The reports are coming in from Donald Trump's visit to Mexico and many are claiming it was his best campaign move yet. Sean discusses the impact of the Trump visit and sits down with a few key strategists to ponder the GOP candidate's next move. The Sean Hannity Show is live Monday through Friday from 3pm - 6pm ET on iHeart Radio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We will build a great wall along the southern border.
Number two, we are going to end Catch and Release.
We catch them, oh, go ahead.
We catch them, go ahead.
Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came.
Number three, this is the one I think is so great.
It's hard to believe people don't even talk about it.
Zero tolerance for criminal aliens.
Zero, zero.
Number four, block funding for sanctuary cities.
We blocked the funding.
No more funding.
We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths.
Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.
Number five, cancel unconstitutional executive orders and enforce all immigration laws.
For those here illegally today who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and one route only to return home and apply for re-entry like everybody else under the roles of the new legal immigration system that I have outlined above.
Those who have left to seek entry Thank you.
Those who have left to seek entry under this new system, and it will be an efficient system, will not be awarded surplus visas, but will have to apply for entry under the immigration caps or limits that will be established in the future.
We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration.
We will break the cycle.
I'm friends with so many, but Jameel Shaw, incredible guy, lost his son so violently.
Say just a few words about your child.
My son, Ronald Da Silva, was murdered April 27, 2002, by an illegal alien who had been previously deported.
And what so makes me so outrageous is that we came here legally.
Thank you, Mr. Trump.
I totally support you.
You have my vote.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You know what?
Name your child and come right by.
Go ahead.
Laura Wilkerson and my son was Joshua Wilkerson.
He was murdered by an illegal in 2010.
And I personally support Mr. Trump for our next president.
My name is Ruth Johnston Martin.
My husband was shot by an illegal alien.
He fought the good fight, but he took his last breath in 2002.
And I support this man who's going to change this country for the better.
God bless you.
My name is Maury Maloney, and our son, Matthew Denise, was 23 years old when he was dragged a quarter of a mile to his death by an illegal alien while horrified witnesses were banging on a truck trying to stop him.
Our son, Matthew Denise, if Donald Trump were president in 2011, our son Matthew Denise and other Americans would be alive today.
Thank you.
My name is Kathy Woods.
My son Steve, a high school senior, 17 years old, went to the beach after a high school football game.
The local gang came along, nine members.
The cars were battered to like war in Beirut.
And all I can say is they murdered him.
And if Mr. Trump had been in office then, the border would have been secure, and our children would not be dead today.
Wow, powerful, powerful day.
I would argue yesterday the best day of the Trump campaign.
Those that doubted he could be presidential and still be outspoken and forceful and strong, there was the Mexican president saying in front of the entire world, wow, we had a very productive, very good meeting together, me and Donald Trump.
I'm sure Hillary Clinton was spitting out bullets when he said that.
You know, Hillary's trying to trash Donald Trump for going to Mexico.
Why?
Mexico said they were going to have a lot of takeaways from this.
You know what the biggest takeaway is, is that strength actually does work.
And I got the distinct impression, and the Mexican president has taken a lot of heat for this.
I got the distinct impression that President Nieto was actually afraid that Donald Trump's going to win.
He wanted to get in front of this in case he did, and under the guise of, well, I've invited both candidates.
And we didn't talk about who's going to pay for the wall, but I'm willing to renegotiate NAFTA and I'm willing to, you know, I'm willing to discuss things with Mr. Trump and then coming out and being as respectful and how good this was.
Now, I know there are many Mexicans that are mad at him.
Nieto apparently is saying that he told Trump he won't pay for the wall.
I've asked Trump about this.
I said, you don't expect Mexico to give you a check one day, do you?
And he said, no, that's not what I'm looking for, but through negotiations, they'll end up paying for this.
So I think a pretty powerful day for Donald Trump.
You just heard him outlining exactly what his policies would mean.
We're going to build the wall.
We're going to block funding of sanctuary cities.
We're going to end catch and release.
We're going to have zero tolerance for criminal aliens.
We're going to end the unconstitutional executive orders and enforce the laws of the land.
That would be refreshing.
I wonder where all the anti-Trump people are on this issue.
Well, I saw some begrudgingly.
Well, he had a good day.
One good day.
He looked okay.
He didn't do too bad.
He wasn't awful.
You got to address.
Part of this is just fun.
But you think about what is wrong with this.
Now, I think most Americans understand, especially after 9-11, although Hillary, after 9-11, wanted to profile Muslims.
We have the tape of her answering Sam Donaldson, you know, specifically if she would add extra scrutiny to those that are here in this country.
And she said, well, after what happened on Tuesday, yeah, this was the Sunday after the Tuesday after 9-11, and this is what she said.
Let's talk about American life now, though.
What happens in the future from the standpoint of the question of security versus relaxation or giving up some of the freedoms that we've enjoyed in this country?
How far do we go, for instance, on airline security?
Well, I think everyone recognizes we have to tighten security.
We have to do whatever it takes to keep our people safe.
Including profiling, Senator?
Well, I think we have to do whatever it takes, Sam.
And I believe that, you know, Tuesday changed everything.
Tuesday changed everything.
Profiling, sure, I support profiling.
You know, Hillary has flipped and flopped and flailed on everything from sanctuary cities to illegal immigrants to driver's licenses to calling them illegal immigrants or undocumented workers.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
What is wrong with ending illegal immigration and enforcing the laws of our country?
And not just from Mexico, but from Central America and all around the world.
What is wrong with having a secure border?
Doesn't it make sense, especially in light of all that has happened in Europe and even in this country, that we can't have enemies of America with a right to just walk across the border anytime they please, which is pretty much the case right now because we don't have secure borders.
What's wrong with that?
You know, dismantling drug cartels at that point, now they don't have access to our borders, ending the movement of illegal drugs because they can't get them through.
I love the way Trump described it last night.
We're going to build a wall up high.
We're going to build sensors down below and we're going to make sure it's impenetrable.
I love that.
You know, to get the Mexican president to say, yeah, we can make a better deal on NAFTA so that American manufacturing companies are not hurt, take away the incentive of all these companies.
He keeps mentioning carrier air conditioners.
They go down to Mexico.
They're going to build the plant down in Mexico.
Ford's building a plant down in Mexico.
Then they want to bring their cars over to America.
And meanwhile, people in Indiana and people in Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, they're hell out of luck.
Hillary wants to put coal miners out of work, coal companies out of business.
Okay, she doesn't allow fracking.
What about Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania's been benefiting from fracking.
New York's too stupid to do fracking.
There's so much that we can do.
And I think what this shows more than anything is Donald Trump is a risk taker.
Donald Trump is not afraid to speak his mind.
Donald Trump showed that you can take a position of strength and take a risk and stand on your position.
And lo and behold, instead of making an apology tour like Obama, other countries will respect your strength.
And he's negotiating now with Mexico from a position of strength.
He's willing to say what needs to be said.
He's not bowing before Saudi princes.
He's not saying America and America's past deeds and the terrible deeds in the name of Christ and all this other crap that we've heard the last eight years.
It's actually refreshing.
You know, yeah, he said criminals do cross the border.
Pretty powerful moment when all those angel moms stood behind him.
Because I do think that the media has been negligent in their job.
And Trump challenged them on this, you know, to do their job and tell the stories of the suffering of these families.
These families have lost their loved ones.
We've had many of them on this program, many of them on television.
We had a couple of the moms that I'd interviewed before on TV last night.
They've lost their kids.
You know, I tell the story, and Trump actually mentioned it in his speech last night.
I don't know if you heard the interview here, but the father of this poor kid working in a convenience store at 4 in the morning, saving money for college.
He's 21 years old.
In comes an illegal immigrant.
We find out later the illegal immigrant had raped a woman and kept this woman prisoner, kidnapped her for a week.
Okay, he got out of jail.
We didn't send him back to the country of origin.
We kept him in this country.
Then he walks into a mini-mart store late at night.
Kids trying to make money for college.
He wants to steal cigarettes.
The kid's racing to get him his cigarettes.
He didn't get them fast enough, so he shoots them.
Well, that's happening.
That should not happen.
That is a preventable death if we secure our borders.
It's a preventable death if we end up taking convicted illegal immigrants.
You know, the Federal Sentencing Commission says for the year 2015 alone, 36.6% of the 70-plus thousand criminal sentences given out were fully given to illegal immigrants.
That is a disproportionate and unacceptably high number of illegal immigrants committing crimes.
A seven-year period in Texas.
When I sat through the border briefing with Governor Rick Perry, 642,000 crimes committed against Texans, including murder, including rape, in a seven-year period.
How many more Texans have to be victims of crime?
Or how many more people from Arizona have to be victims of crime?
Or Nevada or California have to be victims of crime or elsewhere around the country.
You know, I know there's a particular town where I live in Long Island that if you want to pick up workers on any given day, you can go pick up workers.
And they're all here illegally.
And contractors know they can pick them up, pay them a day's wage, pretty cheap labor.
And that means they don't have to hire one of the 95 million Americans out of the labor force, and they're saving money.
You've got 8 million Americans, illegal immigrant Americans.
Well, then it wouldn't be the same.
8 million illegal immigrants that are in the job market right now, 11.3 million total.
But Trump was right, too.
We don't even really know the number.
These are estimates that we have.
Nobody really knows what the number is.
But then the issue becomes: well, this is not fair.
This is not compassion.
We can be compassionate.
Nate Silver, the guy that said that Hannity doesn't believe in polls, I actually do believe in polls.
I believe in the aggregate of polls, the real clear politics average.
Look at it every day.
I also see trends.
Also, see that Donald Trump now is leading in a few polls over Hillary Clinton.
But I think he's down aggregate-wise.
It's a very close race in Florida.
It's a very close race in Ohio.
It's a very close race in Pennsylvania.
It's close in North Carolina.
It's very close right now, even in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Nobody can tell you right now where this election is going.
Anyway, over at 538, he put out these tighter margins that are showing up in the polls, reflecting a loss of support of Clinton and a modest improvement for Trump have come gradually over the past few weeks.
So he's recognizing what I've been telling you.
The evidence of a tightening has become more widespread, however, and it's particularly clear in the polls that surveyed the race just after the conventions.
They're now retaking their temperature.
And what if the race continues to tighten, he says?
I've often heard Democrats express a belief that Clinton's position in swing states will protect her in an electoral college in the electoral college, even if the race draws to a dead heat overall.
He writes, this is potentially mistaken.
Although it's plausible that Clinton's superior field operation would pay dividends, so far her swing state results have ebbed and flowed with her national numbers.
And the other thing to notice about Clinton's swing state polls is that they aren't especially strong relative to her national polls.
At her post-convention peak, Clinton's path of least resistance to 270 electoral votes appeared to run through a set of states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, among others.
But in Pennsylvania, most recent polls have Clinton ahead by a slight margin, three points.
Perfectly fine, but not that different from our national numbers.
So I think this race is really tight.
I want to see the poll results after next week.
That's what I'm really looking to see.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program?
We'll get to your calls in the next hour.
We got a hurricane headed towards Florida.
We'll get a quick update from our buddy Joe Bastardi.
We've got a lot of other things coming up.
We'll debate Donald Trump at the top of the next hour in his speech yesterday.
We got two people.
I mean, building a wall, having Mexico pay for it, stop the catch and release, zero tolerance for criminal aliens, block funding sanctuary cities, cancel unconstitutional executive orders, suspend visas to countries where adequate screening cannot occur, return criminals back to the country of origin, complete biometric entry-exit tracking, turn off the jobs and benefits magnet, and reform existing immigration rules.
It's very simple.
By the way, Biden won't defend the ethics of the Clinton Foundation.
Daily Caller reports that Biden has trouble defending the Clinton Foundation when confronted by a reporter.
Do you think Americans should be concerned about the ethics of the Clinton Foundation?
Has the foundation always been 100% ethical in your view?
He says, Look, I think the Clinton Foundation, like all foundations, have found themselves in a position where things are changing, and I think they're going to change.
And I think they're going to adjust to the realities of how complicated it's all become.
What kind of answer is that?
By the way, in the latest Rasmussen survey, Donald Trump is up by what one point there.
He's taking a lead there.
Anyway, latest, no, I'm sorry, Trump with 40% of the vote.
Clinton's 39%.
That's pretty good.
If you have a Fox News poll that Trump and Clinton are in a virtual tie, it's now a two-point race there.
And that's better for Trump because he was up, he was down like seven or eight points in the latest poll that they had.
You've got after the immigration speech of Trump, donors were swamping the Trump website, according to Gateway pundit.
Anyway, the Trump campaign website crashed following that speech in Phoenix, Arizona.
That does not surprise me.
We now know that Bill and Hillary used tax dollars to pay for illegal emails, the illegal email server.
Can you believe that?
Bill Clinton and his staff used decades-old federal government program originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse to subsidize the Family Foundation and associated businesses and support his wife's private email server.
So you actually paid for the email server in the closet of the mom and pop shop.
Can you imagine putting your top-secret special access program information on that?
The first showdown between Trump and Hillary is going to be a forum next week with Matt Lauer.
Isn't Matt Lauer one of the Clinton Foundation donors?
I know George Stephanopoulos is.
Is Lauer?
Do we know?
Can we look that up?
It's going to be a one-hour forum.
Clinton and Trump will answer questions about national security, military affairs, veterans' issues in front of an audience mainly made up of members of the military.
The two candidates will not be on the stage at the same time, but they'll go back to back.
It's worth noting.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Notable past member is what Lauer is on the Clinton Global Initiative website, along with Anderson Cooper and Katie Corick and George Stephanopoulos.
Good grief.
Is there anybody that didn't donate?
Pretty amazing.
All right, from theweatherbell.com network.
He's Mr. Weather himself.
He's a friend of ours.
Our good friend Joe Bastardi is with us.
And we've got some bad weather heading into Florida and then up the East Coast.
How are you?
Pretty well, Sean.
How are you doing today?
All right.
What's going on?
Well, we've got a lot of problems coming.
And it's sort of deja vu.
I'm over at your stopping ground here at the Fox studio.
And I walked in, and some young lady said to me, Oh, no, you were here before Sandy.
And I got to tell you something, I am very, very concerned about what happens with this storm Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week, where after this hits Florida tonight, it's coming in as a hurricane just east of Apalachicola.
It races through the coastal Carolinas in Georgia.
And what you're going to see there east of I-95, you're going to see winds 50, 60 miles an hour and gusts, 6 to 10 inches of rain from Savannah all the way up to Hatteras and Norfolk.
But then the storm gets offshore, Sean.
And you know, because you live on Long Island, the water is extremely warm this year off the Northeast beaches.
In fact, it's as warm as what it normally is off the South Atlantic coast.
So here's what I think is going to happen.
This thing is going to get out over the water Sunday and become a, if it's not a hurricane, it'll become a hurricane again, and then just sit and meander within 50 to 100 miles of the coast.
And my biggest concern is repetitive high tides, one after another, each higher than the one before, and hurricane force wind gush just offshore, piling waves back in there.
And unlike Sandy, where Sandy came all the way in, Sean, I don't think this is coming all the way in.
I think it's going to sit and stop and mill around and continually batter those beaches on New Jersey, Long Island, down to Delaware and Maryland for two, three, maybe four days.
And I am very concerned about this to a point where, you know, we sort of committed to that yesterday at Weatherbell, and we're still thinking that that is a very, very dangerous scenario that could occur here.
Well, tell us exactly.
Walk us through exactly where this is going to hit and when and how.
And give us the path of it.
I've seen it on your website, but I want you to explain it.
Well, we're looking at to make landfall east of Appalachicola tonight, and it'll be in southern Georgia and come up to the west of Savannah, just to the west of Charleston, tomorrow and tomorrow night.
And then it will come in over the outer banks, it looks like.
So in other words, it's not going to be out over the ocean.
It's going to be just inland.
Now, you say, well, how come it's not weakening?
It's going to weaken some, but it's still drawing warm tropical air in off the ocean.
And over 50% of the circulation, close to 50% of the circulation, is over the ocean, so it can maintain a lot of its intensity.
So by the time we get to, by the time we get to very late Saturday night and Sunday, it's coming through the North Carolina Outer Banks.
It goes out over the water again Sunday afternoon and Sunday night.
And then Labor Day, it's going to be sitting in Atlantic City, Del Marvin Peninsula's backyard, maybe within 60, 70 miles of the coast as a hurricane.
And so you're looking at a Labor Day that's going to be very bad along our beaches.
And as far as, you know, when you get up to Long Island, New England, this will spare them relative to what will happen in New Jersey, but it will still be bad up there Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with easterly gales.
I'm not that concerned about the rain amounts up in southern New England.
I am concerned eastern New Jersey all the way down and into the Carolinas in there that we have flooding rains.
But the thing is, look, folks, 1962, we had it, obviously, in March.
It wasn't a tropical storm.
You had a low pressure that sat off the North Carolina coast for three, four, five days.
And we had the tides enhanced by the moon.
We have a new moon coming up.
So all these things piled up.
So you get days and days of easterly winds pushing water back into the coast.
And so you can see my concern.
A tide, let's say Sunday afternoon might be three feet above normal, Sunday night, four feet above normal, and five feet above normal.
And when you're piling 15, 20-foot waves on top of that, you get a situation where those barrier islands that took such a vicious beating from Sandy.
I'm afraid that something like that could occur.
It won't be the same genre, a little bit different fashion, but the end result could be very, very bad in those areas.
I'm not trying to scare people.
I'm just trying to let people understand what they might be facing Monday, Tuesday, and on into Wednesday.
So here's the selfish question I always put in.
How bad am I going to get hit?
Well, in your area, my concern is, you know, you may get some gale-force winds and some rain, but I think what starts happening is you start piling water back westward into Long Island Sound, and that keeps piling up, piling up, piling up.
But I'm much more concerned, for instance, Newark Bay, the bays down to Atlantic City and places like that.
Barnegate, those barrier islands in there, are more concerned about that situation right now.
So, you know, this is going to be a pretty bad storm in Florida.
But, you know, Florida, I got to say, Florida knows these kind of hurricanes.
They're a category one hurricane, and they don't get hit that often in the fight of Florida, where this is coming from, is that area, that arcing area to the east of Appalachicola.
So this is going to be a little bit unusual for them.
The folks in the coastal Carolinas, you know, a storm moving along this path just inland is kind of unusual.
But again, when we get this thing off the mid-Atlantic coast, I think that whatever status it has, whether they want to say it's non-tropical at the time, it organizes back together and really starts pounding away.
So from Sunday, Sunday afternoon, into Monday and perhaps Tuesday and Wednesday as well, it's going to be a long, drawn-out siege in those areas.
You know, all right.
Well, everyone's in our thoughts and prayers.
You know, it's always painful.
I was down in Baton Rouge.
I don't know if you saw any of the TV shows down there.
It is, you know, weather can be so devastating.
I mean, can you imagine living in a no-flood zone, so you don't have flood insurance, and it's street after street and block after block and neighborhood after neighborhood.
I know, and I wanted to say something.
I'm praying that the Hurricane Center does not take the name off this, even though it may no longer be purely tropical.
You know, we saw that thing.
You know that we just correspondence and everything else.
Saw that thing coming seven, eight days away.
The European computer model had 39 inches of rain forecasted just off the mouth of the Mississippi.
It was seeing that thing days and days away.
But what happens is no name on it or whatever, and it gets lost in the crack.
I wrote an article at Patriot Post in July 26th saying that the candidate that could understand what the tropics can produce this year and respond to that, be ready to respond, would touch the hearts and minds of the American people.
And sure enough, I think that was very impressive that Donald Trump went right down into that area and showed that he, you know, I'm just saying that he, I don't know if he read the article, but this hurricane season, because of the warmth of the water, the nature of the season, you've got to realize we're like we're in the 1950s and there was a lot of action in the eastern part of the United States in the 1950s.
All right.
Thanks so much, Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com.
We'll be watching closely.
And anyone in the path of this is on our thoughts and prayers, you got to take all this stuff very seriously.
We've seen the devastation over the years.
Let us go to our busy telephones, as we promised here.
Let's go to Cecilia, Traverse City, in Michigan.
How are you, Cecilia?
Glad you called.
Thank you.
I'm well, Sean.
Thank you.
I wanted to know if you know, say, horrible, worst-case scenario.
Hillary does get elected.
And after November, between November and January, if she were convicted, who becomes the president?
Does it go to the VP?
At that point, if she was elected and sworn in, yeah, it would go to the VP.
Before she's sworn in.
Before she's sworn in, I still think it would probably go to the VP, but that's a good question.
I haven't really thought about that.
I would think it would naturally, at that point, go to the VP if anything happens.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I know that's what, you know, I was told that.
You know, my scariest thought is if she wins, and you may think this is absolute paranoia on my part.
I think my fear is the reason Obama has done all this cover for him, I think Obama wants to be on the Supreme Court.
I think Obama would love to be a Supreme Court justice.
Well, either.
Yeah.
The other thing that could happen, too, is they could pardon her.
Now, think about that.
In other words, let's say she was convicted before she gets a, you know, but you're talking about a time frame here, knowing how the legal system works.
Just don't see legally time-wise how that could ever happen.
But it is an interesting hypothetical, and it's a great question.
But I would suspect that if that happened, that Obama would step up and pardon her, right?
I don't know.
I was told that the president has to die in order for the VP to take over and that it would revert to the current president or the last president.
Now, whether that person knew what they were talking about or not, but it sure would be nice to know the real answer.
All right.
Appreciate your call.
Thank you so much, Cecilia.
Let us go to Judy in Missouri in the Ozarks.
What's up, Judy?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you.
First, I'm glad you gave that weather update because I've got family in Florida, north of South Carolina, and Virginia.
So thanks for the update on what's going on there.
Some people complain when we do that because, well, it's not impacting me.
And I'm like, you know, sorry, but there are a lot of people that are facing potential devastation here.
We want to keep our family of audience safe.
And you're right.
You might have relatives there, but we certainly can have empathy for those people that might be going through hard times in the days to come, right?
Oh, absolutely.
And thinking of all the prep work they're having to do in anticipation of the possibility.
But anyway, I was calling today about Trump.
There's something that I really think needs to happen that would be very effective for those states and for those voters who just have not made up their mind yet and they don't know what they're going to do.
I think with relation to immigration, we need nationals here who came in as an immigrant, went through the process, became a citizen, who are leaders of their own right, highly respected by their own group, who are voting for Trump, to get up and say why he's going in the right direction, why they agree with him, and why they're voting for him.
I think we also need to do the same thing with women.
We need to do it with students who are old enough.
They need student peers who are strung into this, who understand what's going on, know what it means for their future, to stand up and speak and say, here's why you guys have got to vote for this man and not vote for her.
One of my fears that I had of the debate coming up is that Hillary would do her best to rattle Trump and he would just blow it.
And I had a friend who texted me this morning and said, I don't know if this is correct or not.
You can tell me if it is, that Hillary has hired an entire team of psychiatrists to study Trump's personality to determine how she can rattle him during the debate so that he will completely blow it.
These people who stand up and lead these different groups, black Americans, women, Jews, immigration people, I mean, all of these who have not made up their mind, they need to get up now and they need to speak loud and say, don't fall into the tricks and the antics.
Here's what he stands for.
Here's why I'm voting for him.
Here's why I urge you to vote for him too.
I think, look, everything that I've been saying and you're saying, I think is right.
But I think Donald Trump has a task ahead of him.
He's got to prepare for the debates.
He's got to have his quips.
He's got to have his responses, how they failed and what his solutions are.
And yes, he's got to build that impenetrable shield because she's going to poke and aggravate, agitate, upset, hurt his feelings, and try and piss him off.
That's her entire goal during the debates.
On my first day in office, I am also going to ask Congress to pass CAITS Law, named for Kate Steiner, to ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences.
Strong.
And then we get them out.
Another reform I'm proposing is the passes of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant.
The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly identified and removed.
And they will go fast.
Believe me, they're going to go fast.
We're going to triple the number of ICE deportation officers.
Within ICE, I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal, illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice, just like Hillary Clinton has evaded justice, okay?
Maybe they'll be able to deport her.
All right, that is Donald Trump from yesterday.
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You want to be a part of this extravaganza on what capped off a pretty dramatic, straightforward day in the Trump campaign as he first met with the president of Mexico, had a successful meeting with him.
I mean, so much happened in that meeting that really stood out to me.
You have the President Nieto saying the conversation was open and it was constructive.
Of course, he also said he'd be willing to renegotiate and reopen NAFTA and other trade negotiations.
He said it could be improved, probably direct reaction of Donald Trump saying it's pretty much one-sided.
Now, he's getting a lot of heat.
I think unfairly, Jorge Ramos, Mexican president, look weak and shy next to Donald Trump.
Well, I think he recognizes the wall is going to go up and it's going to impact their country.
And he realizes the benefits of having good relations with the United States.
Hillary Clinton now looks bad, 269 days, no press conference.
If you want to look at this thing politically, Trump is willing to take a major, major risk, and he's willing to show that he can be on a world stage.
And he is, you know, taking on any criticism that he's not fit or presidential.
And I think in that sense, and he's still standing by his core positions, and he outlined five specific goals.
End illegal immigration, but not just from Mexico, from Central America, anywhere else.
Secure the border.
We have a right to sovereign borders as a country.
Get rid of these drug cartels and end the movement of illegal drugs and weapons and funds that are going across the border.
Improve trade in NAFTA and revisit that.
Keep manufacturing wealth in this hemisphere, not going to other hemispheres.
Anyway, so he said he'll build the wall, said he'll pay for it, took a huge risk.
And I would predict that you're going to see a major movement in the polls as a result of this.
We'll find out by next week.
But of course, the polls have been moving in Trump's direction now for the last two weeks.
Joining us is Madeline Morea, and she's the director at Latinos for Trump.
And by the way, next Sunder, her coalition, along with other Hispanic groups, are going to be doing something big in Miami for Donald Trump.
Francisco Hernandez, an immigration attorney out of Texas, is back with us.
How much?
Madeline, let me start with you.
So why is there this perception that Latinos don't support Trump when in fact polls show that they do?
It's just the typical liberal identity politics.
I don't know if a lot of people know this, but the number one issue that Hispanic voters care about, it's not immigration.
It's the economy.
And if you look at the issue polls, big majorities see that Donald Trump is the stronger Hanoi in the economy.
Of course, he's a famous businessman.
And yeah, so while we're impressed by what he said on immigration yesterday, I'd love to see him do something game-changing like announce Rand Paul for his appointee for commerce secretary or something like that.
Hispanics are not monolithic.
We care about issues that affect Americans.
Hispanic, that's our background.
That's our heritage.
But our present identity is American, and we vote the way every other American voters do, for the most part.
Francisco, you've said to me you support a wall, right?
You want to end illegal immigration, right?
Yes, and illegal immigrants want to end illegal immigration, too.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Francisco, Francisco, that's an insane statement.
Illegal immigrants want to eliminate, if they really wanted to, they wouldn't come here illegally.
They wouldn't be illegal if they could.
You're right.
Okay, so they don't want to end illegal immigration.
They like the fact that they can sneak across our border, and they do.
They cannot be as people smugglers.
If they really wanted to end illegal immigration, they wouldn't come here illegally.
So that's a little bit of a false statement.
All right, let me move on here.
I think the most important thing we've got going on here is whether or not we're going to build the wall and how effective that wall is going to be.
Will never be built.
You don't think it'll ever be built?
We can't afford it.
It's not feasible.
We tried to do it in the 2000s.
It didn't work.
Okay.
I will bet you that that wall will be built if Trump becomes president.
We'll meet you at the border again.
Illegal immigration is already costing us over $100 billion a year.
And Trump should have talked about is how to get the cartels under control because they're the main reason that people are risking their lives to come here.
Second, it is an economic issue.
If there are jobs and they're giving it to the undocumented immigrants, you're right.
They will come.
So we've got to make sure that if you want to solve it, okay, don't hire undocumented immigrants and all our prices will go through the roof.
Trump is just playing what we in Texas call a political cowbill.
It's shiny, it clangs, but it's completely hollow.
It's going to do nothing.
What you are suggesting is what everyone else would call a definition of insanity, trying something again and again and seeing if it'll work this time.
Oh, no, I have said 3 million illegal immigration.
It was a complete and utter failure.
So what makes everybody think that it's going to work again this time?
So you mean if we let Cubans who get here by hook or crook, they can stay here and get their green card and citizenship for free?
I happen to agree with you on that point because we already have a refugee and asylum program on an individual basis.
It makes no sense.
I agree with you.
I agree.
I agree with that.
We should enforce the law fairly and equally to every human being on this planet.
That applies to Mexicans, South Americans, Cubans.
It doesn't matter where you are.
And there shouldn't be a geographical advantage just because you happen to live on the border.
What about all the poor people in Calcutta?
I agree.
There ought to be a better life.
That's a good criteria that would be fair and equally applied.
I agree with you.
But it is our neighbor to the south.
And in large part, we caused the economic crisis in Mexico by NAFTA.
And I'm a proponent of NAFTA, but we have caused people, small farmers, they can't grow corn as cheap as the Jolly Green Giant can put it on the shelf in the Walmart in Mexico.
So what's left for them to do?
Head north, okay?
But no wall is going to be available.
No wall is going to stop the cartel.
If you boil it down, we have a giant problem where millions of people are ignoring the law.
It's hurting the country on countless levels.
The law of the land should be enforced equally to everyone to whom it applies.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Let's set up the criteria.
Mr. Hannity, you set up a five-score criteria years ago.
Nobody listened to it.
Well, I was right then, and I'm right now, and I agree with Donald Trump now.
I think Donald Trump laid out the plan.
Listen, you know, here's the thing that I hate.
Hollow.
It's what?
It's hollow and he crawfish.
That's why you have to make that speech.
Okay, it's not.
It's not hollow.
Listen, you're giving me political talking points now, but you know what?
And I know Jeb Bush made the same prediction that Trump isn't going to build the wall.
I would be stunned and shocked beyond measure if that wall didn't get built if he becomes president of the United States.
And you know what?
It's good for our country to do it.
And I'll tell you why.
Did you see at the end of the speech last night, all those mothers, angel mothers that he brought up behind him, and all of those mothers lost their children, lost their children that died needlessly.
Can I finish, please?
I'm talking about mothers that lost their children.
Why are you being so rude?
That lost their children because of illegal immigration and criminals and murderers killing innocent Americans.
You don't have to use them.
You don't have to use people's emotions.
Just say what you're going to do and put out a plan how you're going to do it.
That was so cheap to use those poor folks.
Cheap?
What about their emotions?
What about their emotions when their children were killed by people who should never have been here in the first place?
Well, I guess maybe, Francisco, you think it's cheap, but you know what?
Those parents have to go the rest of their lives without their children.
And by the way, there are thousands of them.
This is not the case of just those women on stage.
These are not rare instances.
It's happened a lot.
And he's an immigration attorney.
He should know.
I'm an attorney as well.
I used to work in immigration.
And you and I both know there are people who have come here three, four, five, six, ten times in a row who are committing crimes and they're hurting this country.
And you and I would agree on what the solution is for that?
The prison system, the court system.
Why do you have no heart for mothers that lost their children?
I do have a heart.
That's why it offends me that he used them.
I don't hear the heart at all.
What I hear is that you say he used them, but he's also telling the American people the damage that has been done as a result of illegal immigration.
For example, do you think it's fair to the taxpayers of the United States that they have to foot the bill $113 billion in order to pay for illegal immigrants and pay for their schools and pay for their health care and pay for their education?
It's going to take us about an hour-long debate to justify that.
Do you think it's fair for the American people that they have been bearing the burden of literally paying billions of dollars in taxes a year because of illegal immigration?
Is that fair to them?
True, it would not be fair, but let's go back to what you said.
Let's establish some fair, consistent criteria.
I asked you, listen, you want to answer another question.
Answer my question.
Well, they didn't work, did they?
Congress has sat on their butts for now.
No, the president has decided unilaterally not to enforce the law of the lands, which I believe is lawless and unconstitutional.
Come on, we can't.
So now I'm going to ask you another question.
We have 95 million Americans out of work.
We have 8 million immigrants, either working, illegal immigrants, working or looking for work.
Do you think it's fair to American workers that they have to compete with illegal immigrants for the few jobs that are available?
And because of the increased competition, it drives down the wages that they pay.
We're assuming that the U.S. citizens will get up on a roof on 105-degree weather.
Let's make it a, instead of policy and punishing, let's just say we're going to give employers an incentive if they'll hire U.S. citizens to do these dirty jobs.
Let's start there.
Okay.
First of all, it's not for you to determine what jobs Americans want or don't want.
There's 95 million Americans out of the labor force, a 20% increase for black Americans who no longer participate.
They're out of the labor participation force.
And then you've got a 58% of black Americans now on food stamps as a result of Obama's policies.
And I listen to you, and you don't care about anybody except, I guess, the people that are paying you to let them stay in this country illegally that are benefiting from the generosity of American taxpayers.
And you've never represented illegal immigrants and tried to keep them here?
I'm sorry.
Have you ever represented any illegal immigrants on American soil and attempt to help to keep them here?
Yes, the good hardships.
So you make you make some of your money helping people that didn't respect our laws and sovereignty to stay here.
I'm sorry I didn't catch that.
I said you get paid money to help people that didn't respect American law and sovereignty.
You're getting paid a lot of money to put on a show about illegal people being here.
Getting paid anything, and I can see that it's not fair to enforce our law differently depending on what you've done and where you've come from.
You and I do not disagree one bit on that.
Not one bit.
And you also get, I'm glad we can agree.
And what do you say to the people who lose jobs to illegal immigrants, and they then themselves have to go on food stamps and social assistance?
Let them put on the stage with Trump and say, you know what?
I applied for the public.
Well, why?
If they go on the stage with Trump, you're going to say that Trump is using those people, and that's not fair to those people.
Exactly.
So you just told them to put them on stage.
They're not there.
But the reality is, you don't care as long as the people that pay you get to stay in the country legally.
Now we're making it about me, but you make millions of dollars putting it in.
You have no idea how much I get paid.
I get paid to talk about the issues of the day, which means I'm a talk show host.
I'm not helping illegal immigrants get to stay in a country that they didn't respect American law and sovereignty.
Trump wouldn't have been up there last night without talking about it.
And the networks and you and the vote and the parties, everybody's making money off of them, right?
But we all agree that there ought to be five.
I'm not making money off of people that break American laws like you are.
Well, have we agreed?
Hey, let's come up with the criteria.
Let's get it done.
I'm going to lend it back to our law.
Put on this show, Mr. Hannity, five years ago.
Everybody says that we can't do it, or there's too many people.
Over 12 million people are arrested every year by law enforcement.
12 million people.
More than 2 million people are in jail at any given point.
So, how on earth do we do it?
I mean, it should be impossible, right?
Based on the logic of you and everybody else who says we can't support everybody.
This is America.
It's not a third world country.
We need to enforce our laws.
Everybody says Trump might be another Reagan.
I think he'll be another Kennedy because Kennedy made his speech saying that we were going to go to the moon, and NASA had no idea he was going to say it.
And they said, We don't even have the technology to even try to do this.
But he believed we could do it, and we did it within a decade.
So Trump is going to be that president who wills into doing what we have, forcing all off for the benefit of everybody here.
And you know what?
I think even your clients, it can end up helping them because as soon as we finish doing the enforcement part, Trump said we're going to reform the legal procedure for them to come in.
So maybe they'll begin to come in sooner and not the 18-year wait from Mexico.
Let's try something different.
It can be better for everybody.
Like we said, both Mexico and the United States.
What he said with the president of Mexico yesterday, that was a historic moment.
It was something we never heard before.
And he did it from a position of strength.
He didn't go in there being weak.
He told everybody how proud and how much he loves his country.
What a difference from Barack Obama.
Thank you both for being with us.
Madeline, thank you.
Francisco, thank you.
I'm so proud of my team here on the Sean Hannity show.
We've got Linda.
I'm not as proud of her as everybody else.
But then we got Jason, Ethan.
Well, come on.
I'm just kidding.
You're the leader of the team.
You defend the whole team.
All right, who made the mistake?
This is Linda.
I know who I'll handle.
I did.
And I'm like, oh, the sun doesn't rise in China.
And it's Linda's fault, even though I know she had nothing to do with it.
Who made the mistake?
I did.
She protects her team.
She looks at them as her little, you know, I don't know, your children or something.
I mean, it's so protective.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway, but our good friend Lauren, and yes, you can put your mic on there, Lauren, has now brought her second dog into our studios, and she trains them.
These are vet dogs.
And every year, some friends of mine have a program that they put together.
It's the Guide Dog Foundation.
It's their 70th anniversary.
And how many dogs now have you taken in, Lauren?
This is Treat.
She's our second dog that we've had here in the studio, and she's amazing.
And these dogs do such wonderful things for people.
Right.
And so I'm so proud to be part of it.
And she loves being here, and she loves jumping on you.
Well, here's the thing.
And what was the first dog's name?
I forgot.
Moats, Mr. Moates.
All right, Mr. Moates actually graduated and has successfully been placed, correct?
He's actually a breeder.
Oh, they're using him to breed?
He's living it up in California.
Oh, so he got the tough assignment.
He did.
He's a whining dog.
Moats was the laziest dog I ever met.
The dog wouldn't move.
The dog was a puppy, and like, oh, I don't feel like getting out.
You're going to make me stand up against it.
Turns out he gets up for one thing.
Yeah, apparently he does get up for one thing.
And the funny thing about all of this is Treat, I don't think, is going to make it.
Now, I love the dog.
What kind of dog is Treat?
She's half golden, half lab.
Okay.
I love Treat.
You know, I love Treat.
Treat loves to play with her, you know, Uncle Sean and jumps all over me.
And the thing is.
I'm sorry.
No, that's not an accurate depiction of what happens on a daily basis.
I think Uncle Sean likes to play with Treat, and he's a bad influence.
Okay, but the bottom line is Treat can't help himself when he sees me gets so excited, he jumps on me, and that's against the rules.
So I'm not sure Treat's going to make it to graduation.
You're going to go before or after you say jump.
Jump Treat.
No, she does it without me saying it anymore.
That's because you hit your legs.
You go, come on, come on, come on, come here, jump.
Oh, okay.
But if he was so disciplined and so well-trained, he wouldn't listen.
She's 10 months old.
She is a work in progress.
She's an incredible dog.
I really hope she does make it because she's great.
I agree.
I hope she makes it.
And if you noticed, I have stopped saying jump, but in the beginning, I did say jump just to prove you weren't the best trainer that you thought you were.
And we were having some fun inside of the studio.
You stopped saying jump, but you still hit your legs.
I do not.
Brad Hibbert is the director of training at America's Vet Dogs, and retired U.S. Army Major Peter Way is a recipient of American Vet Dog.
And I got to tell you, we have actually, if you want to make a contribution, we've set up a website at Hannity.vetdogs.org.
And you got to understand what happens here.
These vet dogs are pretty amazing.
It costs $50,000 to breed, raise, train, and place a single-service dog.
It was created to provide enhanced mobility, renewed independence to our vets, active duty service members, first responders that have disabilities.
The vet dogs serve our veterans who have served us honorably, and regardless of when or where they served or how they become disabled.
Now, America's Vet Dogs is a 501c3 nonprofit.
It relies on contributions from you.
And frankly, the government ought to be doing this just like they ought to fix the VA, but they're not, so they need our help.
Anyway, Brad and Major Way, Peter, thank you for being with us.
Sir, my honor.
Yeah, thanks, Sean.
This is Brad.
Great opportunity to talk about our program.
And Lauren, I'm behind you 100%.
I got a feeling I know who needs the training here, and it's not Treat.
Well, come on.
It was all in good fun.
I was just trying to say that the dog isn't getting there yet.
And I got to give a shout out to some friends of mine.
They are members of the Huntington Long Island Country Club.
And they do this every year.
And what I understand, how much did you guys raise in the last few years from this particular golf event that they do for you?
Gosh, you know, I don't even have the number, Sean, but it's a lot.
And we just had it last Monday, tremendous turnout.
Everybody there had a blast and a good time, and Peter was there.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Peter, tell us about your dog.
So my dog is a black Labrador named Rory.
And I received him in January of 2014.
And he was trained to help me with mobility issues.
I'm a right above-knee amputee.
And then I've also had issues with PTSD and some of the other more common military and wartime problems.
And so Rory helps me out with mobility, with getting around with and without a prosthetic and when I'm in a wheelchair.
And then he was trained to handle other tasks such as nightmare interruption.
And he sort of creates a distraction for me when I'm out in public, crowded areas, things like that, and gives me something else to focus on.
You know, let me ask you, to what extent have you had a scale of 1 to 10, the impact that this service dog has had on your life, considering you're an amputee?
I mean, very difficult PTSD.
There are over 250,000 vets that to some degree or another have been suffering from PTSD from Iraq and Afghanistan because of the multiple tours that we put them on.
If you had to give a scale 1 to 10, how much of an impact has it had on your life, 10 being the best?
He's absolutely a 10.
It's sort of cliche to say it's even beyond that scale.
It's almost impossible to sometimes to put into words or even scale the effect that he's influenced and affected not just my life, but my family's life.
I'm a different person entirely since getting this dog.
I do things that I just wasn't able to do anymore.
The psychological side of just getting out, doing things, getting out in public, going places with my family.
So this has had a total, complete ⁇ if you're a 10, I would assume that that means that this has been a total, complete upgrade in your life to the point where it profoundly made your life better.
Is that a fair statement?
I don't want to put words in your mouth.
No, that's absolutely it.
He's changed my life so much for the better.
It's 180 degrees from the direction I was headed and the place that I was in prior to getting him.
Wow.
Wow.
That's so great.
Now, Brad, how can people help and explain the process here because $50,000 per dog is a lot of money?
Yeah, I mean, let's start with the process.
I mean, that is a big number, but when you think about it, what we're doing is we're breeding all of our own puppies.
So we have a very strong breeding program.
We work cooperatively internationally to make sure that we're strengthening our DNA in our colony.
So we're breeding all of our own puppies.
Our service dogs are all raised in a prison program, which has to be supported.
All up and down the eastern seaboard.
We work with inmates from Massachusetts all the way down into Florida to raise these dogs until they're about a year and a half of age.
Then they come into our campus in Smithtown, Long Island, to begin their formal training.
So you have the staff and everybody that's involved in the care and the training of the dog.
We have our facility here where we provide a two-week program for our veterans to come in and work with their guide dog or their service dog here.
And then we also provide a lifetime of aftercare and support.
So if Peter, when he first graduated and he went home with Rory and he was having any issues, or even today if he was having any issues, we would fly somebody out to work with Peter and Rory to get them back on the right track.
So when you combine all those things together, it's not an inexpensive proposition.
Wow, that's so expensive.
That's so hard and so difficult.
You know, how many dogs do you actually train a year?
Right now, if you combine, so we have two organizations, two sister organizations, Guide Dog Foundation, which, as you mentioned earlier, is celebrating its 70th anniversary.
And then we have America's Vet Dogs, which started in 2003.
And right now, this year, we're on track probably providing, if you combine those two organizations together, we're looking at around 160 dogs going out the door.
Wow, that's a lot of dogs, and that's a lot of people to help.
But you can help even more if you get more money.
You get no money from the government, correct?
That's right.
There's no governmental revenue streams coming into us.
I think that people get confused about that, and there's some myths out there that the VA or the government or the military in some way is providing these dogs, and they're not.
It's organizations like ours that are filling that gap.
Yeah.
Well, let me ask you a last question here.
So how many vets would like to have these dogs that don't have these dogs?
You know, right now we can't even, we're working very hard to keep up with the numbers that we can put out each year.
It's a question of dollars and cents.
I know that you mentioned earlier that donors out there that are interested in supporting us and making sure that we can continue to provide and provide even more can go to Hannity.vetdogs.org to make that contribution.
But right now, we're proud that our waiting list compared to most of the industry, we're looking at around a year and a half for a veteran to have to wait to get a dog.
Some other places can be three to five years.
So we're really working to maximize the donor dollar to make sure we're providing as much service as we can.
But it really is just a structure of how many staff and how many dogs we can breed.
And right now, it's unfortunately a bottomless number.
There's a lot of veterans, especially since we started our PTSD program.
We're getting a lot of applicants for people that want to do that because they're learning more about how the human-animal bond can really make a difference and how that can help them reintegrate back into their community.
It's really great what you guys are doing.
Again, I want to thank all of you for what you do.
It's called Vet Dogs for America.
We put it on our website.
You can make a contribution.
It's tax deductible, Hannity.vetdogs.
One word, Hannity.vetdogs.org.
And Major, Army Major Peter Wade, thank you.
God bless you.
Thank you.
I'm so sorry you suffered so dearly for your country.
And Brad, thank you for what you're doing with the training here.
And I hope everyone will go to my website and donate to this great cause.
And I want to thank our friends in Huntington at the country club there that put this on every year.
It's pretty amazing.
They asked me to be a part of the tournament.
I can't play, obviously, because I work every Monday.
But thank you all for being with us.
And thanks for what you're doing.
Thanks for your support as well, Sean.
All right.
Yeah, thank you very much.
All right, guys.
Thank you both.
We appreciate it.
All right, 800-941-Sean.
Myra is in Wisconsin.
Myra, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
What's up, Myra?
How are you?
Oh, I am great and very, very worried about this election, but I'm calling because you made a comment about funding a plane for Barbara Streison and those others that want to leave the country if Trump is elected.
And I think that's a wonderful idea.
And I will go on board with you and put in some money to get them out of the country.
Not just her, but full of Hollywood.
Well, look, I'm going to tell you something.
If she wants to leave, anybody else, Michael Moore, whoever wants to go, Sean Penn, whoever says they want to go, I'll pay for the plane.
They can pick one destination.
We'll put champagne wishes and caviar dreams on the plane.
I'll pay for the whole thing, but they've got to agree that they'll never come back.
And if they do, they have to pay me triple.
I think that's a fair deal.
It's a wonderful idea.
And I think we should send them to Cuba because if that's what they believe in, that kind of government, that's where they should live.
All right.
I appreciate you being with us.
Thank you so much, Myra.
Carrie is in Phoenix, Arizona, 550K FYI.
How are you?
I'm good, Tom.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's happening?
Well, I'm a little frustrated on several different avenues.
I just did my insurance premiums, and I'm paying as much for medical insurance as my house payment.
My house payment is $1,100 a month, and I just got my new premiums.
It's $1,000 a month.
$1,000?
I'm frustrated.
You should be frustrated.
There are certain counties now in your state where you have one option, only one.
Oh, I know.
I've explored every option possible, and I'm frustrated to the point where I don't understand.
I don't just want Trump to win.
I need him to win.
And I'm not the only person that's in this predicament.
I know that I'm not.
I'm so frustrated with everything that's gone on with the lies, with the misgivings, with people saying things that just are not true.
And this is a gift.
He is a gift.
And how people do not understand that he's come to us and we're able to do something better with our lives.
I don't understand how people want to stay with the status quo.
How do I tell my eight-year-old, how do I tell my eight-year-old little girl that it's okay to lie, that this is what you do?
You can lie.
You can do whatever it, whatever it takes to get what you want.
This is what I tell her.
So you can lie.
You can become president.
How do I tell her that?
What do I tell her?
It's okay to lie.
With all the never Trumpers, it does make you wonder, doesn't it?
It makes you scratch your head and ponder.
There's been more vitriol, more anger that has been pointed in Donald Trump's direction by Republican congressmen, Republican senators, by so-called conservative commentators, conservative publications, conservative radio hosts.
They fire so much at Trump that, you know what, you know, she's going to be wrong 100% of the time.
Let's say Trump gets 50% right.
I'll take the 50, especially in light of the damage that Obama's done.
And to me, it's illogical.
To me, there's a certain level of arrogance and stubbornness here that it is inexplicable to me because it's such a simple decision.
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All right, Center for Immigration Studies actually has out 10 real good immigration questions for Hillary.
Now, I know what?
It's been 280 days, 70 some odd days, 60 some odd days.
Hillary doesn't have press conferences.
Donald Trump has had 17 of them.
She's not had one in 2016, not a single one.
Now, she used to support the construction of a 700-mile double-border fence that was required in the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
What type of border security would she support now?
Because now she's talking about building bridges, not building walls.
So I think they raise a good question here.
Does Hillary support increasing immigration, decreasing immigration?
Does she think the current level of approximately 1 million permanent residents a year is about right?
What about the 550% increase she wants in Syrian refugees in spite of what our national intelligence director and FBI director, CIA director, House Homeland Security chairman, and former special envoy to defeat ISIS have all warned about?
What does she want there?
So does she believe there's a limit to what a president can do unilaterally on immigration?
Where does she draw the line?
Because President Obama had said he didn't have the authority to act the way he did, which was lawless and unconstitutional.
Now she says she would even go further.
She would want to do more than Obama did if elected president.
Clearly, she thinks pandering, again, to special interest voting, is the way for her to become president of the United States.
I mean, we have this identity, you know, gender identity, identity voting politics all the time.
So does she think she can act unilaterally?
Does she believe Sanctuary City should continue to release the illegal immigrants, even those that have felony records, rather than handing them over to federal authorities?
I mean, it's insane.
How would you feel if you were one of the parents that I interviewed with Donald Trump when I was in Austin, Texas, or the father from Michigan that I interviewed in his case, the illegal immigrant that killed his son in a quick mark place at 4 in the morning, kids 21 years old, that guy was responsible for kidnapping and raping a young woman?
Rondebeck is his name, Ronnebeck.
I mean, what do you do in that case?
I mean, do you blame the government for failing him and his family and his son?
I do, because had they deported them and followed the laws that's even currently written, he never would have been released.
He would have been sent back to the country of his origin upon release from prison.
You know, does Hillary believe the State Department might be responsible for denying visas to foreigners who come from countries where they think it's acceptable to punish gay and lesbians by death?
She takes money from those countries.
What about foreigners who believe in that apostates, those that have a change of heart and want to become Christian or want to become Jewish?
Should they be executed?
She's taking money from them.
What about foreigners who support the practice of female genital mutilation?
Well, this is what Trump is talking about with extreme vetting.
Why does Hillary think that those that overstay their visa should similarly be entitled to citizenship?
You know, doesn't amnesty undermine the efforts of visa adjudicators in the State Department?
Does she care at all about the laws as they are currently written?
Are we going to be a totally lawless society?
And when Clinton said in 2006 that we need to have tougher employer sanctions to prevent employers from hiring illegal aliens, well, what type of sanctions did she support then?
Would she support E-Verify?
I mean, she has flipped and flopped and flailed on the issue of immigration.
Like right here, listen.
Senator Clinton, Governor of New York Elliot Spitzer, has proposed giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
You told the National New Hampshire Editorial Board it makes a lot of sense.
Why does it make a lot of sense to give an illegal immigrant a driver's license?
Well, what Governor Spitzer is trying to do is fill the vacuum left by the failure of this administration to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
They are undocumented workers.
They are driving on our roads.
The possibility of them having an accident that harms themselves or others is just a matter of the odds.
It's probability.
So what Governor Spitzer is trying to do is to fill the vacuum.
I believe we need to get back to comprehensive immigration reform because no state, no matter how well-intentioned, can fill this gap.
There needs to be federal action on immigration reform.
But this is a privilege.
Talk about health care.
I have a different opinion.
That affects the public health of all of us.
But a license is a privilege, and that ought not to be extended, in my view.
Senator, I just want to add, I did not say that it should be done, but I certainly recognize why Governor Spitzer is trying to do it.
And we have failed.
We have failed.
No, no, no.
You said you said yes.
You thought it made sense to do it.
No, I didn't, Chris.
But the point is, what are we going to do with all these illegal immigrants who are going to be able to do it?
That's a legitimate issue.
But driver's license goes too far.
Senator Clinton, I just want to make sure what I heard.
Do you, the New York senator, Hillary Clinton, support the New York governor's plan to give illegal immigrants a driver's license?
You told the National New Hampshire paper it made a lot of sense.
Do you support his plan?
You know, Tim, this is where everybody plays gotcha.
It makes a lot of sense.
What is the governor supposed to do?
He is dealing with a serious problem.
We have failed, and George Bush has failed.
Do I think this is the best thing for any governor to do?
No.
But do I understand the sense of real desperation trying to get a handle on this?
Remember, in New York, we want to know who's in New York.
We want people to come out of the shadows.
He's making an honest effort to do it.
We should have passed immigration reform.
We've got to do several things, and I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.
I made this exception basically on humanitarian grounds because of the individual stories.
But certainly, we've got to do more at our borders.
And people have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
Come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau counties, stand in the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
You're going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work.
You know, it, this is not a problem that the people who are coming into the country are solely responsible for.
They wouldn't be coming if we didn't put them to work.
All right, that was a debate with Tim Russett and Brian Williams moderating.
That was what year?
Back in 2008, 2007, actually.
All right.
And then John Gambling, our friend, was interviewing Hillary Clinton.
So she's flipped and flopped and flailed all over this issue.
And then, of course, you had the refugee issue and why she ignored federal law and allowed tens of thousands of criminal aliens to be released into your neighborhood.
By the way, in 2013, Immigration Custom Enforcement, ICE, they released, again, only in one year alone, 2013, 36,007 convicted criminal aliens that had records, including 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, 1,075 aggravated assault convictions, and many other crimes, nearly 88,000 crimes in total.
Well, anyway, it's believed the practice of releasing these criminal aliens from countries that refused to take back their nationals existed under Clinton's entire term as Secretary of State.
Why does she not support enforcing the federal law that requires her State Department to stop issuing visas to people in that country until that country cooperates?
Another question is, in light of the controversy surrounding the H-1B visa program, is Hillary going to end the program or dramatically increase the number of H-1B visas issued every year?
Because you know what?
We have a lot of Americans out of work.
New York Times reported that Disney employees were forced to train their replacements and brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India through the H-1B visa program.
And by the way, similar replacements reported at Toys R Us, Southern Cal Edison, Pfizer, and other companies.
Pretty unbelievable.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones here.
Donna is in Staten Island, New York.
Donna, hi, how are you?
We're glad you called.
That's half the battle is you got to love it.
Love what?
Good.
Yeah.
Hi, Donna.
You're on the air.
What's going on?
I'm so sorry, Sean.
Hi, I was just going to see, what is up with Glenn Zach?
He like flipped his lid or what?
You know, look, we got along fine.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time addressing, you know, we've got here 68 days until Election Day.
I am just saying that cumulatively speaking, when you listen to all of these anti-Trump people that are out there, and there are a lot of them, the NRO people, Wall Street Journal, the Jonah Goldbergs, the Bill Crystals, the George Wills, the Mitt Romneys, almost the entire Romney team, to be honest, when you look at the other candidates that ran for president and made a promise and they have reneged on that promise,
then you can add in the Glenn Becks of the world, then the people that have been pushing for another candidate to replace Donald Trump, and then you have all of these people, all these Nazi references.
How do you people like Sean Hannity sleep at night references?
Then you've got members of Congress and the Senate.
And I'm not saying any one of these people hurts Trump, but cumulatively speaking, combined, they are sabotaging his campaign.
And a lot of this, I believe, is rooted in their desire to tell you, the people of this country, that you screwed up by not listening to them.
Now, I took a very different approach.
My approach was, I give you access.
I serve my audience, let you decide.
And every exit poll showed the same thing, Donna, that 65% of Republicans felt betrayed by their own party.
Republicans created Donald Trump, and now they are angry that you are mad at them and don't support them.
That's what this is all rooted in.
And then you've got the sanctimony crowd, the self-righteous crowd, the holier than thou crowd that think, you know, that have forgotten that we've all sinned and fallen short and lecturing us all the time about some type of ideological purity.
And I'm just saying to all of them that, okay, you've got Trump's nomination for the Supreme Court and you got Hillary's.
And you, by undermining Trump, you own Hillary's Supreme Court nominees.
You own her keeping Obamacare.
You own her tax increases and spending increases.
You own the refugees and what they do when they come into this country unvetted.
You own the immigration issue.
And what do illegal immigrants do?
Because you're not part of the solution to build a wall.
And they don't like that I'm calling them out.
And they're saying, you're responsible.
You're expecting a Trump loss.
No, I'm spending the next 68 days doing everything in my power to help Donald Trump win because I believe by far he is the better candidate.
It's also what I promised my audience.
And I actually believe, unlike some other politicians, I believe when I give my word, I keep it.
And number three, she would be a disaster.
She is the single biggest liar, most dishonest, most untrustworthy, a person that has had more personal gain from public office, that has sold access to her office than any other person I can think of that has run for the presidency.
And while they might not like stylistically some of the things about Trump, or, you know, I know 100% of what she's going to do is going to be bad for this country, and we will suffer.
If Donald Trump just appoints the people he said to the Supreme Court, we're a better country.
If Donald Trump makes us energy independent, we are a better country.
If Donald Trump vets the refugees, we are a better, safer country.
If he builds the wall, we're a better, safer country.
If he allows the repatriation from multinational corporations to bring those trillions back so they can invest in manufacturing centers and factories, we are going to be better off as a country.
And I say this with every bit of confidence that I have.
He is infinitely better than her.
And, you know, it is beyond me how so many that say that they are so smart can be so ignorant and so locked into a position that assists and helps her become the president of the United States.
Now, I think Trump can win this.
I think any Republican, I don't care if it was Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marker, Rubio, Scott Walker, you pick your person.
I think for any Republican to win the presidency, they've got to run the table.
They've got to win Florida.
They've got to win North Carolina.
They've got to win Ohio.
They've got to pick off a state like either Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
Then you've got to play hard in New Hampshire and Iowa and New Mexico and Nevada and Colorado.
This is not an easy task for anybody.
And I'm frankly convinced that I don't think any of these candidates, when I look at the 17, would be having any easier time than Donald Trump.
Has Donald Trump made some mistakes?
Does he own them?
Absolutely positively.
Has he made adjustments in the last few weeks?
I think absolutely positively.
And I think hopefully he learned from those mistakes.
Hopefully he'll prepare for the debates.
And if he does, I think he puts himself in a position where he could actually win the presidency.
And then if he does the things that I have pointed out, the four, five, six, ten things, I am very convinced that America is going to be better off than the condition in which he found it.
And so that's why I'm supporting him.
And I'm pulling the lever proudly.
And if these people want to blame me for Trump, okay, if Trump wins, hold me accountable.
If he appoints liberal Supreme Court justices, you can blame me for believing him.
If he doesn't make us energy independent, blame me.
If he doesn't do the things he does on the economy and Obamacare on the wall, blame me.
But I'm blaming all of you that have sabotaged him if she wins.
All right?
I got to run.
Thank you.
800.
All right, Donna, we love you.
Thank you.
800-941 Sean is a number.
What about sanctuary cities?
Look, I was a mayor and I was a governor.
I trust the voters of communities to hold their mayors and their police departments responsible.
When Donald Trump kind of goes after these phantom sanctuary cities and talks about how bad they are, basically what he's going after is police chiefs.
And I trust police chiefs in terms of knowing what should be done to keep their communities safer and police departments and mayors a lot more than I trust Donald Trump.
All right, there you have Tim Kaine himself talking about sanctuary cities.
Do you see that this is a choice election?
Let's get to our busy, busy telephones as we go to Jackie's in Melbourne, Florida.
Jack, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, thank you, Sean.
Hey, love your program.
Love it, man.
I've been listening to you for years.
Thank you, sir.
I want to say, first of all, that I think the founding fathers would be very proud of you, Sean.
I want you to know that.
Well, let me tell you, I'd never put myself in their class.
I read them and I read them with amazement, how stunningly brilliant they were.
What incredible, just great minds that were able to put this incredible republic together and it creates so much wealth, prosperity, happiness, freedom, liberty, opportunity, imperfect as it was from the beginning, but also putting in place the ability to correct wrongs and injustices, knowing that the better half of mankind would hopefully emerge.
And in many instances, it had.
Yeah.
But what I called for, Sean, was to let you know that, well, you know, I was a Ted Cruz supporter 110%.
I can't tell you how many times I prayed that God would put him in office many, many times.
If it wasn't him, then I was going to go with Ben Carson.
Well, neither one of those are part of the program now.
It's Ted Trump.
I mean, it's Ted.
It's Donald Trump.
And I'm excited about Donald Trump, man.
No question about that.
And I think that the people that are the Never Trumpers, I think that they are, you know, they're conservatives.
They're like Tea Party types.
And I think that in their minds, they're doing their patriotic duty, that they're doing the country a favor.
And I just want to say that the founding fathers today would not call them patriotic, that they would say that they're being unpatriotic by not voting for their guy.
And the reason I say that is having issues with your candidate is nothing new.
Back in those days, they had just as many issues.
They had people who hated their candidate, et cetera.
Yet 95% of the country voted back then.
And you better not get between them and the polling place, you know.
And I guess that's my point, man.
And also, if Hillary gets elected, if they don't vote for Trump, they are going to help Hillary get elected.
If Hillary gets elected, they have signed away their right to ever complain about anything that Hillary does.
I say it a little differently than you, and I swore I was going to get off this from yesterday, but I'll just reiterate a point.
And that is that those that are doing their daily thing, and that is the constant negative barrage about Trump and the Nazi comparisons and on and on and on, they have done it's cumulative damage.
Now, there are some people that say they're not going to support Trump in principle, et cetera, but I'm talking about an organized, orchestrated sabotage effort to ensure that Hillary wins.
In particular, I'll name names.
I'm particularly disappointed by the Republican candidates that gave their pledge.
I, like you, have always liked Ted Cruz.
I thought that he really had a shot at the presidency, as you did.
I saw mistakes that I felt he was making towards the end of the campaign, but nobody really wants to hear from me.
But, you know, I offer advice when it's asked for.
He would have a bright future, but one of the questions he'll have a hard time asking in the answering in the future is, well, you gave your word, and he's going to say, well, I'm not going to support somebody who attacked my wife.
But you know what?
There was a lot of crap being thrown back and forth between all these guys, if we're going to be honest here.
And I didn't like it either, the picture, the tweet by Donald Trump.
He's even recently said he regretted it.
But the point is, you've got to look to the substance here.
The Supreme Court will impact this country for generations on that one issue alone.
You should vote for Donald Trump over Hillary.
Then you can add very important issues for national security, like something as simple as not taking in refugees from countries that practice Sharia law.
And then the next thing is securing our border.
We do it for national security reasons, and we do it to ensure that Americans that are out of work have the best shot at getting these jobs.
I think we need to put the American worker first.
And in particular, the hardest hit demographic has been black Americans have been hit unbelievably hard under the last eight years of Obama.
It's not fair to them.
And I think it's in everybody's best interest to have the wall built, to eliminate Obamacare, to become energy independent, not fire coal miners and get rid of coal companies like Hillary would do.
So I don't have much to say to them except that they own Hillary Clinton if she wins.
I don't look, I think Donald Trump after yesterday, he's in this.
I think he can win.
As I've said from the very beginning of the process, it's going to be difficult for any Republican to win.
They always have to thread this needle, Jack.
And I'm hoping that he's able to pull it out.
I hope he can win your state of Florida.
I'm hoping he wins North Carolina.
I'm hoping he wins Virginia.
I'm hoping he wins Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Because if he wins those states, he's the next president.
Observation.
Yeah.
I'm in Florida.
I'm on the road at least four hours a day.
And, you know, I'm a truck driver.
But I have yet to see, I think I've seen one Clinton bumper sticker.
And I'm not exaggerating.
I have seen tons of Trump bumper stickers down here.
And so I don't know anything about these polls.
I do know what I see, though.
And all the guys I work with, they're all going for Trump.
Nobody's talking about Clinton.
But, you know, my point again was I just wanted to say that I think that the people, the Never Trumpers, they think they're being patriots.
And the farming fathers would strongly disagree.
Well, I'm not going to question one's patriotism.
I will question their wisdom.
And I think that they are extraordinarily hurtful at this time, at a time that we really don't have margin of error anymore in terms of the direction of the country.
You know, I think more than anything else, I think why immigration, why refugees is the biggest issue probably in the campaign short of peace and prosperity.
And it really comes down to, I think, demographically, Democrats have decided that the more people that they allow in from other countries, especially poorer countries, that they think they're going to be Democrats.
And I think they're looking long-term, playing long ball, and they think this is a power base that they are accumulating for themselves for generations and generations to come.
But the predictable outcome of that is America's going to have to pay the piper, and America's going to go bankrupt.
And America is not going to be able to afford that which it is promising people.
We are already on a path to insolvency in many ways.
Back to our phones as we say hi to Lori is in Beaumont, Texas.
Lori, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you so much for talking to me.
It's great and certainly an honor.
The honor's mine.
Thank you.
Week before last, a friend of mine and I jumped in the car and drove the four hours to Austin to hear Donald Trump.
And we did it because we'd heard all of the media baloney about all the crazies there.
And Sean, I was so impressed by everyone around me.
We got there about an hour and a half before the thing opened.
There was a Hispanic man married to a white lady a front of us who had, in the last eight years, had to close two businesses because of the current president restrictions and taxes.
And they were hopeful that this new president would give them a chance at bettering their lives and opening their businesses up again.
There is a gentleman that is an environmental engineer that's traveled the last five years interviewing World War II veterans and did a book that he's not selling that after the Trump rally was going to Fredericksburg to the Nemes Museum to give her 200 copies so they could use it as a fundraiser.
There was a lady from California whose grandkids lived in Texas who changed her plans to go home so that she could be there at the rally to see Trump.
And in California, she and a group of people spent all their time with a charity that helps wounded warriors.
When we got there, he was who I want my president to be.
The speakers were not crazies.
They were good, strong, American-loving people.
Donald Trump walked out there like a professional, conducted himself as a professional.
It wasn't name-calling.
It was presidential.
It was what I wanted to see.
And I came back with such hope.
And then after listening to him yesterday, I mean, it's just getting bigger and bigger and better and better.
And just wanted to tell you that.
Yeah.
Look, I'm going to tell you, I think all the empirical data is out there that shows.
I mean, I was looking at something.
I think it was Lauren who handed it to me or Linda yesterday.
Google actually did some research.
And look, I know the Nate Silvers of the world go nuts.
They're relying on data that is not poll-oriented.
It's not scientific.
It's not, but it's an interesting analysis that I find.
And Google put it out.
So I think it's worth sharing with you.
And, you know, if you ever see Hillary Clinton, it starts out, have you ever seen a Hillary Clinton yard sign in real life?
And the answer is no.
And then they search Google for Trump and Trump terms, and they're surprised by the results.
And that is that, you know, Donald Trump has three times the amount of Google searching than as does Hillary Clinton.
Now, they went back and they actually looked at Kerry versus Bush in 2004.
And what you find is, you know, that Bush did a lot better in terms of Google hits than did John Kerry.
Does that mean that this is a trend that we can watch?
Well, we saw the same thing in 2008 with Obama versus McCain.
And in that particular case, it was Barack Obama who was trending a lot better than was Mitt Romney.
And then you can look at, you know, the key data now, and what you see is Donald Trump is trending a lot better than Hillary Clinton.
You know, it's Hillary for prison t-shirts gets more searches than Hillary bumper stickers.
I mean, does that mean anything?
Trump is destroying her in merchandise and slogan searches, but what other search terms help indicate a Trump landslide?
You know, Hillary's low energy, I'm with her slogan.
Well, that's not anything.
It's a blip compared to make America great again.
You know, the next area you look at is data that I think is off of fun.
Clinton rally, Trump rally, and Sanders rally.
And, you know, Trump blows crooked Hillary out of the water.
What about Sanders?
He had thousands of passionate people lining up for him.
Well, he did better than her as well.
So I don't know if it's a, I don't know what to make of it, but it's certainly there is other data that I think we can start looking at because the world has changed so dramatically.
And I think in the years to come, it's going to be a better measure of where we are, but it just isn't there right now.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
By the way, the Google, the website with the information is regated.com, R-E-G-A-T-E-D, regated.com.
Let's get to our phones.
All right, Crazy Moe in Brooklyn, New York on the all-new AM710, W-O-R, the voice of New York, New Jersey, Long Island.
How are you, sir?
What's up, Crazy Moe?
I'm great, Sean.
How are you?
Mo has said to me for years, I'm the most dangerous man in America.
You don't believe that anymore, do you?
Because if I was, Obama never would have been president the last eight years.
Well, Sean, dangerous is not always effective, as we can tell by the fellow you like for the next president of the United States.
He's a very dangerous man in some ways.
Well, mainly with his mouth.
But, you know, Sean, I hate to burst your bubble, buddy, but the numbers are not there for that fella.
They're not there.
So when it comes November and you want to take a vacation, I'll guest host for a couple of weeks for you while you recover, okay?
Look, if this happens and Hillary becomes president, if that happens, I will be, like everybody else, sad that wants to change the direction of the country if it happens.
But I feel more and more, I have a good feeling.
I think Trump is in this.
I think he's got a good shot.
And I think if he stays the way he has been going, he can win this race and win it handily if he stays on message, if he does his debate prep.
Now, there's a lot of ifs in there.
Staying on message, doing his debate prep, stay as presidential as he was yesterday.
I think that he has a better than 50-50 shot.
And I say that as somebody that knows the electoral map does not help Republicans.
I mean, you know, when you start out without New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California, Oregon, and Washington, you're in trouble.
And I think if Donald Trump runs a 50-state campaign, spends a lot of time in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, and goes to countries, states like New Mexico and Colorado and Nevada, I think he can win.
But I can't say for sure, and I think anybody that does tell you they know for sure just doesn't know what they're talking about.
I would argue probably right now he's behind, but I would not be surprised if he gets a big bump from what happened yesterday.
And if he does, then his poll numbers will go up, hopefully considerably.
All right, Big Mo, we appreciate it.
As always, 800-941 Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
