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The good polling numbers just flying out of everywhere today for Trump.
Very interesting.
It proves my theory is that no matter what momentum shift there seems to be in Hillary's favor, usually kind of precipitated by Trump doing something like, you know, fighting Mr. Kahn or Judge Kiriel or Alicia Machado.
It seems to always hurt him when he does that.
But people don't like Hillary.
They seem to keep coming back to that.
And I think at the end of the day, she is maxed out in her support.
I'll go over all these poll numbers in the course of the program today.
I have got to uh start with a little bit of a weather alert here.
Look, I know it's the inclination of conservative.
I'm gonna ride this baby out.
I'm not eh, come on, it's gonna be fine.
I've been through this hurricane, that hurricane.
This is now a category four.
We now know over a hundred and forty people, maybe as close to a hundred and fifty people have already been killed by Hurricane Matthew.
Now it is expected to hit Southern Florida pretty much as I go on TV tonight around 10 Eastern, and then move up the East Coast.
It is now uh claimed all these lives ripping through Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and elsewhere.
The president now has declared a federal state of emergency in Florida as the hurricane is approaching.
The storm now is intensified, as I said, to a category four hurricane.
This is a real clear, significant danger.
And it's looking to hit the west coast of I'm sorry, yeah, the uh the east coast of Florida.
In other words, the Palm Beach side, maybe starting in southern Florida, Miami, a little bit north of Miami, and then moving up Daytona Beach and everywhere from there.
It is, you know, and then even into Jacksonville and Savannah.
Now, I've I just urge all of you, if you're told to be evacuated, why gamble with what's the point?
Well, to prove that you can tough out a hurricane.
The problem is here, the National Weather Service is advising there's going to be a loss of life.
There's going to be immense human suffering.
I'm using their words, that it's possible.
Seven million people by the end of this could be left without power, and some areas are going to be left uninhabitable, potentially for months.
When I went down to Baton Rouge recently, it is horrible to see people's homes street after street, house after house, block after block, neighborhood after neighborhood, empty, destroyed.
Everything that was in the house is now on the front lawn.
And these homes have to be gutted.
It's not fun.
So we have two million people in the United States as of this moment, mostly in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas have been urged to evacuate their homes in preparation for what they're calling a direct hit.
Now you have Governor Rick Scott of Florida.
He's been front and center warning Floridians that the storm is going to kill people after he declared a state of emergency.
In South Carolina, Governor Nikki Haley said only 175,000 people have evacuated so far.
That's not enough.
Even inland, Disney in Orlando is confirming that all their theme parks are going to be closed at 5 p.m. and will not reopen until Saturday.
And you've got these satellite images.
And when you see that much red and that much orange and that much yellow, that's not good.
If you look at satellite images.
So we've got two million people urged to evacuate, because it's it's potentially on a path to kill people in Florida right now.
You got thousands of families.
I know you're caught in gridlock.
Some of you probably in your car right now listening, rolling your eyes saying, Yeah, this sucks.
By the way, welcome to New York on any given day.
That's my life getting into New York City.
And the good news is you got mead to take you wherever you're going.
So the next three hours of your life are going to be we'll fill it with entertainment and information.
You'll be fine.
And my advice is just take a deep breath in through the nose, out through the mouth, chill out, relax, and you're going to get through this.
And if you're in your car and you're in gridlock, that means you made a smart decision.
And that decision is to listen to the forecasts, get out of the way, protect your life, which is the most important thing.
Melbourne, Florida's right in its side.
This is going to be a very, very Fort Pierce is in there, heading straight.
Look, it's looking like Cat 4 headed right to Jacksonville, Jacksonville, the northeastern part of the state.
Over by Pontavidra, all that area, some of the most beautiful part of the country.
So the governor actually had to say, don't surf.
Everyone, oh, the waves are up.
Let's go.
Don't surf.
He said, don't go to the beach.
This will kill you.
The storm has already killed nearly 150 people.
We expect the same impact in Florida.
Anyway, so, you know, storm wins now.
I mean, if it's at this level, it could, you know, wind speeds up to more than 157 miles per hour at its height.
It's already had that's the highest number they've they've recorded with this particular storm.
And again, they're warning about severe loss of life.
Please listen.
I know politicians are a bunch of dopes and a bunch of idiots and they're ignorant and they're wrong all the time.
Then, you know, this is now simple science.
Follow the experts.
Listen, I know people are out there doing their windsurfing and having a good old time, but just be careful.
All right.
If you want to know the difference between a cat three, four, and five.
Well, category one winds range from seventy-four to ninety-five miles an hour.
Minor damage to property, injuries to people, animals generally isolated.
Cat two is ninety-six to a hundred and ten miles per hour, expected to produce far more extensive property damage.
Greater wind velocities means that debris is going to be posing a greater threat because it's flying all over the place.
And a cat two storms, significant structural damage to apartment buildings, mobile homes, shopping centers can be expected.
Now you get to a cat three hurricane, 111 to 130 miles an hour.
Let's let's look at this.
All right, so Cat 2 goes to 110 miles an hour.
All right.
There's no pitcher in Major League Baseball that can throw 110.
Well, now you get to a category three, and now we're up to 130 miles an hour.
You ever see John Isner serve at 140 miles an hour?
You can't see it.
It's so fast.
Anyway, that'll cause significant damage to property, humans, animals.
If you have poorly constructed frame homes, mobile homes, they're often destroyed.
You can even see parts of them flying all over the place.
Even well-built frame homes commonly sustained major damage.
Significant damage to apartments, shopping centers, especially those, even those made of wood and steel can be expected.
Electricity, water, commonly unavailable for several days.
Now, we're in the Cat 4 category.
Winds ranging from 131 to 155 miles per hour.
Now, in this category, which is the one we're dealing with, this can cause catastrophic damage to property, humans, and animals.
Several structural damage.
Apartments, shopping centers.
They can all go down on a cat four.
Hurricanes often include long-term power outages, water shortages lasting from a few weeks to even a few months.
It's imperative.
And by the way, the rest of the country standing by.
We'll be there for Florida.
We'll be there for the Carolinas.
We're going to be there for Georgia.
We're going to take care of our friends.
We'll have water sent down.
We'll have food and beverages sent down.
We'll have cots and blankets if needed.
We'll have baby formula medicines and supplies if needed.
I promise you, America always steps up.
You know, I just have seen it too often.
So you got to be very, very careful.
It's very important that you have a significant amount of non-perishable food and water on hand if you decide to try and write it out, which I'm highly recommending that you do not.
Alright, that's the best I can do.
I can't make you go.
I'm only encouraging you.
I think in this one, you know, you might as well err on the side of caution.
And I think this is pretty much now a short thing, and by the time we get on TV tonight at 10 Eastern, this is going to be the real deal.
And we'll be covering all of that tonight for you.
Donald Trump now leading Hillary Clinton by seven points in Iowa.
He's now back up in the very important swing state of Colorado.
Trump is also up 13 points in Georgia.
And he leads Hillary by two points in the Reuters National poll.
This is all good news for Donald Trump.
It's also even now within the margin of Vera, two points in New Hampshire.
That is a huge step in the right direction.
In Indiana, he's up by five.
In Michigan, seems like he's lost a little ground, but he's up back in Florida by one point according to the latest Emerson poll.
And if you look at Nevada, it's tied dead even, 4343.
In Arizona, he's competitive there too.
It's Clinton plus two.
He's up 11 in Tennessee.
If you look at the general election, Rasmussen, he's plus two.
If you look at the LA Times USC tracking, it's Trump plus four.
I wonder if they're going to adjust Knight Silvers 538.
Because yes, I believe in polls.
Hannity doesn't believe in polls.
He cites unscientific online polls.
Well, because they show enthusiasm.
Plus, it's an interesting.
I don't know what's wrong with everybody.
Anyway, the latest Rasmussen now, and Trump was down two days ago.
Now he's up by two points, 43 to 41.
So if you look at the daily tracking, LA Times poll, he's up by 446.6 to 42.6.
The let's see, WTHR, HPI Indiana poll.
It's Trump 56 and Clinton 43.
I'm sorry, Clinton, yeah.
No, what did I say here?
It's oh, the question, Trump supporters voting for Trump because they can't support Clinton.
Oh, okay, I'm sorry, wrong poll.
I stand corrected.
Bad host.
Been in a rush today.
We've had a busy day.
A Breitbart Gravis poll has Trump now tied with Clinton 444.
What did I tell you yesterday?
I cannot predict with any certainty who is going to win.
I can't.
One bit of good news, the GOP is gaining ground in absentee ballots, voter registration in critical swing states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida.
Anyway, they have more resources, more volunteers, more offices than they've had before, even in states like Iowa.
And a gap is much smaller than it was in 2012.
This has been Rank's previous real gold now for the last four years.
Republicans still trail an absentee ballot requests in Iowa, but the gap is a lot smaller than it was at this point in 2012.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats, they still greatly outnumber registered Republicans, but the GOP has closed the gap by more than 200,000 voters compared to where things stood in 2012.
A lot of it fueled by these party switchers.
More than 97,000 people switched from Democrat to GOP this year.
And uh so that actually is encouraging.
I'm not saying the Penns, but look, the latest Pennsylvania poll is a three-point race.
Another poll that has come out, race relations has gotten worse since Obama's been president.
I wonder why.
Maybe because he doesn't talk about nearly 4,000 dead in Chicago since he's been president.
Nobody knows the names of those victims, over 75% of which are African American.
3,000 people shot in Chicago this year alone.
This year alone.
Pretty unbelievable.
And uh we got all of this we're gonna get to today.
Now, I'm gonna tell you one thing.
I know actually have come to a different conclusion as it relates to debates.
Hear me out on this.
I don't think Trump has to win the debates.
Honestly.
I think all Trump has to do is show that all Hillary cares about, I want to tell you about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump hates women.
Donald Trump had Trump University.
Donald Trump does not have the temperament to be president.
Donald Trump 20 years ago did this.
Donald Trump 24 years ago did that.
Donald, you know, it's it's it's that's what you're gonna hear.
She can't talk about the economy.
She can't talk about the statistics I give you every day.
She can't talk about Benghazi, 600 denied requests before, not sending help during and lying after.
She can't talk about this ridiculous Iranian deal.
She can't talk about Trump's taxes all she wants.
All Trump has to do is turn her and say, Why did you deduct your old underwear?
I think that would be impactful.
I mean, at that point's checkmate.
She's trying to do everything she can do to pay less.
Who is she to lecture him?
And all he's doing is following the rules and the laws that people like her, lifetime politicians set up.
And she used it herself.
So ridiculous.
All right, 800 941 Sean, toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
We're going to be uh dipping in and out of our coverage today, going to Joe Bestardi at Weatherbell.com, and we have uh Joe Kelly is down in Orlando.
He's going to give us the latest of what's happening on the ground there in Florida.
You know, look, if you live in the Carolinas, please, I love the people of South Carolina.
I love the people of North Carolina.
I love my friends in Georgia.
It was my home hometown for a long time in Atlanta.
I love my my friends, my second home is in Florida.
Please, please, please be safe.
Just be smart.
Use your brain.
God gave you common sense.
They're all warning you this could be very, very bad and very dangerous.
And especially if you're in a coastal area, and they're telling you to get out, I would just get out.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean.
We expect by the time I'm on Hannity tonight, 10 Eastern, that Hurricane Matthew is going to be hitting the eastern coast of Florida, the southeastern coast, and moving its way up the coast, and headed to the Carolinas and well, Georgia, the Carolinas, and as uh we've been warning you that there is a massive evacuation going on in Florida,
and I urge everybody, you may have it's already had sustained winds, category four, 140 miles an hour, and we really urge you to listen to authorities and get the hell out of there if they're telling you to get out.
I know a lot of you are stuck in traffic, you're probably complaining.
My advice if you're not driving, get a beer, get some McDonald's, get something to eat, a little comfort food, play on your listen to the radio show and enjoy yourself today.
Anyway, joining us news uh uh Joe Bustardi of Weatherbell.com.
He's the official weathercaster uh for the Sean Hannity Show, and we have Joe Kelly, he's our morning guy at uh News 965 WDBO.
He's the news director and the uh morning host.
Uh welcome back both of you.
Joe, uh rain is there already, I understand it.
Yeah, it's a light rain right now.
The wind has been kicking up, Sean, and we've already tested our massive generators outside, and this is this is a big deal.
Walt Disney World Resort closes today in about an hour and fifteen minutes.
I can't begin to tell you what a big deal that is, and they are telegraphing in advance, so they're gonna be closed all day tomorrow.
That is the lifeblood of our community, and they're gonna be absolutely flat out closed tomorrow.
What's really important for people to understand here, as we're talking about this hitting the southeastern coast of Florida, you know, Orlando is inland.
It's in the middle of the state.
So for Imagine for imagine for a moment that we're gonna have one hundred mile per hour winds on I-4, right in front of the Magic Kingdom.
And it's not just the wind, it's all of the debris that is flying in the wind.
It's all the roof shingles, all of the metal signs, all of the debris that's flying in that wind that that could impale things and people, and therein lies the concern.
Well, and that's why Governor Scott is saying this will kill people.
And uh anyway, Joe Bastardi, welcome back.
You have been following the storm what now for over a week is that it's as it's been emerging, and how powerful we now know we've lost up to 150 people so far as the storm uh ripped through the Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing mudslides and flooding and death.
Uh, what do you see happening now?
Well, uh just flat out this is gonna be the strongest hurricane ever to hit the area it's known as the space coast now.
Uh there's simply is nothing on the chart that is ever uh uh you know hitting that area this strong, and the reason that happens, it's more likely for a major hurricane to hit uh in the area from uh Fort St. Lucy southward, or believe it or not, from Charleston northeastward.
Uh uh point out point this out all the time.
Rhode Island, for instance, has been hit by four major hurricanes the last seventy-five years.
Yet this part of Florida, because of its location, the coast, and the fact that most storms are either coming from the Gulf there or moving northward up along the coast, does not get struck by these.
Now the the danger is that people go, well, wait a minute, I've I wrote out uh Francis and Jean and this storm and that storm.
This is not Francis and Jean, which focused in this two thousand four, focused their fury in South Florida, down toward West Palm and places like that.
This is coming directly at you in a way, for instance, um uh that Andrew came directly at Miami.
Now, right now this is not as strong as Andrew.
It's encountering some drier air, believe it or not, and there's a little looks to be concentric eye walls.
In other words, there's two eyes right now, one around the other.
But what tends to happen over the warm water that's sitting in front of it and the coastline is just before it goes on shore, six, seven hours before, that may tighten right up and the storm may go through yet another burst of rapid intensification, and it's not inconceivable this could be a category five once it makes itself to the shore.
Now that's uh that's something that you have to consider.
But category four is devastating.
This is a devastating hurricane, and that's the words I'm gonna use from Port St. Lucie up to Daytona Beach, partly because of the track of the storm being over uh basically coming.
But it looks like it's gonna hug the entire coast all the way up through and including at Cat Four levels, you know, up and through Jacksonville.
Well, I know I don't think so.
I uh you know, I have a little bit of disagreement with Hurricane Center because you see, Sean, storms this strong.
You saw what happened with Haiti and Cuba.
By the way, why am I not shocked you disagree with the hurricane center?
I don't think you've ever agreed with the hurricane center, but that's why we love you.
No, that's not true.
Uh Sean, let me just say something.
Let me just say something.
Why did I open this can of worms?
All right, go ahead.
Those guys, no, they're the best in the business.
But you know, we're uh it's gotten to a point where I respect I respect them so much that I just think that if this once this thing encounters land, it's such a powerful beast now.
It's almost as if uh it's almost as if uh anything to disrupt it will take it down.
And so I expect this by the if it moves along the path we think, which is making a landfall someplace between uh Port St. Lucie and Cape uh Cape Canaveral and goes inland or hugs the coast like that, it's going to disrupt the functions that made it so strong, and it's probably going to fill to a category two.
Let's remember, and you know, you've been uh you know we're getting emails from me and everything else.
We always had this as a major hurricane from the get go and remaining a major hurricane north of the Bahamas.
And if you notice that was well in front of some of the other forecasts, you know, there's and again, people that go on Weatherbell saw what we had.
For people that don't know, Joe Vistarte, you know, nine days before a hurricane becomes a a big story is telling me in private emails that this is gonna happen.
Well, the the reason I do is because I don't uh you know, I don't want you caught off guard with something.
No, no, no, and we appreciate it.
That's why we love you so much.
I mean, you live eat breathe and and sleep this.
But a category four, you know, winds range from a hundred and thirty-one to a hundred and fifty five.
All right, let's say it goes inland.
Joe is in Orlando.
Or let's say people heading up into the panhandle, or people as south as southwest as Sarasota.
You know, what impact is it gonna have across the whole state, and then walk us through Georgia, the Carolinas, and from there.
Sure.
Well, uh back at Sarasota, Naples and those places is not not a real big deal.
Okay.
I mean, they'll get northwest winds point.
That's where I sent my wife and kids with the other side of the state to get away from the danger here on the north east side of the state.
Now in Orlando, here's the pro here's a problem with getting those hundred mile an hour winds in Orlando.
Frictional effects, once you get twenty miles inland from the beach, the friction cuts the uh cuts the wind speed anyway, uh uh uh twenty-five to thirty-five percent.
Uh so what happens is that uh I could see a gust to a hundred miles an hour, but the steady state wind there, maybe forty to sixty some gust to eighty miles an hour, because of the fact, and then you get you know, every once in a while you get perfect alignment, it's it's pouring rain and everything else, because of the fact that you have a lot of friction with the surface of the earth.
So that that diminishes the hurricane.
The western side naturally begins to fall apart because of frictional effects.
But that's not that's not what's going to be going on the beach.
If you've ever experienced these storms, and you go down to the beach and you go inland, it's two different things.
Even when Sandy was raking New York, uh the night of uh, you know, I was on on the set with uh Sean, uh and cold oh and Coulter came in and said, Joe, where's the big hurricane?
I go, why don't you walk down to the battery and see what's going on down there?
So there's a lot of a lot of things that a lot of things that happen just inland.
That's a bad storm in Orlando.
I would say that uh the maximum wind gusts in Orlando, 80, 90 miles an hour, is a rare event.
So it's bad in Orlando, but look, it doesn't compare to what'll happen around Cocoa Beach and Melbourne, where we could see 140 or 150 at Daytona Beach, because I think it'll be down to a categor uh category two or category three when it's up to Jacksonville.
I think they see wind gusts of one fifteen, one twenty, Jacksonville, I think eighty to a hundred, and eighty to a hundred along the coast.
And by the way, this can kill people.
We've got to be very blunt here.
Oh my gosh, you've got to get yeah, look, the governor of Florida, I mean, what he said times ten.
That's I feel especially in that space coast area, where people don't know, even though they've been through hurricanes, they don't know what a storm like this can do.
So, and what uh what'll happen is the aspect of this storm by Saturday, even though it'll still be a category one or category two, as it's hugging the coast all the way up to Charleston, will turn to rain.
That area of South Carolina all the way into North Carolina.
How bad is South Carolina?
This isn't important.
How bad is is how bad is it gonna be in Georgia?
How bad in South and North Carolina and then beyond?
Let's ask that question.
Well, here we uh uh I this is not a worry up the east coast.
Once you get to the North Carolina Virginia border, there's very little effect.
But what happens is what happens is I think you get uh just say Savannah, eighty a hundred mile an hour wind gusts, four to seven inches of rain.
Charleston, eighty to a hundred mile an hour wind gust, six to twelve inches of rain.
Wilmington, Cape Fear area, I'd say fifty to seventy mile an hour wind gust, but a foot of rain.
I think it's going to rain.
Uh the rain in southern North Carolina, northeast South Carolina, is going to be monumental.
And it what happens is when to the left side of the storm, as the storm begins to weaken because of what we call barraclinic temperature-driven processes, it rains.
Like if you remember Floyd, Floyd came up along the coast and to the west of Floyd, it rained.
Remember Irene, Irene came up the coast and all the flooding was to the west with rain.
That's what you're going to see again with this, except it's going to occur South Carolina, North Carolina, mostly to the east of Interstate 95, and then the storm's going to turn out the sea and try to loop back down, but it will weaken while it's doing it.
And if it gets all the way back to the Bahamas and Florida, I don't expect it to be anything more than a tropical storm.
All right, Joe Kelly, let's go back to you because they're saying as many as seven million people, a lot of them in Florida, could be without power, water supplies could be limited.
Now, I look, I do have a lot of confidence, Joe, in the American people.
Things get out of control.
You guys need water, you guys need food, you need baby formula, cotz blanket.
It's all coming.
The American people will mobilize very quickly to help.
Uh but I I will tell you though, Sean, that our are like Walmart as an example, the Walmart down the road from the radio station closed at 3 p.m.
Eastern.
I mean, so they're closed, which is good so that they can send their employees home and that they can get situated before the storm hits.
But anybody who is not prepared ahead of time is going to be in a real pickle.
Fortunately, the city, the county, the state has set up a uh a number of uh evacuation centers for people along with some of the evacuation centers allow for pets, but anybody who is not planned ahead, uh this is a big deal.
And Sean did Joe Busardi's point about New Hampshire getting hit with more hurricanes like this than we have on the space coast, there's a widely believed uh urban legend here that Walt Disney himself had inside knowledge that the this central coast was immune from hurricanes,
that NASA themselves knew that this part of the Florida coast was immune from hurricanes, and that's why they built the Space Center here, that's why they built the Magic Kingdom here.
But as as Joe points out, we're learning today that that was purely urban legend.
Well, here's the thing it's immune, uh uh it nothing's immune from anything.
Even when you get a flu shot, you're not really immune from anything.
But when you look at the history, one time in 400 years, a major hurricane hit from the east, that was Doran, 1964.
What that's on the old coast, which is a remarkable statistic.
If you're gonna build a Magic Kingdom, you're much uh you should be building it in Orlando.
You shouldn't be building it in Tallahassee, or you shouldn't be building it in Miami.
So I don't know if he knew that or not, but the tracks you think about Orlando, to get all the way to Orlando, you gotta pass over a lot of land, and uh you saw what Charlie did.
Charlie was uh comparatively speaking, not much compared to what happened now at Fort Myers and Naples in those areas.
There's a fist of fury down there.
And so uh yeah, I'm not I don't know that's a great story, but I do know that if you look at hurricane tracks, if go back to the nineteen forties, for instance, look at all those tracks in southern Florida, it's like a hurricanes, South Florida, nothing at Orlando, nothing up at uh Cape Can Cape Canaveral.
Let me ask this question.
So you're saying that after we get through Florida up the coast, and of course inland, as Joe was pointing out, and then after we go through the coast of Georgia and in inland as well, and the Carolinas should get hit, they can get hit really hard, the Charleston area in particular, right?
I I I've got a I Yeah, I've got to imagine Charleston's gonna get slammed pretty hard here, right?
Yeah, but no, it'll be it'll be nothing like what's going to happen down the coast.
I mean, Charleston will have well, you know, in Charleston's history, well it's certainly not going to be you go, and they've had some bad storms.
So, like I said, I think there's eighty to hundred mile an hour wind gusts on the coast there, probably at the battery uh in there, you'll probably see eighty mile an hour wind gusts.
You go get a heck of a lot of rain.
I've got my niece that lives down there, my niece Allison have already told you, hey, this is what we think is going to happen, so you have to figure that stuff out.
So if you if you know the parameters, if you say, okay, I say in Charleston, eighty mile an hour wind gust and six or ten inches of rain, hopefully people could understand what they need to do to adjust to that.
All right, guys, I want to thank you both.
Now we're going to check back in with you in about an hour.
Uh well, less than an hour, about forty minutes at the uh bottom of the next hour, just to get an update.
What time do you think it's hitting?
About ten o'clock Eastern really hits land when I get on the air, right?
Well, I think I think by that time, category one conditions are going to be occurring all on the Florida coast.
I think the category twos probably begin uh a little bit after that.
As far as the main uh the I, where you can say, well, the eye is on shore, I think that's after midnight, uh between midnight and six A.M. some place in the middle of the year.
So when I'm on the air at ten o'clock tonight, we'll know a lot about what is happening, correct?
Yeah, well, yeah, the the show should uh the show is beginning now, really along the coast.
So it'll be it'll be well underway by then.
Guys, thank you both.
We'll have you back in about forty minutes from right now.
Thank you both, Joe Kelly and of course Joe Bastardi.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity show, right down on our toll free telephone number.
We'll get to your calls in the next half hour, eight hundred nine four one Sean.
You want to be a part of the program watching Hurricane Matthew as it now strengthens to a category four hut hurricane uh about to make landfall in a couple of hours on the eastern coast of Florida.
We'll also check back in with Joe Bastardi and Joe Kelly on the ground for us in Florida and uh get you the very latest updates and all of that.
But first joining us is uh a longtime good friend of mine, and she is the author of numerous best selling books.
Uh the latest, of course, is in Trump We Trust, Ann Coulter is with us.
How are you, Miss Coulter?
Good to talk to you.
Good to talk to you, Sean Hannity, 12 New York Times best sellers.
Uh that's right.
This is now the the is it twelve or thirteen?
Didn't I say thirteen?
I gave you one extra book the last time.
How do you feel about the election right now?
Um about the same as I have since he came down the escalator.
I always thought he had a ninety percent chance of winning the nomination and a sixty percent chance of winning the presidency.
And I haven't really changed, and I hope um I would like to tell your listeners, don't be discouraged no matter what state you're in, just vote.
Um let them let them be exuberant.
I think the map is going to be very different from any map we're used to seeing in our lifetime states that that um have been completely out of reach for Republicans.
Um I think could be in play.
Um and and you know, who knows, maybe we'll lose Utah because of of the Mormons.
I don't think so.
I don't think there's any chance Mormons are are are loyal Republicans.
Unlike so many of your friends, Sean.
Um but because of the issues Trump is running on, the issues I've been dying for a president to run on, um, it really it really changes normal categories.
And I think there w I I that's how it what I think.
So just don't forget to vote.
If you were going to well let me ask you this.
What did you think of the debate between Tim Kane, Mr Interruptor, and uh Governor Mike Pence the other day.
Oh my gosh, it was like being on on TV with Paul Bagala or these liberals.
That's smirking become you know the the go to move on the left.
I I've I've never heard heard anyone say, you know, I I really like her show.
I just wish Rachel Maddow would smirk more.
That is the defining characteristics of M M S NBC is apparently the defining characteristic of the entire Democratic Party, this this mocking and smirking.
I mean whatever people say about Fox News um I I don't I can't think of anybody on Fox News who smirks.
There's no that smirking and interrupting.
That's point one.
Point two is it's it's it's it's interesting to me that there is playing so much to identity politics to this social justice warrior thing that in his opening statement he's going right back to segregated America.
And uh then later in the debate when he's asked about guns, um he, like all Democrats lied and said, oh yes I'm a proud gun owner and then moved into one of the people killed at Virginia Tech, who was a Holocaust survivor.
Well a lot of people are killed at at Virginia Tech.
It's d it's it's very strange that they keep they keep going to you know pushing the buttons of identity politics.
One of the things I like about um Trump is that he just blows through all that by appealing to all of us as Americans.
You know, look I think the Trump agenda is actually very, very profound and very, very simple at the same time.
And I think this is one of the biggest choice elections America's ever gonna have.
Now I don't really disagree with your assessment about sixty percent.
I don't know but um if you look at the polls, I mean it is so tight, it is so close I think it could go either way and it's ridiculous that people put so that m uh so many people might make their decision on whether or not a candidate robotically regurgitates prepared lines written by other people as a qualification for president.
That is a bit frustrating personally to me because that's what professional politicians do.
It's not what Trump does it's not who he is and with that said I'm not sure what impact these last two debates will have but for me the election has this we're either going to fix our economy and go back to cutting taxes and allow trillions of dollars back into the country and become a a country that has one of the lowest corporate tax rates so they'll invest in America or raise taxes.
We're we're either going to I think it's so much bigger than that.
Well I didn't finish my point because you interrupted election where we decide whether we're going to be America or not.
I I mean you know you have these huge hurricane warnings coming through.
It's gone through you know Haiti and the Bahamas uh headed for Florida.
Well what is the number one predictor of how many people will die in a disaster whether it's an earthquake um or or or or hurricane or whatever it is it is the standard of living first world countries take care of their own.
You saw the story out of Sweden today the migrants coming in raping a woman who was in a wheelchair.
This is this is not the time for Republicans to be going back and um I I had a caller into a radio show yesterday you know demanding to know if if Trump really believed it on abortion and I just I lost my temper.
This is you're if if if Trump loses this election the entire country becomes California within ten years we have nine Ruth Vader Ginsburg's on the Supreme Court.
You are not only losing abortion you are not only losing your guns you are losing your country.
And that's why the Democrats Tim Kane particularly in that debate it was it was kind of embarrassing how he was doing it.
And the entire media they want to fixate on Donald Trump's personal baggage.
Look, we've been trying to get anybody else to raise these issues for us.
particularly, I mean, mainly immigration.
Um oh, also did you see today, or I guess yesterday, um, a refugee being flown in from the Congo um w vomiting and with diarrhea died upon landing in in O'Hare.
So our entire government policy, immigration policy, is to replace ourselves with other people from the third world.
Um that will continue at breakneck speed under Hillary Clinton because the Democrats figure um we'll have a governing majority and the rich um think great, we get the cheap labor and who cares about the working class and who cares about America.
But to most Americans, the most precious thing we own is being an American citizen, and that will be, you know, about the same as being a Haitian citizen or a a citizen of the Congo if we lose this election within ten years.
There'll be no point to what you do to what I do to the cable news.
It will d it it will be gone in in in a decade or so, and there's no coming back from that.
You know, I think it is that deep and that profound, but just to fill a sh finish my thought it's about the economy.
It's about raising taxes, cutting taxes, it's about energy independence or dependence.
It's about repealing Obamacare, not repealing it.
It's about impacting this country for generations with our Supreme Court.
It's about saying radical Islam or not, it's about gambling with Americans' lives or vetting refugees like Trump wants to do.
It's about border security for national security purposes and the economy.
It's about our military, it's about our role in the world, it's about education.
There are deep and there are significant and profound differences between these two people, and Hillary doesn't want to talk about the economy.
Hillary doesn't want to talk about her foreign policy because she's failed.
So the only thing she's got left is Donald Trump said twenty two years ago, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Right, and it's pretty it's pretty spin gruel when um this latest one, the Hispanic mattress girl, Alicia Machado.
Now today she's saying, Oh, oh, I'm not talking about Trump anymore.
It's you know, they're they're big heroine um of the um The last debate.
Uh yes, of of what a what a brute Donald Trump is.
Um, you know, the the father she has an anchor baby in this country, so that's fantastic.
Um the father is a drug lord.
Um she was the um accused getaway car driver in Venezuela of her boyfriend who shot up his brother in law's funeral, um, and a federal judge went on TV and national TV in Venezuela and uh said that she had threatened to kill him.
That's the poster child for for our immigration policy.
They looked and they looked, they've had a year.
What are we gonna bring in?
We need, you know, the most sympathetic case.
And that's the one they come up with.
It's Alicia Machado, the the the new Hispanic mattress girl.
Um she was just made a citizen in August.
What do you mean by mattress girl?
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
Oh, remember the whole hysteria over mattress girl at Columbia?
I mean, I just mean she's, you know, it's like an it girl, except it's mattress girl.
Oh, good grief.
I am not responsible if this is obscene in some way, and I don't even know what you're referring to.
I'm just asking for the last two years.
There was that woman doing it our project, walking around with a mattress on her back, and the whole thing turned out to be fake.
Oh, I remember.
Okay, now I know what you're talking about.
Oh, for Pete's sake.
Oh, for the keep up with the news, Sean.
That's what I do for a living.
All right, keep going.
You're doing an excellent job.
Thank you.
Uh what is sh what is m a Hispanic mattress girl gonna be doing in this country now?
Um what what are her job skills?
No, we'll be supporting her and her anchor baby for the rest of their lives.
Um that's how you save social security.
That's how you ca save Medicare, give tax cuts, and not blow up the federal budget by not bringing in lots of third world immigrants and immediately putting them on uh having them collect welfare.
Well, that was number two or three on um Donald Trump's list of of deportation priorities.
When I saw Kane and and Pence talking about social security, I was a little frustrated, and by the way, Pence was fantastic.
Um but I was a little frustrated that Pence didn't say no, no, we can we can shore up social security if we stop bringing in all of these immigrants who immediately go on social security.
This is this is for our poor people.
This this is what this election is about.
Do we take care of our own?
Or or do we I mean the only way you stop having migrant crises is when the entire world is exactly the same.
One country is no different from another, so there's never a reason to move from one country to another.
But good luck to the rest of the world when you don't have the United States of America around to save you anymore.
Well, I think that's all a good point.
And it's really a scary time for me.
You know what's so frustrating to me?
There's so many What do you think in terms of tactics that Trump ought to use as she dumps the kitchen sink?
What would you advise him if you were talking to him?
I'm interested.
Well, this one's gonna be trickier than than the other ones because CNN is doing it and it's going to be quote, you know, town hall, as if these are ordinary Americans.
So I assume it's going to be one Kizer con after another standing up and and denouncing Trump for this or that policy.
Um, of course Trump has to be nice to these people.
But at some point if the if it goes the way I expect it to go, um, I I think he he's gotta start start saying um to the to the ninety million people watching.
Look, I've spoken directly to millions of people in America.
I I hold twenty, thirty thousand per people person rallies, and the main issue Americans are worried about is not transgender bathrooms.
It is not global warming.
Can we can we talk about the issues that some of your viewers may be interested in?
Um but but you know, he's a charming person.
Um and I just think he has to he has to be charming at the debate, which yeah, I think he will be.
He's come back from debates.
I mean, I thought it was a draw I wrote about it last week.
I thought it was good when he's on policy, but I suppose the one thing that he needs to keep in his mind.
You win on policy.
Don't let them distract you.
I agree.
He should pivot off.
And in fact, for each one, for any personal question, he should just say that's not important.
This is what's important.
I agree.
You know, trade immigration, and he can have Stephen Miller, his speech writer in the back room, say, Go to my webpage responding to each one of the personal attacks because the combine that is running the country.
They are running it for their own benefit.
Um you're suffering, you're gonna keep suffering.
If you want to change things the way they are, um you have one choice to vote for Trump, and that's why they don't want to talk about the issues.
They want to talk about anything but the issues.
You know, and then of course you gotta watch out like for example, Hillary's planted questions in Haverford or climate change question in 07, uh where the college student that uh they uh manipulated spoke out, and then of course Steve Harvey just hands you every question ahead of time, apparently.
I didn't know that.
I've never been a guest on Steve Harvey's show.
He goes, isn't that great?
Do your listeners know the details of that that she had a little bit of a girl at a rally, hold up her hand and and ask something about what was it about how Trump is mean to women, and it turns out it was a planted question.
They got a child actress to ask Hillary this question.
I actually I actually have it.
Listen to this.
Hi, Madam Secretary.
I'm Brennan and I'm fifteen years old.
At my school, body image is a really big issue for girls my age.
I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look.
As the first female president, how would you undo some of that damage and help girls understand that they are so much more than just what they look like?
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Wow.
I am so proud of you for asking that question.
Yeah.
I I love I love planted questions too.
You know, um, my oldest brother's wife used to work for Johnson and Johnson, as she got all these women women's magazines.
She was Harvard Business School, she never read them.
But my brother read them all.
And uh, having spent, you know, all this time reading all these women's magazines, he told me um that his conclusion was the articles were all only one of two varieties.
One, how to get a man, two, why you don't need a man.
And it's the same thing with this this obsession with fat shaming.
Um, you know, all of women's literature is either, you know, how to get the perfect body or you don't need a perfect body.
Well, I gotta tell you, Ann Coulter, you crack me up.
I don't know if I'd want you debate prepping any candidate, though.
By the way, Brennan Leach is daughter of uh Dale uh the daughter of Dalen Leach, whose dad is the Democratic State Senator Dalen Leach.
So that's that's how deep that connection goes for that planted question.
Um I have had more debates than probably anyone alive in the world.
Oh, I know, but you can't do Ann Coulter style debates at a presidential debate.
I think they'd debate me more, Sean.
No, no, no.
I uh listen, I have been listening you forget I have been out on the road with you.
I have watched you on stage.
Media better is apparently.
I have introduced you on stage.
I love how you debate.
I'm just saying I think a couple of those Ann Coulter lines might just kind of cross the line.
You know, like Donald Trump, this is the same mistake people make with Donald Trump, as if the only mode he has is the rally mode or the only way he speaks is through Twitter.
You speak to your mother differently than you speak to your boss.
You s you speak to some audiences differently than you speak to other audiences.
I got it.
I got it.
This Tuesday you're at the Reggae Library.
Ann Coulter, I love you.
You're my adopted sister.
God bless you.
Thank you.
800 nine four one.
We we fight like c we're like brothers and sisters.
We really do.
But I still cracks me up.
We continue to watch Hurricane Matthew.
Now just a couple of hours away from hitting full force the eastern coast of uh Florida.
And joining us once again from Weatherbell dot com is Joe Bastardi.
He's the news director of uh News ninety six five in Orlando and uh an old friend of mine, Joe Kelly, is with us.
I know who from Weather Bell and I know who Joe Kelly is.
Why are you in my ear irritating me during my introduction?
Anyway, uh well listen uh first thing I want to say is our thoughts and prayers.
Florida's my second home that I never get to.
I mean literally two weeks a year.
That's about it.
But you don't pay federal income taxes, so I love Florida.
And I just hope uh people from northeastern states that are liberal don't go there and ruin Florida like the rest of the country.
Uh the blue states that they're coming from.
All right, on an important issue though, we really are hoping and praying that people are taking the governor and the admonition of of the top weather people in this country like Joe Bastardi and taking this seriously because this is a category four hurricane.
Category four hurricane means sustained winds of a hundred and thirty-one to a hundred and fifty five miles an hour.
They expect it's gonna be a hundred and forty five mile an hour winds.
It is gonna be the most powerful hurricane to hit the state of Florida in twelve years, and already hundreds have died uh in places like the Dominican Republic and and Haiti.
All right, walk us through what's gonna happen, Joe Bastardi.
Well, the uh storm is fighting a bit of dry air right now, and uh that's interesting because that tries to it tries to d damp it down a bit, but it also looks like uh over the next twelve to eighteen hours before it makes landfall, it's gonna have all the opportunity in the world to continue to strengthen.
And I've seen things like this before where there's sort of a uh uh downside to it and then they come roaring back.
Uh what I'm saying is that it's a category, solid category four hurricane.
It will hit at least at that strength.
And if in the you know, between nine and midnight, uh once it gets over the Gulf Stream, you see it intensify even further, that should not be a shock to anybody.
Uh processes that are going on in these systems.
So we're expecting a landfall between uh Fort St. Lucie and uh the Kennedy Space Center, and uh again, what is amazing about this is uh that area since eighteen fifty one.
Now we had a hurricane in nineteen forty-nine that came in between Fort St. Lucy and uh West Palm Beach and continued northwestward right into Central Florida.
But since then, uh we haven't seen anything like this, and since eighteen fifty-one, there's never been a major hurricane uh to actually impact that area.
There have been hurricanes, but not in a major category right over that space coast area.
And uh so that's a good point, because a lot of these hurricanes tend to to be pulled into the Gulf area and hit the western coast of Florida or Louisiana or Houston or whatever area between.
Yeah, my uh usually they come from the east, Miami and West Palm Beach and those areas get hit a lot, and from the southwest, South Florida, the panhandle.
Tampa, I believe, has only been hit by one major hurricane uh in the last century, and that occurred in October, if my memory serves me correctly.
And by the way, I'm worried that after October 15th, there's one coming up out of the Caribbean and further west.
We'll talk I may talk to you about that a couple of weeks.
But here's the thing on this, folks.
You can't comprehend if you've been through hurricanes, unless you've been through a category four hurricane, there's no way to actually comprehend what happens with this.
It starts with the wind picking up, of course, and the rains coming, but then it turns into an almost siege mentality.
And every gust, every uh every uh five to ten minutes the wind, the sustained wind is mounting, mounting, mounting, and the gusts come, and you know, at the beginning you might think, uh, if some of you folks that may be in there say, Oh, well, this is pretty cool, you know, I've never seen this before.
Power goes out, but then the core of the storm hits.
So this area, uh again, all the way up to Daytona Beach, even if the center is inland enough to try to weaken a bit, like we think it's going to try to be inland a little bit, it's still going to be as powerful as you'll see a hurricane up at Daytona Beach, because they don't get category two and three hurricanes, because when you look at okay, let's take David in 1979 that hit near Miami.
By the time it got up there, it was a category one.
Or Clio in 64 hit Miami as a three.
By the time it got up there is a category one.
This is hitting further north, and it continues to come up the coast in there, so it's a devastating event, I think, from just north of Port St. Lucy, that's the word devastating, all the way up to about Daytona Beach, and it's still damaging from Daytona Beach all the way on up to Charleston and maybe Wilmington.
Well, and then it's then it shoots out the Atlantic, correct?
It makes a hard right turn.
Well, that's what the mo well, that's what the models are showing that it breaks.
Well, it wanders out because shooting is when they you know they start moving.
I I'll I'm sorry I'm not an official weather guy like you, Mr. Pistardi, but I mean, you know what I'm saying.
The models show that it'll make a right turn.
It won't shoot right, it'll make a right turn into the Atlantic, and probably from the Carolinas and North, it's not gonna hit it's not gonna be a significant impact to the rest of the country.
That's exactly right.
But it's a big way instead of continuing out to sea, it'll start turning south again and may wind up in the Bahamas or Florida a week from today, as a as a ghost of itself.
So you've got a very I mean what we have something that you see in the Pacific, folks.
Uh we have two storms relatively close to each other, dancing around each other because Nicole's out there south of Bermuda, and it's going to be out there for several days dancing around.
And so what happens is you have a big alley of high pressure to the north in the Atlantic, and it blocks these things from moving, and that's what you're seeing.
You notice Joe, he talks about dancing around, but I can't say shoots up shoots right into the Atlantic.
I'm not allowed.
I'm not using the official.
So now that I'm now that I have an official meteorologist for this program, which is you, Bastardi, I've got to get I gotta understand that hurricanes dance, but they don't shoot.
I got it.
Well, they do Sean, they do shoot out when you see storms that move rapidly northeastly, well offshore.
I used to call those, in fact, the guys at Penn State when it's going there called them Bastardy waves, because I'd be waving at them going to the southeast of the Atlantic City and crying about it, because I like hurricanes when I was a kid.
But look, this may still be on the charge.
We're taking it very seriously here, and that's why the evacuation notices.
And I know people are probably very aggravated at this point because when you get in bumper-to-bumper traffic like that and you're just not moving, it gets frustrating, it's time-consuming, it disrupts not only today but your entire weekend.
It's rough on people.
We're just asking people to...
You know, err on the side of caution, and and I know Joe Kelly, that's what you're doing in Orlando and with the people uh in your area.
Sean, I was literally trying to find the room where I could uh have relative quiet so I could talk to you and your listeners, and I turned to one of our producers, Laurel, and I said, What is all that noise that I keep hearing?
And she says, That's the rain that's outside.
I mean it it's it's already coming down in buckets uh as as Joe Pistardi could can point out.
I mean, it's coming in in bands of buckets.
Uh we're getting a bit of a break now for a second, but our biggest concern is power outages.
Now there's gonna be the immediate concern of high winds, damaging winds and projectiles flying through hundred and hundred and ten mile an hour winds.
But once all those tree limbs hit the power lines, we're gonna be out of power.
I mean, we could Conceivably be without power, not just for one or two days, but possibly for one or two weeks.
Yeah, that's uh that's the hard part for a lot of people, and it's a little late now to get, as we talked about yesterday, Joe, uh a generator at this late hour.
But that look, I do want to reassure people because I know the generosity of the people of this country, and if for example, the water supply in any way is tainted, water will be on its way immediately.
Food, supplies, baby formula medicine.
I am certain that the country will will rally behind our friends in Florida, maybe Georgia and the Carolinas and send whatever help is necessary.
Yeah, you know, Sean, I wrote an article July twenty-sixth on the Patriot Post about this very thing.
And uh you saw I think uh uh uh uh Donald Trump respond in Louisiana very quickly about because of the um the high stakes that we're running with tropical cyclones that uh it would be interesting uh to see which candidate would respond to that.
I uh you know, I don't uh have mixed emotions about bringing that up, but even with Hermine, there was a response, uh uh a strong response.
Of course, there's gonna be a great government response.
I have no doubt about I have no doubt about that FEMA uh is going to respond quickly to this.
But by the way, I just got a report from if you go to uh Florida Power and Light, they have a map out as of uh three PM Eastern.
That's an hour and forty-four minutes ago.
More than thirteen thousand three hundred customers already without power.
Yeah, yeah across seven counties, and a few other counties have uh, you know, are are suffering as well.
I mean, look, this is already impacting Broward and Palm Beach County, Miami Dade, uh, Martin County and St. Lucy County.
We get afternoon storms pretty much every day in the summer and in the springtime.
And during our just garden variety afternoon storms, we will have thousands of people lose power.
So it's it's not hard to believe that this time with this storm with the historic nature and the power of this the devastation that's coming our way, we're gonna have a major problem.
It's just it hasn't really hit yet.
And and in Miami Dade.
In Miami Dade, they've got 7,160 customers out of power in uh Palm Beach County already, three thousand one hundred and forty in Broward County, two thousand.
I mean, that's a lot, and it hasn't even really hit.
Yeah.
So it's this is gonna be the real deal.
So listen, I want to thank you, Joe Bustardi.
I give you a hard time, but it's only because I love you like a brother and Joe Kelly.
We've been friends for ages.
Uh our thoughts and prayers are with our friends in Florida today, and we'll be monitoring the storm by ten o'clock tonight.
We'll know a lot more.
All right.
So batting down the hatches, hopefully take the evacuation orders seriously and uh ride uh writing this thing out is a big risk.
I wouldn't recommend it.
All right, guys, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Let's get back to our busy telephones here.
Barbara is in Georgia.
Barbara, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good.
Thank you for having me.
What's going on?
I just wanted to give a great big shout out to all the first responders, your policemen, your firemen, uh, your National Guard that's down there on the coast helping.
Um it's a little bit close to home.
My brother's in Melbourne, he's a police officer, so his family has left and he's there um with his fellow um brothers and sisters in blue and all the firefighters there um ready to help them serve their communities.
Well, these guys are amazing.
It is interesting with all the talk about police and what's the word that Hillary used about inherent bias, I guess that we all have.
Well, what was it?
Implicit bias.
You're right, implicit bias.
You know, the amazing thing is is as everybody's evacuating, and the cops are the ones that stay there.
The cops are the ones that rescue the people that were stupid and didn't leave.
The cops are the guys that are, you know, they'll be in the taking the brunt of this on the front lines of this whole thing.
And we often forget that, not just the cops but the firemen and the paramedics and the first responders, they're all going to be there.
And that one idiot that didn't leave is gonna be helped out by these brave men and women in uniform uh in one way or the other.
But again, hopefully people are listening.
Thank you, Barbara.
Uh speaking of uh Florida, again, we'll stay there with in Tampa with uh Daniel listening to 970 WFLA.
How are you, Daniel?
Good, Sean.
You know, it's really great to actually jump in and actually finally get to speak with you.
You're one of my biggest idols.
I recently got into politics about a couple of years ago, and me and my family are diehard supporters of you can why I've and we watch your show almost every night.
I have you on D VR.
I try and catch you on your live and you're a great great great guy, man.
Anyway, the reason I'm calling is I do live in here in Florida.
We are seeing a little bit of rain.
I do want to send all my prayers and thoughts to anyone that is going to be involved with this.
My initial reason for calling you is I wanted to bring up something that I thought was would be important.
See how the debate is this Sunday and with the catastrophic events that have recently happened down in Haiti I think it would be a key point for Donald Trump to bring up the millions of dollars that the Clinton Foundation is supposedly that they owe to the Haiti.
I mean I brought this up the other day I mean Bill Clinton was was protested outside his office because all the money that was pledged never got there.
And I listen I went to Haiti with Reverend Franklin Grimm.
I went to the Dominican Republic I went to Haiti with him and I gotta tell you it was shocking.
I mean the earthquake there I mean you f first of all we did a helicopter flyover you cannot believe I mean this was you know what was it a couple of years after it was you know people have were living with tarps over their homes and it's the majority all you see a blue tarps everywhere.
I don't mean to get politics involved but with the scenario with with everything that's going on and then this captivating I mean that's got I think it needs to be brought up it's something that should be said or Hillary needs to come up with an answer with it because it's it's it's embarrassing and it's sad and the people there's already over a hundred and forty deaths it's climbing.
I mean it's it's sad.
There's so many different things I mean one thing that I did imagine if the money were used for homes for that Sean did you notice how Kane winked at the moderator and how he did say ISIL and then he said ISIS which is it I mean it was so embarrassing.
Listen it's a very embarrassing time for the country at large it's sad to see the country we love America in such a dramatic decline.
And that's what we're living through and that's what this election is about.
You know look I wish I had the power to mobilize enough people in Florida North Carolina Iowa New Hampshire and um Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada.
I wish I did but I don't the only power I have is to try and inform an audience of what's at stake here.
And I'm trying every day we've got 33 days to go.
Secretary Clinton welcome to Chicago.
Thank you thank you so much.
So this is an important question.
No flip-flopping on this one deep dish or thin crust well probably at this point in my life thin crust your campaign is uh obviously off to a really really good start here how how are things different this time around I think I'm different.
I think that I have learned a lot race is such a hot button issue in America these days and we tackle it often here on the show we get into several uh conversations about it how how would you better bridge the the racial divides as you see it well I want to thank you for for raising it kind of helping people to think about it because look there there can be no doubt that we still face systemic racism.
I did a show that uh aired this week on uh gun control and gun violence and uh this this is not only a Chicago problem this gun violence is nationwide.
How do we reduce gun violence in this country?
Well, again, I thank you for having that show, which made a real impression on a lot of people.
Listen, Secretary Clinton has broken major ground for women everywhere.
But can she identify another woman who's done the same?
Now, she's going to try in this edition of Two Lies and a Truth.
Now, we've got three women here, but only one is today's female groundbreaker.
She is the first and only woman in America to earn the grandmaster title in chess I please get to ask uh the women three questions Okay.
So ladies first, of course.
So Secretary Clinton uh starts us off.
Well, let me ask each of you what got you started with chess.
Okay, you can only ask one of them the question.
Okay, so I'll I'll pick you.
It's a great question.
I got involved with chess because my father taught me uh at age five.
Let me ask you number three.
What's it like to be a role model?
It's wonderful to uh be able to impact the one person positively.
So, Secretary Clinton, what what what did you learn on on your most recent visit to Flint?
Well, I learned, Steve, that everything I feared about what had happened there actually understated the impact that drinking lead contaminated water for nearly two years has had on that community.
And I met with mothers who are scared to death about their children's futures.
I met with some of the children.
No.
Flint's problems go go go beyond water.
What's what's your plan to address the problems facing cities like Flint with poverty, joblessness and crime.
Well, you're right.
I mean, Flint is a predominantly poor, predominantly African-American community, about a hundred thousand people.
And they have suffered from the loss of jobs, the lack of investment.
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Then, segment two, your sit-down interview.
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It is structured so the two of you can have fun and tackle topics important to you.
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Important question.
No flip-flopping, deep dish or th thin crust.
It's all written out ahead of time.
Your campaign is obviously off to a great start.
How are things different this time around?
Sound familiar?
Because they wrote it out ahead of time.
Then race is such a hot button issue in America.
We tackled often here.
How would you better bridge racial divides?
Four.
Let's talk criminal justice reform.
You acknowledge the existence of systemic racism.
How would you combat that?
And then it goes on from there.
Who does this?
Peter Schweitzer is with us, author of the New York Times bestseller and also now put into a DVD, Clinton Cash, the untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses help make Bill and Hillary rich.
How are you?
Hey, I'm good, Sean.
How are you?
Uh I'm good.
Did you ever hear of a presidential candidate getting a script, the questions, the answers all ahead of time?
Uh you know, never.
I mean, the the example I would draw would come from history, Sean.
You remember the expression, a Potemkin village.
Uh and this was in Tsarist Russia, the Empress of Russia, Catherine, uh, was told everything was great in the country, and she actually wanted to go out in the countryside and see people.
So they erected this fake village that was supposed to make things look good.
That's what this reminds me of.
It reminds me of this sort of artificial creation that is designed to give the impression that this is a candidate who's on the ball, who's focused, who's there, and I think clearly is not.
So, you know, to me, it's very troubling about the collaboration of the media with any political candidate, in this case Hillary Clinton.
But to me, it also signifies this is not a campaign that is confident about their candidate and their candidate's ability to interact with people in the in a in a freewheeling way.
Well, then you got to imagine that she's not probably too comfortable going into Sunday night's debate, although look, let's be honest.
I mean, her and Tim Kane are like robots.
I mean, they have memorized their line.
Donald Trump said this 20 years ago.
He said this 19 years ago, he said this 17 years ago.
Donald Trump is bad for America.
I mean, that's basically the whole thing.
Is that what we want for a president or not?
Well, look, I I think that uh, you know, debate preparation is important, and we know Hillary's gonna do a lot of that, and she's uh a lawyer by training, and lawyers, of course, you know, learn to to memorize certain cases and and certain bits of information.
So she is going to be that way.
The problem is, I think for the for the Clintons and the Clinton campaign, is they don't want to have press conferences, they don't want to have free willing interaction with the press.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that there's very difficult questions that she does not want to answer.
Uh, and I think it's really a question in these debates at the end of the day, you know, whether the moderator does this or does that, ultimately it's up to the candidates.
And I think it's up to d to Donald Trump to raise the issues in an effective way, uh, that sort of puts her on the spot and forces her to answer these difficult questions, and we'll have to see if that happens on Sunday.
I'd like to see him bring up the Saudi Arabia question.
How does somebody that claims to be a champion of women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and religious freedom take all this money, not just from Saudi Arabia, but other countries that practice sharia, and that these are countries that persecute women that kill gays and lesbians and persecute Christians and Jews.
How do you explain taking all that money?
She should give it back.
Yeah, and I think this is this sort of goes to the heart of the question.
Uh, you know, people don't like Hillary Clinton.
I mean, that's what the polls indicate.
I think it's for a variety of reasons.
Uh but I think at the end of the day, some people will vote for somebody even if they don't like them.
The question is, do they think they can't trust them?
And do they think that that person that they're putting into office is serving somebody else's interests other than their own?
And I think with the Clintons, that goes to the heart of the issue of the Clinton Foundation, the speaking fees, the money from Saudi Arabia, you mentioned the money from all these foreign interests.
I mean, I think Governor Pence, uh, in the vice presidential debate put it out perfectly, which is look, we have a political system designed to prevent foreign money from influencing our politicians.
And the Clintons is erected an apparatus that allowed a way around that.
It allowed foreign entities to curry favor and get benefits from the Clintons.
Um that I think.
Well, I mean, Mike Pence Mike Pence brought up while she was Secretary of State that foreign nations were donating to the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary denied it.
What's true?
It's absolutely true.
And not only were foreign nations uh donating, foreign governments donating, she was required by her agreement with Barack Obama to disclose if there was going to be any change that, you know, if a country went from giving a million dollars a year to giving two million dollars a year.
Well, we know that Algeria and other governments upped their donations or donated to the first time, and that was never cleared with the State Department.
So Pence is absolutely right, and the Clintons completely walked all over Barack Obama and the so-called ethics agreement that they had signed with him.
It's it's it's it's stunning to me, and I think it ought to be center point.
Any promises that they are making now, saying that Bill's not gonna give speeches, they're not gonna take money from the Clinton Foundation, they're not gonna get involved, it's not worth anything.
They made promises, they actually signed agreements in two thousand eight with Barack Obama, and they completely ignored them, and there's no reason to think they're gonna do it any different this time than they did last time.
Even the fifty-five percent of people that the AP pointed out that had access to her, and I'm talking about individuals, uh, and some of them benefited from the access.
They were all donors or people that pledge money.
I mean, you know, the one case of this one guy that ends up getting what the Colombian forestry rights as a result of donating to the Foundation, using the influence to get to Hillary.
Hillary using the influence in a foreign country to help this guy make millions, which I assume ends up with more money back in the Clinton Foundation.
That's exactly right.
Uh that would be Frank Justra, uh a Canadian uh investor.
And here's the thing to keep in mind, by the way, Sean, as they were helping Frank Justra get mining concessions, get timber concessions in Colombia.
There were American companies, American firms trying to get those same concessions.
So not only is this are these cases of self enrichment by the Clintons of these crony deals that they're helping donors get, but these donors are foreign entities competing against American firms that apparently weren't ponying up enough money to the Clinton Foundation.
Unbelievable to me the fact that all this corruption, all this dishonesty, you know, goes on and barely is made a dent in the mainstream media, which shows that you know, really Donald Trump is fighting two people.
I mean, I thought Mike Pence had to, you know, stop the interruptions of Tim Kane, but also the moderator, and Lester Holt was wrong on bertherism.
He didn't know about the Mark Penn memo.
He didn't know about Sidney Blumenthal's pushing it.
Uh he acts like this is only a Trump issue, and in fact it was Clinton that started it.
And the same thing goes, you know, with his opening question about the economy.
You would think the economy is sunshine, rainbows, and cotton candy, and it's just not true.
You know, and then the issue of Iraq.
Donald Trump was against the war.
Oh, he said to Howard Stern, I guess so.
Yeah, no, I mean, you're you're absolutely right, Sean.
I mean, there is always the issue of of media bias in in the way in which moderators in particular, but also, you know, some journalists handle these issues.
I would say though, look, at the end of the day, the way that ethics and these issues become center point in this campaign is if they are raised by the candidates themselves.
Um, you know, I think Donald Trump needs to raise these in the debate.
When you've got, you know, eighty, ninety, a hundred million people watching a debate, you've got to make this a center point of the debate.
It's gonna have an effect there where you put her on the spot, you raise these tough issues, you challenge them, and you force them to be addressed.
I think Mike Pence uh did a great job of that in in in the last debate, his you know, one and only debate, uh, and and and hopefully these issues are gonna be front and center uh in these uh uh debates coming forward.
But I think it's gonna be up to Donald Trump to raise them.
They're not gonna be raised by anybody else.
Yeah, I agree.
Uh all right, so what advice would you give Trump for the debate on Sunday?
It's a little bit different format.
It's a town hall that'll be taking questions, I assume, from the audience, but I also assume from two hostile, you know, liberals in the media, Anderson Cooper, and uh which he's not a bad guy, but I think he's definitely left of center and Martha Raditz.
Well, I think, you know, for me, the always the issue before you know the Republican primary started, before Donald Trump was a candidate, Sean, you and I were talking about the Clinton Foundation, and and you know, as you put it, the the at the end of the day the question is when people are throwing, you know, billions of dollars at the Clintons, are they expecting something in return for that?
And we all know the answer is yes, they are.
That's what I think you need to make the center point.
When somebody has made you as wealthy as the Clintons have, when they've given as much money to the Clinton Foundation as they have, are the Clintons going to be beholden to them?
Of course they are.
That's the way the system works.
And so the issue becomes, I think, one of, you know, are our national leaders going to be accountable to voters, or are they going to be accountable to, you know, donors, in this case, international donors, foreign donors in places like Nigeria and Russia.
And you've got to make that a center point because I do think there is a latent frustration in the country.
In the Democratic Party, it was expressed with Bernie Sanders and the Republican Party with Trump.
This latent frustration that people believe our national leaders, if they can't be bought, they can certainly be rented.
And this goes to the core of that issue.
And the Clintons want to pretend that none of this money matters.
It has no effect on their decision-making.
And I think the average American person knows that's simply not the case.
All right, Peter Schweitzer, author of the best-selling book, Clinton Cash, also now out in DVD.
Thank you, Peter, as always.
When we come back, wide open telephones, only thirty-three days till election day.
We're going to continue to monitor if you are in Florida, if you're in the Carolinas, pay very, very close attention.
This is a category four hurricane.
Matthew, get out if they are telling you to evacuate if you're at or near the coast.
And uh we'll be checking in with Joe Bastardi again throughout the program and also tonight on Hannity.
We'll have full coverage, ten Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Well, we continue to watch what's going on.
This is now a category four hurricane that is heading right towards our friendly state, our friends in Florida, and uh thoughts and prayers, by the way, again go out to all of them.
And uh look, a lot of uh look, a lot of lives have already been lost.
How many lives now total have been lost in the Bahamas and Haiti?
This thing is very, very serious, and it is headed right for the southeastern coast of Florida.
I know a lot of you are very frustrated.
You're listening right now.
Hurricane Matthew is going to hit late this evening, probably as I'm getting on the air at ten Eastern, and we'll have full coverage of that.
They now we now know we lost at least a hundred and fifty uh people as the storm ripped through the Dominican Republic and Haiti and the Bahamas, and this is now the president even declared a federal state of emergency in Florida.
You got the hurricane approaching.
The uh storm is intensified.
It's a cat four.
And this morning that means winds of 140 miles per hour.
National Weather Service is advising loss of life and immense human suffering is possible.
Seven million people could be left without power, some with uh some areas left uninhabitable by the time this is all said and done.
We have two million people in the U.S. have been urged to evacuate their homes in preparation for what they're now looking at a direct hit.
Governor Scott is warning Florida residents that the storm is going to kill people after a state of emergency in South Carolina.
Governor Nikki Haley said only a hundred and seventy-five thousand people have been evacuated so far, and saying that is not enough.
And even into the inner coast and in in state, in the middle of the state, and for example, Orlando, Disney is now confirming that all of their theme parks will be closed at five PM, will not reopen until Saturday.
You got these horrible images now over this Hurricane Matthew over Haiti.
I mean, it showed the storm briefly, you know, forming a s you know catastrophe for people.
I know a lot of people look, I'm independent like you are.
I believe, hey, do I really want you know, do I really want to deal with all of this?
I don't think so.
Uh all right, let's get to our busy telephones here as we say hi to uh Brian is in Gainesville, Florida.
Brian, how are you?
And this is gonna go right up the coast, right your way, so be careful, my friend.
Uh yeah, we're uh we're further inland.
Um, but we've got all the food and water that we need and a generator ready to go as soon as it goes out, so we'll be all right.
Uh hopefully.
Yeah.
Uh definitely, definitely praying for the people down south.
Yeah.
Uh listen, so what's on your mind today?
Yeah, you bet.
I'm I'm I'm honored.
I I wanted to comment about uh the debate last night, uh Tuesday night.
Mm-hmm.
Um, I I stood up and uh lost the whole debate, but the best the best part of the evening uh was post-debate, your interview with Jesse Jackson.
Um I've been waiting for those questions to be either asked to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton uh for uh I don't know how long.
And you finally got Jesse Jackson on your show.
You interviewed him, you you asked him the tough questions, everybody knew that he couldn't answer it, and he didn't.
He he said, I don't have an answer for you, and he walked away.
Yeah, he didn't have an answer.
All I was asking, it was very, very simple.
All I was asking uh was all right, can you name me one barometer, one statistic, one anything that shows that black Americans are better off after eight years of the first black American president?
And then I started rattling off all the statistics where they're worse off.
Absolutely.
You couldn't do it.
And uh, you know, every speech that he makes, every speech that Al Sharpton makes, it's uh it it's all about how how uh blacks are worse off because of white privilege and all that.
And and here we have the first black president who had an opportunity to to make America great again.
He had an opportunity to make black Americans great again, and he failed to do it, and we're worse off, and everybody's worth a lot worse off now, including black Americans.
That's what I give.
I give out those statistics every day.
Every day.
Every single day.
I enjoy listening to them.
And it was just it it was so um it was so awesome for for someone to finally ask uh Reverend Jackson those questions.
And he he didn't have an answer.
I was kind of shocked.
I was actually amused by it in another way, but I was kind of shocked he had no answer, and I understand it.
I mean, because there's not a case that you can make about how Obama's had a successful presidency.
And the only people that make that case, well, in the last twenty seconds we created 10,000 jobs, but then they're gonna ignore the eight years.
You are judged on the eight years you are president.
And in eight years we have twelve million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty.
And he doubled the national debt.
And the lowest home ownership rate in in fifty one years, the worst recovery since the forties, and of course the lowest labor participation rate that we have had in this country since the 70s.
So 95 million Americans out of the labor force.
That's nothing to be proud of.
All right, man, appreciate it.
MJ is in California next on the Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, MJ?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hi Sean.
First let me say I must apologize to you.
I used to talk to you all the time through 2008 and 2012.
Uh elections, defending Obama.
I am a black female Christian and you are you are so right.
And you know I am just praying that the black community is not going to fall for the schemes and the speeches that they failed for in two thousand eight and two thousand twelve and I was one of them.
But Sean I just want to commend you for stand taking a stand for what you believe and I know I really you know I'm gonna tell you something MJ.
One of the hardest thing for all of us as human beings is to ever admit we got something wrong.
And you know look do you realize every four years, I don't care if it was two thousand four the Swift vets for truth, uh Swift vote vets uh Swift vote veterans for truth I put them on more than anybody.
In two thousand and seven and eight I tried to warn the country about how bad an Obama presidency would be in twenty twelve I tried to warn you not to double down on stupid yes you did.
And now I'm giving you all the bad numbers eight years later and you know what I really wish what I wish that I was wrong.
I wish we had Americans working, we had fewer Americans in poverty, fewer Americans on food stamps.
I wish we had the highest home ownership rate in fifty years, the best recovery since uh whenever I wish I could say we have now paid down our debt, not accumulated more debt than every other president before him combined.
I wish I could say the opposite and then you could call me and say Hannity you were wrong.
And I'd say you're right I was wrong.
Yes.
I wish that because then my country would be in better shape.
And you know, Sean, I was one of, I did phone banking for Obama.
I was a staunch supporter.
You know, I'm a lifelong Democrat because I grew up in a Democratic family.
And as black Americans, it's something that we're taught, you know, from a very, as soon as we're old enough to understand, the conversations are all about, you know, being a Democrat.
But I want to say today that I had personal, that making home affordable Obama thing where millions of black and Hispanic men and women women were standing in those long lines to try to save those homes and you know I had two women in my church elderly that almost lost their home as a result of Obama and the reason that they went along with that because his name was on it.
And then he she wrote a letter and he sent her a letter about a student loan.
You know he is the greatest travesty to the black community ever in the presidency and I am just so hopeful that Donald Trump is the president.
Do you know how I see the black community in America today and maybe some will deem this controversial but it's because I believe in the God given talent for every man, woman and child that God put on this earth.
Right.
And it's sad to me that disproportionately it's black America that has paid the price for these bad policies.
Yes absolutely 12 and 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 if I wasn't working, I'd be hanging out with my kids.
We now have over fifty five percent of black teenagers can't get a job.
A fifth a fifty eight percent increase since Obama's been president of black Americans on food stamps.
20 percent increase black americans out of the labor force that's that's that's a fifth of black america that has suffered sean the thing is this whole you know black lives matter you know this country we we must uh stop this you know division of ourselves based on the color of our skin we are americans
and as Americans we don't wake up and see that Donald Trump is the best hope that we have of making this country strong if we still fall into those same pit how long are we going to keep saying you know we're black American you know what the best thing we could do?
Well why have we failed inner city schools and allow this to go on year after year after year.
Yes.
It is we're betraying you know look the word education comes from the Latin derivative to bring forth from within.
Now that's predicated on a belief that God put in every human soul talent and brilliance and we're not bringing it out and all of that great talent is being wasted and we are setting these kids up for failure in their life to putting them in a position that they will not get the education that they need to be competitive in an in a in a tougher and tougher economic environment.
And if we if we love these kids we're gonna take these schools back we're gonna have these kids go into school, put their hands on the desk, sit up straight, give the teacher an apple, wear a tie, jacket, uniform, and learn.
Learn to read, learn writing, learn arithmetic, and study.
And we're doing it because we love them and we believe in them.
And you know Sean if if if uh the black community, the Hispanic community cannot see that Hillary Clinton is is nothing but uh uh force I mean if you look at her I'm a Christian woman so I pray and you know you can see that it's all self-motivated it's all for herself she no more cares about the black or Hispanic community than you know the man in the moon.
It's all about her and and the Clinton dynasty and I just hope I really really hope I was praying that I would be able to get through to you because I really hope that the black and brown and the communities of America do not fall for the the the farce and the con that is going on now in this election because we are really gonna be in a terrible fix if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
I listen I agree with you.
God bless you MJ I appreciate your kind words and uh you know what I just thank you because I know you're in a tough position because you're not going to understand for what you believe and I just want to say that as many times as I used to call and fuss with you and defend you know what I have great admiration and respect for you as a man that really stands for what he believes.
So just know that I am well I'd never thought I'd say this but I'm on your side I'm on your team and you know I'm gonna just pray that America would open their eyes to see what's really going on.
I'm not good at compliments.
Linda yelled at me when you're talking so let her compliment you if she wants to and I said okay you're very kind you're very sweet but you know this is how I look at my job is to tell you the truth.
My job is to you know if it means that the whole world is hating me for any given moment but I'm still telling you the truth and and doing my best to educate and inform and fight for what I believe in and convince you that the country's on the wrong track and out of a love for our country out of a love for those people that are suffering.
What you know what what motivates me and in this election in thirty three days and anything else I know a lot of my colleagues you know they're thinking about how this impacts them.
I I I don't know how anything impacts me.
It's not about me.
But it is about all those people whose statistics I give out every day because millions more in poverty on food stamps and and unable to buy a home and out of the labor force that's are my fellow Americans suffering needlessly and there is an answer.
There are answers to these problems and it's rooted I think and I argue in conservatism.
Limited government greater freedom I think it's it's rooted in lower taxes for corporations so they want to bring their companies here and build their factories here and build their manufacturing centers here and use Americans rooted in energy independence rooted in all these things.
