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June 2, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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	All right, happy Thursday.
	Glad you're with us.
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	We got a lot coming up.
	At the bottom of the hour, we expect, anticipate the president will be leaving the Paris Climate Agreement Accord for all of the right reasons.
	And it is really, really important that he does when it happens.
	And he, well, I guess he's going to do it any moment when he decides.
	He's apparently decided, though, according to reports I'm reading.
	That's what I'm expecting.
	You know, it's my friend Joe Bistarti, he's the official weather guy here at the Sean Hannity show.
	He's pointed out things that, and if you listen to Al Gore and the those that believed in the 70s that the next ice age is coming, and those that believed in the 90s that global warming was coming, and those that believe if it snows or it doesn't snow, if there's more ice or less ice, or if there's a hurricane or no hurricane, if there's a tornado or no tornado,
	that everything fits under the banner of climate change and that man is pillaging the planet for profit.
	The planet has a fever.
	Okay, the planet has a fever.
	And Time magazine had a thing, the coming ice age.
	And there's a reason why, at the Anglican, the school in Great Britain that they ended up forging data to make a political point.
	You know, things were so bad as Leonardo Learjet DiCaprio flying, let's see, celebrating New Year's in Australia, flying back to Vegas on a private big jet with him and all his, you know, Hollywood buddies and Victoria's secret models.
	I mean, they're having the time of their life.
	If he was so concerned about CO2 gases, maybe these people would get out of their private jets.
	Or Al Gore, who we caught getting into a private jet and then getting into a private limousine and a jet that seats 15, he had him and Tipper on.
	And then, of course, same with the limousine.
	It's such phonies, but don't forget they believe in buying carbon offsets.
	You know what a carbon offset?
	That is, okay, go out and cheat on your husband or wife.
	And if it's a husband cheating on his wife, let me buy you a diamond ring.
	There's an infidelity offset.
	Or let me buy you an infidelity new razor or whatever.
	You know, I'm like one of those guys you can't buy for.
	What do you buy for an infidelity offset?
	I don't know.
	What do you get?
	Buy him a sports car, a Porsche, a new set of golf clubs.
	What does any guy want anyway?
	So, you know, as Bastardi pointed out, there is no, in spite of what they tell you, in spite of the science being settled, which we're always told, the science is not settled.
	The science, in many cases, has been forged.
	And there's no linkage between CO2, gases, and temperatures.
	By the way, and I want to predicate it on all of this.
	God gave us this planet.
	I believe that.
	Some of these people on the left that think we're destroying the planet, they don't believe in God.
	Or the idea of intelligent design.
	You can't say God.
	So we'll say intelligent design.
	God is so intelligent.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Universes within universes within universes, the majesty of creation, you know, from the smallest insect and a beautiful flower or leaf up into the clouds and the sun and the stars and the sky and the universes and then universes within universes and then universes within those universes into affinity.
	And then it raises the question, well, when did life begin?
	When did time begin?
	I think that God is timeless, always was, always has been.
	You know, the comments to Moses on the mountain, tell them, I am sent you.
	Well, that connotates no past or future that I am.
	I've always been, I always will be, which is pretty deep and profound.
	And I think that if mankind were meant to be that much closer to God, then we would be.
	But I think it's part of the mystery of this life that we'll probably never understand.
	Our heart, minds, and souls don't have the capacity to understand until we reach into that other world.
	God willing.
	At least some of us will.
	Some of us won't.
	But anyway, so there's no linkage, as Bastardi says, between CO2, gases, temperatures, and warmer times were climate optimums, and there's always been fluctuation.
	So there's always been a back and forth.
	And personal GDP and life expectancy have shot up in the fossil fuel era.
	And energy drives human progress.
	I mean, energy, you understand, is the lifeblood of America's economy.
	Why have I, for so many years in this program, wanted America, and why do I want this president to keep going, getting rid of the Obama-era regulations that are killing the energy-producing sector of our economy and coal mining, which he's already dealt with, and the Dakota access pipeline and the Keystone Pipeline, and then to allow drilling in the 48 states and Anwar and off the coast of the Atlantic, the Pacific and in the Gulf, et cetera,
	because and then to pursue fracking because we have more natural gas than we'd ever need in a thousand lifetimes.
	It's great.
	And you have a horrendous performance of model policy, but there is a belief among the left that this progress is evil.
	Remember, the same people that don't even want to cut down a tree, which is a renewable resource.
	Now, do I think we should preserve old-growth forests?
	Yes.
	Do I believe we should be good stewards of the earth that God gave us?
	Yes.
	Do I believe that there's potentially other alter sources of energy that we haven't even begun to think about or tap into?
	Yes.
	Has human progress ended at the beginning of the last century?
	They wanted to shut down the patent office because they thought everything that could be created was created.
	And, you know, look at all that we have accomplished since that.
	I think there's no end to the growth of human potential.
	And there are probably energy sources out there that are so obvious, we're going to scratch our wooden human heads and say, well, why didn't we tap into that before?
	You know, I've actually read some scientific books that actually suggest that energy exists all around us, which is in the form of gravity that could be tapped into one day.
	You know, do I know that to be true?
	No, I'm not a scientist.
	I don't have that kind of working mind.
	My thought process is very different.
	But when I read people that this is all they do and all they think about, and they've been given gifts that I don't have, I sit in amazement at what the potential possibilities are.
	When I tell you that when I was a contractor in Rhode Island and I bought a Providence, Rhode Island gas company old van for $200 with 75,000 miles on it and tons of body damage that I ended up fixing some of it, not all of it.
	And it was the best $200 I spent in my life, but that Ford Econoline van had been running on natural gas, not on gasoline.
	And it's a cleaner burning gas.
	Well, why do I then go back to, well, every car engine can already be equipped to run on natural gas and not on gasoline.
	You know, that's one potential.
	And that can heat every home.
	It can energize our electric grid and energize all aspects of business.
	And because it's so abundant, we could do it so cheaply.
	You know, why all these years America has been dependent on foreign nations that hate our guts is beyond any understanding that I have in my life.
	It makes zero sense to me.
	You know, and you've got all the global warming, global cooling coming ice age taxers.
	You know, they're out there still proposing a $4 trillion carbon tax on top of the high price for energy we already pay.
	It's insane.
	So the president's decision today, which he'll announce shortly to pull the plug on Obama's decision to sign into this Paris climate hoax accord, couldn't have come a moment too soon.
	You know, the next step on that agenda is a $4 trillion with a T trillion dollar global warming tax.
	Now, that would torpedo America's economy and everyone else's economy.
	Investors Business Daily pointed out that a new report by 13 economists was on all global warming true believers called for this $4 trillion global carbon tax to avoid dangerous climate change, as Britain's Independent reported.
	There's no evidence that a carbon tax of that magnitude would do anything other than crush the world economy, making billions of people poor.
	You know, one of the reasons that I was so supportive of the president and the president's agenda is and why I called this election the forgotten man election.
	13 million, you know, eight years of liberalism, eight years of Obama radicalism, eight years of Democratic rule, Obamacare.
	Well, you lost your doctor, your plan, and you paid on average $6,000 more per family.
	It's insane.
	It's an insane failure.
	All right, we're getting rid of that.
	But 13 million more Americans on food stamps.
	Great job, President Obama.
	8 million more in poverty.
	Great job, President Obama.
	You know, the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s.
	Great job.
	The worst recovery since the 40s, lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
	I know I promised I'd stop talking about it, but you can't do a worse job than they've done.
	And so now we live in an environment where everybody, all these five components, the deep state, the Democrats, the destroy Trump media weak Republicans, as we saw on the Obamacare replacement bill and never Trumpers, they don't get it.
	That if we don't get these things done, and this is my biggest concern now about where the president is because he's so under fire, Russia, never stops.
	That he now, you know, it's taken 80% of his and his staff's time.
	And that means finishing the job of repealing and replacing, getting it done in the Senate, getting it done in conference, getting a bill on the president's desk is taking longer than it should.
	And the president's economic plan, a 15% corporate tax rate, 10% repatriation rate of trillions from multinational corporations parked abroad, a middle-class tax cut, seven brackets to three, simplify the tax code.
	You know, all of these things need to get done this year.
	You know, funding the wall, stopping the competition for the limited jobs that are available, protecting our borders, stopping people from states that support Sharia, entering the country, education back to the states.
	Look, all has gotten into place.
	A lot has gotten done.
	But I'm worried because I'm looking ahead as Congress is off again this week.
	Who the hell takes off this much?
	You know, who gets to take lunch this often?
	I've never seen anything like it.
	And Congress only has 30 some odd days on the congressional agenda to get if we don't get repeal and replace done, we don't get the president's economic plan in place to get people off of food stamps, out of poverty, back to work, back to buying homes.
	You know, if we don't get part of that wall built, which was such a big part of the president's agenda, we don't finish this push towards energy independence, you know, we're not making the progress and taking the most advantage out of what we could be doing.
	And frankly, I got one last thing to say as we go to break here.
	You know, I've had to spend a lot of time this week because the kill shot for my show has been real and a clear danger to me having a voice on the air.
	I really came to the conclusion, came crystal clear to me last night.
	The only reason I have this show is because of all of you.
	You know, when the USAA came back as an advertiser and all these other people were bombarded, you know, 500 to one to stay with my show by you and all of you that support me and Melanie and Brian Maloney, Melanie Morgan, Brian Maloney in there, MediaEqualizer.com.
	You have saved what is really the one voice, conservative radio, and that's all of us collectively, and the one voice on Fox, and they've been trying to kill us all.
	But the only reason we now survive is because of you.
	This is your show, not mine anymore.
	It's your show.
	You own it.
	Thank you.
	I'm honored to be a part of it.
	And you made it happen.
	Bennett, the president of the United States, will be speaking from the Rose Garden, and we're telling stations along the Sean Hannity Show Network, when that happens, we will be going right to it.
	And I want to just say one thing.
	Some people have written me and said, Hannity, why is this group, mediaequalizer.org, well, they've only gone after one person.
	No, they've made it very clear that the only way to stop liberal fascism, this tactic of silencing conservative voices by attacking their advertiser base, they've made it very clear that it's all liberal voices and it's going to be one after another, after another, after another, after another.
	Unless and until the left stops this This liberal fascism tactic that they have adopted.
	And I have so, I'm going to show this on TV.
	Over the years, I have so often defended liberals that have said the most outrageous things and have said, don't fire them.
	Stand up for free speech.
	Now, this is not a boycott.
	These are the exact tactics of the Soros-Clinton group.
	The exact same language, the exact same tactics that they're using.
	And it is really all in the liberal media now that will, and this will go to the networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, obviously MSNBC.
	It's not about one person, it's about a principle.
	The principle is called freedom of speech.
	You know, the fascinating and interesting thing is not one liberal commentator that I know of, but Lanny Davis in the country has dared to speak out and say, stop doing this.
	And Lanny could not have been more clear.
	This is bad.
	We are the champions, the advocates of free speech.
	No, they're not.
	That's my point I made to you yesterday.
	Just like they're not the champion of gay rights when they take money from Sharia countries, and they're not the champion of women's rights when Hillary takes money from Sharia countries.
	And they're not the champions of freedom of religion either when Christians and Jews are persecuted from countries that give the Clinton Foundation millions and millions and millions of dollars.
	And what they really are are just a bunch of phony hypocrites that have lied about who conservatives really are, and they themselves only want one voice, and they have become the intolerant left in America.
	And if we don't fight back, we're not going to have any outlets, any voices, any opinion offered to you.
	All right, we expect the president pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord next from the Rose Garden.
	All right, the President's in the Rose Garden.
	We expect him to announce that he's pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, and here is the President.
	Thank you.
	I would like to begin by addressing the terrorist attack in Manila.
	We're closely monitoring the situation, and I will continue to give updates.
	Anything happens during this period of time, but it is really very sad as to what's going on throughout the world with terror.
	Our thoughts and our prayers are with all of those affected.
	Before we discuss the Paris Accord, I'd like to begin with an update on our tremendous, absolutely tremendous economic progress since Election Day on November 8th.
	The economy is starting to come back and very, very rapidly.
	We've added $3.3 trillion in stock market value to our economy and more than a million private sector jobs.
	I've just returned from a trip overseas where we concluded nearly $350 billion of military and economic development for the United States, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.
	It was a very, very successful trip, believe me.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	In my meetings at the G7, we have taken historic steps to demand fair and reciprocal trade that gives Americans a level playing field against other nations.
	We're also working very hard for peace in the Middle East and perhaps even peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
	Our attacks on terrorism are greatly stepped up, and you see that.
	You see it all over from the previous administration, including getting many other countries to make major contributions to the fight against terror.
	Big, big contributions are being made by countries that weren't doing so much in the form of contribution.
	One by one, we are keeping the promises I made to American people during my campaign for president, whether it's cutting job-killing regulations, appointing and confirming a tremendous Supreme Court justice, putting in place tough new ethics rules, achieving a record reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border, or bringing jobs, plants,
	and factories back into the United States at numbers which no one until this point thought even possible.
	And believe me, we've just begun.
	The fruits of our labor will be seen very shortly, even more so.
	On these issues and so many more, we're following through on our commitments.
	And I don't want anything to get in our way.
	I am fighting every day for the great people of this country.
	Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
	Thank you.
	Yes, yes, smart.
	Thank you.
	But begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris Accord or in really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.
	So we're getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair.
	And if we can, that's great.
	And if we can't, that's fine.
	As President, I can put no other consideration before the well-being of American citizens.
	The Paris Climate Accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers who I love and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories,
	and vastly diminished economic production.
	Thus, as of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country.
	This includes ending the implementation of the nationally determined contribution and, very importantly, The Green Climate Fund, which is costing the United States a vast fortune.
	Compliance with the terms of the Paris Accord and the onerous energy restrictions that is placed on the United States could cost America as much as 2.7 million lost jobs by 2025, according to the National Economic Research Associates.
	This includes 440,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, not what we need.
	Believe me, this is not what we need, including automobile jobs and the further decimation of vital American industries on which countless communities rely.
	They rely for so much, and we would be giving them so little.
	According to the same study, by 2040, compliance with the commitments put into place by the previous administration would cut production for the following sectors: paper down 12%.
	Cement, down 23%, iron and steel, down 38%.
	Coal, and I happen to love the coal miners, down 86%, natural gas down 31%.
	The cost to the economy at this time would be close to $3 trillion in lost GDP and 6.5 million industrial jobs, while households would have $7,000 less income and in many cases, much worse than that.
	Not only does this deal subject our citizens to harsh economic restrictions, it fails to live up to our environmental ideals.
	As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which I do, I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States, which is what it does.
	The world's leader in environmental protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world's leading polluters.
	For example, under the agreement, China will be able to increase these emissions by a staggering number of years, 13.
	They can do whatever they want for 13 years, not us.
	India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries.
	There are many other examples, but the bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States.
	Further, while the current agreement effectively blocks the development of clean coal in America, which it does, and the mines are starting to open up, having a big opening in two weeks.
	Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, so many places.
	A big opening of a brand new mine that's unheard of for many, many years.
	That hasn't happened.
	They asked me if I'd go.
	I'm going to try.
	China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants.
	So we can't build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement.
	India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.
	Think of it.
	India can double their coal production.
	We're supposed to get rid of ours.
	Even Europe is allowed to continue construction of coal plants.
	In short, the agreement doesn't eliminate coal jobs.
	It just transfers those jobs out of America and the United States and ships them to foreign countries.
	This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States.
	The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement.
	They went wild.
	They were so happy.
	For the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage.
	A cynic would say the obvious reason for economic competitors and their wish to see us remain in the agreement is so that we continue to suffer this self-inflicted major economic wound.
	We would find it very hard to compete with other countries from other parts of the world.
	We have among the most abundant energy reserves on the planet, sufficient to lift millions of America's poorest workers out of poverty.
	Yet under this agreement, we are effectively putting these reserves under lock and key, taking away the great wealth of our nation.
	It's great wealth.
	It's phenomenal wealth.
	Not so long ago, we had no idea we had such wealth and leaving millions and millions of families trapped in poverty and joblessness.
	The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries.
	At 1% growth, renewable sources of energy can meet some of our domestic demand.
	But at 3 or 4% growth, which I expect, we need all forms of available American energy, or our country will be at grave risk of brownouts and blackouts.
	Our businesses will come to a halt in many cases, and the American family will suffer the consequences in the form of lost jobs and a very diminished quality of life.
	Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree.
	Think of that.
	This much Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100.
	Tiny, tiny amount.
	In fact, 14 days of carbon emissions from China alone would wipe out the gains from America, and this is incredible statistic.
	Would totally wipe out the gains from America's expected reductions in the year 2030.
	After we have had to spend billions and billions of dollars, lost jobs, closed factories, and suffered much higher energy costs from the United States.
	All right, that's the president in the Rose Garden pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, open to a new agreement if it would be more favorable to the United States.
	We do have some reaction.
	A Clinton mega donor says leaving the Paris Accord would be an act of war.
	There was some media it.
	Tom Steiner is his name.
	I'm sorry, Tom Steyer is his name.
	Yeah, an act of war against the American people who won't be paying $4 trillion in additional tax and killing businesses, as the president outlined here.
	I think we get the gist.
	President talking about economic growth, the dangers of terrorism.
	We have the rest of the news when we get back.
	Ann Coulter is going to join us today, so we'll check in with her.
	Also Joe Concha and Geralda Rivera on the attempts of silencing conservative voices.
	We'll get to that today on the show.
	And we have an investigation and a lawsuit filed against Project Veritas' James O'Keefe.
	And your calls, 800-941-Sean.
	Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Look, I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost.
	So I had no control over the Russians.
	The use of my email account was turned into the biggest scandal since Lord knows when.
	This was the biggest nothing burger ever.
	I think it was interesting.
	I know you had Dean Bucket here from the New York Times yesterday, and they covered it like it was Pearl Harbor, and Republican governors and legislatures began doing everything they could to suppress the vote.
	You look at Facebook, the vast majority of the news items posted were fake.
	I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party.
	It was bankrupt.
	It was on the verge of insolvency.
	Its data was mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong, that the Russians ran an extensive information war campaign against my campaign to influence voters in the election.
	You know, the Comey letter, which, you know, he dumps that on me on October 28th, and I immediately start falling.
	Since the mainstream media covered that, as I say, like Pearl Harbor, front pages everywhere, huge type, et cetera.
	After that letter, my momentum, particularly among women in the suburbs, stopped and dropped.
	If I put myself in the position of running a platform like Facebook, first of all, they've got to get back to trying to curate it more effectively, put me out of the equation.
	They've got to help prevent fake news.
	I also think I was the victim of a very broad assumption I was going to win.
	I never believed that.
	I always thought it was going to be a close election because our elections are always close.
	And we've got lots of network executives saying things like, you know, he may not be good for the country, but he's good for business.
	And there was that, and putting him on all the time.
	And at some point, it sort of bleeds over into misogyny.
	And let's just be honest.
	You know.
	The Russians, in my opinion, and based on the Intel and counter-Intel people I've talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.
	And here's a guided by Americans.
	Guided by Americans and guided by people who had, you know, polling.
	Go to Netflix and say you want to see a political documentary.
	Eight of the top ten, last time I checked a few weeks ago, were screeds against President Obama or me, or both of us.
	It's very difficult historically to succeed a two-term president of your own party.
	All right, there it is, Hillary Clinton.
	You know, if you've really thought, she blames the FBI.
	She blames James Comey, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians are coming.
	Vladimir Putin, anti-American forces, low-information voters.
	Everyone assumed she'd win.
	Bad polling numbers.
	The DNC was a mess.
	You know, people wanting change, misogyny, suburban women.
	The New York Times, the mainstream media, cable news, Netflix.
	Democrats not making the right documentary.
	She's blamed Facebook and Twitter and WikiLeaks and content farms for Macedonia.
	Wow.
	Ann Coulter is with us, author of In Trump We Trust, E. Ploribus Awesome.
	How are you?
	You also forgot that the sun was in her eyes.
	Yeah, I think I forgot.
	Oh, my gosh, these liberals are sore losers.
	Every election they lose.
	You know, Gorg fought in Florida.
	He's a sore loser.
	Kerry, remember there was that conspiracy theory about the diebold corporation flipping the votes in Ohio.
	That was in 2004.
	But Hillary really tops them all.
	I also like her very, and thank you.
	That was a very good collection of her quotes.
	I can't bear to watch her.
	I am so glad she's not president just so we don't have to watch her.
	And by the way, that is not partisan.
	I felt the same way when John McCain lost.
	I never wanted to hear that voice again.
	But this idea that she knows the precise date on which suburban women turned against her.
	No, I think we were all reading the polls pretty closely.
	They were being broadcast from every outlet.
	And all the polls showed she was going to crush Donald Trump.
	She was going to get more than 300 electoral votes.
	That was by far the balance of there were a few outlying polls who showed that showed Trump had a chance.
	But the day of the election, New York Times gave Hillary Clinton a 90% chance of winning.
	Also on the Comey thing, yeah, okay, one time he came out and made a statement that was not helpful to her, but two times he came out and made statements that were helpful.
	Remember, first he says she's not under investigation.
	Then it comes back, not through Comey's own doing, but from, I guess, the prosecution office looking at Anthony Weiner's laptop, and he has to say, okay, well, it's not completely closed.
	We're looking at some things on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
	That's supposed to be the great defining moment.
	But then, what was it?
	Four days before the election, Comey comes out again and says, no, she's absolutely not under election.
	She's free and clear, free-to-go, law-abiding citizen.
	So, I don't know, I'd take two out of three comments, appropriate or not, two out of three of FBI Director Comey's statements were helpful to Hillary Clinton.
	They are just sore losers.
	On the other hand, she may have a point, and I think she should consider running again in 2020, just get a better data operation going.
	Let me ask you about this.
	You know, I watched you and I had you on the program, and I've watched you over the years get attacked as you go around the country.
	By the way, I've told you privately and personally that I think you're nuts by wanting to go to all these liberal college campuses on the one hand.
	On the other hand, I admire the hell out of you because you've got more guts than most people that I know in 40 lifetimes, and you do it, and yet you so often are either shouted down, they tried to attack you with a pie or something and hit you once.
	You said that.
	No, they did not hit me because of my liberty reflexes.
	Right.
	Your lightning reflexes.
	And then, you know, then you got Milo Yiannopoulos, and then you afterwards.
	Then you get shut down at Berkeley by these liberal fascists.
	You know, you've been watching what's happening to me, and you've watched what has happened to other conservatives over the years.
	What is wrong with these people that they're so afraid of what we have to say?
	Well, for one thing, they should be afraid.
	College speeches are not only a lot of fun, but they do make a difference.
	And I am just the sort of person who does not actually like getting standing ovations.
	I prefer heckles.
	It's funner.
	But I must say, I mean, over the years, I'm often the only conservative college kids are going to hear in four years of college.
	And one time at Syracuse University, I go out with college Republicans afterwards.
	And there was one kid at the table who keeps telling me what happens at the meetings of the Greens and the college socialists.
	And he knew so much, and I mean, they were funny stories.
	But I finally said to him, what, are you a spy?
	What are you doing at all these meetings?
	And he said, no, I was a member of them, but then you spoke here one year I was a student, and you were the first person who made any sense to me, so I became a college Republican.
	I've had many experiences like that.
	There is a reason, there is a good reason.
	They need their Chinese-style brainwashing, and even allowing little 99-pound me on campus for an hour threatens the vacuum of no outside information may penetrate.
	But I would also say things have changed dramatically, and I think it is entirely an effect of the college administrators.
	I described college speeches at the beginning of one of my books.
	I forget which one it was.
	The quote book.
	Let's put this.
	One of my number one best-selling books.
	Go ahead.
	Yes, exactly.
	Exactly.
	I'm helping you out.
	Go ahead.
	Thank you.
	I think it's the one, if Democrats had any brains, they'd be Republicans.
	And what was striking to me was most of the college speeches are fantastic.
	I mean, liberals will show up and they'll challenge you.
	But especially at the better colleges and the southern colleges, there would never be heckling or certainly not any violence.
	They wanted to outsmart you.
	And that's what made the question and answer sessions, well, for one thing, very long, because I'd stay there until they had passed out of exhaustion, but also really fun.
	It tended to be more the Bush League colleges, the community colleges, that sort of thing.
	Well, now, what was weird about Berkeley is that Berkeley, you have to have a high SAT score to get into Berkeley.
	That's what has been weird this year basically since Trump has become president.
	And I think what has happened is a lot of these protesters, I mean, Ansu Fa, for example, they're not students.
	They're public school teachers.
	They're potheads who are government workers in the neighborhood, utterly ballless, but they have to go home, get dressed up in black, put on their masks, operate in a mob.
	And then the universities back down to them, not because the students agree with them, but because the faculties agree with them.
	It is the faculties at these universities, which is why, I mean, I think Trump really needs to get going on the wall and do a lot of other things.
	But one of the things Republicans and including President Trump ought to be doing is just cutting off all student aid and all aid to these colleges.
	They have become opposition forces within American society.
	And when you see what happened at Evergreen State College and that hilarious statement by the president, which I tweeted out last night, you must, I insist that all of your listeners go read that statement right now to see the state of higher education right now.
	I mean, apparently at Ohio State, a bunch of protesters did the same thing.
	And the university said, no, and if you act up, you will be expelled.
	And that was the end of it.
	Everyone knows what that's all that needs to happen.
	The universities aren't doing it because the universities, they are run by the former student protesters now.
	One of the things you just played, which is, you know, an open, obvious lie was, oh, I never took this election for granted.
	She totally did.
	Read the chapter on Election Day in Shattered.
	Everyone was just rushing into her office to mention people that she should include in her victory speech.
	She had no idea there was any possibility she was going to lose.
	Never, not for a minute.
	And yeah, she had fireworks planned the night of her tremendous victory in the Javit Center with the glass ceiling, remember?
	Yeah.
	You know, look, one of the things that I'm hopeful now that we can shut down this effort to get me off the air and I can hopefully get back to business.
	I really want, I'm very worried about the lack of time now, and I have a sense of urgency that Republicans are so pathetically slow and they only have 30 some-odd days scheduled on their agenda to finish repealing, replacing Obamacare and getting through the Senate and conference and on the president's desk and then the president's economic plan and yes, and funding the wall.
	I want the wall funded and start construction immediately.
	You know, I want these things done and I'm worried about it.
	He doesn't need Congress to fund it.
	He's the commander-in-chief.
	It's his job to defend the nation's borders, not to defend Crimea's borders or Syria and Lebanon's borders.
	His job is to defend our borders.
	Well, I asked him about it, and he said he's doing it.
	He has a Department of Homeland Security.
	I think it's worth going to Congress asking for the money only because I want a vote.
	I want a name-by-name state-by-state vote.
	Let's see who votes against funding a wall on our border, and good luck to them in the next election.
	That's the only reason to have a vote on that.
	I agree with you.
	We've now learned through the Obamacare repeal process that we've got 100 pathetically weak, fineless Republicans.
	And honestly, if we don't get more conservative members in the Freedom Caucus, I don't think we can get anything of real conservative significance accomplished to the degree that it's possible.
	And the president's agenda on the economy is conservative.
	His judges and justices are conservative.
	The wall is conservative.
	Energy independence is conservative.
	Well, it's pro-American.
	I mean, that's the great thing about Trump.
	We've given up on both political parties.
	But Trump really has to go and push his agenda.
	I mean, he is a unicorn.
	We've never had anything like this.
	And it isn't just standard Republican politics.
	He got a lot of Democrat votes, and most of all, he got votes from people who haven't voted at all for 20, 30 years.
	If he lets them down, he is screwed, the GOP is screwed, and the country is over.
	As for the repeal and replace, I would add to your very impressive list of adjectives describing most Republicans in Congress, which I completely concur with.
	I would add stupid.
	They are just stupid.
	All right, Ann, I got to take a break, but stay right there, best-selling author Ann Coulter with us.
	All right, as we continue with Ann Coulter, best-selling author, E. Ploribus Awesome, and Trump We Trust.
	And Ann, I guess the next question, we left off with you saying Republicans are really stupid and my long list of adjectives.
	It sounds like a liberal just calling people's names.
	No, I have facts to back this up.
	Look, to fix health care in this country is easy, has been easy.
	They just won't do it.
	Obviously, there are political issues.
	People are going to be upset.
	Mostly the ones who distribute free stuff.
	They're always the ones who want the welfare programs, not the recipients.
	It's the government workers, you know, giving cheese to the poor.
	They're the ones who are going to be out protesting.
	In any event, it's very easy to avoid the protests and solve the entire issue by not repealing Obamacare, so there are no protests, but you allow a free market in health insurance.
	I described this repeatedly in a few columns a little while ago.
	It's so simple, and Trump promised it during the campaign.
	Look, this is the difference in the Soviet Union and America.
	The reason our grocery stores are bursting with varieties and inexpensive food, high-quality food, is because of capitalism.
	Just allow health insurance to be sold on a nationwide market, something that has not been true in our lifetimes.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	You have to buy your health insurance only state by state.
	Then the state insurance commissioners, as Donald Trump described in the debates, they get control.
	They get lobbied by the hearing therapist, the marital therapist, the drug therapist, the aromatherapist.
	And you're not allowed to buy an health insurance plan that doesn't cover all those things.
	No one wants those things except the providers of those services.
	The way to get rid of them is not to have Paul Ryan micromanaging what services get covered.
	Allow us to buy it on the free market.
	And we got a roll.
	We will put your book on our website.
	We always love having you, Ann Coulter.
	You're so shy and demure and soft-spoken.
	It's always a pleasure to have you.
	You're the hardest interview I do.
	800.
	800-941-Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
	First thing is, like I said, thank you for the proposal.
	And I'd like to get the 20,000 across to you.
	I'm going to have, I'm going to, the second call I'm going to make here is my money guy, and he's going to get in touch with you on how to acquire the funds to use.
	Okay, we are running out of time, as you know, so we need to do it quick.
	He told us to send the check to Americans United for Change.
	It was earlier this year that we purchased a shell company called Repulse Bay Limited.
	It was incorporated in Belize, Central America in 2005.
	Next, we opened a bank account in Belize so we could move money around the world anonymously.
	Your guy took care of business right away.
	Yes, Steve.
	I just knew it took tricky route through Belize, and I just wanted to make sure that that got to you.
	So good, I'm glad.
	I'm glad.
	The money definitely helped.
	Shortly after the funds were released, Charles Roth's niece, our journalist, got offered an internship at Creamer's firm, Democracy Partners.
	Roth's moneyman, Michael Carlson, requested a meeting with Creamer.
	Carlson said he was looking for an immigration lawyer with powerful connections for a wealthy client in Syria who wanted to live in the U.S. Making the phone call.
	I'm not going to record you.
	I just need to, I will try and find a couple of good referrals to you and get back to you pretty quickly.
	Okay.
	Fabulous.
	Brad Woodhouse, the president of AUFC, the folks we had sent the money to, heard that we were releasing undercover videos exposing their activities.
	Woodhouse told a journalist that AUFC was going to return the $20,000.
	He was concerned it might have been an illegal foreign donation.
	Steve was talking to Scott about passed on to me.
	And I think it's one of the reasons why I got in touch with you.
	He envisioned, you know, what do you need to be able to vote in some of these new governments?
	What do you really need?
	What makes you a citizen?
	And if you look at that checklist, it's an ID card of any kind that shows you who you are and a pay stub that shows you're getting paid at a local address someplace.
	I mean, too, you mean a to get registered.
	Yeah, to get registered.
	So you go into register.
	If you have those two things, you're registered to vote.
	So if you, let's say I had a business inside of, say, Illinois or Michigan, and I hired people and I had addresses for them, I could write them checks for those.
	I could use them as day laborers or whatever and use them and find my way around the voter registration laws for Hispanics.
	That's one thing.
	Actually, that idea, when he gave it to me, I was like, that sounds like something we could register huge numbers of people that way.
	Well, that kind of thing kind of stuck in my craw when he mentioned it to me.
	All right, let me, on that front, I'm going to write down these options.
	Let me see if I can chat with the people who are most involved in Hispanic voter registration.
	Creamer hesitated to help our donor pull off the voter fraud scheme that Foville created.
	Bob came back to me and asked me, what is he talking about?
	And I told him what we were talking about.
	And he said, well, I'm not going to touch out with a 10-foot pole now.
	I go, nor should you.
	Good advice.
	Nor should you.
	He goes, good.
	I'm glad we're on the same page there.
	I said, however, other people can make things happen that you don't need to know about.
	So that's where I think this goes.
	But you now understand.
	He's still going to have to know about it.
	Mr. Kremer?
	Well, I mean, is that okay as long as it's outside of, okay.
	Now.
	We talk about lots of things that we don't talk about.
	Honestly, the right-handest environment to do it in?
	Within striking distance.
	Michigan, Indiana.
	Least restrictive donation caps and campaign finance laws and investigation and investigative arms and any other thing.
	Like, they have weakened it so bad in these three states.
	All right, 23 now till the top of the hour.
	Project Veritas back out on the path.
	And the founder, James O'Keefe, is with us discussing a lawsuit that is being brought against him and his citizen journalists who expose this dark underbelly of the Democratic campaign process and the different videos that he was able to uncover.
	In April, we covered with him what he's been able to find, and that is the bird-dogging that was done by the Clinton campaign and an effort nationwide to foment violence at Trump rallies.
	And then, of course, he got into the gathering, growing evidence of the Clinton campaign violating FEC coordination laws with this guy, Robert Creamer.
	And remember the name Scott Foval and the primer and the primer on how to commit massive voter fraud.
	And then the two of them, Creamer and Fomel, and again, it's all on tape, sending numerous proposals to further their efforts.
	And they were asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	And we knew they were on to something important for the American people to know.
	And then their story was not complete.
	And with the election looming, they were running out of time, et cetera, et cetera.
	And then it goes on from there.
	And there's been a whole series of this.
	And he's the president and founder of Project Veritas.
	It's executive.
	And joining us is James O'Keefe.
	How are you?
	Hey, Sean.
	Well, first of all, I just wanted to say thank you to Bob Cramer.
	We just got served with a federal lawsuit today for $1 million.
	And I want to say we're grateful to, apparently it's Georgetown Law Student Clinic that Kramer is working with for suing us.
	By the way, wouldn't that open him up to discovery for you?
	Yeah, we're grateful for serving up their clients for deposition, which we think will be a great help to the criminal investigation that's currently ongoing by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
	The Wisconsin Department of Justice is launching a criminal investigation into Mr. Foval, who works with Bob Kramer.
	And I'll bet you a nickel that those two invoke their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination if their lawyers are unsuccessful in preventing depositions.
	Otherwise, I see perjury and obstruction of justice.
	In other words, Bob Kramer is doing Project Veritas a favor and the American people a favor by letting his ego get in the way here, and he's suing us.
	He's alleging things in this lawsuit that are outrageous, that I faked Social Security numbers.
	I did not do that.
	But Sean, I hope that this opens up.
	Well, let me ask you this, because you have many, many, and I remember telling you years ago that the legal aspect of what you do is critical.
	And I remember asking you if you had attorneys, and you said you had an army of them, which is smart for you because based on what you're doing.
	And by the way, this is what you're really doing is right out of the 60 Minutes Handbook from years ago.
	Yeah.
	And I guess my question to you is when you did any of your recording or taping, did you make sure that there were at least one-party consent state rules or were they two-party consent?
	100%.
	Yes.
	We broke no laws.
	We were very, very careful.
	The unlawful interception of royal communications, you know, you're free to record people as long as they're present, particularly in Washington, D.C.
	And everything was legal.
	So what is he suing you for?
	What is the lawsuit amount?
	It's a million dollars.
	He's talking about fraudulent misrepresentation, civil conspiracy.
	He's just throwing a kits and sink, a breach of fiduciary duty because our undercover reporter was in Kramer's office.
	She had a duty to Project Veritas to be an investigative journalist, but she never breached any duties with she never had a written policy, a binding non-disclosure agreement with Bob Kramer.
	So they're just trying to attack us.
	And I think that investigative journalism is on the line here.
	They've already shut down David DeLeiden for the Planned Parenthood sting.
	Now they're trying to shut us down.
	And my response, Sean, is I just hired well over a dozen full-time investigative journalists this week.
	And I'm going to find out who's funding this lawsuit.
	I know Bob Kramer is going to spend the rest of his natural life trying to shut me down.
	He's married to Jan Jakowski.
	He's best friends with Barack Obama.
	He sat in the front row of Barack Obama's speech.
	So he wants to shut me down, and I'm not going to be shut down.
	Over my dead body will I give up my sources or my methods.
	We didn't break any laws and we're going to go on offense.
	Well, I like what you're doing, and it's interesting that it's for only a million dollars.
	That tells me that I think it's an attempt probably to scare you, and they pull out before you depose them.
	How much do you want to bet that's how this plays out?
	I bet you that they invoke their First Amendment rights against self-incrimination if their lawyers are deposition.
	A Fifth Amendment rights.
	I bet that happens because I'm telling you that many people don't know this.
	The Wisconsin Attorney General, we opened a criminal investigation into Fauval.
	And I'll tell you something else.
	When I put out those thousand applications for undercover journalists and I have everyone apply, you know, there were some moles.
	And I wonder if those moles were sent from certain people like Ryan Clayton or Bob Kramer, and they were unsuccessful in penetrating Project Veritas because I found out that they were moles.
	And maybe he had this in his back pocket, you know, to try to just keep on trying to shut us down.
	And investigative journalism is on the line in this country.
	They are trying to criminalize it.
	They are trying to scare people away from doing this type of digging.
	I'm not a publicly traded company like some of these media companies.
	I don't have advertisers.
	I'm not subject to some of the political pressures that many people are subject to.
	That is why it is so important that your audience stands behind the David Leidens of the world, the Project Veritas of the world, because they will try to shut us down, and we can't be intimidated.
	Well, I mean, we're all dealing with this in our own way, shape, matter, form, or fashion.
	I mean, you see, you know, everybody that seems to like the president's agenda and wants to fix the country.
	And, you know, and the president, I think more than anybody, has had to withstand unprecedented, vicious, vile attacks.
	And everybody from his wife and his 11-year-old kid and his own daughter are being attacked.
	And anybody that works for him is attacked.
	And anybody in the media that supports what he believes in is attacked.
	And, you know, anybody that exposes the left like you is attacked.
	I mean, but the first time, I mean, you're somebody who's fighting back.
	I mean, there's, you know, this mediaequalizer.com group that has come to my defense in a major way.
	And they're fighting fire with fire.
	And they're saying, fine, you want to play this ridiculous game of silencing voices?
	Okay, we'll do a non-boycott like you and list Rachel Manau's advertisers.
	And then we'll go to Stephen Colbert and George Stephanopoulos and Anderson Cooper.
	I mean, I guess this is the only thing that they understand.
	Here's in a nutshell.
	The more true it gets, the worse it gets.
	The closer that we, as in journalists, get to uncovering what actually happened, the worse it gets.
	A lot of these companies were unable or unwilling, and I understand why, to air these tapes that you just heard on your program a few minutes ago, which Scott says there are other people who can do illegal stuff that you don't need to know about.
	But then Scott Bogle says, but Bob Creamer and I know about it.
	And then Bob Creamer says it was Hillary Clinton's idea.
	This is his word, not mine.
	Hillary Clinton's idea to put ducks on the ground.
	Ducks meaning paid agitators to induce violence.
	Well, we showed my audience these videos again and again.
	I mean, and not only that.
	But Sean, the more true it gets, the closer you get to the Hillary Clintons of the world, the worse it gets.
	And a lot of these companies, and I'm not going to name names, but we all know it's true.
	A lot of these companies, some would surprise you, some wouldn't, are afraid to air the tapes because of government regulators that are going to come after them.
	And my point to you is, the entire reason for us doing what we do is on the line if we don't tell the truth.
	All right, stay right there, James, and we'll come back on the other side.
	James O'Keefe, Project Veritas, now being sued.
	I'll predict, as I often do correctly, this is not going anywhere.
	But hey, listen.
	Kathy Griffin is recently getting some heat for her Donald Trump stunt that she did.
	As a comedian, when do you feel like you know that you've crossed that line?
	I think it is the job of a comedian to cross the line at all times because, you know, that line is not real.
	And if you step out into that spotlight and you're doing the crazy things that he's doing, you know, we're the last line of defense.
	And really, the comedians are the last voice of truth in this whole thing, you know?
	And, you know, it's impossible to get away from it.
	You know, I had a dream the other night about that I was playing golf with Donald Trump and I was standing beside him with a club in my hand and I was considering my options when I suddenly woke up.
	You know, it's one of those dreams where you want to just get back to sleep so you can finish it, you know?
	Kathy's a friend and she's a terrific comedian, but this had no business being in our public discourse.
	And I talked to her.
	She has apologized, a real fulsome apology.
	She's actually begged for forgiveness and I believe in forgiveness.
	You're supposed to be appearing with her in July.
	Can she recover from this?
	Well, I think she did the right thing.
	I think asking for forgiveness and acknowledging that this was a horrible mistake.
	And so I think she can.
	And you're still going to appear with her?
	Yes.
	Of course he'll still appear with her, but he wanted Rush Limbaugh and every conservative off the air.
	And he's just, oh, I'll forgive her.
	She said she's sorry.
	The only problem is conservatives say they're sorry and they still attack your advertising base.
	They want you off the air and your voice silenced.
	Really?
	We're going to hold up ahead of the president of the United States beheaded, just like an ISIS fighter with blood all over it.
	The president's 11-year-old son sees it.
	Oh, she said she's sorry.
	It's all good now.
	It's not a problem.
	And then, of course, the dreams of Jim Carrey, similar to that of Madonna and the madness of Ashley Judd and the insanity of a lot of people that can't get over the election results.
	Anyway, joining us now to discuss is Joe Concha.
	He's with The Hill.
	He's a media reporter.
	Geraldo Rivera, Fox News correspondent and legal analyst, who had a pretty interesting take on this last night that was a little different than anything else that I've been hearing in the media.
	Welcome, both of you.
	Geraldo, you think there might be and can be and potentially be.
	Although I tend to doubt it, knowing the way prosecutions work in this country.
	And, you know, if you're a conservative, probably they throw the book at you.
	If you're a liberal, you get off the hook.
	But you say there's possible legal ramifications.
	I think that's why.
	Hi, Sharon.
	I think that's why CNN dropped her because of the possible criminal implications.
	Under Title 18 of the U.S. Code, it is a Class E felony punishable by up to five years in prison to threaten to kill, kidnap, or injure the President of the United States.
	You can use the joke defense.
	It was, I was only kidding, defense, but it doesn't always work.
	And there are plenty of people, including one who said on an Obama poster, a President Obama poster, kill this man.
	He did 27 months in federal prison.
	So I think that it's a very big deal.
	You know, and in terms of the scale, it's a lot.
	Remember when Kramer from Seinfeld, Michael Richards, used the N-word.
	He went N-N-N-N-N.
	He just did defy everybody.
	He was shunned, and he was almost written out of show business.
	You know, and I think this is even more serious.
	What do you think, Joe?
	And how do you look at the coverage of, say, this president in the media, your colleagues, your friends, who seem to ostracize you a little bit.
	You don't seem like you're a member of the club, which fascinates me because it's all groupthink, seemingly to me.
	But how would the reaction have been if it was anybody doing it to Obama?
	It would be like a combination of the missing Malaysian jet with Russia Trump coverage.
	That's what this would be wall-to-wall for the last two days.
	And instead, it's been mutual.
	Geraldo's laughing because all good humor is rooted in the truth.
	It's absolutely true.
	What you're saying is a fact.
	It is.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And look, I have to disagree with Geraldo.
	I'm certainly not a lawyer, but I just look at the precedents in terms of Madonna and what she said when she said she wanted to blow up the White House and nothing happened to her.
	So I get what he's saying, and I certainly have denounced this 100 different ways, but I don't think anything's going to happen to her in that regard.
	But look, Al Franken's another phony, by the way.
	You played his clip before.
	He will appear with Kathy Griffin in July 7th at an event that she's hosting, but he boycotted Benjamin Netanyahu when he came here in 2015 because he made him, quote, uncomfortable.
	So I was waiting for that follow-up question from Allison Camerado, who used to work at Fox, Nice Girl.
	But you have to call these people out when they say these things and be prepared.
	Well, look at that.
	He also declared war, Joe, against Rush Limbaugh and was all part of an effort to attack everybody at Fox.
	I mean, this has been his mission.
	He's a leftist, and the double standard is clear.
	If you're a conservative, you can get away with saying anything.
	If you're a liberal, if you're a conservative, you get away with nothing.
	If you're a liberal, you get away with everything.
	Double standards, Sean.
	Double standards.
	By the way, that apology that people are talking about with Griffin and how remorseful it was, she forgot to apologize to one set of people, and that's the Trump family.
	You know, the persons whose head she was holding up didn't say anything to Trump, didn't say anything to the family.
	It was only after her way of earning was legitimately threatened.
	And it was because the Squatty Potty people, they were the first to poll 24 hours before CNN.
	I mean, when Squatty Potty is beating a 40-year-old cable news network, you know we got problems in terms of being decisive and ending their relationship with Kathy Griffin.
	Squatty Potty is Kathy Griffin's one and only endorsement deal.
	Their slogan, I believe, is a stool for better stools.
	I'm sure you could figure that out.
	Enjoy your lunch and dinner, guys.
	What a great visual I have now.
	Yeah, it's very appropriate, though, that Kathy Griffin was being endorsed by the squatty potty people.
	But I own three, and I think it's a tremendous product.
	Geraldo, I guess all three of us, I think, have been very strong champions of freedom of speech.
	I don't know that any of us ever supported any boycott of any show because of what somebody said.
	And in my case, I'll speak for myself quite the opposite.
	I mean, even back to Bill Maher's politically incorrect days, I didn't like how ABC handled it.
	I don't like to see people get fired.
	I do think that people should have an ability to apologize.
	But at the end of the day, I'm a believer that the audience should get to decide.
	And all of these attempts to boycott every conservative now are being met with resistance and now a counterattack, quote, not a boycott, but a listing of advertisers, conspiracy theories that are being advanced by Rachel Maddow, a list of people who they are going to also give advertiser lists out of.
	You know, to me, Geraldo, it's all unnecessary, but for this tactic of the left to silence conservative voices.
	And I wanted to get your reaction to it.
	I think, first of all, that you are, you have, in my mind, and I'm not stroking, I've known you for over 15 years.
	Every other idea, every other sentence out of your mouth, I disagree with.
	But I love you as a person because you are one of the most deeply principled people I know.
	You stick to your guns.
	I don't think Donald Trump would be president, but for your efforts, Sean, I think you are a pure heart.
	You are one of the most loyal friends.
	You're one of the most generous people I know.
	And your freedom of speech, your First Amendment right, was viciously attacked.
	They wanted to wipe you out just the way they got O'Reilly.
	O'Reilly gave them plenty of openings with the things he had done in his life.
	You've done nothing in your life to merit that kind of scorn.
	To come after you for your editorial, for your opinion on a certain show or story, I think is despicable.
	It's low down and dirty.
	Thank God you fought back.
	Thank God Fox News did not chicken out and desert you.
	I stand 100% with you.
	I will boycott anybody who boycotts you.
	You know, I just think that you made the, you drew the line in the sand.
	You're the one who finally stood up to this insidious.
	I call it fascism, Geraldo.
	You know, it's sad.
	You know, Geraldo, I've known you for years, and we have passionate, passionate debates over the years.
	I'd even say knockdown, drag-out arguments that are real on both sides, but we never forgot our friendship ever.
	And what happened to that in America?
	And why is it that the president can do nothing right, I mean, to half the country?
	It's very disheartening.
	And how do you explain it to your 11-year-old or your 12-year-old?
	I'm not talking about Baron Trump, who, my God, what an awful thing that was for that child to be traumatized, as my child would be if they saw that image of me in a similar circumstance with my bloody decapitated head being held by a comedian.
	It wasn't very funny.
	But, you know, where is the patriotism?
	And I'm not saying that in a corny way.
	I don't want everyone to go out there whistling America the beautiful.
	I just think that there has to be a fairness.
	You know, this is the president for all the people.
	And this, you know, I just think that the discourse now has become absolutely untenable.
	And I think also, guys, social media has been weaponized now.
	Somebody asked me, why is this suddenly happening where these boycotts happen so quickly and people are ousted so fast?
	And the reason is because you could organize people to do these boycotts and shame these advertisers.
	Before you used to write a letter, right?
	No one saw the letter.
	Now everybody has a megaphone.
	And a lot of these groups, particularly on the left, are very organized and very committed.
	And they have social media to shame and advertise these companies whenever they see fit.
	And it's a dangerous time right now when social media is being used that way.
	You know, I honestly, and I really applaud, I mean, Melanie Morgan and Brian Maloney have been longtime friends of mine, and they saw what was happening, and this has now been an ongoing, it's been an onslaught, let's put it that way, for well over a month now.
	Well, since two days after O'Reilly got fired, this person who has basically stalked me and lied about me for 14 years accused me of asking her to my hotel room two days after O'Reilly got fired.
	So, in that context, it was an obvious kill shot then.
	I believe this effort now is a kill shot to silence my voice.
	And it's not just about me, it's about what happened to the left, Joe.
	What happened?
	I thought that they were the champions of freedom of speech and expression.
	I thought they were the ones, not one cable host, has said, stop this.
	If you don't like what any host is saying, the things I've said about Colbert and Maher and others, turn the dial or shut the TV off.
	And the fact is, people do have choices and options here.
	And the reason why I'm supportive of their effort, it's not a boycott, but they're using the same tactics to say, well, we can do this back to you, and nobody wins in the end, is because otherwise I don't think it ever ends unless it works both ways.
	And on the comedy front, Sean, I mean, it's no longer comedy.
	It's strictly angry political messaging.
	I mean, the reason why Kathy Griffin thought she could get away with holding up a sitting president's beheaded head like an ISIS ad, because Bill Maher made a joke about Ivanka Trump performing a sex act on her father, or Stephen Colbert making a joke about Trump Putin in a holster in a sex act.
	And there were no consequences.
	In fact, they were applauded.
	So she sees that and says, oh, screw it.
	Anything goes, and thought that she could get away with this too.
	But now we see that the line incredibly is you can't mimic ISIS and behead presidents and do photos of it.
	That's what the line is, and that's scary.
	We're going to continue.
	More with Geraldo, Joe Concha.
	Look.
	All right, as we continue with Geraldo Rivera and Joe Concha, we're talking about Kathy Griffin, also freedom of speech.
	Geraldo, I think after all the years, this Soros Clinton group has only gone after conservatives.
	I like the idea that now conservatives have had enough.
	They're fighting fire with fire.
	How do you think this plays out?
	Anecdote from my 11-year career in the daytime talk show business.
	There came a time.
	By the way, I was on Geraldo's daytime show years ago.
	He doesn't remember, but I was there.
	I didn't discover you, a young man.
	You did.
	What were you selling cars then?
	I forget what was a bar.
	I was a local radio host.
	Jeez.
	Didn't you guys compete also on television for a little bit when you were at CNBC Geraldo and then Sean was there?
	Yeah, Sean, he had a big bullseye with my face on it.
	They played darts.
	By the way, when Fox hired Geraldo, I said on the radio, I got mad.
	He went into Roger Ailes' office.
	Roger Ailes called him into the office and said, I dare you question my decision.
	I know.
	Then we became best friends.
	It was a big joke.
	The thing is, I was attacked.
	Anyway, I started challenging Oprah Winfrey's ratings on my daytime show.
	Roger King, who ran Oprah's show, went to Senator Joe Lieberman and another senator, a southern senator, a Republican, I forget which one, and they started the Clean Air campaign.
	They said, Geraldo's getting good ratings now because he's doing salacious topics.
	Let's attack his advertisers.
	They did, and they humbled my program.
	It took me a couple of years to recover.
	Then that tactic died out until this blitzkrieg now against Roger Ailes first, and then Bill O'Reilly.
	And, of course, they took down our beloved former co-president Bill Schein.
	And then they came after you.
	They found this or rediscovered this weapon, Sean, where they go after the advertisers.
	The advertisers are a weak need, and plus they don't want any heartache.
	So they bail at the first sign of controversy.
	They discovered whether whoever is funding this, this blitzkrieg of the advertisers using, as Joe says, the social media weapon.
	And it worked so profoundly to alter the structure of the cable news channel's ratings.
	I mean, we dominated 15, 16 years.
	They knocked O'Reilly out, hurt us, staggered us.
	I mean, we're recovering and we will prevail ultimately.
	But they used this ideology tactic to score a commercial victory.
	And Joe, is there any other option but to fight fire with fire to stop it and end the madness?
	Because I don't see it.
	I think it's got to be, you know, to use a term we've been hearing a lot of lately, back channels between the executives, say, at Fox and their major advertisers to talk to important people over there and say, look, we've got to make sure that you're loyal and you're with us, that there's got to be a damn good reason why you want to pull your ads and not just because you're getting pressure from a group that clearly has an agenda and clearly is twisting the facts in the narrative.
	So I think it's got to be done on some other level outside of what we see now from the folks that are fighting on your behalf.
	So it's a two-front fight, I think.
	Well, and I just think at the end of the day, I mean, they have telegraphed that coming attractions, that they're, look, there are so many outrageous, controversial things that have been said by people that have shows on the left, and listing their advertisers and listing their controversial statements, that means that, okay, at the end of the day, what is it, mutually assured destruction?
	Nuclear war.
	I think more it's what is.
	Or does it end?
	Or do these networks, when it starts impacting them, do they say enough's enough?
	We've got to accept that there are other voices besides our own.
	You know, the answer to that question, you know, Sean, I don't think anybody knows because I don't think the, even though the effort to unseat you was pretty organized, I don't think it's a left-wing conspiracy, particularly.
	I think there are some deep pockets that are encouraging it.
	And I think the more we out it, the more we talk about it.
	I'm totally out of time, Harold.
	I got to run.
	Love you like a brother.
	You're amazing.
	You've been such a good friend, Joe.
	Thank you, too.
	I'm way behind.
	Quick break, your calls next.
	Do we have our fake news open on the program today?
	Because we got to fake news up there.
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	All right, I just, because it can go on forever, it's just breathless, hysterical reporting, anonymous sources that the stories get debunked and then they never talk about it.
	It was funny on Twitter today.
	Julian Assange writes out, you know, every year or so, I make the mistake of thinking that someone at CNN must be okay.
	And then he goes, what I wrote them is on the left.
	What they published is on the right.
	And it's like, oh, well, so I wrote back.
	I said, yeah, at CNN is very fake news.
	They've lied about me also, and they have.
	And, you know, he should know more than anyone.
	It was CNN that colluded with Hillary Clinton in 2016.
	Agenda-driven, breathless, hysterical reporting.
	And that is, you know, I don't trust anybody in the news today.
	I now spot bias a thousand miles away.
	I can tune into any news show and I see it.
	I can see what they're doing.
	I know the game that they play.
	Once you get in tune to what it is they really do, you just can't get fooled anymore.
	I won't get fooled again like the who back in, what, the 70s or 80s.
	You just can't.
	Once your eyes are opened and you see the truth, and you see the agenda, and you see the ideology, and you see the spin and you see the breathlessness, and you see that they are trying to lie to you.
	You just, you can't not see it anymore.
	And so, and almost all of the news to me outside of where I work, and you get more truth than talk radio.
	People in the newspaper say, that's disgraceful that you say that.
	You think you guys on the right have a monopoly on the truth.
	One of the reasons we have a monopoly on being closer to the truth is that if we ever say one word, one sentence, one phrase that's off, you guys are there to kill and crush us and destroy us and silence us.
	You know, some advocates of free speech, you turned out to be.
	All right, let's get to our busy telephones here.
	As we say hi to Colleen, she is on News Radio 965, WDBO, in Orlando, Florida.
	What's up, Colleen?
	How are you?
	Oh, I'm doing well.
	I'm so glad to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	I have a comment about Kathy Griffin.
	You know, she's a prime example of the Libs hypocrisy.
	She's being hailed as a champion of free speech, but I think most Americans feel her actions are disgusting, despicable, and she's seriously demented.
	She needs to be baker acted, and we have to examine her mentally.
	Can you imagine the backlash if someone had done that to an Obamahead?
	They would have been arrested and accused of inciting hatred.
	There used to be respect in our country for differing opinions.
	That's no longer true.
	I got to say, listen, I'm Linda earlier today, and she had reminded me of this despicable image of me.
	Well, multiple images of me and blood and guts crawling out of the stomach of a person who recently died that I worked for.
	I mean, the left, they have no boundaries anymore.
	This is their attempt, I guess, at humor.
	There's nothing funny about an ISIS-like image holding a beheaded president of the United States.
	And it's so grotesque.
	It's so ugly.
	It's so despicable.
	It's so disgusting.
	No different than Madonna dreaming of blowing up the White House and, you know, the blood comments of Ashley Judd or what we see with Kathy Griffin or the comments we talked about Jim Carrey earlier today.
	It's all the same.
	It is a madness that has now taken over.
	And I appreciate what you're saying, Colleen.
	And amazing, sick, ugly times we're living in.
	These people are so off mentally, emotionally.
	They've been so apparently traumatized.
	You know, I guess we have to forgive them for they know not what they do and follow the teachings of somebody that died for our sins.
	But it's hard.
	It's really hard.
	Paula in Oklahoma.
	Paula, hi.
	How are you?
	We're glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	It's great to talk to you.
	You're a great American.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You're a great American.
	Thank you.
	I just wanted to tell you that I did call USAA and I also posted on a message board at USAA because we've been members for over 20 years and I was ready to pull my membership and all my accounts there until they reversed their decision.
	And I want to tell you, Sean, the message board was full.
	USA members were not sitting down with this one and they were all threatening to leave USAA if they didn't recant and resend their pulling of their ads.
	Listen, I got to give them credit.
	But I give more of the credit.
	Only reason I would argue that they came back is because of your support.
	I agree.
	I do.
	And that's why this effort that I'm supporting that was started by Melanie Morgan and Brian Maloney, which is mediaequalizer.com.
	And they're now saying, look, I am very convinced that if there is not a fight back, a push back, that this is never going to end.
	And they're going to isolate like Alinsky and target and pick off one conservative at a time.
	And, you know, I just happen to be the recent example.
	But it's all of you and your efforts and your love and support of liberty, freedom, and freedom of speech and freedom of expression that has saved the day here.
	There's a hero in all of this.
	And the hero is those of you that have loudly spoken to those companies that A, you'll support them if they stay, and B, you won't support them if they buckle.
	And it's been, it's, it's made all the difference.
	It's saved, it literally, it's like, you know, Superman coming in and saving the day.
	The people that saved my position are all of you in this audience.
	It's not me.
	And I thank you for it because I get to do what I love.
	But I also thank you because we can't live in a country where voices that are conservative voices are silenced.
	You know, if they take out the Fox News channel, there's nothing.
	There's no news that you can go to in the country.
	There's nothing left.
	And it would be a real shame if they're successful.
	And now, finally, the rules.
	Thank you for being our voice.
	Well, thank you.
	And then now the rules have changed because of all of you.
	And it's MediaEqualizer.com if you want to go check out the efforts of what Melanie and Brian are doing.
	And I'm appreciative to them beyond measure.
	All right, back to our phones.
	Ron in Jacksonville, W-O-K-V.
	Ron, hi, how are you?
	And thanks for checking in from Paradise.
	What's going on?
	Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
	Nice to talk to you.
	And I'm also originally from Floral Park, so I know the Mary Pedler really well.
	Oh, did you go in there?
	Many times, yes.
	How old are you?
	I am 54 at this point.
	Okay, you probably were going in when I was tending bar there.
	That's what I thought.
	I wasn't positive, though.
	I don't know.
	And you know what?
	I had some of the craziest, best times there.
	I really, it was a tough time in my life, but the craziest best times.
	Anyway, I wanted to bring up something.
	I think you are on the cusp of creating a movement on the right that has been desperately needed since the president was elected.
	I think the left has been attacking us left and right, and we've all been sitting back and just letting it happen.
	And I think the media equalizer and the stop the scalping is exactly what we need to change the tide here.
	And I think you're at the beginning of something that's really, really good for this country.
	I just wanted to make sure I mentioned that to you.
	Well, you're very kind.
	I will tell you this.
	I said this when I had to start the week on Tuesday, that I'd rather talk about other things.
	I'm hopeful, and I am ready to fight every minute of every day until I know that this whole thing is stopping.
	But I'd rather get back to the agenda.
	We elected a president because we wanted Americans out of poverty, off of food stamps.
	We wanted Americans back in the labor force.
	We wanted energy independence.
	We wanted to reverse the 51-year low of home ownership in this country.
	You know, those are my roots, my background.
	I didn't come from money.
	I didn't have any money.
	I had years and years with 200 bucks in the bank, and that was it.
	And so I just want the same ladder of opportunity that I've had, and I believe in the agenda of the president.
	I also want safety, security, and strength in our country.
	I want our borders secure, Obamacare repealed, replaced, all the things that we talked about.
	The president and his team now spend almost all of their time fighting back Russia, Russia, Russia by this corrupt media.
	It's almost all day, every day.
	And as soon as one story dies, they just dump another one.
	So I actually think the priority has to be to clean the deep state, those that leak and lie, and get the right people to advance the agenda.
	Now we're on, believe it or not, for us, we think, oh, we've got to the end of the year to get a lot of things done, but the way these pathetic, lazy people in Congress works, you know, they've only got 30 some odd days on the congressional legislative agenda.
	And now they can add more, but they're pretty reluctant, as per history, to do that.
	I want these things done for the country.
	This is an opportunity I don't want to have squandered.
	So, you know, I've had to spend more time fighting to get my message out and stay on the air.
	And as soon as we're done with that, we're going to stay focused on helping the president advance principles that I believe work.
	God bless you, Sean.
	I think everybody needs to know how important it is that we move forward here and stop all this lunacy and get back to what this country is really about, which is great people, and you're the right person.
	I really appreciate it.
	Thank you so much for your call and your support.
	The real heroes here is everybody in this audience.
	I've always known I've had the show because of you.
	Without all your support, I probably could have become easily a casualty like others.
	And so I'm honored.
	I will work my hardest to make it worth your while.
	I want to deliver the best news information show product I can every day.
	And you have motivated me and energized me in ways I've never felt before.
	Tom is in New Jersey, the all-new AM710 WOR.
	What's going on, Tom?
	How are you, sir?
	Hello, Sean Hanley.
	I'm good.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	I agree with everything that you've said today throughout.
	Your audience has said throughout.
	And yesterday, the last couple of calls just got me so psyched to put up a fight because we just turn the cheek and give them the other side all too often, and it's not working.
	We do have to stand up and be heard and fight back because this is nonsense what's going on.
	You're right also about what your eyes are open.
	I can see it in TV shows and commercials.
	I haven't watched the big, the mainstream news literally in three or four years.
	Ever since I turned to Fox a few years ago, my eyes have been open when I heard things about the Gibson guitar company being the SWAT teams coming in and taking everything.
	And from then on in, and then having the guests that you have like Sarah and John who opened up this spying, the wiretapping, and everybody was laughing at the moment.
	Surveillance, the masking, and leaking intelligence, yeah.
	But I got to tell you, Sean, you know what the difference is between the Republicans and the Democrats?
	They wear different colored ties.
	They've shown this to be so true.
	I think President Trump's problem is going to be more with his own party because they're smiling and nodding and shaking hands.
	And then they go back with their pals in the other party and they all yuck it up and say, they're not going to do anything.
	You're right.
	They've got 43 days, 42 days to go.
	It's ridiculous.
	They've worked 105 days last year.
	It's so pathetic.
	I've raised this issue a lot with myself.
	Do you go to lunch?
	Did you take an hour and go to lunch?
	Doesn't it blow you away that people go to lunch every day?
	Where do you get the time to go to lunch?
	Yeah, I pick something up and I come back and eat it at my desk.
	I'm actually working from home now, and I shouldn't be taking this much time off, but I have to talk to you.
	God bless you.
	I really do appreciate you and the whole channel.
	And I also went on USAA and gave them my two cents, which was a lot more than two cents because, you know, I'm originally from Brooklyn.
	We can talk.
	But like you, I was a worker.
	I started working at 11 years old.
	I delivered papers for never mind who.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Me and you both.
	It's been working ever since.
	And it's horrendous.
	You make fun of people.
	It's one thing.
	But to cross the line the way to Colbert, who had such a nothing of a show, and he was going downhill, and all of a sudden he pulls a rabbit out of a hat with garbage.
	And then this red Kathy, horrible, absolutely horrible.
	You have to be able to draw the line.
	I put something up on my website.
	Take a look at it.
	And it is so grotesque and ugly, but I put it up there in light of what Kathy Griffin did to the president and his family.
	And it's me, let's say, well, about dozens of me's as bloody and grotesque and ugly as you can make.
	What makes this stuff funny to them?
	And if anyone did that to any liberal host in America, what would the outcry be like?
	Anyway, Tom, thank you.
	You're what makes the country great.
	And I think in the end, we just got to get back to the agenda.
	We've got to hold these people accountable.
	I'm going to do that every day.
	And if we get the agenda passed, I think the country has a chance of making a remarkable recovery.
	And in spite of all the opposition that we have. I'm just going to wrap things up for today.
	I think I have the best monologue about liberal hypocrisy and fascism that you're ever going to see putting things together in a way that nobody else has.
	All right.
	I hope you'll watch it.
	And we'll have Melanie Morgan, Brian Maloney, and also Brent Pozel tonight.
	Mike Huckabee checks in tonight.
	Hillary's bizarre conspiracy theories, the latest on unmasking with Sarah Carter.
	Also, Vice President Mike Pence and Herman Kane, 10 Eastern.
	Thanks for being with us.
	All right, back here tomorrow.
	See you tonight at 10.

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