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Feb. 14, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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	You know, there's a lot of fun stories to get this week started, and I think we need a little bit of fun in our lives.
	But we got serious news today as well.
	This whole battle never seems to stop, which is, of course, the battle over whether or not we're going to protect our country.
	I cannot believe we're still having this debate, and it just gets more and more incendiary and insane by the minute, by the day.
	And the level of ignorance out there is spectacular.
	Especially among the media elites, the arrogant, pompous jackasses in the media and uh their cohorts.
	Uh and funny side note on all of this, uh, there was a report out today.
	Is this true?
	This might be come on, this has to be made up.
	That did CNN really get kicked out of Venezuela after the country's president accused the network of spreading fake news.
	I can't believe I've read it and I just died laughing.
	It was on ZeroHedge.com, and anyway, it goes on to say, well, tensions between Trump and CNN are dying down, which is not true.
	A new scandal has erupted uh in the cable news network after Venezuela's president Maduro said on Sunday he wanted CNN out of the country accusing them of spreading fake news.
	I'm like, wow, maybe maybe the dictators are beginning to get what I've known for a long time too.
	And uh there was an even another story.
	Poor Bernie Sanders was on CNN.
	I don't know what they did to him, but apparently he claimed that there was fake news as well.
	There's a whole story about this that uh they pulled the plug.
	Do you have that tape?
	No.
	Okay.
	I uh it is a funny story.
	That anyway, Bernie Sanders was a guest on CNN to talk about Trump's refusal to comment on the report about Mike Flynn, which I'll get to in a minute, and his contacts with the Russian ambassador before he was inaugurated, and the interviewer is Aaron Bernardo's.
	I don't actually is one of the few people that seems normal over there.
	And it's interesting to know without Sanders talking.
	Now she both asks her question and then kind of sock pocketed puppeted the uh the answer.
	And it sounds like you know, it's pretty funny.
	So they anyway.
	I don't know if you've heard.
	Here's what he said when asked about the report on Flynn on his flight to Mar-a-Lago Today, and his flight landed about an hour ago.
	This was on Friday, and he said, I don't know, I haven't seen it, Trump said.
	And he said the report that he talked to the ambassador from Russia before he was inaugurated about sanctions.
	He said, I haven't seen that.
	Burnett says he says he knows nothing about it.
	He hasn't seen any of the reports.
	Is that a problem?
	Sanders writes, I don't know.
	Maybe he was watching CNN fake news.
	What do you think?
	She goes, I don't buy it.
	It was a joke.
	He said, I know it's a joke.
	I'm saying, you know, you don't buy what he says.
	And then Sanders says, Aaron.
	And she goes, Yes.
	Says, I'm sorry, Senator, you obviously don't buy what he said.
	You believe he has seen these reports, so pause.
	And then Sanders says, I'm not.
	Are we on?
	It's so funny.
	And then it looks, it looks like they lose the connection with Senator Sanders Burnett goes just as soon as he's calling CNN fake news.
	I assume it was an accident.
	I mean, but the timing couldn't be any better.
	You don't think it was an accident?
	Well, you can say it.
	I don't have any evidence.
	So I mean, they've they're really getting in trouble.
	Chris Cuomo stepped all over it the other day on his program when he made a comparison that the worst thing you can say about a journalist, and then you backtrack later.
	You know, by the way, welcome to my world.
	This has been the world I have lived and worked in my entire career.
	And there's if they weren't so abusively biased, it wouldn't be that big a deal.
	I I turned on, literally, I turned on over the weekend, seeing him for like five seconds by accident.
	It was not on purpose.
	And, you know, I was around the Fox News channel, and I have Dish TV and a turnaround.
	And I just watched a little bit.
	Andrew Sullivan and like somebody else, they're all saying that Trump's mentally ill.
	That's like the new thing that they're trying to push.
	You know, the media's devotion.
	You know what?
	It's it's their lazy, the double standard for America.
	They now see through this so crystal clear.
	They spot it like I have spotted it for decades.
	And Americans can now see, oh, okay.
	That's your bias point of view.
	This isn't news.
	We don't buy your crap anymore.
	And they're, you know, more and more.
	These networks do not compete with the Fox News Channel.
	They do not even get into the same arena.
	It's like we're up here, and you know, they're like, we're one, they're 40.
	This is no comparison.
	All right, maybe they're 25.
	I don't know.
	I don't really pay that much attention.
	I know people don't believe when I say that, but I don't pay that much attention to it.
	Um 800, 941 Sean is a toll-free telephone.
	Oh, you know what else was a cool story?
	So I didn't watch the Grammy Awards.
	Did you watch the Grammy Awards?
	All right.
	So there's this singer who shows up in a make America great again dress.
	Linda pointed out, because I don't spend, in spite of my Twitter wars, I don't spend a lot of time on Twitter.
	I don't read a lot of Twitter.
	I just like to tweet and you know, that's where I get my my fighting in rather than wasting precious airtime.
	And I got an hour ride to and from work every day, and I'm bored stiff.
	No, I don't tweet while I'm driving.
	I wait at a stoplight and then I'll throw out a tweet.
	And uh anyway, so this woman, and I'd never heard of her before, and I'm thinking, wow, that's pretty cool.
	And I saw it, and you said that she got eviscerated on social media, like beaten up really bad, which is too bad.
	But in the middle of all of this, the left-wing performers that were there, she comes up with the Make America Great Again dress.
	She looks, by the way, a whole lot better than Madonna or Ashley Judd, even Madonna in our prime.
	But anyway, the singer-songwriter's name is Joy Villa.
	And she made a political statement by wearing the dress on the red carpets, which I think in that environment was an incredibly courageous thing to do, knowing how off the rails the left is in the country today.
	So she wore a bright blue dress, really very pretty, really nice.
	It says make America Great Again across the front of her gown going up her gown.
	And I thought it was really cool.
	Trump on the back, and then on the red carpet, she initially wore a white cover-up of the sl of the gown, removing it to reveal this thing.
	Which is so cool because the, you know, whenever a singer or somebody in in Hollywood wants to get famous, they usually show up in like what I call the J-Lo dress.
	Because you want to get noticed, you show up in the J-Lo kind of dress.
	Or you show up with major cleavage hanging out.
	And that then becomes the talked-about item at whatever the award ceremony.
	Let's pat ourselves on the back ceremony that they always have with these things.
	Anyway, so she wore this thing.
	And guess what happened?
	Oh, I have some news to make.
	CBS News reports that sales of Joy Villa's music has, quote, their words, CBS, alt-left radical media, not me, skyrocketed after she wore the pro-Trump dress to the Grammys with the words make America great and Trump on them.
	Anyway, she's also climbing the charts on iTunes.
	She tweeted out her reaction to this newfound fame.
	She said, quote, I'm speechless.
	You, my amazing fans and supporters, have put me to number 16 on iTunes top.
	All right, do me a favor, download some of her songs for me.
	Because you know I'm stupid.
	And I I write you over the weekend.
	How many times did I write you about technical phone questions this week?
	I just go to you because you always have the answer.
	A friend of mine are trying to figure something out, and then you just helped me like immediately.
	On Instagram, she explained the controversial look.
	She said, Go big or go home.
	Stand for what you believe or fall for what you don't.
	Above all, make a choice for tolerance and love, agree to disagree.
	That's like the smartest thing that's ever come out of any actress, actor, or singer in the history of the country.
	Good for her.
	I'm gonna I'm now gonna listen to her music.
	Have you listened to it?
	Do you like it?
	People can't see you should be.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes, I I actually I had never heard of her either, and I just went and looked at her, and she's got some some very she's good.
	I mean, she's better than J-Lo, who said during her speech last night that it's time to get to work against the president.
	And she was showing all of her assets and made plenty of uh news with them as usual, but made sure to bash the president while she did it.
	But Joy Villa did a she special.
	I'm so glad I didn't watch it.
	I literally I went to Michael W. Smith's concert at Carnegie Hall.
	There were I never saw there was 270 people on that stage.
	I pay I tweeted out a picture of it.
	If you want to go to my Twitter account at Sean Hannity.
	I saw that picture of the choir and the full worker straight.
	It was beautiful.
	It was beautiful.
	And it was he I Did you wear a tuxedo?
	Get out of here.
	You think I'm wearing a tuxedo?
	I did wear a shirt and a jacket and jeans, but I didn't wear a tie.
	I can't stand a guy who gave me a bow tie.
	And I'm like, I've never worn a bow tie in my life.
	It was a nice kid.
	I'm like, Who gave you a bow tie?
	A nice kid comes up to me and goes, I make ties, and he gives me one, he gives me a bow tie.
	I'm like, give me a normal tie.
	And I don't wear bow ties.
	That was nice of him, though.
	I appreciated it.
	So let me tell you what's going on, and this is one of our top stories.
	Of course, the vetting issue is another top story today, but we've got a lot of things that are happening at once.
	You've got everything and everyone around the president now is going to be vilified.
	You've got to understand this is not a game anymore.
	It started with the vicious and vile and cruel attacks against Donald Trump's 10-year-old son, Baron.
	Now, I think I'm probably one of maybe the only people in media that has actually met Baron.
	And I can tell you that this is a great kid.
	He literally, I Melania introduced him to me.
	This is Mr. Hannity.
	He's works at the Fox News channel, and he goes, Hi, Mr. Hannity, it's an honor to meet you.
	Shakes my hand the way you'd want any 10-year-old kid to do it.
	Look me in the eye, great kid.
	And I've seen him a couple of other times.
	And what they did to him was beyond cruel.
	And it was widespread.
	And if it ever happened with Malia or Sasha, I would have been just as angry.
	Leave children the hell alone of politicians and public figures.
	It's none of your business.
	None whatsoever.
	And the fact that a kid at four in the morning or three in the morning is tired, that's called being normal.
	That's I fidget and I'm 55.
	And the things they said about this kid were just cruel.
	And I'm telling you from experience, not true.
	The kid's brilliant.
	Really, really cool, nice, normal, great kid.
	All right.
	That's one.
	Then Ivanka.
	Really?
	Oh, she wore her own piece of jewelry on 60 minutes.
	And one of her assistants, as per usual practice, if she's in the public, they tweeted out something that said, Oh, you can see her particular line of jewelry.
	The media made a huge deal about that.
	All right, Ivanka's a big girl.
	She can handle it.
	She's in the political arena.
	You really want to go after Ivanka.
	You really want to beat up on a woman?
	Oh, because if a conservative did it, that would that would be how it's described.
	Then Eric Trump, who I've known a long time, he's so in he's so motivated, motivated by his philanthropy.
	I think it's St. Jude's, my mind is going blank here.
	But he'd raised tens of millions of dollars over the years, and his father, being a nice guy, would say, Go use my facility here or my facility here.
	And that was his father's donation to help his son who cares about other people in the case of St. Jude's children.
	So now the latest victim in this is Donald Trump Jr.
	By the way, Donald and Eric and Ivanka, they're adults, they can handle themselves.
	Guys, you really want to pick on a girl?
	Really?
	Anyway, so he sends his son to a school, and these people are writing blogs about, oh, I don't know if I want to send my kid to the school.
	Don't go there.
	Don't go there.
	It's unbelievable.
	Now we're attacking ten-year-old kids, women, and we're attacking the grandchildren of the president, which is how pathetic this has gotten.
	Now, when we come back, I'm going to explain how it goes even deeper.
	Every single person around the president is also being isolated, Olinski 101 and demonized.
	Kellyanne's gone through it, Bannon's gone through it, Steven Miller's going through it, and and General Flynn is now going through it, and the level of pettiness is just off the charts.
	We'll get to that next.
	Stay up to date with the latest news and expert opinions as Donald Trump takes office.
	Stick right here with The Sean Hannity Show.
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	Alright, hang on.
	Whenever Jamie Dupree sends something, I got to pay attention to it.
	Um, you know, a lot of you ask about Jamie all the time, and Jamie has had voice issues for about a year now, right?
	About that.
	Uh Jamie still works on the show.
	He's still in Washington.
	He's still doing a phenomenal job.
	We love him dearly.
	It was the my frustration in life that I could never get an opinion out of the guy, and I tried so hard.
	And uh, but he's uh he's actually on the mend, and we uh we have really high hopes that hopefully he'll be back on the air pretty shortly.
	But um, you know, it's just it's difficult.
	I knew a guy in Huntsville, Alabama, his vocal cords froze.
	I mean, I I I early in my career I I got a contract and I I got insurance from Lloyd's of London because I'd have to give money back.
	And it was a fortune.
	Don't ever go there.
	Lloyd's a London, they're so expensive.
	Oh my gosh, it's ridiculous.
	But uh anyway, our thoughts of prayers are with him.
	Good thing is he's in great spirits, he's working hard.
	It's just that his his voice has had some difficulty.
	And by the way, we don't care if it doesn't have to be perfect when he comes back.
	We all know that, you know, when he's ready, we'll put him back on.
	He says no appeal to the Supreme Court at this time, which we knew.
	Uh new papers just filed with the district judge in Washington ask for asking for a delay in any proceedings.
	The DOJ wants to wait and see if the full Ninth Circuit will hear the case.
	No word on any revised order or new executive order being issued this week, which kind of dovetails into what I have been saying is you've got this whole you now have an infrastructure where the radical alt-left is moving into any town hall that any congressman or woman is having,
	that they are going to try and tie Donald Trump up in knots and in the courts, and they're hoping that the judicial activists like Obama's picks will help them advance an agenda they can never get done at the ballot box or persuade the American people to go along with legislatively, so that's why they like to legislate from the bench, as we say.
	And the other thing that's happening, and I'll get into more details after the bottom of the the hour news, but the other thing that's happening is anybody that surrounds the president.
	I mentioned all of his children.
	Now they're attacking this man's grandchildren.
	And it also look at what they did to Kellyanne Kelly Ann said uh commercial free by Ivanka's stuff, because they were brute they were brutalizing her and politicized it at Nordstrom, which I confirm from a great Nordstrom connection.
	Now they're gone after Steve Bannon.
	They're hitting Steve Miller as a really smart young man.
	And then they're gonna go after Mike Flynn and they're gonna try and pick him off one at a time.
	You know why?
	Because the media is lazy, and the media has a radical alt-left agenda.
	And I'll remind them journalism is dead.
	You guys killed it.
	I just got more data, and by the way, this is the young girl Joy Villa is her name, who went to the Grammys with the Make America Great on the front of her side of her dress, I guess, and then Trump on the back of her dress.
	It turns out that her C D, I guess, I make the static, and you heard some of it there.
	That was what the song Vagabonds, what was the other song that we played?
	I'd never heard her before.
	I like it.
	Might be a slightly overproduced, I but she has a beautiful voice.
	No, I thought just I think the production value could be just a hair better is too much, it was too tinny a little bit.
	I'm just being, I'm giving honest critics.
	Do I ever not be honest?
	Seriously.
	Uh but I liked it.
	I liked it a lot.
	I think it was really well done.
	And I didn't know this, but it jumped to number one on Amazon's top digital albums, and still number one today.
	There's a message for you, Hollywood and and you musical nitwits out there that know nothing about politics.
	Good for her.
	Can you I'll tell you what else?
	Put a link on our website for her.
	Put it up there.
	You know, people want to get it.
	They may not know how they may be dumb like me electronically.
	And you know, you're not exactly helpful.
	Put your microphone on.
	So this weekend, I'm having I'm with a friend of mine, and he's having a little problem with his with his instant mess.
	What do you call it?
	Umessage.
	No, text.
	His text messaging, also known as iMessaging.
	Because I sent him a text and then he writes me, What's the matter?
	You won't answer my questions.
	And I'm like, I send it again.
	And what happened?
	I call him, I said, What are you talking about?
	I've sent you four texts.
	God forbid you had to make a phone call as opposed to texting somebody.
	Oh my word.
	So I look, I I have my kids download my apps for me.
	I don't do that.
	I'm shocked to hear that.
	Well, they they got to earn their being funny.
	They gotta earn their their bed and their rent, they gotta pay rent in some capacity.
	Yes, of course.
	And if dad wants a download, just do it.
	What's the big deal for them?
	It's seconds.
	They actually get impatient.
	Uh-huh.
	And they're like, Dad, just give me the phone.
	Give me the phone.
	I'll do it.
	That would be me.
	Beep beep beep beep beep done.
	Beep beep beep beep beep done.
	And it's a me it's actually annoying because I just don't have no interest to try and get beyond the the usage of my phone.
	Uh huh.
	If I wanted to use more of my phone, I would spend the time.
	I'd read the handbook.
	I don't ever want to read a how-to handbook in my life.
	It's monotonous.
	And when I have somebody like Linda who works for me who knows all of it, why do I have to bother?
	But the problem is So you're saying I'm an enabler.
	No.
	So the problem is I can't.
	He's not getting my messages.
	So I'm like, all right, well, he's not getting my message.
	What do you got to do?
	And then you start talking about docking.
	And you I said, docking, I'm I'm not talking about a doc.
	I'm talking, I'm not talking about fishing.
	I'm talking about just the iPhone.
	I wrote you that.
	I said I'm not talking about.
	Well, I just was trying to explain to you because you wanted, you know, we were talking about sinking and stuff.
	Well, number one, I use a PC, I don't use an Apple.
	I don't use a Mac.
	Right.
	It's not a kid.
	It sounded like he used a Mac the way you were describing the problem.
	Right.
	You didn't give that information to me, so I had to deduce it through the Shaunisms, and I was able to deduce it.
	And I said, No, it's on iPhone.
	We're texting on iPhone.
	We're not using uh we're not using a doc.
	And I'll No, but your question was about syncing.
	So I had to tell you how to unlock it.
	Because he made a he hit a button and it didn't accept my text.
	And so I want to Well, the bottom line is we got it done, didn't we?
	We fixed it.
	It took about five minutes, but we got it done after.
	Well, no, because you had an initial question and then you had a follow-up question because silly me.
	I had to say, let me know if you need anything else.
	Stupid woman.
	That was really dumb.
	Dumb.
	That was so stupid.
	That was really silly, silly, silly girl.
	Yeah, because then that's when the docking starts stuff carted kicking in.
	What are you talking about?
	In 30 seconds, we fixed the initial problem.
	I should have just stopped there.
	And then he asked one other question.
	I'm like, all right, I'll ask her.
	And then I was like five seconds away from saying, Can I have his number and I'll just call him?
	I would talk about you out of it.
	It would have made my day because I started getting aggravated because you give me all these terms, and then you finally explain.
	If you have a Mac, because I use a PC, okay, there's a difference.
	And I use a PC because that's what I know.
	And what it what there are like three things in life that throw me over the edge.
	When something breaks, I hate it.
	When my computer in this room doesn't work, our studio, it drives me nuts.
	And all I keep saying is, all I'm asking for is a computer that works.
	That's not too much.
	All I want.
	Now I've got one, two, three, four, five computers, and two televisions in the studio, which is perfect because I have ADHD.
	If I was a kid in school today, I guarantee you, when all the other kids line up for their riddling, I would be on that line.
	They would would have loved to riddle of me as a kid.
	I don't think it existed back in my day.
	But if they if I was in school today, definitely on the line.
	Oh, they would have loved it.
	They probably would have given me something else, like to calm me down.
	You know, turn me into a zombie, which I think schools would like to do to some of the kids.
	Meanwhile, I'm just being a regular kid.
	That's what kids do.
	Kids don't, they're not interested in your stupid lectures about Paradise Lost or your lectures about Dante's Inferno, which by the way, since I've read it as an adult, I love it.
	Absolutely go crazy.
	I can't.
	It's so cool.
	But when I was young, when they were teaching it, I think in ninth grade, we had to read Dante's Inferno.
	I'm like, oh man.
	Oh, you're killing me.
	You know, then in the summer before you had to read The Old Man in the Sea, which was a good.
	I actually like that one.
	I got along with Ernest Hemingway.
	Okay, he was pretty cool.
	It was a great story about the Merlin, about the long fight.
	And um, and all these, you know, all the classics they made us read all that stuff.
	But then when I got older and I didn't have a TV for five years, that's when I read all the Harvard classics.
	And I had a whole set of them.
	They were called the Harvard Classics.
	And I started to get a real education once I got out of school.
	It's so funny.
	You know, I love I love these stories when they write about me occasionally, and I've gone through this my whole career.
	Rush Limbaugh dropout.
	Sean Hannity, drop out.
	It's this I'm like, really?
	Russia's the most successful broadcaster.
	Single-handedly, the guy saved AM radio.
	I mean, it paved the way for all of us in radio.
	He's a genius.
	He has a take on things that he thinks at a level I don't think at.
	He thinks differently than I do.
	Mark has gifts that nobody else has.
	I do a show very differently.
	And but and that's why when they talk about talk radio generally, this election proved more than ever.
	We're not all alike.
	We don't all agree on everything.
	And I think that's good for listeners.
	And even if you were never Trump talk show host, whatever.
	I don't care.
	They hate me, but I don't hate them.
	They attack me on an I'd only respond.
	Well, I kind of broke that rule earlier today on Twitter.
	You don't, I don't like bullies.
	I just don't.
	And I refuse to, you know, I'll tell you a story.
	I'm gonna tell you the Vinny story.
	So there's this kid in grammar school, who's like the smartest, smartest math kid in the whole class.
	I won't give his name, I don't want to embarrass him.
	And then there was this other kid who was like a rich blue blood brat.
	And he punched us, kid, and I like threw him up against the wall, said, Don't touch this kid.
	What are you doing?
	What do you don't do that?
	I met this guy years later when we were in Phoenix, and he remembered it.
	I was stunned.
	And of course he's successful because he was brilliant.
	He was the smartest guy.
	How old were you when that happened?
	I think seventh or eighth grade.
	This is Schneider hit in my guts.
	I had her for two grades.
	Oh, she was awful.
	She wore the worst perfume, too.
	It was horrible.
	It was just like, oh God, get away with that.
	Ugh, geez.
	Never forget it.
	She was not, she was not nice to me.
	Why?
	I have to be nice to them when they're not nice to me.
	She was not a nice person to me.
	And there's even a worse story that, you know, one day when I pass away, John Gomez will tell the whole world what happened in fifth grade.
	Teacher started hitting all the boys.
	Yeah.
	Twisting their ears, pulling their hair, because apparently the boys were bad that day.
	In other words, boys were being boys.
	They were being normal.
	All of this to me, I put in the category of being normal.
	And I just was not having it.
	Let's put it that way.
	Don't put your hands on me.
	And I stood up for myself.
	And I didn't get thrown out of school either.
	I didn't.
	I'm not letting anyone touch me.
	I would never never happen.
	And you guys make fun of my ninja.
	I was a ninja before I knew what ninja is and martial arts.
	All right, let me finish my thought.
	I'm I'm digressing a lot here today, and I apologize for that.
	So everybody around the president is being attacked.
	Kellyanne, even his 10 year old son, now his grandson, then his children, Ivanka, really, we're picking on girls and little little kids.
	Eric Trump, Don Jr.'s son.
	I mean, it's unbelievable to me that that's happening.
	What is going on here is a very organized effort to vilify and demonize anybody associated with the president.
	There's even a really good article by Paul Sperry today writing that you know Obama's sh setting up a shadow White House.
	And I have a friend on the down low that thinks that Obama set this up with some executive orders, he told me today.
	I'm now looking into it.
	But anyway, the this was from a New York Post story that Sperry did and is setting up a shadow White House for organizing anti Trump protests nationwide and rebuilding the ravaged Democratic Party.
	Of course he is.
	It's exactly what I predicted he would do.
	Because everything he's done in the last eight years is pretty much being wiped out daily.
	You know, then now you've got a new narrative emerging here.
	You know, Jim Webb said there's a campaign on Capitol Hill and the media and academia, Senator from Virginia, and 2016 Democratic presidential, vice presidential uh 2016 presidential candidate, underway in Capitol Hill in the media and academia to personally discredit Donald Trump.
	Then you got guys like Bill Maher.
	You know, Trump is mentally ill.
	Al Franken questioning his health.
	I saw two guys on CNN this weekend questioning his mental health.
	Al Franken saying that Pocahontas' nickname for Lion Liz Warren is racist.
	She's she's not a minority, you idiot.
	There are people talking about him running for president.
	And you have militants now.
	We have people being paid to attack.
	They're going after Kellyanne and Steve Bannon and now Steve Miller, and they're gonna grind some shures on the list somewhere there, and they're gonna go after him.
	By the way, you know who warned everybody about this?
	Hello?
	Me.
	I told every person that I know this is gonna this is what's gonna happen.
	And this is how they're gonna do it.
	Go to the Grammys last night, you got Buster Rhimes.
	Is he still even out there?
	I haven't even heard from him in 15 years.
	Anyway, referred to President Donald Trump as President Agent Orange.
	Oh, so creative.
	You know, and this is what they want to do.
	They want to demonize.
	They the problem is is what Trump is doing, all of these establishments are being destroyed.
	Fake news is devastating to the news media.
	Being called out as often as they are and exposed is devastating.
	WikiLeaks was devastating for them.
	So they're upset.
	Then the good old boys in DC, including Republicans, you know, they don't like it either because now they may have to actually work for a living and may have to fulfill a promise, even though it's controversial.
	So you got the Republican establishment against Trump.
	And then you've got the Democratic establishment, obviously against Trump.
	So they're gonna go after everyone around him, suggest he's mentally unstable.
	Meanwhile, he's rolling up his hands, working harder than anybody with shock and awe and real movement in DC.
	What?
	Vetting refugees from other countries that have ties in some way to terror, building a wall, but saying you're putting a door in the wall?
	Jorge Ramos is on Hannity tonight.
	Yeah.
	We're gonna get into it.
	It's gonna be fun.
	Or the economy to stimulate growth and create jobs for people in Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, or getting rid of the disaster Obamacare, five thousand four hundred dollar increase.
	That's before this year's increases, making America energy independent.
	You know, what do you think the NEA's gonna do when he starts giving local communities choice and education?
	They're gonna go nuts.
	This is all predictable.
	And here's my message to all anybody that has a backbone of Washington.
	They're never gonna like you.
	You know what I've gotten over being liked.
	I don't care if these media people or political people like me, I don't like them.
	I don't like that's I don't like how they roll, they don't like how I roll.
	I'm fine with that.
	That's why I don't go to Washington Correspondence Center.
	You know, I gave my uh you think I should go this year.
	Why do you think I should go this year and sit in a room of people that hate me and I hate them?
	Why would I want to do that?
	This is your year.
	No, it's not my year.
	I'm gonna stay home and watch it on TV like I always do.
	It's not my year.
	John Hannity.
	John Hannity.
	You're from the Department of Justice, if I understand correctly.
	Yes.
	Um, so you're aware of of law enforcement.
	How many arrests have there been of foreign nationals for those seven countries since nine eleven?
	Your Honor, I don't have that information.
	I'm from the civil division, if that if that helps, get me off the hook anyway.
	Well, let me tell you the answer to that is none, as best I can tell.
	So I mean, you know, you're you're here arguing on behalf of someone that says we have to protect the United States from these individuals coming from these countries, and and there's no support for that.
	Your Honor, I think the point is that because this is a question of foreign affairs, because this is an area where Congress has delegated authority to the president to make these determinations, it's the president that gets to make the determinations, and the court doesn't have authority to look behind those determinations.
	They're essentially like determinations that are committed to agency discretion.
	Well um and we do think that uh despite plaintiff's claim that Klein Dings D. Manzala is is is directly on point.
	Um, and that if the if the if uh the four corners of the executive or executive order offer a facially legitimate and bona fide reason for it, which they do here, that that the court can't look behind that.
	Well, I can't say I understand that from your from your papers, and you and he very forcefully presented that argument.
	But I'm also asked to look and determine if the executive order is rationally based.
	And and rationally based to me implies that uh to some extent I have to find it grounded in facts as opposed to fiction.
	We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants.
	Uh you know, we are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, uh, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
	Uh we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully uh to become immigrants.
	Please use your executive order to halt deportations for all eleven point five undocted immigrants in this country right now.
	What we're done that we need to have report at the same time.
	We you have a power to stop the quotation from all adopting the city.
	Actually, I don't.
	And that's why we're here.
	I'm in here here's the problem that I have, uh Jose, and I I've said this consistently.
	Um my job in the executive branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed.
	Uh Congress uh has said, here's the law when it comes to those who are undocumented, and they allocate a whole bunch of money for enforcement.
	It's something that I've struggled with uh throughout my presidency.
	The problem is is that um, you know, I'm the president of the United States, I'm not uh uh the emperor of the United States.
	Uh my job is to execute laws that are passed.
	And Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system.
	And what that means is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place, even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic.
	Now, what you need to know when I'm speaking as president of the United States, And I come to this community, is that if in fact I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so.
	But we're also a nation of laws.
	That's part of our tradition.
	And so the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws.
	And what I'm proposing is the harder path, which is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you want to achieve, but it won't be as easy as just shouting.
	It requires us lobbying and getting it done.
	But if we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring uh the law uh in a way that uh I think would be very difficult to defend legally.
	So that's not an option.
	Uh and and I'm I do uh get a little worried that uh you know advocates of immigration reform uh start losing heart and immediately thinking, well uh you know, somehow there's a an out here if Congress doesn't act, we'll we'll just have the president sign something and and and that'll take care of it.
	We won't have to worry about it.
	What I've said is is that there's a path to get this done, and that's through Congress.
	And we've kind of stretched uh uh our administrative flexibility as much as we can.
	And that's why making sure that we get comprehensive immigration reform done is so important.
	Uh it is gonna require work.
	It is not simply a matter of us just saying we're gonna violate the law.
	That's not our tradition.
	He did it anyway.
	He violated what he said was illegal and unconstitutional anyway.
	And then you hear him talking about immigration just a few years earlier, and he sounds an awful like like Donald Trump.
	And Coulter's with us, the author of And Trump We Trust, E. Plurbus Awesome.
	What's up, Madam Coulter?
	How are you?
	Uh fine, thanks.
	I'm a little disturbed by the uselessness of Republicans in Congress.
	Ah, you and me both.
	Have you heard me ranting about it?
	No.
	Now, what does that mean?
	They ought to be impeaching this Judge Ropart immediately.
	What are they doing over there?
	This is really...
	I don't think people understand how outrageous this is.
	There is absolutely no question but that the President of the United States has the authority to exclude um anyone, anyone he wants, including permanent residents, I might add, though that's not what this order does.
	Um and and what you played at the beginning there with the judge, you know, getting into the policy behind it, what you see on TV of, well, but are they really that dangerous?
	Okay, well, besides the fact that factually um these are the seven countries designated by the Obama administration under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as terrorist nations, or as the State Department began to call that under Madeline Albright, countries of particular concern, these were the seven countries designated um by Obama and Hillary Clinton.
	Um this is a a a two-month ban um or three-month whatever it is, um, pause so we can figure out how to let them in.
	The idea that a federal judge would come in and start nitpicking over w over what the facts are, and by the way, in the process getting the facts wrong, um, as you know and probably all your listeners know by now, there have been um what what dozens of attacks by people from every one of these seven countries, some I've written about um in the past few years, or not not attacks, but um terrorist convictions um at a minimum.
	That's not only an arrest, that's a conviction.
	For two hundred years, the Supreme Court has said over and over and over again the power to exclude aliens is completely in the control of the President of the United States as an extension of foreign policy.
	And one case that that I wrote about, I was surprised no one else was mentioning, um in in my column last week, is hey, everybody remember Elyon Gonzalez?
	The Clinton administration policy was to you know, it was an extension of their love for for Stalin and and Alger His.
	We have to send this kid back to a communist dictatorship, have to send him back.
	And it didn't want the administration didn't want to admit that.
	So first they tried deporting Ellion as a matter of a child custody case, and all the the Clinton officials were saying, Oh no, this isn't our responsibility, it's just up to the Florida courts on on child custody.
	Well, the Florida courts under proper child custody laws, I might add, said, no, Elion gets to stay in Miami.
	Um, okay, so um Clinton administration goes back to the drawing board.
	Then they Say, well, Elyon has applied for asylum, um, but you can't apply for asylum if you're only six years old.
	That goes to the courts.
	And again, the courts find, um, actually there's no age restriction here, Mr. President.
	So then, how does the Clinton administration force Elion to go back to Cuba by saying this is our policy?
	And at that point, the federal appellate courts in Florida, and you can read the decisions, say, um, look, we'll we'll concede.
	Elion will be s may well be subjected to re-education, to political persecution, to living in a horrible communist dictatorship, but haha, this is the policy of the president.
	Our hands are tied.
	So when the policy of the presidency is to promote international communism, the courts step back and s and wash their hands of it.
	No, this is political branches.
	Um and and in the Arizona case, um, under under Obama, uh Arizona didn't want to enforce any laws beyond what the federal law was.
	No, they just said our state is being overwhelmed with illegal aliens.
	We want to have our law enforcement officers simply enforce written laws on the books, signed signed by the president, um, you know, passed by both houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court found, at least for those provisions of the law, no, you can't.
	If the president's policy is we're not enforcing federal immigration law, you have to stand down states.
	That's how powerful this this principle of constitutional law that the president controls who comes in, who doesn't come in, how to enforce immigration laws.
	This is a political matter.
	The courts, I mean, literally going back to the Chinese exclusion cases, probably before that, have said over and over again, this is part of foreign policy, making treaties, excluding foreigners.
	And if the foreigners being excluded, if the leaders of their government have a problem with that, they deal with the president.
	You know what's amazing, and and I love your your legal mind because you are able to add that context and texture to your comments, and I think it's appropriate.
	But the Constitution is very clear.
	Judicial activists on the Ninth Circuit, or this guy in Seattle did not have the role as commander in chief.
	The law, which is, you know, as i there's no ambiguity whatsoever, eight USC eleven eighty-two, and uh you've heard it, and I've I've read it many times on the program, I won't do it now.
	But if the president finds that the entry of any alien or class of aliens into the U.S. is detrimental, he has full and complete authority to take steps to protect the American people.
	And for me, Ann, it comes down to a simple question.
	Are we willing to inconvenience a few visitors, and it's only going to be a few, for the safety and security of the American people, or are we just going to be so politically correct, we'll gamble with the lives of Americans when we know there's an enemy that wants to destroy us?
	Well, I think it ought to be a lot more than a few.
	I think that is the result, the reason for this election.
	The public has been begging for less immigration overall.
	Forget the ones from from the countries designated by a Hillary Clinton State Department as terrorist countries.
	For decades now.
	You ask Americans whether uh do you want immigration to stay the same, go up, or be reduced?
	Nobody wants it to go up, and I believe it's been a consistent majority saying, no, fewer, fewer, fewer immigrants we've taken in enough.
	America needs a break.
	We have taken, as I describe in Adios America, um, for the past several decades, America has taken in more refugees than the entire rest of the world combined.
	Our country is not a battered woman's shelter.
	We're not here to take in all the charity cases of the world.
	This was the point of this election.
	Please help us, the American people, including immigrants who have come in.
	Stay right there.
	I've got to take a break.
	We're gonna hold you over.
	Ann Coulter is with us.
	Making America first safe and great again.
	This is the Sean Hannity Show.
	The Sean Hannity Show.
	And as we continue with uh Ann Coulter 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, you mentioned earlier about Republicans and you know, isn't it beyond any comprehension that they don't have a consensus replacement plan for Obamacare that they're talking about, well, maybe they'll get to the president's economic plan when you have all these people out of work in poverty on food stamps.
	Well, maybe we'll get to it in the spring.
	Maybe it'll be in the summer or the fall.
	And I'm like, okay, Donald Trump has done more in three weeks than most presidents accomplish in any given two years, at least.
	Why can't they keep up?
	Why are they so far behind?
	Why are there articles there article after article saying, well, we're not sure if we really want to replace it now when they voted fifty times when it was meaningless to replace it.
	No, I know what exactly is the House of Representatives doing.
	I mean, the Senate, not that it it requires their their undivided attention.
	They do have to pass uh Trump's nominees.
	But what has the House been are all the House members doing just having lunch every day?
	What is going on over there?
	Um Anne would like uh to be a very good thing.
	They're eating in our cafeterias that we pay for in the gyms that we pay for.
	Anne would like to be able to buy an insurance plan that that will provide um cancer coverage.
	I'm really sick of this.
	Oh, we may we may not get to it.
	And and by the way, I think what is w uh what the hold up is, I could be wrong.
	Um, but Trump, God bless him, um, was the first Republican in an awful long time to say, no, I'm not cutting Social Security, I'm not cutting Medicaid.
	Um, forget this entitlement reform.
	And I agree with him.
	Americans have paid into it, and the reason these programs are being bankrupted is that we keep dumping millions of poor people on the country who instantly access Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
	That's why the programs are bankrupt.
	So um, hey, Paul Ryan, instead of cutting back on my social security and my Medicare and and completely um destroying health insurance with Obamacare.
	How about how about you stop put signing up uh poverty stricken foreigners for these programs?
	That's point one.
	That is not what Obamacare is.
	But they seem to be associating Obamacare as if it's one of these entitlements, and obviously Trump was popular and saying, No, I'm gonna save these.
	I'm gonna get the economy um going.
	I'm going to um stop dumping poor people on the country and deport a whole bunch of them, I'm hoping.
	Um, you know, illegal aliens col uh seventy-one percent of illegal aliens are on government assistance.
	Seventy-one percent.
	Until that number is zero.
	I don't want to hear about how government assistance programs for Americans have to be cut back and the retirement age raised and so on and so forth.
	No, no, no.
	This is this is your job.
	This is what got Trump elected, but they've got to stop thinking of Obamacare as something that is that is the same as Social Security.
	Moreover, they're so frustrating these Republicans.
	Do they have no sense of drama and theater?
	They need to find people probably more sympathetic than me.
	But there are a lot of them out there who have had their health insurance destroyed by Obamacare.
	Get young couples who are both self-employed who can no longer um who are paying massive premiums and cannot be treated by any doctor who went to an American medical school.
	I know they're busy, they're busy working.
	You gotta get them before Congress.
	They ought to be calling doctors who will tell you, as any doctor will, forty percent of of of all the money spent on on health care.
	Forty percent, forty cents on a dollar goes to defensive medicine to protect themselves from the trial lawyers.
	We want tort reform.
	So quick, we're running out of time.
	But listen, and we want to buy health insurance on the free market.
	The hard cases, as Trump said from the beginning, that's a different case.
	Don't worry, you'll be paid for.
	But we don't have time to fly to Washington and protest and lobby and we're working.
	Have our exactly to pay for the ill the health insurance of illegal aliens.
	And the education and the criminal justice system.
	We pay for it all.
	Ann, always good to have you.
	I miss seeing you.
	Hope we'll uh hopefully we'll get to you get you back when you're in New York.
	Let me know.
	Okay?
	Great to talk to you.
	Good to talk to you, Sean.
	Bye bye.
	All right, and 800 941.
	Sean, we'll take a break, we'll come back.
	You can't believe what D.C. McAllister wrote.
	An awesome column.
	We'll tell you about that next.
	Solid as a rock, honest, truthful.
	This is the Sean Hannity show.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	Toll-free, our telephone numbers 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Uh, we're gonna get to the uh DC McAllister's column in a minute, but before I go there, look at what's happening to the Trump family.
	Now I've been making the case that anybody that gets anywhere near Donald Trump, all those that surround him is going to be vilified and demonized.
	Let's see, we've gone through Kellyanne Conway, we've gone through Darth Vader, uh uh Steve Bannon, they're going after Steve Miller and the New York Times and these unwatched cable hosts.
	I mean, it's just pathetic.
	It's pathetic.
	I think the most pathetic thing was, you know, you have a Saturday night live writer attacking a ten-year-old boy.
	Imagine if this was Malia or Sasha.
	Imagine if it was Chelsea.
	And you have that Rosie old Donald making a some type of medical diagnosis.
	Well, Rosie, I know this kid.
	This kid's a great kid.
	He's smart, intelligent, kind, nice.
	He's he's a great kid.
	He's ten years old.
	And they're attacking a little kid.
	Then you got, oh, Ivanka.
	Oh, what a disaster.
	She actually, one of her eight one of her assistants tweeted out when she was on 60 minutes that she was wearing a particular bracelet she designed.
	You'd think it was the end of the world, or Kellyanne Conway, you know, said, Well, after what Nordstrom did, and you've got now that all these chains attacking the Trumps.
	Eric Trump, great guy, raises millions and millions and millions of dollars for kids with cancer.
	Doesn't he work with St. Jude's?
	Okay, he's not working with St. Jude's anymore because of the backlash of the left attacking, you know, the fact, well, they might be connected to his father in some way when he's giving all the money away.
	Or that they're trying to curry favor.
	Now it gets even worse, and it it shouldn't shock anybody, but Don Jr. sends his son to a particular school in New York, and one of uh some anonymous contributor said their son had gotten into the school.
	Well, they gave the school a might as well give it called the Buckley School.
	It's a really well-known school, very difficult to get into, but she didn't want to send them there because of the son of Donald Trump Jr.
	Now I have a friend of mine who sends his son there, and he told me, Good, you don't belong there because it's such a great place.
	And nobody is upset that Donald Trump Jr.'s kids, and I've met them too, and they're amazing, uh, goes to the school.
	Just it's so disgraceful.
	Anyway, Emily Shire is joining us as long as uh from the Federalist and columnist author DC McAllister.
	Welcome both of you to the show.
	How are you?
	Thanks so much.
	Um I'm pretty well.
	I gotta believe that if I did what they're doing to the Trump kids, especially the younger ones, that you would uh and if I did it to Malia and Sasha, Emily, you'd be pretty you'd be pretty angry at me, wouldn't you?
	Yeah, you know, the funny thing is, and it's not actually funny.
	One of Bussel's most trafficked articles was about how you should not at all go after Baron Trump, that it is completely inappropriate, that the Saturday Night Live joke was wrong.
	Uh I think there should absolutely be a level of respect and privacy uh when it comes to minors.
	Even your minors in the public eye because their father's president.
	Yeah.
	Well, and you know, I just can't believe you you could go after a ten-year-old kid or the grandson of the president of the United States the way this other person did.
	What's your reaction to this uh DC McAllister?
	Well, they going after Ivanka and the picture that she ha she tweeted out a picture of her with her son uh from the White House, and she was immediately excoriated.
	By the way, all she said was taking a call in the White House with my personal assistant, Theodore, who's her son.
	Right.
	And then this actress comedian tweets out, you know, is this a joke?
	You're making a mockery of women, working mothers and moms, her homemakers without additional careers, making this big fuss about Ivanka's tweet, which was completely ridiculous.
	And it's just more evidence that feminists do not support women.
	They have a cause, they have an agenda, they have a liberal agenda, they don't stand by women.
	They should be admiring Ivanka Trump.
	She's a great mother, a great businesswoman.
	She is a faithful daughter.
	She should be praised about that and not criticized for that.
	And what is it that we we were supposed to leave women out of the associations with their men?
	Weren't we weren't we told that Hillary Clinton should not be judged in light of her husband, even though Hillary was complicit and actually um against the women who were, you know, accusing him of sexual fault.
	But you know, we don't have that kind of grace that we extend to Ivanka Trump because the feminist movement has become completely corrupted with this liberal agenda.
	You know, you wrote this.
	I want to read a little bit of what you wrote in your column.
	You said women can be vicious.
	Just ask men.
	Ouch.
	Then you said, better yet, ask other women.
	If they're honest, they'll tell you that women can be harsh to their own kind, especially liberal women.
	That's what makes feminist campaigns like the women's march a bit of a joke.
	It's not about women sticking up for one another.
	It's about liberal women advancing their own liberal agenda.
	And if you're not on board, you're attacked viciously.
	And they did prevent pro-life women from marching in that particular them from being sponsored.
	I've interviewed pro-life feminists who are not going to be able to do that.
	We interviewed on this very liar.
	I interviewed him on this program.
	Right here on this show, a woman who was told not to come.
	Well, I've interviewed women who went and had a fantastic experience.
	okay but that you know i thought that what i think it's wrong but they went they march and they were about the volume the people into the feminist movement today they stand for a liberal agenda they do not stand for women They don't.
	And you know, to say that you know that we're misguided in not understanding the feminist movement, we do.
	The feminist movement has been co-opted by statists.
	It is not about femin feminism, it's not about femininity, it's not about women, it's not about freedom.
	It's about this faux idea of equality, this oppression of women, that women are somehow held down by men when it really what the feminist movement is wanting is bigger government to be invited in our lives in order to get an agenda across.
	And we see it repeatedly in these movements.
	And if you aren't on board with that agenda, you're rejected.
	That's why conservative women, conservative pundits, conservative politicians are just destroyed.
	I thought that feminism applauded working women.
	I thought feminism and you know, I thought another good point that you made in your article is that Ivanka's tweet didn't mock other women.
	In fact, many women would identify with her.
	Yeah, identify with her, and stay at home moms would be like, Great, yeah, she's a great mom, great.
	Bring your kid to work.
	I mean, there's they're pitting women against one another instead of standing for actually women's free choices and the variety of the people who are.
	No, I'm not.
	I call it out for their hypocrisy.
	I'm not pitting anyone against anyone.
	I am calling out the feminist movement, not individual women, and I'm not pitting one woman against another.
	I am calling out the hypocrisy of what the feminist movement has actually become.
	What I would say to that is that many women in fact do admire Ivanka.
	She is certainly an aspirational role model figure.
	She did take an active role in her father's campaign, and people who disagree with her father's politics push back against her when she took on an active campaign.
	All right, but let me look but in fairness, all right but stop for a second.
	In fairness, they're attacking her for the most trivial, insignificant things that they come up with.
	That's number one.
	Number two, all right, Ivanka's an adult, and but I'll tell you this if I attack Chelsea Clinton the way that Ivanka's being attacked, I would be called a misogynist and a sexist, and uh it would be disgraceful.
	Um so there is a double standard, number one.
	Number two, and Eric can defend himself and Don Jr., but they're also attacking a ten-year-old kid and the grandson of the president.
	One person at SNL who was fired pretty swiftly attacked.
	I do not see widespread.
	No, actually, it was more than one.
	There was a no, no, wait a minute.
	The attacks on Barron were numerous and vicious, including ridiculous diagnosis about his condition because at four in the morning the kid was fidgeting and tired.
	Good grief.
	I'm I'm fifty-five and I fidget.
	Yeah, I think any attacks against Baron Trump are ridiculous.
	But if you're holding up one fired SNL write writer and then McDonald, I should hold up Alex Jones then to represent all of conservative voices.
	If Alex Jones is going after the children, tell me about it, and I'll I'll call Alex Jones.
	I'll call him out.
	Okay, uh what, when she got caught smoking pot.
	No, I believe it was before then.
	And by the way, Chelsea Clinton was made fun of tremendously for her looks as an adolescent.
	Okay, not because of the case.
	We shouldn't go after this.
	But wait a minute, well, I'm talking I want to focus on like the feminist movement and about what it's going on, what it's doing today to our society and what we're seeing and what we saw at the women's march uh was just ridiculous.
	And they're not standing for women.
	And I want to make that clear.
	They're not.
	They're standing for a statist agenda.
	They're clamoring about equality that is not a legitimate claim.
	And they're talking about oppression that does not exist and it's causing great divisions.
	And we're attacking people like Ivanka.
	We're attacking conservative women.
	We're attacking people because of their ideology.
	They don't stand for freedom.
	They stand for oppression themselves.
	They're it's it's just not right and we need to call it out.
	And I think we need to hold the feminist movement to account for its hypocrisy as double standards and it's uh not standing for women.
	I think you're defining the feminist movement uh in a misguided way because feminism as its heart is about political, social and economic opportunities for women, and you see the feminist movement as an inherently pro-choice one.
	No, I haven't even mentioned choice.
	I'm actually talking about the audit.
	I know many women who identify feminists who don't identify those values.
	And if you wanna paint the feminist movement in a narrow, narrow way that makes it very partisan, you know, that's your prerogative, that's fine.
	But I don't think that's helpful and in fact accurate to paint feminism in such a regard.
	No, uh you're the one who's being dishonest about what actually you think feminism stands for.
	You think feminism has to do with oppression of women and that them fighting for equality in America, right?
	Please don't tell me what I think.
	Yeah, well, you do, because I read your writings, and that's what you think.
	You think that women are not equal to men before the law in in s in this society, and that somehow women are oppressed.
	That's why you're a feminist.
	You want to see the people who are not doing that.
	And you think they're oppressed.
	Women are not oppressed before the law in this country.
	Women have equal rights before the law.
	There is no equal pay gap.
	There there's only a wage gap.
	There is no you know, we s you are pushing an agenda that's actually causing greater divisions in this country and is not really standing for women.
	And they're not standing you're not standing for women's freedom.
	In your in your cry for equality, and you're quite and uh across the board in the relationships with men, you are actually undermining the freedom of women.
	You're not standing for them.
	Uh okay, so I am yes, undermining the freedom of women in my writing.
	I d honestly do not know what you're pointing to to get to this.
	I am a feminist, and I do think there are nuanced battles for women in the United States to be tackling.
	Uh I also, by the way, completely agree with you that the wage gap, the seventy-seven cents on a dollar is not accurate.
	All right, let me hold you both.
	Emily, hold that thought.
	DC McAllister, hold that thought.
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	As we continue with uh DC McAllister and Emily Shire, and we're debating a lot of the attacks on the children and grandchildren now of Donald Trump, and uh I would agree that Ivanka is tough and she can handle herself.
	I still think attacking her the way she did for being a working mom is so hypocritical though of the left, and that's what you've been saying for a long time, DC McAllister about about feminism in general.
	There was one case where you had a a congressman's aide that had to resign over he made comments, uh, dear Sasha Mo and Malia.
	I get you're both in those awful teen years, but you're part of the first family.
	Try showing a little class, rise to the occasion.
	Act like being in the White House matters to you.
	And I thought that was insulting and rude and inappropriate.
	Yeah, but the point is that there's a double standard.
	And we've been saying this ever since the election as the left has continued to show its true colors.
	And again, the women's movement today, the feminist movement today is full of doubts double standards and hypocrisy because it is not standing for women.
	And I want to make that point really clear.
	There with this cry for equality.
	I want to ask Emily, where what laws, where in our society do women not have equality before the law?
	And if you're gonna talk about um equal equal pay, that's a wage gap.
	And that's built on women's choices, which I thought feminists were to respect, that women make separate and different choices from men.
	And the result is a wage gap.
	And they also to to bring solutions to these kind of things, they want bigger government.
	So they're always looking to government to fix things that are just social differences.
	Instead of, you know, letting people be free to be different.
	They want a big government to impose its will on individuals and upon women in order to make things equal that can't be equalized.
	And so they're actually taking away women's freedom.
	And this is my major problem with the feminist movement today.
	And if you do not agree with that, you are attacked by them viciously.
	Well, what I would say is that I agree with you in that a lot of the wage rat is not purely men and women.
	It's based on the industry that people go into, though it's also complicated because men and women often go into different industries based on parental responsibilities, child care responsibilities.
	That's why you know we need to talk about issues like paid leave because it plays into the role that people take and that's how much money they make, though I uh do I agree with you.
	I don't think it is a black and white sex discrimination issue.
	Um I would also say, and especially considering that seventy percent of all Americans support Roe v.
	Wade, forget about you know looking separately at how many women do, that when we have laws going on in Oklahoma and Arkansas that say men may be able to maybe legally required to sign on for approval if women want to have abortion, I would say that's a discriminatory law as well.
	That is not a discriminatory law, that baby is also half the father.
	So that's a debate.
	But it may not be you don't put it in the realm of discrimination.
	You can have a discussion about that.
	But to go to sexism to go to discrimination immediately, and also I find it always interesting whenever I start talking about discrimination and oppression of women in America and what the feminist movement is really about, they always go to abortion.
	So really the feminist movement of that is that abortion involves abortion body and having control over that many people think is a feminist concern.
	I think you can be feminist and pro life, other people don't.
	I think if you say, and your opinion on me that all feminists think all f all women who want to be feminist or all people who want to be feminist need to be pro-choice is incorrect.
	And I don't think that's how people take the movement.
	But I completely understand why pro the last word, DC, and we gotta go.
	The feminist movement just needs to die, honestly.
	It is causing greater division in our country, it's causing a lot of conflict, and it doesn't stand for anything except for greater government.
	All right, I gotta I gotta end it here.
	Thank you both for being with us, DC McAllister and uh Emily Shire.
	Always appreciate you being with us.
	you Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
	You know, we all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants.
	Uh you know, we are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law.
	Uh and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
	Uh we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully uh to become immigrants.
	Please use your executive order to hold deportations for all eleven point five undocted immigrants in this country right now.
	What we're saying that we need to have more at the same time.
	We you have a power to stop deportation from all adopting.
	That's why I don't uh here here's the problem that I have, uh Jose, and I I've said this consistently.
	Um my job in the executive branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed.
	Uh Congress uh has said, here's the law when it comes to those who are undocumented, and they allocate a whole bunch of money for enforcement.
	Something that I've struggled with uh throughout my presidency.
	The problem is is that um you know I'm the president of the United States, I'm not uh uh the emperor of the United States.
	Uh my job is to execute laws that are passed.
	And Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system.
	And what that means is is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place, even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic.
	Now, what you need to know when I'm speaking as president of the United States, and I Come to this community is that if in fact I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so.
	But we're also a nation of laws.
	That's part of our tradition.
	And so the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws.
	And what I'm proposing is the harder path, which is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you want to achieve, but it won't be as easy as just shouting.
	It requires us lobbying and getting it done.
	But if we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring uh the law uh in a way that uh I think would be very difficult to defend legally.
	So that's not an option.
	Uh and and I'm I do uh get a little worried that uh you know advocates of immigration reform uh start losing heart and immediately thinking, well, uh you know, somehow there's a an out here.
	If Congress doesn't act, we'll we'll just have the president sign something and and and that'll take care of it.
	We won't have to worry about it.
	What I've said is is that there's a path to get this done, and that's through Congress.
	And we've kind of stretched uh uh our administrative flexibility as much as we can.
	And that's why making sure that we get comprehensive immigration reform done is so important.
	Uh it is gonna require work.
	It is not simply a matter of us just saying we're gonna violate the law.
	That's not our tradition.
	All right, news roundup information overload hour here on the Sean Hannity Show.
	There's a lot to absorb here.
	Now, remember 2014 became a referendum.
	Give us the Senate Republicans said, and we will get rid of Obama's illegal, unconstitutional executive amnesty, which he ended up doing anyway, even though he said that he didn't have the authority like twenty-five times.
	So we've got that in play.
	If you look at the review, and this is new information out today, compiled by a Senate committee uh in 2016.
	Well, what the judge in Seattle said was absolutely false.
	Well, is there any evidence since nine eleven that any terrorism came from the seven countries in question?
	Well, we now have a report that revealed that in fact seventy-two individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump's vetting executive order have been convicted in terror cases since nine eleven.
	And that stands in stark contrast to the assertions of both the Seattle judge, Ropart, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and in fact now I think they're going to move forward with a new executive order.
	I'm not saying everything was perfect, but it you get the point of why this is needed and why this is necessary.
	Just like when I travel to other countries, they vet me before I get to go in, and everybody else.
	Anyway, joining us Qasim Rashid is with us, who I know is a national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, and um Ami Horowitz satirist, documentarian, outright good guy, is uh here as well.
	Qasim, how are you?
	I'm good, Sean.
	How are you?
	Uh I'm good.
	Now, I know the the Ahmadiyya Muslim community is a little bit different in as much as they've been one of the few areas within the Muslim community that has been more outspoken on terrorism, right?
	Yeah, I mean, throughout our 120 year history, we've been adamant that terrorism has no place in Islam, and we've supplemented that with a proven model in each of the two hundred nations uh that we exist, or tens of millions of members have never had a single act of terrorism because this is the Islam that Prophet Muhammad taught fourteen hundred years ago.
	All right, but then there's the liter literal interpretation of like neither take take neither Christians nor Jews for your friends.
	Well, you know, Sean, I mean anyone can cherry pick, but the what this verse is talking about is when you're being attacked by people, don't take them as your friends.
	The Quran also goes on to say that make friends with Christians and Jews, and if somebody attacks a church or a synagogue, then you as a Muslim must defend the church and the synagogue.
	I mean these these are the same things.
	But I'm saying that you can understand how radical Islamists interpret take neither Christians or Jews from as your friends as and when that you have the word infidel in there all the time and you have apostates, and we know the penalty for apostatism in many Muslim countries is death.
	I mean the the word infidel doesn't appear in the Quran anywhere, contrary to G Jihad does.
	But uh yeah, jihad means struggle, yeah.
	But I mean the the word infidelity is a very important thing to do.
	Well, uh does jihad mean struggle or does it mean holy war?
	It means struggle.
	Al Harbi Mutaqadas means holy war, but uh jihad just means struggle against evil.
	And I've Always understood it to mean holy war.
	No, no, no.
	That's a common misunderstanding, Sean.
	It actually means struggle.
	The word literally means the struggle against evil.
	And just as the KKK claims they're a Christian organization, nobody takes them seriously.
	Uh and we condemn their terrorism.
	But then with you know these Taliban psychopaths.
	You have to agree with me though.
	Most Muslims, I think for fear, out of fear that maybe are moderate Muslims that don't want to strap bombs on their own children, promise them seventy-two virgins in heaven.
	And, you know, most Muslims that think like you, or a lot of them, and I think this is a fair statement, tell me if you don't think so, that...
	That many are afraid to speak out because they will be viewed as traitors or apostates and and that there's enormous pressure on them to be silent.
	Otherwise, we'd have a lot.
	I mean, I think it's certain regimes that might be true, but then you have, you know, a country like Indonesia, which is a beacon of peace for, you know, you have your issues there, but it's the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, and it's a relatively peaceful nation.
	I'm talking about, like, Saudi Arabia or Iran, and one being Sunni and the other being Shia.
	You're not going to hear me defend Saudi over their human rights violations.
	I mean, this is where leadership matters really clearly.
	I'm not going to hear you defend Iran either, right?
	No, of course not.
	Of course not.
	And I mean, this is where leadership matters.
	You know, the reason why the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has had a track record of peace is because of his holiness, the true caliph of Islam.
	He's a spiritual caliph.
	He advocates for separation of mosques and state, gender equity.
	He commands us to fight and defend the government.
	And just like when General Al Sisi of Egypt spoke out against radical Islamists, it was a it was a risky and he may ultimately one day even lose his life over it.
	Yeah, no, I I agree.
	I mean I took a lot of courage from to speak out and and talk about what he saw as the internal problems of religion.
	And I think there's no question there are there are internal problems, but there are there are people who are trying to fight against that, who are trying to push against this tidal wave of radicalization which is kind of which is beginning to really engulf a lot of Islam.
	Not all of it, obviously.
	But it is the w it is the number one clear and present danger of the world because we see radical Islamic terrorism all around the world now.
	It is and we see ISIS and we see Al Qaeda and we see the Muslim Brotherhood, and we see Hezbollah, and we see Hamas, and we see you know all of these different, you know, offshoots.
	And they have declared war against us as evidenced in the United States and all throughout Europe, all the different attacks that have taken place.
	You know, by like the keep in mind that that the really the number one export of of the Saudi country is not necessarily oil, but really radicalism.
	If you look at around the world, the amount of money they're putting toward building out uh uh mosques that are preaching radicalism, uh it's it's it's very scary.
	And I think and by the way, you make that point about about terrorism and and the fact that there have been no attacks, right, by anybody from these seven countries.
	Do we not forget that just last year, late last year, there were two attacks from two Somali immigrants, one in Ohio State and one at Minneapolis.
	I'm not sure where how's that in the calculations?
	I've gone through all of these incidents.
	You know, and there are sixteen countries where if you're Jewish or have a Jewish passport, there are Muslim majority countries that you can't get in.
	Of course.
	So uh you know, uh you talk about extreme vetting or a religious litmus test or is uh Jewish ban, that's that's real.
	But uh and I want to ask uh uh Mr. Rashid, I want to ask you this.
	Yeah.
	I think this is important.
	So Donald Trump wants to protect the country.
	These seven countries, you know, we have all the Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, even Saudi Arabia, which I think should be included on the list.
	You know, all these seven countries, we know our hotbeds for terrorism and terrorism training.
	So he wants to have extreme vetting to make sure and put the priority of the safety of the American people first.
	Do you have a problem with that?
	I don't think anyone is arguing with safety for the country.
	Uh I think the question is do we do it uh in a way that our judiciary says is constitutional, or are we gonna go rogue?
	And I think we we can agree that the judiciary decides what's constitutional or not.
	Yeah, I don't think yeah, I don't think you can consider the ninth circuit mainstream judiciary in America, especially when they get have about an eighty percent overturn rate at the U.S. Supreme Court.
	Well, but but in all honesty, I mean they went they went judge shopping here.
	And the judge they went to this particular court in in Seattle knowing that it would probably go to the Ninth Circuit, which probably would lean radically left as they always do.
	But the reality is why when did when did people that want to visit our country get constitutional rights, when did they gather them?
	I mean, uh th that's there's a excellent uh law review article in Georgetown Law that uh cites the Supreme Court on numerous occasions that whether someone is a documented or undocumented immigrant, uh they have uh the privileges of a citizen by virtue of being on U.S. soil.
	Well when we come back, I'll read you the law because the president does have the authority.
	Number one is commander in chief, and number two, the statutory authority, which is U.S. Code uh 118 8 U.S. Code 1182.
	Paragraph F if you're entitled to go so look go look at it.
	As we uh continue uh our discussion about, of course, the president and whether or not extreme vetting is necessary.
	Let me read to both of you, Ami and Mr. Rashid is uh the law which says this is 1182.
	Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem appropriate.
	Ami, the law seems pretty clear to me.
	Yeah, that that is really a vague writing of of a law.
	I don't understand what that even means.
	No, but but like you said, it doesn't matter what the black and white is.
	You have a an activist court in the Ninth Circuit who was looking to over that was the political move.
	Doesn't matter what the law is.
	They were looking to find a way to overturn it.
	They found a way which I it's clearly would be overturned if we had a Supreme Court which wasn't four to four, so it clearly split between partisan lines.
	I think ultimately he's going to rewrite the law, he's gonna narrow it, and it will essentially pass.
	Well, didn't the law seem clear to you.
	And by the way, I think we should remind people you actually work with refugees.
	You Yeah.
	I mean, I I'm I'm a civil rights attorney.
	I work with Saudis and refugees constantly, and no, that law, of course, has to be interpreted by the US Supreme Court and the Supreme Court.
	Okay, but it there's no ambiguity when you heard what I read, right?
	Well, but my point is that whatever the meaning of that those words are still depends on what the Supreme Court says.
	I think we can agree on that, right?
	The Supreme Court.
	All right, but there's no there's no ambiguity in the reading of that law.
	You could be a uh ninth grader or an eighth grader and figure out what its meaning and intent are.
	But hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Ami, you had the experience.
	You actually infiltrated, if you will, the refugee population.
	Tell us about that.
	Yeah, so when I was in uh Turkey, I spent time with the Syrian refugees there.
	Uh I I actually saw witness ISIS recruiting Syrian refugees in Ismir, Turkey, and then I ultimately I went on that that pleasure cruise on the RAF with them over to Germany and spend time with them in Germany.
	And I I want to spend a a second really on the vetting process.
	The great vetting process that they've been talking about, how the extreme vetting of the Obama administration.
	And you know, most people I haven't heard anybody talk about what this process actually is.
	It is an absolute joke.
	The process is it begins with the UN, which picking out who they want to come to the United States, which disqualifies it in my mind at the beginning.
	Then they have a wellness check where they find out they have herpes or not, and then they ask them a series of questions.
	Are you a terrorist, for instance?
	Do you want to blow up America?
	And then comes the coup de grace of the vetting process.
	They then ping their names off of five different databases to find that their names hit.
	In other words, if we don't know who they were beforehand, that's the only way we find out they're terrorists.
	If they are radicalized in Syria during the war, if they're radicalized in the refugee camps after the war, none of that is involved in this extreme vetting that the U.S. has.
	And every single solitary national security top intelligence official in this country said, and as has now uh the President Assad of Syria himself, that the refugee population will be infiltrated by terrorism.
	Well, Sean, let me respond to that as well.
	His holiness the Khalif of Islam, Mirza Masur Emmett, several years ago said absolutely ISIS is going to try to infiltrate these refugees, and we need to have a thorough vetting process.
	There's no doubt about that.
	But I think what Ami is doing is uh slightly mischaracterizing it.
	I've worked with these refugees, I've gone through these interviews.
	There's a reason why our intelligence agencies have protected us and not a single terrorist has gotten through in forty years.
	I think we should have a lot of people.
	I just told you a review compiled by the U.S. Senate in 2016 revealed that seventy-two individuals from those seven countries covered by the president's vetting away.
	I mean, I read that report, it's a right-wing think tank.
	With all due respect, it is not.
	They're all convictions of real people.
	I don't know what you're talking about, but I gotta run.
	I wish I had more time.
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	Uh we will be interviewing uh well I I probably shouldn't give it away yet.
	We we're gonna be back in Washington this week with a really big interview that we're really excited about, and it is as relevant as anything that we have ever done before.
	Uh all right, in the meantime, I promise we'll get to the phones.
	We will do that and say hi to Mike.
	He's somewhere in New York State, it says.
	Where are you in New York State?
	Hey, Sean.
	Uh, thanks for taking my call.
	Uh I'm a college student in um upstate New York.
	I go to a small private university, about three thousand students.
	Yeah.
	Uh my school's a an engineering school for the most part.
	We have a smaller business school, but um, usually it's not too p political.
	But I guess because of the election last summer, it's completely changed.
	I'm a senior, it's my fourth year here.
	And all of a sudden I've noticed these these drastic changes around campus.
	Um we have safe spaces on campus now, all of a sudden we have bathrooms for everyone that used to be men's bathrooms and women's bathrooms in certain buildings.
	The bathrooms have become for everybody, so anybody could use it.
	Um the bathrooms.
	But I guess the thing that bothers me the most is uh right after the election, we have a I'm a part of the uh club on campus.
	It's called um the College Republican Club.
	Yeah.
	Uh we have well over 80 members, and right after the election, it was either some one of the high um high ranking faculty on campus or the president of the university sent our advisor to us at our meeting to tell us that just because our guy won, meaning President Trump, that we weren't allowed to be hateful or bigoted, assuming he was assuming that that's the kind of people that we are because we're conservative, which really irked us.
	Um I guess uh he also uh the president of a university has also gone so far as to when uh President Trump um put out his executive order two weeks ago.
	Let me guess they called it a Muslim ban and a religious litmus test, and they lied to the students.
	I'm just guessing.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	He sent in his email.
	I have a I have it written down a quote from it on Yeah, what did he say?
	He said President Trump's executive order banning entry of citizens from various countries is in direct opposition to our history, our principles, and even our ability to continue to drive the national economy.
	Number one, they're not citizens, they're guests in our country.
	Number two, when I go abroad, I get vetted.
	Number three, you know, I mean, it's I I I uh we don't mind people visiting.
	But if you're coming from a country that is known to be a safe harbor for terrorists and and a known terrorist training facility, or there's a lot of terrorist training going on in the country, then we have every right to put the safety and security above the visitors' inconvenience, and that's all this comes down to inconvenience.
	And if you're a terrorist, the inconvenience is you're not getting in.
	If you're a person that comes with good intentions and we can ascertain that, then America is opening its doors to you.
	So it's it's been blown.
	Here's my here's what I advise you to do.
	Because you're describing my entire life where I have been despised, hated, mischaracterized, every single possible evil thing that could ever be written about a person.
	I think has been written about me at some point or another.
	And you know what?
	I'm just very relaxed and comfortable in my own skin, and I don't care about criticism.
	I'm not gonna live my life caring what people think about me.
	You know, I uh there are certain people in my my life whose whose opinions of me matter a lot more than others, and short of that, I don't care that you know, a bunch of liberals hate my guts.
	I I really don't, I'm not gonna spend my life agonizing over it.
	It's life A is too short, and B, I'm confident in my studied positions about how conservatism works and how vetting is just simple, basic, fundamental common sense.
	And if you know, if I'm bored, I might take to Twitter and and have some fun and spank them around a little bit if I if they need it.
	All right.
	Best of luck, Mike.
	Stand on your principles.
	You'll never regret it.
	Chris is in Utah, Rodar Kettland, K N R S. What's going on?
	Chris, how are you?
	How's things in Utah?
	Mr. Hannity, thank you for your time, sir.
	Thanks for letting me call in.
	Yes, sir.
	Um, I was at the Jason Chaffetz Town Hall meeting uh last Thursday.
	Um I was on the second row.
	Um I'm an Obama Obama voter in 2008, and I voted for Trump in 2016.
	I went there to kind of learn, but what I learned was while I was in line, they were bringing in all these Democratic voters and activists, and they were handing out signs and agree and disagree, and they were handing them out the questions.
	And as I went in and sat down and I got on the second row, I interacted with everybody and was very benign and they didn't know who I was, and I saw them actually standing in front and moving us all together, getting more people in there.
	And then when Mr. Chaffetz came out, Congressman Chaffetz, I won't get into it.
	I posted it on Facebook.
	I'm not a very political person, but it changed my life.
	If you look at the 59-minute mark on the YouTube um on the video of the Chaffetz Town Hall, I got a chance to ask my question.
	The only reason I did was because I was aggressive and they were trying to stop me from asking.
	And I told the crowd and God and everyone that I'm a Trump voter, a Chaffetz supporter, and an Obama supporter, and I looked at the crowd and said, Your anger is what probably everyone felt in 2012.
	And I asked, what can we come to to do to come together?
	I was yelled at, shouted down.
	As I sat down, I was cursed at.
	I was told I should probably leave because someone might come after me.
	The Brighton School Student Body Council was on the front row, and no one's talking about this.
	These kids heard the most vulgar, nasty things that they probably ever heard in their lives.
	I left and went outside because I was actually scared, and I walked out to the group of protesters who were screaming, bring him out, bring him out, as if he was some criminal.
	What'd they want to do?
	What'd they want to do?
	Beat him up.
	I mean that's what I didn't know, Mr. Hannity, is that I'm just a regular person, I thought, and I just went there and um and I'll be honest with you, I switch I was always independent.
	I switched my party affiliation to Republican to vote for Ted Cruz during the primary.
	I struggled with voting for Mr. Trump, but the Washington Post reporter asked me a very great question.
	He said afterwards, because he's like, I can't believe you did that in front of everybody.
	And I said, I I wanted to show the difference between us and them.
	I asked a very loving, kind question and was rejected and cursed at.
	And he said, Um, well, what do you think of the job Mr. Trump's doing?
	And I said, It's been two or three weeks.
	How can we judge him?
	That's just a good idea.
	I actually think I actually think it's been a pretty phenomenal period of time.
	I won't go through the list of accomplishments again because I I don't want to repeat myself, but I think it's been great.
	Listen, I'm I'm just gonna tell you this.
	A lot of this is what we call astroturf, and these organizers, some of them are paid to be there.
	It's this is now what you're going to see the entire four to eight years of a Trump presidency.
	It's not going to go away.
	I I talked to friends of mine that do work in the White House.
	I said it's not going away.
	You just you just accept it for what it is and do the job you were hired to do and forget the noise.
	Because this is all noise.
	And if if people want to disrupt a town hall with a congressman or a senator that is graciously trying to reach out and serve his constituents, well, that means the people that really deserve the service don't get what what we hired these people for.
	And it's selfish, self-centered, you're right, they don't care about their language, they don't care, the kids are there.
	You know, it's it's just typical.
	I've seen this my entire life, especially the the left is not the most tolerant.
	The left does not really believe in diversity because they don't like or can't stand a conservative.
	And God forbid if you're a woman in a conservative and pro-life, and God forbid if you're uh a black American and you're conservative.
	Oh my God, that's like, you know, look at all the names that Tim Scott was called and he read on the Senate floor last week.
	It's it's pretty brutal.
	They're vicious, they're mean, they're cruel, and we have to just move.
	We we have a job to do, and that's save the country.
	And in the meantime, stop its precipitous decline, get America on the right track, get our economy on the right track, get our security on the right track, get health care on the right track, get the Supreme Court back on track, uh, get to energy independence.
	These are the big problems we've got to focus on.
	Anyway, I appreciate Chris.
	Let not your heart be trouble.
	I know it's frustrating.
	The best thing you could probably do is call his office and see if you can't get a question answered the way you want.
	I I would assume Jason Chaffetz would uh would be glad to respond.
	Uh all right, let's get to our phones.
	Uh let us say hi to Jonathan in Henderson, Texas.
	Jonathan, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thank you, sir.
	Appreciate you taking me call.
	Um I would just like to say, well, first off, I'm a I'm a thirty-seven year old roofing contractor in Texas.
	And I'm very glad that we finally have a president that works as hard as the people do.
	Um but what I was wanting to comment on was last week whenever Gorsuch made that comment about uh basically criticizing Trump for giving his opinion on something.
	It was disconcerting if it's true.
	Now he denies it was said.
	He denies that it was reported accurately, but I mean, look, I we have a right to free speech.
	We can criticize the judiciary.
	They're not above criticism.
	As a matter of fact, the Ninth Circuit deserves it.
	Right, exactly.
	I that's what I was wanting to say.
	You know, since when is a judge thought of to be on thought of as beyond reproach or you know, somebody that cannot make a mistake.
	You know, if if somebody like Ashley Judd can stand up there and say the the filthiness that she said the other day, I mean she embarrassed the whole country with what she said.
	No, you know what she did, she hurt her own cause because America the American people are smart.
	It's just it's an embarrassment or Madonna, an embarrassment, or Merrill Streep, an embarrassment, or Ashton Kutcher, an embarrassment.
	It's just these people are are ignorant, they don't know much, and they're all a bunch of phony hypocrites.
	Yeah, and she, you know, talking like that on there, you know, the left will always claim free speech, which they should.
	I mean, we do have free speech as Americans, and that applies also to the the president of all people.
	He has a right to free speech also.
	A hundred percent.
	And you know what?
	They they they want to shut down his Twitter.
	And maybe it would be in his best interest to do so.
	I actually have come around on it.
	I actually think the fact that he I like people that are courageous and fight and speak their mind.
	And the president is going right to the American people.
	And I I kind of like it.
	I think it's a good thing that he goes directly to us and the media is in a total meltdown freak out mode.
	I mean, I was watching CNN briefly this weekend, and I just I watched for five minutes, and they were questioning the president's mental health.
	You know, and I'm like, uh it this is beyond silly.
	And then Chris Ruddy was on, and he goes, Yeah, if he's uh crazy, he's crazy like a fox.
	He won the presidency.
	I'm like, yeah, good point.
	Look, I know Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump is uh a guy that rolls his sleeves up, and he's he said to me privately and on the air, I I gotta do a good job for the American people.
	And I think that's why he's moving as expeditiously as possible.
	I call it the speed of Trump.
	I'm telling Republicans in Washington to get their ass in gear and start working like everyone else in this country works, and roll up their sleeves and stop with the lunches and the workouts and the and the cafeteria dining that we pay for and and start writing the bills on the promises that you made to the American people.
	And I'm frankly a little disgusted that you guys don't have a replacement bill ready to go after eight years, a consensus replacement bill.
	And that so much work has to be done on it.
	Um it makes me think what have you been doing?
	You voted all these times to repeal and replace, but what were you gonna replace it with?
	It's it's beyond frustrating.
	Anyway, I appreciate it, Jonathan.
	Totally get it, understand, and by you can go back Thomas Jefferson for crying out loud, Marbury Madison, critical of judges.
	Thomas Jefferson himself, the author of our declaration, critical of judges, as were many other presidents before.
	Uh Barack Obama was so insulting to the Supreme Court that he insulted them right in front of them.
	Remember, you were reading the lips of uh Sam Olido.
	Not true.
	Not true.
	And didn't stop the president.
	And then Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas said that's the last State of the Union we're going to.
	I would assume when the president speaks, I think it's on the twenty-eighth.
	It's not ac officially a State of the Union, but a Joint session of Congress, I would assume that Clarence Thomas is going to be there.
	And that all the justices will be there.
	We have a lot of work to do in this country.
	Look, it's this is not easy to fix the problems that we have inherited here.
	And I'm not spending a lot of time.
	I've given that to you all last year, how bad it is.
	Now I'm very solutions-oriented because I want the country to get fixed.
	I want to make sure that the country.
	I want to this is what I want for my country right now.
	I want our I want the country safe and secure from radical Islamists.
	I want our borders secured.
	I want vetting in place.
	I want to understand I want a president that understands that we have a group of people that are at war with us.
	Then at simultaneously, then all these millions and millions of Americans in poverty on food stamps out of the labor force that can't buy a home and have the American dream.
	I want to fix the economy so everyone not only gets a good job, but a career job that will make their lives better and more prosperous.
	And I want them to live in safe neighborhoods where their kids can play out, where they can go out in their backyards.
	They can play football in the street, you know, move aside when the cars come by and not have the fear that so many people in so many cities and communities have right now.
	And that's what that's that's my goal.
	It's not personality driven as much as it's driven by my knowledge that conservatism works.
	Eight years of radical Alinskyite, you know, leftism of Obama and Hillary didn't work.
	It hurt us on the national security front and it hurt us on the economic front.
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