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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, uh 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 uh a bomb going off is generically a terrorist act 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.
The 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 appointed you the statement tonight called the explosion in New York a bomb and people died in the ground?
Well, I think it's important to know the facts about uh any incident like this.
Uh that's why it's uh critical to support the first responders, the investigators uh who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
Uh I think it's uh always uh wiser to wait until you have uh information before uh 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 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 this is madness.
What?
What you are it's like a mental illness.
It's like pathological.
I mean, the idea this was an intentional act.
You know, no, you know, 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.
This 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 nine 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.
They were at war.
We're not at war.
And now we're going to use all these euphemisms.
Man caused disaster.
You know, it's um, you know, it's it's it looks intentional, an intentional act.
Looks like it was an intentional.
Uh overseas contingencies, man caused disasters, workplace violence.
Here we're just back at the same insanity.
You know, they're twisting themselves up to if 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 almost pathological fear of identifying the evil that exists in our time.
I mean, what else do you want me to say?
915, we had a six 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 Alahu Akbar at a mall in Minnesota over the weekend on the 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 for 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 went before this five these 5,000 runners were expected to start the third annual Seaside Semper 5 Marine Corps Charity 5K.
It was detonated, 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.
They 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 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 it had nothing to do with the other incidents whatsoever.
Not at all.
Device was hidden inside a grocery bag, wires protruding from the top.
MYPD's bomb squad removed uh this bomb at 225 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.
Um 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 um the attacker dressed in private security uniform, made references to Allah Allah and uh 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.
So I don't know what to tell you.
Except that America, your country is under attack.
And in 50 days from now, you're gonna 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 gonna use a lot of he's gonna 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 dollars 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 uh philosophy coming into this country unvetted?
Trump has said he's gonna 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 ninety-five 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 attacks 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 weren't 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 this is this weekend's coordinated attack.
You know, I how can you possibly say they're not connected when they're all have one common denominator?
Flip phone detonators.
It just happened by accident?
I don't think so.
You know, this I probably the Minnesota location is a different attack.
That's by the knife wielding Somali shouting alahu Akbar.
It's not clear whether that was a connected to New York and New Jersey.
But you know, to hear that Governor Cuomo and Comrade, you know, Bozo de Blasio, you know, saying these attacks uh were orchestrated by, quote, a foreign body.
I I mean, after just all we can go about your business, you're safe, everything that can be done is being done.
Wow.
These attacks are the 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, a hundred thousand 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 betting, 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 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 uh some type of explosion that occurred on Ocean Avenue at D Street inside of a garbage can.
We need to we're notified of fish package between two garbage cans and 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.
Hell have units the 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's added to that block.
Anyone coming from the east have a stage on Sixth 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, uh 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 uh a bomb going off is generically a terrorist act 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.
The 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 attempting to stand here tonight?
Well, I think it's important to know the facts about uh any incident like this.
Uh that's why it's uh critical to support the first responders, the investigators uh who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
Uh I think it's uh always uh wiser to wait until you have uh information before uh making conclusions.
But of course, this is only a fight about the narrative, and you just hear the 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 with no connection in New Jersey, even though they all use flip bones, no connection at all.
There's no threat that's specific to New York City, no credible threat at all.
And uh this was an intentional act, though.
It was intentional.
According to initial indications.
You know, and um uh 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 thing, piece of information I want to add here.
The Obama administration is now granted citizenship to more than eight hundred 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 of the things that 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 nine eleven.
He did it in twenty fourteen, he ended the program, and uh 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 MYPD commissioner, Bernard Kerrick.
He of course was commissioner on nine eleven.
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, Sean.
How are you?
You know, what do you did you know about the NYPD mosque surveillance program?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Uh I I think it was a justified program.
I know a lot of people considered it uh racial profiling.
I would say you have to look at it from another perspective, and that is criminal predictive profiling.
Um you also have to look at the community relations between the police, the communities, the mosques.
Um if there are bad people that you think were in a certain area, you should have the right to uh uh to look for them.
And and uh, you know, I don't think there was a negative to the surveillance program.
I just don't.
I don't think it um I don't think it was a violation of the Constitution.
Um, 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 uh Cuomo and the rest of 'em?
They're just incapable of saying radical Islam.
In the case of the president, they're workplace violence, man-cause disasters, overseas contingencies, etc.
Now we're just having a difference in semantics, or do you you know, we're having a fight over wording or semantics in this case.
What do you where does this come from?
Honestly, I I don't know where it comes from.
I mean, uh you know, the Islamic state.
Okay.
The they have the words.
Well, wait a minute, but but Obama said the Islamic State, ISIS is not Islamic.
He actually said those words.
Well, I you know, I can't speak for the president.
Uh 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 eighties.
I worked for the King of Jordan for four and a half years.
I was the intram minister of interior of Iraq.
Uh I'm pretty familiar with the area, the people, and the threat.
Um there is a radical Islamic movement against the West and against freedom.
There just is.
I you know, I 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 but the reality is and I bring this up often about Saudi Arabia, for example, and and I understand that the kingdom, if you will, that you know all the the rich people in the royal family that they don't want to get hit by radical Islamists and they fear it probably more than anybody.
But yet on the other hand they 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 that's only recently I mean Saudi Arabia has been the the catalyst behind this hatred for the West for years.
They're madrasas, their mosques, you know people low to the ground um, you know, th this stuff is driven into them from childhood.
So that so that's number one.
Number two, the members of the royal family and and the the upper echelons in in the Saudi uh Saudi government, um they only started in the last say ten years really on this movement of going after radical Islam because I think they're afraid of losing the throne um you know and some of the other governments there as well Qatar and uh the Emirates uh you know the Kuwait um you know but the real look at look
at life in Saudi Arabia and I I'm critical of Hillary Clinton from taking you know twenty five up to twenty five million for the Clinton Foundation, ten 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 per without a male's permission.
You know gays and lesbians can be you know 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 has not changed since I've been there.
So you know how did you like living there?
That must have been hell.
That was it was you know that's a rough place for any American to live because not dude if you it's no cold beers because you will get a flogging a public flogging you'll be deported or you can wind up in prison.
So it's uh even even somebody like you that's working for the government if you got caught drinking beer or 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 family.
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 1 from Riyadh to JFK.
When that thing hits international airspace, you know, they went to the bathroom, took off the Thob and Guttra and all the, you know, the Arab dress, put on normal clothes, got a drink, and, you know, they were westernized immediately, but it's 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 uh a a lot of hanky pinging going on there.
No I I know they're there I don't I can't talk for now because I I'm not there I haven't been there let me 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 fifty days on those three big major issues and I think it will indicate the direction the country whether or not we're going to fight this enemy or whether or not we go back to a pre 911 mindset and then we'll one day we'll have another nine eleven commission report and says well they were at war with us in Chattanooga and Orlando and New York and New Jersey and Minnesota and uh uh San Bernardino, but we weren't at war with them, so we've learned nothing.
Well, here's here's the deal.
I mean, whether you build a wall or you know, 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 directly 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 I I 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 and then the truth is that the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, owns any future attacks.
She wants a five hundred and fifty percent increase in refugees coming from countries, our National Intelligence Director and others are saying we'll be infiltrated by ISIS.
So anything that happens is her fault.
Yeah, I just go, I I honestly, I 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, uh, Bernard Kerrick, who was the former commissioner of the MYPD, good to have you back.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks, Mother.
I appreciate it.
By the way, polls are showing that black voters are now switching to Trump, and he's seeing a sixteen percent increase in the backing of black Americans in uh 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 uh sued police for profiling Muslims.
Ahmed and his father and his brother brought a lawsuit against the city of uh I guess in his hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey in uh 2011 in Newark Federal Call 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 to on vacation.
Should I go to the 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 to right into the heart of ISIS.
Anything there's a little something wrong with that.
I don't know.
Donald Trump set a record, uh GOP record for small donations.
Looks like the people are supporting him that are going to all of his events.
All right, I got uh some type of explosion that occurred on Ocean Avenue at D Street inside of a garbage can.
We need this for notified of this package between two garbage cans and a lot.
Okay, we need to shut down this run.
Shut down this run speak to somebody up there.
Do you want everybody on the boardwalk?
Affirmative.
Shut down the run.
get him out of the boardwalk.
There was an explosion, there was an explosion above a garbage pail.
I can't have units say "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's asked to that block.
Anybody coming from the east has a Stage on Sixth 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, uh 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, et cetera.
But uh a bomb going off is generically a terrorist act 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.
The today's information suggests it may be foreign related.
I've been briefed about uh bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.
Do you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump immediately attempting to stage tonight?
Called explosion in New York phone and well, I think it's important to know the facts about uh any incident like this.
Uh that's why it's uh critical to support the first responders, the investigators uh who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
Uh I think it's uh always uh wiser to wait until you have uh information before uh 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 attacked near Penn Station, a guy with a meat cleaver, he got 70 stitches in his face.
And then in uh Minnesota, you have the Somali members of ISIS stabbing nine people, screaming Alahu 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 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 uh Khan Rahan 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 uh 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 uh 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.
Uh terrorism has come to American shores again, and uh 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 I can't I I really can't understand much of their approach.
I saw the president's uh brief remarks to the press today while brave police officers were taking down uh the assailant in Linden, New Jersey, and uh 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 and outline as he did in Youngstown,
Ohio a strategy for rebuilding our military, restoring our alliances, and confronting and destroying uh 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.
Uh uh gratitude to those in uniform, our first responders.
It is truly, I believe, nothing short of a miracle that no there was no loss of life as a result of these terrorist attacks.
But uh, frankly, it's a miracle.
Everyone 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 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's had since Reagan and Carter, and on the three issues that are that would impact what is happening in terms of the terror attacks, and by the way, it's 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 five hundred and fifty percent 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.
I mean, did you hear the White House spokesman today?
I I heard that series of sound at the top of the hour uh but uh the president spokesman today said that we are in a quote narrative fight, in a narrative battle.
Uh Sean, you know, and I know, and I'll 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 I would just submit to you that um that what you have here is a is a level of of denial uh by this administration.
It goes all the way back to when the president in January of 2014 uh called called ISIS the JV team, and all the way through yesterday when Hillary Clinton's running mate said that we'd, quote, dramatically improved in the battle against ISIS.
I I just think we we uh we we see in this moment the need for new clear-eyed leadership.
It'll 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-shouled leadership uh for America on the world stage uh to confront uh 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, uh there has been a hundred thousand Somali refugees admitted into the U.S., ninety-nine point six percent of which are Muslim.
And then you can see one in five Syrian refugees, we're dealing with this other case, you know, settled in 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 have are in open revolt against secular laws.
Great Britain has eighty-eight Sharia courts.
And the question I think that we've got to ask ourselves 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, uh of course we do, and 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 five hundred and fifty percent.
And uh in the end of the year, just just under Hill Hillary, by the way.
I'm sorry, say again.
Yeah, just when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, they resettled thirty-one thousand 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, um, how would we expect that you really want to want to adopt our values?
How do we keep Americans safe?
Well, when when my grandfather came to this country from Ireland in the nineteen twenties, uh 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 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 this I have to tell you that that the challenge that we face today is really i it is a a challenge of uh of of a of a lack of leadership.
Not only will Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton refuse to name our enemy, but uh as Hillary Clinton did today, she actually uh she actually made comments I was just informed of that suggest that Donald Trump's words are quote giving comfort to our adversaries.
Well, the look weakness gives comfort to our adversary.
Uh the the lack of a s of a strong America on the world stage and and the and the absolute assurance that that that violence against American citizens or threats against American citizens will be answered with American strength will diminish uh the threat against this country overnight.
And uh I I would just submit to you today, and I'll say it here in Iowa at all of our stops, that that weakness arouses evil in the in the weak and feckless foreign policy of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the last seventy 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 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 fifty-seven years.
Uh I I often tell people, and I'll say it again today, this is a not not a choice between one leader who'll take America this far up and another leader that won't quite go that far.
This is 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 fifty days away from election day.
Governor, great to uh talk to you again, and we appreciate as always your time.
When we come back, we're gonna open up the phones.
Later on we have uh our buddy Dan Bangino 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 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 uh 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 Murrah building in Oklahoma and what what Timothy McVeigh did to that building?
Yeah, that was those are explosives.
Yeah.
Explosives are 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.
Can really cause a lot of damage.
Can you believe you why are you looking at me like that?
Why 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, twenty-five percent French Muslims, mostly young people, support the radical form of Islam, the ultra conservative form of Islam, including wearing a full face veil, uh, but the vast majority except France's strict secular laws, according to a study.
Now, if they don't want to be part of France, just like in the eighty-eight 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 five hundred and fifty percent 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, so that and men can have many wives and and other girlfriends, and that jihad is maybe part of a mandate that they've been indoctrinated into.
You know, and James Clapper and and James Comey and Michael Steinbeck and CIA Director Brennan and House uh 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 five hundred and fifty percent 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 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 a hundred thousand Somali refugees.
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 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 not?
Why would you 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 Allahu Akbar, stabbed eight, suspected dead as a result of the incident.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Minnesota Mall attack.
And 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.
Oh, 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.
Oh, you run around naked in my backyard.
That's how that's how safe I feel.
Um authorities that 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 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's 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?
Then 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, to just be grossly generalistic.
You could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
And unfortunately, there are people like that.
And he has lifted them up.
He has given voice to their websites and used to only have 11,000 people.
Now have 11 million.
He tweets and retweets.
They're offensive, hateful, mean spirited rhetoric.
Now some of those folks, they're irredeemable, but thankfully they are not Americans.
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 you recognize that you know, you know what I think's 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 uh Tristan in Nixon, Missouri.
Tristan, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, big fan.
I got a question and a comment for you.
First of all, I want to bring us back to Clockboy.
Remember Clock Boy?
Yeah, I remember in Texas.
Right.
Well, they said that uh everyone was calling the teachers and everyone who reported 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 really know.
But you're not going to be able to do that.
But you know something?
This is now impacting people.
Remember San Bernardino, all the neighbors saw all this late night activity in the garage and and all these people working late in 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 Islamophobe 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 and ISIS sympathizer, radical Islamic connected.
That's just the I'm just looking at the the odds here.
Now there can be an instance of Tim McVeigh 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 terror, if you're not uh it's uh not all terror Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims, or for North America.
You gotta accept the simple truth here.
And the truth is is that radical Islam is at war with us, and they're gonna try and hit us any place, any time 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 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, uh, when I was up there in uh 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 beaters and the gold chains, you know.
And when they were cleaning up the hookers, they weren't picking up the nuns and 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 we've got to bring back stop and frisk, and you know, we gotta bring I mean you gotta 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 uh over uh in New York and for him, just like the flooding in Louisiana.
This guy's not gonna say anything.
I mean, what was he gonna say?
The Minnesota cop who shot that guy in Minnesota, the Minnesota cop acted stupidly for shooting this guy?
What do 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 fifty 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.
So absolutely.
But if Hillary comes in and uh, you know, brings in the uh five hundred, what is that, five hundred million percent upping uh the the ones from Syria, and we bring in Sharia law, they're gonna boot her out because I don't think they're gonna allow her to be president, because don't they have a problem with women?
Listen, I'm I'm I'm listening to you.
I'm just telling you, America will get the president it deserves.
No, you're you're absolutely right, and I appreciate you having it on these uh Never Trumpers, because this is ridiculous already.
Enough to know.
I'm gonna Yeah, listen, I've I've given fair warning.
I did it in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight, and I think I'm doing it now.
I've got fifty days to go, and I won't stop.
There won't be a day off unless I can't talk.
You're again between now and election day.
I love it.
You're in my brain.
All right, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Anyway, when we come back, news roundup information overload, we got Dan Bongino, also a retired lieutenant with the NYPD.
They actually 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.
Alright, I got uh some type of explosion that occurred on Ocean Avenue at D Street inside of a garbage can.
We need to we're notified of fish package between two garbage cans and a lot.
Okay.
We need to shut down this run.
Shut down this run speaker, somebody up there.
Do you want everybody on the boardwalk?
Affirmative.
Shut down the run.
Get him out of the boardwalk.
Is units saying it was an explosion of hell.
Have units stay 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.
Anyone coming from the north, I want them on 24th Street and 7th Avenue.
Nobody's answered that block.
Anybody coming from the east have a stage on Sixth 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, uh we are doing against the backdrop, but we have no credible and specific threat at this moment.
Uh but we do want to be very clear.
Uh 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 uh a bomb going off is generically a terrorist act 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 uh feel safe.
Uh everything that needs to be done is being done and more.
Uh 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.
The today's information suggests it may be foreign related.
I've been briefed uh about uh bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.
You've been a reaction to the fact that Donald Trump immediately is hunting the station tonight, called the explosion in New York phone conduction.
Well, I think it's important To know the facts about uh any incident like this.
Uh that's why it's uh critical to support the first responders, the investigators uh who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.
Uh I think it's uh always uh wiser to wait until you have uh information before uh making conclusions.
All right, the torture.
I mean, the the bastardizing of the English language, all in 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, and the uh mall attack in in Minnesota, Somali member of ISIS stabbing nine people, screaming Alahu Akbar, then a marine vet semper five run.
You have pipe bombs found along the route, and then pipe bombs uh 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.
Nine 29 people injured.
Twenty-nine people injured.
What is it gonna take to admit that we're not uh 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, uh The Fight of a Secret Service Agent's account of the failings of the political machine, life inside the bubble.
Uh Bill Grority is with us, a retired lieutenant with the NYPD.
He worked ten years in the counterterrorism unit.
Welcome both of you to the program.
Good afternoon, Johnny.
Bill, let me start with you because maybe you know Comrade de Blasio and 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 is it ISIS sympathizers?
Is it ISIS related?
We don't know, but I mean, for crying out loud, this if you drop a bomb, it's it's obviously a terror attack.
Absolutely, Sean.
You know, uh watching that press conference yesterday, I was so disheartened.
You know, I know uh Commissioner O'Neill from the job, he's uh 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 gonna investigate it, and two we know different, this is the way we're gonna investigate it, and we're gonna 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 uh uh a smart law enforcement thought process, Dan Bongino, to assume that they're probably related?
Yeah, and think about you know, Bill has just nailed it, Sean.
I mean, but 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.
Family.
So the default position for law enforcement, because we're actually interested in 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 are these you know that 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 say let's find a hundred and fifty tortured reasons why it's not terrorism first.
This is the very definition of leadership insanity 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 I keep saying this is a major choice election for the American people.
I mean and 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 him 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 this is 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 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 the the way in which people work it's a precedent that's set by our leadership.
Whether in DC 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 after the bombs went off well the 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 on the street to find this guy?
No, and when I worked we c we worked outside of New York City.
That was our thing.
This was something that's set in set in place by Commissioner Kelly because he had the the the 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 uh officers 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 said it's sad to see that this is what our state has come to now.
I I just think that that's a such a dereliction of duty Dan Bangino could you imagine you're protecting a uh the president of the United States, a vice president or a presidential candidate and something like this happens and basically you're given a stand down order?
No, because when their cabooses are on the line, Sean, they they're they're gonna 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 it's when your butt's on the line that you get into the politics and you know what what Bill said I've I've heard kind of the same thing when it comes to these uh you know 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've you know that 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'm 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 uh Bill we used to call in the Secret Service used to call it the 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 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 uh and of course they kill gays and lesbians, and of course, Christians and Jews, they're not allowed to build, you know, 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 bring uh you want to come to the United States.
Why should we 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 in places like uh Germany and France and and Great Britain.
I mean, that's a big problem, to be honest with you.
Well, how do we how do you possibly ascertain what's in somebody's heart?
You can, 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 to not be labeled as a racist or somebody who profiles and and and until we we we face this reality, we're gonna be conditioned into exactly what's gonna happen over this weekend as just every day 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 gonna have can I add to that quick? 'Cause you 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 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 while 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, then what is what is the left wasting time on?
What are these clowns on the left wasting their time on, Sean?
Uh uh a 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 uh i in Iran and in in some of these Middle Eastern countries.
I mean, this is absurd.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
You bring up a good point there.
Sorry.
No.
All right, guys, appreciate you being with us.
When we come back, we'll hit the phones toll-free.
It's eight hundred nine four one Shaw, and you want to be a part of the program.
Sometimes when I'm talking to young interns of the White House, uh who are still immunizing themselves from the cynicism that's so chronic in this town, um 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 is he what did the chomb gang give him that's apparently still active in his in his bloodstream?
Because it's clearly working, because he's so delusional.
I mean, it's it's he's on a long strange trip to believe that nonsense.
You know, here's the president, his motorcade, passing through, by the way, twenty-third street, the uh 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 well, why not give it to the Iranians considering they're such good friends with Obama?
Give them to them.
Anyway, so the president's first stop in New York City Sunday night was at Gramercy Park at the home of the restaurant, Danny Meyer, an actress Audrey Meyer, to defend a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign uh drinking champagne and caveat all.
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 gonna 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 gonna 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 at the or attempted bombings at the Marine Corps Semper Five charity run on Saturday.
After about an hour at this guy's home, then Obama headed to the uh 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 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.
It was 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.
Iran raised in Iran.
Yeah.
Okay.
And tell tell me how did you get out of Iran?
Well, that was that was when after all these uh problems, I went to uh pursue my study.
Just went to university to to study.
So did you grow up under the Ayatollah?
Did you grow up under the Shah?
When did you come here?
I I I also grew up under Ayatollah also.
I have had all those whatever they said, the lies, or whatever they 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.
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 if they can have four permanent wives and then as many other women as possible according to the Quran.
Correct.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And what do you think about Hillary Clinton and Obama, they can't say radical Islam.
Do you understand what radical Islam is?
Um, well, we don't have radical Islam.
We have one Islam, and that Islam is what ISIS is practicing.
So in other words, you so you are you still a Muslim?
Um.
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 like 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're not going to be able to do if you were back 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 would be heading right away.
Uh I'm I wouldn't be surprised.
I I know, because what they do is the exact Quran.
What Muhammad Ali did was nothing against uh to Quran.
Quran said jihad.
Quran said beheading, Qan Quran uh cut the hands, cut the legs, stone, rashes.
So you think that m 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 a uh an appeal in vain?
According to Quran, Sean, there is only one Islam and the one who practices Quran.
The other they can call themselves Muslim, but they're not Muslim.
How do you then explain how do you then explain the split?
And I know the historical reasons for the the Sunnis, for example, in in Saudi Arabia or the Shia in Iran, and it's more of a hierarchical and and a you know, who is the rightful heir to Muhammad, but putting that aside is there 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 Clinton to Trump.
We're missing the target.
The target is the Muslim knot.
The Islam.
I'm not talking about Muslims, not individuals.
The Islam targets the Islamic modernization.
Islam doesn't like what we do.
All right, Mohammed, thank you for being with us.
Appreciate your insight.
And we go to Ashley is in Lyndon, Washington on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hi, Sean.
Hey, I just want to call in and talk about um, you know, our vetting and how it's just it's not good enough.
I live in a border town, and I know in Canada they want there are so many people volunteering to take Syrian refugees right now, and what is how hard is it for them to just jump right across?
How hard is it for them to come across and what do they have to do to get across?
Um it 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 um festivals down the street where our kids play, where you sit down the whole street where they could just drive a truck down the street.
Um 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 it's a f it's really an amazing thing.
Uh 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 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, you know, learning from their mistakes.
I mean, you know, here you have these these incidents happening.
They they don't even want to even take on the possibility that it could that these things could be connected, and you know, these bombs are filled with shrapnel designed for maximum casualties and ISIS supporters rush to celebrate the New York City explosion, and you know, you got there'll be more a chilling 911 call after the Chelsea explosion, and you gotta ask, what's wrong with these people?
What do they what is it that they refuse to mean they're hitting the heart of uh our neighborhoods.
I mean, this guy he's hitting our neighborhood.
They're not it's not gonna be I don't think it's gonna be these big attacks on buildings or things like that, is gonna be where it's gonna hit us hard and it's because it's gonna hit our children, it's gonna hit school, things like that.
That's what the they're gonna hit it hard, they're smart.
We are we taking for granted the fact that they 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, uh, we follow people that come in on student visas, etcetera.
And unless and until we do, uh this is gonna continue to happen on a regular basis.
And I think what you see in Europe is what we're gonna see here in this country for many years to come, and then there's gonna be the the push in this country to uh 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 uh uh system and 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 it's uh it's only it's gonna let they're gonna we're gonna let people in because we want to give them opportunities.
We have a bleeding heart and we want to let everybody in.
Well, we have forgotten about our country.
Our 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 AM 710 WOR.
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 a 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 De Bozo, who I can't stand, where they get on TV and they're so petrified to identify the problem.
First of all, we 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 fillies.
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 De Bozo.
I mean, 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 it's really despicable.
And how does everybody how about every how everybody came out against Donald Trump for identifying it as a bomb?
Meanwhile, I watched Geraldo on Fox yesterday.
It was a bomb.
It was a bomb.
We knew from the beginning 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 what this is now such a big problem that look, if if if the Supreme Court doesn't do it for you as it relates to Donald Trump, if if eliminating Obamacare doesn't do it, if if um, you know, i if stimulating the economy and 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 that have values that contradict our values.
Do it to build the wall so we have some security along our border.
You know, 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 fifty days to go.
And you know what?
You 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.
You own it.
You own her Supreme Court that'll impact this country for generations.
