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Today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the people.
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government, while the people have borne the cost.
Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth.
Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.
Their victories have not been your victories.
Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.
And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
That all changes, starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment.
It belongs to you.
It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America.
This is your day.
This is your celebration, and this, the United States of America, is your country.
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.
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Everyone is listening to you now.
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APPLAUSE So to all Americans in every city, near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean.
Hear these words: "You will never be ignored again." Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny.
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We will make America proud again.
We will make America safe again.
And yes, together we will make America great again.
Thank you.
God bless you, and God bless America.
Thank you.
And with that, Donald J. Trump is now the 45th president of the United States of America.
You know, like everything that is Trump, and everything that led to his victory, this speech was a stinging rebuke to all the establishment figures that I argue now for the next four years, eight years, however long it's going to be that he's going to be president, are going to be fighting and battling to keep and hold on to and cling to their power.
And because that's what it's that's how it has worked.
Republican establishment, democratic establishment, media establishment.
Let me give you a quick example.
I you know, I just flipped around the dial real quick.
Let me give you two examples.
Let me give you Chuck Todd of NBC News describing the speech that went to the heart that this government is supposed to serve we, you, the American people.
This is his reaction to it.
I have to say it was surprisingly divisive for an inaugural address.
And I say it this way.
We said it was a challenge when you're elected as an outsider, you're elected as a populist, and you're channeling what was real anger out there with his supporters.
It's tough to be both the unifier and that populist carrier.
He went with populism.
And I think that it's going to play well with his folks.
But that wasn't the type of inaugural address that was intended to bring this country together.
Playing well with the crowd right now as he reaches out and greets the people who were gathered there.
This time, I thought it was a theme.
It was uh new sheriff in town.
America first.
I mean, there was a point there.
Lester where it felt as if he almost was insulting every living president that was sitting next to him.
Well, he was also insulting.
He was also insulting all the Republican congressmen and senators who are on that stage.
He has a majority, but he won after politicians point blank.
Were they expecting him to change?
You know, it's very interesting.
Pay close attention to what Chunk Todd said here.
You know, he went with populism.
You know that it that is so entrenched in in a bureaucratic way of thinking that somebody that ran on the exact same message would choose to stay on the exact same message and reiterate the promise that he made as a candidate while being inaugurated into the White House.
It almost sounds as if like, well, we expected him to change.
We expected him to be conciliatory.
We expected him to become one of us.
We expected him to sell out early.
I can't believe he didn't he didn't buy into that.
I can't believe that Donald Trump is being Donald Trump.
How could that possibly be?
Anyway, we've got two big stories we are following today.
We're waiting the start of this uh inaugural parade that takes place and and that is gonna happen.
Then tonight the balls are happening, and uh we also have another story.
At least a hundred plus people have been arrested today.
Tear gas has been fired in the streets of Washington, DC.
I had an experience last night that I'll tell you about with uh some of these wackos and uh that are out there.
I don't want to give them too much play, but they exist.
I think it's gonna be something as I've been predicting that we're gonna see and hear every four years.
You know, I would call this conservative populism.
And I know, like, for example, on issues maybe like trade and a couple of other issues that conservatives would take issue with that description, but this was a his agenda is conservative.
When you talk about originalist justices, that's conservative.
Vetting refugees, that's conservative.
Building a wall is what the Republican, quote, conservative opposition was supposed to do.
Um cutting taxes is right out of Reagan's handbook, and reducing regulation right out of Reagan's handbook.
Uh, when you talk about education, sending it back to the state, that is a conservative principle.
Energy independence.
I've been the the strongest voice that I know in the country screaming we've got more resources than we would ever need in a few hundred years, and we never tap into it, and we're dependent on countries that hate us.
That is conservatism.
But I think what he's trying to do here, yay, was sending a message to Washington.
You know, the idea that they think and expect that he's going to shift, adapt, and adjust and change exactly who he is just because he he's now inaugurated is that's kind of breathtaking to me, and it gives away a mindset that I think these people in DC have.
And then it even got worse than that.
Let's go to MSNBC.
Let's hear their great analysis, the same network where their hosts were having Obama gasms when when he got inaugurated into office and thrills up their legs.
This was a workmanlike uh speech.
He it was short and he went through it quickly.
Uh and it was it was militant and it was dark.
The crime, the gangs, the drugs, this American carnage, disrepair, decay.
You can't imagine the outgoing president giving a speech like that.
Um repeating the new president also repeating that our our our guiding principle will be America first, America first.
We know how he has used that as a campaign slogan that does also have very dark echoes in American history.
There was an America first committee that formed in this country, hundreds of thousands of people in this country, some of the richest businessmen in the country who are part of it.
They were formed to keep us out of World War II.
They were infiltrated by the Nazis.
Many of them were anti-Semitic, which is part of why they weren't alarmed by Hitler's rise in Germany.
The America First Committee is something that means a specific thing in this country to repurpose it now, not that far down the historical path.
Um, they live in an alter reality.
He explained in the speech what America first is.
Well, we've we've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own.
And we've spent trillions and trillions overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into deep disrepair and decay.
We've made other countries rich while the wealth strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.
And one by one, our factories have been shuttered and left our shores, and with not even the thought of a millions of millions of American workers that are left behind.
He's talking about America first.
You know, how are we gonna fix other countries of the world when we can't get our own economy straightened out for crying out loud?
It's militant, is dark, but is it true?
You know, when when he was talking at great length that it's the job, it's the role of government to serve its people, that these are just and reasonable demands of a righteous people and a righteous public, and we've had politicians for too long serving themselves, and for too many people a different reality exists.
And he talked about what is a truth and reality.
Mothers and children trapped in poverty.
We have fifty million Americans in poverty.
In our inner cities, they're in utter decay.
And rusted out factories, they're all over the rust belt.
They're scattered like tombstones, he said across the landscape of our nation.
He talked about an education system.
We pay more per capita and we get the worst results.
And he said it leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.
Yeah, and he addressed crime and gangs.
Can anybody tell NBC over there that 4,000 people in Chicago were slaughtered in the last eight years?
Yeah, that's pretty dark.
That's pretty militant to me.
And saving their lives is a worthwhile goal.
Leaving, you know, crime and gangs and drugs.
How many people have died in the last eight years?
And how has our country been robbed of this untapped potential, underutilized, unrealized potential?
You know, I love the line when he said, We are one nation.
Their pain is our pain.
Their dreams are our dreams.
Their success here, hopefully, will all be our success.
We share one heart, one home, one glorious destiny.
And he said the oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.
That doesn't seem dark.
That doesn't seem militant.
It seems like somebody's rolling up their sleeves and trying to address massive problems that we have ignored for way too long.
Bringing jobs back to America and getting America back to work.
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All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show from Washington, D.C., Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
But what I loved about it, what I'm gonna do at the bottom of this half hour, I'm gonna replay how everybody laughed at the notion, the idea that Donald Trump can be our president.
Because it goes into their analysis of his speech today.
They just couldn't believe that somebody like him could actually be the president.
And when he went into all of the challenges that we will confront and facing a truth and a reality, how can you be a businessman and be successful if you don't address the problems that your company is facing?
And he talked about for too long this group in Washington has reaped the rewards of government.
And we the people have been bearing the cost.
That's just a fact.
That's why they didn't want him.
That's what they don't like about him, and that's what they don't understand about him.
Is that you know what?
All this insider garbage has got to go away.
For too long, this this group in in Washington, these politicians are flourishing.
They don't care about the 50 million on food stamps, 95 million out of the labor force, 43 million in poverty, whatever the numbers are.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
They just don't care because if they cared, they would have addressed their problems.
If they cared about future generations, they would balance budgets.
If they cared about national security and defense and bridges and infrastructure and jobs, then they wouldn't be taking all the money for themselves greedily and trying to redistribute it.
What they do is they take your money, they redistribute your money.
In the process, they build power for themselves.
And while building power for themselves, you render your freedom useless because they dictate and decide what your future is going to be.
And they can't even put a website together for Obamacare in the process.
These are people that have for way too long protected itself, have not done the things they need to do to serve we the people, the citizens of this country.
You know, their victories, well, that hasn't helped you.
Their triumphs haven't helped you.
They go to the big parties, they get the big donations, they take care of their big Corporate donors and their big buddies.
You know, every bill they do is nearly as corrupt.
It's ridiculous.
So the fact that they didn't like this speech, the fact that they don't like Trump, it also means that they really don't like us either.
And they have contempt that he's there.
But here he is, the 45th president.
He has a lot of enemies.
The Republican establishment, Democratic establishment, and the media establishment.
And that is gonna be the challenge for Donald Trump as he moves forward with his agenda, which we'll get into next.
We'll also play all these people thinking this day could never come.
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And they are at the ca they're at Capitol Hill at the East Front, and the inaugural parade has now just begun.
Donald Trump, Melania Trump now making their way into the motorcade.
This apparently is a brand new Cadillac that they had put together with I apparently every single bell and whistle you could ever imagine in terms of safety and security for a president, which is terrific news, which I think we need, and especially with with what is happening.
while Donald Trump was getting sworn in, you might want to listen to this little snowflake.
I'm going to be able to introduce for the first time ever anywhere the 45th president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.
I'm going to be able to introduce for the first time ever anywhere the 45th president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.
Okay.
Uh you know, Snowflake.
My favorite is the girls.
I don't know.
I gotta kill my I gotta get my problem.
I'm literally about to kill myself that I'm not kidding.
You better fix this right now.
I literally am gonna die.
I need an ambulance.
Get this girl an ambulance.
That was a Bernie supporter.
But it's pretty crazy.
All right, so I want to go back.
If you try and understand the analysis or lack thereof of analysis, you know, I read a tweet from Dan Rather today, and I was I was tempted to just say, hey, Dan, uh, you know nothing about news.
You know nothing about being a reporter.
You think you're great, and you're part of the problem because you're so out of touch and you're so arrogant.
These people never vetted Obama.
These people never did their job.
They were sick offense of them.
I asked Donald Trump every single question about everything he would do and every promise he would ever make.
And more details we got out of our interviews in town halls with him than they ever got out of Obama.
And if there was a controversy, of course we'd ask him, and we did ask him about those too.
They don't understand this speech today.
They don't understand how the people in this country are feeling.
They don't understand the great divide.
They don't understand that they themselves have become the problem.
You know, they don't understand the term that they're public servants.
What I heard in the inauguration speech today is yeah, we've gotten in your way and we've hurt you, and we've engized ourselves and enriched ourselves, and it's time for that to all come to an end.
And that's what I heard today.
And the reason they're having a hard time identifying and understanding this, they never thought this day would come.
This is one of the favorite sound bites we've ever put together.
As the inauguration inaugural parade now begins down Pennsylvania Avenue, down to uh the White House.
But um, you know, and the scary part is you look at all the security that we need for any president these days, it's pretty scary.
But they the reason They cannot identify, and the reason that these specific groups are against him, and the reason the media criticizes him, is because they never thought this day would occur.
Listen.
Donald Trump just last week he confirmed to the National Review that he is again considering a run in 2016.
Do it.
Do it.
Look at me.
Do it.
Now, on behalf of this country, which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
Donald Donald Trump is a clown.
I mean, does anybody seriously think that Donald Trump is serious about running for president?
Donald Trump.
You know, he's a clown.
Which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election.
of the declared ones right now donald trump President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.
Exclamation point.
At real Donald Trump.
Well, at real Donald Trump.
At least I will go down as a president.
So basically this is the beginning of the end for Trump.
Beginning of the end?
This is probably starting of the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.
Donald, uh, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.
The strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.
So right now we have Hillary's about 75 or an 80% favorite.
We have different personal has Hillary Clinton up by double digits nationally, 12 points, 50 to 38 in four-way race.
Clinton leading in North Carolina.
Clinton leading in Ohio.
Clinton leading in Nevada.
I could go on and on and on.
I continue to believe Mr. Trump.
Trump will not be present.
And so, right now, Mr. Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I just want to say you're not going to be president.
All right.
It's been fun.
It's been great.
I love you.
Come on, come on, buddy.
We have a major projection right now.
Donald Trump will take OHI.
That's the project.
Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida.
Huge win for Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, while we project will win in Kentucky within Indiana with its 11th electoral votes.
West Virginia from Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota, with its three electoral votes, and South Dakota, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, of North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas, with its six electoral votes, Nebraska with its five electoral votes, and Wyoming with its three electoral votes.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Complicated business.
Now they're not laughing so much, I'll tell you.
But the way that speech was covered by MBC Chuck Todd, it felt as though he was almost insulting every living president.
Every living president has given us debt.
And death is well, not actually not Bill Clinton.
Of all people.
Because New Kingrich was the speaker.
And it was militant.
It was it was dark.
Rachel Mannow.
And it goes from there.
Then we've got the snowflakes out there.
You got inauguration protests turned violent, a car has been torched.
You got long lines in Washington, D.C. Does anyone ever think of enforcing laws here?
But a marijuana legalization group giving away thousands of marijuana joints today for free.
You got one anti-Trump protester, sucker punch the Trump supporter in the face.
Trump now in charge of the nuclear footballs.
Oh, that's scary.
Oh my god.
How can that happen?
Oh my goodness.
Dark, militant, Nazi-like.
It's insulting.
By the way, in mark contrast, here's something that I bet the media is not pointing out.
The constant references of Obama to I, me, and mine, All about me, all about I, all about number one.
Oh, my, me, my, what I think, what I know, what I like, what I want, what I see.
That's Obama.
President Trump only referred to himself three times in a speech that contained 1,433 words.
President Trump referred to we an astonishing 45 times.
President Trump referred to you, the American people, and the people of the United States 24 times.
So maybe it's not about him.
Maybe it is about getting back to public service.
You got some Democrats now so struggling through the first days of him being president.
They're searching for inner peace and emotional equilibrium.
And political pointed out as Trump took the sacred oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as our nation's next president, Representative Tony Cardenis took part in his own solemn ritual of meditation.
One of the more than 65, I guess it was close to 70 Democrats that didn't go tonight.
You know, if you go back to uh 2008 and we did and newsbusters did, Donald Trump inaugurated 45th president, the three networks didn't suggest the Seagulls were awed by the sacred event that one of the pilgrims, you know, a trek to Washington to see.
That's they actually made these comments.
You know, he's he's let's play like the Chris Matthews song.
He's a good citizen, he's done everything.
I got this thrill running up and down my leg.
But in back in 2009 on January 20th, when Obama became the 44th president, ABC, MBC, CBS, they were beside themselves.
They were comparing this to a religious experience.
Over at CBS, Harry Smith saw the inauguration as where the secular and religious merged.
He gushed, quote, so it was that as many as two million pilgrims made their way to Washington in the mall to witness this most sacred event.
On the early show, Maggie Rodriguez hailed, does it get any better?
Does it get any more beautiful?
Well, Charlie, we know that wind can make a cold day feel colder, but can national pride make a freezing day feel warmer?
It seems to be the case, but regardless of the final crowd number estimates, never have so many people shivered so long with such joy.
From above, even the seagulls must have been awed by the blanket of humanity.
What a day it was.
It may take days or years to really absorb the significance of what happened to America today.
When he finally emerged, he seemed even in this throng, so solitary, somber, perhaps already feeling the weight of the world.
Even before he was transformed into the leader of the free world.
And the mass flickering of cell phone cameras on the mall seemed like stars shining back at him.
In the end, though, it really didn't matter where you were, as long as you weren't alone.
Just ordinary street corners.
Like this one here in Chicago.
Fell silent, almost becoming a political cathedral of sorts.
And almost everyone was making that mental scrapbook.
I can't take it anymore.
I just I can't.
I can't take it anymore.
You know, and then of course, we've got the protesters that are now being tear gassed in the streets of D.C. You know, they had a protest Thursday.
Well, I think one of my favorite cuts is that idiot Michael Moore.
You know, stand against deportation, stand against Muslim registry.
We're all Mexican, Muslim, women.
Listen to this.
We're gonna have to put ourselves on the line.
I'm sorry to say this.
We're in a very dangerous moment in history where a malignant narcissist and a sociopath is in the Oval Office.
This is a very dangerous moment.
So when they come to New York to take our Mexican neighbors out of here, who's willing to stand in front of the George Washington Bridge and say, not unless you go through me.
Who's willing to do that?
Peacefully and nonviolently.
Who will stand at the Lincoln Tunnel or the Holland Tunnel and say, No!
No, this is the United States of America!
No!
If he tries to put up a Muslim registry where Muslim Americans, keyword Americans, are supposed to sign up.
I will be the first one to sign up on the Muslim registry.
Who will join me?
Who will join me?
Will you sign up?
Who will sign their name?
Let's all sign our name.
We're all Muslim.
We're all Mexican.
We're all women.
We're all Americans.
Yes.
And we are all gay.
And lesbian.
And bisexual and transgender and got we are all queer too.
They're losing it.
It just loses.
And that was just him.
Then he had the Blasio there.
Michael Moore saying a hundred days of resistance now have begun.
Call a member of Congress or their senator every day.
Make it part of your routine.
Alec Baldwin, we're gonna have a hundred days.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Anyone call Ivan?
Ivan.
Anyone call?
The Trump administration is a disgrace to everything we believe in.
And it goes on from there.
Just keeps going.
And then you see the snowflakes out there today.
Here's my advice for Donald Trump.
Keep your promises.
These people are never gonna like you.
Barack Obama will never like you.
Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer will never be your friend.
Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi are not your friends.
Stay close to the people that put you in office.
This is my advice to him.
Stay with your promises for originalists on the Supreme Court.
Stick with that.
That's one of the major reasons you won this election.
Stick with your promise to vet refugees from countries whose values contradict our constitutional values.
Stick with your promise to build a wall and protect the borders of this country.
Stick with your promises to I like what he was saying recently, drain the swamp and get rid of 10% spending and 20% of the workforce.
I assume some of it is going to be through attrition.
Keep your promise, Mr. President.
Repeal and replace the disaster of Obamacare that has cost the average family $5,400 and more this year.
Fifty, four hundred dollar increase, a major tax increase.
Use competition.
Make this country energy independent, Mr. President.
Keep that promise.
From there, I prefer, Mr. President.
Send education back to the states.
Make America's military strong.
Fix our VA.
And you will be a great president.
That's my prayer and hope for the country today that those promises get fulfilled.
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Alright, as we continue we're live, we're in Washington DC.
The inaugural parade is ongoing as we speak.
If uh Donald Trump does, in fact, get out of his car, we will bring that to you.
And uh in a video praising Trump, Jerusalem's mayor says Obama surrendered to radical Islam.
By the way, how bold was that in the inaugural speech to say, yeah, radical Islam.
That scares people.
Oh, and he's got the codes.
He's got oh my gosh, what's gonna happen here?
I didn't tell you the story yet of what happened last night, but I'll tell you uh, well, we had a little run-in with these anarchists, and uh not too bad.
Tried to talk to him, didn't work out well.
We'll tell you about that.
Ann Coulter, who probably deserves the biggest victory lap, she predicted this what in 2014 that Trump could win?
Yeah, maybe early 2015.
Quick break from our capital, our nation's capital will continue.
I have to say it was surprisingly divisive for an inaugural address, and I say it this way.
We said it was a challenge when you're elected as an outsider, you're elected as a populist, and you're channeling what was real anger out there with his supporters.
It's tough to be both the unifier and that populist um uh carrier.
He went with populism.
Um, and I think that it's gonna play well with his folks, but that wasn't the type of inaugural address that was intended to bring this country.
Playing well with the crowd right now as he uh as he uh uh reaches out and greets the people who were gathered there.
Um there was a point there where it felt as if he almost was insulting every living president that was sitting next to him.
Well, he was also insulting.
Very personal ways.
He was also insulting all the Republican congressmen and senators who are on that stage.
He has a majority, but he won after politicians point blank.
This was a workman like uh speech.
He it was short and he went through it quickly.
Uh and it was it was militant and it was dark.
The crime, the gangs, the drugs, this American carnage, disrepair, decay.
You can't imagine the outgoing president giving a speech like that.
Um this president also repeating the new president also repeating that our our guiding principle will be America first, America first.
We know how he has used that as a campaign slogan that does also have very dark echoes in American history.
There was an America first committee that formed in this country, hundreds of thousands of people in this country, some of the richest businessmen in the country who are part of it.
They were formed to keep us out of World War II.
They were infiltrated by the Nazis.
Many of them were anti-Semitic, which is part of why they weren't alarmed by Hitler's rise in Germany.
The America First Committee is something that means a specific thing in this country to repurpose it now, not that far down the historical path.
Um it's uh it's hard.
It's hard to hear.
But I was thinking when he said today, America first, it was not just the racial, I mean, the uh I shouldn't say racial, the Hitlerian uh background to it, but it was the uh message I kept thinking.
What is Teresa May think of this this morning when she picks up the papers and says, Oh my god, what did he just say?
He said America first.
What happened in a special relationship?
What if you're Putin?
You're probably pounding the table saying, that's what I've been saying.
Russia first, Russia first, the uh this old bullying message to him.
Um I wonder, you know, our people around the world on are we watching closely in those PDBs that he got one this morning.
What will be the reaction today?
Will somebody do something they weren't gonna do yesterday?
Well, you know, one thing missing I thought was any sort of nice reference to this lady here.
Uh maybe I missed was there a grand uh tribute to Hillary Clinton?
Was there some moment of uh wonderfulness there?
I it was brief if it was there, and I think that she was the stoic figure today.
She was the one that half the country more than half voted for and wanted her to be president, and yet today she stood there like in a true American, a patriot, and and joined in the celebration of the guy she actually beat in the popular vote by three million votes, didn't cry, didn't wince, and yet the guy who won in the electoral college never gave her much.
All right, there you have it.
Some of the sights and sounds of the liberal media hour two.
The inaugural parade continues, and you got a lot of protesters now along the parade route, and uh I doubt that's the area where Donald Trump's gonna be getting out today.
He's now the 45th president of the United States of America.
But if you watched MBC, it was almost as if he was insulting every living president.
He chose to be who he is.
What did they think?
He was gonna just you know, bow down and cave to the Washington establishment and be somebody they've always wanted him to be that he's never going to be.
You know, the speech was hard to hear.
Militant and dark.
Well, when 4,000 people get killed in Chicago in eight years, well, that's kind of militant, and that's dark to lose great American potential.
MSNBC Trump fans are heckling reporters saying you suck.
Well, they do suck.
I mean, and they've been exposed.
Ann Coulter is with us.
Um, you know, probably publicly, and it was on Bill Marr's show.
Ann Coulter went out and was asked and laughed at when she said uh that she thought Donald Trump was the person that had the best chance of winning.
Here we are.
And which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election.
Of the declared ones right now, Donald Trump.
I especially like...
What about of all of them?
I mean Scott Walker.
Um Zanne Coulter with us.
Uh when was that?
What month was that in 2012?
What month?
It was two days after he announced.
Okay.
Um how are you?
You must be celebrating today.
Are You happy?
For the first time in my adult life, Sean, I am proud of my country.
For the first time in your adult life.
You know, can you imagine these people they I I don't know what they thought that the that he drank from the water fountain and then all of a sudden he was going to be somebody other than who he is today?
Well, I'm not going to say I'm really perked up by what happened today.
Not only not only the protesters and the fact that Gavin McGuinness belted one of them.
Um but the speech, because again, of course, it was a magnificent Stephen Miller.
Um and I can't say um I haven't been made afraid by some of what's been going on with the transition.
But back to the speech, that is how he won.
It was because of speeches like that.
Oh, and I love you playing um the the liberal media hysterical at the idea of putting the American people abl above the kleptocrats and plutocrats in Washington.
Oh, it's scary, it's scary.
No, that the speech was was pitch perfect.
I mean, as everyone has said, we don't need to belabor this.
He made up for at the lunch.
Um would have been nice to have something said about Hillary, apparently he forgot that, but he had her stand and was very gracious to her at the lunch that day.
It's great that these sh that she showed up.
It's great that we have these peaceful transitions of power.
Um but the speech, the speech, if he duh if he can just remember that for the next four years, he will be re-elected um by a huge margin than he won the first election.
Well, I think it's bigger than that.
I think it's not the speech.
I think it's keeping the promises and doing what he said he was going to do.
And that probably means by the way, Donald Trump is getting out of the car right now.
Pretty normal as part of history at the president, and he's there with his son Barron.
Uh Melania has gotten out of the car, and they are now walking down Pennsylvania Avenue, even as we speak.
But that's that is part of looking at the end.
I just want him to get to work.
And by the way, they already have, you've probably seen this.
One of my favorite things.
Um, and like I say, I've been a little bit trepidatious these past this past month or so.
Um seems to me a lot of friends of donors are getting cabinet positions, a lot of Goldman Sachs types, a lot of RNC types.
Today, okay, we're back to the Trump that won the election.
Not only with the speech, not only with the hysteria from the left, but apparently they have immediately taken down every reference to global warming on the White House web page.
Yeah, I saw that.
That's pretty funny, isn't it?
That's pretty hysterical.
So his heart is so in the right place.
Every time I think, oh, no, oh, no, you're behaving like any other Republican...
No, he pulls me back in.
Um what are you most afraid of?
What's bothered you?
Um well, like I say, I've people weren't chanting.
Make sure Goldman Sachs get jobs.
Make sure the RNC man, make sure you hire all your kids.
Um no, they w they want a wall and deportation.
And a wall, I do think that there's no question we're getting that.
Um but uh if you don't if you don't do the deportations, all we're doing is walling the problems in.
As he said in his announcement speech, um they're bringing their problems with them here.
No, they gotta go.
Um and yeah, I'm um uh I mean, yeah, that's what he needs to do.
We need mass deportations, um, I mean, no rounding up none of the nonsense the left talks about, but what Donald Trump himself said in that magnificent Phoenix speech after he was accused of of softening his immigration position, he said number one the felons.
Number two, if you've been arrested, and and that's an important point.
Just because you're arrested doesn't mean you're guilty.
But his point is sorry, wrong place at the wrong time.
You came into the into the hands of our law enforcement.
We're not just gonna let you go if you're here illegally.
Number three, and crucially important, if you are accepting government assistance in America.
We have our own poor poor people.
We have to deal with Obamacare.
And by the way, those idiot Republicans, they've had eight years to do nothing but figure out the repeal and replace bill.
They better be ready to go with that because Anne is getting tired of not living with with with decent health care.
The first two Obama because you know I'm in the individual market, like Matt Drudge.
Most of you have no idea what's coming.
Um but the first the first program in the individual market, of course, I was thrown off my plan.
First one bankrupt before the end of the year.
This is weeks and weeks of work, by the way, to figure out which plan to get, have doctors look at, send in, you know, my residence information, fill out form.
First year gone.
That's Health Republican New York.
Second year, Oxford, gone by the end of the year.
I could have written another book in the amount of time I'm filling out forms, and this is paying $700 a month.
The current, you know, third, third year plan, not taken by Memorial Sloan Kettering, not taken by the Hospital of Special Surgery.
So I'm really sick of hearing about, oh, all these people who have health insurance, and what are you No, I can pay.
I'm just can it isn't available to me in the market.
So that shouldn't be Donald Trump's problem.
The Republicans in the House and the Senate, again, they've had eight years to come up with the repeal and replace plan.
So let's get that done week one.
You know, the thing that I think is challenging is I I don't have faith in the Republicans.
I mean, look at what they've done in the interim since he's been elected.
They've they've attempted to bring back earmarks and change ethics reforms in their favor.
Similarly, want to wanting to expand the debt by 9.7 trillion dollars over ten years, or the debt limit.
And I'm like, um it gets more frustrating by the day.
But for me, it's very simple.
What do you think Trump will get done?
Do you believe it will get originals on the court?
I do.
Oh, yeah, no, the standard stuff.
Look, my issue is, and uh thank God it was not Hillary being sworn in today, because it would have been more of the same.
Even if Trump is, you know, the worst he could possibly be, all he's gonna be is another mediocre Bush administration.
So the basic stuff, yeah, we'll get all of that.
Um but what we need fixing immigration, deporting illegals, deporting um criminal aliens, blocking the immigration of of of misfits, potential terrorists, um eighty percent of of the legal immigrants we're bringing in are uh going on government assistance.
Well, we also need the economy fixed.
We need lower taxes, less regulation.
But what I'm trying to say is immigration solves a lot of problems.
Immigration makes everything easier.
Take health care.
They say we don't have enough money.
Oh, how are we gonna how are we gonna pay for the poor?
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Um, first of all, if you stop bringing in immigrants who get free health care, that's a big pro that's a big, big help.
Um, stop bringing in legal immigrants who then bring in their elderly relatives who immediately go on social security.
Big help.
Um, you know, since uh Arizona passed the the SB 70, I guess it was called, what um liberals denounce as the papers, please law, uh written by Chris Kobak.
Um crime in Arizona has gone down.
Uh local taxes have gone down, employment has gone up, wages have gone up.
Look at Arizona for uh the multitude of problems that are solved by not dumping low-wage, unskilled uh foreign workers on the country or foreign, you know, welfare.
Stay right there.
And we we uh we have a couple of more minutes on the other side of this break.
The inaugural parade continues.
Uh Donald Trump Melania and Barron got back in the car.
Bringing jobs back to America and getting America back to work.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
All right, so we continue from Washington, D.C. and the inauguration now of the forty-fifth president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
By the way, cars are being set on fire.
We have windows that are being broken.
We have protesters now, some hundred plus that have been arrested.
Anne Coulter is with us.
What do you make of the reaction of what we call the snowflakes and these Democratic congressmen and women that didn't go and all the protesters and the burning of cars and broken windows now?
And I experienced some of this last night.
I am thankful for the clueliness cluelessness of our opponents.
I th you know the normal Democrats have got to be sitting back saying, no, guys, could you settle down?
This is really not helping, not helping at all.
Um tomorrow, I guess the big the big woman's protest.
So you're gonna have um elite white female feminists.
You will have some of the transgendered crowd.
You'll get some of the anarchists.
You know, a lot of people vote Democrat because they vote Democrat.
They've been Democrats their entire lives.
Maybe they thought Hillary would do a better job.
Maybe they weren't wild about Trump's certain aspects of Trump's personality.
Uh maybe they wanted the first woman president.
But I think a big number of them are looking at these protests on the lunatics and the nastiness out of Hollywood from utterly ridiculously out of touch wealthy elites with nannies and gardeners and and maids and oh singing I will survive.
Oh, well, I'm so glad you're going to survive.
Um and they've got to be thinking, well, I'm glad you people lost.
You know, it and they live this lifestyle, but this is the point.
The people that have been suffering, I I really think he's tapped into the entire it this is about the men and women out of work, in poverty, on food stamps, they can't buy a house anymore.
And no none of these people nothing Obama did worked.
No, that's absolutely true, but it is also for people with jobs who just see what's happening to the country.
Um I mean, I always thought it was sort of it's true.
Trump got a lot of people who haven't, I mean, millions of people who haven't voted for twenty years to come out and vote for him.
But um I certainly knew lots of doctors, lawyers, Hollywood producers who just, you know, they don't want to live in Guatemala.
We wanted to live in America.
Uh immigrants moved to America.
They wanted to live in America.
It's only the plutocrats and kleptocrats who are having a great life off the rest of us, as Trump said in that magnificent inaugural speech.
All right.
Ann Coulter, always appreciate you being with us in Trump We Trust is uh her book, and it's been doing well, of course, as always, and uh we appreciate you being with us.
Oh, I only thought is yeah, I gotta run.
Book signing in the at women's national republican club on February first, Wednesday.
Okay, I hope we'll put it up on our website in comfort.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
By the way, um, here's my prediction.
I think Donald Trump is going to defy all of the critics, all of the lunatics, and we'll be to be debating that in our next hour, and exceed expectations beyond measure.
There's my prediction.
We'll continue.
Jay Seculo on the law next.
Uh we got a great list of guests, by the way, for Hannity tonight.
We're gonna be doing two hours.
Yes, I will be in a tux.
It's been years, took it out of mothballs, and uh they pulled it out.
Kellyanne Conway, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Michael Cohn, Michelle Malkin, Paul Manafort, uh Judge Janine Piero, Ainsley Earhart, Bo Diedle, Geraldo Rivera, uh Corey Lewandowski, An Anthony Scaramucci, Larry Elder, Daryl Scott, Doug Schoen, Charlie Hurt, Louis Gohmert, Sebastian Gorka, Nigel Farage, uh Matt Schlapp, Mercedes Schlapp.
So we got a big lineup today.
Uh one of my really dear friends in Washington, D.C., they don't really have many friends here at all.
Most of these congressmen won't meet or talk to me much anymore, but is uh Jay Seculo, and he's with the American Center for Law and Justice.
So they just got into office, and former President Obama's parting gift to first-time homeowners fell 90 minutes after Trump was uh sworn in.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development immediately canceled the rate cut on mortgage insurance premiums uh for Federal Housing Administration backed loans announced earlier in January and uh beachhead terms for the Trump administration.
They took over federal agencies immediately following the inauguration, and it goes on from there.
And the thing that I think I enjoyed the most in all of what happened today is I was watching very closely, as were apparently a lot of other people, and we see that the White House took down the climate change agenda of the Obama administration and put up America's first energy plan, and a lot of that's been happening.
Now, Trump says he's gonna probably spend hours rolling back regulations, and Jay can break down for us what that means, because he didn't really want to follow separation of powers, right?
Coequal branches of government, so if you rule by the pen, an executive fee, the next president could undo all of that, can't they?
Yeah, literally by the stroke of a pen.
And presidents do that.
Presidents have the authority to do that under the Constitution.
And and there is no doubt, I mean, if if no matter what side of the political spectrum somebody may be on, Donald Trump's gonna do that.
He is going to roll these regulations back.
These were I would say, Sean, if you looked at the overall regulatory process, probably seventy percent of them were were I would call president made.
They weren't they didn't even go through the regular agencies here.
So this is yeah, he's gonna be able to do that.
So that is it fair to say then if his signature legislation is Obamacare, that's gonna be gone.
Right.
And if you're saying seventy percent of what he accomplished was through executive fiat and the stroke of a pen, and Donald Trump is able to undo all of that.
There was some questions about whether or not he put legal traps and loopholes in some of this.
What did he do?
Well, so on some of it, what you have is the agency, he would issue a presidential memorandum.
Right.
And then the agency would issue a regulation.
So that you've got to, and this is gonna be, and this is where people have to have a little bit of patience to roll back the bureaucracy in this town does not happen in a night.
Because remember, as many they'll appoint, there'll be let's say a couple thousand appointments, presidential appointments, so to speak, in in all the agencies.
There are tens of thousands of employees that were in lockstep with the previous administration.
So federing them out, getting the finding out who they are, getting rid of them, is a process.
For instance, we've got litigation against various government agencies.
That litigation is not going to stop because President Trump cannot litigate against his own agency.
Others can to find out what's going on.
That's what we're doing.
All right.
So if if for example, there was a presidential memo that was sent a particular agency and they made a policy change, right?
Then does it work in reverse?
Not so easy because once that policy's been put in place, depending if they went through the code of federal regulations or they did not, that will make a difference on how you undo it.
So it's gonna have to you've got to be very calculated here.
You know what the reality is?
You can't go in there with a butcher's knife.
It's gotta be a scalpel.
And I I think there's no doubt President Trump knows that.
But there are some big rollbacks that are gonna take place right away.
On the immigration issue, especially.
By the way, we're watching now for the third time, Donald Trump, his wife Melania, the president and the first lady and their son Baron have gotten out of the car as they make their walk along the inaugural parade route and uh to the White House, and you know, this happens most times.
Uh uh listen, I would not want to be in the in charge of all the security that is in the city, but we see it.
But the town's pretty calm.
I mean, you've been here.
I mean, all things considered.
I was just watching a video that's going on live here.
Yeah, I I I saw that one.
But cars being burned, yeah.
Well that's windows being broken.
And that's the paid demonstrators that come to every event.
Are they paid or is it just well, there was talk, and I actually did see some advertisements that they were willing to pay people.
Sure.
So last night, you know, a bunch of us from Fox and we all went to dinner and we're having a good time, and just went to dinner, and then we were gonna go over and see Big and Rich.
Right.
And they were playing.
And as we were walking over, all of a sudden we look up and I see a massive mob chasing this one guy, wanting to beat the crap out of him.
And we happened to be right in front of the theater where Brett Michaels of the group Poison was playing.
Yeah.
And so anyway, this guy ran into the security arms of those people.
There now, they didn't know he was the one that was being attacked, yeah, but they wanted to basically beat the crap out of this poor guy.
Then Geraldo was there, and Brian Kilmead was there, and I was there, and we got recognized.
And we even tried to talk to them, have a discussion with them.
That didn't go over too well, and we went inside, we had eggs thrown out at us.
But they're professional, these guys these men and women are in the business of causing disruption.
They do it when the IMF's here, they do it when the monetary funds meeting.
This is what they do.
It's part unfortunately, it's kind of part of Washington in the sense that you expect it.
What I've noticed already, and and Sean, I I've been in this town a long time, the change between when they swore in the new president, it's like a cloud li even though it's raining here in Washington, DC, I think Franklin Graham said it was rain is a good sign from heaven.
But it was like a cloud lifted over this town.
And there's a new sense of opportunity and a new sense of positive.
I agree with you, but you and I both know we've been around politics way too long.
We have a weak Republican establishment.
Yeah, we have a weak thin majority.
Thin majority, especially in the Senate.
How is he gonna get let's say if he wanted to pick prior in Alabama to be the next Supreme Court?
Yeah.
I I agree, he'd be great.
Okay, but Chuck Schumer has already promised to filibuster anyone.
So here's what you do.
You realize, and this is where I think Trump's ability, President Trump's ability to engage the media directly, as he does with you.
By the way, uh, he has just gotten back into the car, his entire family got out of the car that was behind them, and uh they stopped, said hello to some people now they're continuing on the parade route.
Go ahead.
So on the on the Supreme Court nominee, the fact of the matter is anybody on the list the President Trump put forward is is not gonna get sick.
There's no one on there is getting 60 votes.
So that idea of 60, forget it.
First of all, it's not in the Constitution.
So the Democrats have already broke the filibuster.
They've broken the filibuster.
On judicial appointments.
Yes, except they said we're gonna carve out the Supreme Court.
Well, you know, tough.
So I think look, we're talking about the Supreme Court.
I'm 60 years old.
We're talking about the Supreme Court for the rest of my life and Jordan and look, my kids' life.
Yeah.
This is I mean, it could go for two generations here.
Sure.
So this is a fight you have and you win.
I think he does only because Donald Trump will make him do it.
In other words, uh it in and of themselves, I'm not so sure any of them would do it.
With this new regime with the new president and that administration, you want to be on the other end of those tweets?
No.
Right.
No.
So I I think the Republicans I think the Republicans are gonna have to understand that this is the Supreme Court was a lot of the reason why Donald Trump won and they kept a majority.
Yeah.
Okay?
So that's really at the end of the day, the lasting legacy of a president.
That's the we are 4-4 right now.
I I I had some folks from the Supreme Court over here today.
4-4.
That means we're getting no nothing's happening.
So we've got to fill that slot.
It needs to be done soon.
I think you're gonna see a nomination in ten days.
Bill Pryor would be great.
Yeah.
You if you gotta bust the filibuster, bust the filibuster.
Nuclear option, do it.
Do it.
They've already done it.
They well, they set the precedent.
It's really annoying because, you know, then Republicans get back in power and then they don't do it.
And I'm like, you can't we can't have two sets of rules here.
No.
And considering this is what they wanted, this is the rules they chose.
So let me go back to to what I was discussing earlier about executive action.
So Obama doesn't want to work with Congress.
Right.
Doesn't want to pass bills the old-fashioned way.
And by the way, this would include the Iranian deal, which was never confirmed by the Senate as a treaty.
There's not even a piece of paper on it, really.
But the money's been handed over, unfortunately.
Right.
1.5.
Yeah.
Whatever billion dollars and ransom was paid.
All right.
So as it relates to all of these regulations, Trump could literally spend hours just signing away, signing away, signing away.
But you're saying that there are others that are buried that will be more difficult to get rid of.
Yeah, so the regulatory what happens is they'll send a presidential memo, an executive memorandum, and then the agency adopted rules and regulations.
That's harder.
But on the big one, let's take the immigration thing, which was a big reason Donald Trump's the president of the United States today.
Right.
That whole issue, first of all, the president lost before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thus, the regulations themselves were deemed uh overreached.
The president didn't have the constitutional authority.
I was involved in that case at the Supreme Court.
So that's easy to fit.
That is literally a signature.
So there are some big issues, like executive action on immigration, you're gonna be able to fix, you know, get started quick.
Others are gonna be more complicated.
Tougher because what the EPA did, the president sent out the directive, and then they in some of the cases they adopted regulations.
Now, not in all.
So what the what the White House Council's office has to do and the Office of Legal Policy is go through that.
And you know, President Trump said, be at your desk at 1201 today.
I mean, they told him don't enjoy the inauguration, get to work, say thank you for your service, you're out, we're in.
And you have to go through it.
It's a I was a government lawyer.
It's a laborious process to go through these rules and regulations, but you're gonna have to do it with the surgeon scalpel.
You gotta go through it and do it.
But you know what?
He's got the team in place.
If anybody knows the rules and regulations, it's Mike Pence.
Yeah, and that'll be a big help.
He's gonna be a big help.
And there's Mike Pence, by the way.
Now he's uh on walking, he got out of his limousine, he's walking with his family now uh for a brief moment along Pennsylvania Avenue.
And all right, so let's say that they can get rid of all of the bad ones, and I assume it's 99% of them, which you're saying represents about 70 percent of the 60-70 percent, yeah.
Okay.
Then what would you say that Obamacare represents?
What percentage of Obama's legacy?
So the regulations on Obamacare were much more lengthy than the law itself.
The law was 2300 pages, the re regulations were tens of thousands of pages.
So what you're gonna have to do there, what's gonna have to happen there, and uh they're moving it.
I mean, it that is going through Congress.
A President Trump knows the way to do that is repeal replace, and that I think you're gonna see Sean, I think that whole thing is gonna be wrapped up now.
There may be a transition period, but I think it's gonna be wrapped up in ninety days.
All right, so would it be fair to say that if they roll back Regulations and executive fiats and they eliminate Obamacare and they replace Obamacare.
That ninety percent of everything Obama's done in the last eight years is wiped clean.
Well, on the domestic front, certainly, because if you look at what are his two signature achievements domestically, it would be Obamacare in his view and his immigration reform.
Well, those are both gone.
Now, on the international front, what he's done to Israel, which we've talked about before.
That you that rolling back, you can't roll back a UN Security Council resolution.
That's the problem.
But the Congress and the President could tell the United Nations, you know what?
We're not giving you 22 billion dollars, whatever the crazy number is, to basically support the organization of the Islamic conference, because that's who runs the UN.
So you've got a potential U.S. ambassador to Israel and David Freeman, who will be excellent.
You've got a president that says he will move the move it move the Capitol to Jerusalem.
I think he does that on Israel's timetable.
And that's important.
And you know Bibi.
He knows when the right time for that when it's going to be, because they've got to worry about the neighbors.
Right.
But I think you're going to see a sea change differential there.
But on the international front, he's got a big job.
Just saying radical Islam in his inaugural speech today.
I said that today.
Took the oath of office, so help me God, radical Islamic terrorists.
I would have said, you know what?
Stick down done enough.
We haven't heard that in eight years.
No, he no.
And you know what?
The fact of the matter is that's the fight.
So if the if the executive orders get wiped out, Obamacare's wiped out.
Okay, there's no success.
Our relationship with Israel's never been worse.
What he did in Libya has been a disaster.
He's now a safe haven for terrorist and terrorist training in North Africa.
Then you add, okay, Iran, that deal.
Then you have Iraq and Afghanistan, disasters.
Right.
You know, our relationship with Putin and Russia, there was no reset.
It's never been worse.
Oh, it's reset to worse.
Okay.
China, same thing.
Right.
Our European allies don't have the respect for us that they once had, so I don't see any foreign policy success.
Now, is this a fair statement?
When all is said and done, the only legacy of Obama, it'll be almost like he's never been there, but for he took on more debt than every other president before him combined and the bad judges he appointed.
And Kagan, and so do my or Supreme Court justices, and then the lower courts.
And you know, we talk about the Supreme Court, but the fact that about a hundred appointments?
Yeah, and the fact is that most of the cases are decided by the courts of appeals, not the Supreme Court.
And he has reshaped the judiciary.
And I and there's a legacy.
Now, for Donald Trump to undo that, you need four years was good, eight years would be better.
Uh but in four years, you if you look at the age of most of the court, I mean, we do the demographics on the age of the justice judges.
You've got a lot of courts that could have that were conservative.
Fourth circuit was generally conservative, 11th circuit where Bill Prior's had it was generally conservative.
If the election would have gone another way, those courts would have been lost.
Forever.
Now it you've got the opportunity to reshape the judiciary for 40 years, Sean.
Uh pretty historic day.
Unbelievably historic day.
All right.
When we come back, uh Jay Secular, by the way, the American Center for Law and Justice, and thank you as always.
We love seeing you when we're in town and uh you're a gracious host in every way imaginable.
We love uh we love seeing you and hanging out with you.
Um when we come back, all right.
So we see these these cars are being burnt, windows are being broken.
We'll tell you about an experience I had last night.
Geraldo is going to join us, Rose Tennant will join us, one of the women that are involved in this march tomorrow will join us.
Still not sick of waiting.
Make it America's great again.
Sean Hannity's on the air right now.
So last night, trying to head over to the big and rich concert.
What was that at the New York?
Did they have a ball?
Was that Lauren was there?
What was it?
The New York GOP had a ball, and they were nice enough to let us come, and we had a bunch of people with us, and we couldn't get there because of the anarchy and the anarchists and the violence in the streets and did we put the thing on video, Linda.
Did you see this on video?
Did you watch it?
Yeah.
On air?
Yeah, I've seen it.
What's the matter?
You don't sound too happy about it.
The guy threw an egg at me and missed.
Yeah, I mean, clearly.
I think he was throwing it at Geraldo.
What do you think?
I think so too.
I go for the liberal first.
You think they will go for the liberal first?
Geraldo goes, Come on, let's go talk to him.
I said, All right, sure.
Shook hands with one guy, and then everybody has their phone out.
That's the other thing.
Everybody's taping.
Every second of it.
Anyway, we have had cars burned today.
Over a hundred people now have been arrested today.
There's talk about trouble tonight.
We'll have all that next in our final hour.
This uh this fire was started.
In fact, this young man, you were participating in the fire.
What's your name?
Uh my name's Carter and actually stuck kind of started this fire.
So why'd you start that fire, Carter?
Uh it's harder.
Sorry, why'd you start that fire?
Because I felt like it am because I'm just saying, screw our president.
Move back, move back, move back.
now Know Donald Trump!
no I shall be held.
The whole damn system is guilty as hell.
The whole damn system is guilty as hell.
Good to see you.
What's this?
What's this?
All right, news roundup and information overload hour.
The last part is what happened last night as a group of us were trying to make our way over to John Rich's uh party with John McLaughlin and the New York, I guess, delegation was having a an event.
We were just gonna stop by and watch Big and Rich for a little bit, but it didn't happen.
We had a pretty big group with us.
We had just come from dinner, and you know, so we Geraldo and I actually walked out to try and talk to the people.
It started when all of a sudden we're in front of a theater where Brett Michaels of Poison is playing.
We got to meet him, great guy, by the way.
And all of a sudden this guy comes running and being chased by a mob and ran into the security, and then the security there thought he was the bad guy, and they're they're tying him up, and he's like, No, no, these people are trying to kill me here.
And so uh must have been a group of c couple of hundred people, I think.
I I'm not great at crowd sizes, I'll I'll get Heraldo's take on it a minute.
So then we're there, and then we got noticed.
Brian Kilmead was there, a bunch of us from Fox were there and and other people.
Uh my concern was not for myself, but for the others that were with us.
And then Geraldo goes to make, well, well, let's go over and talk to him.
I said, Sure.
And that's when we walked out.
There's actually a video of it somewhere.
We'll show why are you laughing, sweet baby James?
This is how I roll.
Then some guy threw an egg, and I saw that, and I said, All right, Geraldo, we're not we're not gonna have any discussions with him.
It's either gonna be a fight us against three hundred people, or we'll just go inside and say hi to Brett Michaels.
Which uh and he was a great guy.
Uh anyway, joining us now is Amanda Nepe is with us with the National Legal and Public Policy Director for American Atheists, and she directs the American Atheist Policy Advocacy Legal Strategy, serves as in-house counsel, Rose Tennant of the Rose Unplug show, and my friend and colleague Geraldo Rivera.
Geraldo, is that pretty much the way you saw it?
I mean, I saw a couple of hundred people there.
I saw that guy that were trying to beat the hell out of him.
And you and I tried to have a conversation with him.
The same couple of hundred people, because that's all there are.
They're very noisy and they're very violent in the uh, you know, uh they don't have guns, but right now they're throwing you large chunks of rock.
You you left out the guy.
I I went to shake the guy's hand and he yanked me uh across the table.
That's where I really thought it was gonna get going.
And I will say this.
Yeah, I shook that guy I shook that guy's hand too but when I shook it I pulled them to me.
Yeah.
I thought it would take about at least half the crowd I am this type of thing does not concern me.
I know uh it does worry a lot of other people just it's not it's nothing that I haven't lived my entire life to be honest.
Um all right Amanda you're part of this I guess women's march tomorrow and a coalition of three hundred groups what are you marching for?
Marching to have our voices heard to this administration and this you're marching to hear your have your voices heard.
Yeah.
Okay, you your voice can't be heard on a radio show.
More people will hear you today than in your entire march tomorrow but go ahead.
Well I mean we have I think fifteen hundred buses that are scheduled to come in and I'm on a train full of people headed for the march on Washington and they're happy and excited and it's uniting people.
I I know I guess citizens protesting is in the DNA of America and I guess I don't not sure why people are so upset.
I don't advocate violence of course but you know coming and speaking to our elected officials, protesting, having a message that I have no problem with doing that since the British were ruling here.
But that's not what we're seeing on the streets today and that's not what I saw with my own eyes last night.
I'm really sorry about that but that doesn't I had nothing to do with that and I certainly don't advocate violence but I certainly support anyone who peacefully wants to speak to elected officials and speak to this new administration.
Yeah and it's interesting Rose you never hear the president of the United States that just left Barack Obama say stop when all of this is happening.
He absolutely should have he should have encouraged us and talked about the trade that we've had since 1789.
This is a transfer of power this is what we do.
This what makes us great and separates us from everyone else.
I was at the Deplorabl last night the uh the one thing I noticed you know she the the guests you have on said we want our voices heard.
It sounds to me like they're hearing voices.
They were all over the place.
You know it was future the future is feminism.
Um Trump is alt right with us.
I mean the messages weren't clear at all.
I didn't know what they were agreeing on.
If anything I do know they agreed that they thought those of us attending the ball were Nazis.
I did pick that up but it was uh it w it got very um uh destructive towards the end of the ball so you were at the ball this is where some of these protesters got pepper sprayed and had violent clashes with the cops similar to what we've been seeing you know throughout the afternoon today.
I have to say something though um it is bad and uh when I did today even though I had tickets and I had a seat I walked around the perimeter of the Capitol where they are allowing people in people who had just general admission tickets, some of them had seated tickets in certain areas.
They couldn't get through.
Those mobs are preventing people who wanted to celebrate their victory and had every right to do so were prevented from get from getting through.
It was it was so unfortunate and it is intimidating.
I I'm okay you and I might not be intimidating but think about it you're accustomed to this I'm I am as well.
I saw families there.
There were some with small children.
It was intimidating and it was I literally I was running with the um with the riot police to get to the next to my entrance where I held a ticket because they were blocking them.
They had heard that we were going to be going through that way and the riot police were running ahead of the protesters which were hundreds there were hundreds of them and it was intimidating.
It's out of control right now.
Right now out there it's insane.
I just made it in the door safely and I and I and I and I do think it's it's significant.
And I think it's wrong and I'm pissed off.
I really am well you know I'm not mad because I think people have the right to protest.
It's the violence that I object.
You know the funny thing is Haraldo I mean Haraldo, I mean I think probably on a lot of issues that maybe some of these people support far more than me and I I I you're more you call yourself a liberal Republican but on immigration on issues of of pro choice uh gay rights I mean I would think you're right there with a lot of these protesters on a lot of issues they wouldn't even let you talk to them.
I I think the danger right now is to overstate how big these protests are and how disruptive they are I think that both you know hunt people the protesters today at least number in the hundred.
The people who've come to celebrate the peaceful transition of power number in the tens of thousand.
They are lining Pennsylvania Avenue even as we speak, waiting for the forty fifth president of the United States and the first lady of the United States, who by the way was absolutely stunning today and will be a fashion icon.
But that aside, I I don't want people to get the idea that the uh that this constitutional marble we've just witnessed today is being overshadowed.
Uh they they are in pockets.
It's true, but they are not.
They are definitely not disruptive of the main thing.
They blocked the case.
No, I just I just walked past a couple hundred of them.
And I the only reason I came inside is because I didn't want them to see me without a camera and be invited by it.
You know what?
I watched ordinary people trying to get through and they were being blocked at each entrance because you you guys aren't there.
You aren't where the people are.
I was there all morning.
I am pretty sure that the Capitol Police, the Secret Service, the D.C. police, they're very versed in how it handles protesters.
They've been doing it for a long time, and I'm pretty sure they're making sure it's safe.
If you're intimidated, I'm sorry, but um I'm pretty sure that they're handling it, and as far as I can tell from everybody that I'm talking to who's there, everything is under the case.
Amanda, it's it's really I guess comfortable for you to say that, but I've been looking at pictures and images of people with their heads split open and bleeding in the streets and having cops have to come to their rescue.
This poor guy last night literally was within an inch of his life of getting beaten by a mob.
You know, so you can sit back there and say, Well, I'm sorry it's uncomfortable for you.
And I'm not saying you're a part of it, but I am saying that what these people are doing is wrong.
And so there are a few people who are being violated.
No, no, no, no.
Not a few.
A few uh at least a few hundred, if not thousands.
Are they were they all arrested then?
No, we've had over a hundred arrests today, but I mean if they're being violent, they would be arrested.
And we're not seeing massive.
Okay, maybe you haven't ever maybe you've never seen Ferguson.
Maybe you've never seen looting when it takes place.
Most people will go in and out of stores with big bags of stuff and come out.
The people that are looting.
Those people will go into stores and walk.
Have you ever seen looting images before?
I didn't say there was.
But you say you all right, listen to me.
I you said that everybody would be arrested, and I'm saying that doesn't happen half the time.
People who are being violent at this protest would be arrested, yes.
Okay, but but maybe it's too late when somebody has their head split open.
They're breaking windows.
They're definitely using chunks of pavement to break store windows.
I mean, and they have arrested around a hundred right now.
Uh and I I think that they have it more or less contained.
I think it will spring up again because, as I said, these are the same folks that were at the G twenty in Seattle back when a lot of them went to Ferguson, a lot of them chase disorder, a lot of them are there specifically to cause disorder.
They're not.
Tomorrow's march is different though.
Tomorrow really will be uh a much more sincere and heartfelt expression of uh of disquiet and maybe discontent.
But Haraldo, these guys aren't going home.
These you know, these disruptors are not going home.
They'll just they'll mix in with that group of people.
Hopefully, the night in jail.
Well, hopefully most of them will.
All right.
Heraldo, uh I'll I'll rumble with you anytime.
Love having you.
Brother, any time.
All right, thank you all for being with us.
Appreciate it.
All right, we'll get your take on this historic day and uh or well of wide open telephones as we continue, by the way, uh, from Washington, DC, we'll be at a ball tonight.
The Freedom Ball will be on from ten until midnight.
Yeah, I'll be in a tux.
I'm not wearing a bow tie.
I'm giving you a heads up.
If you expect me in a bow tie, well, forget it, it's not happening.
Linda's dying to get the first picture and put it up on Hannity.com.
So I guess at some point after I finish this program today, between now and ten o'clock, we'll have it up on Hannity.com.
Up there for fake news.
On the air now.
Now, as we continue, Donald J. Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States.
We continue our program from Washington, D.C. We'll be back here next week as we begin the first hundred days of his presidency.
He said he's basically starting on Monday, although some things have begun to change as we went through earlier in the program.
Uh Sherry is in Utah.
Sherry, hi, how are you?
Welcome to the program and uh hope you enjoyed today.
Hi, uh, today was amazing.
This was an absolutely incredible day for our country.
And you know, it's sad to see.
It's sad to see these.
I don't want to call them protesters because a lot of them are criminals.
They're they're breaking glass and they're breaking buildings, they're hitting people with objects.
And you know, I it it's sad that he hasn't even had a chance to be in office and do his um work before this starts in.
Um but I you know I wish more I hope more of these will go to jail.
I hope more of these criminals that are out on the street doing you know these awful um deeds of of of of criminality will will pay the price.
I think the best thing he said is government is going back to the people.
The people that have benefited the most are those people that have taken advantage of their position.
And the best way to do that is give this government back to the people, get rid of burdensome regulation, ridiculous taxation, create uh an economy that incentivizes investment and job creation.
You know, build a military that nobody would dare mess with.
This is not complicated.
The only complicated part of it is that we've got an establishment, Republican, Democrat, other, we've got an establishment that wants to stop him at every turn.
And you see the media in their reaction to his speech, as we got into earlier today.
I mean, they they can't they do not understand him.
They do not understand you out in Utah.
They do not understand people like myself on talk radio and Fox News.
They never have, they never will.
They hold their nose up at people like us, the hardworking men and women of this country that make this country great.
They have used our hard-earned money to build a power base for themselves selfishly and a level of incumbency that nobody ever gets thrown out.
And it's really time to drain that swamp.
It's it's time hopefully this outsider.
They will use everything they can use against him.
Their goal is to destroy him.
And all this chaos we're seeing on the streets of Washington today, what I saw last night, it's all part of an an orchestrated effort to constantly, consistently, nonstop just chip away at Donald Trump.
And they will create the great monster that Donald Trump is not.
Because image is all they care about.
Yeah.
One of the best things that I heard in his speech was when he said, When you open your heart to patriotism, there's no room for prejudice.
And I so I don't understand how they call his speech Hitlerian when he says such unifying things about our country and about us as a people and taking our country back.
and giving, you know, a voice to the forgotten men and women.
The men and women of Utah and all around our country.
I was so glad he used that in a speech today because I have called this the forgotten man, the forgotten woman election.
You know, go on my website, Hannity.com, you can look at the pig picture of John McNaughton, and there you have all the other presidents, and then a very arrogant Barack Obama stomping on the Constitution.
And James Madison saying, What what are you doing?
And you look at that picture more closely.
I I I get more out of it every single time I view it.
But uh all right, Sherry, listen, thank you, appreciate it.
We'll wrap up our final half hour of the program today with your calls toll-free, eight hundred nine four-one Sean.
Uh, don't forget a special two-hour edition.
Hannity tonight, we will be at the Freedom Ball.
Donald Trump will be at some point making an appearance there tonight.
That ought to be fun.
And uh we'll have full coverage of the festivities, me in my tucks tonight at ten on the Fox News Channel.
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And through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.
We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
when america is united america is totally unstoppable There should be no fear.
We are protected, and we will always be protected.
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement.
And most importantly, we will be protected by God.
All right, that was Donald J. Trump earlier today at the inauguration, the forty-fifth president of the United States of America.
I love the beginning.
I like the end of the speech.
I like everything in between.
You know, when he came out of the box after the pleasantries, which happens in any speech like this.
You know, we're now joined in a great effort to rebuild this country to restore the promise of this country for every person in this country that we will determine the course of this country and the world for many years to come and all the challenges we will confront and hardships.
But very optimistically says we're gonna we're gonna get this job done.
And when he talked about not merely transferring power from one administration to another, one party to another, but power from Washington and giving it back to the people.
What is he saying here?
He's saying something pretty deep and pretty profound.
Basically, all of you power hungry, greedy, self-aggrandizing, you know, politicians have ruined it for everybody, and they have with their burdensome regulation and their handouts, and you know, they can't even get a website on Obamacare upright for crying out loud.
And then he talked about giving the power back to people now.
And that means get the government the hell out of the way.
Why are we gonna get rid of all the regulations?
Get government out of the way.
How do you incentivize multi billion dollar corporations to invest?
Get the government out of the way.
They don't mind paying some taxes, but not burdensome taxes.
You know, but you have this group, as he said, in our nation's capital that has reaped the rewards of government.
They treat themselves great.
They don't have the same health care that you and I had options to get.
They treat themselves wonderfully.
But train but in this particular case, we we have been bearing the cost of all of this.
Our children have been robbed blind.
Washington flourished, but not the rest of the country.
Not the people of Michigan, not the people in Ohio or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania that came out and said they wanted a change.
Yeah, politicians prospered, but the jobs left, the factories closed because of their doing.
They did this.
The establishment always protects it.
So what do you think gerrymandering is?
What do you think?
Every state legislature gets together every ten years, we get a population update.
We figure out how many congressional seats.
Okay, we'll give you these three seats in very democratic areas, and and you give us these five seats in very Republican areas, and we'll all stay in power forever.
We'll start a stimulus plan.
I'll I'll agree to your four billion dollars for your project, but I need you to agree to my six billion dollars for my project, so I can look good before the people that elect me.
You know, that's not a triumph for you.
It's not a triumph for our children.
So hopefully this is the beginning, the beginning of a shift, a change in attitude that government is once again by of and for the people.
That government is the problem, as Reagan said, and government needs to get the hell out of the way.
And hopefully that's what's going to begin as of today.
If Donald Trump keeps his promises alone, he will be a successful president.
To the extent that he doesn't cave, to the extent that he doesn't negotiate away, to the extent that he stays focused on the people that elected him, is to the extent he will be successful, in my opinion.
All right, we go to Tiffany in Cedar Park in Texas on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey Tiffany, how are you?
Hey, Sean, I love you so much, and I'm just so excited about our future for our children.
And I thought the speech was awesome.
Uh my favorite part was um between black, brown, and white, we all bleed red blood.
And that's a that's just so uniting, and I feel that coming that we're finally going to have unity.
And it's awesome.
And how was your tax last night?
How'd you feel in your tuck?
Well, I didn't wear a tux last night because the ball is on tonight, and uh I didn't go to a ball last night, thank God.
And let's see, what did I what did I wear out last night?
I wore jeans and a shirt and my my television jacket, and that was it, no tie.
Okay.
And that was dressy for me.
I usually wear my golf shirt.
That's my uniform.
Well, I can't wait to see the pictures of you and your text, and and I'm just so happy.
Well, you can see it on TV tonight.
I'll be on ten to midnight.
You can watch all night long, Eastern time.
Oh, I'll be there.
I'll be watching you.
All right.
Well, thank you, Tiffany.
You know, it's just not my cup of tea, and all of you guys here like are shocked at this.
Lauren's sitting here with us with Sweet Baby James, and they're like rolling their eyes constantly.
Oh, poor baby has to go to the big ball.
I s I would rather watch it from home.
I've watched Washington correspondence dinners, but I've never been to a Washington correspondence dinner.
Because I'd rather hang out with my friends.
Like, for example, Gomez is in town.
He's been my best friend from third grade.
I'd rather hang out with him.
And he's writing, well, I don't feel like going to the ball either.
And that's why I guess we're friends.
He goes, I don't really feel like going.
Um did you bring a ball dress?
No, I'm not going.
You're not going.
Yeah, see?
Okay, you guys want me to go, and you're not going.
Great.
All right, let's go to uh Donna in Frederick, Maryland.
Donna Hi, how are you?
And we're glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
It is a happy day today, and I breathe a sigh of relief because I've really been concerned for our president and vice president's safety, especially in lieu of the ongoing protests, which is utter nonsense.
And uh I want to say it's refreshing not to hear the words fundamental transformation in today's speech and the mystery that um befell that speech.
It it was um actually kind of neat that you're a little bit of a shot across the bow to the outgoing administration.
Listen, Obama didn't have any problems doing it to George W. Bush, and that's the way it goes.
I will say this.
I don't think b I don't think Obama's going away.
I don't uh I did this the other the other night this week.
I think Obama is gonna be bitter and angry as he watch watches every executive order wiped away in mere minutes when he sees his signature legislation just blown up and redone, he's gonna be angry when he's when Americans begin to see the magnitude of him accumulating as much debt as every other president before him combined and and people talking about it in real terms, and now we have to pay this money back.
I think he's gonna resent it, and I think he's gonna be sticking his uh nose into pretty much everything that Donald Trump does.
I don't think he has the class in any way as George W. Bush, and I think that uh, you know, he needs to be relevant.
He's gonna miss the crowds, miss the adulation.
I don't think he enjoyed particularly actually being president rolling up his sleeves and working.
I think he liked the fun part of it.
I think he liked the speech part of it.
I think Donald Trump in that sense is the opposite.
I mean, I I I'm guarantee you because I know him, he can't wait till this stupid stuff stops.
These these luncheons, balls, dinners, speeches.
He wants to go into his office, roll up his sleeves, and d do what he does every day, and that's work.
And you know what's interesting about that, Sean, is I he strikes me as someone who is truly a man of his word.
I think he will deliver on that famous Gettysburg speech that the press conveniently ignored.
And um, you know, it it truly is a wonderful day in this country.
We're so blessed.
And thank you for all you do.
You know, look, this has not been an easy election for anybody.
It's been a contentious, long, drawn out two-year battle.
This started back I remember we got it started at CPAC in twenty fifteen, march, February, March of 2015.
And there I was interviewing Jeb Bush, and there I was interviewing Marco Rubio, and there I was interviewing Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and Donald Trump.
And they were all there.
And then, of course, last year was all about the primaries, then it was the general election.
You know, politics unfortunately doesn't really end very long in Washington.
And that's why I think he's got a very short window here.
He's got a little less than a year to get this done.
And I think he should have every one of his promises, big promises, agenda items out there ready to go, starting next Monday, starting on Monday.
That's why we're coming back here next Monday to watch and see what unfolds and watch the little snowflakes in Washington, get used to that there's a new principal in town.
Uh let's say hi to Vivian is in New York holding down the fort while I'm away.
What's up, Vivian?
How are you?
Hi, Sean, how are you?
I g I have to tell you, I was so happy.
I was watching the ceremony from work, and I just got goosebumps and chills.
It to me, this feels like the the scrawny kid in school that's been bullied and beat up for the last eight years, finally got his lunch money back.
This is what this feels like for me.
I am so happy.
Um, look, I agree with you.
I totally agree with you.
That but you know, you gotta understand we've been through a primary.
We have been through an o we have been through as a country.
Uh this is now the end, if you will, of the qualifying round.
Now for the first time we can actually do something.
Now, Republicans have talked about doing things for a long time.
And for reasons that are frankly, you know, inconceivable to me, they've not been able to get their promises fulfilled and that job done.
So now I don't know what their excuse is gonna be.
I'm watching Paul Ryan and you know everyone's patting each other on the back and they're having big toast together, and it's all lovey dovey.
I don't know if that's going to last forever.
They need to work with our president now.
They need to do what they're supposed to do and get things done.
I think the one main reason that we won is because for the first time in a long time, we had a presidential candidate who wasn't afraid to put God first.
Who wasn't afraid to say I'm going to defend Israel, our ally.
For the last eight years, we had a closet communist who made everyone our enemy.
Um I think now is the time for them to roll their sleeves and do exactly what they said it is that they were going to do, or this one final I feel like we had one last opportunity to get it right.
And if they don't keep their word and work with this president, I will then we're done.
Then the country's done.
This is this what we need to get done here is deep and it is profound.
There's no doubt about it.
Anyway, thank you for the call.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
It's an exciting time I know for a lot of people.
And we will be at the Freedom Ball tonight, 10 till midnight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
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And that, of course, from the inaugural speech from earlier today.
I make my stand here and I'm going to stick by it.
Ninety percent of what has happened in the last eight years within the first hundred days is going to be wiped away.
Ninety percent.
Every executive order, of course, Obamacare, gone.
And when you add to that the rest of the Trump agenda, it's gonna be like Obama was never there but for the accumulation of debt and the horrible judicial picks, of course, that he had.
But with that said, this has been a historic day.
This has been a great day for the country.
This is because of all of you deplorable, irredeemable, deplorables that cling to your God, Bibles, guns, and religion.
And now the fight really begins.
So starting Monday, you'll see the left more onhing than ever.
Want to remind you tonight, Hannity, ten till midnight, two hours tonight.
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That's all coming up ten to midnight tonight, and yes, I will be in my tucks on the Fox News Channel.
Obama's era is done.
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