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One Sean, if you want to be a part of this extravaganza this Friday program, what a week politically this has been.
And you know what's funny?
Um, towards the end of last week, I was getting a lot of feedback from a lot of friends.
Oh, Trump has blown it.
Oh, it's over.
Oh, this is horrible.
Uh Hannity, why didn't you get him to shut up?
Tell him to be quiet, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that sort of thing.
I would argue that this week, we have 81 days now till the general election has been a game changer.
I'm not saying that Donald Trump is going to win.
I'm looking at the polls.
Yes, they have tightened considerably this week, even the real clear politics average.
I think it started out at seven this week, it's now down to five.
We've had one poll come out, a point six percent race with the LA Times.
You got uh Clinton plus two and Rasmussen and Zogby, uh a Pew poll was four points.
But that's not what I think has changed.
That's not uh I, as I said to Nate Silver, who just told a lie about me, I actually believe the polls, and I think you gotta pay attention to them.
But I look at this week, and you know, maybe it's because I actually think that you have to give Trump some slack.
Um, and hear me out.
I know you never Trumper people are going nuts here.
When you really think about it, it's only been a little over a year that this guy has been in the political arena.
And this is not a guy that's used to biting his tongue.
This is not a guy that is used to prepared remarks.
This is a guy that is used to, you know, literally, you know, pulling that out of his, you know what, every day and just saying what is on his mind and not being inhibited.
And the political world, especially with the scrutiny of a liberal media, the the biggest contributors to Hillary Clinton's campaign, it becomes a a very difficult, in some ways, almost an insurmountable task for anybody to overcome that cabal of people that are trying to undermine you every step of the way.
Now, I know Paul Manafort stepped aside today.
From what I understand, though, he's still going to be working with the campaign.
Uh Kelly Ann will be on with us, the campaign manager.
We know Steve Bannham from Breitbart, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com is he's now working with the campaign.
And, you know, to what extent, who's responsible?
I don't I don't care who gets the credit for anything, to be perfectly blunt with you.
I just don't care.
I just I would like to see this become a race about significant issues that I talk about with you every day.
This is a choice election.
I've interviewed Trump to know that at least I believe, and if he doesn't keep his promises, I'll hold him accountable.
But I believe that he will appoint justices like he gave us a list of.
I do believe he's serious.
I think Jeb Bush is wrong.
Jeb Bush was on an interview saying he's never gonna build that wall.
I I disagree.
It is a signature promise that Trump is making.
And I think he's gonna do everything in his power to get that wall built.
I think that's better for the country.
I think his policy on vetting refugees is far superior to Hillary Clinton's, which is to ignore, you know, Clapper Comey, Steinbeck, Mike McCall, Brennan, and General John Allen and their admonitions and warnings that in fact ISIS will infiltrate that refugee population.
I think Clinton's tax increases are gonna result in in a continuation of this horrible economy.
I think Clinton's spending increases is just a duplication of the failed stimulus and son of stimulus and grandson of stimulus that Obama tried, and it's not gonna work.
I think replacing Obamacare, especially in light of Aetna this week, United two months ago, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, you know, there is no Obamacare.
It's it's falling of its own weight.
The average Americans seeing a 4100 increase in their premiums in the course of Obama's presidency.
I I actually want a president that can say radical Islam and somebody that believes in our second amendment rights.
There are significant, deeply significant issues that are in play here.
Now I think that there's certain things that can be learned from this week, and I'm I'm just putting on my analyst hat here.
And if you want to think or understand and duplicate, I would argue, a good week or a great week in a campaign, you've got to say, all right, well, what worked?
What made us so successful this week?
And I think it's it's kind of simple in a lot of ways and profound in a lot of ways.
And I think that if Donald Trump does this for the next 81 days, that the odds are pretty good that he's going to be very competitive come election day.
I mean, right now it's all about winning every single day.
It's not just about it, it's about winning weeks, it's about winning days.
Donald Trump made a decision.
I talked to somebody high up in the campaign that had talked to him yesterday.
And apparently Donald Trump watching the flooding in Louisiana, there's about a hundred thousand people down in Louisiana now that have been displaced and it's getting worse every day.
And Barack Obama, well, he's out on the golf course for the four thousandth time and couldn't be bothered going to help out the people of Louisiana that now are losing their homes.
There's 13 people that have died.
There's apparently the major need for food and supplies and water, and so Trump went down with Pence earlier today, and apparently he said to uh somebody that quoted it to me, he's watching the TV and he'd like just in disgust said he's fed up watching this day in and day out in coffins floating down the street, and not a single person from our government is lifting a finger to help these people, and he said, you know, the hell with it.
He and he told everybody to rearrange the schedule and go.
And that's what he did.
And by the way, I mean, this is a very different Barack Obama that was so critical of George W. Bush during Katrina, you may remember when he said this.
Because when the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there.
When people looked up from the rooftops for too long, they saw an empty sky.
When the winds blew and the floodwaters came, we learned that for all of our wealth and our power, something wasn't right with America.
We can talk about what happened for a few days in 2005, and we should.
We can talk about levies that couldn't hold, about a FEMA that seemed not just incompetent, but paralyzed and powerless about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground trying to provide comfort and aid.
We we can talk about a trust that was broken.
The promise that our government will be prepared, will protect us, and we'll respond in a catastrophe.
Uh what happened to that guy?
Well, he's been too busy playing golf.
I mean, Hillary Clinton is now redefined, I mean, really put a definition to what it means to phone it in by calling the governor.
That's the extent she's taking the weekend off.
It's not like she has anything planned.
The only reason you'll see Obama and Clinton down there now is because they've been embarrassed by Trump for not doing their job.
I mean, drive, you know, literally Trump has been driving through all these neighborhoods, meeting with people, and he told the media to stay away.
We actually asked to send a camera.
They said, Nope.
We're not doing media.
This is not a media event.
We're inviting nobody, we're taking nobody.
There was no usually there's a media plane that flies to the exact location where the candidate's going, and flies ahead of the candidate.
That's not happening in this case.
In some cases, the the campaigns actually let the media on their plane.
And then I guess they pay the equivalent of a first class ticket or whatever.
Anyway, he's you know, there's Donald Trump unloading supplies from a truck, thanking first responders, shaking people's hands.
You know, we knew you'd be here, somebody shouted out from the crowd today.
So, you know, I'm looking at this week.
What has made this week so successful for Trump?
Because I think there's certain things that can be duplicated.
And I think one of the things that he has done very successfully this week is that he's not gotten distracted.
He's not talking about Judge Curio.
He's not talking about Mr. Conn.
He's not talking about the New York Times.
In other words, and I've been saying this for weeks, I think the only people he should ever mention is Obama and Hillary and only talk about them and their failures and nobody else.
I also love the idea.
I mean, I look, I love unscripted speeches.
I give them all the time.
But the fact of the matter is the stakes are so high.
There's so much in play here that there's not a lot of room for error, especially when you have a group of people sitting in wait hoping that you say that one thing that they're going to be able to run with and distract your campaign for four or five days.
In other words, the media is the biggest campaign contributor to the Trump campaign.
That means the New York Times.
That means CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN is the worst of them all.
And then you've got, you know, MSNBC, which nobody really watches.
Uh, so it doesn't really, they're somewhat insignificant.
So I love the idea.
Yeah, he is on message discipline.
He's doing teleprompter speeches.
He did three of them this week.
He did one on protecting the homeland, ISIS, and defeating radical Islam.
I said on what, he gave that on Monday, and I thought that was the best speech he had given.
And then on Tuesday, he spoke outside of Milwaukee in light of, again, that was somewhat impromptu.
Rudy Giuliani said that speech was written in about eight hours, and that Trump had a hand in writing almost all of it himself.
And that, you know, he felt the need to speak out about all that has happened, and he talked about, well, Obama doesn't talk about the 3,500 dead in Chicago, and here's what's happened to the black community in America under liberal policies and liberal cities.
They have been decimated.
You know, these are statistics I give out on a regular basis since Obama's been president, a 58% increase, black Americans on food stamps.
Since he's been president, a 20% increase, black Americans out of the labor force.
Okay.
Liberal policies, I know black Americans tend to vote demographically for the Democrats.
Well, what has Obama and Hillary's policies done for you?
Nothing.
The world's less safe and the economy is disastrous.
And he spoke specifically about how immigration hurts disproportionately the black community.
And he talked about how a failed educational system has disproportionately hurt the black community, and how drugs and gangs and bad policing have hurt the black community.
And how and what he's doing.
So he's given teleprompter speech.
He's staying on message.
He's effectively just decimating and prosecuting the case against Obama and Hillary.
And then he's contrasting how things would be different under his presidency.
In other words, he's offering the country a choice, an optimistic future with new solutions that will solve problems for the black community.
I think he's also effectively prosecuting the case against Hillary as the single most dishonest corrupt individual to ever seek this office.
And I think what this is, you know, his policies are saying we're going to change everything.
You know, we're going to vet refugees.
We're going to build a wall.
He says we're going to have a Supreme Court that respects the Constitution, separation of powers, coequal branches of government.
We're going to get rid of Obamacare.
It's a failure.
Yeah, we'll say radical Islam and identify our enemies.
And yes, people have a right to the second amendment.
And people have a right to be energy independent, and it doesn't want to put coal miners out of work and coal companies out of business.
And that he wants America not to depend on foreign entities for oil and energy, the lifeblood of our economy.
And yeah, we're going to fix education because we're going to let states, towns, and municipalities decide.
So in that sense, he is offering an optimistic vision with his solutions to our problems.
And it's a conservative solution for the most part.
Nationalists, yes, populists, yes, but also, by and large, as a conservative, I can say this is conservatism that I can support.
He's owning the news cycle.
He is setting the agenda.
He is speaking about substance.
He's ignited a real debate about protecting the homeland with his ISIS speech.
He responded to the events in Milwaukee with a powerful speech on law and order.
He's down in Louisiana today, rolling up his sleeves, as Hillary Clinton is, you know, with her feet up somewhere, resting, probably getting a massage, and Obama's out golfing.
He did he said no cameras should be allowed.
So he he's setting that narrative.
He's setting the agenda.
He's talking Substance.
You know, next week he's going to be talking about immigration.
I'm going down to the border next week.
We're going to be in Austin, Texas.
Details to follow.
You know, he did a town hall with us where he actually met the families that have lost loved ones to radical Islamic terrorism.
He met some of the heroes of Benghazi.
Next week he'll meet families that lost loved ones to illegal immigrants and talk about security and how both for national security and for the economy, we how many more millions of illegal immigrants can we have competing with the 95 million Americans out of the labor force.
So if he wants to continue having winning days, winning weeks, my advice is just stay focused only on Obama and Hillary and their failures.
Stay on prompter.
Don't get off message.
Keep prosecuting the case that their economic and and foreign policy has been a disaster.
Offer your solutions and make them inspiring to make America great.
Keep owning the news cycle with substance.
Keep talking about the issues that are happening now.
Keep getting on your plane and going where people are having problems.
Milwaukee or Louisiana, wherever it happens to be.
And talk about substantive issues.
Hillary can talk about the only argument she has is, oh, Donald Trump says bad things occasionally.
Oh, really?
So do I. And then I would say the other missing piece of the puzzle is Hillary is obsessively preparing to poke and prod and get Donald Trump to bubble and fizz like Alka Seltzer in these debates.
Don't fall into that trap.
And if he does these things, I would argue his chances of winning are extremely strong in spite of what the polls say.
But I do take the polls seriously.
Anyway, we'll get your thoughts on this.
Take a lot of calls today.
800 941 Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
Kellyanne Conway joins us today.
We'll check in with her.
We're going to go down to Louisiana and get a uh up close view of the tragedy that is unfolding before our eyes and uh much much more.
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A lot coming up today, including Kellyanne, who's the new campaign manager for Trump.
What I understand is I think that I just think, I believe.
Ah sorry, I had to reach over to my printer.
Um I just believe that I think you're going to see more Manafort 2.
I think there's uh you got Bannon, you got these guys, and I just think you had a great week for the Trump campaign, and it's funny what they say.
Now, I want to tell you something that else has gone on here today.
Now, I keep telling you, we know that Hillary lied about Benghazi.
She lied to the families in front of the coffins of their loved ones by saying, Oh, this is a YouTube video and it's related to a spontaneous demonstration.
Well, we had real-time video that proved it was a terror attack.
They knew from day one it was a terror attack.
That's why Hillary, having the real-time video, told her own daughter and the Libyan president and the Gyps and Prime Minister, oh, guess what?
We had a terror attack, but then she lied to the American people because she didn't want to admit that what she did in Libya was an absolute disaster, just like her voting for the war and then pulling out and giving a timetable to pull out, ended up in all the cities that Americans fought, bled, and died for, creating an opening for ISIS along with the financial benefit of the oil that they can fund their terror uh uh ambitions and their caliphate.
Well now, and then we have Trey Gowdy grilling James Comey and Comey pointing out lie after lie after lie about what she told about her email server.
So Hillary now says that she and Colin Powell were at a dinner party when he told her to set up a private email account at the State Department.
Powell says he has no idea in the world what Hillary's talking about.
Oh, so we have a he said she said.
Let's see, Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell.
Anyway, uh a credibility contest?
Let me see.
Who am I going to believe here?
That's a real tough call.
Now, Colin Powell rejected Hillary's assertion to the FBI.
We now found out she told the FBI that he had advised her during a dinner party to use a personal email account.
General Powell has no recollection of such a dinner conversation.
The former Secretary of State's office said in this statement earlier today.
He did write Hillary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department.
And then Powell's office argued there's no equivalent system in the agency at the time that he served as Secretary of State.
And Clinton's been trying to use that excuse.
It sounds to me like Powell's pissed off.
And I don't blame him because there is no comparison.
And Clinton's mention of Powell was in an interview with the FBI about her unauthorized use of personal email.
Well, it turns out Powell is saying she's a liar.
I think I'll take Powell's position on that and not hers.
What else do we got here?
The media is outraged.
This is pretty funny.
I actually like this.
You know what?
But let me first go to this.
You know, I will say one thing.
You want to know with Obama so critical of George Bush on Katrina.
Um it it is pretty stunning to me that he made all those comments that I played in the last half hour about how wrong it was.
He needed to have his boots on the ground.
By the way, Mary Landrew today praised Donald Trump and you know, asking if it's helpful that he's raising awareness and money, and she said, Yeah, I think it's really helpful.
I want to thank Mr. Trump for coming to Louisiana for bringing attention to our state.
And we need that now because this disaster is far larger than people can appreciate from television.
I learned that during Katrina.
When I went down after Katrina and I saw the devastation, I I it shocked me to my inner core, my solar plexus.
I mean, it was so vast.
It was driving along a highway for miles and miles and miles and miles, seemingly forever.
And you saw entire neighborhoods one after another, just destroyed, decimated.
It just it shocked the conscience, it shocked my conscience.
And I said at the time, media images do not give this justice.
So Obama used it politically to bash Bush at the time and you know, said, well, apparently people like us, you know, he said about you know, all of this after the 2012 election.
Exit poll showed that Obama trounced Mitt Romney on the question of does he care about people like us?
Well, the people like us category, I guess, now because he's never gonna run for re-election, doesn't include Louisiana's flood victims because plainly Barack Obama could care less.
Anyway, Obama is now stirring resentment over his refusal to interrupt his Moth's vineyard vacation that you're paying for to survey the Louisiana flood, the worst U.S. national uh natural disaster since 2012.
Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson defended Obama, insisting that the president is closely monitoring what from hole eighteen, hole fifteen, whole seven.
The president can't be everywhere.
Oh, but he's out playing golf every day, and he's out partying till 1 a.m.
The governor, a Democrat, you know, is backing him up.
Anyway, Obama's lack of urgency.
And uh it does remind us of the federal response in 2005.
What frustrates me about that whole Katrina story is the narrative was never told correctly.
And I covered that story as closely as anybody.
And I got to tell you something, it it was it was never right.
You know, there were actually restrictions, and and the federal government, we had five days' warning the big one is coming.
Five days.
And remember Mayor Negan of New Orleans?
We will be a chocolate city.
This walls, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans.
This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.
This city will be a majority African American city.
By the way, imagine anybody saying I want a vanilla city.
What is that?
Just pure racism.
Didn't he go to jail at some point for something?
Remember, we found out he was living in one of the highest hotels on the just.
I guess him and Brian Williams were having a good old time during this.
Remember, Brian Williams talked about seeing bodies floating by and the water in front of his hotel.
The only problem was water never made it to the hotel that he was staying at.
Oops.
Anyway, perfect MS MBC reporter.
Anyway, the president can't be anywhere, they're saying it.
And you think of that, it's um it's pretty unbelievable.
By the way, Obama's refugees, according to Fox News, are now suing a Central Pennsylvania school district, saying the academy that they were put in after their arduous journey to America is not up to snuff.
Represented representatives of the Pennsylvania branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, the six refugees sued Lancaster schools in federal court, saying that they were dumped in a disciplinary school and are being denied access to a quality education.
Students coming from Somalia, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma.
The plaintiffs are refugees who have fled war, violence, persecution from their native countries, reads a statement in the lawsuit, having finally escaped their turbulent environment to resettle in America, these young immigrants yearn to learn English and get an education so they can make a life for themselves.
Oh, come to America.
Didn't take long to learn how our justice system works.
Just sue.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
It's kind of funny.
Katrina Pearson is Donald Trump's spokeswoman.
And this was on MediaIt.
I think it's pretty funny.
The media's outrage that Trump's spokesperson is echoing CNN's own medical expert.
This is funny.
I don't know if if Brian Media Matters unreliable liberal sources ever criticized Drew Pinsky, did he?
Dr. Pinsky is a great guy.
I love him.
He's a really nice person in real life.
Anyway, the person that she quoted Dr. Pinsky, who said that that very morning that the very serious head injury that Hillary Clinton sustained during a fall in 2012 may have left her with brain damage.
But it wasn't her saying it.
Person making that claim was Dr. Pinsky.
And he's a highly respected medical expert.
He's an American board certified internist, an addiction medicine specialist.
He's also assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
He formerly served as a medical director of the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at La Siena Annesis Hospital in Pasadena.
He's currently a staff member at Huntington Memorial Hospital.
I mean, it's an incredible resume.
Anyway, he said in an interview that she falls, hits her head, and as a complication of that, has something called transverse sinus thrombosis, exceedingly rare clot.
I've only seen one of those in my career, which is a clot in the collecting system for the cerebral spinal fluid, and it is essentially guarantees that somebody has something wrong with their coagulation balance.
That's brain damage, and it's affecting her balance.
Whoops.
Don't dare quote Dr. Pinsky.
And what are they going to turn on Dr. Pinsky now?
Everybody loves Dr. Pinski.
You know, it's amazing in this election.
Donald Trump, by the way, yesterday said something that nobody ever thought he'd say.
And this was part of his good week too.
His speech on ISIS, defeating radical Islam and defending the homeland.
Then his speech on law and order and helping black Americans.
His speech also, the original speech that included the treatment of gays and lesbians and women and Christians and Jews under Sharia, you know, countries that donate to Hillary.
And then he gave a speech last night in North Carolina, and he actually said, you know what?
He made his most directed mission, almost like expressing regret that in the heat of a debate you speak on a multitude of Issues, you don't choose the right words, and he says, I regret it.
I've done it and I regret it.
Here's what he said.
I've never wanted to learn the language of the insiders.
And I've never been politically correct.
It takes far too much time.
Truthfully, it takes far too much time.
And can often make it more difficult to achieve total victory.
Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words, or you say the wrong thing.
I have done that.
And believe it or not, I regret it.
Thank you.
And I do regret it.
Particularly where it may have caused personal pain.
Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues.
But one thing I can promise you this: I will always tell you the truth.
Thank you.
Wow.
So you add the ISIS speech, protecting the homeland, uh, defining and defeating radical Islam, defending the police, law and order, helping gays, lesbians, women, Jews, and Christians in that are suffering under radical Islam and Sharia,
something Hillary, where she takes her money from, and standing up for minority rights, and something that Hillary can't claim, even though she tries to, and then saying, uh, we're really damaging black America with our horrible economic programs, as evidenced by these statistics, and you know, our school systems destroying them, and our these neighborhoods are filled with drugs and gangs and trouble, and we've got to fix all of this.
And then you add to that, he acknowledged something the media said he'd never do.
Oh, it's all right, I'm wrong.
Um I regret that I've used some words because too much is at stake to be consumed with other issues.
But I'll always tell you the truth, and I never wanted to learn the language of political correctness.
Good for him.
So pretty powerful week, and now he stands yesterday, you know, uh stands there today, where the president dare not go.
Basically, the president Hillary, Hillary phones in a hope you're okay.
Oh, hang on.
Yeah, a little more into the left, please.
Yeah, all right there.
Yes.
Oh, getting a massage, hanging out with her hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars from Wall Street, probably getting pampered and Manny Petty today, a nice massage, you know, maybe getting her hair done.
Who knows what she's doing?
She's not working, not working tomorrow, not working Sunday.
Obama's out playing golf party until one in the morning, and Trump is down, you know, unloading trucks.
And say a good week for Donald Trump.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones here as we say hi to Carmen in Miami, Florida, News Radio WIOD.
How are you?
Great, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good, good.
Uh, you know, I I'm tired of everybody in Washington, you know, all this conservative thinking that they know better than us.
Um, you know, okay.
I I am a woman.
I am I didn't vote for Trump the first time on the primary, but you know, the country hasn't has voted, and he is our nominee, and to tell you the truth, I agree with almost everything that he has.
Um, the only reason that I didn't vote it for him would again, because of his mouth, you know.
Sometimes he says things that bother, but you know what?
That's him, and I like the fact that he's not politically correct.
Yeah, I'm having a hard time hearing you because of the we got a bad phone line, but I I got enough of what you're saying.
Yeah, I agree.
I like it for to me, it's refreshing.
All right, real quick, Sarah Winston, Salem, North Carolina, the home of Wake Forest.
What's going on?
Hi, Phil.
How are you doing today?
I'm good.
How are you?
We only have a very short time.
Go ahead.
I'm doing well.
I just was calling because I'm a never hillary, but I'm looking for Trump and you to win me over, Not tell me who you're gonna blame if Trump loses.
Well, I'm speaking directly to those Republicans who forced let's see, Dole and McCain and others on us and said you conservatives need to get on board.
We gotta unite and now those people that promised they would support the eventual nominee.
I'll give you the the quick version.
Originalist justices on the Supreme Court, lower taxes, reducing the side of government, repealing Obamacare, replacing with free market solutions, a president that'll say radical Islam, protecting your second amendment rights, uh building a wall, education back to the states, energy independence, and vetting refugees.
How's that?
I got all that.
You make that point every day.
Because it needs to be made.
What do you need?
What do you need?
Well, the point I'm looking for is where's the reconciliation on his part and not the accusation that if he doesn't win, it's everybody else.
Okay.
Well, how about this?
Did you like what he said yesterday in your state of North Carolina, where he admitted that I've I've said things I regret?
I did like what he said.
And that's the first time I've heard him be conciliatory about it.
And I agree with you about that.
All right, I gotta go.
I I'm just out of time.
I'd like to take a moment to talk about the heartbreak and devastation in Louisiana, a state that is very, very special to me.
We are one nation.
When one state hurts, we all hurt.
And we must all work together to lift each other up.
Working, building, restoring together.
Our prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones, and we send them our deepest condolences.
Through words cannot express the sadness one feels at times like this.
I hope everyone in Louisiana knows that our country is praying for them and standing with them to help them in these difficult hours.
They are very, very difficult.
I've never wanted to learn the language of the insiders, and I've never been politically correct.
It takes far too much time.
Truthfully, it takes far too much time and can often make it more difficult to achieve total victory.
Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words, or you say the wrong thing.
I have done that.
And believe it or not, I regret it.
Thank you.
And I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain.
Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues.
But one thing I can promise you this, I will always tell you the truth.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show.
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If you want to join us, three incredible speeches given by Donald Trump this week.
I have been arguing that this is by far, from my perspective, watching the campaign, the best week he has had so far.
He gave a speech on ISIS, a speech on law and order.
That was from his speech last night.
He decided to go down to Louisiana and help the tens or even a hundred thousand people.
We'll get an update coming up later in the program today that have been displaced and out of their homes.
We see images of coffins, you know, literally floating by people's houses.
I mean, it's just horrible.
The devastation is wide and deep, and the magnitude is is literally second to Katrina.
And yet the federal government has done nothing.
The president's out golfing again with Larry David and having a good old time in Martha's Vineyard and Hillary Clinton, the best she could do is pick up a phone and and call the governor of Louisiana.
Now Donald Trump went down there today, and from what I understand, he's actually been helping and he asked the press to stay away.
Joining us now to discuss this week and what he's doing today is Kellyanne Conway, longtime friend of mine, campaign manager for the Trump campaign and founder and president of the polling company.
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
Um how did this come about, this this entire trip with Trump?
It uh A lot of people obviously didn't know about it until either late last night or today.
Well, that's right.
It really all came together yesterday.
I spoke with Mr. Trump yesterday morning and we were looking at the news and he noted that the flooding situation was intensifying and sadly getting worse in Louisiana.
We we talked about it, we being you know the senior team, and uh we decided that he decided that he wanted to go.
And Governor Pence was on board immediately.
And what we did was we just work with the scheduling people, the advanced great people down in Louisiana who know their state, who know where the needs are.
And we made very careful to find out where those needs are so that Mr. Trump and Governor Pence can go in and roll their sleeves up and actually assess the needs and and really give uh give a push to all of us to help our neighbors in need, Sean.
But also Trump last night in his speech in Charlotte, he wanted to start out by acknowledging uh those in need in in New Orleans New Orleans and Baton Rouge Lafia all the time.
I mean, these are people that we're talking about losing their homes, huh?
It's and and it's getting worse and it's cut and it's crossing over um into different parishes, as they say in Louisiana.
But I I'll tell you a couple things about it.
First of all, we didn't want the press to go because it is not a press event, it's not a political event.
It's people showing leadership and seeing how they can help those in need.
When you're a leader, when people look up to you, Sean, when you're running for president and vice president as Trump and Pence are people expect you to give voice and visibility to human need.
And I'll tell you, I think Governor Romney made a huge mistake in 2012 when he stayed in the cabin preparing for the debate or whatever they were doing and didn't come to New Jersey to assess the hurricane Katrina excuse me, the Hurricane Sandy damage and stand with Governor Christie or even stand with President Obama.
You don't go to a sw it doesn't have to be in a swing state, you know, you just go where people are in need.
So I think it's just been another continuation of a great week.
They he got back to New York so late last night from his unbelievable day in in North Carolina, and yet a couple hours sleep and got right back on that plane to Louisiana.
You know, actually I talked to somebody that had just spoken with Donald Trump, and the answer was pretty passionate.
He said that that apparently Mr. Trump has been watching this and seeing the coffins and you know floating down the street and seeing the people being displaced and and seeing that the federal government once again is inept and incapable of providing the help and assistance, and he just got fed up and said he can't sit there and watch it anymore and not do anything.
That is exactly the conversation I had with him yesterday morning.
Then I had a conversation with Governor Pence, and we had the same conversation.
And you know, Governor Pence in Indiana, he has faced crises like this in the past.
They've had flooding obviously every governor has dealt with a natural disaster or so.
And and really what people want to know is that you care, that you notice, that you're hearing them, that you're there for them, you're encouraging other people to help, whether that's publicly through government resources or privately through the charity that we all have as Americans toward each other, Sean.
But there's one more thing at play here.
I want to go back to Yonka Trump's convention speech.
She said something about her father that we see true here today, which is he's somebody who his entire life has been circling articles he sees about different people in the news or you know, b seeing something or hearing a story and saying, How can I help?
Can I connect them with someone?
Can I g give them a like up?
Can I provide a resource or a connection?
It's really no different than how he would be as president, is really no different than how he is as a presidential candidate.
He saw the need and he went there.
And I think it's that simple.
And the other thing that happened today is you have Senator Mary Landrew, who's a Clinton supporter and who lost her re-election last year, in part in Louisiana, in part because you know she supports the Obama agenda.
She really commended Donald Trump on Mike Pence for going down to Louisiana and showing themselves there.
And of course, a lot of the articles are talking about President Obama golfing and Hillary Clinton not going either.
What did Hillary Clinton do?
She literally gave new meaning to the phrase phoning it in.
She literally phoned the governor and referred to Donald Trump's trip as a quote distraction.
Please go ask the people who benefit from the supplies that we provided, who are so excited to have Donald Trump and Meg Pence with them today to assess the needs and and lend a hand.
Go ask about that one distraction.
What is the plan then for when, for example, I know he's going to assess all the damage today.
From what I understand, there's a 5 p.m. press conference.
Is uh is this something that he's setting up privately?
Is he gonna just press the government to offer the aid that that they will need and and do it quickly and expeditiously?
Is their website he's setting up?
What is he doing?
In terms of President Obama, who knows?
Uh I'm talking about Mr. Trump.
What is he gonna do?
Yes, I'm sorry.
I thought you were talking about the president's visit tomorrow, Sean.
Of course.
Uh well, we're you know what?
We are assessing that, and the reason that I don't have it all the answers for you at the moment is we are trying to get with the lawmakers and the officials and the leaders and the pastors and the parish presidents in Louisiana to to get their take.
You know, we believe in state and local control, and we're asking them, where are your needs?
Is it bottled water, is it canned goods, is it clothing, is it blankets?
Is it a hotline?
Is it um asking asking people to give to the Red Cross or a local Franklin Graham had them to his parish today in Louisiana?
Is that the place to send money so that he can distribute it to those in need?
Um so we we continue we will continue because as you see the crisis unfortunately is continuing.
Um Sean, in the meantime, we have everybody there in our thoughts and prayers, and we hope when the president goes down tomorrow in his current capacity, he will help these people because obviously there is a need.
You know, I want to ask you this question because I uh I think that this has been a good week for for Donald Trump in this way, and this is what I think is different.
I think Donald Trump has put his message all Trump, in other words, Trump being Trump, but he put it on a teleprompter.
And I think the media has been so fixated on any ad lib that they can take out of context that I think in that sense the media is on a a Trump watch 24-7, 365.
So I noticed in the three speeches he gave this week ISIS last night in North Carolina and the speech that he gave on law and order in outside of Milwaukee, uh the night I did the town hall with him.
You know, all three of those speeches were on teleprompter.
All three of those speeches were really hard-hitting, and they had certain common traits.
What he did was he outlined how we are failing in this battle against ISIS, how our foreign policy is failing in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, uh, Iran, and and Russia.
And then he offered alternative solutions.
And that included in the case of, you know, resettling refugees.
We ought to set up safe zones.
We ought to set up a wall and build the wall on the on the on the border, et cetera, and law and order, respecting our police and working with local municipalities in terms of better policing, better relationships, and really addressing the problems in the bat black community who have been disproportionately impacted by the horrible economic policies of Obama and Clinton.
So, and he did this speech last night, and he actually said, you know what, I I think I regret some of the things that I've said that that things there's too much at stake here to be consumed with petty issues.
A lot of people didn't think they'd ever hear that for Donald Trump.
What's happened?
Well, that's right, and they'll never hear from Hillary Clinton.
And I think what's happened with Mr. Trump is that he realizes that when some of us tell him to be himself, or that that what we mean by that is sure, you're going to deliver substantive policy, solution-centric speeches, the way you just related beautifully, Sean, and what the themes were this week.
But at the same time, you're the messenger.
You can deliver them in your own style, with your own cadence, with humor when it's appropriate, and with sobriety when it's appropriate.
And did you notice last night, Sean?
Even when Trump has a teleprompter speech, as he did in Charlotte last night, when the crowd spontaneously broke into the build that wall, build that wall, he paused for effect, he took the moment in, and then he said, and we will build that wall.
That is spontaneous.
That is a good risk, but it's not ad living for an hour, which is which is very different.
And you know, look, in addition to the media picking apart microscopically and clinically, every single thing this man says that they may take offense at.
In addition to that, I don't think a single job is created and a single uninsured person gets health care.
If you're if you're just riffing for an hour, if in the case of Hillary Clinton, you're insulting Donald Trump any chance you get, she's back at it today.
And we're gonna this is where this is what's different this week too, is we're gonna smoke her out on the substance.
The issue set benefits us.
And if I can do anything in this campaign, it's his campaign manager, it's going to be to the people want to talk about the silly pivot.
Let's pivot to the issues.
Let's talk about what's bothering Americans.
What they want the next president of the United States to do is to keep us safe, make us more prosperous, get a Supreme Court that isn't cast in this wild liberal progressive mold of political correctness.
They want that they want to know that the government works for them, not against them, that it's not a rig corrupt system of a bunch of insiders lining their pockets and doing favors for their friends.
They want sound energy policy, they want to be dependent on our own energy and not on foreign sources uh uh who you know who take our jobs and take our money and God knows does what with it.
He wants to he wants to destroy IT.
She calls them our determined enemies.
He calls them savage murderers that must be destroyed.
You know, and so we're gonna pick up the question.
I I I challenge them.
I challenge Robbie Mook and Hillary Clinton to meet us on the subject.
I have said that this is a choice election about as as you're having diametrically opposed views about as acute as they could ever be.
This relates to the Supreme Court, having open borders or building a wall, rebuilding the military or not, education top down common core or back to the states.
You mentioned energy independence, Hillary wants to put coal mining companies out of business, coal miners out of work.
Uh Donald Trump has said to me repeatedly he wants energy independence in four years.
You know, cutting taxes or raising taxes, reducing the size of government, not reducing the size of government, better trade deals, keeping Obamacare or not keeping it, saying radical Islam, not saying radical Islam, vetting refugees don't vet refugees, protecting your second amendment.
It seems to me every conservative ought to be with you in the forty-five seconds we have left.
What do you say to those Republicans that have been sabotaging Donald Trump's campaign?
I say the Never Trump never happy folks.
Uh step into the water, it's nice and warm.
And we'll and we would love for you to join us because we know what Hillary Clinton's America looks like.
And secondly, Sean, I've been looking at the Twitter feed to some of these Never Trump people.
They never say anything bad about Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Really?
You attack Donald Trump 50, 60 times a month on your Twitter feed, and there's nothing that Hillary Clinton said at her convention.
There's nothing Barack Obama has done in the last however many months that's disturbed you.
So I understand it's some kind of personal grievance against Donald Trump, but close your eyes and picture a Supreme Court under President Hillary Clinton.
Picture your tax bill.
Picture the public school systems not getting any better for kids that you can't.
I think on those issues, I'm I'm running up on to the clock here, but on every one of those issues, it's a no-brainer.
It's a no-brainer.
That's what frustrates me about some of these people.
You know, and all those presidential candidates, too, that gave their pledge.
I mean, there have been really good people that had really strong disagreements, but at the end of the day, Rick Perry and Scott Walker and and so many others.
Ben Carson, Chris Christie, that's right, they all have to be a big thing.
Carson, Christie, all of them.
And I'm I'm just disappointed in the other ones that they didn't keep their word.
They want to run for high office again.
Well, you know what?
How do we believe them?
Anyway, I got to run.
Kellyanne, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Uh 800 nine four one Sean is a toll-free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program.
Does the a visit by Donald Trump is that is that helpful to raising awareness and money?
I think it is, and I want to thank Mr. Trump for coming to Louisiana.
I think the governor's admonition about not using it as a press op is a good one, but he brought attention to our state, and we need that now because this disaster, Brianna, is far larger than people can appreciate on television.
Um and if you could see it from a drone's perspective and look down on all of South Louisiana, this is not just a Baton Rouge area event.
Livingston Parish, Ascension Parish, um, to the South Central part of our state and southwest, all the way over to Calcashoe.
This was a horrible rain event.
And as you know, Louisiana drains about 40 percent of the entire United States.
So even when the rain doesn't sit over us like this did, even when it rains in Minnesota or Arkansas, we get the water.
That's one thing I want people to understand.
That's both a blessing and a burden to have too much water.
And we had we have too much of it now, and it is really a serious disaster.
And I hope, you know, Secretary Clinton will make her way down.
I hope President Obama will make a visit.
Uh and you know, we need all the attention and help we can get it.
All right, that was uh Senator Mary Landrew of Louisiana talking about the devastation that has taken place in Louisiana.
Now, the flooding there is uh I gotta tell you something.
There's only wet and dry in Louisiana, and among the 105,000 people in Livingston Parish who lost everything.
A hundred and five thousand people.
You know, you're talking about, you know, black people, white people.
This is this knows no racial boundaries.
These are our fellow Americans that are in trouble.
Some people that are rich, some people that are poor, some that are in a golf community, and some that are in poor neighborhoods.
And anyway, it doesn't seem to really matter.
There are all these stories about people in boats and and the poverty and the misery and the devastation that has taken place here.
And it's pretty sad and pretty amazing that the president was asked to go to Louisiana and he preferred to play golf with Larry David yet again, and that Hillary Clinton has taken the entire weekend off.
Who knows what she's got planned?
Maybe she's just recovering from the stress and the pressure of the campaign.
But Donald Trump goes down to Louisiana this morning, and on top of that, he also has asked the press to stay away for the good part of the day.
Uh Rod Goday is with us.
He works with the uh can't uh Cajun Navy's one of the many behind the scenes on the ground in the middle of this horror and this flooding in Louisiana.
He's a native, he lives in Baton Rouge.
You know, that old Garth Brooks Brooks song operator send it send us on through.
We've got to send our love down to Baton Rouge and our friends down in Louisiana.
Uh this is now the time more than ever.
Uh Rob, our thoughts and prayers go out to you and the community.
I've been watching coffins literally you know, going down the streets.
I mean, it was almost like Brian Williams' narrative actually became true here.
Um and was so sorry to see all of this and see the devastation and see those displaced, and you know, we want to do anything we can do to help.
Tell us what we can do.
Hey, Sean, thank you um for having us on.
Um what you're doing now is more help than um you can imagine.
Just getting the word out about the disaster down here um is um is vital.
It truly is vital.
Um I was uh I was listening to Mary Landrew um on your program just now, and to hear that she's supporting Trump coming down is really um it says the size of this tragedy.
I will tell you that I have I mean I have you know, Baton Rouge is where we had you know three three police officers shot just a month ago.
Um and that was on the heels of the five officers in Dallas, you know.
It it was and you know, we had we had members of the Black Panthers that you know people know um uh were part of that.
Well, you know who's you know who's on my vetting team and who was a part of the Cajun Navy?
We have Black Panther members, guys.
I mean, we uh set aside politics.
I was under a bridge last night with the Black Panthers, um, seeing with homeless people.
I it it it's one of those things, guys, that whenever you lose everything, it really puts things into perspective for you.
Um I uh the people have have come together in a way that is is just amazing.
Um, you know, the Cajun Navy was born um on Saturday and somebody it was not started by me, it was started by another gentleman who was um frustrated because he couldn't put his boat in the water.
Um and he went on to Facebook Live.
He wasn't he wasn't allowed by authorities to put his boat in the water.
He was understandably frustrated.
He went on to Facebook Live and wasn't real happy with the authorities.
And he he went he went right forward and said it.
Nice guy, but he was just in a really bad mood.
And um he said, Um, let's uh let's just do this ourselves, guys.
Let's form the Cajun Navy.
And that's what kicked it off.
It's a guy on Facebook.
Um and he before long he set up a group and he started inviting people and it really took off from there.
He that was on Saturday.
I I got involved on Monday morning, um, and um we are now um uh a strong organization.
We um in fact in on Monday we were out trying to put boats in ourselves.
Uh when I got involved, um there were uh local citizens taking their boat, trying to put it in the water, still with deputies not letting them do it.
We regrouped on Monday night and said, What do we need to do here, guys?
And we said the look the authorities told us, they said, just put a deputy in your boat.
That was what they that's basically what they had on their on their website.
So we did that.
We went Tuesday morning to the staging area.
I'll say this we brought a box and I told him bring a box of donuts and some coffee and make a friend with a deputy, and that's what they did.
And the Cajun Navy was born in that moment.
Whenever you do things the right way, and you you follow the rules and the law, amazing things will happen.
That day we had seventy-five boats put out with deputies in them, and we don't even know how many people we pulled out of the water.
It's it's in the thousands.
We had one gentleman on that day putting up.
We have at least thirteen people dead, and I know we've got tens of thousands, if not a hundred plus thousand people that have been displaced.
And you know, uh, there's there's virtually little news coverage here.
I mean, and and frankly, I thought it was a good thing that Trump went down there, and I know that he asked the TV cameras to stay away and and he's meeting with officials and he's trying to help.
I actually talked to somebody in the campaign today, and I said, you know, tell me a little bit more about the trip.
And they said he he didn't want to cause a scene, he just wants to go and help, find out what the needs are, and he and he Basically got frustrated watching on television coffins floating in the middle of the street in water and and people displaced and people losing their lives and and the federal government is nowhere to be found.
Nowhere.
You know, the citizens filled filled filled the gap.
And you know, Sean, that's what we're doing, and that's why I'm on that's why I'm on with you right now.
The media is not doing it, and so you know, Louisianians, we're really resourceful.
If if you bring a flood, we're gonna put a boat in the water.
If you don't cover us in the media, guess what?
We're gonna cover ourselves, and that's what we're doing.
We said, okay, media is not doing it, we're gonna do it ourselves.
So we have um everybody who's been involved in this.
If you what we basically tell them is tell your story.
Facebook, um, videos, one to two minute videos, share photos, share your story, tell what happened.
The photos you have on your phone, those will be the theme that fixes this.
Um what this reminds me of?
Um I know everybody has and tell me if this is right.
And and I know people question about well, is this about uh politics?
You know something.
For example, we all know somebody who's lost a loved one.
I remember I lost my mother, I lost my father, and I lost my father first, and you know, there's not much that anybody coming to the wake of the funeral can really say or do.
It's just showing up to show you care.
And then in this case, maybe it means okay, finding a list of supplies and shipping them in to the people of Louisiana.
And the fact that the president couldn't get his his act together to get off a golf course for ten minutes, it's ridiculous.
And the same with Hillary Clinton.
Wow, she called the governor.
Big deal.
And I just think that, you know, it was I think it shows a lot about a person that they care enough to go down.
I just do.
It absolutely does.
It it shows that um, you know, it to me, the fact that Trump didn't um he doesn't want the press there.
You know, I want him to be on the press, but the fact that he doesn't want to be on it to me says a lot about the man.
He is he doesn't want to distract from the what's happening here.
Um he doesn't want it to be about him, and I understand that.
Look, I've heard the same thing.
I mean, there are gonna be people that say, Rob, you know, you you shouldn't it's not about you going on these radio programs, right?
Well, what I tell them is I have an obligation to do that because the press is not doing it.
We have an obligation to do it.
We have to.
This is not about me.
It's about the Cajun Navy, the guys that were out at five a.m. and that didn't get in till one a.m. and I had to call them in because they're getting shot at out there because they're afraid that they're looters coming towards them.
These guys are amazing.
The real story here, guys, is number one the flood that started in the north part of the state, the north part right on the Mississippi line above Baton Rouge, and made a beeline for the Gulf about 10 to 12 to 15 miles wide of water that went from town to town to town to town, destroying everything in its path until it made it down into the swamplands in the south.
That's what happened.
How many people are we really talking about?
I'm trying to get accurate numbers here.
I've seen anywhere between tens and tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand displaced people.
How many do you think it is?
Do you have an idea?
Sean, I haven't watched the news for four days.
And to be honest with you, that's like the longest stretch in the last uh seven years.
So I really do not I can't answer that for you.
What I have visibility towards and what I have been focusing on is providing logistical support to American citizens, to Louisianians, and to people coming from Texas and Mississippi and Alabama and all around the country and coming to help.
We said, okay, we need to organize, and that's what we did.
The Cajun Navy pulled it together and we've organized it.
We have saved countless of thousands.
I would uh let me tell you one number I heard.
A community is ninety percent leveled, community called Denham Springs.
This is like a bedroom community.
This isn't like a little tiny town.
We're talking brand new shopping centers that had water in it six feet deep.
Brand spanking new shopping centers.
I mean, we're this it's it's the disaster is enormous.
You cannot drive towards New Orleans without driving through water, even now.
And that we were rescuing people from water seven days, six days, five days after the event, said say something.
After it rained, we were still rescuing people five days after it rained.
Let me play some of the audio of Obama going back then, and let's let's, for example, this is blaming Bush that he didn't go to Katrina right away.
Because when the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there.
When people looked up from the rooftop for too long, they saw an empty sky.
When the winds blew and the flood waters came, we learned that for all of our wealth and our power, something wasn't right with America.
We can talk about what happened for a few days in 2005, and we should.
We can talk about levies That couldn't hold about a FEMA that seemed not just incompetent but paralyzed and powerless about a a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground trying to provide comfort and aid.
We we can talk about a trust that was broken.
The promise that our government will be prepared, will protect us, and we'll respond in a catastrophe.
He couldn't be bothered because he's not up for re-election anymore.
Well, you know, Sean, what you're doing is raising awareness in in a way that we could never do on our own, and the the need for that.
Let me tell you why this is so important.
Because we need to empower our Louisiana delegation whenever Congress is back in session to get the necessary funding, the relief funding for Louisiana that's gonna be needed.
And what's gonna happen is they're gonna go across the aisle and say, we need to get this bill passed, because that's the way Congress works, right?
We need to get this bill passed, and we need to work together on it.
And what's gonna happen is this is why the press isn't covering it, guys.
They're they're gonna say, well, this was not that big of a deal.
Where was the press, right?
That's why, Sean, you covering this elevates it to the necessary level so that our congressional delegates will be empowered to get the necessary relief funding to be able to fix this problem.
If there's anything you need in the meantime, or if there's any website you can direct this audience to, or anything I I'd love to donate myself, or there's any, you know, specific needs, you just let us know, and we want to help any way we can.
Look, I love the people of Louisiana.
I've been down there a bunch of times in my life.
There's there's no more fun people on earth than the people of Louisiana.
And good, hardworking, great Americans that make this country great.
I don't often find myself in agreement with Mary Landriew, but I I found her comments somewhat refreshing today, uh, because this ought to be an all hands-on deck moment for the for the people and uh that are suffering.
I mean, you know, one of the things that frustrated me and Katrina is I remember I had a discussion with Jesse Jackson, and he's blaming Bush, blaming Bush, and I'm thinking, well, you had a democratic mayor and governor, and you had, you know, a thousand school buses that we all know that got flooded.
I said, We had five days' notice, but I didn't use the buses.
And he literally said to me, Well, what were we supposed to do?
And I said, put the key in the ignition.
And then he goes, Then what?
Turn the ignition on?
And then what were we supposed to do?
And I thought I said, Reverend, pick up the people.
And then he asked me, Well, where were we supposed to take them?
I said, away from the stupid hurricane.
You know, I it's just ridiculous that we don't have basic simple common sense and the and the one role of government ought to be to help in moments like this.
Well, you know, that that can be the role, but the fact is the citiz it can be the citizens' role too, and that's what they can do.
Yeah, well, but uh every American right now.
We help countries that they hate our guts half the time when they're in need and suffering.
And you we certainly gonna help our fellow citizens in Louisiana.
That's that's for darn sure.
All right, you're in our thoughts and prayers.
It's the the Facebook group is the Cajun Navy.
We ask you to go join it.
Um you'll you'll follow the effort there.
Um, and there's a lot of a lot of movement going on, and we don't take money, Sean.
I mean, if you're gonna give money, give to you know, certified to reliable organizations.
We don't sell t-shirts.
We don't even have a logo, all right.
We need a logo.
I want we'll make you up a logo we'll let Linda make up a logo.
We're all right I gotta run, but listen, just know this.
Please, you know, know that we there's a lot of people in this country that care, and we're so sorry you're going through this, and you're and we we only hope for a speedy recovery and and hope that uh you get the support and help you deserve it and richly need.
Um 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of this program today.
We have a lot more coming up in the course of the program.
Heather McDonald is gonna talk about Donald Trump's speech as it relates to all right, how did we get to this point where the president doesn't talk about 3,500 dead in his home city of Chicago, but only high-profile racial cases that blame police.
We'll get to that next.
My opponent, Hillary, would rather protect the offender than the victim.
Big problem in our society.
Hillary Clinton backed policies are responsible for the problems in the inner cities today, and a vote for her is a vote for another generation of poverty, high crime, and lost opportunities.
I care too much about my country to let this happen.
And when I'm president, I will fight for the safety of every American, and especially those Americans who have not known safety for a very long time.
I'm asking for the vote of every African American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future.
It's time for our society to address some honest and very, very difficult truths.
The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African American community.
Democratic crime policies, education policies, and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes, and more poverty.
The poverty rate here is nearly double the national average.
Almost four in ten African American men in Milwaukee between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-four, do not have a job.
Nearly four in ten single mother households are living in poverty.
Fifty-five public schools in this city have been rated as failing to meet expectations despite ten thousand dollars in funding per pupil, which is a very, very high number.
There's only a sixty percent graduation rate, and it's one of the worst public school systems anywhere in the country.
One in five manufacturing jobs has disappeared in Milwaukee since we fully opened our markets, and you understand what that means.
We opened these markets to China, and many African American neighborhoods have bur have looked, they have suffered.
We opened our markets, they've taken our jobs, they give us our products that we don't make anymore, and African, American neighborhoods, along with many other neighborhoods, have suffered greatly.
To every voter in Milwaukee, to every voter living in the inner city, or every forgotten stretch of our society, I'm running to offer you a much better future, a much better job, and a much higher wage on immigration.
No community in this country has been hurt worse by Hillary Clinton's immigration and all of her policies than the African American community.
And she considers them a guaranteed vote.
Now she is proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody's job, including low-income African Americans.
Not right.
Not going to happen.
I will secure our border, protect our workers, and improve our jobs and wages in your community.
We're going to improve our wages.
We're going to improve our jobs.
And we're not going to let companies leave our country so quickly and so easily for other lands and then take their products and sell it to us.
Not going to happen.
All right, what was one of three powerful teleprompter speeches this week by Donald Trump?
News Roundup Information Overload Hour here on this Friday, 800-941-SHAWN, if you want to be a part of the program.
That in that instance, not only was Donald Trump taking on this false narrative, this war on police, the narrative of hands up, don't shoot, which never happened in Ferguson, which led to the rise of Black Lives Matter, which led to the chanting of what do we want dead cops, when do we want them now?
And led to the chance of pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon and F the police.
Also, he talked a lot about inner cities and how the educational system has failed.
Minorities all across this country, big cities that have been run by Democrats for decades and decades, and what a failure it is.
We have given out the statistics many times on this program since Obama's been president.
There's been a 58% increase black Americans on food stamps, a 20% increase black Americans now out of the labor force.
He talked about the impact, uh, the disproportionate impact on minority communities as it relates to the 95 million Americans out of the labor force as it's connected to illegal immigration.
Illegal immigrants come to America, they're looking for work, competing with the 95 million out of the labor force, and that not only creates fewer opportunities for Americans, but it also drives down wages.
And black Americans in particular have been disappo disproportionately impacted by illegal immigration and so much more.
There has been a real attempt to set the record straight using real data, facts, information that I know the media is not that interested in.
I read a piece by Heather McDonald.
She is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and she wrote about why Milwaukee burns and gives an unbelievable accounting statistically about what is really happening in America today and why this narrative against the police is false.
Uh Heather McDonald, welcome back.
Oh, thanks for having me on, Sean.
I greatly appreciate it.
All right, so let's talk about your your piece.
All right.
So first of all, the war on cops.
We hear it.
Hands up, don't shoot.
We keep hearing it.
Uh Obama invites to the White House black lives matter.
We know what they have said.
Hillary seeks out their counsel and advice on criminal justice matters.
What is the real fact as it relates to police officers, the minority community in the country?
Well, there's no government agency more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than the police, Sean.
Tens of thousands of minority males are alive today who would have been dead had the policing revolution that began in New York City in 1994 not taken place and and that policing revolution brought crime down fifty percent uh over the last two decades.
Now, however, thanks to this false narrative that that Donald Trump rightly skewered in his profound and and extraordinarily important speech uh in in Milwaukee earlier this week, uh, thanks to that false narrative, police officers are backing off of discretionary proactive policing, and crime is going up at astronomical levels in cities with large black populations.
Last year homicides rose anywhere from fifty-four percent in Washington, DC to a whopping ninety percent in Cleveland last year.
Black lives are being taken, uh, and and it's all because of this false narrative about the police as a racist force.
One of the things, Heather, I I keep pointing out, because of course black lives matter.
All lives matter.
Human life matters.
Um that's one of the reasons I've been pro-life my entire life.
Um, here's what frustrates me, and you know, I know the president has weighed in on all these high profile cases, the Cambridge police, they acted stupidly.
Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman.
And what frustrates me is he weighs in without any due process, without the presumption of innocence.
These are high profile racial cases, and he sees them through this this racial lens that he's arguing this through, and how, well, the criminal justice system is biased.
You know what?
In each case he ends up being wrong, but then in his own home city of Chicago, since he's been president, over thirty, five hundred people have been killed, the majority of which are minority Americans.
And he has barely said a word about the violence.
He hasn't done anything to stop the violence in Chicago.
That tells me that this is political for him.
He's using this for a political narrative.
Am I wrong?
Well, I think it's ideological for him.
I think he is as committed to the black victimology narrative as people in the academy or people in the media.
I don't I don't think there's any sort of uh covert agenda here of uh, I don't know, trying to get uh more black votes.
I think he actually believes that America is a racist society.
Uh but not only is he wrong on these individual cases, Sean, but he's wrong on the statistics, and he he makes a big show of trying to put out statistics to m to make his case that the police are racist, and those statistics are junk science.
They shouldn't earn a uh student a a uh F in a freshman statistics course.
Even after the assassination of five officers in Dallas, Obama had the gall to bring up his his racist cop uh narrative again, and he threw out statistics such as the fact that uh uh blacks are arrested at twice the rate of whites.
Now, I've not seen that specific uh piece of data, but I'm willing to concede that that's likely.
The reason why, however, is something that you will never hear from President Obama.
If if blacks are arrested at twice the rate of whites, it's because they commit violent crime at many more multiples than two to one.
Blacks commit homicide, for example, at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined.
And if you take Hispanics out of that equation, you get a black white homicide dire differential of about eleven to twelve times.
Black male teens between the ages of fourteen and seventeen commit gun homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic male teens combined.
And those astronomically higher rates of violent street crime are resulting in blacks getting victimized by crime at much higher rates.
And and the point of the minority believers to save lives.
Well frustrates me as a conservative is that I have always believed that every individual is sort of born with gifts and abilities from the same God.
That's my my deeply held philosophical understanding and belief about life.
That we're all we're all created by God.
Here's the issue.
Since the Great Society and Lyndon Johnson and the you know, the socioeconomic impacts of what has happened in inner city.
In other words, if we have we have had a situation where I'll give you in New York where there was an all-girls public school, and one of the civil liberties unions, I think it was the New York one, actually sued to shut down this all girls public school where the kids loved it, the parents loved it, the grades were better, and everybody was happy except some people said it was unfair.
Kids were in uniforms and they literally ripped that opportunity away.
This unholy alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party, fundamentally, aren't we really abandoning these kids from the get-go, not believing in their talent and potential, which is inherent in every person by giving them this inadequate educational system and doing nothing to fix it, and it's it's just this entrenched bureaucracy that is resistant to change and resistance towards improving academic excellence.
Doesn't it all start there?
Well, it all starts in the family, and as long as we have uh the astronomical rate of family breakdown in inner city areas that we have, you're gonna have kids starting out with an enormous disadvantage in life, not just poverty, but much higher rates of uh social breakdown, juvenile delinquency.
I mean, nationally the blackout of wedlock birth rate is seventy-three percent, and in inner city areas like you know, northern Milwaukee or or the South Bronx, it's much higher.
But given that, yes, you're absolutely right, Sean.
The best hope that kids have are schools with structure, and and I'm a big supporter of the KIPS schools.
This is an acronym for knowledge is is power, and I don't share what the second P is, but but they they absolutely script student behavior because they need structure.
They're not getting it at the home.
And as long as charter schools like that that have understood how to unlock the potential in kids by providing them discipline, providing them rules and and and reason to obey those rules are are targeted by teachers' unions, those kids are not going to be able to catch up.
And and if that happens, then the third best solution for these uh destroyed, you know, cataclysmically uh social breakdown areas is the police.
And as as Trump said rightly in his police in his speech in from the Milwaukee suburbs, it's African Americans who need the cops more than anybody else.
Rudy Giuliani in New York City by having tough policing in the neighborhoods that needed it most saved thousands of lives.
And and the police went into the neighborhoods where the crimes tended to take place in in higher numbers and lives were saved.
And that's something that I think what you're saying we can do nationally, but we can't have a narrative that says the police are against a particular community.
But I I look I could talk about this all day.
If we love all our kids, we've got to fix the educational system.
They've got to have an economy where you you don't have fifty percent of any one community where kids can't get summer jobs, and we've got to have an environment where they're safe so that they can grow up.
Uh not with gangs and not with drugs and not with poverty and misery.
So there there are certain socioeconomic things that I think good policy will fix, but again, if you want dependency as the left does, then you're never gonna fix them.
Anyway, Heather, thank you.
Well we'll talk more about it, I promise in the future.
I've just got to take a quick break here.
I'm I'm on a hard break.
All right, let's get to our busy phones here on a Friday.
Let's say hi to Kendall.
Kendall is in Tampa.
Uh news talk nine seventy WFLA.
What's going on?
Hey, Sean, Kindle from Tampa, Florida.
Nice to talk to you, watch your show.
Anyways, um, I was in the Nice terrorist attack in France this summer.
My husband and I were, so I feel like I know firsthand what a lot of your viewers not viewers, but the people you had on your show with Trump the other night, which I watched, which I thought was wonderful, and I totally supported the.
Wait till you see what we're doing next week.
I think you're gonna love it.
Oh, good, good.
I can't wait.
But I wanted to just say, you know, firsthand, I I know about these horrible attacks and what these people can do, and we really have to push not to have these refugees.
Well, you were you near where this happened?
Did you actually see it?
Did you go outside afterwards?
I was in the attack.
My husband and I were in the attack.
We were on the boardwalk when it happened, and um we were sitting there on at a famous restaurant called Lito.
I don't know if you ever heard of it on the boardwalk of Nice.
And um, actually on the beach part side.
And um, after we got through watching the fireworks, we had we're finishing our bottle of wine with dinner, and next thing I know, I hear all this gunfiring going off.
And it was just insane.
People were screaming, people were jumping over the the wall to get to the beach, and this man from the restaurant signaled my husband and I to come where he was and to like hide, because we nobody knew what was going on, and we could not speak French, so we couldn't ask anybody what was going on.
We hid in this like little room, um, there was no door.
My husband and I were having conversations, and it's very emotional.
But do we pretend like we're dead?
Do we lay on the floor or what do we do?
Because we know this attacker is gonna come in, or attackers.
We don't know.
They're gonna have a bomb.
What's going on?
To hide.
And and we saw all these people around us, they were bloody and soaking wet because some had ran and jumped in the ocean and then came back in to hide and it's you know, you're describing it's uh what and Merkel actually said something.
I could see this happening here.
I really can.
Oh, yeah.
Let's say Hillary, God forbid Hillary wins the presidency.
Yeah, I uh let me let me get this out.
And I appreciate your call.
It's if Hillary becomes president and we take in the five hundred and fifty percent more people that she wants to take in.
I watched Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany this week, actually tell the people of Germany that immigration has had nothing to do with an increase of crime.
This is the this is the fallacy of the left.
They will just look you in the eye and just lie to you.
Just like this whole ransom deal with Iran was one big fat lie.
And it's sad that your president, your secretary of state, your press secretary will just lie right to your face the way this administration has, the way Hillary does.
And they'll just tell you, oh, it has nothing to do, even though there are refugees, illegal immigrants.
You know, when Donald Trump started his campaign and talked about, yeah, there are people that are murdered and raped and killed by illegal immigrants.
We actually went down to the border with Governor Rick Perry.
I'm gonna be down at the border again next week.
That's all I could say at this point.
And I've been down there twelve times, and I sat through that intelligence briefing, and there were six hundred and forty-two thousand crimes committed against Texans in an eight-year period.
And that included rape and murder and sexual assault and all sorts of crimes.
And unfortunately, not having secure borders results in some Americans becoming victims of crime.
It's just a fact.
And I will lay out all of this next week because Hillary wants open borders.
Hillary's not willing to listen to Comey and Clapper and Steinbeck and General Allen and Mike McCall and every other intelligence official in Brennan, who all say ISIS will infiltrate this population like they did in Germany, Paris, where you were, like they did in Great Britain and like they did in Belgium and the rest of Europe.
They just it's a state of denial.
There is this belief in globalism that we're one world, one world government, one world trade, one world this, and no it's sort of like America, the imperialist, you know, nation that Obama described when apologizing about us at the beginning of his term.
Anyway, 800.
Um I'm so sorry everything you went through.
Um I'm so glad that you guys made it out of there safely.
It is beyond chilling.
Justin is in Maryland.
Justin High, how are you?
And welcome to the program.
Greetings, Sean.
You know, it's always good to speak with you.
It's been it's been a good while.
And I know we usually talk politics, but I wanted to ask you about something different that you said to you you said before.
You are a student of martial arts.
Yes, sir.
And and so I'm wondering, uh, with all of your study and your training in martial arts.
Tell me tell me about the what you get from it, you know, the discipline, you know, all the things that come from that because you may not know, but I am as well, and have I have a good history that you could easily find out about.
But tell me about your training in martial arts, how how it feels when you when you're practicing and working.
I I it's it is probably one of the most rewarding things I've ever done in my life.
I'm stronger than I've ever been in my life.
Uh it's I guess I'm five years in now.
I train multiple times a week.
Um my sensei is a a guy with oh, so many black belts, I just don't even know at this point.
Uh 10, 11, I just I just don't know.
Um, and it is an eclectic blend of different arts, uh including Kenpo and Jiu-Jitsu, Israeli martial arts, Krav Magav, for example, is included, but it's it's it's boiled down into street martial arts.
It is heavily weighted in strength training and building and also self-defense.
We train with blades and firearms and sticks, and we grapple and we fight, and you know, it's you know, we build up pain tolerance where there's a lot of boxing involved, and I just do it all.
And basically, if I had to describe it, the training for me is to be able to defend myself in any situation.
And if somebody puts a gun to my head, if somebody puts a knife at my neck, I I have a fighting chance.
You know, if somebody comes at me and and throws a punch, I'm ready to go.
You know what?
One of the things, of course, that you know with a good martial arts instructor, it isn't just about the fighting, it's about the courtesy, the respect, the discipline, and and those are the things that we get from it.
That's why it's it's absolutely fantastic for children when they are coming up, as I'm I'm sure that you know.
But but let me ask you about one one of the things that you're talking about.
Let me just say one thing.
I mean, before every session, whether I do it alone with just my instructor or I do it with other people, I mean, we bow in.
I mean, we take it very seriously if we're doing any weapons work, if it's sticks or blades or firearms.
I mean, we literally take it and we turn it upside down as a as a show of respect to our opponents.
You know, for example, we're we're very careful, especially when we're doing chokeholds and and hitting and punching, you know, like everybody knows not to hit me in the face.
You know, it's I gotta go to work the next day.
And so do most of the other guys I train with.
So let me ask you this.
With when you are going through some of your sparring sessions, isn't it exhilarating when you are throwing the kicks and punches and as well as when you're blocking the other people coming at you, doesn't it?
Isn't that a great feeling?
You know, I I I don't take pride in it.
I don't want to take pride in anything I do in my life.
I think pride is the fall of man.
I mean, you're asking me very smart, intelligent questions about it, and I'm I'm not sure this is interesting for other people, but I for me it is it's not about ego, it's about putting your ego aside.
I I will tell you this, as I have become a better student of the arts, I am less inclined by a long shot to engage in anybody because I know that I can hurt people pretty severely.
You know, and I'm talking about that would be a good idea.
I do I and and and I also carry a firearm.
I mean, I would run from somebody before I would engage them.
So that is the Humility, that's the humility that comes from the martial arts training and all of that.
And you know something, Sean?
A little bit later.
I'm gonna maybe uh maybe Lauren will share with you uh the documentaries and some things that that have been done on me and and the movies that's coming out soon.
But I want you to know how much I truly enjoy not only our conversations about politics, but especially now to talk about the martial arts and your training and how it helped you to grow and to move on.
I think that's fantastic.
And I'll tell you, I'm I'll bet your listeners also like knowing this part about you as well.
Well, I appreciate you dragging it out of me, but I mean I don't I mean my staff makes fun of me.
I mean, I'll tell you what's more important in life.
We just had a woman called from Tampa, Kendall, who went through a terror attack.
And you know, I'm more concerned about terrorism, radical Islam, keeping our homeland safe, uh, more protecting our borders, uh, vetting refugees, as she was pointing out, and and all these other things.
I think they are far more important.
But I but you know what, defending yourself is something that gives you a confidence that I can't really explain to a lot of people.
You know, people see me with black and blues on me, they're all over my arms every week.
And if if I pulled up my shirt and you saw my stomach, you would say, Wow, you're getting hit a lot, and I am.
But pain tolerance is part of it, and I just you know, I've I've just it's a passion now, and it takes a lot of work.
I don't usually want to do it, but I'm glad I have done it.
But anyway, I appreciate you you telling us.
Uh let's get back to our phones.
Vincent, Ontario, California.
Vincent, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Yeah, how are you doing, Sean?
This is Vince Pucio.
Hey, um, I just uh thought of something about Hillary Clinton and all the Clintons period.
Uh, you know, when they left the White House, I'm sure you remember they took a few items.
Yeah, that was a big problem at the time, yeah, as they were letting other people go.
Yeah, like two hundred two hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff that they took, antiques, China, paintings, TVs.
Um, and then they had to bring it all back.
And uh, I guess doesn't that make them a fugitive right off the bat?
Um stealing?
I guess, yeah, I mean, yeah, but I mean nobody cared that much about it at the time.
I was more concerned about the last minute pardons for people like Mark Rich and other people, you know, and this the FALN terrorists.
You know, there's there's literally, you know what?
You just reminded me I need to bring this back up.
We have FALN terrorists making bombs that got pardoned as Bill Clinton left the White House.
Pretty amazing, right?
No, yeah, I remember that.
I was just like I said, I was just I was sort of totally uh concerned about um the theft about it because I thought, you know, okay, if they if they stole something, that automatically makes them a criminal.
They must have a record.
If I stole something, I'd have a record.
Didn't matter if it was a pencil.
I mean, uh you're gonna you're gonna have a record.
Isn't there any kind of she is the single most dishonest corrupt?
She has sold her office and sold access, and just the biggest the the greatest liar I can think of to ever seek this office.
You know, they're making a big deal about this American swimmer.
What's his name?
Um Linda Lochte, what's his name?
Uh Lock Dr. Yeah, all right.
And you know there's a huge deal made about the fact that they made up this story, and and people are aghast and shocked.
And I'm like, well, we've got Hillary on tape lying a million times, including everything she said to James Comey.
And it doesn't seem to impact people the same way.
And I'm trying to understand why is that.
And I my only answer for it is that for the left, it's always the ends justifies the means.
You know, if you're if you're pro-abortion, you're gonna get a pass on just about everything from that crowd.
If if you say you're pro-gay rights, say you're pro-women, well, people will ignore that you take money from countries that abuse women, gays and lesbians, put them to death, uh, Christians and Jews.
Because that's the pass that Hill pass that Hillary's getting from all these disparate groups, this coalition that makes up the Democratic Party.
And so for me, it's kind of mind-numbing.
And the fact that she's in the hunt and could win this presidential race, you know, you have to almost suspend disbelief because everyone's upset about this Locktay Guy, the swimmer and his friends and what they were up to, and that they didn't tell the truth, and you know, a false police report and all of these things.
And I'm thinking, well, we've got Hillary Clinton saying she only used one device, she lied, saying she never sent or received classified materials or sent or received mark classified materials, lie, lie, lie.
And James Comey was called called her out on it when questioned by Trey Gowdy.
We hate we have for a fact a timeline that shows that she was telling the American people one thing about Benghazi, that this was a spontaneous demonstration related to a YouTube video, but she was telling her own daughter, the Libyan president, the Egyptian prime minister, the uh the other.
So if we're all shocked and our consciences are so shocked over Lacte and what happened in Rio, why aren't those same people as outraged about all of the lies that she has told and the obvious selling out of her office, which is proven through email after email?