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April 26, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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	All right, glad you're with us.
	Happy Tuesday.
	I apologize in advance if my voice gives out here.
	You know what?
	I got no sleep the entire trip in Israel.
	I mean, we left on Wednesday.
	We arrived 10 a.m. local time.
	I didn't sleep a lot on the plane.
	And from the minute, right, Linda, we hit the ground.
	We went from 10 a.m.
	Israel time that night till two in the morning America time.
	Then we were up again at 5 30, and like I got no sleep the next night.
	And then what we had a full day on Friday, even though I wasn't on radio Friday, it had nothing to do with me.
	I was still working in in different capacities.
	So it was a great trip, but I just didn't get a whole lot of sleep.
	And then I thought I'd sleep.
	I said, all right, well, I'm gonna go hang out with my friends on Saturday and we'll play golf, and I suck at golf, but I go anyway and I'll play.
	And then, you know, we get a bite to eat with my friends, and I say, Yeah, my daughter says, Daddy, take me to my favorite restaurant.
	I say, okay, I'll take your favorite restaurant, and then I'm gonna go home and crash.
	And then all this other crap breaks out, and I literally stay up all night Saturday night and all through Sunday.
	I just haven't been sleeping.
	Although I did get a decent night's sleep last night, thanks to my pillow.
	I'm back home and my pillow.
	Uh and it helps so much.
	Um before we get started, I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on it.
	Um I will be hitting this again tonight, though, on TV.
	I we have never in the history of the website, and the same I'm told with the Fox News website, ever.
	We're like breaking records with last night's opening monologue.
	And I I just it has been beyond humbling to me how amazing you in this audience are and and the TV audience are, and I I'm frankly blown away.
	I am I'm so amazingly proud of my friends.
	You know, I got a buddy of mine, Don, I don't know if I should say his last Don, and Don is like the most mild mannered guy you'd ever want to meet.
	And last night somebody emailed me what he wrote about me on on Facebook.
	And he's just he's been a friend.
	We kind of raised our kids together in the in a tennis world, great guy, just a good man and you know, has a great job, very smart, fun guy, but he's real, he's kind of like the opposite.
	I'm loud and have a big mouth, and he's quiet and sophisticated and everything that I'm not.
	And but you know, I really love the guy.
	He's like become one of my closest friends.
	He writes this incredible thing on Facebook.
	I don't think he's ever done anything politically his entire life.
	I mean, it just is amazing how kind people have been to me.
	You know, more importantly, open-minded.
	I'm not even asking for anything else.
	Just you know, we rush to judgment against cops all the time.
	Think about all those cops in Baltimore, all found innocent.
	And even the president of the United States was attacking them.
	We're thinking of George Zimmerman condemned by everybody.
	Or in the case of Ferguson, Missouri, in the case of the Cambridge police.
	You know, all these people, you know, we talk about them in the news all the time, but you know, they I'm I've got broad shoulders.
	I've been in the media 30 years.
	It's not a big deal that this stupid false lying allegation against me.
	There wasn't a uh a major network news program or network.
	There wasn't a uh there wasn't, it was everywhere.
	Every news site, every website, every radio station.
	I mean, it's insane the amount of coverage.
	I don't give a rip.
	I really don't.
	Because na A, I know the truth, and B, I've been doing this.
	I I cannot dish it out four hours a day and not expect to get hit back.
	I fully expect it.
	But I'm not taking lies, smear, and slander any more in my life.
	And I'm very lucky because I number one have a microphone, thanks to all of you, and a TV camera in front of me, and the means financially, none of this is cheap to hire the best legal team, three of the best lawyers in the United States.
	If I told you how many Supreme Court cases among them, you would die.
	And on top of that, you know, we've got investigators.
	You know, the finest from Israel that have spent their entire life doing this sort of thing.
	And why?
	Because I'm gonna be perfectly blunt here.
	You know, after all the news and everything that's happened and the firings that occurred and the boycotts that work, you gotta understand this person that has been lying about me for well over a decade, and we have debunked all of these lies and for the world to see.
	Let me tell you, this was a kill shot.
	This was the crosshairs on my forehead and right over my heart to take me out.
	And the left was all too ready and willing to jump on this bandwagon if they could have.
	And if I didn't have the means and the team behind me to get out in front of this and tell the truth.
	This is what they wanted.
	They want they want this voice of ours, and it's not about Sean Hannity.
	They want Rush, let me name them.
	Mark, Glenn, Laura, all of us, local hosts, all of you gone.
	They want the Fox News Channel, the only news organization in the country that gives Donald Trump a fair shot.
	They want it done.
	And if anything, they want it to be a watered down, ineffective version of like CNN.
	That's what they want.
	This isn't a game.
	This is the high stakes poker here.
	And there's gonna be winners and losers in this.
	And I just refuse to go down without fighting for my voice and your voice to be heard on a daily basis to counter a monolithic uh narrative in the news media that is you know you know who they you know what they really want?
	I won't tell you who.
	When Donald Trump won, I sent an I sent a text message to a couple of people, and I said, You need to know what you're walking into.
	You are walking into a snake pit, both in Washington and within the media and liberal leftist, intolerant left minefield that you have no idea what you're about to deal with.
	It makes corporate America look like kindergarten.
	And I said their ultimate goal is to take down this president, to delegitimize him, to make him fail, to impeach him, if they can put him in handcuffs, perp walk him, mugshoot him, and and put him in jail for the rest of their life.
	And I said, on their way up the ladder, they're gonna they're they want as much collateral damage, meaning the left, as they can possibly have.
	And then I went on to tell these people dot every I, cross every T, follow every ethics law, get your own attorney, which basically means you hire an attorney full time, you're not getting paid then.
	You're you're donating your time to Washington because whatever you're gonna pay your attorney, attorneys are pretty expensive, is gonna offset whatever your salary happens to be, which means then you're working pro bono.
	And I said, you better do it because this threat is a real clear and present danger.
	Now you may think I'm paranoid.
	You don't think making that type of salacious allegation against in light of the environment that is out there today, just days after Bill O'Reilly got fired, wasn't by design as a kill shot to my head and my heart with crosshairs all over me.
	Oh, it absolutely.
	It was Designed to take me out.
	It was designed to take me down.
	Linda, do you disagree with any of this?
	The most amazing part of this process, and I didn't plan on talking about it, but here I am.
	The most amazing part of this whole process has been you in this audience and friends.
	I got a text from my son yesterday.
	My son doesn't follow the news.
	He just doesn't.
	He follows, if you hear his phone buzzing, it's not because there's a news alert, it's because there's something happened in the sports world.
	That's it.
	That's all he cares about.
	Now, if I ask him, hey, Patrick, can you send me some brackets?
	People want me to be in the bracket thing.
	Boom.
	It's over in 30 seconds.
	Pat, did you see my show last night?
	Silence.
	He's not going to say a word.
	Which is what, by the way, is the way I was, frankly, at his age.
	I cared about sports.
	Although I started developing a love of politics around his age.
	And uh, and I'm perfectly content with that.
	But when your own son writes you, my niece Cassie, you know, text me, I love you, Uncle Sean.
	That's all she wrote me.
	And I'm like, all right, I gotta now stop what I'm doing and call her.
	Because that means she's upset.
	And, you know, like those people.
	I you know what it's funny because I'm so used to it.
	It's just I don't, you know, everybody's saying, Oh, you okay?
	I'm like, uh, yeah.
	I've had this for 30 years in some way, shape, matter, or form, just not this intense.
	It was never, I never felt like it was a kill shot.
	This was a kill shot.
	The environment now is a kill shot.
	And when I say kill shot, I mean take me out of my career, silence my voice, get me off of Fox, kill the Fox News channel off, if not totally, to so water it down that it has no effectiveness at all as the only fair voice against Trump.
	You know, to hurt talk radio through these ridiculous boycotts.
	I called it what it is last night.
	It's liberal fascism.
	What's liberal fascism?
	Organized, orchestrated efforts to silence voices, political opposition that you don't agree with.
	That's a simple definition of it.
	Um I don't support boycotts for that very reason.
	I don't care.
	I honestly, look, I want everybody in the country to watch my TV show.
	I wish I could make everybody in the country, you know, turn off your music now.
	Every radio station in America was carrying the Sean Hannity show.
	Okay, but there are choices and options in life.
	It's perfectly fine with me if you choose to watch a liberal host.
	Don Lemon's a nice guy.
	Met him the other night.
	Kind of nice.
	He's a nice guy.
	I don't have any problem with him being on the air.
	Lawrence O'Donnell, I met him.
	He's a nice, you know, nice in person.
	He's crazy on the air, but a nice guy in person.
	I've no personal issues with these people.
	I am told that I'm going to name names soon.
	The day after O'Reilly's firing, there was a meeting out in Hollywood.
	Prominent, prominent, prominent Hollywood activist names.
	And my name was mentioned in this meeting, I'm told.
	Hannity's next.
	Then we'll get Tucker.
	And then we'll go after Rush and talk radio.
	This is not a game anymore.
	So the most amazing part of this for me is listen, from my standpoint, I can go away tomorrow, and I'm, I promise you I will be fine.
	I won't agonize over it.
	Wouldn't be happy over it because I love what I do.
	But the country's not going to be fine if they can do this to conservative voices.
	If liberals were really pure and intellectually honest, they would be coming to my defense right now and saying what happened here is a grave injustice.
	They would be speaking out against these orchestrated boycotts.
	They would be telling their liberal friends that that pay people to sit in their underwear and monitor every conservative radio show and every hour of the Fox News channel.
	They would be saying, stop.
	It's let people decide.
	Let's have vigorous dialogue and debate in the country.
	But they're not.
	They're hypocritical.
	You in this audience that showed at the least a willingness to hear the facts, to give me the benefit of the doubt, To accept my innocence until proven innocent.
	Or proven guilty.
	Is beyond anything I could have asked.
	Your phone calls, your notes, your text, your tweets, your Instagrams, your Facebooks.
	It's all moved me beyond words.
	But I've got to tell you what it's done more than anything.
	It has given me fight and resolve.
	I will spend any amount of money.
	I am going to take on anybody that smears, slanders, lies.
	I am not going down without the biggest fight you have ever seen.
	And I will pay, I will pay whatever it takes to make that happen.
	Because all of us and the entire country's platform of freedom of speech will be rendered meaningless if we lose.
	800 941 Shauna's on number.
	All right, we got so much to get to.
	Wow.
	China now threatening North Korea if they do a nuclear test.
	We'll get to all the security issues.
	Trump responds to Putin's bombers with F 35 fighters.
	The latest on the budget, the latest on health care, the border wall, Trump's hundred days, that's all coming up at the at the bottom of the hour, and how weak the GOP House and Senate are.
	You know what Linda does make a good point, and uh, and that is that you're right.
	If if all everybody in the media that covered this story, every person.
	And you're you're like livid about this.
	All they needed to do with this was a simple basic Google search.
	And they would have found out this individual had a history of over a decade lying about me.
	And then they wouldn't have run the story, would they?
	That's how lazy.
	What do I always say about them?
	They're lazy, they're agenda-driven, they're ideological, and they're all fat and overpaid.
	They're not fat, but you know what I mean.
	Why are you laughing?
	You mean like you mean like fat cats?
	Yeah, like the fat cats.
	Yeah, that's what I meant.
	Exactly.
	Um, but you're right.
	That's all they needed to do.
	Not one by the way, guess how many of these people called me?
	Not well, the New York Times reached out to the Fox PR people.
	The daily, some daily something, Beast or Mail, I daily whatever.
	They reached out to Fox PR.
	A couple of others did too.
	Media I absolutely reached out.
	I know that.
	Uh so they can get the facts.
	But you it's such a good point.
	I think what we saw was we exchanged integrity for a headline.
	Nobody cared.
	Nobody cared about.
	I mean, I I just said to Ethan and Lauren, I was like, I would not put something on even a guest sheet that stays internal if I had not fact-checked it and researched it.
	No, that's you're obsessed with it.
	I mean, it is, and listen, there's a lot of people I'd like to write some things.
	And occasionally you got one or two things wrong, and when you it devastates you.
	Yeah, I feel horrible.
	For 400 days after I'll have to deal with it.
	So annoying.
	And I'm like, shut up.
	I don't even care the first time.
	Well, I if I'm letting you off the hook, I'm being gracious.
	But you know, but think about this.
	They went they went for the headline.
	Absolutely.
	Do you agree?
	It was all about the headline.
	It was discussed.
	I think it's it's 100%.
	It was all about drowning you and not getting the truth.
	And I and I hope that we can extend them the same courtesy if that happens to you.
	Yeah, right, exactly.
	Well, anyway, we'll take a break.
	We'll get to the real issues when we get back.
	800 941 Shauna's on number, Daniel Horowitz, Ram Paul, and Katie Hopkins coming up today.
	And so you would do your best to hold the seat up.
	Absolutely.
	We are the party of opposition, and that is our job.
	It gets to a point where they're just not doing their job.
	I did not hear better ideas coming out of the Democrats.
	Right.
	They were just delaying, and they were saying this is just wrong.
	You would not sit down with President Elect Trump if he invited you to the White House.
	Oh no, I won't go.
	I'm not gonna sit down with him.
	I'm not gonna go.
	Each new president coming into office was allowed to get his cabinet in place.
	Donald Trump deserves the same.
	The party of Pelosi is trying to block every initiative President Trump wants into.
	But will that backfire?
	Like, what could you work with on with the President Trump?
	First of all, we're not moving with anybody who says we're gonna repeal the Affordable Care Act.
	For eight years, you guys had a plan.
	You you kept saying and promising you will appeal, replace Obamacare.
	And I guess what people want to know is when are these things gonna get done?
	We are exactly on the timeline that we designed for ourselves.
	Obamacare is coming next.
	Our bill is coming In March.
	First, it's regulatory reform because we had this window of time to cancel bad Obama regulations, then we're doing Obamacare.
	After we're done with Obamacare, then we're doing our budget.
	And our budget is what the second budget, which will be tax reform.
	So we're doing two budgets in one year, which has never been done before.
	This is faster than has ever been done before.
	When I heard repair, my head nearly exploded.
	That's not the plan.
	The plan is revealed.
	Is to repeal and replace this law.
	Like we said, we ran on a plan to repeal and replace it.
	Tom Price helped write that plan.
	He is now Donald Trump's secretary of Hillary.
	It is a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO.
	Correct.
	You're saying to the American people and conservatives that are impatient, including myself.
	You agree with every item I mentioned, even extreme vetting.
	Yeah.
	We passed that bill a year ago in the House.
	I know you now agree with building the wall.
	Yes.
	Are you telling the American people vetting refugees, building the wall, repeal replace, tax reform?
	All of this is going to be done in 200 days.
	Inside the 200 day window is the regulatory reforms we talked about.
	It's the repeal and replace Obamacare.
	It's the budget, it's the rebuilding of our military, it's tax reform.
	Those are the things that we're working on.
	And the infrastructure, those are the things we're working on in this 2007 countries.
	That's in there as well.
	We see that as part of regulatory reform.
	But in 200 days, that's you think that's doable.
	This is our plan, yeah.
	And if and if there's any slippage, we'll finish it in the fall and get it done before the end of the year.
	So if I come back in 200 days, I you're gonna you're gonna go, well, I made a promise, we've got to do it.
	Well, because I think this is a so here's what I'm saying.
	We we've met this out for 200 days.
	We have a plan to do that.
	We're on schedule.
	But if if anything slips because of another Supreme Court justice, yeah, or or a filibuster on a cabinet nominee, that might slip us, but we're we're making sure that we do all of this in 2017.
	Okay, let's go to the budget, which is such a big issue.
	Uh the president, seven brackets to three, fifteen percent corporate rate.
	I know you prefer twenty because that scores my seat for 15 scores.
	Yeah, I have to get what we can with the with the numbers.
	You support repatriation, multinational corporations.
	That will be huge for that's a lot of money that can come back into the economy.
	Probably about three trillion dollars.
	Here's my headline of this interview that you're in pretty much full agreement with what Donald Trump ran on.
	Yes.
	And number two, in 200 days from the legislative side, you are going to be implementing every aspect of that agenda that we talked about.
	Yep, and and just to badline.
	And we have and we have cushion in our schedule.
	If if anything slips, because it's really because of Senate issues, we still have time to accommodate all of this stuff in 2017.
	So I even have safety valves.
	I have cushions built in the schedule to make sure this all gets done in 2017.
	Because I believe in case something happens and goes sideways on the Senate.
	I'm pretty sure that'll stimulate the economy, get people back to work and get the economy moving again, which I think we need.
	That's what we're hired to do.
	All right, Mr. Speaker, you see in 200 days.
	All right, 23 now till the top of the hour.
	Um now that was my interview with Paul Ryan.
	Now, the the first thing the Republican National Committee put, yeah, they're obstructionists.
	But all of this is very frustrating, and it goes back to the whole Obamacare repeal replace issue that I am so frustrated about.
	And we'll check in at the top of the next hour.
	Ram Paul, he's frustrated too.
	I'll start with Americans' view of Congress now, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, Wall Street Journal, MBC News poll, finds, you know, three-quarters of the American people disapprove of Congress's job performance.
	They've earned this rating.
	That's up twelve points, by the way, since February.
	Just one-fifth said they approve of the job that Congress is doing.
	That's a nine percent Trump.
	Now, why do why are people happier with Trump?
	Ninety-eight percent of people that voted for Trump are happy with vote for him again.
	Trump would win the popular vote by you know what, four percentage points or whatever.
	He'd win the popular vote.
	Four million votes.
	The poll came out yesterday.
	He's doing fine because Trump is getting everything done on his own.
	He's not getting the help of Congress.
	The fact that they were ill-prepared, didn't have a consensus bill, hid the health care bill, never brought the the varying factions and coalitions of the Republican Party in the House together, the moderate faction, the Tuesday group, and the study group and the freedom caucus and the you know, let's go out and get wasted on Saturday night group and and let's have swinging parties on Sunday night group.
	I mean these groups are ridiculous.
	But anyway, but They never led and brought the coalitions together.
	Now, I'm told that the bill is done as they've come to an agreement on waivers, and that basically all the heavy lifting was done by Mark Meadows, and it still isn't being voted on, although there's a rumor they might do it Thursday, but Trump kept his promises.
	This is Trump's hundred days that the media won't focus on.
	He brought one of the originalists on his Supreme Court list, Neil Gorsuch.
	That's not small.
	That is huge.
	That alone gets him an A plus.
	Because that will impact this country for generations.
	If he didn't keep that promise, that would be a problem.
	You know, he's got an imagine a president working the phones to keep Fiat Chrysler and I can't even afford and GM and Carrier.
	I mean, the list is so long.
	And all these companies now, oh, we'll invest too.
	We're going to invest this billion dollars and that million dollars, and we'll create that many million jobs.
	He ended the war on coal.
	He's eliminated so many Obama era regulations that were stifling business, reduced illegal immigration by nearly two thirds because he's enforcing the law.
	He's pushing so hard against sanctuary cities.
	He is drafted a plan to defeat ISIS, showed he's not afraid to go forward with military action, as we saw when he responded to serious use of chemical weapons, put a five-year lobbying ban in place to drain the swamp, sanctioned a ran over the missile program, created a task force to reduce crime, executive orders to protect police officers and drug cartels.
	Then the executive orders on the Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines, and you know, his buy American, higher American uh executive order, renegotiating all these outdated trade deals.
	You know, border crossing rates are at the lowest in 17 years just by enforcing the law.
	You know, think of the sanctions on Syria on Iran.
	Think of the message.
	Think of the mother of all bombs that killed a hundred ISIS fighters in Afghanistan.
	You know, and in the process, he's now they're designing the border wall.
	I know there's a lot.
	We'll get to that in a second.
	And he's trying extreme vetting.
	He's being stopped by the courts, but he's tried it twice.
	He he will sign the bill, whatever bill finally comes out of repealing replacing Obamacare, the House, Senate, and Conference.
	He's rebuilding the military, he's trying to cut government spending, cut back on the government workforce, and shrink that.
	And he's made the country or put the country on a path to energy independence.
	That is not he's kept all his pro-life promises.
	Defunding Planned Parenthood.
	Now, as as Byron York, I think it was Byron York.
	Donald Trump's hundred days in executive six, a huge executive success.
	But the problem is Congress.
	The problem is they're they're they're slow and pathetic and weak.
	I mean, when they were out of power, Obama's the president, they would be like, oh, Obama just has to say, well, we're gonna blame you for a government shutdown.
	And they would bubble and fizz like Alka seltzer in water, and they'd get nothing done.
	It would paralyze them.
	Now that they're in power, they're still paralyzed by this.
	It's all you can't win with these people.
	You know, and then Schumer and Pelosi are whining that Trump is getting his way in budget negotiations.
	Now, meanwhile, there is a lot of criticism of the of the president because the president was willing to take off the the beginning of the funding for the border wall as it relates to the continuing resolution, because we do face a real government shutdown, and he didn't want to be blamed.
	But he says, make no mistake.
	Don't let fake media tell you I've changed my position on the wall.
	It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking, and based on his track record and keeping all the other promises, he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
	And there'll be plenty of opportunities to do it.
	As a matter of fact, Secretary Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and attorney general sessions both said that they plan to begin construction at the end of summer.
	Even Schumer said that he will debate the border wall.
	Oh, how gracious of Chuck Schumer.
	There is nothing Democrats are ever going to support that Trump does.
	Anyway, so Trump showed flexibility there, but you still got Bannon and you got Attorney General Sessions, and they're on the right page as it relates to the border wall.
	Um You got Texas Democrats staging a hunger strike.
	Well, I remember when we had Al Sharpton on my TV show at the time.
	He was in the middle of a hunger strike.
	And then he admitted he drinks soup all day.
	That's not a hunger strike.
	A hunger strike means nothing goes in and nothing comes out.
	Because there's nothing in.
	Which I thought was pretty funny.
	But they didn't get the health care bill done.
	They don't deserve.
	Until they do, this is what they get.
	By the way, we have Mark Meadows.
	He gave the president an A for his first hundred days in office, and he talked about I think he's accomplished a lot more than what people in the media allege he's right.
	The media's never going to give this president a fair shot.
	Never going to give any conservative a fair shot.
	Matter of fact, they want to shut down all conservatives from speaking, apparently.
	Anyway, talked about the congressional review acts that would undo significant regulatory schemes, historic level of being able to repeal actual rules that affect jobs.
	You know, especially farming and mining and energy, etc.
	And then he said he put America first, strong national security emphasis.
	You know, look at the news today.
	Trump responds to Putin's bombers with F-35 fighters, F 35A fighters.
	Good for him.
	You want to talk about something that nobody anticipated when Trump became president is emerging relationship with China.
	You might say, well, Hannah, it's a communist Chinese.
	You can't trust them.
	I'm not saying to trust them.
	I don't trust Putin either.
	But it's better to get along with people if you can.
	Well, now we have the UK Daily Express.
	China has apparently lost such patience with North Korea.
	They're now warning Kim Jong-un that another nuclear weapons test will push relations beyond the point of no return.
	Remember, this the president of China comes back from meeting Trump and puts 175,000 troops on the border, sends back shipments of coal to North Korea and imports American coal.
	And then said he's open to new trade agreements.
	Anyway, in an editorial piece in the Global Times that's regarded widely as a mouthpiece for the Communist Party in China.
	The game of chicken between Washington and Pyongyang has now come to a breaking point, adding that if North Korea conducted another nuclear missile test, it is more likely than ever the situation that will cross the point of no return.
	Then the peace continued.
	All stakeholders will bear the consequences with Pyongyang sure to suffer the greatest losses.
	That's huge.
	That's China saying to North Korea, and they have the most influence over anybody.
	Knock it off, or you're gonna get hit.
	That's very interesting.
	On top of the Iranian sanctions, Trump just unloaded a block of 271 sanctions against Bashir al-Assad of Syria for their chemical weapons attack.
	That's America leading from the front, not from behind.
	And those are not the things that Trump is going to get the most credit for.
	You got stories on the economy that corporate earnings now surge through the roof.
	You got the Nasdaq hitting an all-time record high.
	You got Trump now moving forward to get his 15% corporate tax rate and 10% repatriation rate and a middle class income tax cut for everybody.
	But by the way, you notice how Hillary, Democrats, they always get off the hook.
	Clinton's the Clinton server scandal, the Clinton Foundation.
	No, but now they're going after the GOP.
	It's like why I said Republicans need to get rid of the filibuster, the bird rule and cloture, because they play by one set of rules, which allows Bruce Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor and every liberal you could ever imagine activist justice on the Supreme Court, but then Chuck Schumer and company won't even give an up or down vote for a Republican, or is there any reciprocity whatsoever?
	So might as well get rid of it and stop playing the game.
	But they'll go after now.
	I see that the White House is rejecting the House Oversight Committee's request for documents on General.
	They want to put Flynn in jail, it sounds like.
	If we're going to go down this road.
	Anyway, 800-941 Sean is a toe-free telephone number.
	Anyway, so Trump is temporarily.
	I'm not worried about it.
	Some of you may be, I'm not.
	But we'll have to wait and see.
	Trust and verify.
	But I think Trump, I think Trump's history of keeping his promises are actually pretty good, and his percentage is pretty good.
	All right, we got Rampall at the top of the hour.
	My buddy Daniel Horowitz coming up.
	What do you mean Katie Hopkins of the Daily Mail?
	You're going to love her.
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	Will this get done?
	Uh funding of government?
	Yes, it will.
	We'll continue to fund government, move forward, and we'll continue to move forward on the priorities of job creation, border security, and others.
	And remember, Bill, since President Trump has taken office from his actions alone, illegal boarding crossings have dropped, some within almost 70 percent.
	Now we've got to make sure we secure the border all the way, and that's what we're continuing to.
	So you're saying no shutdown of the government this week.
	A shutdown is not productive in any shape or form.
	There's no need for a shutdown.
	We will not shut down the government.
	We'll continue to fund the government.
	The shutdown communication and talk is all prefaced by Democrats.
	That's what they want to have happen.
	That's what their movement is trying to do.
	When you talk to members around here, they say shutdown would be great because they'll blame it all on the Republicans.
	All right, hour two, Sean Hannity show, write down our toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	800 941 Sean.
	So I don't understand.
	So when the Republicans, when Democrats are in power and Obama's the president, all Obama had to do is threaten a government shutdown, and Republicans would bubble and fizz like Alka Salts are in water and cave and fear the worst thing could happen is a government shutdown.
	Because they're going to get blamed for it.
	They're the opposition party.
	Well, now they have the House and the Senate and the White House, and Democrats again, all they have to do is threaten a government shutdown, and Republicans bubble and fizz like Alka Celts are in water.
	And even on issues involving the beginning of the funding of the wall, which by the way, I I trust President Trump.
	He's so far has been pretty good at keeping most of his promises, those at least that he doesn't need Congress's help on, that he's gonna build the wall.
	I think if he doesn't build the wall, it's the equivalent of read my lips, no new taxes, and it he would pay a very heavy political price.
	Anyway, what's going on over there?
	We have Rand Paul is with us, the uh great senator from the great state of Kentucky.
	How are you, my friend?
	Very good, Sean.
	I think you've got it exactly right.
	Uh, you know, the Republicans tend to fold like cheap suits when they're not in power, and then when they're in power, they do the same thing.
	If it were just a parlor game and the Democrats were like, well, yeah, we're gonna blame you guys, and that would be funny, but it's real life and it's a tragedy.
	Republicans fold every time, and they assume they will be blamed for any shutdown, whether they're in power or out of power.
	And so I asked the question, which is worse.
	You know, is it worse to keep government open that borrows a million dollars a minute?
	Or should we not try to reform government in exchange for keeping it open?
	I'm of the mind that the only way I'll vote uh for additional spending is if it is accompanied by reforms.
	That would mean either a balanced budget amendment or a budget that actually is leading towards balance, but I'm just not voting for a continuation of the status quo up here.
	So, in other words, the the CR.
	Um, I don't care.
	I'm not as worked up over the border wall funding issue now because we still got to build the plans and and Homeland Security Secretary Kelly and Attorney General Sessions uh they've made me pretty confident they're gonna follow through.
	But I gotta be honest.
	I mean, Senator, eight years.
	Republicans repeal replace Obamacare.
	No, seriously.
	And then and then the they get the House in 2010.
	The Senate, yeah, Ted Cruz was supposed to prevent them from winning because God forbid poor Ted Cruz stood up for constitutional principles.
	You helped him that night.
	And and then we get the Senate, even though it was predicted we lose, but all because of Ted Cruz and you and Rubio and Mike Lee end up getting the Senate, then Donald Trump was not supported by a majority of these idiots in the Republican Party.
	He's now the president and he's moving as quickly as he can on the things that he can do alone, and these guys weren't even ready with a plan of consensus bill to repeal or replace Obamacare.
	What is wrong with these people?
	We voted sixty times.
	We voted sixty times, sixty times to report.
	Those were called those are show votes, Senator.
	They weren't real votes.
	Yeah, but then when we finally have the power to repeal it, we pull back and we don't repeal it.
	I am you can't I cannot tell you how bothered I am by the fact that there's going to be taxpayer money given to insurance companies.
	That's what Obamacare did, and the Republicans are going to continue giving taxpayer money to insurance companies.
	The insurance companies profit was six billion before Obamacare.
	It's fifteen billion now.
	I do not shed tears for the insurance industry.
	I'm all for capitalism, but I don't like capitalists who come to Washington with their hands out beseeching us, saying, Oh, we're not making enough money in the individual.
	How much progress did you make?
	I know you went golf I d I didn't even know you played golf.
	Are you any good?
	You know, Sean, all you gotta do is pick up the phone and call me and we you'll find out real quick.
	Oh, so that means you're a good golf ball.
	Yeah, no, I'm I'm I'm pretty average, but I enjoy playing.
	The president is better golfer than I am, and uh is it true that he hits the the ball a ton, is that true?
	Um I would say that he's very uh accurate.
	He's not only uh in the fairway, but he's also a very good putter.
	He made about a forty foot putt for Parr on one of the holes.
	I saw him chip up and get down in one putt uh several times.
	What is he what is his handicap?
	You know, I I shoot what did he shoot the day you're I hate to tell you something I'm not positive.
	What did he shoot the day you sh played with him?
	Well, we played match play, and I would have guessed he probably would have shot high seventies, low eighties.
	Uh we were keeping track of teams.
	He and I were together, and I told him that if our team won I would vote, you know, for the health care plan, but if I won, he'd have to vote for my plan, and we tied in the end, so I guess that's why we're still discussing it.
	Well, did you make progress?
	You you were very I I I thought very um and you know, you you felt good about the time you spent with them, and what's the follow-up then?
	Well, you know, Mick Mulvaney played with us also, and he's the budget director.
	He was in the house, he's a good friend of mine, and also uh somebody who I think is very much a deficit hawk.
	He's one of the good guys, and he's uh President Trump's uh budget director, which should give a lot of conservatives, you know, great solace that you know President Trump has picked good solid conservatives in these positions.
	So I talked about a lot of it with the president as well as uh Mick Mulvaney, and I think we are making progress.
	But I guess one of the things that still bothers me is that all of the plans, because this is the way Paul Ryan started it, all of the plans have taxpayer money going to insurance companies, a direct faucet from the taxpayer from the treasury to insurance companies.
	And I don't I just don't know some of that fade away over time as I understood it.
	At one point that was being discussed.
	Here's the thing is they're saying that if people get really sick, the insurance companies can't handle that, and the insurance companies lose money.
	But that's a little bit deceitful because the insurance companies made fifteen billion dollars in profit last year.
	What they do is they segregate their gains in the group insurance from their losses in the individual market, but they're really one company, it's their profit loss altogether that should matter.
	And the point I make to people is if your house is on fire, do you start looking around for homeowners' insurance or would you rather have a fireman?
	It's the same way if you're sick.
	I think if you're really sick and you have million dollar bills every year and you don't have insurance, I don't think I would buy you insurance by the taxpayer, but I might buy you health care.
	So the thing is if there are people in our society who are really, really sick and really, really expensive to take care of, it makes absolutely and utterly no sense to buy them insurance.
	If we're gonna help them and the taxpayers gonna do it, we should buy them health care, not health insurance.
	I object to giving more profit to the insurance companies from the taxpayers, from the Treasury, and I I I just can't imagine that I can't understand why Republicans decide to make that.
	Instead of repealing Obamacare, we put in a big taxpayer subsidy for the insurance companies.
	Where are you?
	I know that that Mark Meadows And it it really is unfortunate that the leadership didn't lead in this instance on health care, that nobody saw the bill.
	They hid it from everybody.
	They didn't build consensus with the varying coalitions in the in the House, meaning the moderates and the Freedom Group and the Tuesday group, Freedom Caucus, Tuesday group, study group, you know, the Saturday drinking group.
	I don't know how many groups are in that that body.
	But and then Ryan, I felt the person that was most proactive to get this done for the president was the well the Freedom Caucus members.
	And I also know that they stayed in touch with people like you and Mike Lee and and Senator uh uh Cruz of Texas because they didn't want a big problem in conference.
	So you've been following this closely.
	Where do you where do you think their bill is going with the new waiver agreement that they have?
	I think everybody in the country should uh thank the Freedom Caucus.
	And if you are a conservative and you want the Republican Party to be conservative, you should send money to support them because the establishment hates the Freedom Caucus.
	They've already run ads against them, the big money, the Wall Street money, the big business money, the big corporate executives who want bailouts are all giving money to try to challenge them in primary.
	So we should thank the Freedom Caucus.
	The bill was terrible to begin with.
	It didn't even repeal the Obamacare taxes.
	They were gonna wait a year to repeal the taxes in the bill.
	They were continuing the Medicaid expansion, continuing subsidies, and the Freedom Caucus has made it a lot better.
	I will say that everything the Freedom Caucus has gotten has made it a less bad bill.
	The only question I have, and I don't know where it's going to wind up, is if it still involves billions of dollars to insurance companies, it'll be very, very hard for me to vote for a federal program that it will be a new program that gives federal dollars to insurance companies.
	So that's kind of where I am.
	But I do commend the Freedom Caucus for doing everything they can to stop what was really a terrible rot and no good bill to begin with.
	It really was.
	It was god awful.
	All right, so what what is it gonna take for you to get on board if they pass this through the House?
	Now there's differing reports out there.
	One says that the health care bill vote may not come for weeks.
	I'm hearing from other people that it could come as early as tomorrow.
	What are you hearing?
	To my mind it was always this.
	I wanted a hundred percent repeal, but if the moderates only want eighty percent repeal, I would settle for ninety percent repeal.
	So I'm not a perfectionist that I won't vote for incomplete repeal.
	But what I don't want to vote for is anything that's new.
	I don't want to vote for new federal programs that give money to uh insurance companies.
	So there's a hundred and fifteen billion dollars in grants and in high risk money that they're gonna give to insurance companies, and then there's also three hundred billion dollars in refundable tax credits.
	This is money that people get that they did not pay in taxes.
	So essentially it is a an insurance welfare program, but it'll come through the individual to insurance companies.
	So the the bill as I see it now has about four hundred billion dollars in money taken from the taxpayer and given to insurance companies.
	You have you I I gotta take a break here, but have you talked to Senator McConnell, the majority leader, and asked him if he will consider your proposal?
	We have, and we've gone round and round because I've told them if you want to compromise, I'll compromise and I'll vote for less than complete repeal as long as you don't force him to do federal programs.
	They are all working within the construct because they started with the Ryan plan, all of the details of the Ryan plan, they're trying to make them less bad.
	But Ryan started out with this concept of a lot of federal uh taxpayer money going to the insurance companies, and I have a feeling it's gonna still remain when it gets to the Senate.
	Well, so there's no timetable that you're hearing on the House is the vote may not come this week because everybody's obsessed with the CR?
	Yeah, I think the spending has to be done because of a deadline this week, and there's a good chance that if there is an Obamacare vote, that it'll probably be next week.
	But I think something is coming.
	And I think we really should give a lot of credit to the Freedom Caucus, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, and others who have really hung in there and tried to say, look, we promised repeal and we're gonna keep fighting for it.
	And the one thing that really got us crossways is most of us, and I know you were appeared at some of these big Tea Party rallies, is that we were campaigning for repeal of Obamacare.
	We weren't really campaigning for repeal but to continue some taxpayer funding of insurance companies.
	And so that's where we got crossways is when Paul Ryan said, Oh, you're all uh you all campaigned on my plan and what I'm gonna do.
	Why is Ryan not have any sense of urgency?
	Why is Ryan, you know, I he seems so passive and ill prepared for this moment.
	I don't understand it.
	And you know, friends of mine have been speculating, not me, but friends of mine, and they're saying, well, does he even want the president to succeed?
	Does he even trying to make help the president out here?
	Well, I think that's an interesting question because when you look at the people who are really people friend who are friends of the president, they are in the freedom caucus.
	And even though it's sort of been painted as if they're crossways, I I tell you, I see these guys all the time, and they are ones who do want to support the president's agenda of smaller government, lower taxes, repealing Obamacare.
	And I think if they had started out by going to the Freedom Caucus and talking to them first, I think you'd have started out with a bill that started with what we agreed on, instead of being given a thousand things, five hundred of which we did not agree on, and being told take it or leave it, it's a binary choice.
	It just started out.
	The public relations on this was terrible and awful.
	And then even when they do something good, nobody knows about it.
	So the House about two weeks ago voted for something that I'm very much for, that's buying groups.
	Let people join a buying group to get your price of insurance down.
	They actually passed that out of the House two weeks ago.
	Not one person in America knows about it because they don't do any public relations surrounding their bills.
	And I've been pushing the Senate to vote on it.
	If it passed in the House two weeks ago, how come we're not bringing it up in the Senate?
	Well, don't you have probably one of the closest relationships with Mitch McConnell?
	Yeah, but doesn't it make it a lot of the bigger?
	By the way, Mitch McConnell does not like me.
	I saw him.
	It doesn't mean I get everything I want.
	I saw him at the joint session speech.
	I said hello to him and he acted like he didn't care who I was.
	He didn't want anything to do with me.
	I agitate every day and sometimes to excess, probably to try to have a lot of people.
	Does he get annoyed with you?
	Does he get annoyed with you too?
	Well, I don't want to make it personal.
	I would just say everybody gets annoyed with me because I'm always agitating for conservative legislation.
	I I don't find you annoying.
	I find your guy Sergio annoying as hell.
	But what I will say is I've been pushing them for a freestanding vote on these buying groups, because I think they're a big part of the solution.
	And it also shows that we do have compassion for people who are sick.
	You know, I do a lot of charity work.
	Republicans are some of the most generous people you'll meet.
	We do have a lot of people.
	Don't you do a lot of surgery and medical care for free every year?
	Yeah, I just got back from doing two in western Kentucky.
	We did two cataract surgeries for free, myself and another surgeon.
	Doctors across the country do good stuff for people.
	Every doctor I know, I've got friends of mine that are brain surgeons and spine surgeons and and just GP guys and and internists.
	They uh they all do work for free.
	And they, by the way, they don't even get a uh tax discount on that.
	But see, this is the problem is people think Republicans don't care about the poor, and so we have such bad public relations that when we have something we're for that's really good, like these buying groups that would, you know, if you could join, let's say you were a member of the NRA and there's five million people, and you could negotiate as five million and get a group policy.
	One, you'd be protected against getting sick or a pre-existing condition, you'd get a lower price, you'd get a guaranteed price no matter what you're doing.
	I've always said you have either the co-ops that you and I have talked about, pre-health care savings accounts, and catastrophic care with high deductibles.
	If you have the heart attack, the accident, or God forbid you got cancer.
	But you and I have agreed on that for a long time.
	I got to run.
	Senator Rampall, thank you, sir.
	Thanks, Sean.
	All right, 800, 94.
	One Sean, you want to be a part of this extravaganza conservative columnist, uh, the as a matter of fact, the senior editor, conservative review, Daniel Horowitz, he's pissed at the Republicans.
	He'll tell us why as we continue.
	Holding them accountable.
	Sean gets the answers no one else does.
	America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
	Eight years you guys had a plan.
	You you kept saying and promising you'll appeal replace Obamacare.
	And I guess what people want to know is when are these things going to get done?
	We're exactly on the timeline that we designed for ourselves.
	Obamacare is coming next.
	Our bill is coming in March.
	First, it's regulatory reform because we had this window of time to cancel bad Obama regulations, then we're doing Obamacare.
	After we're done with Obamacare, then we're doing our budget.
	And our budget is what the second budget, which will be tax reform.
	So we're doing two budgets in one year, which has never been done before.
	This is faster than has ever been done before.
	When I heard repair, my head nearly exploded.
	That's not the plan.
	The plan is to repeal and replace this law.
	Like we said, we ran on a plan to repeal and replace it.
	Tom Price helped write that plan.
	He is now Donald Trump's Secretary of Agency.
	It is a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO.
	Correct.
	You're saying to the American people and conservatives that are impatient, including myself.
	You agree with every item I mentioned, even extreme vetting.
	Yeah.
	We passed that bill a year ago in the House.
	I know you now agree with building the wall.
	Yes.
	Are you telling the American people vetting refugees, building the wall, repeal replace, tax reform?
	All of this is going to be done in 200 days.
	Inside the 200 day window is the regulatory reforms you talked about.
	It's the repeal and replace Obamacare.
	It's the budget, it's the rebuilding of our military, it's tax reform.
	Those are the things that we're working on.
	And the infrastructure, those are the things we're working on in this 2007 countries.
	That's in there as well.
	We see that as part of regulatory reform.
	But in 200 days, that's you think that's doable.
	This is our plan, yeah.
	And if and if there's any slippage, we'll finish it in the fall and get it done before the end of the year.
	So if I come back in 200 days, I you're gonna you're gonna go, well, I made a promise, we've got to do that.
	Well, because I think this is a so here's what I'm saying.
	We we've met this out for two hundred days.
	We have a plan to do that.
	We're on schedule.
	But if if anything slips because of the Supreme Court justice, yeah, or or a filibuster on a cabinet nominee, that might slip us, but we're we're making sure that we do all of this in twenty seventeen.
	Okay, let's go to the budget, which is such a big issue.
	Uh the president, seven brackets to three, fifteen percent corporate rate.
	I know you prefer twenty because that scores.
	Yeah, I have to get what we can with the with the numbers.
	You support repatriation multinational corporations.
	That will be huge for that's a lot of money that can come back into the economy.
	Probably about three trillion dollars.
	Here's my headline of this interview.
	That you're in pretty much full agreement with what Donald Trump ran on.
	Yes.
	And number two, in 200 days from the legislative side, you are going to be implementing every aspect of that agenda that we talked about.
	Yep, and and just to big headline.
	And we have and we have cushion in our schedule.
	If if anything slips, because it's really because of Senate issues, we still have time to accommodate all of this stuff in twenty seventeen.
	So I even have safety veils.
	I have cushions built in the schedule to make sure this all gets done in 2017.
	In case something happens and goes sideways on the Senate.
	I'm pretty sure that'll stimulate the economy, get people back to work and get the economy moving again, which I think we need to do.
	That's what we're hired to do.
	All right, Mr. Speaker.
	You see in 200 days.
	Some people on Capitol Hill believe you can get one of two things next week.
	A vote on health care or a vote.
	All right, 24 now till the uh top of the hour, 800 941.
	Sean, you want to be a part of the program as we continue, even with our bronchitis and our cold.
	Uh that was my interview with Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, about his agreement with the Trump agenda, getting all these things done, getting it done in 200 days, and building in cushions and leaving open the fall to get everything accomplished.
	We don't know what the budget will look like until tomorrow, but we're getting signs.
	Now, until Friday, we're basically funded to the government until Saturday.
	So there's going to be a continuing resolution.
	The President did say today that he backed off his demand that Congress include the Dow payment for a wall spanning the entire U.S., but then he doubled down on his commitment.
	This will not be the only budget, the only budgetary issue we're going to deal with.
	This is just are you going to let the Democrats shut it down over the funding of the wall at this moment?
	But uh Trump insists that he said, don't let the fake media tell you I've changed my position on the wall.
	It will get built and help stop drugs and human trafficking.
	Now I'm also told from a fairly reliable source that now, in fact, the health care bill, there's been an agreement among the varying coalitions within the Republican Party, the the moderates, the Tuesday group, the study group, and the Freedom Coalition and the Freedom Caucus.
	And we might even get a vote on that as early as Thursday of this week.
	But there are conservatives, friends of mine that are skeptical, and I'm always a trust but verified guy myself.
	One of them is Daniel Horowitz, who uh joins us now, and Daniel wrote a piece today run over by a park car.
	Trump and Republicans cave on the budget.
	Uh, how are you, sir?
	Hey, I'm doing all right.
	Uh uh sad to hear that you have bronchitis.
	Yeah, that's all right.
	I'll be cops on Yeah.
	Okay, that'll really happen any any day of the week now.
	Um Listen, let me start with So the President says no, this we're just not gonna fight this fight over the wall now.
	Now, if this, by the way, comes one day after the attorney general and the Homeland Security Secretary, John Kelly, both said that they're going to begin construction by the end of the summer.
	So I don't think it's dead.
	Chuck Schumer agreed to debate the border wall, and even though he's threatening to shut down the government, but and uh and Trump went out there and very strongly accused the Democrats of helping MS thirteen.
	So um I don't doubt the president's commitment to do this.
	I worry about weak Republicans, spineless Republicans, but we're a long way from losing this fight and I do have faith and confidence in him to some extent.
	I mean he's pretty much been dead on with most of his promises.
	I I mean here here's the thing Sean I don't doubt that Trump sincerely wants to build the wall.
	The problem is I doubt that he understands the dynamic that's been taking place between Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and Congressional leaders for the last six years.
	We've heard this every single time it's probably more than Lucy in the football by now where they say it's the next time.
	They did this in 2011 when they took over the House.
	Well wait until September don't do it in March.
	We'll fight on bigger things.
	And there's one systemic problem every time Republicans telegraph the message to Democrats that they have a maniacal fear of a government shutdown.
	So we're done.
	They lost all their leverage.
	Now we thought this would only persist when Republicans had Congress but Democrats had the bully pulpit of the presidency.
	Yet even though they now have all three branches of government it's as if nothing has changed.
	Republicans get up there and say we can't have a government shutdown and it makes no sense.
	I I you know on both sides of this this infuriates me too.
	I mean on both sides of this think you know if Democrats are in power they'll say well the Republicans are going to be blamed for the shutdown and they cower and now they've got the power Democrats threaten to shut down the government and they're still afraid that they'll get blamed for the government shutdown even though Democrats will do it.
	No i exactly but th this is much broader than even the border wall.
	A budget is a reflection of your priorities when you're in power now if you have shared power divided government you're going to have to come to some compromise.
	But Republicans are never going to accrue more power than they have now.
	And so far Congress has done absolutely nothing.
	You know I put together a list but at this juncture in two thousand nine April 2009 Democrats had the bailouts, the stimulus, financial regs, equal pay, S chip expansion, and then they laid the groundwork for cap and trade and Obamacare and then in the March omnibus bill of two thousand nine they got everything they wanted and eight Republicans gave them the votes they they they got they got what they needed.
	Republicans have done nothing.
	The budget bill is pretty much the last opportunity.
	They caved on Planned Parenthood funding already you don't even hear about that.
	They caved on refuge but we're not really dealing with the full budget here.
	This is a CR.
	Well well but wait a minute but th this is the full budget in the sense that in last fall why didn't they do a full year budget they kicked it into the next year which they always do by the way next president hopefully being a Republican would be able to have their priority listen I'm not I'm not disagreeing at all.
	I do f fear that there is this lack of will to fight.
	And you know I will tell you another thing I know exactly how the only way this health care bill got done is because of Mark Meadows.
	Mark Meadows worked tirelessly with the study group, the Tuesday group, the moderates and and nonstop, I mean it is frustrating that you have liberal Republicans that that want to stop everything and then the conservatives actually get blamed if something doesn't happen but at the end of the day I I couldn't believe that we didn't get repeal and replaced done because they had all these years.
	So m you know there's definitely a lack of backbone but more importantly why why didn't the leadership of the House build consensus for this?
	Why aren't they building consensus and why is it you know always power panic politics they always wait to the last minute and nobody gets consulted.
	Nobody knows what's in it nobody even knows what's being debated.
	Well th this is the problem and you see it on display this week while Democrats pursue power, Republicans pursue office as an ends to itself they don't really feel passionate about any of these issues.
	You know you listen to Chuck Schumer they pound the lecture and we will fund this we will not fund this and Republicans instead of saying no we're going to fund our priorities they talk about a government shutdown.
	And similar thing with health care I'm just seeing uh from Phil Klein of the Washington examiner he just asked Charlie Dent, the head of the moderate Republicans how exactly are you going to lower premiums if you don't repeal the Obamacare regulations and he said that's the sixty four thousand dollar question.
	So I mean they don't really have answers to any of this and this is why the compromise is supposed to be about options and choice on waivers, which Mark Meadows made a very compelling case to me how that lowers premiums and increases options and paves the way for health savings accounts and cooperatives that wouldn't have existed before, and that the free market will naturally, as we believe as conservatives, drive the prices down.
	Yeah, I mean, I think we have to see the legislative details and and and again to be clear, this is very far from full repeal.
	Medicaid expansion is still there, subsidies still there, most states will not ask for a waiver, certainly the Democrats and John Kasich type of Republicans.
	But I feel, you know, Mark Meadows works so hard, this is probably the best he could get, unfortunately.
	But this is the problem.
	Headed forward, Trump would be so much more he he would benefit so much more if he would work uh prospectively with people like Meadows on things like the budget, the border wall, taxes, rather than waiting for the appropriators and leadership to sell them out because that's what they've been doing the last three weeks.
	I don't I don't disagree at all.
	And it started with health care, and nobody saw the bill, and nobody nobody had no consensus was built.
	I mean, it was if you want to fail spectacularly and look stupid and ill prepared to lead, just to keep doing it the way the leadership's doing it.
	I I don't disagree at all.
	Yeah, and that's the lesson of the last of the first hundred days that the Well, but on the other hand, Trump, everything Trump could do on his own, he's done and he's kept his promises.
	You gotta give him high marks for doing everything he can do independently.
	He's done a lot executively, but again, there has to be a sense of expectations and political.
	Daniel, it doesn't seem like you're gonna s give this guy any credit.
	Neil Gorsuch alone is an A. A B. I mean, i y you know, he said that um You're a hard ass.
	I'm glad I don't have I didn't have you as a professor.
	Gosh.
	Well, we we grade pretty tough here, but but but again, Democrats.
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	Then our news roundup and information overloaded hour is coming up at the top, and we'll get to your calls 800 941 Sean straight ahead.
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	All right, as we continue with our friend uh Daniel Horowitz, he's the senior editor of Conservative Review.
	And uh let me just run through because you're you're boy, you even give a B on Gorsuch.
	Good grief.
	It was from the list that he promised, anyway.
	Um but you got an originalist on the Supreme Court.
	You've got the president literally single-handedly phoning around and keeping all these corporations from Fiat Chrysler and and Ford and GM and and Carrier and and the list goes on and on, and he's bringing jobs back by his own sheer willpower.
	He's ended the war on cold, he's reduced the illegal immigration because he's enforcing the laws.
	He literally is fighting back against ISIS, like he said.
	He's fighting against sanctuary cities, as he said.
	He's trying executive amnesty, I'm sorry, executive vetting, as he said.
	He created task force to reduce crime and protect police officers, targeting drug cartels, responded to serious use of chemical weapons, uh sanctioned Iran over their missile program.
	Um he's moving forward, he's building the plans for the border wall.
	Uh at least he is fighting hard to repeal and replace Obamacare.
	It's not his fault Congress is inept and and pathetically weak.
	Um, and everything that so far he's promised.
	He's moved towards energy independence, Keystone pipeline, Dakota pipeline.
	You don't give him any credit at all.
	And then no, I mean looking at the You're you gave him a B on Gorsuch, you hard ass.
	Jeez, that's rough.
	Well, the the thing with Gorsuch is we we just don't know.
	There is not a big paper trail.
	He said on Roe and Oberger fell that it's absolutely settled law.
	I'm okay with him.
	I I just think with a Republican Senate and a Republican president and you campaign on it.
	I don't blame him.
	I think it's it's fine, but it it's not like this is so amazing.
	It's not like he's a a Clarence Thomas, uh uh or at least a known scalia, maybe it will be, but more broadly speaking, we need a sense of proportionality.
	Democrats don't make any excuses.
	They got everything they wanted.
	We're keeping the Iran deal.
	We are keeping Obama.
	See, but I'm agreeing with you in every point you're making.
	I and I'm leaving executive amnesty, by the way.
	Executive amnesty.
	Sean Spicer yesterday said he you know Trump has a heart.
	That was a direct promise.
	But he's also but wait a minute, but he's also enforcing the law and he's also and the illegal immigration's down nearly sixty-five percent.
	Because now uh remember, executive amnesty was don't enforce the law.
	That was a big part of it.
	I look, I I don't feel like I want to I I I I share your criticism against Congress.
	I really do.
	But I think you're being a little harsh against Trump in as much as I think that's a pretty significant list for a hundred days, my opinion.
	Well, th the problem here again, it's not a matter of well, there aren't enough hours in a day for him to get to some of these things.
	Of course.
	I mean, you're not gonna balance the budget in a hundred days, you're not gonna deal with Medicaid and Social Security, we get that.
	But there are certain basic promises where people in the administration have affirmatively said the wrong things or are pursuing the wrong policies on these issues, and I think if conservatives don't raise concern, you know, the gravity in Washington is one directional, it's never gonna go in our favor, and and it's important we realize it before these issues are lost.
	I don't I don't disagree with you.
	And I'm sitting here and I'm just listening, and it drives me crazy because what you're describing is a party that asked for the house, the Senate and the White House got it, and then they're still ill prepared to lead.
	It's it's it really frustrates me.
	And um I I hear everything you're saying.
	And and one other thing.
	Well, I gotta I gotta go though.
	Sure.
	I mean, not that I don't like you.
	I mean, actually, Conservative Review is one of my favorite publications, and you can get Daniel's columns and and all the great reporting on conservative review dot com, and he's the senior editor and uh and a friend of ours, a little bit of a hard ass, but we like him.
	Great to be with you, Sean.
	All right, my friend, eight hundred nine four one Sean is my we of course we love Daniel, he's awesome.
	We'll take a quick break, we'll come back.
	News roundup information overload.
	We're gonna talk about liberal fascism in the country today and much more straight after.
	It's gonna be the most awkward meeting of all time.
	This is gonna be the equivalent, the political equivalent of having your ex-wife at a wedding, and it is gonna be horrible.
	These two could not be more opposite.
	He likes cheeseburgers, she's about the Frankfurt's he's flamboyant.
	She could murder both her parents in the night and eat their livers for breakfast, and you would never know.
	These two are diametrically opposed.
	He wants a travel ban, she's the mother of all migrants.
	I do not see this meeting going well.
	Merkel never smiles.
	She actually travels with a wardrobe assistant, specifically tasked to keep her looking boring, so that people will focus on her politics.
	That's the truth.
	Alright, the voice you were hearing there, news roundup information overload is Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins, and that's when she was on, I believe Stuart Varney's uh program, and she's talking about Trump and Angela Merkel.
	It's almost like the Camille Pagley of Great Britain, and uh we're a big fan of hers, and uh you've never been on the program before, have you?
	How are you?
	I'm well, thank you.
	And thank you for being so kind.
	And no, I haven't joined you on your show before, but yes, that was me with lovely Varney.
	Um and as you can tell or hear, I'm not the biggest fan of Angela Merkel, mother of all migrants, who I hold entirely responsible for the dilapid state of Europe as it is today.
	She's the one that said, Come, come, make this your home, come.
	And she's the reason we still have 44,000 migrants crossing the Met to date this year, in 2017.
	Well, you know you're you know you're a xenophobic and you know you're racist, and I'm sure you're probably a sexist and uh an Islamophobe on top of it.
	I tell you, Sean, if there's an is, darling, I am it.
	Sexist, racist, islamophobic, bobby shame, whatever you just you just call me darling, that's sexual harassment today.
	Yeah, oh God, so that I and also a misogynist.
	I mean, just if it doesn't it.
	I I absolutely have to as I walk around the town center here, I like wear the labels all over me just so that people can identify all the ists that I am and the liberals can kind of point and laugh.
	That's pretty much what I do.
	You know, there are two types of Brits that I've met in my life.
	People like you.
	I actually put you know I like I actually like Piers Morgan.
	He's with the Daily Mail, right?
	Um I I've come to really like it.
	You know what?
	And we don't always agree.
	I mean, he I told him on guns, he drives me nuts.
	Uh but crazy.
	And then he came to America and was gonna lecture America on on the need to take everybody's guns away.
	I said that was the dumbest programming decision I think anyone's ever made in the history of television.
	And he goes, You're right, it was the dumbest one.
	But I really like him.
	He's very quick and he's very smart and sarcastic and iconoclastic, just like you.
	And I and then there's other Brits that are like, you know, dull and boring and liberal.
	And then the rest of us are alive and and we're the ones that come under fire.
	You remind me a little bit of Nigel Farage, too.
	I think uh yeah, the Nigel, the Nigel comparison might be a bit dodgy, but yeah, he's quite similar.
	We're outspoken.
	We say exactly what we think.
	And exactly with Piers, it was the dumbest thing he ever did to try to go to America and kind of tell them about kind of guns and what you should be doing was absolutely bonkers.
	That would be like coming to the UK and trying to tell Brits about history.
	You know, you just don't do that kind of stuff.
	That would be like me doing a talk show in in Great Britain saying, Well, what is the why do you have a king and queen and and Prince and Princess for?
	What's that all about?
	Mind you, the liberals would love you for that show, but hate the monarchy.
	Uh no, a lot of your biggest fans all of a sudden.
	But I d I do think, look, there's uh we share a similarity, Piers and I certainly, where we say what we think, and I in no way want to persuade everyone over to my side.
	Like I don't want people to have my opinion.
	I just want them to have an opinion for me to have mine, and I don't need them to agree with me.
	I always say, Sean, you know, opinions are not right or wrong.
	Like no one life is not an exam and and no one made you the invigilator, but somehow liberals can't get their heads around that.
	They have one way of thinking, and if you don't think the same way, then they basically throw rocks at you or set fire to your car, which is about their intelligence level, I think.
	You know, I s why don't you do a talk show on Fox News with us?
	Because w you know, apparently by the time I get fired in a couple of days after these phony sexual harassment clients.
	Have you by the way, is it made it across the pond, the story about me?
	Yeah, it's really made it across.
	And you know, I always find with this there's a lot of kind of save save Sean Hannity and uh, you know, stand strong with Hannity.
	I've seen a lot of that as well.
	So people are like kind of coming out rallying around the people that they're going to defend no matter what nonsense gets spread.
	I always think look, there's fool guys out there.
	I'm one of them.
	No doubt I'll be fired sometime next week as well.
	But I think what we have to accept is that the city is a good idea.
	I want to take you and my family voice, we go for it.
	Oh, I want to just get on a plane together.
	You, me, and everybody we know together will rent out a big jet and we'll we'll like fly to Australia and we'll invade there.
	And and Australia will throw us out within twenty-four hours.
	Yeah, I don't think we would have the points, um, Sean, that the Australians require.
	Like, I don't know if we'd make their credentials for having us in their country, to be honest.
	They're quite fussy to the Australians.
	I think it's since we sent our convicts to them.
	Everton, that was a bad idea about who they let in.
	You know, I think it costs you can buy citizenship there for like five million dollars.
	Or maybe it's New Zealand.
	Well, when you read when you what uh you know, one of the things that I've been talking about is that like in America, and and you've experienced this in Great Britain too, is there is this liberal fascism movement where they wanna silence every conservative voice they can.
	And it's it's called political correctness, whatever it is, but they start these boycotts.
	Oh, this advertise they pressure the three hundred people act like they're three hundred million people, and they write these advertisers in mass and all these phony accounts that they have already pre established.
	And the left that says they're so tolerant of liberty and freedom and freedom of expression are the most intolerant human beings on this earth.
	Are you experiencing that where you are?
	Absolutely, it's very similar here.
	So liberals try to shut down anything they don't buy into.
	Certainly our state broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the bias on there, I was calling them out on it this morning.
	There were four anti-Brexit stories on their home page for people to start their day with.
	It's that kind of thing.
	And then I suppose at a personal level, just because I I'm just a mum with three kids who's just a bit gobby.
	You know, that's kind of how I would summarize myself.
	Well, what's up?
	What's a bit gobby?
	What is gobby?
	A bit oh y it's so cute when you do it.
	I know, I know, it's so cute, right?
	Uh a bit gobby, a bit mouthy.
	You know, I talk a lot.
	I say what I think.
	Goblins, my mouth is large.
	Oh, she's a bit gobby.
	She talks a lot.
	All right, now I'm learning as we go.
	Go ahead.
	Okay.
	So I'm a gobby, and um and but people try to silence me via a number of means.
	So I've had my children reported to social services for their welfare.
	I've been in front of the crime and homicide command.
	No way.
	It didn't work.
	And I've had people um send twelve police forces.
	I've been arrested twice just for saying or tweeting things that I think.
	So that's how they try to get to you.
	And it hasn't worked just yet.
	Well, I want people to pay very close attention.
	I'm gonna get serious for one minute here.
	Katie Hopkins of the Daily Mail.
	Well, yeah, uh oh.
	No, no.
	People need to understand.
	I I always say so goes liberal leftist moon beam California, so goes America, you know, ten years down the road.
	Similarly, as goes Europe, eventually all this madness makes its way to the US.
	This is not a joke, what you're saying.
	No, it it's not really.
	When I think about those examples of me, you know, sitting in front of two police officers in a police station, being interviewed about something I wrote in an article in a national paper, and that being referred to the crack crown prosecution service, because I was reported by the Society for Black Lawyers.
	Basically, what happens here definitely comes to America, and you guys can look at Europe and the way we've fallen with our migrants, the way that we've allowed them to make us essentially terrorist targets on a weekly basis, with our leaders telling us that's just something we have to live with now.
	That's what you can expect in European cities.
	All of this, you see it play out in Europe.
	It definitely comes to America, which is why Trump is on the money with his building the wall, with his stopping um people coming from certain countries, clamping down on bringing things on aeroplanes.
	I think America should protect itself every which way it can.
	And I look to America still as this kind of brilliant place in my heart.
	I used to live in um the East Village.
	I worked in Manhattan for ten years.
	I still look to America as the champion of free speech, and I see how we have lost that here, and there's a few, a good few, a brave few, you included, in America, that are fighting the good fight, and I stand right by you.
	You know, it is so sad what you're describing, because I mean in a in a similar way, they're really trying to do that to all the conservatives in this country.
	Katie, you know, there are there's somebody right now that's monitoring every word we say, transcribing every word we say.
	By the way, how what a pathetic loser to be in your underwear in your basement like a psycho all day getting paid to monitor us in the hopes that they can silence us.
	I mean, what go uh to whoever that person is go or these people go get a life, go live your own life.
	You are pathetic.
	Anyway, I digress.
	So true.
	Do you know what happened is you know, it's a very unfortunate for these guys.
	They grew up as gamers, they never really left their mum's house.
	They're like thirty-four years old, they're men, they're still single, they still live in their mum's spare room, they kind of floss the teeth with their you know, their toenails, they kinda eat their own earwax.
	Those are the guys that are monitoring what you and I are saying, and those are the guys that are gonna tell us whether we said that something that was wrong or not.
	Well, big news.
	I don't care.
	And I don't really care if I end up in prison for the things that I want to say either, because if I go there, I'll write a book and I'll publish that as well.
	So little man in your basement listening to Sean, back the heck off because he needs to say what he wants to do.
	Well, what if it's a little woman?
	Sean speaks a little woman.
	That's the thing.
	You're speaking for so many, and that's why we need to look after the voices like yours.
	I uh we need to put you on like every Friday.
	We'll call it Friday afternoons with Katie Hopkins on on the Hannity Show.
	I love that.
	Hopkins wisdom.
	All right, stay right there.
	We'll take a break, we'll come back more with Katie.
	She's with the Daily Mail if you want to read her column.
	Well, we'll start linking it to Hannity.com.
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	Your calls when we come back, final moments.
	Katie Hopkins, she's very cheeky and gobby.
	We'll continue.
	Alright, as we continue with uh Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins is with us.
	You mentioned in the last segment that the police came to your house.
	Well why?
	Yeah, so um I'm on Twitter quite a lot.
	Uh I tweeted some staff, I tweeted in tweet.
	Well, what is some does some stuff means I'm gonna decapitate you?
	I'm gonna pull your fingernails out.
	What did you tweet?
	Oh, I just tweeted, I think, that um the nurse, uh there was a nurse that went over to help with the Ebola kind of epidemic in Africa.
	She came back to the UK, she knew she was ill, she knew she had a temperature, but she carried on through.
	I called that nurse an Ebola bomb.
	Um I got taken in for questioning um and was interviewed under caution because I called her an Ebola bomb on Twitter.
	Okay, so what?
	That's it.
	I know.
	Well, so what?
	Well, and then another example would be the major crime and homicide command.
	I was interviewed under caution with them.
	That's the homicide command, uh, because I wrote a column about migrants crossing the med, and I said we should stop the boats and send in the military.
	Um I had to be questioned under caution because of inciting racial hatred was my charge.
	Uh, when I was I was let off, how lucky I am.
	You know, I I I can't believe what I'm hearing, but in light of what I've been through with this this stalker of of over a decade and these horrible false accusations against me.
	I mean, I guess nothing surprises me.
	Um I I don't have a lot of time.
	I I'd be negligent if I didn't ask you about Marlene Le Pen and the chances, the chances, Le Pen, of uh winning in France, and especially in light of Brexit.
	And are we ever going to get Brexit done?
	Oh my god, I know, isn't it?
	It's like having, you know, Christmas with your blooming mother-in-law.
	It's just like never ending and it never goes away.
	You know, I still have enough of my mother-in-law now, and she's dead.
	But um Brexit seems like it's just gonna yawn on and on.
	We've got a snap election coming up so that Theresa May can increase her mandate to power.
	So that's all going on.
	But with Macron and Le Pen, you know, Macron, I have to say, as much as he's seen as the savior for the markets and the savior for the EU and the the great white hope for France, he terrifies me.
	They say that in the first round, because there's two rounds in France, like they can't get enough of it.
	In the first round, you're supposed to vote for who you love.
	And in the second round, you're supposed to vote for who you fear the most.
	And I say, I fear Mac Cron.
	You know, he's an investment banker.
	He's a Rothschild baby.
	He's married to his teacher, who's 24 years a senior, who we met when he was at school, and that's really freaky.
	He has no friends.
	He had to create his own party in order to achieve what he's achieved, and he has no representation at all in the Senate.
	So even if he gets in, he's only going to get in with kind of sixty percent probably, and then he has no representation.
	So how he's going to govern, I don't know.
	But I don't understand.
	I do not understand how in s in light of all of the terrorist attacks uh in Great Britain and and the migrant crime that has existed throughout all of Europe, that there isn't every European being outraged like you are, and saying we're not gonna allow people that do not respect our laws or sovereignty, our culture, and want to assimilate into this country.
	Especially people that grow up under Sharia that oppress women, kill gays and lesbians, and persecute Christians and Jews.
	Oh no, not at all.
	I mean, it's the opposite.
	Like you the right answer, like there's a tick book list of r answers you're allowed to have here in the UK.
	So only this morning on the radio in the news it was um the left were campaigning for a minister for refugees because there's a feeling that refugees don't get sufficient opportunities in this country.
	You know, and then we have a tick box that says you cannot talk about um sexuality if it's a Muslim person speaking because it's their right to hate uh LGBT and then you can't talk about anything to do with molestation or for example 1,800 rapes and sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in Cologne.
	That was covered up because they were carried out by migrants and it's seen as not good uh for the Muslim community if we tell the truth about the crimes that are committed.
	I I wish I could talk to you all day.
	You know what?
	We're gonna like set up a thing and we're gonna call what do you want to call it again?
	Well, we'll call it the Hopkins wisdom, but we could call it the Hanity Hopkins the Hannity Hopkins moan a phone.
	No, I don't even have to work w work when you're on.
	Uh you're so gobby, I mean cheeky.
	I mean it's ridiculous.
	Well maybe you're a British word.
	All right, thank you so much.
	800 941 Sean.
	Wow.
	That is like that is hilarious.
	I've been sitting here laughing the whole time.
	We'll take a quick break.
	We'll get to your phone calls when we come back straight ahead.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	All right, so much going on.
	And let me get to your your phone calls here.
	I wanna say one thing as we start.
	I'm not gonna spend a lot more time on this, although I am hitting this hard tonight.
	I'm not gonna stop.
	Because there really is an effort afoot now to silence conservative voices in the country.
	I look, I've talked about it, I've explained it, but not like this.
	It's just the amount of money that goes into monitoring every conservative on radio, the Fox News channel, in the hopes that they can attack advertisers and just a roundabout way of of silencing opposition voices.
	It's as bad as I've ever seen it, and if you are not engaged with us in this, then your news outlets and the personalities and the shows that you like and want to listen to and want to watch are gonna be gone.
	That is a real clear and present danger, and I'm not making it up just because I'm just the latest victim attacked here.
	Anyway, let's get to our busy phones here.
	Susie is in North Carolina.
	Susie, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Thank you.
	I listen to you on the way home from work every day.
	Thank you.
	God bless you, and I'm so sorry for what you're going through right now, but we support you.
	The truth will come to light.
	I'm praying for you and your family.
	Well, I I I honestly appreciate the amount of support, Linda, isn't this I what did I say to you yesterday?
	It's beyond humbling.
	And you know, the uh I what I said to Linda, I said, you know, this case was such a a cut and dry, you know, case that, you know, i i we were able to debunk this immediately.
	You know, what do I do if it's somebody that's being paid to do it that I don't even know?
	You know, just makes a wild accusation.
	One of the things that um I noticed in the coverage of all this is it was everywhere.
	There is no website, there is no radio station, there is no newspaper, there is no nothing that I can't that I can name that didn't cover the false accusations against me.
	And by the way, to the credit of most, they did also cover my response, and they did cover the recanting of the remarks.
	So, but I and uh but this woman has th this individual's been after me for twelve, fourteen whatever many years it is, and has lied about me on so many different issues.
	And we had debunked every lie.
	No correction, no apology, nothing.
	And I just feel that in this environment, in light of recent events and firings at Fox that ah, he's vulnerable.
	Let's get 'em.
	And that's what's so sinister here is that there was a this was a kill shot.
	This was a, you know, uh crosshairs on my my forehead and my heart at the same time.
	And listen, I want you to know something, Susie.
	I it's not about me.
	It really isn't.
	I mean, you know, maybe I'll go play golf.
	I don't know what I'll do.
	I mean, twiddle my thumbs, but what's more important is is that the one news channel in this country that offers fair coverage to Donald Trump should not be silenced.
	The talk radio should not be silenced.
	I don't ask for boycotts against liberals.
	I've never supported them.
	I'm never going to support them.
	Rachel Maddow ha sh have at it every night.
	I've never complained.
	My friend Greta swears she's a nice person.
	You know, I don't know.
	I don't know her.
	I've met Don Lemon at CNN.
	A very nice individual, one on one.
	Couldn't be nicer.
	I don't want his voice silenced.
	You know, I've never it's not who we are.
	And that's why I know people say, well, let's get back at them.
	Well, let's let's boycott that.
	No.
	We don't want to do it because it's really ultimately gonna be used as a weapon against us.
	Whether accusations are true or not.
	It's um I look I I uh uh just to finish the circle here.
	I can't thank all of you enough.
	I can't, you know, I I thank you for your open-mindedness, your your healthy skepticism, and your willingness to at least wait for the facts to come in.
	Oh, you're more than welcome, and I knew the minute I even heard anything.
	No, I thought I appreciate it.
	Listen, but by the way, as Linda's been pointing out all the all the last two days, you're not perfect, by the way, and we know you're a pain in the neck.
	We know.
	You did you not say that?
	Do you not bring me back down to earth?
	That's what I'm here for.
	I'm here for your own.
	No, say it to the audience, say it.
	Go ahead.
	Listen, I love you, but you're not without your uh, you know.
	Have you ever read the good book?
	What you hate when I quote the Bible.
	You hate it the good again.
	All right, but it all says it says, All have sinned, darling, and fallen short of the case.
	Just like I say, don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.
	So it's all true.
	It is whether it's from the by the way, people are now gonna interpret what does that mean?
	Is Hannity admitting to something?
	I can't win.
	I can't at this point in my life, I cannot win.
	You know what I think is really i interesting and something that no one has pointed out, and it speaks to your character on this is you were the first person to come to the defense of the women who were victims of Bill Clinton and then all the blasphemy that came from his wife Hillary Clinton.
	So someone who stood up for the rights of women who have been sexually harassed and have the proof of it, and then this woman to use it.
	I mean, it is really disgusting for her to make these fake claims, and I would think that other women that have been truly sexually harassed would be completely inflamed and outraged by her use of this word.
	It's it's it's really disgusting.
	It does kind of suck to get a text from my son who's you know now living off in college.
	Hey, Dad, what's this?
	Yeah, what's going on, Dad?
	But that but to his credit, he actually said the same thing.
	He goes, I'm so sorry.
	He goes, Is there anything I can do?
	He writes, um, I know you're innocent.
	That's what he wrote, right?
	Didn't even But how sad is it that all these outlets that have.
	Well, sad my son is having a text it to him.
	But New York Times, Huff Poe, these are people who have done research many times.
	They could have gone on a simple Google search and found out all about her without any help from anybody.
	But they chose instead to follow the line.
	It's very sad.
	If it's me or any conservative or anybody that's that's been supportive of the president and his policies, it's just oh we got 'em.
	It's not is it true?
	It's we've got 'em.
	And I, you know, it really it doesn't you know how do I explain it?
	I've had my buddy Rich Lochner from high school called me today.
	He goes, Hey man, you alright?
	Oh God, I'm so sorry.
	I'm so sorry.
	And I'm like, Rich.
	I said, I'm fine.
	I don't know how you do it.
	I don't know how do you put up with this?
	How did I I've been dealing with this in one form or another for 30 years.
	And you know, and that's the other thing.
	All these media people have it they have researched me to death.
	There's nothing that that I have said over the years that they don't know about.
	And they've printed it, reprinted it and reprinted it and rewind and retweeted it.
	I mean, it's it's kind of ridiculous, but I am appreciative of the you know I think people are hip now to all of this.
	And I think people understand it.
	But uh, you know, the scary part, well, what if it was what if the person didn't have a a decade plus history of smearing me and lying about me?
	You know, now I gotta start from scratch and say it's not true.
	And in light of other people, they're gonna accuse me and just believe it.
	I think people who falsely accuse individuals of sexual harassment and use this and accuse people are false.
	Wait, agreed.
	100%.
	But should also then be held to the same sentencing that that the person who was falsely accused would have been held to.
	How do you think all these cops now think of all the instances in my life where I didn't rush to judgment?
	Richard Jewell, Atlanta.
	He fit the profile of a lone uh killer because he lives with his mother.
	That's what the that's what they how they reported it.
	Or in the in the case of Ferguson, Missouri.
	Hands up, don't shoot.
	Why?
	Or Freddie Gray.
	Or I didn't rush to judgment like Obama did in all of these cases, Baltimore, Ferguson, the Harvard police acted stupidly, and I'd look like Trayvon, and you know, that could have been my son, and you know, all of these cases.
	Everyone rushes to judgment.
	Think of the cops.
	You know, I have an ability that most people don't have.
	I have a microphone, I'm on TV, I can fight back.
	By the way, I don't understand why other people don't fight back.
	I now have on retainer a team of the brightest, best, smartest people that are going after anybody that slanders me from now on.
	And I mean we are we this is and I have the means to protect myself.
	I have the ability, and you know who these people are.
	We haven't announced it yet.
	You know this is not an expensive.
	I have the ability to defend myself.
	We've got Israeli investigators on our team that have done this their entire career.
	This is how serious I'm gonna take it.
	Because I feel at this point this was a kill shot.
	This this was, and by the way, that means you're out of work, Jason's out of work, Ethan's out of work, sweet babies out of work, Sunshine over there's out of work, and everybody at TV probably isn't out of work, but maybe some are, and you know many of the a lot of these are kids that have rents they gotta pay.
	And this little closet that they live in in New York City.
	So it's serious.
	Um but I don't I'm not a warrior.
	Did you ever see me get even bat an eyelash?
	I don't worry.
	I get saw you get mad because you were tired.
	Yeah, no, I only get mad because I'm tired.
	All right, let's get back to our phones.
	Uh let's say oh, my buddy Johnny G of Tommy James and the Shondells.
	What's up, sir?
	How are you?
	How are you, Sean?
	Great to speak with you again, buddy.
	Um good to talk to you, my friend.
	You guys still touring or what?
	Yes, we are.
	We're going out to uh California this weekend, Palm Springs to play the stagecoach festival.
	We got three days of music.
	How many years have you been at this?
	Seriously.
	Yeah, hey, you know, I got him to be play with uh he's on right after us.
	You know what I'm saying?
	That's awesome.
	Good for you.
	You know what?
	When you find something you love to do, and I don't think there's anything more satisfying than being before an audience of people that like you.
	Is there anything better than that?
	You know, that is the gift.
	That's better than the million dollars.
	Uh, seriously, right?
	Willie Nelson is going to be on right after us.
	So I was going to ask you, do you want me to get something from him for you?
	Who's well who's on after you?
	Willie Nelson.
	Yeah, uh No, I don't want what Willie Nelson's offering.
	Thank you very much.
	So you listen, that's all I need is that headline.
	Hannity hangs with Willie Nelson in bus.
	Details at 11.
	Hannity wobbles off bus.
	Details at six.
	Seriously.
	Sean, let me let me just take a quick opportunity here, seriously, to thank you so much as one of your biggest fans with tens of millions of us.
	You work so hard at this every day, keeping up with this stuff.
	I don't know how you do it.
	I mean, it's so complicated and it's every day.
	Johnny G, you love music, right?
	Yes, I do.
	By the way, I love music too, but um I have I'm tone deaf and I can't play a musical instrument, and even the piano teacher said after one lesson, I don't want to teach this kid.
	That's a true story.
	And uh so uh, you know, I this is what I do.
	That you you play music.
	I love what I do, you love what you do.
	We're blessed to do what we love.
	Right.
	But you know, I also like following the politics, which is really the changing of our society, and you help keep us up on that every day.
	And it is a war, Sean.
	You know, it really is.
	The other side wants their philosophy to rule.
	And we we want not necessarily ours, but we believe in our the ideology.
	And when you say people don't fight back, the reason is they're afraid.
	They want it, it's easier to just go along.
	If if this is what they think the group is, and why are people brainwashed like that?
	Three things school, which is run by liberals a lot, the news media, with the exception of Fox, and the entertainment business, my business.
	Everybody feels you know how many musicians call me after they hear me on your show, and they go, Oh, I love Hannity.
	I listen to him every day, but don't tell anybody.
	Yeah, don't I love the uh I've been in events, you know, where liberals are going, I really love your show, but God don't let anybody know I like you.
	Right.
	So how do we turn that around?
	That you know, we can all get along.
	I have liberal friends like you have Bob Peckle, and I love my liberal friends.
	And I'd be honest, I like some of the ideas that they do have.
	Not a lot, but you know, I don't like the Republicans' weakness like Paul Ryan and some of these Republicans who they claim they wanted to get rid of Obamacare.
	They voted to repeal it, right?
	Under Obama, knowing that he would veto it.
	It was a show vote, I found out.
	It's all all of them were all 60 of them were show votes.
	Listen, I'm just gonna tell you something.
	Having an audience, you know what this is like as a musician.
	Having a group of people that support you is amazing.
	Um I wish I felt better.
	I just I got sick from the trip to Israel.
	And uh I I I wish I could thank and catch up with all the emails and texts that so many people have sent me.
	People, you know, you learn a lot about things in life when when people think that you're down and hurt or wounded.
	And what I've learned is I have a lot of friends that have a lot of faith in me, and that I have a big obligation to live up to to the person that they want me to be.
	So you're you're part of our life every day, Sean.
	So it is kind of like your family in a way.
	And don't ever stop fighting.
	I know they're trying to take you down.
	I'm concerned about Fox News.
	I think that since Roger Ales left, it seems like it's heading towards becoming CNN.
	Oh, God, no.
	No, well, first of all, Tucker's not a liberal, number one.
	Number two, the five.
	I mean, they got Beckle on the five, but he's pretty entertaining, you gotta admit, and I'm proud of those guys.
	I've been a fan of theirs from the day they went on the air, and and I'm still here.
	And uh, although they they went for the kill shot, but you're right.
	We are family, and we're not perfect, nobody's perfect, and I just appreciate how people have been to me in these last you know, few days.
	That really means a lot.
	Uh I gotta run, Johnny G. Love you, man.
	All the best to you guys, and maybe I'll catch you out on the road one day.
	That'd be a lot of fun.

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