and they wouldn't do that either.
So the American people, the Republicans in particular, have made a course correction.
I don't think they made a bad decision.
I think they made the right decision.
As I look back and I look at all the other 16 candidates that are in this race that are running, I don't know anyone that would do any better than Donald Trump.
Now, unfortunately, you don't have the option of saying, well, if this person won, this person would have won the election.
You just, you don't have that luxury.
So Donald Trump is the nominee of the Republican voter, not of the Republican establishment.
The voters didn't listen to National Review.
They didn't listen to the Wall Street Journal.
They didn't listen to Bill Crystal and the Weekly Standard.
They listened to their own gut and their own heart.
And they made a decision that was made in part by how badly Republicans have done.
And I think they're saying, you know what?
We are losing jobs.
You know what?
Manufacturing is declining.
You know what?
It's stupid we're not energy independent.
You know what?
There is a lot of Republicans out there that want open borders because their big buddies, their financial buddies, are benefiting from cheap labor, and they're not considering the American worker that's getting screwed.
So I think in that sense, they've paid that price.
So we'll see what happens.
Appreciate you, Sean.
All right, my friend.
God bless you.
Hey, my good friend Catherine Prudhome O'Brien is with us.
You may remember years ago.
When did I first have you on?
I don't even remember all the controversies.
You were at a town hall, and what was the first question you asked the first time I interviewed you?
Okay, I asked Al Gore if he believed Juanita Broderick.
That was back in 99.
Wow.
And that was the first time.
And he didn't answer the question, did he?
No, he answered it as if I had asked about consensual relationships.
And I was very polite and just sat down and said thank you.
But since then, I've realized that's soon after that, that's a strategy that's being used, that they only answer questions about sexual assault by Bill Clinton as if you're asking about consensual relationships.
Yeah, I mean, it's amazing that, you know, has Hillary been asked that question?
I mean, the woman that said women who are assaulted have a right to be believed.
Well, I did try to ask her that in January.
And I asked her a few times prior to that, and she told me she doesn't know.
Let me play it because we have that audio.
Let's put it up for people.
Let's start with the questions, and I'll try to get as many in.
Just to just, well, I'm going to call on people.
I'm going to wait a minute.
I'm not going to take your question because other people have been raped.
Yes, go right there.
Okay, let me see.
Right back there, this man right there.
Here we go, right there.
You are very rude, and I'm not going to ever call on you.
Thank you.
I asked her how in the world she can say that Juanita Roderick and Kathleen Willie are lying when she has no idea who Juanita Roderick is because she told me this summer that she doesn't know who she is and she doesn't want to know who she is.
And how can she assess that they're lying, which is what she told someone last month.
And she says, she says that she says that rape victims should be believed.
I agree with her.
That's true.
They should be believed and you should assess what they're saying.
She doesn't even want to assess it.
Why doesn't she matter to you?
Because I'm a rape survivor myself.
Of course it would matter to me.
And as a state representative, I have constituents who tell me that they're drug addicts because they were sexually assaulted and what they did.
How would I not care about that?
You're a Republican, though.
Coming here to question her, though.
Coming here to question her at an event, putting her on the spot like that makes her look not in a perfect light.
Is that your goal?
Was your goal to make her look sexy?
I became a Republican because of this.
Understandable.
Because of this stuff.
Because of what I saw happen in the Clinton years, that this was the hypocrisy of the so-called women that fight for women.
It was the height of hypocrisy.
Anyway, Catherine, I mean, I've always admired your courage, and that actually, you know, vaulted you into a political career yourself.
And how many years were you a state representative?
Well, I'm in my second year, and I'm running for reelection, so that's coming up the primaries of secondary.
Well, if it doesn't hurt you, I endorse you because I love your courage.
You know, what is your take on this whole Donald Trump establishment?
You've got all the NRO guys, the Weekly Standard guys, the Wall Street Journal guys, but yet more voters in the Republican Party, the 65% that feel betrayed, they're out there.
They wanted him to be their nominee, but now you've got not only the elite, arrogant, you know, I guess, intellectual class as they consider themselves, but then you've got the politicians as well that they are undermining and sabotaging as best they can.
What's your take on it?
I think that's not a good strategy for the Republicans.
It's left too many people feeling like they don't have a voice.
And that's part of why I ran, was I had so many friends and family that were frustrated feeling like Republicans were not hearing them.
And the only thing I could say was, okay, I'll try.
I'll try.
Okay, you know what?
I'll run.
So the Republican elites really have nowhere to turn if they're looking for blame other than the mirror.
Well, I agree with that.
And you know what?
If Hillary wins and Hillary picks the Supreme Court nominee, guess what?
I'm blaming them.
I'm blaming their sabotage.
I'm blaming them looking out only for their own self-interest.
I'm blaming them for insisting every single election we keep doing the same dumb thing, which is lose with an establishment candidate that is weak and timid and politically correct and afraid.
And to me, there's so much, there's such an incestuous atmosphere that goes on in Washington.
People do not grasp this.
That you have, I mean, you've got the campaigns, then you've got the campaign staffers, then you've got the congressman, then you've got the congressional staffers, then you've got the media.
And they all go out and they all hang out together and they all go to dinner together and they all go drinking together and they all do favors for each other.
And they all say, you do this for me and I'll do this for you.
And in the meantime, there's this whole rest of the country that is out of work, in poverty, out of the labor force, on food stamps, not being able to buy a house, not engaged in any sort of recovery, and nobody cares about them.
Well, I care about them.
I don't care about these people.
There's a lot of people with no voice.
I think that's well said.
And Sean, I really wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you talking about Kathy Shelton, the woman whose Hillary defended the man who raped her.
And bragged about it.
That was chilling.
She bragged and laughed.
She knew the man was guilty, and the way she defended him anyway, even though she knew he was guilty, was abominable.
And she was, you know, I just can't believe it.
I don't know why this is not a larger story than it is.
She probably passed the lie detector test and it forever killed my faith in lie detector tests, meaning she knew he was guilty.
Yes, and a guy that raped a 12-year-old little girl.
So the things that she said about the woman as well, that the woman was fantasizing, that she was from a disorganized family and tended to make things up, or whatever.
People who came from divorced families, who were children of divorced families, should be insulted by that.
And it sounds to me like Hillary would just say anything possible to get her clients off.
I talked about it.
She clearly didn't have a problem ethically or morally in getting off a guy that she believed was guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl.
But listen, she's still a champion of women's rights.
She's still known Mitt Romney who had binders of women's resumes, that's for sure.
Anyway, Catherine, appreciate it.
Thank you.
Good to talk to you as always.
Nick in Vegas, and he's on K-Dawn Radio.
What's up, Nick?
How are you, sir?
Hello, Sean.
Thank you for what you do.
Really quick, as a former refugee, I like to extend my support to Mr. Trump's policy for a temporary ban on refugees coming from the states that harbor terrorism and cannot be vetted.
Not only I don't find it to be racist, I find it to be an American obligation by our leaders.
In my opinion, Sean, refugee is someone who wants to be refuged either from religious or political persecution.
My heart and soul and sympathy, Nick, goes out to you're an Iranian refugee.
And, you know, it broke my heart back in 2009 where I thought President Obama abandoned the green movement there and young people that were risking their lives and taking to the streets.
And all they were doing was quoting Lincoln and Washington and our framers and founders, and they got no support.
You do understand, for example, and I have sympathy for the Syrians.
I have sympathy for those caught up in a civil war.
I'm all in favor of providing a safe zone for them where American military and other coalition members can protect these families that have been pushed out of their home by ISIS and are being slaughtered.
And that means Christians and Muslims, anybody else.
And remember, some people are taught to hate America, but my point to you is this.
But if we can't vet those people coming here, and our top intelligence officials say that, in fact, ISIS and terrorists will infiltrate the refugee population, we can't risk American lives.
You understand that?
Sean, absolutely.
And this is nothing new.
I escaped from Iran at a very young age, 30 years ago.
I must say I came to my beloved USA legally with the support of U.S. Embassy.
Soon after the revolution, my sister was kidnapped by Hezbollah.
They broke into her home, beat up my brother-in-law, and took her away.
We didn't know where she was for six months.
She had a one-month-old baby.
My father was fired, and his assets were seized unless he converted to Islam.
He chose not to.
They used to call my dad every Friday now and then, and they would say, we just executed your daughter.
Come and take her body.
My dad, all frantic and crying, going there, and they would say, ha ha ha, we haven't killed her yet.
Come back next week.
My father got sick.
He needed medical attention outside the U.S.
They refused to issue passports unless he converted to Islam.
Once again, this great man chose not to.
They didn't even let my dad to be buried.
My mother had to wash and clean his body at the apartment and bury him in a desert while I was in USA.
You see, Sean, I can go on and on and on about the education that was denied to me, my soccer dreams that were shattered, my cousin who was on the national team of weightlifting that was kicked out of the national team, Olympic medalist, for not converting to Islam.
When I hear folks like Mr. Khan share their view from a narrow lens, I want my fellow Americans to know, Sean, religious persecution by Islamic states is nothing new to me.
Maybe to some Americans, but not to me.
I was a young Democrat, okay, in my early years here in the U.S. Surprise, surprise, right?
Because Republicans couldn't get to me.
Shame on them, too.
Because like many, I was delivered and given some wrong information that pretty much was deceived and manipulated.
But my father, Sean, you know what?
He had taught me a good lesson that I have to do my own research.
That's why I've been a conservative for the past 16 years.
I have been and I will always be because I've seen how manipulative these people can be.
So this ideology that Mr. Khan says, oh, there is no such a thing as Sharia or this or that.
I have a lot of Muslim friends.
I have Muslim friends, Sean.
As you know, many of them have submitted themselves to the United States Constitution.
There is a direct conflict between Sharia and Constitution.
I'm not sure if that's a problem.
It's a direct cultural conflict.
It's a very bad that people are being discussed.
There's no reconciling Sharia with the United States Constitution, which is our rule of law.
Listen, thank you for sharing your story, and I hope people heard you.
I wish I had more time because I could listen to your story for the rest of the day, and I do appreciate you sharing it with everybody.
