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There is no evidence at this point of a terror connection to this incident.
I also want to affirm that based on what we know at this hour, there is no specific connection to the incident in New Jersey.
I want to say more broadly, there is no specific and credible threat against New York City at this point in time from any terror organization.
So as we are analyzing what happened here, we are doing against the backdrop, but we have no credible and specific threat at this moment.
But we do want to be very clear.
The early indications, the initial indications, is this was an intentional act.
It's not linked to international terrorism.
In other words, we find no ISIS connection, etc.
But a bomb going off is generically a terrorist activity.
That's how we're going to consider it.
But we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this.
Was it a political motivation, a personal motivation?
What was it?
We do not know that yet.
That work must go on.
We have no reason to believe at this time that there is any further immediate threat.
We will not allow these type of people and these type of threats to disrupt our life in New York.
That's what they want to do.
We're not going to let them do it.
So, feel safe.
Everything that needs to be done is being done and more.
And we're going to enjoy New York and we're going to go back to work tomorrow, just like we do on any Monday morning.
I said yesterday we had no information that it was foreign related.
Today's information suggests it may be foreign related.
I've been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.
Do you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump immediately affronted the stage tonight called the explosion in New York a phone and what that crown?
Well, I think it's important to know the facts about any incident like this.
That's why it's critical to support the first responders, the investigators who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
I think it's always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions.
She had said it was a bomb.
Do you have any problem with Donald Trump saying that a bomb went off?
What is wrong with you people for crying out loud?
You know, no evidence that this is a terror connection at all.
None whatsoever.
No connection to New Jersey, even though it just happened a couple hours later.
None whatsoever.
No threat to New York City that is credible and specific.
What do we expect them?
The terrorists from ISIS or ISIS sympathizers or radical Islamists?
What do we expect them to rent an airplane and go along the beach and say, we will attack this street at this specific time?
No credible threat.
Just no reason for any further immediate threat.
None whatsoever.
We don't believe.
Go feel safe.
Everything that needs to be done is being done.
Go out there, walk the streets, have no fear.
This is madness.
It's like a mental illness.
It's like pathological.
I mean, the idea, this was an intentional act.
No, shh, you idiot.
What is wrong with these people?
You know, but it's not international, but we don't know.
It does no appearance that's international.
You know, this reminds me, it is, we've learned nothing since 9-11, 2001.
All taking place in New York, in New Jersey, and in Minnesota.
We'll get to all of this today.
And it reminds me of that pre-9-11 mindset.
Does anybody ever take the time to actually read the 9-11 Commission report?
They were at war with us.
We were not at war with them.
And of course, there was the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the first trade center bombings and the USS Cole and a series of other incidents, all leading up to or culminating with the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
You know, they're twisting themselves up into a politically correct pretzel, just trying to contort and ride that razor's edge and literally not say the words.
It looks like a terrorist attack.
Yeah, it's a terrorist attack.
It's a terrorist attack, be it a domestic terrorist or anybody else.
But there is this unhealthy, unnatural, frankly, almost pathological fear of identifying the evil that exists in our time.
I mean, what else do you want me to say?
9-15, we had a 16-year police officer attacked near Penn Station with a meat cleaver.
He needed 70 stitches.
You got a Somali member of ISIS stabbing nine people while screaming Allahu Akbar at a mall in Minnesota over the weekend on the 17th.
They had a Marine veterans run, a Semper 5 run, pipe bombs found along the route there before anybody was hurt, thank God.
You got pipe bombs in New York City and 23rd and 27th Streets between 6th and 7th Avenue.
Well, one of the first one that actually went off, you know, it injured 29 people.
Thank God the suspect has finally been caught.
This just a little while ago, after a bit of a shootout and pipe bombs being thrown out of a car.
This guy, Ahmad Khan Rahami, he was captured after a shootout with police, injuring one officer, throwing his pipe bombs out from a moving car.
What happened in New Jersey is one of three pipe bombs exploded in a garbage can on D Street at Ocean Avenue just before these 5,000 runners were expected to start the third annual Seaside Semper 5 Marine Corps Charity 5K.
It was detonated with an old-style flip phone, and the three bombs were wired together with a timer attached.
Two of the explosives failed to detonate.
Well, that's one.
Then you got the Chelsea explosion at 8:30 on Saturday night.
A bomb left near a construction dumpster at 131 West 23rd Street, rocking the neighborhood, injuring 29 people.
That was a homemade device.
You know, it was a pressure cooker fashioned into a bomb similar to the one used in the Boston Marathon explosions.
It was filled with shrapnel.
It used Christmas lights as a fuse, and it was detonated again by a flip phone, just like the one in New Jersey.
Oh, but we don't think they're connected.
Not at all.
Just everybody's using flip phones these days.
You know, then you get a few minutes after the blast, you get a man standing near the scene calling 911, there will be more.
And then you got a second bomb found in the Chelsea area of New York.
This was on 27th Street.
Cops sweeping the area, they find a suspicious device right in the middle of the street.
And this, too, was a pressure cooker.
This too was rigged with a flip phone detonator and Christmas lights, but that had nothing to do with the other incidents whatsoever.
Not at all.
Device was hidden inside a grocery bag, wires protruding from the top.
NYPD's bomb squad removed this bomb at 2.25 in the morning.
They drove it to the Bronx where it conducted a controlled detonation.
That was Sunday evening.
You know, it's absolutely insane.
Then to give you more details of what happened in this mall in Minnesota, literally the man who stabbed and wounded nine people at the mall shouting, Allahu Akbar.
You know, he was shot dead.
Thank God an off-duty cop had his gun with him.
He called himself, declared himself a soldier of the Islamic State.
And the attacker, dressed in private security uniform, made references to Allah, and he goes on the slashing spree.
Hours after the five minutes of violence, the ISIS-run news agency said the unidentified attacker was acting on behalf of this extremist group, which had urged followers to go after people in countries that are part of the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition.
I don't know what to tell you, except that America, your country is under attack.
And in 50 days from now, you're going to make a choice in an election.
I keep telling you, this is a choice election.
I keep saying, look at Donald Trump's plan for the economy.
Well, he's going to use a lot of, he's going to lower the corporate tax rate to one of the lowest in the industrialized world from one of the highest.
That'll incentivize money to come into this country to build factories and manufacturing centers.
He's going to allow multinational corporations to bring the trillions they have parked overseas.
They're going to bring it back in the hopes that they too will build factories, manufacturing centers, and best in America, create jobs.
He's going to move towards energy independence, more coal, more fracking, more oil and nuclear technology, all of the above.
Hillary, she's going to put coal miners out of work, coal businesses out of business.
You know, on the issue of the economy, she's going to follow Obama's great model.
She prays to the hilt this weekend, and that is raise taxes, have a top-down economy, spread the wealth around, take from the rich, give to the poor.
Well, that philosophy got us a president that never got to 3% GDP growth.
It's a choice election.
Keep Obamacare, get rid of Obamacare.
It's a choice.
It's a choice.
Education back to the states, not back to the states.
It's a choice.
Fix the VA or say it's fine.
It's a choice.
Rebuild the military or cut military spending.
It's a choice.
And as well, issues involving your safety and the safety of the American people are also in play here.
Do you want a president that has the strength and the courage to identify an enemy that is at war with us, radical Islamists?
Trump will say it.
Hillary won't.
Do you want a president that recognizes that countries that seem to like the Clintons an awful lot, that give them a ton of money, millions and millions of dollars, like Saudi Arabia, that treat women like crap and tell women they can't drive and how to dress and that kill gays and lesbians and persecute Christians and Jews, she takes, you know, what, up to $35 million from them, and she doesn't criticize them.
Do you want people that grow up in a culture that is the antithesis of American constitutional philosophy coming into this country unvetted?
Trump has said he's going to listen to James Clapper and James Comey and Michael Steinbeck and CIA Director Brennan and Congressman McCall, the House Homeland Security Chair, and he'll listen to General John Allen and their admonitions that ISIS might infiltrate the refugee population.
Hillary wants a 550% increase in refugees.
Donald Trump will build a wall.
Yeah, it's good for the economy because you won't have illegal immigrants competing with Americans while we have 95 million Americans out of the labor force driving down wages.
So it helps there, but it also helps national security.
This weekend, your country suffered the worst terrorist attack since 9-11, not in terms of the number of people killed, but in terms of a coordinated attack at several different locations designed to create mass casualties in an urban environment.
This has not happened in the 15 years since America was attacked by hijacked planes that struck four separate targets within two hours.
Now, this is different than what happened in Chattanooga or Fort Hood or San Bernardino or Orlando, as horrific as all of those instances were.
You know, when we talk about the next really big attack, and I remind you that we went back to a pre-9-11 mentality, I'll probably be mentioning Chattanooga, Orlando, Fort Hood, San Bernardino a lot.
And I'll also mention New York and New Jersey and Minnesota as well, because this is the lead up into the bigger event, because we're literally, you know, on pins and needles, even identifying who the enemy is.
You know, this weekend's coordinated attack, you know, how can you possibly say they're not connected when they all have one common denominator?
Flip phone detonators.
It just happened by accident?
I don't think so.
You know, probably the Minnesota location is a different attack.
That's by the knife-wielding Somalis shouting Allahu Akbar.
It's not clear whether that was connected to New York and New Jersey.
But, you know, to hear that Governor Cuomo and Comrade Bozo de Blasio, you know, saying these attacks were orchestrated by, quote, a foreign body.
I mean, after just all weekends, go about your business.
You're safe.
Everything that can be done is being done.
Wow.
These attacks are a direct result.
And this is where America's got to decide.
You want extreme vetting or not?
I can tell you in France that one in four French Muslims are revolting against secular laws.
They don't want any part of it.
88 Sharia courts in Great Britain.
You know, the Somali, you look at the number, 100,000 Somali refugees have been admitted to the United States.
Under Secretary Clinton, permanently resettled, the U.S. did 31,000 Somali migrants.
One in five Syrian refugees that our intelligence community says ISIS can infiltrate are in the New York area.
And Obama wants more, and Hillary wants a 550% increase.
Well, I'm sorry, but I keep saying to Never Trump people, you own Hillary's presidency.
Well, I'll say to everybody that doesn't support extreme vetting, doesn't support the wall, doesn't support saying radical Islam, being as blunt as I can, you know, you cannot deny the connection between the importation of populations from radicalized nations in the Middle East, the same kind of immigration policies favored by Obama and Hillary, the same kind of immigrations that are vehemently opposed by Trump are in play in this election.
You get to choose in 50 days.
You get to decide.
You want to keep living through this nonsense and worse?
550% increase, even though all our top intelligence officials are warning us, go ahead.
You will get the government you deserve.
All right, I got some type of explosion that occurred on Ocean Avenue at D Street inside of a garbage can.
We're notified of fish packages between two garbage cans in a lot.
Okay, we need to shut down this run.
Shut down this run speak to somebody up there.
Do you want anybody else boardwalk?
Affirmative.
Shut down the run.
Get him out of the boardwalk.
There's an explosion.
These units say it was an explosion above a garbage hell.
Have units stay off the block.
I want the station areas set up for all units coming in.
I want them on 22nd Street and 7th Avenue.
Coming from the south, anybody coming from the north, I want them on 24th Street and 7th Avenue.
Nobody to enter that block.
Anybody coming from the east, have to stage on 6th Avenue.
You get it?
There is no evidence at this point of a terror connection to this incident.
I also want to affirm that based on what we know at this hour, there is no specific connection to the incident in New Jersey.
I want to say more broadly, there is no specific and credible threat against New York City at this point in time from any terror organization.
So as we are analyzing what happened here, we are doing against the backdrop, but we have no credible and specific threat at this moment.
But we do want to be very clear.
The early indications, the initial indications, is this was an intentional act.
It's not linked to international terrorism.
In other words, we find no ISIS connection, etc.
But a bomb going off is generically a terrorist activity.
That's how we're going to consider it.
But we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this.
Was it a political motivation, a personal motivation?
What was it?
We do not know that yet.
That work must go on.
We have no reason to believe at this time that there is any further immediate threat.
We will not allow these type of people and these type of threats to disrupt our life in New York.
That's what they want to do.
We're not going to let them do it.
So, feel safe.
Everything that needs to be done is being done and more.
And we're going to enjoy New York and we're going to go back to work tomorrow, just like we do on any Monday morning.
I said yesterday we had no information that it was foreign related.
Today's information suggests it may be foreign related.
I've been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.
Do you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump immediately upon taking the station tonight called the explosion in New York a phone and put that to the term?
Well, I think it's important to know the facts about any incident like this.
That's why it's critical to support the first responders, the investigators who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
I think it's always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions.
But of course, this is only a fight about the narrative, and you just hear the twisted, contorted, you know, riding the razor's edge.
Not to offend anybody that might be a radical Islamist.
No evidence there's a terror connection.
None once.
No connection in New Jersey, even though they all use flip phones.
No connection at all.
There's no threat that's specific to New York City, no credible threat at all.
And this was an intentional act, though.
It was intentional, according to initial indications.
You know, and what else do we know?
Feel safe.
Everything that needs to be done is being done.
The only difference we have is semantical.
Now, there's one other piece of information I want to add here.
The Obama administration has now granted citizenship to more than 800 immigrants who are supposed to be deported, which means that they were here illegally.
Seriously?
But thanks to President Amnesty, we now have full-fledged Hillary voters, according to the AP.
Anyway, one other thing as it relates to New York, I think it's worth noting.
I don't know that anybody else has mentioned this, that it was Comrade Bozo de Blasio who actually pulled the plug on the NYPD mosque surveillance program, which was put into place after 9-11.
He did it in 2014.
He ended the program, and now you see where we are.
I guess that would be discriminating.
I guess that would be in the basket of deplorables.
Somebody that knows a thing or two about radical Islamic terrorism is the former NYPD commissioner, Bernard Carrick.
He, of course, was commissioner on 9-11.
He, along with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, if they didn't duck into a building, probably would have died that day as they were less than a block away from the towers as they were collapsing.
How are you, sir?
I'm good, Joan.
How are you?
You know, what do you did you know about the NYPD mosque surveillance program?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
I think it was a justified program.
I know a lot of people considered it racial profiling.
I would say you have to look at it from another perspective, and that is criminal predictive profiling.
You also have to look at the community relations between the police, the communities, the mosques.
If there are bad people that you think are in a certain area, you should have the right to look for them.
And, you know, I don't think there was a negative to the surveillance program.
I just don't.
I don't think it was a violation of the Constitution.
But there are people that, you know, have different opinions.
What do you make of the inability of the president, of Hillary Clinton, of Comrade de Blasio, of Cuomo and the rest of them?
They're just incapable of saying radical Islam.
In the case of the president, their workplace violence, man-caused disasters, overseas contingencies, etc.
Now we're just having a difference in semantics or we're having a fight over wording or semantics in this case.
Where does this come from?
Honestly, Sean, I don't know where it comes from.
I mean, you know, the Islamic state.
Okay.
They have the word.
But Obama said the Islamic State, ISIS is not Islamic.
He actually said those words.
Well, I can't speak for the president.
Here's what I do know.
I lived in Saudi Arabia.
I lived here for four and a half years, back in the 70s and 80s.
I worked for the King of Jordan for four and a half years.
I was the interim minister of interior of Iraq.
I'm pretty familiar with the area, the people, and the threat.
There is a radical Islamic movement against the West and against freedom.
There just is.
I don't know how they can't say it, why they can't say it.
I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
Nor do I care at this point.
What I really care about is that we're doing something about it, and we should be fighting this enemy abroad, pounding the hell out of it.
We should be building our intelligence capabilities here and abroad.
And most importantly, there has to be an education component to this to teach the young Muslims that jihad is not the way of the future.
And, you know, until that stuff is done, we're going to continue to fight this enemy for decades.
But the reality is, and I bring this up often about Saudi Arabia, for example, and I understand that the kingdom, if you will, that all the rich people in the royal family, that they don't want to get hit by radical Islamists, and they fear probably more than anybody.
But yet, on the other hand, they play both sides to the middle, and they end up funding terrorism.
And they have played this game for a long time.
That's only recent.
That's only recently.
I mean, Saudi Arabia has been the catalyst behind this hatred for the West for years.
their madrasas, their mosques, you know, people load to the ground.
You know, this stuff is driven into them from childhood.
So that's number one.
Number two, the members of the royal family and the upper echelons in the Saudi government, they only started in the last, say, 10 years, really, on this movement of going after radical Islam because I think they're afraid of losing the throne.
And some of the other governments there as well, Qatar and the Emirates, Kuwait.
Yeah, but the reality, look at life in Saudi Arabia.
And I'm critical of Hillary Clinton from taking 25 up to 25 million for the Clinton Foundation, $10 million for the Clinton Library.
Women can't drive.
Women are told how to dress.
Women are told that they can go to school or work.
Women can't go abroad without a male's permission.
Gays and lesbians can be murdered there, slaughtered, just killed for being who they are.
Christians and Jews are not allowed to practice.
If you change, if you convert out of Islam to another faith, you're going to get killed too.
So this is a pretty radicalized state all across the board.
It is, and it really, really has not changed since I've been there.
How did you like living there?
That must have been hell.
That's a rough place for any American to live.
By the way, where do you go for a cold beer on a Saturday night?
Dude, if you have no cold beers, because you will get a flogging, a public flogging, you'll be deported, or you can wind up in prison.
Even somebody like you that's working for the government, if you got caught drinking beer or any type of alcoholic beverage, that would happen to you.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
You have to live within their laws.
You know, I've talked to flight attendants that tell me that they have flown members of the Saudi family, and as soon as they get out of Saudi airspace, out comes the booze, off come the clothes, on go the Western clothes, out come the girls, and the fun begins.
Have you heard that?
Forget the Saudi government.
It's not just the Saudi family.
It's a lot of Saudis in general.
They live by their laws in their country.
You know, they get on a, it used to be Pan Am.
You got on Pan Am, I think it was flight one from Riyadh to JFK.
When that thing hits international airspace, you know, they went to the bathroom, took off the phobe and gutra and all the, you know, the Arab dress, put on normal clothes, got a drink, and, you know, they were westernized immediately.
But in the kingdom, you've got to live by the kingdom's laws.
And you don't think they're drinking in the kingdom and within the government?
You don't think there's a lot of hankypanking going on there?
No, I know they're there.
I can't talk for now because I'm not there.
I haven't been there.
All right, let me ask you as it relates to our election, because there are three big issues here.
One is the extreme betting of refugees.
The other is building the wall.
And the third is having the courage to say radical Islam.
It seems like America's got a very big choice in 50 days on those three big major issues.
And I think it will indicate the direction of the country, whether or not we're going to fight this enemy or whether or not we go back to a pre-9-11 mindset.
And then one day we'll have another 9-11 commission report and says, well, they were at war with us in Chattanooga and Orlando and New York and New Jersey and Minnesota and San Bernardino, but we weren't at war with them.
So we've learned nothing.
Well, here's the deal.
I mean, whether you build a wall or a structured wall or you do something else, you cannot continue to let illegals come into this country.
And I don't care if they're coming from Mexico or anywhere else.
It doesn't make any difference to me.
Second, the immigration problem, the Syrian refugees.
Forget the word Syrian.
Forget the word Muslims.
No one should be allowed to come in this country that we can't vet properly, and we can't guarantee they're here for good reasons.
And the bottom line is: the CIA director, the Secretary of Homeland, and the director of the CIA all agree, and the director of the FBI, that we cannot vet the Syrian refugees properly, and they're right because we don't have any diplomatic status there.
We have no relationship there.
We don't know where these people are.
Well, then, if we're not going to listen to Clapper and Comey, and Steinbeck, and Brennan, and McCall and General Allen that all say that population will be infiltrated, and then can we say that the people that are then killed by the refugees, that Hillary and Obama own that?
Just like Hillary said, oops, I made a mistake on Iraq.
I know you lost your kids and you had your legs blown off.
I'm really sorry, but we should learn from my mistake.
I mean, that irritated me.
I mean, so can we just say what needs to be said here?
And the truth is that the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, owns any future attacks.
She wants a 550% increase in refugees coming from countries our National Intelligence Director and others are saying will be infiltrated by ISIS.
So anything that happens is her fault.
Yeah, I just go.
I honestly, I can't even explain that kind of stuff.
I mean, it's extremely dangerous for this country to allow these people to come in, anybody to come in without being properly vetted.
All right, Bernard Carrick, who was the former commissioner of the NYPD, good to have you back.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks, honor.
I appreciate it.
By the way, polls are showing that black voters are now switching to Trump, and he's seeing a 16% increase in the backing of black Americans in Los Angeles Times University of Southern California poll.
Oh, and by the way, Obama says he's personally insulted by blacks who support Trump.
If I hear anybody saying that their vote doesn't matter, that it doesn't matter who we elect, read up on your history.
It matters.
We've got to get people to vote.
I'll consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy.
What legacy?
What are you talking about?
By the way, this terrorist we just found out sued police for profiling Muslims.
Ahmed and his father and his brother brought a lawsuit against the city of, I guess, in his hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 2011 in Newark federal court.
We also see that he also took a trip to Afghanistan.
By the way, can we just say it's a little odd?
Let me see.
I can go on vacation.
Should I go to Bermuda, the Bahamas, tropical place, Florida, California, Europe?
I don't know, Australia, New Zealand.
Maybe I'll go to Afghanistan.
That's where I'll go.
I'll go to Iraq.
I'll head right into the heart of ISIS.
You think there's a little something wrong with that?
I don't know.
Donald Trump set a record, a GOP record for small donations.
Looks like the people are supporting him that are going to all of his events.
All right, I got some type of explosion that occurred on Ocean Avenue at D Street inside of a garbage can.
We're notified of fish packages between two garbage cans in a lot.
Okay, we need to shut down this run.
Shut down this run.
Speak to somebody up there.
Do you want anybody on the boardwalk?
Affirmative.
Shut down the run.
Get him out of the boardwalk.
There's an explosion.
His unit stayed there.
Have units stay off the block.
I want the staging area set up for all units coming in.
I want them on 22nd Street and 7th Avenue.
Coming from the South.
Anybody coming from the North, I want them on 24th Street and 7th Avenue.
Nobody to enter that block.
Anybody coming from the East have a stage on 6th Avenue.
Is that it?
There is no evidence at this point of a terror connection to this incident.
I also want to affirm that based on what we know at this hour, there is no specific connection to the incident in New Jersey.
I want to say more broadly, there is no specific and credible threat against New York City at this point in time from any terror organization.
So as we are analyzing what happened here, we are doing against the backdrop, but we have no credible and specific threat at this moment.
But we do want to be very clear.
The early indications, the initial indications, is this was an intentional act.
It's not linked to international terrorism.
In other words, we find no ISIS connection, etc.
But a bomb going off is generically a terrorist activity.
That's how we're going to consider it.
But we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this.
Was it a political motivation, a personal motivation?
What was it?
We do not know that yet.
That work must go on.
We have no reason to believe at this time that there is any further immediate threat.
We will not allow these type of people and these type of threats to disrupt our life in New York.
That's what they want to do.
We're not going to let them do it.
So feel safe.
Everything that needs to be done is being done and more.
And we're going to enjoy New York and we're going to go back to work tomorrow, just like we do on any Monday morning.
I said yesterday we had no information that it was foreign related.
Today's information suggests it may be foreign related.
I've been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.
Can you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump immediately upon taking the station tonight called the explosion in New York a bone and what that's going to go?
Well, I think it's important to know the facts about any incident like this.
That's why it's critical to support the first responders, the investigators who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
I think it's always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions.
Almost unbelievable.
Hour two Sean Hannity show, our top story, of course, yes, terror in the heartland now in New York City and elsewhere, Minneapolis.
And that was Hillary Clinton, Mayor Comrade de Blasio, and Andrew Cuomo spending the weekend, you know, twisting themselves into pretzels, you know, trying to be as politically correct as they possibly can and threading the needle, not saying what is obviously happening.
Yeah, the JV team has arrived again, and they're not contained.
This all started on the 15th when you had a 16-year police officer in New York attack near Penn Station, a guy with a meat cleaver.
He got 70 stitches in his face.
And then in Minnesota, you have Somali members of ISIS stabbing nine people, screaming Allahu Akbar in Minnesota at a mall.
Then you've got this New Jersey Marine run, the Semper 5 run, pipe bombs found along the route, fortunately, before anybody was hurt.
And you had in Chelsea, New York, in New York City, pipe bombs found at 23rd and 27th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.
And then, of course, the large explosion.
29 people were injured.
The suspect at the time, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was an Afghani-born Islamist.
And in Elizabeth, New Jersey, pipe bombs were found there at a railway station.
One of those bombs exploded.
And then in Linden, New Jersey, just earlier today, Rahami was captured after a shootout with police, injuring two officers during throwing pipe bombs from a moving car.
Now, President Obama speaking while New York City was under attack at a fundraiser on Saturday, makes no mention of what's happening to the people of New York, never addressed the potential attack and the Marine run in New Jersey.
And the only person that called for protecting the American people was Donald Trump.
Joining us now is Governor Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential candidate.
Sir, welcome to the program.
Thank you, Sean.
Good to be on with you from Iowa.
Pretty horrific, isn't it?
Well, it's just extraordinary.
Terrorism has come to American shores again, and the events in New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota are a grim reminder of how desperately we need to change leadership and change our strategy for confronting radical Islamic terrorism in the world.
How do you explain this mysterious reluctance and resistance of the president, of Hillary Clinton, to even say radical Islam?
What do you think that is rooted in?
I really can't understand much of their approach.
I saw the president's brief remarks to the press today while brave police officers were taking down the assailant in Linden, New Jersey.
And the president reached a point where he could have referred to radical Islamic terrorism as Donald Trump has been willing to do to name what we are fighting and outline, as he did in Youngstown, Ohio, a strategy for rebuilding our military, restoring our alliances, and confronting and destroying ISIS at its source and defeating radical Islamic terrorism.
The president didn't even have the ability to say that word again today after the terrible events of this weekend.
And let me say, you know, our prayers go out to all those that were injured in Minnesota and New York.
Gratitude to those in uniform, our first responders.
It is truly, I believe, nothing short of a miracle that there was no loss of life as a result of these terrorist attacks.
Frankly, it's a miracle.
You're all going to name your enemy.
And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to refuse to name what we're fighting against.
Donald Trump will name it, confront it, marshal the resources, and we will defeat radical Islamic terrorism and specifically ISIS once Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.
You know, Governor, I view this as a choice election, a choice in a way that I don't think America has had since Reagan and Carter.
And on the three issues that would impact what is happening in terms of the terror attacks.
And by the way, it also includes San Bernardino and Chattanooga and Orlando.
I mean, they are directly connected and related to two very different philosophies as it relates to the vetting of refugees and how many refugees we should take into the country and building a wall.
And the three big issues are you have a candidate in Donald Trump that will identify the enemy, radical Islamists, that he will have extreme vetting.
Hillary Clinton wants a 550% increase in refugees, and I don't know if we can vet them.
And then building a wall, I think, for national security reasons and economic reasons is a smart thing to do to control our own borders.
There are distinct differences here.
There are dramatic differences.
And plus, also, I mean, did you hear the White House spokesman today?
I heard that series of sound at the top of the hour.
But the president's spokesman today said that we are in a, quote, narrative fight, in a narrative battle.
Sean, you know, and I know, and I guarantee you Donald Trump knows.
We're not in a narrative fight.
We're at war with the ISIS Caliphate that sprang up when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made the decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Operation Iraqi Freedom without renegotiating a status of forces agreement.
I would just submit to you that what you have here is a level of denial by this administration.
It goes all the way back to when the president in January of 2014 called ISIS the JV team, and all the way through yesterday when Hillary Clinton's running mate said that we, quote, dramatically improved in the battle against ISIS.
I just think we see in this moment the need for new, clear-eyed leadership that will tell the truth to the American people.
And the truth is that ISIS is on the move and that we've got to have broad-shouldered leadership for America on the world stage to confront and defeat this threat, or we're sadly going to see more and more days like we saw over the last 48 hours.
The Somali ISIS fanatic who went on those Minnesota knife rampage was, remember, he was checking with victims whether they were Muslim.
Now, if you look at the numbers, there has been 100,000 Somali refugees admitted into the U.S., 99.6% of which are Muslim.
And then you can see one in five Syrian refugees, we're dealing with this other case, you know, have been settled in the New York area.
Now, I want to look to Europe as an example where we see what's happened in terms of Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Sweden, and elsewhere with the refugees.
One in four French Muslims now are in open revolt against secular laws.
Great Britain has 88 Sharia courts.
And the question I think that we've got to ask ourselves is, is there a conflict of cultures that is so deep, a divide that is so dramatic?
In other words, Sharia so contradicts American constitutional law.
Don't we have a right to see if people want to be a part of this and vet them that seriously, or else we risk what's happening in Europe?
Well, of course we do.
And Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting, particularly with regard to the Syrian refugee program, a program that Hillary Clinton wants to increase by 550 percent.
And the enemy is a very important thing.
Just under Hillary, by the way.
I'm sorry, say again.
Yeah, just when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, they resettled 31,000 Somali migrants just during that time.
I mean, there's a lot of people that we're letting in, and we don't know if they share our values in any way, shape, matter, or form.
I mean, if you grow up under Sharia and you feel like you have the right to tell women how to dress and they can't drive and gays and lesbians are put to death and Christians and Jews can't practice their faith like Saudi Arabia, which donates so much money to Hillary Clinton and her husband, how would we expect that you really want to adopt our values?
How do we keep Americans safe?
Well, when my grandfather came to this country from Ireland in the 1920s, he was asked an awful lot of questions about American ideals.
And that's been a part of our immigration system from the very beginning.
And people's willingness to embrace the basic ideals of the Bill of Rights, the basic ideals of the American experiment, needs to return to the center of our immigration policies in this country.
But this goes, I have to tell you, that the challenge that we face today is really, it is a challenge of a lack of leadership.
Not only will Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton refuse to name our enemy, but as Hillary Clinton did today, she actually made comments I was just informed of that suggest that Donald Trump's words are, quote, giving comfort to our adversaries.
Well, Look, weakness gives comfort to our adversary.
The lack of a strong America on the world stage and the absolute assurance that violence against American citizens or threats against American citizens will be answered with American strength will diminish the threat against this country overnight.
And I would just submit to you today, and I'll say it here in Iowa at all of our stops, that weakness arouses evil.
And the weak and feckless foreign policy of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the last 70 years is precisely what has emboldened our enemies, and that'll all change the day that Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.
If you look at saying or not saying radical Islam, extreme vetting or no vetting or little vetting, building a wall, not building a wall, repealing Obamacare, not repealing Obamacare, originalist justices or no originalist justices, energy independence or firing coal miners and ending coal companies, putting them out of business.
When you add education back to the states, all of these different issues, isn't this a profound choice election?
This is the most dramatic choice in any election in my 57 years.
I often tell people, and I'll say it again today, this is not a choice between one leader who will take America this far up and another leader that won't quite go that far.
This is really a choice between up and down, whether we're going to continue down the path of a weaker, more vulnerable America at home and abroad, a weaker economy walking away from our constitutional freedoms in the Supreme Court, or whether we're going to stop, turn around, and march back up the hill to a stronger America at home and abroad, grounded in our constitutional principles.
It is that dramatic of a choice, and I think it's becoming more and more clear.
People here in Iowa and people all across America every day.
All right, Governor Mike Pence, the vice presidential nominee, along with Donald Trump, we're 50 days away from election day.
Governor, great to talk to you again, and we appreciate, as always, your time.
All right, 800-941-Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
When we come back, we're going to open up the phones.
Later on, we have our buddy Dan Bongino who is going to join us, some other security experts.
What are we missing here?
Why does this keep happening?
And why are these politicians so afraid to state the obvious?
I don't ever watch MSNBC.
I just don't.
I've got better things in my life to do.
And I guess I'm like the rest of America.
I'm just not intrigued with their particular brand of liberal, leftist, Hillary Obama-loving programming that they've got.
And, you know, people that get Obamagasms like Chris Matthews, but they've got a host on there.
I honestly don't think I've ever seen him do two minutes of his show.
So I don't know him well.
I know he's on Before Rachel Maddow, and I don't know a lot about him except that he's like Rachel in terms of his politics.
And he says, we're very lucky the attackers tried to use explosives rather than guns.
I'm like, please tell me, please tell me you don't have a national cable show and you said something that stupid.
Apparently he did.
Oh, did he ever see the Murray building in Oklahoma and what Timothy McVay did to that building?
Yeah, that was, those were explosives.
Yeah, explosives and not exactly, ever see what happened to the people at the Boston bombing?
Yeah, that was explosives.
Yeah, explosives hurt people.
Let me just help MSNBC out for just a sec.
Explosives, they're bad too.
Okay?
Guns can be misused by people, but explosives can be very, very dangerous.
So I don't think you're lucky that people tried to use explosives rather than guns.
Because explosives, depends how big the bomb is, can really cause a lot of damage.
Can you believe?
Why are you looking at me like that?
I didn't say it.
Anyway, why do I keep mentioning this article on yahoo.com?
One in four French Muslims revolt against secular laws.
One in four, 25% French Muslims, mostly young people, support the radical form of Islam, the ultra-conservative form of Islam, including wearing a full-face veil.
But the vast majority accept France's strict secular laws, according to a study.
Now, if they don't want to be part of France, just like in the 88 Sharia courts in Great Britain or, you know, the no-go zones in France and elsewhere, why are you living in France?
Go live in a country in which you came from.
I remember infamously or famously, the prime minister of Australia some years back said, if you don't want to be an Australian, don't come here.
If you don't want to adapt our values, don't come here.
Well, I would say the same thing about America.
This is the danger about Hillary wanting a 550% increase in refugees because you got people that come from countries, and culturally, they were raised very differently than we were raised.
They don't believe in freedom of religion.
They don't believe that women are anything but third-class citizens that could be told how to dress.
And men can have many wives and other girlfriends, and that jihad is maybe part of a mandate that they've been indoctrinated into.
You know, when James Clapper and James Comey and Michael Steinbeck and CIA Director Brennan and House Homeland Security Chair McCall and former special envoy to defeat ISIS, General Allen, all say that ISIS can infiltrate that population.
Why don't we listen to those people?
Why is Hillary want a 550% increase?
And what is the danger?
Why do we think that there would be a different result here in America than what Europe has experienced?
And that means the Islamization of Europe.
How else do you identify or explain no-go zones in France or elsewhere in Europe?
How else do you explain 88 separate Sharia courts in Great Britain of all places?
How else do you explain Sharia courts elsewhere in Europe?
The Somali ISIS fanatic who went on this Minnesota knife rampage, you know, this is the face of evil.
Well, then you look, we've taken in 100,000 Somali refugees.
99.6% are Muslim.
Okay, so I have a question.
What do we know about them?
What do we know about their upbringing?
What do we know about their faith?
What do we know about their culture?
What do we know about their thought processes, if anything?
And I'm betting not much, if anything, at all, considering under Secretary Clinton, we resettled 31,000 Somali migrants.
I mean, I know America wants to be, you know, I know my grandparents, they had to answer questions about America when they came here.
You know, I know to be a citizen, you have to answer a lot of questions.
One in five of the Syrian refugees have been settled in the New York area.
Well, that's a lot of Syrian refugees in New York.
The very people that Clapper and Comey and Steinbeck and Brennan and McCall and General Allen all said could be infiltrated by ISIS.
Well, what comes first here?
It's like I keep telling the Never Trump people, all right, you help elect Hillary, you sabotage Trump, you own her Supreme Court decisions, you own her bad economy, you own the Obamacare, she'll continue in some form, and you own the unvetted refugees, the 550% increase.
And if they go on a rampage and they kill innocent Americans, you're partly to blame.
And as much as you didn't have the insight, the understanding, and the common sense that vetting is a good idea.
It's not racist.
It's not Islamophobic.
It's just simple, basic common sense.
It's like inviting somebody into your home.
Do you invite any old person into your home?
Or do you like to know a little bit about the person before they come into your home?
You know, I would argue most of us probably would think twice, especially if we have kids in the home, of inviting somebody off the street that we don't know into our home.
Why would you be cautious?
Cautious?
Because you don't know that person.
You don't know anything about them.
You don't know what they're capable of.
You don't know what they might do to you or your children.
You just don't know.
So it's not worth taking a chance.
Officials probing the bobbings and the stabbings, three U.S. cities in a 12-hour span.
Somali father IDs the son as the Minnesota mall attacker.
That's the one that was screaming a lau akbar.
Stabbed eight, suspected dead as a result of the incident.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Minnesota mall attack.
I just keep giving you the news, and none of it's any good.
And then you hear the tortured explanations of what happened and what it's not.
We know it's not.
It's not related to Islam.
It's not.
We can't say radical.
It's unbelievable.
It's not international.
We have no evidence that's international at this moment.
You just go about your business.
Everything that can be done is being done.
Wow.
Andrew Cuomo, I felt so confident when you said that.
I thought, oh, I'm safe now.
I don't even run around naked in my backyard.
That's how safe I feel.
Authorities identified this one guy, how many other accomplices he had.
I'll tell you this.
These bombs in New York were filled with shrapnel.
Why do they fill in with shrapnel?
That's designed for maximum casualty.
By the way, ISIS rushed to celebrate the New York explosion as well as what happened in Minnesota.
You know, called the New York bombing, it's unbelievable.
And then there was a 9-11 call.
There will be more.
And you know what?
There's probably going to be more.
I know many of you are shocked.
Hillary shocked at the idea.
How could there be more?
You pay any attention?
The lead up to 9-11, 2001.
A lot of events that led up to that.
The embassy bombings in Kenya, in Tanzania.
Now, you wouldn't think that would lead to 9-11, right?
And of course, you had a series of other bombings, the first trade center bombing.
That was a good indication that the trade center was a target.
Then, of course, you have the USS Cole.
Then you had, as the 9-11 Commission report saying, that there's a whole group of people, radical Islamists, at war with us.
We're not at war with them.
Well, now we're at a pre-9-11 mindset.
And with a pre-9-11 mindset comes a vulnerability.
And then you have political correctness on top of it, which says you can't say radical Islam.
You know, again, what did Hillary say the other day when we're the basket of, what did she say, deplorables?
Well, I guess if you want to secure our borders, you're xenophobic.
I guess if you want to vet refugees that grow up in countries that treat women, gays, lesbians, Christians, and Jews deplorably, really deplorably, then I guess that makes you Islamophobic.
And Hillary has no problem.
She's not Islamophobic.
After all, look at all the money she takes from radical Islamic countries that treat women, gays, Christians, and Jews and lesbians horribly.
We are living in a volatile political environment.
You know, let's just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
Sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
Now, some of those folks, they're irredeemable, but thankfully they are not American.
Irredeemable basket of deplorables because you disagree with an open-minded liberal like Hillary Clinton.
But you know what?
Why?
Because you want to secure the borders?
Why?
Because you recognize that, you know, you know what I think is deplorable?
Taking money from countries, millions of dollars from countries that abuse women and treat them like third-class citizens, that kill gays and lesbians, and that persecute Christians and Jews, taking millions and millions and never uttering a word of criticism against those countries.
I think that's pretty deplorable.
All right, let's go to Tristan in Nixon, Missouri.
Tristan, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, big fan.
Looking for a while.
I got a question and a comment for you.
First of all, I want to bring us back to Clockboy.
Remember Clockboy?
Yeah, I remember in Texas.
Right.
They said that everyone was calling the teachers and everyone who recorded this thing that looked like a bomb to be Islamophobia.
So that's the narrative that we said.
If we recorded, we're Islamophobics.
That's why the people didn't record.
But you understand that.
But you know something?
This is now impacting people.
Remember Sam Bernardino?
All the neighbors saw all this late-night activity in the garage and all these people working late into the night.
It turns out that's where they were building their bombs.
Everybody's suspicious, but nobody had the courage to say anything because they didn't want to be accused of that.
Exactly.
That's my point.
And when the bombs happened last night, people talking, well, it's got to be Islamic terrorism.
And everyone's saying, well, how do you know you're an Islamophobic for saying that?
Listen, I mean, here's the bottom line.
At this point in time, yes, it is possible you can have domestic acts of terrorism.
Yes, it's possible.
But the odds are pretty heavy.
If a bomb goes off, it's ISIS, an ISIS sympathizer, radical Islamic connected.
That's just the, I'm just looking at the odds here.
There can be an instance of Tim McVay type, a lunatic, racist.
Who knows?
I mean, there's all sorts of crazy people in the world, but the caliphate advancement.
If you're not a, it's a, not all terrorist, Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.
You've got to accept the simple truth here.
And the truth is, is that radical Islam is at war with us, and they're going to try and hit us any place, anytime they can, whether they do it themselves or they find a sympathizer on the internet that they can entice to do their dirty work for them.
That's what they want to do, and that's what they're engaged in.
The caliphate, which is they want world-dominated Islam.
They want Islam to be, and it's part of their religion, part of their indoctrination, part of their upbringing.
And they think by migration that they can literally begin to create pockets of Islam all across the world and eventually dominate.
And that this is going to be a one-world caliphate of Islam.
That's what their goal is.
That's their stated goal.
So I don't make any of this up.
Florida, MJ, next, Sean Hannity Show.
Sean, listen, when I was up there when Giuliani was cleaning up the place as an Italian, I didn't take it personal when he was, you know, picking on the boys wearing the wife's beaters and the gold chains, you know.
And when they were cleaning up the hookers, they weren't picking up the nuns in the habits.
You know what I'm saying?
They were picking up the girls dressed with the three-inch skirts and the fishnet stockings.
So you've got to bring back stop and frisk.
And, you know, we got to bring, I mean, you got to do the profiling.
What if this restaurant guy didn't stop this guy?
You understand what I'm saying?
I mean, and, you know, with Obama being out there over in New York and for him, just like the flooding in Louisiana, this guy's not going to say anything.
I mean, what was he going to say?
The Minnesota cop who shot that guy in Minnesota?
The Minnesota cop acted stupidly for shooting this guy?
What did they want to do?
Shoot the knife out of his hand?
I'm just done with all this political correctness.
I'm just done with us walking on eggshells over here.
Well, you've got an opportunity in 50 days to pick a candidate that will say radical Islam, that will extremely vet refugees, and that will build the wall.
So you have an opportunity to fix it.
Well, absolutely.
But if Hillary comes in and brings in the 500, what is that, 500 million percent upping the ones from Syria, and we bring in Sharia law, they're going to boot her out because I don't think they're going to allow her to be president because don't they have a problem with women?
Listen, I'm listening to you.
I'm just telling you, America will get the president it deserves.
No, you're absolutely right.
And I appreciate you having on these Never Trumpers because this is ridiculous already.
Enough's enough.
I'm going to.
Yeah, listen, I've given fair warning.
I did it in 2007 and 2008, and I think I'm doing it now.
I've got 50 days to go, and I won't stop.
There won't be a day off unless I can't talk.
You're getting a lot of time.
You're now an election time.
I love it.
You're in my brain.
All right.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Anyway, when we come back, this roundup information overload, we got Dan Bongino, also a retired lieutenant with the NYPD.
Actually, he says that New York NYPD was told to stand down Saturday night, according to the people he checked in with.
We'll find out what that's all about.
All right, I got some type of explosion that occurred on Ocean Avenue at T Street inside of a garbage can.
We're notified of this package between two garbage cans in a lot.
Okay, we need to shut down this run.
Shut down this run.
Speak to somebody up there.
Do you want anybody on the boardwalk?
Affirmative.
Shut down the run.
Get him out of the boardwalk.
It was an explosion.
These units saying it was an explosion above a garbage tail.
Have units off the block.
I want the station area set up for all units coming in.
I want them on 22nd Street and 7th Avenue.
Coming from the south, anybody coming from the north, I want them on 24th Street and 7th Avenue.
Nobody to enter that block.
Anybody coming from the east, have the stage on 6th Avenue.
Is that it?
There is no evidence at this point of a terror connection to this incident.
I also want to affirm that based on what we know at this hour, there is no specific connection to the incident in New Jersey.
I want to say more broadly, there is no specific and credible threat against New York City at this point in time from any terror organization.
So as we are analyzing what happened here, we are doing against the backdrop, but we have no credible and specific threat at this moment.
But we do want to be very clear.
The early indications, the initial indications, is this was an intentional act.
It's not linked to international terrorism.
In other words, we find no ISIS connection, etc.
But a bomb going off is generically a terrorist activity.
That's how we're going to consider it.
But we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this.
Was it a political motivation, a personal motivation?
What was it?
We do not know that yet.
That work must go on.
We have no reason to believe at this time that there is any further immediate threat.
We will not allow these type of people and these type of threats to disrupt our life in New York.
That's what they want to do.
We're not going to let them do it.
So, feel safe.
Everything that needs to be done is being done and more.
And we're going to enjoy New York and we're going to go back to work tomorrow, just like we do on any Monday morning.
I said yesterday we had no information that it was foreign related.
Today's information suggests it may be foreign related.
I've been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.
Do you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump immediately is not taking the station tonight, calls the explosion in New York a phone and put that in the crown?
Well, I think it's important to know the facts about any incident like this.
That's why it's critical to support the first responders, the investigators who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
I think it's always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions.
All right, the tortured, I mean, the bastardizing of the English language, all in an attempt to avoid saying what is obvious, that these events are terrorist attacks.
America's under attack.
It undermines their entire narrative that the JV team, ISIS, is contained.
I mean, we have a series of events.
You had, you know, the attack near Penn Station.
This poor cop got nailed with a meat cleaver, 70 stitches.
Then the mall attack in Minnesota, Somali member of ISIS stabbing nine people, screaming Alahu Akbar.
Then a Marine Vet Semper 5 run.
You had pipe bombs found along the route.
And then pipe bombs planted in New York this Saturday at 23rd, between 23rd and 27th streets, or both streets between 6th and 7th Avenue.
But we don't know what this is.
29 people injured.
29 people injured.
What is it going to take to admit that we're not dealing with a JV team?
This is radical Islam and that they've declared war against us.
How big an attack does it have to be before we finally acknowledge and admit what we're dealing with?
Anyway, joining us now is Dan Bongino, decorated former Secret Service agent, author of the book, The Fight of a Secret Service Agent's Account of the Failings of the Political Machine, Life Inside the Bubble.
Bill McGrority is with us, a retired lieutenant with the NYPD.
He worked 10 years in the counterterrorism unit.
Welcome both of you to the program.
Good afternoon, Johnny.
Good afternoon.
Bill, let me start with you because maybe you know Comrade de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo, but I mean, I'm listening to these two and Hillary Clinton and their tortured, you know, politically correct responses to all of this.
Hillary even went as far as to suggest, well, Donald Trump is encouraging terrorism by identifying it.
I mean, that's how sick and twisted and backwards their logic is.
You can't win a war if you can't acknowledge an enemy.
And, you know, how ignorant that they say there's no evidence that this could be terror-related.
Well, of course it's a terrorist attack.
Now, is it homegrown?
Is it ISIS sympathizers?
Is it ISIS-related?
We don't know.
But, I mean, for crying out loud, if you drop a bomb, it's obviously a terror attack.
Absolutely, Sean.
You know, watching that press conference yesterday, I was so disheartened.
You know, I know Commissioner O'Neill from the job.
He's an intelligent man.
But watching the body language, they were so concerned about sticking with their narrative not to label this a terrorist attack that that was their main issue to get forth in that press conference.
Instead of telling us, listen, this is a terrorist attack.
This is how we're going to investigate it.
Until we know different, this is the way we're going to investigate it.
And we're going to employ every resource, whether local or federal, to investigate this terrorist act.
Well, I think it's obvious what we're dealing with here.
When you have all of these, you know, do you think it's by accident that Minnesota, Seaside Park, New Jersey, Chelsea, New York, and then the next day, Elizabeth, New Jersey, do you think all of this is just happenstance?
Doesn't it sound suspicious?
Isn't it smart law enforcement, a smart law enforcement thought process, Dan Bongino, to assume that they're probably related?
Yeah, and think about it.
You know, Bill has just nailed it, Sean.
I mean, let's put this in perspective, right?
Let's replace terrorism because Obama's politicized the topic.
Let's replace terrorism with another crime and see how law enforcement responds.
When I was a cop and when I was a federal agent, I know Bill knows this too.
When you see a kidnapping, you know, 90% of the time the kidnapping is usually some kind of a family member or someone who's been around the child, sadly.
So the default position for law enforcement, because we're actually interested in getting the person back, the child, and solving the crime, is let's go to the family members or the people who are around the child first because we're actually interested in saving the life.
Well, what do you know, these morons in politics do when they let politics surpass public safety, Sean?
They default to the least likely thing first.
They go, oh, no, no, no.
It was an explosion in a dumpster on a crowded night in New York City, which has been a perpetual target for terror.
But let's say, let's find 150 tortured reasons why it's not terrorism first.
This is the very definition of leadership and sanity you're seeing right now.
You know, this really goes to the heart, though, of a lot of big issues in this campaign.
And I keep saying this is a major choice election for the American people.
I mean, and three issues impact this.
One, do you want a president that has the willingness to identify the enemy for who they are and say the words radical Islam?
Trump will.
Hillary won't.
Do you want a president that is saying we're taking in way too many refugees from Muslim countries that have values that totally and completely and utterly contradict American constitutional values?
Before we accept them, we have got to vet them thoroughly or extremely vet them to make sure that they are who they say they are, especially in light of law enforcement and our intelligence community and Clapper and Comey and Brennan and Major Allen and our House Homeland Security chair McCall all saying that ISIS will infiltrate the population.
So we've got to protect the American people first.
And then, of course, everything has to do with building a wall or as Hillary wants to do, I guess, build a bridge to Mexico so people can come back and forth anytime they want with open borders.
So Bill, I think this is now highlighting what's at stake here.
Yes, and you know, you know, Sean, the way in which people work, it's a precedent that's set by our leadership, whether in D.C. or New York City City Hall.
And if I could just make a point, you know, I retired two years ago.
I currently work in the Middle East.
And I spoke to my colleagues, my former colleagues from the JTTF and NYPD Saturday night, and I asked them, what are you guys doing?
Because a couple of years ago, if something like this happened, we would hit the streets running.
We would be deploying our informants, our sources.
We would be collecting information.
And the president that sit now, the guys I speak to, they told me, well, we're on standby until Sunday night.
I said, really?
You're on standby?
You're not going out there.
After the bombs went off, well, one bomb went off, and then the other one, they found that pressure cooker bomb.
You're saying that they didn't send every cop out in the street to find this guy?
No.
And when I worked, we worked outside of New York City.
That was our thing.
This was something that's set in place by Commissioner Kelly because he had the forward thinking of we need to get outside of New York City.
We need to find out exactly what's going on.
If this happened four years ago, we would have had offices on the ground in Seaside Heights finding out what's going on.
Are there any persons of interest?
And the word I got was we're on standby.
We're not being sent out.
We're not being aggressive.
We're not being proactive.
And it's sad.
It's sad to see that this is what our state has come to now.
I just think that that's such a dereliction of duty.
Dan Bongino, could you imagine you're protecting the president of the United States, a vice president or a presidential candidate, and something like this happens?
And basically you're given a standdown order?
No, because when their cabooses are on the line, Sean, they're going to send out every intel operator, every protection and law enforcement operator in the United States to make sure that they're safe overseas.
It's when your butt's on the line that you get into the politics.
And, you know, what Bill said, I've heard kind of the same thing when it comes to these policing these inner city neighbors.
I had a cop friend of mine say, hey, listen, we've been told that, you know, when you're pulling people over for not wearing a seatbelt or whatever it is, they don't want to get involved because they don't want to become a YouTube celebrity.
So what do they do?
They write the ticket for the seatbelt instead of saying, hey, can you step out of the car?
Something looks suspicious here.
Next thing you know, they find a gun in the car.
None of that's happening anymore, Sean.
And this is why I've tried to make the case repeatedly to anyone who will listen that we have to stop focusing on the fireman side, you know, putting out the fires after the bomb goes off.
We have to start focusing on the arsonist side.
We have to get back, and I think Bill would agree, to the hard on-the-ground human intelligence development.
You know, Bill, we used to call it in the Secret Service, we used to call it, you know, shaking the trees.
Going out and developing sources in the community and getting those sources, Sean, so we're putting out the fires before they start.
We're never going to beat these people putting out the fires after the fact in this race to the bottom.
It's not going to happen.
Let me ask about the conflict of cultures or the clash of cultures.
Again, I go back.
Let's go to Saudi Arabia where the Clintons take tens of millions of dollars for the foundation and for the library, and they don't let women drive, and women are told how to dress, and women can't travel abroad without a male's permission or go to school or work without a male's permission.
And of course, they kill gays and lesbians.
And of course, Christians and Jews, they're not allowed to build places of worship.
They're punished and they're persecuted for their faith.
And if you are a Muslim and you want to change faiths, well, that's called apostasy.
And the penalty for apostasism is the death penalty.
So, all right, now you're a Saudi and this is what you grew up under, and you want to bring, you want to come to the United States.
Why should we trust that you really want the freedom that we have to offer rather than indoctrinate the American people, like, by the way, has happened in places like Germany and France and Great Britain?
I mean, that's a big problem, to be honest with you.
How do you possibly ascertain what's in somebody's heart?
You can't, and that's the hardest thing is to find out what's going on in somebody's mind.
I mean, you look at Brussels, exactly what you said, Brussels, Paris.
The majority is being indoctrinated and being conditioned to not be labeled as a racist or somebody who profiles.
And until we face this reality, we're going to be conditioned into exactly what's going to happen over this weekend as just everyday occurrences.
And we just have to deal with it.
Well, I think this is the problem we now have.
I don't think this goes away on its own in any shape, matter, or form.
I mean, we're just going to have to.
Can I add to that quick?
Because you bring up a great point.
Andy McCarthy's done yeoman's work on this.
I know you know Andy well.
This is a civilizational jihad.
These two ideologies can't coexist, Sean.
We can't have liberty and freedom in the United States and Sharia and radical Islamic fundamentalism at the same time.
It's oil and water.
They just don't mix.
I mean, acting like this is some kind of just a deterrent on the path to prosperous liberty, and this is just like a little exit marker is just not true.
It's the end of liberty as we know it if we don't combat this civilizational jihad and take it seriously for what it is.
We have to stop beating around the bush here.
They cannot coexist at the same time.
I think that's pretty deep and profound.
You say that, though, and boy, you just angered you're saying this about our culture.
I'm saying that life under Sharia persecutes women, gays, lesbians, Christians, and Jews.
And that is directly at odds with the freedoms that we celebrate in this country.
And I don't know how you reconcile the two.
You don't.
And what is the left wasting time on?
What are these clowns on the left wasting their time on, Sean?
A bathroom in North Carolina.
These goons in the NCAA pulling the tournament out because men can't go in the ladies' room in North Carolina while they throw gay men off buildings in Iran and in some of these Middle Eastern countries.
I mean, this is absurd.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
You bring up a good point there.
Sorry.
All right, guys.
Appreciate you being with us.
When we come back, we'll hit the phones toll-free.
It's 800-941, Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
Sometimes when I'm talking to young interns of the White House who are still immunizing themselves from the cynicism that's so chronic in this town, I remind them: if you had to choose a moment in history to be born and you didn't know ahead of time who you were going to be, you choose now.
Because the world has never been less violent, healthier, better educated, more tolerant, with more opportunity for more people and more connected than it is today.
Less violent.
What is he talking about?
What fantasy land, what is he taking?
What did the choom gang give him that's apparently still active in his bloodstream?
Because it's clearly working because he's so delusional.
I mean, he's on a long, strange trip to believe that nonsense.
You know, here's the president, his motorcade, passing through, by the way, 23rd Street, the location of Saturday night's bombing, sleeps in Manhattan Sunday night.
He's in New York today for the UN, which means traffic is atrocious.
And why don't we send the UN to China?
Let them have it.
Well, why not give it to the Iranians considering they're such good friends with Obama?
Give him to them.
Anyway, so the president's first stop in New York City Sunday night was at Gramercy Park at the home of a restaurateur, Danny Meyer, an actress Audrey Meyer, to defend a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, drinking champagne and caviar.
Obama talked about the importance of the election, the most important election of our lifetime, and discussed why he believes Clinton is failing to run away with it.
This shouldn't be a close election, but it will be.
And the reason will be is not because of Hillary's flaws, but rather because structurally we have become a very polarized society.
And if all you're doing is watching Fox News and listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading some of the blogs that are churning out a lot of misinformation on a regular basis, then it's very hard for you to think you're going to vote for somebody that you've been told is taking the country in the wrong direction.
You mean you?
Because you've taken us in the wrong direction.
Nobody's had a worse economic or foreign policy agenda than you.
And so structurally, we have these divisions and it's going to be hard to overcome them.
And then he raised the possibility that sexism may have been holding Clinton back.
I will say there's a reason why we haven't had a woman president, that we as a society still grapple with what it means to see powerful women.
And it still troubles us in a lot of ways, unfairly.
And that expresses itself in all sorts of ways.
He didn't once mention the terror attack in New York.
He never once mentioned the terror attack in the mall of Minnesota, the mall attack.
He never once mentioned the New Jersey bombings or attempted bombings at the Marine Corps Semper 5 charity run on Saturday.
After about an hour at this guy's home, then Obama headed to the lot New York Palace Hotel where he's staying while attending this year's United Nations General Assembly.
That's what he's doing.
Anyway, Obama has a Democratic fundraiser this morning that he had, followed by afternoon meetings with some of the world leaders.
But yet he can't even mention the attack.
But the election is about sexism.
Just like his election, I guess, was about racism.
And it goes on from there.
Anyway, let's get to our busy telephones here.
Mohammed is in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mohammed, how are you?
You're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi, Sean.
What's going on, sir?
Where were you raised?
Iran.
You were raised in Iran.
Yeah.
Okay.
And tell me, how did you get out of Iran?
Well, that was when after all these problems, I went to pursue my study.
Just went to university to study.
So did you grow up under the Ayatollah?
Did you grow up under the Shah?
When did you come here?
I also grew up under Ayatollah also.
I have had all those, whatever they said, the lies, or whatever you want to call it.
So you grew up, and you know, for example, gays and lesbians, they're put to death in Iran, are they not?
Correct, correct.
Estonian.
And women and women must dress a certain way or they're in trouble, correct?
Right.
That's right.
And how many wives can men have in Iran?
Well, they can have four permanent and as many temporary as possible, according to Quran.
Oh, so they can have four permanent wives and then as many other women as possible, according to the Quran.
Correct.
Yes.
Yeah.
And what do you think about Hillary Clinton and Obama?
They can't say radical Islam.
Do you understand what radical Islam is?
Well, we don't have radical Islam.
We have one Islam, and that Islam is what ISIS is practicing.
So in other words, are you still a Muslim?
No.
So why do you keep the name Muhammad?
Well, I cannot change it, can I?
How do I do that?
I mean, that's what I was given.
Well, remember, Muhammad Ali was first named Cassius Clayer.
Remember that?
You can change your name legally if you wanted to.
Oh, you can't.
If you were back in Iran and you said the words, I'm not a Muslim anymore, that would make you an apostate, and the penalty for apostasism in the country in which you were born would be death.
Sean, you brought up Muhammad Ali.
I want to tell you, if Muhammad Ali is given to ISIS, they will behead him right away.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I know, because what they do is the exact Quran.
What Muhammad Ali did was nothing against the Quran.
Quran says jihad.
Quran says beheading.
Quran says cut the hands, cut the legs, stone, lashes.
So do you think one of the reasons why we always appeal to, say, moderate Muslims to speak out against the hijacking of their religion, do you think that's an appeal in vain?
According to Quran, Sean, there is only one Islam and the one who practices Quran.
The others, they can call themselves Muslim, but they're not Muslims.
How do you then explain the split?
And I know the historical reasons for the Sunnis, for example, in Saudi Arabia or the Shia in Iran, and it's more of a hierarchical and a, you know, who is the rightful heir to Muhammad.
But putting that aside, is there versions of an interpretation of the Quran relatively the same otherwise?
There is one Quran and one Quran only.
Anybody else brings, or in Quran is written, if you change one word, it's not Quran anymore.
Yeah.
Well, what else did you want to say?
And I've got to move on here.
I want to say, in this country, we are so much bickering against each other from Killington to Trump.
We're missing the target.
The target is the Muslim not.
Islam.
I'm not talking about Muslims, not individuals.
The Islam targets the West, is not targets modernization.
Islam doesn't like what we do.
All right, Muhammad, thank you for being with us.
Appreciate your insight.
And we go to Ashley is in Linden, Washington on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hi, Sean.
Hey, I just want to call in and talk about our vetting and how it's just, it's not good enough.
I live in a border town, and I know in Canada, there are so many people volunteering to take Syrian refugees right now.
And how hard is it for them to jump right across?
How hard is it for them to come across?
And what do they have to do to get across?
It's very, very worrying for me to think that they can just come across here and do what happened in Paris, where we here in Linden have festivals down the street where our kids play, where you said down the whole street, where they could just drive a truck down the street.
That happened the day before we had a festival here, and I didn't go because I was scared to death that my four children could be mowed down.
You know, it's really an amazing thing.
Why are they taking in all of these refugees?
Why do Democrats want open borders?
Now, I believe that they're looking at this as through the electoral prism.
And I think Democrats feel that they're that close to flipping red states blue or turning them purple.
And if they do, they'll have an electoral mandate that would last for generations and generations.
And that they would forever then shift and change the makeup of America into their version of what they think it should be.
In other words, they would prefer that America be more like Europe.
But we see the consequences of bad decisions in Europe, and we don't seem to be learning from their mistakes.
I mean, here you have these incidents happening.
They don't even want to even take on the possibility that these things could be connected.
And these bombs are filled with shrapnel designed for maximum casualties.
And ISIS supporters rush to celebrate the New York City explosion.
And there'll be more a chilling 911 call after the Chelsea explosion.
And you got to ask, what's wrong with these people?
What is it that they refuse to?
They're hitting the heart of our neighborhoods.
I mean, this guy, he's hitting our neighborhoods.
It's not going to be, I don't think it's going to be these big attacks on buildings or things like that.
It's going to be where it's going to hit us hard and it's because it's going to hit our children.
It's going to hit school, things like that.
They're going to hit it hard.
They're smart.
Are we taking for granted the fact that they have brains?
And we need to know that they have brains.
And we need to know that they're going to hit us where it hurts.
Listen, I think this goes on forever until we take a strong enough stand.
We protect our borders.
We vet these refugees.
We follow people that come in on student visas, et cetera.
And unless and until we do, this is going to continue to happen on a regular basis.
And I think what you see in Europe is what we're going to see here in this country for many years to come.
And then there's going to be the push in this country to, well, why don't we have Sharia courts?
You know, it's not fair.
You know, it's not fair if people have a very different ideology and religious system and we're forcing them into our court system.
Listen, the argument was made all across Europe.
It'll be, you know, it'll be made here.
Watch and wait.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
Obama wants tolerance and opportunity.
What's the stop at bathrooms?
I mean, it's going to let people in because we want to give them opportunities.
We have a bleeding heart.
We want to let everybody in.
Well, we have forgotten about our country.
What we're here for and what we stand for is not what Sharia law stands for.
We need to remember first and foremost, this is our country, and we need to take it back, not be giving it away.
Thank you for the call, Ashley.
Donna in Staten Island, New York on the all-new AM710 W-O-R.
How are you?
I'm good, Sean.
How are you?
That's a tough weekend for New York.
It sure is.
And I have to tell you, I work in an office that actually is in Linden, bordering Elizabeth, New Jersey.
We're like a block off of Elmora.
So I actually know that chicken store where this guy and his family, you know, ran the chicken store and all that.
So it was pretty scary for us because we actually had to lock our doors for work today.
We were kind of worried when he was on the run.
You know, all these alerts were coming on our phone.
We had to lock the doors to our building.
But that's the whole other story.
What I really wanted to address, I cannot believe the people that are supposed to be our leaders of our communities, like DeBozo, who I can't stand, where they get on TV and they're so petrified to identify the problem.
First of all, we all know that if you have cancer or if you have a drug addiction or any kind of an addiction, the first step is that you have got to identify the problem so that you can deal with it.
And they don't want to identify with it.
They don't want to identify it as what it is.
If a guy comes into a situation like in the mall and he's yelling a la Akbar, I don't think that that leaves any room for doubt.
He's not yelling, let's go Phillies.
He's yelling a la Akbar.
It's his agenda.
And we have to start tackling this for what it is.
This is really out of control now.
Look at how many things in the last 48 hours.
This is a scary situation.
Comrade DeBozo.
I mean, De Blasio, I mean, it is so weak and it is so pathetic.
I mean, as you watch these politicians, you know, turn themselves into a politically correct pretzel.
The only thing that's missing is salt and a little mustard, and you can take a little bite because it's so contorted from where reality is.
It's really despicable.
How about how everybody came out against Donald Trump for identifying it as a bomb?
Meanwhile, I watched Teraldo on Fox yesterday.
It was a bomb.
It was a bomb.
We knew from the beginning it was a bomb.
I'm in the street.
I'm looking at shrapnel.
It was a bomb.
Why is everybody giving Trump such a hard time for identifying the problem?
That's what a leader does.
Well, this is now such a big problem that, look, if the Supreme Court doesn't do it for you as it relates to Donald Trump, if eliminating Obamacare doesn't do it, if stimulating the economy and a much better economic plan doesn't do it, if energy independence doesn't do it, if Education Back to the States doesn't do it, then do it to vet these refugees that are coming from countries that have values that contradict our values.
Do it to build the wall so we have some security along our border.
Do it for just basic common sense that a president should be able to identify an enemy that's at war with us, radical Islamists.
There's so many differences that exist between these two.
That's what frustrates me so much about the Never Trumper group people.
But we've got 50 days to go.
And you know what?
America will get the president it deserves.
I'll accept all of Donald Trump's promises.
I'll accept what he says.
And if he doesn't fulfill them, call me, pound me, write about me, and beat me up.
But all you, you know, arrogant NRO, Wall Street Journal, Mitt Romney supporting people out there that are just hell-bent on helping Hillary, you own everything she does, including what the refugees that she brings in or open borders people bring in with them and what they do to the American people.
