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We're going to look at the polls as we head into Monday's big debate.
The debate is on Long Island, not far from my house.
This makes this trip pretty easy.
Although probably Vegas is more fun.
You can't deny Vegas is more fun.
But anyway, it's Monday's debate.
So 46 days to go.
I think a lot at stake.
We've got very close poll numbers.
We're going to go over some of the analysis of all this.
I think the big story, though, that everybody is missing here is Hillary Clinton has the single most bizarre video that I've ever seen.
Now, we have played and we have examined all the health issues associated with Hillary.
We all saw the collapse.
I still to this day find this video of her twitching uncontrollably beyond bizarre.
I've asked a number of medical experts to analyze it for me.
I have some context that I'll put into this in just a second.
But anyway, there was this tape that surfaced online and Hillary sitting in a dark room by herself.
The volume and the tone and the look of what she's doing here.
And you listen to the cadence of this message getting ratcheted up.
And, you know, why am I not 50 points ahead, you might ask?
And I want you to fight back against so-called right to work.
Right to work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.
Now, having said all this, why aren't I 50 points ahead, you might ask?
Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer.
I need your help to get Donald Trump's record out to everybody.
Nobody should be fooled.
He proudly declared himself 100% right to work.
He even hired a union-busting firm to break up an organizing campaign at his hotel in Las Vegas, where you are right now.
And he built up his wealth by stiffing small businesses and contractors.
That goes against everything we stand for as a country.
My dad was a small business.
I'm just a businessman.
I'm just happy he never did business with Trump.
Wow.
I mean, what is going on there?
Do you agree with me, Linda?
Now, it's a little bit more.
It's not just the voice, the tone, the pitch, the cadence that I'm noticing here.
We put the video up on Hannity.com.
I think it's worth taking a look at from anybody's perspective because it's just, frankly, bizarre.
I don't know what else to say about this.
But anyway, take a look at it.
It's on Hannity.com.
We also have the video of her twitching.
The medical professionals, the numerous ones that I have spoken to, and I actually talked to a guy last night, is one of the most renowned, the guy actually, at some point in medical school, actually built a cement-like epoxy that is used to sculpt missing skull fractures in people.
I mean, he's a brilliant guy and a brain surgeon.
And he went through the whole, he knew the whole history of Hillary's health.
He had studied it.
And I said, well, what do you think?
Because, you know, a lot of friends of mine say there seems to be something neurological going on.
And then he talked about deep vein thrombomosis and veno cerebral thrombosis, both of which have been confirmed in our medical records, et cetera.
And the fall that she had and the concussion.
And she's telling the FBI director or whoever's interviewing her from the FBI, she can't recall ever even being briefed on cybersecurity issues when she's Secretary of State.
How do you forget that?
Because of a fall she claims she had in 2012.
Well, this would have happened in 2009 or 2008 when she knew she was going to be Secretary of State.
What else did you forget?
It raises that question.
Anyway, he seemed to focus a lot of his attention on the fact that she's on lifelong Coumadin, which is a blood thinner, an anticoagulant.
And obviously, somebody that would have deep vein thrombosis or venal cerebral thrombosis would need to have some type of blood thinner that wouldn't be that unusual.
He wondered out loud, or actually it was another friend of mine that wondered out loud, a doctor friend, if in fact she might have had a series of TIAs or mini-strokes at the time when she had the venal thrombosis, cerebral thrombosis.
So I'm trying to put all of it together.
I don't know the answer, but I showed him both these tapes, and he was very taken back by both of them.
I pulled them up on YouTube.
I said, take a look at this.
What do you think?
And he's now actually made it his mission.
He wants to find out exactly what it is.
And he happens to be friends with some of the best neurological doctors in the country.
And he wants to get their take on all of this.
Anyway, so she, there's something going on here.
And with their history of being dishonest and untrustworthy, we're never going to get the truth out of them.
Anyway, so his argument was Coumadin, and this was a point that Dr. Drew made, is an older anticoagulant blood thinner.
And they've got other drugs that are far more advanced that have replaced it.
And his theory was that, you know, I think Zarelto is one of them.
I don't know all the anticoagulants, but I know Coumadin is a blood thinner, anticoagulant.
In other words, if you have blood clots, you need to thin the blood so that it doesn't result in a stroke or a heart attack.
And anyway, so you want the blood thinner, but his point was if there wasn't an associated neurological balance issue with Hillary, that she would never be on lifelong Coumadin, that she would be on one of the more advanced blood thinners.
Now, look, I'm not explaining this as well as he did.
I'm just putting this in layman terms as best I can.
And he said one of the main reasons he thinks that they would do Coumadin over the more advanced anticoagulants is because it would allow them in a quicker fashion, if God forbid there was a fall.
If you have a severe fall, and let's say you hit your head and you're on blood thinners, anticoagulants, like some of the new ones, he said it's much easier for medical professionals to reverse the blood thinning effects of Coumadin just because they know how to do it.
And he was saying, so in other words, she's on the anticoagulant, needs to be on it for a lifelong, but let's say she has a fall, and let's say she hits her head, and because the blood is thin, you have what's called a bleeder, and it starts bleeding out into the brain.
Now you've got really severe problems if you're not able to get the blood to its regular levels in terms of thickness and thinness and viscosity.
So it was a very, very fascinating.
Look, I've always loved medicine, love my doctor friends.
I ask a million questions.
I never shut up.
And it was just a pretty interesting analysis to me.
Anyway, we got a lot of other things happening here today.
One thing that nobody's paying attention to, it was in the Wall Street Journal today.
Hillary Clinton now would levy a 65% tax.
Now, if this isn't wealth confiscation, I don't know what is on people that in the course of their lives, after you pay, like in New York, I pay 40% federal income tax.
I pay my FICA tax for the federal government, Social Security.
I pay New York state tax, which at the highest rate is 9.9%, federal, you know, state income tax.
Then you got a city income tax in New York.
That's another, so you're 40, 50, 53.
Then I've got the highest, I live in the second highest property tax county in the country.
And if I told most of you what I pay in property taxes every year, your mouth would be like, are you kidding me?
It's insanity what I pay.
And everybody in Nassau County, Suffolk County, Long Island, Westchester is the number one tax property county in the country.
It's absolute insanity.
And I know many of you in California experienced the same thing, even though you had Prop 13 many, many years ago.
And so if you're able to, after you pay your 60, 62 cents out of every dollar, which is pretty much what I pay, not having exactly the longest list of deductions, although I have some, legal, of course, you pay a significant amount, percentage of every dollar you make goes to government in some way, shape, matter, or form.
You also have county taxes.
I work in the city.
I pay city taxes.
You know, everybody takes their chunk.
Everybody takes a bite.
And now she says she wants to levy a 65% tax if you die to make it harder for people that have actually been able to pay their taxes, work their whole lives, save a little bit of the money, and give it back to their kids or give it to whatever charity they want to give it to.
She wants to come in and take another 65% chunk out of it.
Now, originally, she was proposing 45% of top-rate death tax.
Now she wants it even higher.
And my question is, at one point, does this not become licensed stealing?
Because that's exactly what it is.
By the way, there's another doctor, a general surgeon from Texas, John R. Coppage.
He writes in The Hill that Hillary's abnormal eye movements that everybody's talking about during her speech in Philly on Monday are likely symptomatic of serious health issues.
There's a whole list of doctors now that are just weighing in.
They're following this case with fascination because it just isn't normal.
It isn't what you'd expect.
It's interesting what Hillary thinks she's trying to pull off on Donald Trump.
And, you know, I don't even know what to say about this, but Donald Trump, when he looks out into the crowd at Hofstra on Monday during the debate, he's going to see Mark Cuban.
Now, Mark Cuban, I don't have any problems with Mark Cuban.
He's bombastic.
He's a billionaire.
He's been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump.
He's going to be sitting in the front row as the two opponents face off.
Clearly, Hillary trying to do it, thinking she's cute and wants to put somebody.
I wonder what would happen if the Trump campaign put one of the, maybe Pat Smith in the front row, or maybe Ambassador Stevens' wife in the front row.
Oh, you're abusing those that have suffered losses.
What if they want to be there?
Or what if Donald Trump decided to invite Paula Jones or Kathleen Willie or Juanita Broderick to sit in the front row?
Now, if we're going to get into a front row seating presidential stubhub debate, maybe I'll buy the front row tickets.
I'd love to sit there and say hi to Hillary.
You know, you don't go to sit there unless you were invited, by the way.
You can't get these tickets on StubHub unless you're invited there by the campaign.
And in fact, the Clinton campaign is publicly giving their seal of approval to Cuban stunt.
Pretty good indication that it was their idea in the first place.
And Cuban's decision to attend the debate was lauded by the Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon, who wrote on social media that if you've ever seen Mark Cuban outside of a Mavs game, you know he's going to be fired up for Monday's debate.
And Cuban has been out there blasting Trump.
Well, I guess Trump is just going to have to respond.
70%.
Now, we've been watching everything that's happening in Charlotte, North Carolina.
There's a report out today that 70%, this was in Breitbart, of the rioters in Charlotte this week came from out of state.
And what that means is people like what had happened in other places like Baltimore and elsewhere, that we actually have evidence that some of the same people show up at all of these events, Ferguson, Baltimore.
Now they're out there in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Pretty pathetic, pretty sad in a whole variety of ways.
538, which is Nate Silver.
You know, Clinton's so-called poll rebound greatly exaggerated.
Remember, he went from 3%, I think it was to 48% in terms of Trump's odds of winning the election.
It changes every day based on whatever the new polls are.
But even they are pointing out that reports of a Clinton rebound in the polls have been greatly exaggerated.
Right now, I don't think any of these polls matter anyway.
The polls you want to see are going to be next Wednesday, well, you'll get some on late Monday night after the debate.
You'll get some flash polls on Tuesday.
You'll get some real polling digging down into the weeds by Thursday or Friday of next week from some of the swing states, which is what this is going to, what's going to matter at the end of the day.
Anyway, 538 says some of the parties that are interested in pointing to a new group of polls suggesting this is evidence of a Clinton rebound, but a closer look at the data released over the past three days suggests that those polls are stretching it.
The new Monmouth University poll, for example, and some other polls out there.
But they point out that if in only three of the most recent 16 polls has the race shifted in Clinton's direction, and it moved towards Trump in 10 of them.
Indeed, the average poll has moved 2.8 percentage points towards Trump.
So even they're suggesting that.
But again, I don't think any of these polls matter until we actually get to the point where we now have post-debate real polling.
Because I guarantee you, the Clintons will try and go out and, you know, look, just like they're gaming, I think, the moderators in these debates.
Oh, she was treated so horribly by Matt Lauer.
Oh, it was awful.
Look, all of this comes down to, if you want an electoral map, actually the weekly standards of all places had a pretty good analysis.
Jeffrey Anderson, I think, if you talk about it, he describes the big blue wall of Democratic states where Democrats have won every presidential race since 92.
It includes the entire Northeast except for New Hampshire, the Midwestern Great Lakes states except from Ohio and Indiana, the three Pacific Coast states, meaning Oregon, Washington, and California, and Hawaii.
But holding the blue wall, he even points out, is not a guarantee of victory because John Kerry won the blue wall in 2004 plus New Hampshire, yet he still lost to Bush by 35 electoral votes.
Al Gore won the entire blue wall in 2000, back when it was worth 13 more electoral votes, plus Iowa and New Mexico, and he lost to Bush by five electoral votes.
So for Democrats holding the blue wall is necessary, not sufficient.
Donald Trump has must-win states, and I agree with his analysis.
Ohio, Florida, North Carolina are must-win for Donald Trump, in my opinion, unless he could pick off Pennsylvania that could replace one.
But if he doesn't win those three, the odds of him picking up Pennsylvania will probably be less.
Clinton has five must-win states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Virginia.
I agree with that too.
And the first four are part of the blue wall.
And Virginia is just a wild card because you have all these liberals that have moved into Northern Virginia that work for Washington and have literally transformed the state.
Let me start with Ted Cruz, who has now given a statement.
And, you know, as I have had these battles with the never Trump people and a couple of Twitter wars, one with, I guess, this idiot from the Wall Street Journal and Glenn Beck.
And, you know, in every single case, by the way, I was counterpunching.
I was not starting it.
They decided to take shots at me, and I just, that's just the way I roll.
You take a shot, I'm going to fight back.
That's how I am.
And NRO guys and some others.
But I would always say, you know, what especially had irked me were the presidential candidates that had made a pledge, a solemn vow, a promise that they would support the eventual nominee.
You know, how many times did we hear that any one of us are better than Hillary Clinton by a long shot?
Yeah, of course I'll support the nominee.
The only one person that didn't do it, if you go back to August of 2015, it was Donald Trump didn't raise his hand.
And it became a big issue.
And Reince previously said, well, they're not going to have access.
Along with that pledge comes access to the help and assistance of the Republican National Committee.
Anyway, and everyone put their name, their signature to a piece of paper.
So to me, you make a vow like that, it means something.
And I had said I kept mentioning these presidential candidates, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, and I did say Senator Ted Cruz, but I always had a caveat for Ted.
I always said I like Ted.
I think Ted would come around.
And it's not that Ted Cruz, more than anybody else, probably he has a, would have had a more legitimate reason to oppose Trump, certainly more than Bush, certainly more than Lindsey Graham, certainly more than John Kasich for crying out loud.
But I'll read you his statement, and I want to say that I've always liked Ted Cruz, always.
I love the guy as a person.
I think he is one of the reasons he did so well in this campaign is because he is a solid constitutional conservative, but he was also hated by the establishment.
And at some point, I don't remember the exact point, I knew that it was coming down to Trump versus Cruz, and it was one of those insurgents would become the nominee.
And what we tried to do on this program was what we had promised at CPAC in 2015 and early 2015, and what I promised in March 1st of 2016 at CPAC that I'm going to give as much access to the candidates as possible and let you, the voter, make the final decision.
And I know that some people said, well, Hannity, you and Cruz went sideways.
No, I just got annoyed one time because on three separate interviews in a row, I'm just asking him questions about the process or what's going on or where we were at the moment.
I just don't remember.
And that's a Trump question.
And I'm like, stop.
It's not.
It's my question.
Stop.
And I think that if you go back and look at these interviews, one of the hallmarks of them is I tried to be different than every other reporter.
And I'm not a reporter.
I'm a talk show host.
And I had stated that I would support the eventual nominee.
So it was very clear what my position was.
And if it was Cruz, I'd be supporting Cruz as strongly as I'm supporting Donald Trump now.
But if you watch the interviews, it was basically let them go.
And when Ted Cruz was going very hard after Donald Trump, I let him go.
When Donald Trump was going after Ted Cruz really hard, I let him go.
Otherwise, it becomes about me.
Well, that's not true.
Let me tell you what the other candidates say.
Let me interrupt you there.
And I just felt that the audience could sift through all this information on their own and make their choice, which is what they did.
But it got a little personal, which I think was unfortunate.
But this is what he said.
And I think it says a lot about what a good man that Ted Cruz has always been.
He was the only Republican, and I've said this many times, even since he got out of the race, that had the courage to actually use the constitutionally enumerated power that Congress has in the House for the purse and take a stand.
And he wasn't for all the show votes to repeal and replace Obamacare.
And he definitely would, you know, believed in the Constitution.
He understands what's at stake in this election, especially when it comes to the Supreme Court.
Anyway, he says, quote, I'll read it to you.
This election is unlike any other in our nation's history.
And like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election.
In Cleveland, I urge voters, please don't stay home in November.
Stand and speak and vote your conscience.
Vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.
After many months of careful consideration, of prayer, searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee Donald Trump.
I've made this decision for two reasons.
First, last year I promised to support the Republican nominee, and I intend to keep my word.
Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee by any measure, Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable, and that's why I have always been never Hillary.
Six key policy differences inform my decision.
First and foremost, the Supreme Court.
For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, Second Amendment, the court hangs in the balance.
I have spent my professional career fighting before the court to defend the Constitution.
We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices.
We know without a doubt that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue.
Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices in the mold of Scalia.
For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on the issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees, including Senator Mike Lee.
Wow.
I didn't know he added that to the list.
Wow.
Mike Lee would be an amazing Supreme Court justice who would make an extraordinary justice.
I actually said at some point to somebody in the Trump campaign, you ought to put Ted Cruz on that list.
I stand by that today.
It would make an extraordinary justice and make an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list.
The commitment, this commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump.
Second, Obamacare.
The failed health care law is hurting millions of Americans.
If Republicans hold Congress, leadership is committed to passing legislation repealing Obamacare.
Clinton, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, would veto that legislation.
Trump has said he'll sign it.
Third, energy.
Clinton would continue the Obama administration's war on coal.
Well, she said she's going to put coal miners out of work and coal companies out of business.
And relentless efforts to crush the oil and gas industry.
Trump has said he will reduce regulations, allow the blossoming of American energy and American energy renaissance to create millions of new high-paying jobs.
Fourth, immigration.
Clinton would continue to continue and even expand President Obama's lawless executive amnesty.
Trump has promised that he would revoke those illegal executive orders.
Fifth, national security.
Clinton would continue the Obama administration's willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism.
She would continue importing Middle Eastern refugees whom the FBI cannot vet to make sure they are not terrorists.
Trump has promised to stop the deluge of unvetted refugees.
Sixth, Internet freedom.
I have not really spoken enough about this.
I should have, and Ted Cruz has really been leading the way in the Senate on this.
And Donald Trump, even this week, earlier in the week, released a statement on it.
Internet freedom.
Clinton supports Obama's plan to hand over control of the Internet to an international community of stakeholders, including Russia, China, and Iran.
Just this week, Trump came out strongly against that plan and in support of free speech online.
These are six vital issues where the candidates' positions present a clear choice for the American people.
If Clinton wins, we know with 100% certainty that she would deliver on her left-wing promises with devastating results for our country.
My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that.
We also have seen over the past few weeks and months a Trump campaign focusing more and more on freedom, including emphasizing school choice and the power of economic growth to lift African Americans and Hispanics to prosperity.
Finally, after eight years of a lawless Obama administration targeting and persecuting those disfavored by the administration, fidelity to the rule of law has never been more important.
The Supreme Court will be critical in preserving the rule of law.
And if the next administration fails to honor the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, then I hope Republicans and Democrats will stand united in protecting our fundamental liberties.
I know that neither he nor I expects Democrats to do that.
But anyway, our country is in a crisis.
Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States, and her policies would harm millions of Americans.
And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way.
A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring my commitment.
And if you don't want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.
That is an extraordinarily powerful statement by Senator Ted Cruz.
I've always liked Ted Cruz, and I'm very, very glad that he laid it out.
Haven't I been saying the same thing, though?
This is now a choice election.
Many of the same things that I talk about, choice on the Supreme Court, choice vetting refugees, not vetting refugees, choice, build the wall, don't build the wall, choice on the economy, she's going to raise taxes, spending, $1.6 trillion now she's going to raise 65% death tax.
Hillary Clinton wants to spread the wealth around, just like Obama did.
Trump is going to allow multinational corporations to bring back trillions on a low rate so they can repatriate that money and invest in factories and manufacturing centers.
How often do I talk about energy, the lifeblood of our economy and our dependence, how it impacts national security?
How many millions of jobs, high-paying jobs and careers can be made if we become energy independent?
Question I've asked Trump many, many times.
Education, top-down NEA-supported Common Core that Hillary, you know, that results in what, we spend $11,600 a student or 17th, 19th, and what, 24th respectively, and reading math and science.
It's pathetic.
All the statistics I give out every day on the economy.
This is a choice election.
I understand stylistically, if anybody had a reason to be pissed off at Donald Trump, it's Ted Cruz.
Legitimate, fair reason, more than, you know, low energy Bush.
Seriously, that's not reason enough to break your pledge.
Little Marco, not reason enough.
Stylistically, criticism, okay.
Well, he calls her crooked Hillary.
What do we say about that?
But the deep, significant, profound differences are going to determine the future direction of this country.
Great debt of gratitude ought to go out to Senator Cruz from Donald Trump today, in my opinion.
That is enormously helpful for him.
And of all the remaining candidates, I guess the only one that could have an impact like this is John Kasich.
John Kasich has been a huge disappointment.
You know, I've seen him do interviews now on MSNBC and CNN.
And I texted him.
I said, do you have time to talk?
Not if it's about Donald Trump.
I'm saying, fine.
I actually wrote him a note back.
I should pull it up.
I'll tell you what I wrote him.
Because, you know, it's nothing horrible, but he said, no, not if it's about Donald Trump.
And I'm like, really?
Are you serious?
I said, well, I guess that means we have a phony, superficial relationship dictated entirely by you and only the list of things that we can talk about that are okay by you.
What do we want to talk about golf and not the Supreme Court?
We can talk about our kids, but not how bad Hillary Clinton would be for the economy and our debt.
We can talk about our families, but not the refugees that will move to Ohio, that our intelligence community says ISIS will infiltrate.
We can talk about the weather, but now how open borders are a security risk.
And you have 95 million Americans out of the labor force now have to compete with illegal immigrants for fewer jobs, driving down wages.
I guess we could talk about the latest golf gadgets, but we can't talk about how Americans were lied to about Obamacare.
They lost their doctors, their plan.
They're not saving $2,500 per family a year.
They're paying $4,100 more a year since Obama's been president.
We can't talk about the 12 million more Americans on food stamps since Obama became president, $46 million total.
8 million more Americans in poverty, 50 million total.
The worst recovery since the 40s, the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years, one in five American families without a single family member working.
We can't talk about that.
Can't talk about one in six American men 18 to 34 in jail or living in mommy and daddy's basement.
Can't talk about Obama accumulating more debt than 43 other men before him as president combined.
Lowest labor force participation rate since the 70s.
We can't talk about how dangerous it is to elect a president who can't say radical Islam.
We can't talk about Hillary Clinton, the single most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.
How she lies, how many lies has she told, how he sold her office out for personal gain more than anybody.
Forget about Iran.
Forget about ISIS.
Forget about radical Islamists in general and Iraq and Syria, North Africa, Libya, Putin.
How's your golf game?
It's very disappointing.
Ted Cruz did a very brave and bold, and I think the right thing today.
He'll take heat for it.
But he did the right thing, in my opinion.
I respect him a lot.
I always have.
And I will fight back against so-called right to work.
Right to work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.
Now, having said all this, why aren't I 50 points ahead, you might ask?
Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer.
I need your help to get Donald Trump's record out to everybody.
Nobody should be fooled.
He proudly declared himself 100% right to work.
He even hired a union-busting firm to break up an organizing campaign at his hotel in Las Vegas, where you are right now.
And he built up his wealth by stiffing small businesses and contractors.
That goes against everything we stand for as a country.
My dad was a small business.
I'm just a businessman.
I'm just happy he never did business with Trump.
Many Americans are watching the unrest in Charlotte unfolding right before their eyes on the TV screens.
Others are witnessing the chaos and the violence firsthand.
Our country looks bad to the world, especially when we are supposed to be the world's leader.
How can we lead when we can't even control our own cities?
We honor and recognize the right of all Americans to peacefully assemble, protest, and demonstrate.
But there is no right to engage in violent disruption or to threaten the public safety and peace of others.
Every single American in our country is entitled to live in a safe community.
The violence against our citizens and our law enforcement must be brought to a very rapid end.
The people who will suffer the most as a result of these riots are law-abiding African American residents who live in these communities where the crime is so rampant.
It's their jobs, housing markets, schools, economic conditions that will suffer.
And the first duty of government is to protect their well-being and safety.
We have to do that.
There is no compassion in tolerating lawless conduct.
Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.
Never, ever.
All right, hour two on this Friday, Sean Hannity Show, and it's only 46 days until Election Day.
On Monday, the first presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island.
I will be there, of course, and looking forward to being out there.
The first tape you heard was this.
I don't even know how I can possibly describe it, except you have to see it on top of hearing it.
And we put it up on my website, Hannity.com, and that, you know, Hillary screaming and shouting her way through a speech.
Why aren't I 50 points ahead?
And it just is the tone, the cadence, the pitch is so off, so removed from what you would expect, one has to wonder what the heck is going on here.
And when I looked at it, I had a couple of doctor friends of mine look at it, and they all have their own theories.
Mostly, it's pretty much the same.
They believe that, coupled with the tape, remember she was twitching back and forth in front of those reporters.
I've also put that tape on Hannity.com, that there is something very significantly, seriously wrong health-wise, and that she is in the middle.
This is their consensus.
And these are some of the best and brightest doctors that I know.
And they all say the same thing.
She is in the midst of some very bizarre medical crisis is what they're telling me.
Now, we saw her, of course, collapse on the Sunday of 9-11, and everybody saw that and discussed it at length.
We know she's on lifelong Coumadin.
Now, they have other anticoagulants that are far more advanced than Coumadin.
I got a really good explanation from a doctor friend of mine last night who said, well, the reason it would be Coumadin versus some of these more advanced, I guess Zarelto is the other one, advanced drugs, is because Coumadin could be the effects of the blood thinning of Coumadin can be more readily stopped by other drugs if, in fact, there's an incident where somebody were to fall and hit their head and not have what they call a bleed out.
But anyway, all of this comes in the lead up to Monday's big debate.
We also have a lot of poll numbers now out and some all over the map.
And you've got, you know, Trump by five in one poll.
You've got Hillary by six in another poll and basically all over the place.
But it seems like everything that we have been predicting is going to come into play here.
I mean, it probably comes down to states like New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and Colorado and Wisconsin.
And then, of course, you've got Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, New Mexico.
Then, of course, is Maine really in play and Nevada.
And, you know, they're all getting very interesting.
With us are pollsters, John McLaughlin, founder of McLaughlin and Associates, Doug Schoen, pollster, author, political analyst at the Fox News Channel.
Welcome both of you back to the program.
Thanks so much.
Let me first ask: in light of all the recent health troubles that she has had, and you watch that video of her screaming, do you not see something as dramatically off as I do?
Politically, it's certainly clear that there's something off.
I'll leave the medical analysis to others, but having worked with Bill Clinton and to a lesser extent Hillary Clinton in one of her Senate races, this is the last tone, the last form of expression, and the last type of articulation you'd want her to do.
But as you watched it, it seemed like it was out of control.
I mean, for a woman that greatly wants to be in control of everything, you can see that she can't stop this.
Well, I can say this.
It suggests that she is having challenges maintaining the demeanor and disposition she needs to maintain Monday if she's to be successful.
John, what were your thoughts on this?
And especially if you look at it through the prism of the other moment where she went through the sort of uncontrollable twitching with a reporter, I mean, we're not talking about one Twitch.
It went on consecutively out of control for quite a period of time.
No, no, this is why they took her off the road for the last few days.
And, you know, they're saying it's debate prep, but she obviously needed rest.
And what she was saying was bizarre.
But the other part is, Sunday, Sunday morning, this past Sunday, I spoke to one of my clients, the North Carolina Medical Society, and they had a couple hundred doctors in the room and a lot of Democrats in the room.
And I got to take my own little poll, and I said, you know, anybody thinks she's telling the truth, raise your hand about her health.
And a handful of doctors raised their hand.
And when I said, do you think she's not telling us the truth about her health?
The vast majority of doctors raise their hand.
And that's the thing for Hillary Clinton.
She's so dishonest, and it's not necessarily necessary.
I mean, she might have something that's very treatable or that's, you know, could be dealt with, but they choose to lie.
And that's why she can't move her poll numbers.
And that's why she's.
And by the way, that's what David Axelrod even said.
David Axelrod said, look, it's not that she fell the day she fell or collapsed, is that they're never going to be honest.
Remember, we went through that period of hours where they wouldn't even tell us that she, quote, had been diagnosed with pneumonia the day before.
And, you know, she goes to a regular doctor, and a regular doctor, of course, says, oh, she's the epitome of health.
But everybody can see otherwise.
This is not her normal tone and cadence.
That's not even the angry Hillary.
This is a Hillary that is like, you know, something is going on, Hillary.
Yes.
And she spent hundreds of millions of dollars, and she's losing her lead, and Trump's going ahead of her.
I mean, right now, you've got, you know, at best case, she has maybe 200 electoral votes, and Trump's about 160, and you need 270.
The ones that are pure toss-ups, you got about 170 electoral votes up for Gramps.
And there's plenty of states leaning one way or the other, too.
So Trump has expanded the battlefield, and it's really about her.
It's really about whether you want her to be your president for the next four years and continue to be able to do that.
Is it about her or is Donald Trump's task in this debate on Monday to not go into the narrative?
What I would see is the only narrative she has.
And she's been pushing is that Donald Trump doesn't have the temperament to be president.
Because what is she going to run on Libya, Iraq, Iran?
Is she going to run on Syria, Afghanistan?
Is she going to run on Putin and China and North Korea or Mohamed Morsi, who she supported?
So she can't run on that.
She can't run on the Obama economy.
I give those statistics every day.
So the question is, she can't run on honesty and trustworthiness either.
No.
So the only weapon in her arsenal seems to be to piss off Trump.
Yeah, and that's what she's going to try to do.
And if he can, you know, and you know, I'm polling for him, and if he's able to maintain the kind of discipline and message that he's done for the past few weeks, he could have one of those Reagan-like moments.
But in the meantime, what it really is about her in terms of, you know, it's Hillary Clinton or not Hillary.
And almost six out of 10 voters across the country are telling us they don't want Hillary.
We're either voting for Trump, we're undecided, or we're voting for one of the other candidates.
And Trump is now gaining because he's the way to stop Hillary from becoming president.
And he's doing a good job of it.
So what would you advise him based on your polling and getting deep into the mindset of the electorate?
What is it that he needs to do on Monday?
His message has to be changed, just like it was in the convention.
Things are not working.
The economy is flat as a pancake.
We're less secure as Americans.
We now have these, I mean, he's been the law and order candidate talking about the divisiveness in our communities.
And he's got to demonstrate that he represents positive change for the country versus, you know, she's just four more years of the same.
And that's why he went ahead.
You have two-thirds of all these polls you mentioned, two-thirds of all these voters say the country's on the wrong track.
The majority, five to three, say they want to change and move away from the policies of Barack Obama.
And that's the future.
And if he controls that message in the first debate Monday night, he's on his way to being president.
Doug, John McLaughlin just laid out exactly what you said Trump needs to do weeks ago.
That's correct.
And the real question to me, Sean, for two people who are at or close to 70, an hour and a half, no bathroom breaks, nobody else other than that.
Well, Drudge reported today, no coughing breaks either.
Well, that's probably true.
It is going to be very interesting to me to see if both candidates are able to sustain what they need to do for not only the first 30 to 40 years.
Look, I can't speak as a 70-year-old, but I can tell you, days on the road, dog-tired, three hours of radio speech and book signing and TV that night.
I don't care how tired I am.
When adrenaline kicks in, adrenaline kicks in.
I mean, I would expect that to happen for both of them, no?
Well, you know, you don't know because it is a unique experience to debate.
It is a unique experience to be in that situation, which very few Americans face.
Neither of them has really faced it in this kind of a setting.
So we don't know.
And both of them, I think, have great challenges.
Donald, I think, has a lower bar.
He just has to seem presidential.
Hillary's got a tough job.
She's got to make the case without sounding like she did speaking to that labor group, Sean, that Donald is unqualified, not trustworthy, and shouldn't be president.
Open question whether both can achieve their goals.
I just watched that video and I was like, is that taped?
And did anybody on the campaign let it go out taped or was that live?
Does anybody know?
I'm told it was live, as I recollect, but I can't swear to it.
Yeah.
Well, if you had to, I think you're both on the right side of this.
I wonder, though, John McLaughlin, does she have any room to grow?
In other words, I think she's been in public eye, in the public eye so long for so many decades.
I'm not sure she has the growth potential that Trump would have as an outside change agent.
And again, somebody that has now been proven week after week that in fact, you know, he has the ability to be presidential.
He went to Mexico.
He did all of these appearances in black churches.
He went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He seems to have the energy of five times or ten times what Hillary has.
And he seems to enjoy being out on the road.
Right, right.
She has the ability to grow only if he makes a mistake.
She's only gone up in the polls when he stumbled and made a mistake.
And she's, give her credit.
I mean, years ago, I worked for John Spencer, who ran against her for U.S. Senate in 2006.
And she's a good debater.
She's very disciplined.
Of course, they scheduled the one debate the night of some sort of World Series game in Rochester on PBS because she didn't want anybody to see it.
But, you know, when she was debating Lazio in 2000, when she was debating John, the thing about her is, regardless of what she does, and she's very disciplined, very intelligent, after it's over, her spin machine is unbelievable.
I mean, Lazio, when he crossed the stage and went to her and said, sign this pledge about no soft money, you know, it was kind of innocuous.
You watched the debate.
And there was a lot of spending.
Let me ask you this.
What if she's having a coughing fit?
Should Donald Trump walk over with water to help or just stay back?
That's the only thing you should do.
He should leave well enough alone.
So, in other words, so then he doesn't help her.
I mean, he can't win for losing if that happens.
Can I tell you?
The first rule in this game is when the other person's having political, personal, or physical problems, he just leaves well enough alone.
All right, guys, I'm going to let you both go here.
Appreciate it.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, we have an update on this Ahmad Khan Rahami.
Remember, the wife took off to the UAE.
She's now back in the United States.
Are there other people involved?
We hear very little about the other people that have been caught on video, seemingly, you know, at least touching the pressure cooker bomb that was on 27th Street in New York City.
So we'll get to that coming up later in the program in our news roundup and information overload.
We'll have more on the election when we get back and a preview of the debate on Monday.
You're going to blink your eyes on Election Day is going to be here.
It's going to go that fast.
And we're going to elect a new president.
And it's going to have a profound impact on the direction of this country.
I hope you choose wisely.
I tried to warn the country in 2007 and 2008 about what a Barack Obama presidency would be, what it would look like, how bad it would be.
And sadly, my prediction was beyond correct.
I'm trying to warn everybody now about a Hillary presidency.
Same policies, same disastrous results, maybe worse.
And I don't know if we can sustain four more years of this and recover.
I just don't.
It's a this is not a tipping point election.
This is a live or die election to me.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones.
I know a lot of you have been very patient today.
Let's say hi to Dana is in Irving, Texas.
Dana, hi, how are you?
Happy Friday.
We're glad you called.
Hi, I'm doing just fine.
I just wanted to say that I feel like black people would vote for Donald Trump more if the racial wars wasn't going on.
I feel like Obama has started racial wars so black people won't see really that really what's going on.
We're not going to really pay attention to Trump as long as these racial wars are going on.
You know, we're like blindfolded like a horse.
We're just looking straight ahead.
We would vote for Trump because we do want to change.
But these racial wars, I feel like they were planned.
They were staged.
A lot of black people don't realize that there's a young black lawyer here in Dallas, and there's a black sergeant that actually is for Obama, the Black Life Matters, and Al Shorten because they have literally started racial wars.
And I think it's just something that's not a problem.
Look, I think there's no doubt now.
Polls prove this out.
There's a massive racial divide.
You know, my question is to anybody, and it's not just demographic breakdowns, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, white America.
You know, at the end of the day, we're really in the same boat.
You know, rising tide's going to lift all boats, and a receding tie is going to sink us all.
And, you know, Hillary's saying she wants 65% confiscation of wealth on top of everything else that she wants to tax.
The only thing I can say is, are you better off?
Is America, by and large, better off than it was eight years ago with all the promises of hope and change?
And yes, we can.
And, you know, the reason is that predictably, liberalism, socialism, statism, redistribution always does fail.
Weakness in foreign policy always does result in more instability.
So all of this is very predictable.
So what I'm saying is that is the results of this election, if Hillary's elected, everything that she is going to do is predictable.
And I'm warning all of you about what that means, including all these people that have done everything they can do to sabotage Donald Trump.
And it's really sad because the thing of it is, is that like North Carolina, my take on it, you cannot jump out of a car and think that the police is not going to be afraid of you.
I'm afraid of you as just a regular citizen.
If you jump out of the car rushing towards me, those people want to go home also.
You know, I know there is a lot of police brutality, I mean, shootings that's not warranted.
But there are some that is warranted.
They have families and they want to go home just like the rest of us.
And it's not fair that we're really not paying attention.
We just think, oh, the white people are shooting up the white cops.
No, that's not fair.
That black cop shot that guy.
And then no one has actually said anything about the shooting that happened when they were protesting.
That wasn't a cop.
That was another crime from a black man.
No one is saying anything about that.
It's okay as long as we kill a person.
Well, I mean, and that's one of the reasons I point out.
Look, I do agree.
All lives matter.
I do agree.
Of course, black lives matter.
Every life is from God.
Every life matters.
And, you know, this is why I've got to question the selective moral outrage that, you know, if it happens to be a police officer, it gets all this national attention.
Well, I think I'm the only national television host that has taken the time to research all the names of all the people shot and killed in Chicago, 3,660 plus now, since Obama's been president, and nobody knows their names.
So then one has to ask, well, why are they only bringing up selective cases?
And then I think you come to an easy conclusion.
It's not rocket science here, is that if it fits a political narrative or agenda, it gets talked about.
If it's, you know, 75 plus percent of those killed in Chicago since Obama's been president are black Americans.
In most of those cases, killed by other black Americans.
Those lives matter.
And the question is, it's an epidemic.
You know, I was watching, I guess it was Maxine Waters, I think it was yesterday, and out there, and there was a group, I guess, of the Congressional Black Caucus, and I'm listening, and this is a catastrophe.
This is a crisis.
Cops are shooting black people, and I'm like, well, in this case, it was a black cop, but let's put that aside because she was talking about what happened in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And I'm thinking, well, can you take this to Chicago, please?
Can you take this to other big cities that have this crisis and violence and death and dying that's going on?
And then one also has to say, if you want to look a little deeper into some of the socioeconomic issues, well, you've got to ask yourself, what part of Imparcel is a failing educational system?
What impact is that having on kids that are not being educated, don't have hope, don't have opportunity, are left behind by the time they're in third grade.
They're so far behind, there's no catching up because we failed them.
They didn't fail.
We failed them.
Well, you have to ask yourself a question.
How are we allowing all of these drugs and we don't stop it?
It's killing these kids in white neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, Hispanics.
It's killing everybody.
And then you have to ask the question: okay, well, how did Obama's policies, how did minorities fare during the Obama years?
Well, I can't keep reading the statistics every day.
I do it every day on the program.
I think I'm the only one that does it.
And then a belief that the cops are the enemy, that's a problem, too.
Dana, thank you.
Leonard, Texas, also next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean, I want to talk a minute about Islam if we could.
You know, I look for kind of parallels in life, especially when the liberals are inconsistent.
There's a lot of those.
But, you know, there's so much talk about how Islam is a, you know, a religion of peace and all that.
And of course, Obama and Clinton want to defend them.
But I found this parallel in my thinking that, you know, years ago when the Catholic Church had their pre-scandal, some people said that they were slow in dealing with that as a faith.
However, they eventually did.
In fact, they went on to talk shows, you know, trying to rebuild credibility in their faith.
Conversely, Islam doesn't police themselves at all.
In fact, it's kind of the opposite.
When they do something crazy and destructive, it's almost as though they take credit and brag about it rather than the rest of this peaceful religion coming out and trying to offset that and police themselves.
And boy, would the liberals have been all over the Catholic Church if they would not have stepped up like they did.
Well, the Catholic Church, in my opinion, somebody who was raised Catholic, did not step up.
They were very slow, as I said.
Yeah, somewhat staying on the slide.
No, it was more than slow.
They were involved in an institutional bureaucratic cover-up of monumental proportions.
And I'm not going to sugarcoat what is an absolute fact.
And it disgusts me to this day.
So the only thing I will say is I think you need more moderate Muslims.
And I think they need to speak out.
I don't think there's any doubt about it.
I think radicalism has now hijacked the religion.
And I think there's two reasons for the silence.
One is fear.
And two, maybe quiet agreement.
But I'm going to assume the best that it's fear.
Remember, the penalty for apostasism in Islam is the death penalty.
Peggy, Atlanta, Georgia, next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thanks.
Now that I'm out of Charlotte, I was staying at the Omni on Wednesday night and definitely had a bird's eye view.
I was outside for a short period of time in the beginning, and it was across the street.
There was a peaceful protest that was the beginning of it.
Then more people came in.
You could definitely tell the difference between the people that were there for what they saw as a good reason and the people that were paid to be there.
The thing that shocked me the most was people had their children with them.
I'm talking toddlers.
And it was amazing.
When it started to get bad at one point in time, we were still outside.
I was with two other people.
And the police came in the basically they came into the valet lobby of the Omni and locked the doors.
It's a glass front with glass opening doors.
And we were still outside, and the protesters absolutely swarmed them and went past us and were beating on the glass, swearing at them.
And I grabbed one of the girls that was with me, assuming she grabbed the other one.
And we got out of there.
And thank God, a security guard from the Omni basically ushered us in the back and through the service entrance and service elevator.
Found out later when we were in the elevator that the third girl that we were leaving with, they tried to basically pull her away.
It was surreal.
For a little bit of time after that, we were in the pool area, which is enclosed on the second floor, and watching all of the helicopters, and one of them had a spotlight that was going all around.
And then you heard the flashbang grenades.
I'll be honest with you, I couldn't tell until somebody texted me and told me that someone was shot.
It was hard to tell the difference between the flashbang, and they hadn't done any of the tear guests yet, and the shot.
But I'm sure I heard it, but just didn't realize what it was.
But it was surreal.
And I have to say, the people at the Omni did a fabulous job.
Well, I can tell you, it is surreal.
And it's so unnecessary.
And it kind of shocks the conscience.
And then you hear the rhetoric, and then you watch the images, and then you see the video, and then you try and reason and ask questions of the people that are protesting, and half of them don't even know why they're out there, nor do they know any of the facts, nor will they even acknowledge if the guy pointed a gun at the cop that the cop is justified in protecting his own life.
So you're dealing with a level of anger, resentment.
You know, again, I think a lot of this, if you're looking bigger picture, we have such fundamental, so many fundamental problems that begin in some cases in the home, our institutions, our educational system, rampant drugs in communities, violence in communities.
And of course, a horrible economy contributes to people having too much time on their hands.
And that's why I keep giving out the statistic.
I got to run, but that's why I keep giving out statistics every day.
Anyway, I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Mike in Cincinnati, Ohio, 55KRC.
Mike, you're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
Okay, Sean.
By the way, I'm deplorable, Mike, because Hillary would certainly not like me any more than you and me both.
What's going on?
Just a quick poll.
I live in Cincinnati, and for the last many, many years, my office is down in a part of Cincinnati where I have to drive through some black and Jewish neighborhoods, nice middle-class, lower-middle-class neighborhoods.
It'd be interesting for you to know that in 2008 and in 2012, the lawns were populated with nothing down in this area anyway, but Obama signs.
Now I don't see any Hillary signs, but everywhere we're seeing Trump signs in these same neighborhoods.
So, you know, Ohio is a swing state.
This part of Ohio voted for Trump, excuse me, for Obama last time, the neighborhoods I'm in anyway, but not now.
It's all Trump.
So I think it's not, you've said it before, I think it's going to be a landslide for Trump this time around.
I really do.
I'm just getting that feeling, and so are a lot of my buddies and friends down there.
I have my own feelings on it, and I'm kind of treating this like I do any sporting event or any other event in life.
You never take anything for granted.
You certainly can't count votes until they're rendered to the given.
And I'm just, you know, for me, this isn't real for Donald Trump until you hear Fox News projects that Donald J. Trump would be the 45th president of the United States.
And I'm treating it, and I would tell anybody on this campaign the same thing.
Act as though you are behind.
And if you treat it that way, then you're fighting the entire time.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
There's another way to put it.
Anyway, I appreciate it.
Thank you.
But yeah, anecdotally, I think you're right in a lot of ways.
ISIS has come out online and essentially claimed responsibility.
And they talk about the blessed battle of Paris.
They say that eight suicide bombers struck at the heart of France's crusaders.
It says that they were sent to act on behalf of God and the messenger of God, the prophet.
What did he look like?
I mean, what was he?
Was he look angry?
Did he look mad?
Serious intent.
He stood up, screamed a lot.
And they just started shooting.
He screamed a lot.
He did.
Top of his lungs.
God is great.
And in the Muslim language, he does not mourn his brother Tamerlan, that Tamerlan was a martyr now, that he was in paradise.
That Johar expected to join him there soon.
That the bombings were in retribution for the U.S. crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
That the victims of the Boston bombing were collateral damage.
In a series of letters to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, an EW Scripps newspaper, Abdul Hakeem Mohammed says he drove to Florence, planning to open fire on the Army recruiting office.
But we're now told by several law enforcement officials that just before this shooting happened, Mateen, the man that the police say was the gunman, called a 911 phone number in Florida and on, once the operator answered, swore his allegiance to al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS.
Shortly before Saeed Farouk and his wife, Tashfine Malik, opened fire, Malik took to her Facebook page to pledge her allegiance to ISIS in Syria.
The weekend stabbing of nine people at the Crossroad Center Mall in St. Cloud.
The alleged attackers being identified by family members as Tahir Adan of St. Cloud, a young Somali man.
He reportedly mentioned Allah during the rampage.
ISIS says the man was a soldier for the Islamic State.
The manhunt for the suspect ending in a shootout, injuring 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami.
So Tasha, how are you?
I'm going to tell you what's going on.
I just got a call from the FBI and they don't have the details, but I guess they heard about it.
There's facts.
What do we have?
An active shooter at Pulse Night Club?
Yep, with Iqbal.
I'm going to let you talk to Marcelo.
She can tell you exactly what he said.
She listened to the recording.
He got a call from the FBI.
Sergeant Kapit is actually, he listened to the recording with me, and he's the one that says it sounds like a prayer, like an Islamic prayer.
He says it really quickly, and he's praying his allegiance to someone, Abdul Something.
He hears a name.
He says it two to three times.
And I have it saved.
I can't make out what he's saying.
He claims to be the shooter.
So we do have a confirmed shooting at Pulse Nightclub.
It's beyond a confirmed shooting.
It's an active shooter call, assault rifles, multiple victims.
We have two seeds, emergency downtown for the outside for the triage, emergency East for the actual call, patch with patrol East.
It's a true active shooter scenario.
There's multiple, multiple victims with active shooters still inside the club.
It's a full SWAT CNT issue call up.
Confident that you'll ever be able to fully understand the motivation for this event.
You know, whenever you look at someone's motivation or intent, whether they're living or whether they're dead, you look at their actions and their activities surrounding the event.
You look at what they said, you look at what they did, you look at how they behaved, and you come up with the most reasonable interpretation, the one that fits the facts there.
And so we do feel that as we continue to build a timeline and a chronology and to build his life, that we will be able to determine this.
I cannot tell you definitively that we will ever narrow it down to one motivation.
People often act out of more than one motivation.
This was clearly an act of terror and an act of hate.
So we will look at all motivations and hope to come to a conclusion there.
All right, news roundup information overload: 800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number.
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There's Loretta Lynch.
We now know everything that she knew from the beginning, in this case, about Omar Mateen, the guy responsible for killing all these people at the nightclub, the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and these transcripts that have been released.
Now, these calls that have been released.
This is Mateen.
You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq.
I want you to know that I'm in Orlando and I did the shooting.
And he pledges allegiance to El Baghdadi of the Islamic State, the leader of the Islamic State.
In a second call, a police crisis negotiator attempts to placate Mateen.
I completely get what you're saying, the negotiator said.
What I'm trying to do is prevent anybody else from getting.
Mateen interrupts before the guy can finish.
Well, you need to stop the U.S. airstrikes.
They need to stop U.S. airstrikes, okay?
The negotiator explained to Mateen, he's not a politician or the government.
Quote, all I can do is help individuals, and I want to start with helping you, he said.
And that's when Mateen indicated that he had bombs in some vehicles outside.
And this claim was later determined to be false.
Your people are going to start going to get it.
I'm going to ignite it.
If they try to do anything stupid, they can take out a whole city block almost.
And then he likened himself to other terrorists.
You know, talked about the Sarnav brothers in the Boston bombing case.
Then he talked about others.
So you get what he's saying?
Call me Mujahideen.
Call me the soldier of God, he said.
And he went on to say, when asked what his name is, my name's Andy.
What's yours?
He said, my name is the Islamic Soldier.
So what part of this do we need to really dig down deep to figure out the motivation?
Then, of course, we had what happened last Saturday in New York and a series of events happening around the country in New York and New Jersey.
And we had learned that the wife of Ahmed Khan Rahami had gone to the UAE.
Now she has been brought back and is, in fact, facing federal and state charges in connection with the bombing incidents in New York and New Jersey.
And U.S. law enforcement says she's back.
She arrived at JFK airport, is going to be questioned by authorities if she hasn't been already.
But as of Tuesday night, Rahami was unconscious and intubated at the University Hospital of Newark two days after being wounded in the shootout with Linden Police.
But the question is: this is not brain surgery.
This is pretty simple, basic stuff.
Rich Higgins, Vice President, Intelligence and National Security Programs, former manager with the Department of Defense, Combating Terrorism, Technical Support, Office, and Irregular Warfare Support Program.
I guess we call that Black Ops.
Jonathan Gillum, Navy CO, former FBI and Federal Air Marshal.
Welcome both of you back to the program.
You know, Rich, look, I'm not in law enforcement.
I'm not an FBI agent.
I'm not a covert operative for the CIA.
I don't have law enforcement training.
But if I'm Loretta Lynch and I hear all that I said and all that we played, I'm not having a hard time identifying radical Islam as the motivation.
No, there's no issue there.
One of the things the Attorney General said there, Sean, was, you know, does it fit the facts?
And, you know, what we've seen for the past several years are the facts are being systematically excluded.
The other thing we see is within the FBI, their training program is completely inadequate.
And anybody who's survived post-the 2009 purge of material and then the following 2011 purge of material in terms of training has been fully vetted by the Muslim Brotherhood.
So now we have agents out there that don't know this doctrinal template our enemy is working off of.
Full stop.
Let me ask you, does the Muslim Brotherhood have more influence in the United States and our government than anybody has any idea about?
Because we keep hearing incidents.
Even during the Bush administration, you'd see pictures of controversial people that ended up in the Bush White House.
By the way, I'm not blaming President Bush, but I would blame our intelligence community for not vetting them for him.
I mean, he can't possibly know everybody or, you know, presidential candidates or, you know, people that Hillary Clinton have associated with or even other politicians, maybe even some of them Republican.
Is this widespread this infiltration?
Sean, the depth of the Muslim Brotherhood penetration cannot be overstated.
I mean, just for example, this week, okay, on the coattails of New York and New Jersey, the House Homeland Security Committee put forward a bill, the counterviolent extremist bill, which they repackaged after it was stopped in part with the support of your listeners back in June.
They put it forward again.
The entire bill is a double-agent counterintelligence program orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, run out of the Department of Homeland Security's Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Division.
The Muslim advisory group there, fully staffed by known and affiliated members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It is an open secret in the national security community that this stuff is going on.
Okay, now, Rich Higgins, just stop for a second, and I'm listening to every word you're telling me.
You're saying that the Muslim Brotherhood has access at the highest levels of our government, and we know about it, and we allow it to continue.
But I just want to be clear in what you're saying.
Sean, yes, the Muslim Brotherhood isn't even considered a terrorist organization domestic.
My contacts in Egypt were telling me this week that President Sece brought this to Mr. Trump and to Mrs. Clinton this week during his visit as his main concern.
And I'll leave it to your listeners to understand who they're in favor of in terms of who they support in the election.
Hillary has shown herself to be on the side of the internet.
It's not Hillary Clinton.
So let's move on.
Let's not play games here.
My audience needs information.
It's not Hillary.
Go ahead.
I interpreted it for you.
Real quick.
For the listeners, for them to understand that, all they have to do is go back to what Loretta Lynch just said.
To determine the motivation, you have to have the interpretation that fits the fact, and then you base that on the action.
If you look at the actions of this administration, you will clearly see that they are avoiding any interaction with the Muslim community or any of these people, even the terrorists, the bad guys themselves, that will put any dark light upon these groups.
I mean, they did not even charge the New York, New Jersey bomber with terrorism.
Terrorism is not in the charges at all.
So you can look at the actions just like she said.
And that's what happens.
Criminals often give you insights in the way that they think because they're bragging.
That's what she did.
Look at their motivation.
Look at what they do.
Look at their actions, and you will see this administration's motivation.
You will see what's happening.
Well, let me go back to this whole Muslim Brotherhood issue.
So your general feeling in your context.
And by the way, General O-Sisi is probably one of the bravest men in the Middle East.
I mean, I once read the autobiography of Anwar Sadat, and he was a great, courageous man who was killed for literally trying to transform Egypt at the time and the entire Middle East, and he was assassinated for his peace outreach and efforts.
I've got to imagine that General El-Sisi might be a little more protected because of his control over the military, but I believe the risk he is taking is as profound, if not greater, than even that of Sadat.
Is that a fair analysis, Rich Higgins?
I think that's you may be understating it.
I mean, his life is absolutely in grave danger.
And, you know, he is the bulwark against what the Muslim Brotherhood is doing across the Islamic world.
You know, going back to the Brotherhood, their strategy has always been since 1990 to destroy Western civilization by their own hand.
And it's very important.
When they say by their own hand, their intent is to have our generals, our politicians, our leaders impose their will upon us.
When I was getting under pressure in the Pentagon on this issue, it was never a Muslim guy who walked in from the Brotherhood who put me in trouble.
It was always a general or a senior executive telling me what to do at the behest of their dictums that were ruling primarily out of that office, Department of Homeland Security, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Division.
Everybody needs to go and check that out.
I just can't believe what I'm hearing, Jonathan.
I mean, is this something you picked up in the course of your work over the years, too?
Let me ask this.
A group like CARE, unindicted, a co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation cases, do they have that kind of access?
And do they have radical ties, in your opinion?
One thing you have to stop doing is differentiating these groups, because as Rich will tell you, they're all branches from the same tree.
And, you know, I've talked about this before.
We're not going to see in this country a red dawn style of takeover.
What you're going to see is what the intelligence community does, where if they want to know what nuclear secrets a country has, they go find that one particular scientist that has information can identify what they're doing.
It's the same thing here.
The Muslim Brotherhood and just fundamental Islam in general, all these different branches of that tree are working for one thing, and that's to take over Washington, D.C.
And once they do that, they have the rest of it.
There's no reason to infiltrate and to bring bombs in and take over, you know, to have planes and troops.
They just simply come in and take over Washington, D.C.
And that's what's happening covertly.
So you think we're going to lose the country?
It is the only way this country could ever fall is if the government itself, the federal government, is comparable.
But that's what you're both describing is happening.
Rich, do you think the country falls in this way?
I think if Hillary is elected, they will classify folks like John and myself as domestic terrorists using the violent extremism moniker because we are faithful to our oath to the Constitution.
We will be seen as dangerous.
I mean, you had no less than the president at the United Nations this week saying we're going to have to give up some of our freedoms.
And we're in uncharted water right now.
We're an uncharted water.
Well, why do I suspect if you two are in trouble?
I'm in deep whatever with you.
At least I'll have two strong guys next to me.
You know, Sean, another example of the problem that we have in this country is that it's not just Washington, D.C. Look at Colin Kaepernick.
Look at when he takes a knee for the national anthem.
What happened?
You can follow the tree from there.
He takes a knee.
The media only concentrates on him when the national anthem ends.
That is the only thing that's played in the news media.
That's the only thing that's talked about with the politicians.
And it trickles up.
And then what happens is it goes out and it spreads like a virus amongst the different cities in this country.
I'm just running out of time.
I got to let you guys go.
This is a real - you know what?
Here it is.
We're 46 days out of an election, and you guys are scaring the living crap out of me.
Thanks a lot.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks for the nice send-off of the weekend so I can rest in peace.
Anyway, appreciate it.
800-941 Sean, I guess I'll have to train harder this weekend.
ISIS has come out on online and essentially claimed responsibility.
And they talk about the blessed battle of Paris.
They say that eight suicide bombers struck at the heart of France's crusaders.
It says that they were sent to act on behalf of God and the Messenger of God, the Prophet.
What did he look like?
I mean, what was he?
Was he look angry?
Did he look mad?
Serious intent.
He stood up, screamed a la Akbar.
And they just started shooting.
He screamed a lot, Akbar.
He did.
Top of his lungs.
God is great.
And in the Muslim language, he does not mourn his brother Tamerlan, that Tamerlan was a martyr now, that he was in paradise, that Johar expected to join him there soon.
That the bombings were in retribution for the U.S. crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
That the victims of the Boston bombing were collateral damage.
In a series of letters to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, an EW Scripps newspaper, Abdul Hakeem Mohammed says he drove to Florence, planning to open fire on the Army recruiting office.
But we're now told by several law enforcement officials that just before this shooting happened, Mateen, the man that the police say was the gunman, called a 911 phone number in Florida and on, once the operator answered, swore his allegiance to al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS.
Shortly before Saeed Farouk and his wife, Tashfine Malik, opened fire, Malik took to her Facebook page to pledge her allegiance to ISIS in Syria.
The weekend stabbing of nine people at the Crossroad Center Mall in St. Cloud, the alleged attackers being identified by family members as Tahir Adan of St. Cloud, a young Somali man.
Reportedly mentioned Allah during the rampage.
ISIS says the man was a soldier for the Islamic State.
The manhunt for the suspect ending in a shootout injuring 28-year-old Ahmad Khanra Hami.
So Tasha, how are you?
What's going on?
I just got a call from the FBI and they don't have the details, but I guess they heard about it.
There's fact.
About an active shooter at Pulse Night Club.
Yep, with Iqsam.
I'm going to let you talk to Marsala.
She can tell you exactly what he said.
She listened to the recording.
He got a call from the FBI.
Hi, Sergeant Kapit is actually here.
Listen to the recording with me and he's the one that says it sounds like a prayer, like an Islamic prayer.
He says it really quickly and he's praying his allegiance to someone, Abdul Something.
He hears a name.
He says it two to three times.
And I have it saved.
I can't make out what he's saying, and he claims to be the shooter.
So we do have a confirmed shooting at False Night Club.
It's beyond a confirmed shooting.
It's an active shooter call, assault rifles, multiple victims.
We have two C's, emergency downtown for the outside for the triage, emergency East for the actual call patch with patrol East.
It's a true active shooter scenario.
There's multiple, multiple victims with active shooters still inside the club.
It's a full SWAT CNT issue call-out.
How is it that you're going to ever be able to fully understand the motivation for this?
You know, whenever you look at someone's motivation or intent, whether they're living or whether they're dead, you look at their actions and their activities surrounding the event.
You look at what they said, you look at what they did, you look at how they behaved, and you come up with the most reasonable interpretation, the one that fits the facts there.
And so we do feel that as we continue to build a timeline and a chronology and to build his life, that we will be able to determine this.
I cannot tell you definitively that we will ever narrow it down to one motivation.
People often act out of more than one motivation.
This was clearly an act of terror and an act of hate.
So we will look at all motivations and hope to come to a conclusion there.
All right, that's pretty scary stuff, as we were just discussing in the last half hour.
800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number on this Friday, 46 days until Election Day.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
John is in Charlotte, North Carolina.
John, glad you called.
And by the way, our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the city, and we hope the unrest stops, and we hope that people wait for all of the evidence to be presented before making a final judgment.
How are you, sir?
Pretty good, John.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
My question was: why aren't there anybody talking about that we all have a right given to us by the Constitution to due process?
And whenever the policemen shoot and kill you, then they take that right away from you, and they become the judge, the jury, and the prosecutor, and the executioner, all in one.
Well, you're negating one very important fact here in your argument, and that is police have a right to go home as well.
And if there is an imminent danger to their life, they have a right to defend themselves.
And if, in fact, it turns out that in this case, a gun was being pulled out against the wishes and commands of an officer, then that would be a justifiable shooting is what we call it.
Well, you know, yesterday you said that the policemen have a right to due process, but after reviewing the tapes, let me see if I can make this easier for you.
Let me describe a scenario.
Okay, you are pulled over by the police, right?
Okay, cop comes over, says license of registration.
You take out a gun and you point it at the cop.
Does he have a right to decide then and there to shoot you?
Yes, sir.
Okay, that's what the police are alleging here.
That in spite of their orders for him to put the gun down, you know, that's not being judge, jury, and executioner.
That's just called justifiable use of force under the law.
There's a legal precedent for this.
Now, in the case of Tulsa, when the guy had his hands up and was shot, you know, in spite of the gun, you know, everyone keeps criticizing me because I pointed out the guy had a long record.
Well, we've now corroborated it in other news sources, but he had his hands up and he got shot.
There have been other cases where, either through videotape or eyewitness testimony, cops are in trouble.
So, you know, it all depends.
But what we know now is that there's two competing narratives in terms of what happened in Charlotte.
And one narrative is that the guy had a book.
And one narrative is, no, he had a gun and he had a holster and that he had reached for his gun and no book was found, but apparently a gun and a holster were found.
So at least that narrative fits in with the police story and not with the story of some eyewitnesses.
Some eyewitnesses also said a white cop shot him.
It was a black police officer that shot him.
It doesn't matter to me if the cop is black or white.
What I'm saying is eyewitness accounts were wrong.
I'm only pointing out that eyewitness accounts to what had happened were wrong.
Okay, well, can you explain why everybody else gets killed by a terrorist that is shooting that policeman and shoot policemen, they can capture him alive?
Well, I'm not a believer in that either.
I think, look, if a cop is being shot at, let's make this a general rule in life.
You shoot at a cop, you raise a gun, and you're talking to somebody that carries a gun every day of my life.
I have a gun on my hip right now.
And I am telling you, as somebody that has been trained in the use of firearms since I am 11 years old, let me tell you what my protocol is if I get pulled over and it's happened to me and I have my gun with me.
When a cop pulls me over, I take my hands and I put them outside of the car completely and I leave them there.
And I say, Officer, I have a loaded licensed firearm on my hip, or if it's in my glove compartment, wherever it has to be, I usually put it in my glove compartment in a car.
And then I, and then I, and then usually they'll say, get out of the car.
And I'll get out of the car and I'll let him disarm me with my hands out as far as I can stretch them.
And then I'll, you know, I'll allow him to take the wallet out of my pocket.
I'll allow the officer to do it and not make any sudden movements.
You understand how you do this?
This is not a game.
Because a cop pulls somebody over, they have no idea what they're dealing with.
Now, me, by putting my hands out, by me informing the police officer up front that I have a legal license firearm on me and in the car, I am showing that officer the respect that he deserves, not knowing what he's dealing with.
Now, as soon as he gets to my car, he knows what he's dealing with.
Now, I have found officers handle it perfectly from there on in.
They take a look at my license, my registration, my gun license, and they say, Mr. Hannity, you know, they either write me a ticket or send me on my way with my gun.
I agree with you 100%.
But have you heard the reports that are coming out of Charlotte?
Well, listen, I'm only giving you, you know, in the case of Michael Brown, Michael Brown tried to fight a cop for his gun.
You fight it, and that was where the first shot was fired when the cop with Darren Wilson was in the car.
Look, there's certain protocols.
You know, a lot of people are upset over the constitutional issues involved with stop and frisk.
You know, I kind of like the idea that Rudy's tough policing policies, concentrating the limited resources of police we have in New York City to the neighborhoods that were most violent and where people were more likely to get shot and die statistically.
Forget race, forget anything else.
And as a result of stop and frisk, a lot of people with illegal guns were discovered.
Now, let's say I was walking down the street and I got stopped and frisked in New York.
Would I like it?
Probably not.
The first thing that I would do is I would tell the officers, I have a loaded firearm on my hip because I carry a loaded firearm.
And I would tell them, and we would then move appropriately from there.
With me, hands so spread so wide, as wide as I can possibly spread them.
That's how you, if, look, one of the things I want you, I want to take this a step further because this is important.
When I first learned how to shoot a firearm, my parents in different capacities worked in law enforcement.
And my mother would leave her revolver right on her bedside every single night.
And it was not in a safe.
Now, you can't get the guns, my guns, in my house.
I have literally a Liberty fingerprint safe, two of them on my bedside.
One has my nine millimeter in it, one has my Glock 40 in it.
All right?
And they're both loaded.
My kids can't open it.
You would need a jackhammer to get this safe open.
And even then, I don't think you can get it open.
Now, but my parents knew that having a loaded firearm in the house was dangerous for kids.
So what did they do?
They took me to a range in Franklin Square.
It was on Franklin Avenue.
It was right near St. Catharines at the time.
And this very nice gentleman who my mother worked with, you know, sat me down.
And we sat on the range, gunpointed downrange, and we went over every single safety measure we can.
And I'm an 11-year-old kid.
What did I want?
I want to shoot the thing, right?
Then the guy says to me at the end of the lesson, he goes, If you come back, you're going to come back next week.
If you remember everything I told you, I'll let you shoot the gun.
If not, you can't shoot the gun.
So I remembered everything he said.
You always point the gun down range.
What do you do in case a gun jams?
You've got to have some basic, simple safety knowledge.
This is not a toy.
I take carrying very seriously.
I own a gun collection.
I take my gun collection.
Why do you think I have all these Liberty safes in my house?
One of the main reasons is for my gun collection.
And I have a pretty extensive collection.
AR-15s.
I got a pre-dated Uzi that I have in the house.
I've got shotguns.
I've got pistols.
I've got rifles.
I've got everything.
And I have ammunition, too.
This is not a game.
This is not a toy.
It's not for kids.
I was pretty young when my parents taught me.
So people call me and they say, Hannity, I'm thinking of getting one of those Magnum 357s like Clenn Eastwood has.
I'm like, what gun do you think I should get?
And I said, well, whatever gun you want to get trained in the use of is what, and the safety techniques of.
That's what I recommend.
You know, I don't take a gun home not having learned how to use it.
Unfortunately, because this is my 30th year in radio, my ears are so shot that whenever I shoot now, even with interior and exterior hearing protection, I still get ringing in my ears.
So I don't shoot as much anymore.
I actually use a pellet gun now in my backyard just to keep my marksmanship up.
I know it may sound nuts, but that's what I do.
It's not a game.
And what I would recommend to anybody out there is that if you're going to get a gun, get trained in the safety and use and protection.
And frankly, it ought to be a felony if anybody owns a gun and their kids get a hold of their gun.
Because if you can afford the gun, you ought to be able to afford the safe, even a fingerprint safe, like from Liberty Safe, to put it in to keep your kids away from it.
All right?
That's my advice.
This is not a toy.
It's not a game.
And police have a right to know what they're dealing with when they're dealing with somebody that's armed with a firearm.
You put your hands up, you put them on the car, and you spread them.
That's what I do.
That's what I recommend for anybody.
Even if it's illegal, better off you get arrested and spend a year in jail than being carried by six.
